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View from My Apartment by Brooke Borcherding
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Impressions of the Ordinary
A series of paintings hangs in two straight rows in the main hallway of the
WOW Hall. When you’re running to that concert you’ve been waiting weeks to
see, the art is easy to overlook. But catch a glimpse of one hanging to the left
of the snack stand and you may immediately recognize the subject. Recent UO
graduate Brooke Borcherding is showing a series of oil paintings that illuminate
seemingly ordinary spaces in and around the Eugene area. From the familiar
landscape around the pedestrian bridge over the Willamette River to the
PeaceHealth building along 13th Avenue, Borcherding’s body of work is uniquely
Eugene. It’s fi tting that her paintings have been featured in such Eugene
mainstays as Café Roma, Sweet Life Patisserie and now WOW Hall.
Twelve of the 16 paintings hanging in WOW Hall’s corridor focus on the
view from Borcherding’s apartment window. It’s not a particularly spectacular
half-block of Eugene, but it’s the progression of the paintings that draws you
in. Borcherding takes an impressionistic approach to interpreting spaces and
highlights different aspects of the same space each time she paints. She uses
small brush strokes on the areas she wants to emphasize, bringing them into
focus, while widening the strokes in the areas she wants to blur.
Painting the same space in different weather conditions and lighting
situations allows Borcherding to play with focus and color. One painting focuses
on a particular building lit up by a warm gold hue, while the painting right next to
it blurs that building in a haze of grey and focuses on the house across the street.
It may be that you’ve stared blankly at these places every day on your way
to work and not thought twice. But a walk through Borcherding’s WOW Hall
exhibit will put them in a new light.
Borcherding’s exhibit can be seen any time during WOW Hall’s summer
offi ce hours, 3 to 6 pm, Monday through Friday, through June 30; n/c.
— Natalie Horner
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