On February 1, 2008, the Lane Arts Council’s First Friday ARTWalk will be hosted by local artist and art advocate, Judy Allison, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
#1 Passionflower – East Broadway and Oak
Local authors Sandy and Peter Jensen will be reading Live Love Poems. Excerpts from Sandy’s book I Saw Us in a Painting, as well as selections of great love poems from many cultures and times, will be read aloud. It will be a fun event with lots of audience participation. Please bring you favorite love poems to share!
#2 Diva -- East Broadway and Olive
The overarching theme of DIVA’s exhibition this month is architecture. The artwork in Deborah Heal’s exhibit The Great House is featured in the Member’s Gallery. Influenced by her experiences living in Santa Fe, she shows paintings inspired by the vistas, colors, and shapes of the landscapes of northern New Mexico. Deborah Heal thinks of artistic potential as a great house. Just as rooms in a house are decorated differently, Deborah Heal strives to explore the different styles and functions of art in her own work.
The exhibit Architects as Artists, continues throughout February. It features the work of internationally renowned architect, Robert Harvey Oshatz. Oshatz presents models, photographs, floor plans, drawings, and video of his work in three of the DIVA galleries. Alongside his pieces are historical and recent images of downtown architecture from the city of Eugene, selected work of downtown proposals from UO architecture students, and artwork by local, working architects.
#3 Fenario -- East Broadway and Willamette
Stephen Beebe is currently living in Chico, California. Stephen's art is mixed media pop surrealism, often incorporating found objects. He has a bright, urban inspired aesthetic and color palette. His work seems to be influenced by urban contemporary life and has similarities to contemporary "low brow" art.
#4 Jacob’s Gallery -- 7th and Willamette
The exhibit Reliquary: The Everyday Sacred consists of recent works by three Eugene artists, Sarah Grew, Claire Flint, and Ken Herrin. Three distinct voices share their explorations of everyday objects and experiences. Sarah Grew’s work combines found objects to create abstract forms. Claire Flint has a more traditional form with detailed still lifes and Ken Herrin’s sculptures are made from combining found objects into abstract, three-dimensional works. From purely abstract to the narrative figure, and using a wide array of techniques, each artist ‘iconifies’ the mundane in order to share their vision with the greater public.
Reviewed by Robert, Jan. 18th
#5 Blue Moon -- 6th and Olive
This month come see jeweler Margarita O’Brien whose works are playful, colorful and beautifully detailed miniature ‘paintings’ on metal take the forms of wearable pendants, earring and wall art pieces. Margarita uses fine cloisonné and glass enamels of fine silver and copper. Also showing jeweler Renee Ford’s structural architectural inspired pendants with natural gemstones, whimsical “Peek-a-Boo” pierced back natural gemstone pendants and earrings along with figurative formed silver and copper vessels.
The following downtown merchants and galleries will also be open late:
Goldworks, Harlequin Beads, LaFollette Gallery, Magical Dreamtime, New Zone Gallery, Opus6ix Gallery, Sun Moonlight Gallery, Café Perugino, Karin Clarke Gallery & Annex, White Lotus Gallery, Museum of Unfine Art, and DNA Photographic.
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