Marina Pantioukhin, draws on Russian
Orthodox traditions and imagery.
Radunitsa is a folk holiday of ancient pagan
origins observed after Easter by Eastern
Slavs to remember relatives and friends.
The offerings include flowers, candles,
bread, cake, vodka, and a bowl of wheat
planted with thin candles. Most striking are
Pantioukhin’s six delicate egg tempera and
gold leaf Russian Orthodox icons, which
together form a cross on the wall.
Back by popular demand is Jill
Cardinal’s Community Altar, a tall, wonder-
ful replica of a church in papier mâché
painted pink, blue and yellow. Pieces of
colored paper printed with an image of the
Virgin of Guadalupe are provided for visi-
tors to write messages to their lost ones and
pin them on the altar.
Artworks
La Boda de Weissbarth y Fuentes, a
delightfully playful oil on canvas by Analee
Fuentes (Coburg), offers multiple cross-
cultural references as a spoof on Dutch
master Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini
Marriage (1434). Fuentes and her husband
appear as skeletons, the bride holding a
brush. Van Eyck’s round mirror is replaced
with a representation of the Aztec calendar
— in the center of which the painter, as
CALAVERA BY LISA FIELDS CLARK.
Tonatiuh the sun-god, sticks out her tongue.
Van Eyck’s dog, European symbol of fideli-
ty, has turned into a metal sculpture by local
sculptor Harold Hoy. Humorous self-refer-
ences abound: the groom’s shoes are
Birkenstocks, the chandelier has turned into
a camping lamp and fly-fishing rods rest
against the bed covered with a serape or
Mexican blanket. The floor carpet is
Astroturf.
E. Ipolani (Granada Hills, Calif.) also
uses skeletons in his acrylic paintings to
spoof famous artworks. She didn’t call brad
is a great parody of Roy Lichtenstein’s
comic book style with its characteristic
photoengraver’s dots. A female skeleton is
about to drown, only her head and mop of
blue hair emerge from the gray water. A yel-
low band proclaims: “Oh my God! She was
serious!”
Mitzi Linn’s (Eugene) luminous
gouaches, painted last fall in Oaxaca during
the Day of the Dead, feature gentle skele-
tons in the roles of Kahlo and Rivera,
dancers, or carved benches. In The
Appearance, rich in symbolic imagery, the
Virgin of Guadalupe appears simultaneous-
ly as a skeleton and a flower. Her robe is
made of plant life and she holds the earth in
her hands. The nested design creates a fig-
ure/ground tease, an apt metaphor for the
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