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Ester Barkai

Author: Ester Barkai

Smothered in Plastic

Plastic Entanglements at Jordan Schnitzer Museum shows we’re all in this environmental mess together

Visual Arts 7 years ago

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

Visual Arts 7 years ago

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

ArtsBlogVisual Arts 7 years ago

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

Visual Arts 7 years ago

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 →

A Three-Ring Circus of Art

With a triple opening, Eugene holds its first Visual Arts Festival Week

Arts 7 years ago

I didn’t notice the man in the box at first. In my defense, a lot was happening around me Friday night at the Hult Center … Continue reading →

Eugene Textile Center

Fiber arts group show runs through beginning of August

Visual Arts 7 years ago

We’re in what’s called the digital or information age, though I sometimes think of it as the “you can do that on the computer” age. … Continue reading →

Art City as Social Sculpture

This summer’s ‘Studio without Walls’ and ‘BEAM’

Visual Arts 7 years ago

Art students focus on becoming good at their craft and finding what they’re interested in representing to the world. Then comes graduation, and the aspiring … Continue reading →

Familiar Landscape

Robert Schlegel time travels at Karin Clarke Gallery

Visual Arts 7 years ago

You know how you can see a movie or read a book and not like it, and then revisit it years later and love it, … Continue reading →

Crafting a Story

The Art Of The Beer Label At Ninkasi

Drink 7 years ago

Like a lot of other people, I often scout the shore while walking on the beach looking for just the right shell to take home, … Continue reading →

Art Begets Art

Satoko Motouji’s Peer Gynt paintings go to the theater

Visual Arts 7 years ago

The most entertaining dictum I’ve heard about the question of art’s function — and the easiest to prove — is that the purpose of art … Continue reading →

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