Exhibition: Evolving With Color

Tumalo Home Gallery presents its inaugural exhibition, Evolving With Color—an evocative dialogue between the contemplative works of John Goetz and Tanja Rector. This landmark presentation articulates the gallery’s founding ethos: a refined sanctuary where exceptional art resonates within interiors of discernment, and where silence discovers its visual language.

Together, the artists explore space not as void but as presence.
Goetz’s structured compositions channel a sophisticated modernism rooted in geometric precision and spatial harmony. His canvases unfold like architectural meditations, measured, intentional, serene. Each work becomes more than an object of visual engagement; it is a built environment of thought, inviting pause and reflection. His approach reframes color as structure, and form as a vessel for quietude.

In luminous counterpoint, Rector’s paintings evoke a different register of interiority, one suspended delicately between memory and moment. Her surfaces, layered in translucent veils of beeswax and oil, shimmer with emotional nuance. These stratifications blur the boundaries of dream and material, creating a space where reverie and reality intertwine. Technically virtuosic yet deeply intimate, her work mirrors the textured landscape of consciousness, ephemeral yet enduring.

Together, the works inhabit Tumalo Home Gallery’s exquisitely composed environment. Reclaimed timber elements and natural materials cultivate an atmosphere of understated refinement. The gallery’s own palette—earthen, emotive, and punctuated with chiaroscuro, amplifies the emotional depth of each piece, forming a dialogue between setting and art that is both organic and intentional.

Evolving With Color stands not merely as an introduction, but as a definitive opening statement. It marks Tumalo Home Gallery’s emergence as a significant voice in the Pacific Northwest’s cultural dialogue, one that celebrates introspection, material integrity, and the quiet, eloquent poetry of space.