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The Libby Hocker Collection at the Wiseman Gallery

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Channel: Randy Johnson · 2013 · Entertainment

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—Grants Pass, Oregon

Art collector Libby Hocker of Grants Pass, Oregon, shared her collection at the Wiseman Gallery at Rogue Community College October 1--November 1, 2013.

The 34 pieces of art in the exhibit were selected by Karl Brake, the chair of the RCC Art Department, and hung by Brake and RCC Galleries Coordinator Heather Green. It included sculptures, mixed media, drawings, collages, and paintings. 

Hocker started collecting art in grade school, posting watercolors and movie posters on her bedroom walls. Beginning her secretarial career in Chicago, she frequented the Art Institute of Chicago and Marshal Field's gallery; her first fine art purchase was an oil painting, "Portrait of a Girl in Red Sweater," by Lucien P. Moretti.

Married to John Hocker in 1974, Libby merged her primarily Southwestern collection with John's Asian art, and they then concentrated on Southwestern and wildlife art. In 2008, Libby joined the exhibition committee at the Grants Pass Museum of Art. Through her work with the museum, she had the opportunity to meet many national and regional artists who showed their work there, at Gallery One, the FireHouse Gallery, and the Wiseman Gallery, and became focused on the work of Oregon artists. Some 100 Oregon artists are now represented in her collection. Some of the artists whose work she enjoys are Janet Higgins, Susan Eileen Burnes, Susan Montague, E. Bender Webb, Howard Munns, Judith Falconer, and Cindy Kahoun.

Brake described Hocker's house as "a carnival of art." Hocker said that the opportunity to share some of the work with the public in the beautiful, well-lit atmosphere of the Wiseman Gallery is a dream come true. She planned to visit the gallery often during the exhibition to visit her "kids," her works of art.

The Wiseman Gallery: http://www.roguecc.edu/galleries/wiseman.asp
The FireHouse Gallery: http://www.roguecc.edu/galleries/firehouse.asp
Grants Pass Museum of Art: http://www.gpmuseum.com
Susan Eileen Burnes: http://www.susaneileenburnes.com

Soundtrack: Soft Guitars by Diamond Sounds

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