Lost and Found
A new installation by Eugene’s Mika Aono at Barn Light East
In a video, artist Mika Aono tells us she is interested in compulsive behavior. After a short while watching, we get an idea the artist … Continue reading
Ester Barkai
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Seeing What Something Looks Like
Two video works by James Nares at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
James Nares might be called a Renaissance artist, though he is associated with the 1970’s No Wave movement, where he played in a band and … Continue reading
A Gray Day is Beautiful, Too
White Lotus offers new paintings by Margaret Prentice
Some people look forward to retirement. They plan for the time when they can stop working and do nothing but take it easy and relax. … Continue reading
Art Talks
Having Cultural Conversations at OSU
Have you ever tried to repeat a phrase until it loses its meaning? Take “appreciating diversity,” for instance. It’s one of those phrases repeated so … Continue reading
Beauty and the Body
Julie Berkbuegler’s ‘Liquid Gold’ at Barn Light East
The idea of using found objects in art goes back to the beginning of the modern era, more than a hundred years ago, when Marcel … Continue reading
The Mind Fills In
Wendy Red Star at the Governor’s Office
If you like art that keeps you looking, that brings you back for a second or third glance, then you will appreciate the art of … Continue reading
A Larger World
A change of art at the White Lotus Gallery: Japanese hanging scrolls
The White Lotus Gallery has put up a new show, replacing an exhibit of contemporary art with Japanese paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. … Continue reading
‘Don’t draw a tree. Draw a particular tree.’
David McCosh at Karin Clarke Gallery
Standing in front of Fall Creek, a watercolor painting by David McCosh (1902–1981), I was aware there was someone else looking, too. Viewing the same … Continue reading
Unspoken and Beyond Language
Two shows at Maude Kerns Art Center
Most of us collect objects of some kind: a shell, a concert ticket, a dried flower kept in a book as a keepsake. But what … Continue reading
Speaking of Immigrants
The Art of Marc Chagall at the University of Oregon’s Schnitzer Museum
Marc Chagall lived for nearly a hundred years. He left Russia for Paris and then, due to the rise of the Nazi party and anti-Jewish … Continue reading