PORT TOWNSEND — A reception for a retrospective of Julia Eastberg’s paintings and the work of sculptor Steve Jensen is set at the Northwind Arts Center during the Port Townsend Gallery Walk on Saturday.
The reception will be at 5:30 p.m. at the center at 701 Water St.
An art talk is planned at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Eastberg’s work will be on view in the Jeanette Best Gallery through Feb. 25.
Eastberg is a lifelong contemporary realist and surrealist painter who now lives in Port Townsend.
Her career spans more than 50 years. The Northwind show will feature her work from the 1960s through 2010s. The show is part of the center’s Community Arts series of locally focused exhibits.
Jensen’s exhibit, “Nordic Journey,” is a testament to the transformative power of art — for the maker and the viewer, organizers said.
Inspired by his family’s Nordic heritage and fishing traditions, Jensen uses the boat image in two- and three-dimensional media to convey the experience of passage: passage from one world to the next, passage from one stage of life to another, passage of tragedy into beauty and possibility.
Also on the Port Townsend Gallery Walk on Saturday are:
• Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., which will present Will Kalb’s black-and-white photographs.
Along with Kalb’s photographs will be wooden art by gallery artists David Kellum and David Haakenson.
Artists will be at the gallery from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Kalb has continued to use film and printing gelatin silver photographs in a traditional darkroom. The term is used to describe the process for making black-and-white photographs since the 1890s.
The process is used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers.
For this show, he is showing for the first time a series of abstract photos inspired by construction. He also will show self portraits and projects in collaboration with model friends.
Kalb received his training at the San Francisco Academy of Arts College.
The Port Townsend Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
For more information, call 360-379-8110 or see www.porttownsendgallery.com.
• Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will feature painter Michael Hale, who brings his imagination to the canvas in a new painting he is revealing this month during Gallery Walk.
Hale will discuss his art from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
He is known for his large-scale landscape paintings he calls “e-scapes,” named for the epic feeling that includes fantastic color, rolling vistas and trees.
His work has also regularly featured the theme of the nude, painting the figure in classical scenes reminiscent of Maxfield Parrish and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, organizers said.
For the new painting, entitled “Playing in the Innersphere,” Hale has joined the e-scape and the classical figurative theme in a dream-like vision of flying nudes, a flying pig and an inscrutable cat in a fantasy landscape where gravity doesn’t exist.
His inspiration for the piece came from listening to a radio program that was describing a scene from the dramatic book “The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov.
“For years, I have had the dream to paint the flying nude,” he said. “And, in contrast to the current climate of sexual mistrust, I wanted to return to the celebration of the nude, as artists have always done.”
In addition to the new painting, Hale also will exhibit other e-scape works and his Port Townsend maritime scenes.
For more information, see http://gallery-9.com/ or call 360-379-8881.
• Jefferson Museum of Art & History, 540 Water St., will have “Wearable Art — The Best of Seven Years” on display Saturday.
The exhibit, which will come down Sunday, features 20 pieces from Wearable Art Shows from 2011 to the present, displaying 21 pieces of sculpture worn on the human body from Port Townsend’s seven years of Wearable Art Shows.
The museum is free to the public on Gallery Walks, although donations are always appreciated.
During January and February, the museum is closed on weekdays.
It will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. only on weekends and holidays, Saturdays and Sundays as well as Presidents’ Day on Feb. 19.
