D.E. May
Untitled, 1985
Mixed Media on paper
image 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in
frame 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 in
frame 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1 in
MAY001
Copyright The Artist
$ 2,400.00
The estate of D. E. May is represented locally by PDX Contemporary. This artwork is in the exhibition titled 'Remembering Jamison/Thomas Gallery.' This exhibition commemorates of the Jamison/Thomas Gallery legacy...
The estate of D. E. May is represented locally by PDX Contemporary.
This artwork is in the exhibition titled "Remembering Jamison/Thomas Gallery." This exhibition commemorates of the Jamison/Thomas Gallery legacy and will feature many artists who showed at the Portland and New York locations. Art sales proceeds will benefit the William Jamison Scholarship at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University.
From Dan's 2019 obituary:
D.E. “Dan” May, native Oregonian and iconic artist, passed away February 27. He was born in Salem, Oregon, on March 28, 1952, to William and Lucille (Frey) May. Dan grew up in Salem, graduated from McNary High School, and remained living in Salem his entire life. In the mid-1970s, he studied with Larry Stobie at Oregon College of Education before beginning his career as an artist.In galleries like The Yellow Front and The Big Sleep, Dan curated and established himself in his beloved Salem, which he referred to as “Island Salem”. Not only has Dan owned galleries in Salem, he has also showed his art at both solo and group exhibitions in his home state and many others including Washington, Florida, Utah, New York, Michigan and California. The Jamison Thomas gallery in Portland took on some of his works and Jane Beebe invited Dan to join PDX Contemporary, her Portland gallery, and his representation remains there to this day. The Portland Art Museum named Dan a finalist at the 2008 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. He received a Juror's Award at an Oregon Biennial and a national Art Matters grant. Dan was a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts in 2013. In 2014, Sabine Poole photographed and interviewed “Salem's mysterious DE May” for Oregon Arts Watch. The article provides a glimpse into some of the quirky and fascinating details of Dan’s life, including the fact that he had not owned a car since 1977 and got his first phone, a land line, in 1999. She describes his studio flat in downtown Salem as dimly lit but remarkably neat and organized. Dan told Sabine that he loathed sunshine and thus enjoyed a nocturnal existence, working and socializing at night and sleeping the daylight away. The “Regionaires Club” is how he referred to his downtown, upstairs work room. It was half studio, half secret social club, and yet completely inclusive. His other favorite places to socialize were the Half Time Lounge and Magoos, both in Salem. He had too many friends to name them all, but among the closest were Brian Null and Natalie Laswell of Salem and Dan Schmidt of New York. A very special thank you must be extended to Francis and Kelli Lombardi of Salem who took care of Dan during the nearly two year battle with his illness. They took him into their home and treated him as their own. Still today, museums including the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Boise Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Albright-Knox Gallery, University of Alaska Museum of the North and Seattle Art Museum.
D. E. May is locally represented by PDX Contemporary
Framed in destressed painted white frame, ogee profile with beaded site line, 1 5/8-inch wide.
This artwork is in the exhibition titled "Remembering Jamison/Thomas Gallery." This exhibition commemorates of the Jamison/Thomas Gallery legacy and will feature many artists who showed at the Portland and New York locations. Art sales proceeds will benefit the William Jamison Scholarship at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Willamette University.
From Dan's 2019 obituary:
D.E. “Dan” May, native Oregonian and iconic artist, passed away February 27. He was born in Salem, Oregon, on March 28, 1952, to William and Lucille (Frey) May. Dan grew up in Salem, graduated from McNary High School, and remained living in Salem his entire life. In the mid-1970s, he studied with Larry Stobie at Oregon College of Education before beginning his career as an artist.In galleries like The Yellow Front and The Big Sleep, Dan curated and established himself in his beloved Salem, which he referred to as “Island Salem”. Not only has Dan owned galleries in Salem, he has also showed his art at both solo and group exhibitions in his home state and many others including Washington, Florida, Utah, New York, Michigan and California. The Jamison Thomas gallery in Portland took on some of his works and Jane Beebe invited Dan to join PDX Contemporary, her Portland gallery, and his representation remains there to this day. The Portland Art Museum named Dan a finalist at the 2008 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. He received a Juror's Award at an Oregon Biennial and a national Art Matters grant. Dan was a Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts in 2013. In 2014, Sabine Poole photographed and interviewed “Salem's mysterious DE May” for Oregon Arts Watch. The article provides a glimpse into some of the quirky and fascinating details of Dan’s life, including the fact that he had not owned a car since 1977 and got his first phone, a land line, in 1999. She describes his studio flat in downtown Salem as dimly lit but remarkably neat and organized. Dan told Sabine that he loathed sunshine and thus enjoyed a nocturnal existence, working and socializing at night and sleeping the daylight away. The “Regionaires Club” is how he referred to his downtown, upstairs work room. It was half studio, half secret social club, and yet completely inclusive. His other favorite places to socialize were the Half Time Lounge and Magoos, both in Salem. He had too many friends to name them all, but among the closest were Brian Null and Natalie Laswell of Salem and Dan Schmidt of New York. A very special thank you must be extended to Francis and Kelli Lombardi of Salem who took care of Dan during the nearly two year battle with his illness. They took him into their home and treated him as their own. Still today, museums including the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Boise Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Albright-Knox Gallery, University of Alaska Museum of the North and Seattle Art Museum.
D. E. May is locally represented by PDX Contemporary
Framed in destressed painted white frame, ogee profile with beaded site line, 1 5/8-inch wide.