Visions & Dreams — Nature & Spirit
Asante Riverwind has been an activist for decades on social and ecological issues, and he has often expressed himself on these issues through music, art … Continue reading
Visual Arts: Page 9
Everything is Art
Michael Moloi has danced his way from South Africa to Las Vegas to Eugene. Now he’s a painter, too.
Michael Moloi received a Black Lives Matter Grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation last year. The art he created, which was shown at the … Continue reading
Art? No Foolin’
A spring blizzard of exhibits awaits art lovers at the April 1 First Friday Art Walk
It’s been a long, dreary pandemic — especially for the arts world — but following last month’s relaxation of masking rules for public spaces, the … Continue reading
Faces and Places
Downtown galleries celebrate Oregon’s unmasking with portraits and landscapes
Two early spring shows at Eugene galleries in March are worth a trip downtown. It’s just plain serendipity that the exhibit about to open at … Continue reading
Glossy Memories
A sprawling exhibition of work by the late Chinese American artist Hung Liu at the Schnitzer Museum
It wasn’t supposed to work out this way. After nationally prominent artist Hung Liu and her collaborator, printmaker David Salgado, agreed in 2018 to donate … Continue reading
The Art of Biology
Idaho artist Laura Ahola-Young delves into the visual study of plants at Maude Kerns
Did you know that algae and cyanobacteria are part of every breath we take? Me neither, but that’s what Laura Ahola-Young says in her artist … Continue reading
Getting Real
Karin Clarke Gallery takes a turn for the objective with a show of James Kroner
Step into the Karin Clarke Gallery this month, and you might think you had walked through the wrong door. Instead of the gallery’s typically loose, … Continue reading
Magical Thinking
An exhibit at the MNCH shows customs don’t change much
“The world is an unpredictable place where bad things happen,” medievalist Martha Bayless says. Going into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m with her … Continue reading
A Glass Half Full
Eugene and Springfield’s art venues look for opportunities in uncertain times
“I’ve been thinking a lot about what ‘essential’ means,” says Michael Fisher, executive director of Maude Kerns Art Center. It’s not the kind of statement … Continue reading
A Portlander in The New Yorker
Shannon Wheeler’s cartoons on display in Art Show
I’ve decided to do something different and begin this review with a sales pitch: See Shannon Wheeler’s original ink drawings in Art Show at Portland’5 … Continue reading