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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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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: Olivia Bates on Darryl Evans’ “Water Rights”
Written by Olivia Bates It was unusually humid, not particularly hot, but damn humid the day I went to the Mayor’s Art Show. I was glad to descend the stairs and pass…
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Critical MAS: Contemplating Art – The Mayor’s Art Show and the Salon des Refusés
Written by Will Paradis A fresh cup of coffee fuels this effort. I am writing my perspective of the Mayor’s Art Show, and also the Salon des Refusés, as a part of…
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Critical MAS: Sandra Honda on Josh Sands’ “Breathe, Step, Arrive”
“Breathe, Step, Arrive” by Josh Sands, 2019. Commercially fabricated adhesive vinyl or vinyl on aluminum. 24 x 36 inches, series of five. Written by Sandra Honda Clever and thought-provoking, Josh Sands’ “Breathe,…
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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,…
