Mark Clarke at Gallery West:
Paintings, collages shown
Gallery West Eugene is holding a public reception tomorrow night
for Mark Clarke, who will be previewing his show of recent work. The
show will run May 27 through June 19.
Clarke is a Eugene artist and a familiar figure in the area, having
served as Chief Preparator at the University Museum of Art for 12 years.
He left the museum only last year to devote full attention to his own art.
This will be his first local show in several years.
Clarke does mostly paintings and collages, but he is more in
terested in the process of creating them than in the finished product. He
says that for him, creating an art work is like playing a game. He makes
the rules by his choice of subject, paints, or equipment. Within these
kinds of arbitrary limitations, he simply explores what interests him and
then moves on.
One recent pursuit which will be seen in this show is a new kind of
collage. It is more refined and more representational than the tom
collages he has done in the past. The subjects — round stones, dried
leaves, and limbs — and the technique of finishing with a white, filmy
wash, are inspired by the residue of dry river beds which he says he has
become especially conscious of in this low-water year.
Also in this show will be some figure drawings which are the result
of a class Clarke taught recently at the University. This will be the first
time in a long time he has shown drawings. Figures which will appear in
some paintings, too, are a rarity for him. His subjects are almost always
connected with the land.
Mark Clarke is a native of Oregon. He was born in Oregon City,
raised in Junction City, educated at Oregon State University, and
graduated a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon. He lives
on V/2 acres of wooded land with his wife, Margaret (Peg) Coe, who is
also an Oregon painter of note, and their children.
Clarke shows frequently throughout the Northwest. He was re
cently included in a traveling "Bicentennial Exhibition of Oregon Art
ists." His work is found in several collections both business and private.
He is represented in the permanent collections of Eastern Oregon State
College and the University of Oregon Museum of Art.
The reception for Mark Clarke, previewing his show, will be held at
Gallery West, 1597 Oak Street, Friday evening from 7 to 9 p.m.
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Japanese prints,
sculpture displayed
A major exhibit of prints by
Sekino Jun ichiro, one of Japan's
foremost contemporary printmak
ers, will be shown at the
University's Museum of Art during
the month of June. Sekino's work
will be exhibited in conjunction
with the Asian Studies on the
Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Confer
ence '77, which will also be held
on campus.
The Sekino exhibit contains ap
proximately 35 portraits, many of
which are of celebrated Japanese
persons with whom the artist was
personally acquainted. Some of
the subjects include Nobel Prize
winning novelist Kawabata Yasu
nari, haiku poet Takahama
Kyoshi, Kabuki actor Nakamura
Kichiemon, Bunraku puppeteer
Yoshida Bungoro, artists Onchi
Koshiro and Munakata Shiko, and
the Okinawa dancer Sato Takako.
Some of the prints are of
Sekino’s early works which are
now out of print. Copies in the ex
hibit are from the artist's personal
collection. Others are new prints
created specifically for the show.
In 1975, Sekino’s first American
showing of his Tokaido series was
shown at the Museum of Art. The
artist won international print
awards with his work and received
a special award from the
Japanese government for the
series.
Sekino taught wood-block print
ing at the University of Washing
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ton and Oregon State University in
1963 as a recipient of a Ford
Foundation grant. His prints are
owned by many museums
throughout the world and some
have been presented to foreign
dignitaries as gifts from Japanese
Imperial household.
During June the Museum also
will show an exhibit of wood carv
ings by Russell Childers.
The showing will open a two
year tour of the exhibit museums
and gallies throughout the North
west.
Childers, a self-taught carver,
spent hundreds of hours on the
works for this show. The artist first
laminates, various woods to
gether, then works them with
hand-made tools until the sculp
tures are complete to the last de
tail.
Visual Arts Resources, at the
Museum, organized and will circu
late traveling Childers exhibit with
the support of the Oregon Arts
Commission, National Endow
ment for the Arts, Friends of the
Museum, and other agencies.
During the Sekino and Childers
exhibits, the Museum's Focus
Gallery will show paintings by
Michael McGuire. McGuire, art in
structor at Treasure Valley Com
munity College in Ontario, has ex
hibited throughout Oregon and in
Washington and Iowa.
All three shows will run from
June 5 thru July 1 The Museum is
open from 12 noon to 5 p.m.,
Tuesday thru Sunday.
To compliment the Sekino
showing the Museum will offer a
special catalog of his exhibit. The
catalog, written by Yoko and Bob
McClain, will include color repro
ductions of Sekino’s work.
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Photographs
exhibited in
Art Museum
Photographs by Rosamond
Wolff Purcell, whose work with
Polaroid prints has appeared in
Ms. Magazine, Petersen's Photo
graphic and in Modern Pho
tography, may be seen at the
Photography in Oregon Gallery,
Museum of Art, beginning Tues
day. The show will continue until
July 3.
The exhibit, which is composed
of enlargements from Type 105
Polaroid Land Film negatives, has
also been shown at The Art
Museum, Iowa City, Iowa; Neikrug
Galleries, New York. New York;
Addison Gallery of American Art,
Andover, Massachusetts and The
Madison Art Center, Madison,
Wisconsin.
Purcell has been working nearly
exclusively with Polaroid materi
als since her initial involvement
with photography in 1969. She is
largely self-taught, excepting in
formal study with Dennis Purcell,
and view camera technique with
Kipton Kumler
Her work has been exhibited
widely, including the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, the Mass
achusetts Institute of Technol
ogy, and the Fogg Art Museum
The Photography at Oregon
Gallery and its exhibition program
is supported by the Oregon Arts
Commission, the Eugene Room
Tax Fund and private donations
The gallery is open from 12 to 5
p.m. Tuesday through Sunday
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