Media Arts Student Exhibition opens May 28

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the Media Arts Student Exhibition. This exhibition will feature many interesting and varied works submitted by the graduating students of the Media Arts Program.

The show runs from May 28 through June 13. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue in Eugene, OR. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Graphic Design Student Show opens May 28

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the annual Graphic Design Student Show. This exhibition will feature many interesting and varied portfolio pieces submitted by the graduating students of the Graphic Design Program.

The show runs from May 28 through June 13. A reception will be held on Wednesday, June 12, from 4-6 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

GIGI CONOT, “NATURAL SELECTIONS”, OPENS APRIL 29

 

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Natural Selections, by regional artist Gigi Conot. Gigi has worked and studied on the west coast, including places such as Colorado and San Francisco before settling in Portland, Oregon.

When discussing the content of her photographic work within this exhibition, Conot spoke of the inspiration of nature: “I was living in a small studio in a very urban area, where plants and trees were confined to areas in the city that you had to make a point to travel to. I think it was almost a matter of deprivation, the more I missed nature the more I obsessed over it. I started going to the farmers market and looking at my produce very carefully, examining their shapes, leaves, contours and shadows. I began to see structural beauty that was truly unlike anything that you’ll find in a man-made object.

For more information, you can visit Gigi Conot’s website at: www.gconot.com

The show runs from April 29^th to May 23^rd. A lecture will take place on Thursday, May 16^th, beginning at 3:00 with a reception immediately following. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Images: Bleeding Heart; Cicada; Tangled Weed

“OUT OF ROUND” - Justin Stuck AND Anna Stehle - opens may April 29

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present “Out of Round”, a two-person show featuring artists and Lane Community College Studio Technicians, Justin Stuck and Anna Stehle. Justin works in the sculpture studio and Anna works in the ceramics studio within the Department of Art and Applied Design. The exhibition consists of both sculpture and ceramics, along with installation work.

When asked about his sculpture and the nature of this work, Justin stated, “I hope to appeal to the imagination, to that place within us, in which resides our images of reality and our images of life itself.  From there I hope to spark a different way of seeing the world, to bring about new and possibly different images for shaping our deeper understanding of the experience of life.”

The show runs from April 29^th to May 23^rd. A lecture featuring both artists will be held on Monday, May 20^th at 3:00 pm with a closing reception immediately following.

The gallery is located in building 11 on main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541- 463-5409.

Paintings - Leslie Peterson, April 1 - 25

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Paintings, by regional artist Leslie Peterson. Leslie was born and raised in Portland and currently resides in Tualatin, Oregon.

“I work directly on wood panel (with acrylics), sometimes integrating collage. The colors are rich and yet subtle, based on a limited palette, working off of the color of the surface. My paintings are unquestionably contemporary, yet classic and accessible. In choosing snapshots and photographs that involve happenchance and unpretentious expression, I show how the mundane moments of life are rich with meaning. My style is transcendent of time or fashion, and evokes the essence of life and our ageless human existence.”

For more information, you can visit Leslie’s website at: www.lesliepetersonpainting.com

The show runs from April 1^st to April 25^th. A lecture will take place on Thursday, April 4^th, beginning at 3:00 with a reception immediately following. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located in Building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Images:

Casual (acrylic on wood panel)

Florida (acrylic on wood panel)

Humbug State Park: The Park Ranger's Family (acrylic on wood panel)

8th Annual High School Art Show - April 1-25

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present our 8^th Annual High School Art Show. This show is an invitational to area high schools in Lane County to share with our community, their young and upcoming art students.

Along with the exhibition, students who participate are eligible for awards and scholarships. Please come out to the main campus and show your support for our young artists.

The show runs from April 1^nd to April 25^th. An evening reception is being held on Thursday, April 11^th from 5:30 to 7:00.

The gallery is located in building 11 on Lane Community College's main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Dreaming Across Time and Space, Tie Li Exhibit, Feb. 11 - March 15

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Dreaming Across Time and Space, by Portland artist, Tie Li. Tie Li works in a combination of painting and mixed media. His work is reflective of the past and he uses found imagery to convey this reference.

“To me, sometime art making is a process of turning yourself inside out. It’s not easy to face reality, which often is not pleasant or beautiful. But, as long as you are being truthful to yourself, your idea and your dream, thought courage and effort, you may turn your dream into reality, this process itself is beautiful.”

The show runs from February 11^th to March 15^th. A brief lecture will take place on Thursday, February 14th, beginning at 3:00 with a reception immediately following. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located in Building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Images:  Internal Space, Made in USA, Family Roots

Juried Student Art Show, Feb. 11 - March 15

LCC Art Gallery is proud to present the Juried Student Art Exhibition. The show runs from February 11^th – March 15^th. A reception will be held on Thursday, February 21^st from 3:00 – 4:00 pm. The reception is free and open to the public.

