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Ester Barkai

Author: Ester Barkai

Artful Survival

Three Lane County artists share their stories of life in 2020

Visual Arts 3 weeks ago

Even without a pandemic to contend with, artists struggle. The difficulty is associated with both making art and making a living. The living part is … Continue reading →

The Romance of Solitude

Gallerist Karin Clarke mounts a show of her own paintings from France and Oregon

Visual Arts 2 months ago

Paintings from Château Orquevaux is a before-and-after show. The relatively small oil paintings by Karin Clarke at the Karin Clarke Gallery were done during an … Continue reading →

Opening New Doors

The former Smith Family Books by campus now houses an artist collective, complete with studios, and the arts nonprofit New Zone Gallery

Arts 3 months ago

Dean Smith’s most important education came courtesy of his family’s business, Smith Family Bookstore. “It was a blessing,” he says, to work in the store … Continue reading →

Culture Keepers

Carrying on with the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program

Culture 3 months ago

The idea that America is a melting pot has long dictated how immigrants should behave when they arrive, which is that they should disappear into … Continue reading →

A Life’s Work

Eugene’s Mike Van has been making and showing art for half a century

Visual Arts 5 months ago

Eugene artist Mike Van doesn’t want to call his new exhibition at White Lotus a “retrospective,” even though the title of the show refers to … Continue reading →

It’s Safety First at Visual Arts Week

The city’s summer art fest doesn’t want big crowds this year

Visual Arts 6 months ago

For the first time in its three years of operation, Eugene Visual Arts Week is trying to make it so people don’t have to show … Continue reading →

Art By Appointment

Artists Jon Jay Cruson and Satoko Motouji, who have new work at White Lotus, talk about working in the new normal

Visual Arts 6 months ago

Eugene artists Jon Jay Cruson and Satoko Motouji both paint landscapes, but with strikingly different results. Cruson’s acrylic paintings are crisp exercises in design with … Continue reading →

A ‘Beautiful Interruption’

Artist and gallerist Karin Clarke adapts to social distancing

Visual Arts 9 months ago

When I called Karin Clarke to suggest we switch from the in-person meeting we had planned to a phone interview, we were in that very … Continue reading →

Invisible Art

Art and the coronavirus: Reviewing an art show you can no longer go to see

Visual Arts 10 months ago

On my way to Salem recently to review Capturing Power: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, an exhibit at the Hallie Ford Museum of … Continue reading →

Loving Kitsch

An exhibit explores the aesthetic of Lane County’s ordinary past

Visual Arts 11 months ago

The Lane County History Museum is celebrating poor taste.  The Culture of Kitsch, curator Faith Kreskey says, is meant to be a lighthearted look at … Continue reading →

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