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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1987)
■VISUAL ARTS Four Artists Continued from cover glyphic associations in the surface patterns. These elements add to the overall sense of mystery. In one of the train pieces, “Natalie’s Bell Train,” the handprint of the ar tist's daughter serves as a central focus to pull together with the overall form and decoration successfully blending several of Thiel’s concepts. Actually Thiel’s work is alive and multi-dimen sional beyond any self conscious con cepts. All of these pieces have some primitive form, as well as earthly and ritualistic sensibilities. Combine that with Thiel’s instinct for a humorous modernism and sly stylishness, and you find some truly tasty stuff. There is enough going on in these sculptures that the viewer can find any one of a hundred ways to get into this artist's mind. Thiel respects his viewer in these interactive works. It's nice when the artists give us some space to create a little something for ourselves. Barbara Elam Dimock In the platform gallery, prints by Barbara Elam Dimock are being shown. Multiple plate etchings and monoprints depict complex interior scenes. Elam Dimock's surfaces of carpet, wood floor, minor glass, bro cade, floral wallpaper, and not-whol ly-revealed figures are intimate beyond voyeurism. We become a part of these sumptuously described rooms where beds, clothing, dark hallways, and common spaces take on a thick air of human habitat. Elam Dimock is a master. Print making is difficult. For some artists the sheer physical and mental dis cipline required for the production of good prints can be an anchor in a world of rapidly changing artistic fashions and standards. In this virtuo sic work the viewer finds reference to earlier times. In “Pierre Was Here” a bathing woman calls forth the French painters of Bonnard’s era. The inward focus, the obsession with light and the coloristic tendencies of the impressionists are present in the work. For Elam Dimock to translate that influence into this essentially con temporary and personal scene reveals her hard won connection to those earlier masters as well as her libera tion from them. One essential differ ence is Elam Dimock's concern with a psychological realm, with the human presence, and the evocation of the private loneliness inherent in her interiors. Each of Elam Dimock's pieces seems like a good novel, to be read and relished. In “Boudoir” something complex is happening between rooms, between unseen people. The viewer can simply enjoy this print for its composition, and for the play of light and dark spaces, for the reverberat ing colors. On the other hand one can read the whole story. Either way, Elam Dimock provides a rare ex perience. This is the kind of work that doesn't get old. A print like one of these keeps on saying something year after year. Elam Dimock’s work is go ing to age very well. This is some of the finest printmaking to be seen any where. 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This piece has as its subject artificial intelligence and the disturbing reality of art technology and the use of computers. Four artists will construct small room-sized installations designed specifically for the New Zone Gal lery. Alice Mahler will paint and con struct her site-work utilizing the wall surface as her canvas—and link her painted image with monofilament to a bed of peat moss and crushed glass randomly positioned on the gallery floor. Linda Spring will transform a gallery corner into a thought provok ing array of hanging chains and rub ber tubing suggesting phallic and sex ual imagery. Christine Clark, Nanda D’Agnos tino, Robyn Pokorny, Anne Seward, Tyrrell Sweetman and Roberta Wong construct or paint surfaces utilizing found objects, ceramics or fiber. Nan da D’Agnostino’s two pieces are part of a larger installation “In the Mouth of the Wolf’ recently exhibited at the Yellowstone Art Center in Billings, Montana. Her wall-works focus on the idea of cultural signifiers, mor tality, sexuality and the human con dition. Lawrence Rodman hpes to suggest, through his landscape paintings on saw blades, the real situation of the regional artist and the history of the actual blades. Tyrrell Sweetman com bines sticks, rose petals, gold leaf, ginko leaves, paint and wire to create his unique hat-shaped sculpture. Artists Gary Boswell, Robert Bruno, John Clark, Larry Rodman, Teresa Taniyasu and John Weber use two-dimensional surfaces in painting, collage and photography. Gary Bos well’s paintings and drawings are multi-stylistic, figurative and abstract. Robert Bruno and John Clark col laborate in their multi-image paintings which portray the irreverent, twisted minds of red-blooded Americans. John Weber’s conceptual black-and white photographs question social and political issues in combination with written narratives. 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