arts & lives
Sandgren’s painterly paints,
prints on annual Jury display
Eric Sandgren
Staff photo by Ramona Isackson
“It’s transforming common
subject matter into something
visually exciting,”^ said Eric
Sandgren of the art of water
color painting. Sandgren, a
teacher of art, painting, and
drawing here on campus, cur
rently has two of his prestigious
works on display at Mt. Hood
Community College and
Willamette University.
At Mt. Hood, Sandgren’s
print was one of .many chosen
for the Oregon Printmakers
Annual, a yearly competition
of lithographs of original artists’
prjnts that is now in its fifth
¡Film view by Peggy Conrad
year.
“My print is titled, ‘St.
Julian,’ and it’s a play on a
story by Flaubert,” Sandgren
said. “He wrote his story based
on a stained glass window, so
now it’s back to its original
form,” Sandgren. mused:
“St. Julian” is on display
from now until March 10 at the
Art Mall Gallery at Mt. Hood.
Sandgren’s second display
can be found at Willamette
University until March 20 at the
Art Building. It’s titled “Paper
and Tin,” and was chosen by
the Oregon Jury Water Color
as one of the best watercolors
in the state.
Painted in 1980, ‘’Paper and
Tin” is a still life of the materials
in the title. “1 do a lot of water
colors,” Sandgren said. Is his
watercolor impressionistic? Ex-
pressionistic? ‘T don’t suppose
you could label it anything
other than painterly, which is
an interpretation of a story,”
the Ivy League alumnus said.
Born and raised around art
in Corvallis, Sandgren was at
tracted like a magnet to Yale
University’s art program. Later,
he attended Cornell on a
scholarship. This isn’t San-
dgren’s first art display. At the
Portland Art Museum last
will succeed is his wife, played November, he had an exhibit at
by Blair Brown. She reaches the Rental Sales Gallery. In
out and literally pulls her hus that same month, Sandgren
band back to human form was also awarded a grant from
the Oregon Committee for the
more than once.
“Altered States” fills not only Hujnanities, and gave a
your mind, but your eyes and presentation on the subject of
ears to capacity, as well. It is a American landscapes.
visual, fast-paced, and electri
Sandgren, who taught at
fying film. Nominated for Best Portland State University for
Music Score arid Sound at the two years before turning his at
upcoming Academy Awards in tention to this college, is
April.
teaching three different courses
This movie left me for next term: painting, draw
breathless, and yet I felt I could ing and basic design ? painting
go outandrun 10 miles.
drawing commercial Art.
fAltered States’ an audio* visual feast
I “I’m no longer observing, I
am one of them.”
J This is only one of the many
chilling lines from the bizarre
new movie, “Altered States”
Dcurrently playing at the
Westgate in Beaverton and the
Hollywood on Sandy Blvd.).
[‘Altered States” is a story of a
man searching for absolute
truths, absolute causes, and his
absolute beginnings.
Directed by Ken Russell
»Tommy, Litzomania, and The
Devils), with a screenplay by
Sidney Arròn (Paddy Chayèf-
sky’s real name), this film is a
blend of “2001,” “Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde,” and every love
story ever written. But it is so
unique, it truly makes one
pause to consider life and its
origins.
Edward Jessup, portrayed
by William Hurt, is a young
Harvard professor obsessed
with finding man’s link to his
own evolution. He brings back
a mind-expanding drug from'
Mexico, and when he com
bines it with an immersion tank
(which he has been placing his
students in order to obtain their
innermost psychological ex
periences), he is transformed
into a human animal.
Jessup is fascinated and yet,
terrified, wanting to continue
the experiments with the aid of
his two cohorts, brilliantly
played by Bob (“Close En
counters”) Balaban and Charles
(“Hill Street Blues”) Haid, and
yet knowing he may cross over
into another dimension and not
be able to return.
Perhaps the person who
worries the most that Jessup
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ materializes Friday
Ey Thomas A. Rhodes
scene) into a nuclear weapon “2001,” a film without, blobs
floating in space in the year (Kubrick had filmed aliens-
I Thirteen years ago, a film 2001 (hence the title).
which shows you how much in
Bvas released that was ranked
The plot turns to a new-and fluence he had-but he decided
■by the film, critics’ circle and by shocking-discovery on the not to use them because they
■audiences alike. Today, moon that might change all the didn’t look believable), without
■‘2001: A Space Odyssey” is theories on the development of laser beams, and- with
■generally considered by those, man and his brain. (Eric Von dialogue—which is impossible
tame critics to be a great film, Danieken, pay attention.) That to get away with today, unless
Bind an historical landmark in discovery? A tall black you’re Stanley Kubrick.
■he film industry. It is playing mpnolith that was radiating an
Uniike the rest of the genre
■his Friday at noon in the Com- enormous magnetic field.
up until ’68, “200l’s” special
t unity Center Lounge.
The film now ' turns to the effects were subdued—but
Produced, co-written (with third and final portion of man’s 'realistic. No longer would peo
rthur C. Clarke), and directed journey to the limits. The ple accept low budget films
By Stanley Kubrick, “2001” il- • same, exact magnetic field
Bustrates a theory on the detected on the moon has been
■development of man’s in- discovered on . the planet
Belligence, an intelligence Jupiter. Two astronauts (Keir
Kssisted by sentinels from the Dullea, and Gary Lockwood)1
Rosmos. Based on one of and their companion com
Ellarke’s early short stories, puter, HAL 9000, are sent out
The Sentinel,” this odyssey in search of the origin and
pens with the dawn of man- possible discoveries accom
pes living on a virgin earth, panied with the field.
■iolent, ignorant, and without
Another theme is introduced
Kubtlety. While the apes sleep, to the audience, and that is
B black monolith is placed by- man becoming overwhelmed
Kxtraterrestials outside their by his own technology.
Rave.
When “2001” opened first in
I The monolith is the prover- 1968, it baffled and confused
■ial “think, tank” for the soon- many people (and it still does).
Bo-evolve beings, and from it, In ’68, America was in a cold'
Rhe apes (played by mimes, war with the Soviet Union and
Believe it or not) gain the most science-fiction films up to
Knowledge to use bones as that time were concerning huge
Bveapons, which helps the blobs (representing com
Bpecies survive and eventually munism) attempting to take
Kvolve into man.
over the world. Science-fiction
■ As an ape revels in joy over films based on this subject pret
■is new discovery (a weapon), ty much ran their course in
Ke unleashes his weapon into about two years’, so for about
Rhe air. In mid-air, this primitive 10 years, this film genre pretty
teapon changes (as does the much died. Then came
_ ednesday, February 25, 1981
■Of The Print
centimeters
Colors by Muriseli Color Services Lab
with cheap-jack special effects.
They had to be realistic. So
rare is this Friday’s noon film,
that no 6ne has even made an
attempt to reproduce it. You’ll
notice how many carbon
copies have been made out of
“Star Wars.”
To be blunt, “2001” added
stature to a dwarfing genre,
and without it, there ¡would
have been no “Star Wars,”
“Empire Strikes Back,”
“Alien,” or “Close Encounters”
(as good as it was) . It’s a horror
film without blood, without
hands bursting out of the
darkness, and without the 101
strings (used in every horror
film since “Psycho”). “2001”
works on a subtle level of hor
ror. When HAL turns on his
human comrades, it’s as horri
fying as anything in “Psycho,’J
because the effect of the horror
is psychological, not physical.
Next term, Kubrick, Howard
Hawks and Sam Peckinpah will
be the directors focused upon
in the Great Directors Series.