Our Art
ART at annabelle
The art collection on display at Annabelle has been carefully curated to match the restaurant’s sophisticated feel and vibrant ambience. Showcasing a diverse range of talented artists, both internationally and locally reknowned, each artist presents a unique artistic vision that brings the elegant interior of Annabelle to life.
OLEG KUDRYASHOV
Moscow-born avant-garde artist Oleg Kudryashov makes prints, paintings, and sculptures that are both constructivist and representational. Kudryashov, who immigrated to London in the 1970’s (and has recently returned to Russia,) works in an expressive manner that does not rely on preliminary drawings, but instead evolves during the creation process. As a result, many of his prints and paintings eventually become relief sculptures, such as the one prominently on display in Annabelle’s Bar and Lounge. He creates work that is abstract but grounded in daily life and the industrial landscape.
RIMMA GERLOVINA & VALERIY GERLOVIN
Reknowned Russian artists, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Saizdat in the Soviet Union. Their work is rich with philosophical and mythological implications. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Venice Biannual, the Guggenheim Museum, National Museum of American Art, Bonn Kunsthalle, and others.
CARA TOMLINSON
Cara Tomlinson is an Oregon-based abstract painter and associate professor of painting at Lewis & Clark College who works in oil painting and drawing, video, and sculpture.
Tomlinson’s work explores tensions between simplicity and complexity, order and entropy, and inside and outside. Her soft, yet colorful geometric abstract paintings, showcased in Annabelle’s Main Dining Room, have a playful vibe that work beautifully with the vibrant space.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and supported by numerous grants and residency awards including: the Ucross Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Willapa Bay Artist Residency, Ford Family Foundation Grant, Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and two Professional Development Grants from the Portland Regional Arts Council and Oregon Arts Commission.
Frank Hallam Day
Frank Hallam Day is a Washington, DC-based fine photographer who has travelled extensively all over the world and whose work explores the impact of humanity’s footprint on the natural world. His work has been widely exhibited and collected by the Berlinische Gallerie und Landesmuseum Berlin, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Kreeger Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, the Katzen Museum at American University, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, among others.
Day, who was trained as a painter, says his photographs owe more to the history of painting than photography. His background in painting allows him to “see the photographic image as a process” that can be continually modified. His series “Ship Hulls,” several of which are on display in Annabelle’s Upstairs Gallery, depicts abstract and immersive microscopic views of rusting ships, and recalls abstract paintings by Gerhardt Richter and Mark Rothko. These “engaging compositions capture the rich beauty of pattern, color, and texture” and harmoniously anchor our gallery’s warm and elegant ambiance.
AMY LAMB
Amy Lamb is a Bethesda, Maryland-based photographer who specializes in delightful large-scale portraits of florals. Also having a science background with a Ph.D. in Zoology, Lamb’s photographs capture “the beauty of nature, in all its abundant and diverse manifestations, surround(ing) us and, yet, easily can be overlooked.” Her captivating, close up images of florals illuminate the intimate ambience of the Kalorama Room.
Lamb’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions across the United States, and her prints are in numerous private and corporate collections both in the United States and abroad. Her works are included in in the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and others.