Oak Center for Art Research
UO’s art and design faculty move into downtown studios
The first thing I noticed about Oak Center for Art Research is how clean it was. Art buildings are usually splattered with paint and clay, … Continue reading
Ester Barkai
Author: Ester Barkai
Blunt Graffix: Something Borrowed, Something New
Using a copy machine in the Navy sparked Matt Dye’s artistic career
Matt Dye, aka Blunt Graffix, is showing his art in three different places in Eugene. None is an art gallery. His work is on view … Continue reading
A New Response
Margaret Coe: The City of Light closes soon at Karin Clarke Gallery
I’m guessing Margaret Coe has been asked before why she goes to Venice to paint. She began her talk at the opening of her show … Continue reading
Masterworks on Loan
On your own in Eugene with Jean Dubuffet and Keith Haring
Art displayed at museums is organized by theme and framed by a curator’s or artist’s statement. The shows at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art … Continue reading
The Collected Memories of Beverly Soasey
A show of her work honors the memory of the late Eugene artist and former director of the now-defunct Jacobs Gallery
Eugene artist and arts administrator Beverly Soasey wasn’t big on telling the story behind her assemblages. She wanted people to find their own stories in … Continue reading
Drawing a Line
See work by LCC art faculty — not to mention Jim Tronson — at Tronson Gallery of Contemporary Art
Jim Tronson doesn’t fit today’s stereotype of the serious artist. When I asked how he defined “contemporary,” he answered, “Anything made after noon today.” In … Continue reading
Smothered in Plastic
Plastic Entanglements at Jordan Schnitzer Museum shows we’re all in this environmental mess together
Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials is an often beautiful, sometimes gross but altogether engaging new exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The line … Continue reading
Everyone’s Invited
BEAM shines at Studio Without Walls
The trees looked as if they had moving parts. And no, I hadn’t had any of the Art City Fizzes offered by Thinking Tree Sprits. … Continue reading
The Final Studio Without Walls of the Summer Ends in a Blaze of Light
The interface between work and audience
The trees looked as if they had moving parts. And no, I hadn’t imbibed any of the Art City Fizzes offered by Thinking Tree Sprits. … Continue reading
Time Traveling
Ronald Eugene Pennington-Satterfield explores The Space Between Us at Epic Seconds
Nearly 50 years ago Ronald Eugene Pennington-Satterfield was assigned to write an essay. He turned in a 200-page novel instead. His junior high school English … Continue reading