2022 Mayor's Art Show People's Choice Award Voting
Thanks for joining us in 2021. Watch for information about the 2022 Mayor's Art Show!
Voting is over! Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2022 Mayor's Art Show.
The Mayor’s Art Show (MAS) is part of a larger celebration of contemporary visual art, artists and the city’s public spaces. The show celebrates local artists, art production and champions the visual arts while the accomplishments of artists who are committed to enriching their communities through visual arts. Our intention is to cultivate diversity, equity, and access to the visual arts and artists. We envision a city of citizens whose success, safety and health are not pre-determined by their race, class, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability.
The exhibition can be viewed virtually and will be on display on the second floor the downtown Eugene Public Library. You can view the show's opening reception in person from 6:15-8pm on Friday, August 5. Starting Saturday, August 6, it can be viewed during the library's regular hours of operation: Mon-Thurs from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Fri-Sun from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. The show will remain up until September 4.
Artist biographies and statements are available at the library’s reference desk on the second floor.
Visit eugene-or.gov/mas for more details.
Voting is over! Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2022 Mayor's Art Show.
The Mayor’s Art Show (MAS) is part of a larger celebration of contemporary visual art, artists and the city’s public spaces. The show celebrates local artists, art production and champions the visual arts while the accomplishments of artists who are committed to enriching their communities through visual arts. Our intention is to cultivate diversity, equity, and access to the visual arts and artists. We envision a city of citizens whose success, safety and health are not pre-determined by their race, class, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability.
The exhibition can be viewed virtually and will be on display on the second floor the downtown Eugene Public Library. You can view the show's opening reception in person from 6:15-8pm on Friday, August 5. Starting Saturday, August 6, it can be viewed during the library's regular hours of operation: Mon-Thurs from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Fri-Sun from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. The show will remain up until September 4.
Artist biographies and statements are available at the library’s reference desk on the second floor.
Visit eugene-or.gov/mas for more details.
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People's Choice Voting
7 months agoVote for your favorite pieces from this year's Mayor's Art Show.
A panel of artists and art professionals reviewed all applications. Awards will be given based on the consideration of the following criteria: conceptual strength, artistic merit, innovation, craftsmanship and materials.
Note: Before you can vote you must register for an account with Engage Eugene.
Please click "View All Ideas" to see all 46 and then simply click on the hearts to select your favorite suggestions. You should see your vote count in real time. Voting concludes at noon on August 12, 2022.
To see an enlarged, full image of each piece, click into the Idea Card and click on the image, it will enlarge in a separate window, but you may need to scroll down to see it. You can also see more images of the MAS artwork here: eugene-or.gov/mas
COE Cultural Servicesover 1 year agoPatricia Carroll
Air, Land, Water, 2021 Acrylic, paper, painting on canvas 36" x 48" x 2.5" -2,800.00 Most of my art is created with acrylic paint and color paper. I use the paper as a base or block to create texture and often allow some of the color to show through the paint layers. My surfaces are either panel or canvas. The paint may be applied on top of the paper or below, whichever suits the piece. I do not consider my work to be collage, it is not the intent. Artist Bio I live and paint in Eugene, Oregon in the beautiful Willamette Valley filled with liberal-minded thinkers, old hippies and expats from far and wide. It is affectionately referred to as the "last bastion of the terminally hip." A long way from my roots in Pleasantville, New York, it has been my home for over 37 years. My lifetime love of art has led me through a variety of structured and unstructured art experiences. I remember wanting to be an artist since the age of four. In the 70s and 80s I attended college art classes at Drake University in, Des Moines, Iowa, State University of New York at Purchase, University of Iowa and Lane Community college here in Eugene. I have worked as an artist and picture framer for much of my life.