The LCC Juried Student Art Show is an exhibition showcasing the best of our current LCC art students. All the student work on display has been created during the past academic year. Along with selection for the exhibition, our student’s work will also be juried for various awards as well as this year’s League of Innovation representatives for the National League of Innovation Art Competition.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank this year’s jurors, Steve and ZoAnn Reinmuth. Steve and ZoAnn are the founders of Reinmuth Bronze Studio, Eugene, Oregon. As part of the local art community for over 15 years, Steve’s work can be seen throughout the community as well as at Lane Community College’s main campus. Images and more information can be found at http://www.reinmuth.com/.

We encourage the community to come and support our artists.

The gallery is located in Building 11 on main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Monique Janssen-Belitz "Unfolding Dreams" exhibit

Work by Monique Janssen-Belitz "Unfolding Dreams" in the LCC Art Gallery, January 7 - February 7, in the Art Gallery at Lane Community College.  Gallery talk and reception at 3:00 on January 17.

Zina Mussmann, "Under the Sun" exhibit

 Images of works by Zina Mussmann in the exhibit "Under the Sun" January 7 - February 7 at the gallery at Lane Community College.

Monique Janssen-Belitz, "Unfolding Dreams", Jan. 7 - Feb. 7

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Unfolding Dreams, by well-traveled artist, Monique Janssen-Belitz, who currently resides and teaches in Crete, Nebraska.

“My life is a collection of landscapes, colored by atmosphere and eloquent light. Immersed in the awareness of the transience of life and illusory promises of happiness, the land always offers more, something beyond eternity, beyond hope and beyond disappointments. In landscapes that are so huge you could lose yourself in them; becoming an inconsequential speck of dust as part of a larger-than-life orchestra celebrating the joy of nature. Variety inside repetition; multiples generate textures; textures morph into forms; forms create depth. This inter-connectedness mirrors the forces, which shaped the land over time. Its geological genesis etched the surface as did the ebb and flow of cultural sediment and weathered erosion.”

The show runs from January 7^th to February 7th. A lecture will take place on Thursday, January 17^th, beginning at 3:00 with a reception immediately following. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. Eugene, OR. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Top: Prairie Dance
Middle:  Blue Heat
Bottom:  Juxtaposition

Zina Mussmann, "Under the Sun", Jan. 7 - Feb. 7

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Under the Sun, by mid-western artist, Zina Mussmann.

Zina Mussmann was born in Milwaukee and received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from UWM's Peck School of the Arts in 2002. She went on to complete her MFA in Painting at Northern Illinois University in 2008. Zina has exhibited nationally in cities including Milwaukee, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Sacramento, and Chicago. Her work was recently featured in the Manifest International Painting Annual 1, which was published in late 2011. Currently, Zina is the Co-Director of greymatter, an artist run initiative that she established in 2011 with artist Rachel Quirk.

“My process involves the collection and appropriation of images and words from various ephemera, such as photographs, documents and film. I am interested in de-contextualizing this information and re-contextualizing it into mixed media works. These new constructions are a hybrid of drawing, painting, and collage that create ambiguous meanings which complicate understanding. I allow the work to exist in a state of absurdity by choosing to exclude certain information that is vital to the interpretation of the images. The work becomes more about questions than answers and alludes to the fact that, as humans, we can never really find real truth, only temporary conclusions. That really, there is nothing new under the sun.”

The show runs from January 7^th to February 7^th. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Top:  Dr.
Bottom:  Look-Listen

JS Bird Exhibit - "Psyche" - Opens November 13

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the sabbatical exhibition, Psyche by art faculty, JS Bird.

JS Bird is a painting instructor for the Department of Art and Applied Design at Lane Community College. Following a recent sabbatical, JS has been producing a new body of work exploring the myth of Psyche and Eros…using  “iconographic female images of Pop culture to cast in the role of Psyche, famous women who are culturally associated with beauty and sexuality.  While these icons are associated with sexuality and fantasy, there actually is no relationship between the icon and the viewer, except what lives inside the viewers head.”

In discussing his art as it relates to his audience, JS states, ”In most cases art is neutral, it is an object, (objectified) yet the viewer creates a relationship with the art only by looking at it.  While adopting pop culture’s pictorial conventions of sexuality, I am relying on context to transform the images into a form that transcends the very conventions utilized.  Such an overt, embellished fantasy, perhaps, holds within it, the capacity to force the viewer to confront, rather than indulge in, ones desire, or rejection, of the image.”

The show runs from November 13^th through December 6^th. A sabbatical talk and closing reception will take place on Thursday, November 29^th, beginning at 4:00 pm with a reception immediately following at 5:00. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Image top:  Psyche Received Persephone's Potion

Image middle:  Psyche West Wind

Image bottom:  Psyche's Dilemma (detail)

Gina Hartmann - Sentiments, Oct. 15 - Dec. 6

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Sentiments by Portland artist, Gina Hartmann.

Gina Hartman is a working artist living in Portland, Oregon.  Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, she has made her way to Portland after living briefly in California, New York, England.  She is a well-known sculptor, writer and multimedia artist known for traditional forms and exhibit ecosystems.

“My work has moved from the personal to the universal within the exploration of my individual vision. There is a consistent theme found in the work: a conviction to convey our relationships to ourselves, each other, and to the world. In essence, the human condition. Despite diversities in cultures we all feel, breathe and search for that which will ultimately provide us sustenance. There is a need to share with others that heightened awareness; our humanity, if just for one moment.”

