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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1983)
In Review: Return of the Jaded 7th Annual Western Art Show & Auction The opening show of the new season at Project Space is enti tled Return of the Jaded, a name which is a good-natured poke the artists take at themselves. Far from seeming jaded, the ef fect they have had on one anoth er through their collectively maintained gallery has been stimulation. The various artists do not rep resent a particular school or style. Usually the works are dis tinctive, but there is a sharing of each other's world of ideas, and visual and conceptual elements occasionally appear as common or borrowed and transmuted. In the front window is the show’s title piece, a collabora tion of Frank Fox and Robert Gibney. It’s done in Frank’s technique (fluorescent lights with attached objects) and takes on the “alive, but alien” feel of Robert’s own work. For his solo piece Frank has found a way to use his power source—an electric cord and fluorescent ballast—to both electrically and visually energize his piece. An energetic line is a quality of Glen Diseth’s intri cately structured drawings, and Carol Westlake’s mixed media drawings. Carol’s background in photography feeds her artwork, in one drawing quite literally. Michael Bukowski’s lines are totally different. Straight, red, they pass through red letters scattered about the floor and end in blank spaces of the gal lery. Their origin is a table with tablecloth, upon which is a book which won’t open and a typed page of ponderous phrases scrawled over with instruction. Words lend meaning to others’ works. Mike Walsh’s large, brightly colored constructions are stews of materials and ideas. Look closer and these memorials to meaning get curiouser. In The Peacemaker, Harold Hoy has made a poignant sculp ture whose name, unlike the mis guided appellation for the MX, means very much what the name implies. Mr. President, take note! There are paintings by Janet O’Doherty and James Ulrich, his particularly noteworthy for their captivating luminosity. Nancy Prowell gives us a topographical/informational collage map of a place we’ve never been; Robert Gibney gives us a being we’ve never seen; and Byard Pidgeon photographs pic tures of light. There is time for you to be in an upcoming show. “Boo, Hal loween Mail Art” is planned for Halloween, mail due by October 14. . Project Space is at 39 East 10th. If you’re driving a car, park in the Overpark. For bikes there’s a wooden signpost in front of the gallery, but don’t let your bike stick out into the alley. All LTD buses stop near Project Space on their downtown swing. Grab a transfer and catch the show! —John deBlume When the 1983 Oregon Trail National Western Art Show and Auction opens Friday, October 14 at 10 a.m., approximately 75 artists and art dealers will be of fering for sale nearly one million dollars in art covering all media. Art rendered in oil, watercolor, gouache, pencil, bronze, metal, and clay will be exhibited in lob by display and in rooms where each artist has set up a gallery of finished creations. The annual show and auction offers three full days of western art and is open without charge to the public. “Colonel Jack” Raty, veteran caller of regional western art auctions, will be Honorary Chairman of the event, which will occur at the Valley River Inn in Eugene. The Oregon Trail National production is recognized as one of the four or five major nation al show-auction combinations in the country. Most are annual af fairs and are located west of the Mississippi, although successful shows have been held in China and Europe. The Oregon Trail National show is self-sustained, without subsidy or government grant, and delivers a check each year to the Easter Seal Society for all tickets sold for the Saturday evening Champagne Reception for participating artists and deal ers. The reception is followed by an auction of approximately 125 works of art. Many of these works are by deceased Western artists. The Easter Seal Society is also recipient of funds received from Friday evening’s Silent Auction, where donated works by artists at the show are auctioned. All exhibits close at 10 p.m. Friday and reopen at 10 a.m. Saturday. An awards breakfast, open to the public, for partici pating artists is held Saturday at 8:30, where awards for Best Oil, Bronze, and other media are granted, along with selection of the Grand Sweepstakes Winner. Art chosen for the Saturday evening ticketed auction and the Sunday afternoon auction, open free to the public at 1:30 p.m., is juried from art submitted earli er. Room and lobby displays are open Saturday evening until 10:30 for patrons not attending the ticketed champagne recep tion and auction. The 75-piece Sunday auction contains quality pieces executed by the same art ists, but are generally priced less expensively than those in Satur day’s event. Many of the artists attending this year have been to all Oregon Trail National shows—among them: Joan Painter, Ted Haines, Russell Greer, Neecol, Bob No mor, Roy Lembery, and Dave Manuel. The western art show closes Sunday at 4 p.m., when artists and dealers will start packing to begin a long trek home to Idaho, Utah, California, and other des tinations. The Active 20-30 Club, a local service group, is helping to pro duce the OTN show, and ticket information can be obtained by calling Keith Boyd at 485-4555. For additional information, con tact Oregon Trail National, Inc., at 246 Regal Court, Eugene, OR 97401. 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