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Ester Barkai

Author: Ester Barkai

A Life’s Work

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

Visual Arts 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 5 years 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 →

Don’t Forget

Roger Shimomura at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Visual Arts 5 years ago
Roger Shimomura (Japanese-American), American Infamy #5, 2006, Acrylic on canvas, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer

Roger Shimomura’s life story is, mostly, all-American. Born in Seattle in 1939, he studied art at the University of Washington, joined ROTC and then the … Continue reading →

Finding Mother

Lidoña Wagner’s Seed of Imagination: It’s about the journey 

Visual Arts 5 years ago

Upon meeting Lidoña Wagner I am presented with a guide to her book Seed of Imagination: An Ancestral Creative Journey. The guide is one printed … Continue reading →

Mystery is Beautiful

Claire Burbridge looks deep into nature in enormous drawings at JSMA

Visual Arts 5 years ago

Claire Burbridge is moved by small things. Her drawings in Claire Burbridge: Pathways to the Invisible at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art are of … Continue reading →

Vegan Taxidermy: It’s Art!

Conversations: Reflections of 14 Women Artists is at Maude Kerns Art Center through Feb. 7

Visual Arts 5 years ago

When Marjorie Taylor made her first piece of vegan taxidermy she wasn’t sure what she’d done.  “I didn’t know if I was making art or … Continue reading →

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