0 comment0COE Cultural Servicesover 1 year agoJud Turner
Naseem, 2022 Welded steel, found objects, chromed steel, glass, paint 114" x 44" x 40" -15,000.00 This is a satellite installation for MAS, located at the Downtown Riverfront Park (500 E 4th Ave). I learned early on to reinterpret the man-made industrial environments around me, and subvert them for my own fun and creative expression on my skateboard. Seeing the alternative possibilities in the manufactured world, I make my art out of materials that were not originally intended to be artistic mediums. I take old, cold, beat up steel objects and merge them with many other objects to create something new that can appear soft, warm and life-like – the whole belying the origins of the many recycled ingredients. I draw inspiration from the natural world of animals and plants and spend much of my non-studio time exploring the rich outdoor regions of this area of the country. My sculptural work is popular with collectors, gallery viewers and the general public, who are able to engage in a process of discovery. They immediately take in the overall subject, and then move in closer to identify and relate to the many individual parts that make it up. Using materials that people can recognize from their everyday experiences makes the sculptures feel more accessible to people and is a dynamic example of the possibilities of recycling and reuse that has become a popular value in our consumerist culture. Artist Bio I am a lifelong resident of Oregon, born in 1969 and making full time professional art for over 20 years. I am a practicing Buddhist and lead meditation and recovery meetings. I go to the studio 7 days per week and love my work very much. I have worked with found objects and welded steel for the past 30 years; my background and training were in drawing and painting. I have a strong work ethic and endless fascination with the visual and conceptual possibilities of art making, and I am lucky to be able to make my living as a sculptor. I work daily at my studio in Eugene, which is called "The Oblivion Factory," a 2000-square-foot warehouse that is fully equipped for welding, casting, dismantling and fabricating metals of all kinds. I enjoy the process of making sculpture: finding objects which are re-purposed, long hours working in the solitude of my studio and especially the way that making art affects how I view the world around me.
1 comment3COE Cultural Servicesover 1 year agoMargot Lovinger
Alchemy, 2021 Fabric, embroidery floss, thread. 68" x 30" x 4" -10,000.00 In my quilt work, I concern myself almost exclusively with the human form. It is what I have always been most interested in looking at, as long as I've been looking at art. I pull my strongest influences from the pages of art history books, from portraits and figure studies painted decades ago, sometimes centuries ago. I choose subjects who interest me on a variety of levels and often find myself picturing them as a particular artist from the past might have seen them. This portrait quilt of my daughter is also an homage to the work of Alphonse Mucha, whose poster art defined the Art Nouveau movement. Artist Bio Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, my interest in art started at an early age. Attending weekend workshops and classes at local art associations and at the Museum of Fine Arts furthered my enthusiasm. After high school, I enrolled in art school at Parsons School of Design in New York City. After two years as a sculpture major in their fine arts department, I transferred to the Museum School in Boston, where I completed my education and earned my Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. After many years in Boston, I spent a few years in Los Angeles and then Seattle before moving to Eugene, where I presently live and work.
0 comment23COE Cultural Servicesover 1 year agoChelsea Beaudrie
Loose Ends, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 36" x 48" x 1.5" -2,300.00 I had spent most of my life with a feeling of holding back by staying confined within the lines and worrying about making the right mark in the world that surrounds me. My discovery of painting in the summer of 2020 released those preconceived notions. I begin each painting by closing my eyes, making marks, being influenced by the music in my studio, the emotions I'm feeling in the moment and the many things that consume my mind. Each painting is my unfiltered voice, expressing a feeling, an experience and speaking an untold story. These stories provide the viewer varying dimensions for individual interpretation. My use of texture, marks and color is my expression of passion, anger, joy and confusion – some of the many emotions we, as humans, often experience but struggle to adequately express. I'm intrigued and inspired by human behavior. My work is often influenced by social injustices, witnessed interactions within our global cultural environment and personal experiences. Artist Bio Chelsea Beaudrie is a self-taught artist born and raised in Windsor, Canada and currently residing in the Pacific Northwest. Her work speaks through layered color, expressive lines, malleable textures and various formulated shapes that invite the viewer to experience a mutually shared vision of the artist's world.
0 comment6COE Cultural Servicesover 1 year agoKevin Reilly
The Cypress Forest, 2022 Photography 20" x 26" x 1" -225.00 Kevin Reilly specializes in black and white photography. His goal is to print images that offer every bit of the detail, clarity and depth your eyes would see if you were placed directly into the scene. Every print he makes is created by hand, printed on high quality, long-lasting photographic art paper with archival inks. Combined with his classic style, his prints are meant to be enjoyed for decades. Artist Bio Photography Awards: California Academy of Science Love Life Contest -- Best in Division Twice Infocus - 1st Place Black and White Calaveras Fair - Best in Show Tuolumne Fair - Best in Division Photographing Teaching: Columbia College Community Education Introduction to Digital Photography Photographer: Railtown State Park, Jamestown California Writing: Improve Photography Featured Writer/Photographer RV Life Magazine: Contributing Writer/Photographer Shows: Ventana Gallery, Sonora, CA Railtown State Park, Jamestown CA Diamondback Grill, Sonora CA Maude Kerns Eugene OR NewZone Gallery Eugene OR Clubs: President, Current, Emerald Photographic Society, Eugene, OR
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