The Maude Kerns Art Center is proud to present “At Home in Oregon” at the Gallery at the Airport (GATA), on view through July 9. The show was juried by artists Bets Cole and Karen Russo. The GATA exhibit features the work of 29 Art Center member artists who address the theme of “At Home in Oregon” by interpreting the question of what makes Oregon a place to call home or exploring the idea of who calls Oregon home. Mediums represented include oil, acrylic, ceramics, quilting, photography, steel, brass, and copper metal work, encaustic, pastel, assemblage, papercut, and watercolor. “At Home in Oregon” is on view through July 9.
Exhibiting artists include Britt Anderson, Kathleen Caprario, Joan Chamberlain, Lona Feldman, Rita Fiedler, Tim Fox, Judith Hankin, Laura Jaszkowski, Staci Johnson, Suzanne Keaveny, Jan Lintz, Patti Lomont, Paul Machu, Rogene Mañas, Aurore Maren, Patricia McConnell, Ginny McVickar, Garland Nichols, Cheryl Owen-Wilson, Marty Schmitt, Laure Shipley, Jane Snyder, Leah Sowell, Indra Stern-Hayworth, Brooke Stone, Edward Teague, Rakar West, and the two exhibit jurors, Bets Cole and Karen Russo.
The Gallery at the Airport is located inside the terminal’s main lobby.
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The Maude Kerns Art Center is proud to present “Shifting Focus: Photography at Oregon Invitational,” opening with a free public reception from 5 – 7 pm on Friday, May 10. The exhibit is on view through Friday, June 7.
“Shifting Focus” showcases a variety of digital and analog photography processes, including the collodion wet plate process, cyanotype, infrared, and pinhole photography. The subject matter touches upon time, technology, culture, and environmentalism. Eight artists from across the country exhibit work in this Photography at Oregon Invitational. “Shifting Focus” features Barbora Bakalarova (Eugene, OR), Tracy Barbutes (Groveland, CA), Sarah Grew (Eugene, OR), Rob Hammer (Raleigh, NC), Eric Kunsman (Rochester, NY), Willie Osterman (Canandaigua, NY), Osceola Refetoff (Los Angeles, CA), and Nolan Streitberger (Albany, OR).
Barbora Bakalarova shows work from her series titled “Mythos,” featuring manipulated photos that are often layered, colored, torn, and rephotographed.
Tracy Barbutes, known for her wildfire photography, shows images reflecting her relationship with California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, its wild inhabitants, and fire.
Sarah Grew uses historic printing techniques to highlight the current fragility of a planet threatened by climate change in her installation of cyanotype images of plankton.
Rob Hammer documents the daily lives of real working cowboys/cowgirls to reveal details of cowboy culture in the American West.
Eric Kunsman, in a series called “Life-Lines,” explores a technological relic, the payphone, and analyses its role in society.
Willie Osterman exposes the power and universality of the concept of “Masking” in his portraits of masks from private collections from around the world.
Osceola Refetoff documents humanity’s relationship to the physical world using infrared and pinhole photography to create hyper-realistic, often surreal images.
Nolan Streitberger documents Oregon’s “Trail of Tears” using an antique wooden view camera and a wet plate collodion photo process from the 1850s.
A free Artist Talk held in conjunction with “Shifting Focus: Photography at Oregon Invitational,” and featuring artists Sarah Grew, Eric Kunsman, and Nolan Streitberger, takes place on Saturday, June 1, from 1- 2 pm. The exhibit is on view through Friday, June 7.
Shifting Focus: Photography at Oregon Invitational
May 10 - June 7
Opening Reception: Friday, May 10, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 1, 1-2pm
Main Gallery
Jeff Leake, David Carmack Lewis
Salon Gallery
Jennifer Lugris
June 21 - July 19
Main Gallery
Lisa Brinkman, Leanne Ellis and Carissa Burkett
Salon Gallery
Barbara Counsil
August 2 - 23
25th Annual Mayor’s Teen Art Show
September 6 - 27
31st Annual Día de los Muertos Exhibit
October 11 - November 2
Art for All Seasons Annual Membership Show
and Club Mud Holiday Ceramics Sale
November 15 - December 13
MAYOR'S TEEN ART SHOW & EMERALD PRINT EXCHANGE
NOT JUST: A WORLD COLLAGE DAY EXHIBITION
JOHN BAUGUESS: A LIFE THROUGH HIS LENS
& DEPTH OF FIELD: A EUGENE DARKROOM GROUP EXHIBIT
MAYOR'S TEEN ART SHOW & EMERALD PRINT EXCHANGE
HABITAT & THE MAYOR'S TEEN ART SHOW
RANDOM PERFECTIONS & EMBODIED EXPERIENCE
SINGING THE ANIMAL, SINGING THE EARTH
A CONVERGENCE OF ELEMENTS & INTERSECTIONS
COMMITMENT TO VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY AT OREGON