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.

Dan Welton Photographs at Dot Dotson's

Dan Welton is having an exhibit of photographs at Dot Dotson's Camera Store from January 11 to early February.  Dan teaches photography at LCC and this exhibit includes a collection of photographs from trips to Italy with his family.  Dotson's Camera is located at 1668 Willamette St., Eugene, OR.

Silkscreen Exhibit, January 7-17

The Advanced Silkscreen Exhibit showcases work by students in Kristie Potwora's silkscreen classes.  The exhibit runs from January 7-17 in the Bamboo Lounge in Building 10 on the main campus of Lane Community College.  Please come and see some wonderful work by LCC students.

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)