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Artist moves beyond cute
■The latest exhibition in the
EMU details an artistic
transition stemming from the
artist’s own life
By Mason West
Oregon Daily Emerald
There is a Newcomer in the Adell
McMillan Gallery — Kelly New
comer, that is.
The former Eugene resident’s art
is brightening up the EMU gallery
this week with its vibrant colors and
sensibilities..
Douglas Beauchamp, director of
Lane Arts Council, has gotten to
know Newcomer and her work
through her involvement with the
organization. He sees beyond the
exterior replication of these images
to the message that Newcomer
wants to convey.
“It’s a bit of a tounge-in-cheek com
mentary about how wrapped up we
are in the Japanese culture and the
cuteness of it,” Beauchamp said.
The pop art nature of Newcomer’s
work is not the established norm for
what gets displayed in the Adell
McMillan Gallery, which is located
on the second floor of the EMU, but
new visual arts director Dan Karp
believes it deserves recognition.
“When I received her portfolio, I
thought ‘it’s so simple,’ but there’s
something about it that I can’t disre
gard,” Karp said.
Newcomer has a very simple ex
planation for that “something.”
“I think people like my work be
Catharine Kendall Emerald
Artist Kelly Newcomer places her painting “Pink Explosion with Space Invader” in the
Adell McMillan Gallery in the EMU.
cause it is actually happy,” she said.
"I’m a happy person.”
The art included in this show rep
resents three distinct periods in
Newcomer’s Oregon life. The first
could be called the “doughnut peri
od,” in which, of course, she paint
ed doughnuts.
“When I came to a Eugene, I was a
baker,’’Newcomer said. “Sometimes
I would sketch the dough while I was
working. My job kind of influenced
my art.”
Her second period could be la
beled the “cute period.” “One of the
things that really defines cute is look
ing like a baby,” Newcomer said.
“The really cute stuff has big eyes.”
Many images from Sanrio, the
company responsible for Hello Kitty,
appear in this period. It is also the time
period in which Newcomer was new
ly married. However, Newcomer’s
next period was influenced by a big
change from that lifestyle, her di
vorce.
“When I got divorced, I stopped
wanting to paint cute things,” New
comer said. “I was no longer a cute
little domestic thing.”
So, Newcomer started to paint
satellites. These more recent paint
ings are labeled by Newcomer as
“cute tech.” Her favorite painting,
“Swiss Cheese Satellite,” is part of this
series and can be seen in the exhibit.
“I think I always like my newest
painting the best,” Newcomer said.
“It’s close to my heart.”
The show ends Nov. 18.
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