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
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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
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