The show runs from October 15^th through December 6^th. A lecture will take place on Thursday, October 25^th, beginning at 3:00 with a reception immediately following. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Image 1 -  Sundry Unmentionables

Image 2 - Forgotten Again

Salvador Dali Exhibit, Oct. 15-Nov. 8

 

“VISIONS OF SURREALISM”, SALVADOR DALI EXHIBITION OPENS OCTOBER 15^TH

 The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition Visions of Surrealism, a collection of four Salvador Dali lithographs.

“Visions of Surrealism”, a collection of Salvador Dali lithographs has been donated to LCC Art Gallery through the generosity of Rudy and Opal Powell. This collection consists of the titles, “Obsession of the Heart”, “The Mystery of Sleep”, “The Coronation of Gala”, and “Enigma of the Rose”.

 

The exhibit runs from October 15^th through November 8^th. The gallery is located in Building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

"The Mystery of Sleep" lithograph by Salvador Dali.

LCC Art & Art Design Faculty Exhibition, Sept. 24-Oct. 11

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present our annual fall exhibit by the Art and Applied Design Faculty.  The exhibition will include a wide variety of media by both the full-time and part-time instructors. The faculty has been asked to share work that exemplifies their art careers.

The show runs from September 24^th through October 11^th. A reception will be held on Thursday, October 4^th, from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. The galleries are located in building 11 on LCC's main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

MERGE: Graphic Design Student Show, May 29-June 14

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the annual Graphic Design Graduation Exhibition. This exhibition will feature many interesting and varied portfolio pieces submitted by the graduating students of the Graphic Design Program.

The show runs from May 29th through June 14th. A reception will be held on Wednesday, June 13th, from 4-6 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public. The gallery is located in building 11 on main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

3 Points North - Rob Beishline, Daryn Lowman and Andreas Salzman, April 2 - June 14

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to

present “3 Points North ”, a three-person exhibition

featuring works in ceramic, sculpture and mixed media. The featured artists are: Rob Beishline, a ceramic professor at Whatcom Community College, Bellinghan Washington; Daryn Lowman, a ceramics professor at Hibbing Community College, Hibbing Minnesota and Andreas Salzman, a ceramics and sculpture professor at Lane Community College, Eugene Oregon.

Rob Beishline’s work uses birds and animals to create experiences for himself and the viewer, “I do not see the pieces as metaphors, but realize that they could be read that way. I can identify with animals and am tempted to try to read myself in them, but the really valuable moments are when I can stop and look in silence.”

Daryn Lowman’s pottery and the use of the vessel create a dialogue reflecting time. “ I am drawn to the exploratory manner of working with ceramic processes. With playful sensibilities and direct decisions, my work plays on the whimsy of the soft material, and the sharpness of the durable fired surface. I like to ask questions about time, as it reflects our sense of new and used, cherished and abandoned.”

Andreas Salzman’s mixed media sculpture reflects the world in which he lives. “As an artist I feel that I can only talk about the issues of which I am passionate. The most important issues in my life are the relationships I have with the people around me. I try to illustrate the innermost feelings and emotions that are a result of the roles and decisions within my life. I include specific evidence of my journey to this state so I can build a sense of personal ownership of the content of my work.”

The show runs from April 2 through June 14.

The gallery is located in building 11 on main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 463-5409.

7th Annual High School Art Show, April 2-13

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present our 7th Annual High School Art Show. This show is an invitational to area high schools in Lane County to share with our community, their young and upcoming art students.

Along with the 2-week exhibition, students who participate are eligible for awards and scholarships. Please come out to the main campus and show your support for our young artists.

The show runs from April 2 to April 13. An evening reception is being held on April 5 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
The gallery is located in building 11 on main campus, 4000 E. 30th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.

Public Works and Private Thoughts, Lee Imonen Exhibit, 2/27-3/22

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present the exhibition, Public Works and Private Thoughts, by sculptor and Art instructor, Lee Imonen.  The show runs from February 27^th to March 22^nd. A lecture will take place on Thursday, March 1^st, beginning at 4:30 with a reception immediately following. The lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

Lee Imonen is a well-known Northwest sculptor with many public works throughout the state of Oregon. This exhibition will showcase work and reflections compiled from a recent sabbatical. As stated by the artist, “Public Work & Private Thoughts brings together two separate but related directions in my studio practice over the past decade.” 

In discussing both aspects for this exhibition Lee had this to say in regards to the public work aspect, “I have begun thinking about my public sculptures as research projects; opportunities for understanding a place, material, culture or organization in a more comprehensive way. My goal is to shift the direction of public work away from sculpture that is simply placed in the public realm, to work that not only engages the public, but equally speaks of its physical, historical and cultural environment.”

The intent of the pieces representing private thoughts, Imonen feels, ”these pieces are more intimate, often showing only a framed portion of the original object, like sculptural snapshots taken from close-up.”

The gallery is located in Building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 541-463-5409.