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Dale Draeger Holiday Art Exhibit - Alessandro's Collectors Gallery, Mezzanine Level
Artist Dale Draeger
Alessandro's Launches Dale Draeger Art Exhibit
Alessandro’s Ristorante & Galleria hosted a public wine reception Friday, November 6 to launch a holiday exhibit that features a collection of paintings by Corvallis artist Dale Draeger. The exhibit will be in the Alessandro's Collectors Gallery on the Mezzanine Level.
“Ms. Draeger is one of Oregon’s finest landscape artists,” says Alessandro’s owner, Roger Yost. “Her interpretation of the state’s scenic beauty and the spiritual expansiveness of undisturbed nature has created quite a buzz among art collectors.”
Dale, who lives in rural north Corvallis, paints exclusively in acrylics, and layers as many as six contrasting colors on a canvas before the finishing highlights and varnish are applied.
"South Fork Eddy"
Her goal is to make each painting an unforgettable outdoor experience that captures the mystery and majesty that lurks in the fields, rivers and streams of her adopted state.
Dale, a 1980 University of Oregon graduate with a degree in fine arts, was a graphic designer and painted murals as large as 40 feet wide before abandoning commercial art for an ongoing love affair with the Great Outdoors.
She credits her second-grade teacher, along with her dad, Walt Draeger, for encouraging her to develop a precocious proclivity for drawing that now has galleries and art critics singing her praises.
The exhibit will run through the end of the year and can be viewed during restaurant hours, which are 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays and 5 to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
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Alessandro's Art to be Featured with Oregon Symphony Association in Salem
Nancy Stockdale, Executive Director, OSAS
and Roger Yost, Owner, Alessandro's
Alessandro's Art is being featured on Oregon Symphony program covers and promotional postcards for the third consecutive year.
Alessandro's is also participating in the OSAS "Meet Me for Dinner" program.
The next dinner for concert subscribers is scheduled for February 22, at 5:30 p.m. prior to the "Angela Hewitt Plays Mozart" performance. A three-course dinner will be served.
Remembrance of Things Past
A Collection Of Historical Events At Alessandro's Ristorante and Galleria
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