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THE OREGON HUMANITIES CENTER PRESENTS
The 2001-2 Colin Ruagh Thomas O'Fallon Memorial Lecture in Art and American Culture
MORRIS GRAVES:
LONGING AND RECONCILIATION
A SLIDE LECTURE BY ART CRITIC
THEODORE WOLFF
THURSDAY, APRIL 11,8:00 p.m., 177 LAWRENCE HALL
This slide lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book signing and sale. For more information, or
for disability accommodations (which must be arranged by April 4), please call (541) 346-3934.
UNIVERSITY of OREGON
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overlooked in daily life and give
them a sense of beauty.
“I leave mistakes,” Parr said. “I like
that (the paintings) look really messy
and garbled, because I want people
to see that it’s a process.” Some of the
imperfections that seem to stand out
in her paintings are the ears on many
of the human forms.
“I really like big ears,” she said.
“It seems to humanize them. It
gives them that added sort of awk
wardness.”
As a child growing up in Tucson,
Ariz., Parr said she had to rely on her
imagination for artistic inspiration.
“When I was little, my mom nev
er gave me coloring books,” she
said. “She thought they were too re
strictive, so she gave me blank pa
per and crayons.”
She continued drawing and
painting through high school and
participated in a few small art
shows as an undergraduate at the
University of Arizona before follow
ing her boyfriend to Oregon.
She said her paintings are very
graphic, starting with a shape that is
then colored. In effect, she has creat
ed her own coloring book.
“My paintings have a large ele
ment of drawing,” she said. “Draw
ing is my favorite thing to do.”
During her undergraduate years at
the University of Arizona, Parr ma
jored in art history and minored in
painting. She is now a graduate stu
dent in the Department of Art Histo
ry at the University, and she said her
focus is in Northern Renaissance art
from the 15th and 16th centuries.
She said she tries to incorporate
some of the techniques and ideas ex
pressed in Renaissance art into her
modern art using examples of some
of her favorite artists, such as Egon
Schiele, Jean-Michel Basquiat and
Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio.
Parr said she loves both art histo
ry and art making.
“Each really informs the other,”
she said. “I think I’m such a better
artist since I look at so much art, and
I’ve become such a better art histori
an since I’ve made so much art.”
Russell said Parr has a “perfect
mix” of fine art and art history.
“She forms a good bridge be
tween conceptual art and tradition
al fine art,” Russell said.
Parr said making her art is not al
ways easy, because sometimes she
will unexpectedly identify a feeling
portrayed in a work with her own
feelings. The insecurities and trials
in her life often find their way into
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even bigger.
“There will be more sponsorship
this year and more awards. The
judges will be from the University
and professionals outside the Uni
versity,” Miller said.
For students producing multime
dia projects for classes, the festival
offers artists a venue to show their
work on a wider scale as well as
earn accolades beyond grades.
Though many of the submissions
her work, she said, and it can be
scary to expose them.
Some of the feelings in her work
are expressed not in pictures, but
in words.
Maude Kerns Art Center gallery
coordinator Heidi Howes said she re
ceived her first look at Parr’s artwork
during opening night along with oth
er curious art lovers. She said she
liked how Parr had incorporated both
words and images into her paintings.
“The words really fit with what
the image is,” Howes said. “They
support each other.”
The origin of the words often
come from random phrases or pic
tures seen in the media, Parr said.
“If I hear a phrase that I like or I
read it somewhere, I’ll jot it down on
a scrap of paper and toss it in my stu
dio,” she said, holding up a newspa
per photo she had kept for years be
fore finding the right painting into
which she could incorporate it.
“I feel like I got the maximum ef
fect and meaning I could out of it,”
she said.
Although she said she has become
attached to many of the works, she
said everything has a price.
“I’m just thrilled that I can put my
things in a gallery,” she said, “instead
of keeping them in my garage. ”
E-mail reporter Jen West
atjenwest@dailyemerald.com.
for the upcoming festival come from
class projects being completed for
spring term, festival organizers said
that students don’t have to submit -
works from classes. Outside proj
ects are welcomed and encouraged.
The only requirement is that the
works be no longer than 10 minutes
in length. Friday’s event also will of
fer 2002 festival sign-up sheets that
can be submitted with project en
tries during Dead Week.
Ryan Bornheimer is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
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