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Ester Barkai

Author: Ester Barkai

Everything is Art

Michael Moloi has danced his way from South Africa to Las Vegas to Eugene. Now he’s a painter, too.

Visual Arts 2 months ago

Michael Moloi received a Black Lives Matter Grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation last year. The art he created, which was shown at the … Continue reading →

The Art of Biology

Idaho artist Laura Ahola-Young delves into the visual study of plants at Maude Kerns

ArtsVisual Arts 3 months ago

Did you know that algae and cyanobacteria are part of every breath we take? Me neither, but that’s what Laura Ahola-Young says in her artist … Continue reading →

Magical Thinking

An exhibit at the MNCH shows customs don’t change much

Visual Arts 3 months ago

“The world is an unpredictable place where bad things happen,” medievalist Martha Bayless says. Going into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m with her … Continue reading →

A Glass Half Full

Eugene and Springfield’s art venues look for opportunities in uncertain times

Visual Arts 5 months ago

“I’ve been thinking a lot about what ‘essential’ means,” says Michael Fisher, executive director of Maude Kerns Art Center.  It’s not the kind of statement … Continue reading →

A Portlander in The New Yorker

Shannon Wheeler’s cartoons on display in Art Show  

Visual Arts 5 months ago

I’ve decided to do something different and begin this review with a sales pitch: See Shannon Wheeler’s original ink drawings in Art Show at Portland’5 … Continue reading →

Towards a 21st Century Abstraction

A bit of magic materializes at the Coos Art Museum, showing that abstraction is still alive in the age of conceptual art

Visual Arts 7 months ago

Steven Broocks doesn’t know a whole lot about Towards a 21st Century Abstraction, the exhibit currently showing through Dec. 4 at the Coos Art Museum, … Continue reading →

Community in Printmaking

The fourth annual Emerald Print Exchange unites two Eugene art establishments as well as artists from around the world

Visual Arts 7 months ago

Being a visual artist can be a solitary occupation, working in your studio alone all day. But if you’re a printmaker, odds are you might … Continue reading →

Campaigning to End Misrepresentation

56 Black Men and I Am More Than Who You See have been extended through Nov. 21 at the Schnitzer Museum

Visual Arts 8 months ago

On June 27, Cephas Williams went shopping for luggage. He bought some and left the store, but while still at the shopping center in Dartford, … Continue reading →

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith at Ditch Projects

Paintings and activism merge in a show curated by the artist

Visual Arts 9 months ago

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith is an activist and an artist, though not always at the same time. For eight years she canvassed door to door as a … Continue reading →

Drawings, Vessels and Giant Bottle Stoppers

A private collection looks at Dale Chihuly’s art through the decades at Salem’s Hallie Ford Museum of Art   

Visual Arts 10 months ago

People are still wearing masks, but it’s good to see art in person again. My first in-person museum viewing in 15 months, since museums were … Continue reading →

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