art review
five photographers click
By Robert Webb
Of ttw Emerald
Walking into the current show
of the Artists' Union Gallery, 985
Willamette Street, is like
entering a Zen monastery It’s a
seemingly large space with a
high ceiling, white walls,
medium-grey floor On these
walls hangs a series of works by
five Lane County pho
tographers, all placed at eye
level, one right after another, on
each wall of the room.
Very formal and austere in its
arrangement, the setting asks
that the observer do nothing
other than get to the purpose,
i.e., looking at the images, one
after the other.
Turning to the left, the first
pieces encountered are five
silver prints by David Bayles, the
negatives for which were made
with a plastic box camera. The
pieces are nature settings,
landscapes They possess, in
the words of one nearby
observer, “a very Jane Eyre
feeling lots of wind and dark,
overhanging clouds ”
The images seem to have a
central focus that tapers off
towards the periphery and pulls
the observer into the setting
There is no question about the
way these prints are to be seen,
they state their presence in a
straightforward manner
Bayles has two other pieces
of a decidedly different stripe in
the Gallery's front display win
dow These are large untitled
views of the "Good Life'' on
ragged-edged paper One view
literally seems to offer us our
just desserts while the other
shows someone apparently
having too much fun An inter
esting, unconventional invita
tion and clearly another side to
Bayles' more stately presence
inside
Next to Bayles' landscapes
are five silver prints by Bobbie
Wendel from a series called
"Capitol Hill Front Yards,
Washington, DC." These
realistic views seem to be an
exercise in line and texture as
well as a documentation of their
subject.
Each view has a dominant
feeling of regimented, forced
order, but each also contains a
touch of chaos or freedom A
hard-lined set of steps with a
fence in the background hovers
over an askew baby carriage,
the visual line of a series of
white picket fences carries the
eye up and out of the tightly
enclosed areas, etc.
A visual metaphor for our
times with a touch of hope? It's
all in the eye of the beholder
Gary Scott's Cibachrome
photographs provide the only
color pieces in the show His
works dramatically pull the
observer away from the visions
of reality offered by the first two
artists and into the abstract
realm of line, color and action
There is a great deal of
nervous tension in most of his
pieces, even the more sedate
Linear Studies have a feeling of
movement He also displays a
sure, often subtle, sense of
color
Interesting, but this observer
was more taken with how his
images contrasted with the
others than with the images
themselves
It's the next two artists' works
that really make the show worth
a trip downtown
Charles True's pieces are
multi-layered little stories con
taining both a visual and a literal
offbeat sense of humor
One compilation captures a
real-life human drama and then
shows us everything else that's
going on around it It explodes
and escalates the idea of a
linear vision as well as the
experience of perceiving a
static photograph, all with a
large dollop of humor
Another piece explores the
ability of flowers, daisies in
particular, to levitate Another
piece consists of a literal vision
of the artist beside himself
Also included is the "plate''
from which one of the images
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was created It utilizes standard
black-and-white negative film
lithographic film internegatives,
acetate, ink. tape, drywell
compound and ground pepper
True's works must be seen to
be believed, and it's worth an
hour off from your usual activi
ties to do so
Ted Orland s silver prints
come from a collection called
"Friends at Home " They are
subjective investigations of
personalities and the envir
onments they have created for
themselves
Interestingly, the people often
are seen as only a part of their
living situations They become
almost another object in the
room; yet the people are always
what the eye goes to first
E ?ch image contains a wealth
of personal information One
goes away with a feeling of
having discovered something
about five total strangers by
seeing them in their individual
living extensions and observing
how they relate to them, all
filtered through the eye of their
friend, the artist
All told, the Five Pho
tographers Exhibit is a good,
sol'd presentation Not as bold
or daring as other shows the
Gallery has hosted but worth
seeing
The Artists' Union Gallery’s
hours are noon to 5 p m
Tuesday-Saturday
Students receive
Fulbright awards
Um**nDy Naan Bureau
Five University alumni and three doctoral students have
received Fulbright Travel Grants for graduate study abroad
during the 1982-83 academic year
Thomas Mills, director of international services and
Fulbright program advisor, said the University has averaged
five graduate student or alumni Fulbright recipients each year
for the past 10 years
This year, however, half of the 16 University students who
applied for the Fulbright awards received grants
Christine Sperling, who received her master's degree in
art history in 1977, is studying art history in Italy Paul
Hribernick, a 1980 law school graduate, is studying fisheries
policy and management in Peru Kerry Kilborn, who received
his bachelor's degree in psychology in 1982, is studying
psychology in Germany
Katherin Weill, a 1981 graduate in history and French,
received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship she is using in
Sevres, France Carlin Barton, who received her master's
degreee in history in 1972, is studying ancient history in Italy
The U S State Department, through the Insitute of
International Education, adminsters the program which was
created by the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961
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