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
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