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yless Entry,” a sculpture made by Clackamas Community College student Twila Lavery, is
display in the Alexander Gallery as part of the Lee Hutchinson Student Art Show.
By Mandie Gavitt
Associate Arts & Culture Editor
or the next three weeks, the Alexander Gallery has
transformed into Clackamas community college’s
art gallery for the Lee Hutchinson Student Art Show,
all student-submitted art, the gallery has been taken
with digital videos, ceramics, sculptures, paintings,
jgraphs and drawings.
fording to art student Chelsy King, displaying art
! exhibit cost $1 per submission and the pieces dis-
¡d were determined by art teachers on campus.
ing said she felt that being in the art exhibit was a
honor and a resume builder. “We have a great art
am.” she said.
ick True, a CCC art instructor involved in decid-
?hat went into the exhibit, said that they tried to
: sure that every student who submitted art had their
displayed, though some pieces were not accepted
use the artist had other work that better represented
lalents.
udent Crystal Mann said a sculpture titled “Keyless
f caught her eye. “Someone had to put a lot of
¡ht into it; it’s unique,” she said.
ke aitwork submitted was judged for a number of
mes, and winners were determined by George
0. a professional Portland artist Green said that judg­
es difficult because of the amount of talent that was
lyed by the students, but despite the huge responsi-
, he thought it was fim.
Here are a lot of talented people floating around
'Green said about the art that students displayed in
<hibr. “If someone else judged the competition, they
would have picked totally different pieces, but they’d still
be correct”
Green gave a 30 minute talk in the gallery to acknowl­
edge those that won awards and all those that had art
di splayed. During the talk he warned that the winners and
losers were determined by his own bias and that the art­
ists should not read too much into the decisions he made.
“There is always danger in giving awards where
people don’t know what they mean,” said Green. “Those
who didn’t win awards may be better off than those that
did,”
“The real heartbreaks are those that could have easily
been chosen but weren’t,” Green said, acknowledging the
talent in the pieces that did not win prizes. “All artists fail
98 percent of the time. None of it means anything.”
According to Green, the way to be an artist is to make
art for yourself until it begins to come out more naturally
or, as he called it, on “autopilot”
“This place is doing you a big favor by making the
student art show a big deal,” said Green in his speech.
Student Hector Ome I as won best in show for a simple
painting of a square on a piece of metal called “Pencil
on top of a painted square.” When asked how it felt to
be acknowledged by a professional artist, Ornelas said it
felt “unreal.”
He said the piece came out of an assignment for class
as well as the Internet He had picked the piece to be
displayed last minute because he happened to have it
on hand in his locker, he hadn’t originally planned on
displaying work in the gallery.
When asked why he picked Ornelas ’ piece for best in
show, Green simply responded, “I liked it best”
The exhibit will be displayed in the Alexander Gallery
in the Niemeyer Center until June 2.
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Above: Art show judge George Green speaks
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Left: Students Domingo Chulula (right) and
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