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
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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
An Oregon painter who once rocked New York City
The Louis Bunce retrospective in Salem looks back to an era when painting mattered
Walk into the luscious new Louis Bunce retrospective at Willamette University’s Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, and you’re immediately confronted with a 1932 … Continue reading
Photographer Rick Williams Takes a 50-year Look Back
From black-and-white film to iPhone images
The affable Texan Rick Williams has best been known around Eugene over the past decade and a half as dean of the Division of the … Continue reading
ArtsHound
Sniffing out what you shouldn’t miss in the arts this week
Eugene’s art community has a proud tradition of celebrating Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, the Nov. 1-2 Mexican holiday that honors … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Painting
A closer look at Kehinde Wiley's 'La Source'
“La Source” is part of a series of paintings Wiley did called The World Stage: Haiti — the New York-based artist has also done World … Continue reading
All That Glitters is not Gold
UO professor and 2016 Hallie Ford fellow Anya Kivarkis crafts jewelry sculptures that flip capitalism on its head
In the United States we are taught at a young age to desire impractical shiny things under the premise that more luxury equals a life lived successfully. But if our desire for an upper-class aesthetic is a social construct, what part of the goods we consume is real? A sculpture in progress Continue reading
Gallery Interrupted
Catching up with artist and curator Aunia Kahn on the contemporary plight of the art gallery
Eugene has an artistic reputation. At least, that’s what Aunia Kahn found when she was researching where to relocate her St. Louis gallery. Kahn had always wanted to live on the West Coast, she says, and after months of research she decided Eugene would be the rightful home of the Alexi Era Gallery. Continue reading
More Like an Animal
Dee Dee Cheriel brilliantly captures the human condition in her phantasmagoric paintings
Artist DeeDee Cheriel tells me a story about giving up cigarettes. “I was incredibly grumpy, just more like an animal than a human,” Cheriel says. … Continue reading
Denim and the City
Vanessa Froehling takes her street-wear line to Portland’s FashioNXT runway week
Local designer Vanessa Froehling has denim on the brain. Stonewashed, herringbone print, chambray, stretch and black denim, to be sure. In her home studio, Froehling flips through hangers of designs, including sailor-style high-waisted women’s shorts, a men’s blazer and a women’s jumpsuit. Continue reading