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Tooling Around — A riff on play and rigor, and the current show at Tropical Contemporary
‘Serious Business’ is an exhibition of overtly playful work, referencing childhood games and figures like Winnie the Pooh, bright and abundant use of color, and a focus on material and texture.…
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Odyssey of These Days – New Paintings by Wesley Hurd
This essay comes from the exhibition catalog for Odyssey of These Days, a multimedia exhibition featuring new paintings by ECA co-founder Wesley Hurd, and original music by composer Eliot Grasso. The exhibition takes…
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7 things artists can do to make the Jacobs Gallery closing not matter at all
Guess what. There’s no money. Funding for the arts is important. Without it, even institutions will close. The Jacobs Gallery knows this. What kills me is the way artists seem to be unaware of their own ability to do things themselves. All the great moments in history and art were because…
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ECA featured in EW ArtsHound issue
The Eugene Weekly put out their first annual ArtsHound issue focusing on Visual Arts in Eugene. Thanks to EW Arts Editor Alex Notman, who first interviewed ECA last summer, we got…
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Art and Its Powers Part 4 – The Process of Making Art
Part four in a four part series by Wesley Hurd MFA, Ph.D; The Process of Making Art – At least two levels characterize the artist’s effort to make art. The first level is a composite of three essential components of a work of art: (1) the artist must competently control the craft of his medium; (2) she must seriously engage the…
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Art and Its Powers – Part 3
Part three in a four part series by Wesley Hurd MFA, Ph.D; The Languages of Art – We must remember that all art is allusive or indirect—that is, by its nature, art “points to” or presents its subject in ways that call on us to engage in deciphering its meaning and message.
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Art and Its Powers – Part 2
Part two in a four part series by Wesley Hurd MFA, Ph.D; What Is Art Anyway? A most basic definition of art is this: inner human idea/belief/sensibility taking outer form. I think of art as the special human voice or language we call upon when communicating in ordinary ways seem to fall short of…
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Art and Its Powers – Part 1
Art can be powerful. History and common human experience witness to this fact. Art can alter our conscious intellectual and emotional sensibilities evoking in us reflection on our lived experiences in this world.
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Where is Art Now?
The questions ‘what is art now as opposed to what defined it 100 or 50 years ago’, and ‘what does ‘contemporary’ mean other than ‘made right now’, seem so basic, yet really are difficult to answer.
