Category / Articles & Essays
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Geo-graphing the Unseen: Writing, Reading, and Reimagining Landscapes
By Topozone (Raechel Root & Joseph Sussi) A few weeks after visiting Common Ground at ANTI-AESTHETIC, we are preparing to plant the seeds we received at the exhibition in a community garden…
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Critical MAS 2020: Jurors’ Choice
“Survivalist Perspective” by Stormie Loury Awarded Jurors’ Choice, Mayor’s Art Show 2020, Eugene, Oregon Written by Agnese Cebere I look at this work by Stormie Loury and cannot help but think about…
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Critical MAS 2020: Curator’s Choice
“Inevitable Transition” by Kum-Ja Lee Awarded Curator’s Choice, Mayor’s Art Show 2020, Eugene, Oregon Written by Sandra Honda Imagine looking up at a brilliant, jewel-toned sunrise skyline studded with skyscrapers, then down…
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Critical MAS 2020: Mayor’s Choice 3-D
“Painting in Isolation – Covid19” by Rob Varela Awarded Mayor’s Choice, 3-D, Mayor’s Art Show 2020, Eugene, Oregon. Written by Leah Wilson Rob Varela has created a work like a breath of…
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Critical MAS 2020
Art writing serves as a cord of communication, extending from the art to the viewer. During a time when our viewing must be mediated by a screen and we miss the solid…
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Review: "Under Our Moon Future Ascensions" at ANTI-AESTHETIC Dec 14th, 2019 – Feb 15th, 2020
The “Stuff” of Conversation Kathleen Caprario, February 16th, 2020 As I walk into Downtown Eugene’s newest gallery, Eugene Contemporary Art’s ANTI-AESTHETIC, I’m welcomed into a space that holds the work presented in…
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Over and Over – Mika Aono at Lindgren Gallery
A Review of Over and Over – a solo exhibition of work by Mika Aono Written by Vicki Krohn Amorose Mika Aono presents works of delicacy and daring in her current show, Over…
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Critical MAS: An Introduction
This collection of writing comes out of the workshop “Write About Visual Art – Critical MAS” offered in July 2019. The writers turned their attention to Eugene’s Visual Arts Week, including the…
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Critical MAS: Stacey Ray on Lynn Ihsen Peterson’s “Meltan”
Written by Stacey Ray I always find myself drawn to the most detailed piece in a room, searching for rivers through which my eyes can run, prairies where they can sprint over…
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Critical MAS: Timothy Wilson-Haley on Olga Volchkova’s “St. Rhododendron”
Written by Timothy Wilson-Haley “St. Rhododendron” is an appropriation and re-imagination of Russian — and previously Byzantine — techniques for painting religious icons. Instead of traditional objects of religious idolatry, the rhododendron,…
