2023 Mayor's Art Show People's Choice Voting
Voting is over! Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2023 Mayor's Art Show.
The Mayor’s Art Show 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 predetermined by their race, class, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability.
The exhibition will be on display on the second floor the downtown Eugene Public Library and can also be viewed online. You can attend the show's opening reception in person from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 6. The show will remain on display until Oct. 29 and can be visited 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.
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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Voting is over! Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2023 Mayor's Art Show.
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Zoë Gamell Brown
Creolese Curry Video: youtu.be/wY4lICG5UIQ NFS Creolese Collage Mixed-media 24" x 16" x 0" NFS The video component of this exhibit may be viewed publicly in the 5th Street Market Alley between Oct 6-15, or online at youtu.be/wY4lICG5UIQ. In 2015, my mother and I arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport ready to be swept by curry memories. I first visited Guyana when I was five to spend time with my mother's mother, Grandma Shirley. We spent most afternoons picking through rice grains for weevils and chasing chickens for supper. We were there this time to visit my Aunt Annette months before she passed from breast cancer. We drove Annette to one of her last doctor's appointments on our final day. I agreed to write this story about Guyana, where we could use our family as a center to look outward-understanding complex relationships between people who co-resisted colonialism by forming unions while addressing the messy, overlapping and uncomfortable ways dominant forms of power function in Pomeroon. “Creolese Curry” is an homage to diasporic connectivity through poor images and hyperreal extensions of geographies from the Caribbean to the States. The intention behind this video was to hear more about my mother's childhood in Guyana and her experience growing up on the farm. The story turned into how my mother uses food to physically and mentally heal herself while recognizing her tense relationship with food. The video glitches and sits out of sync from time to time, reflecting our imperfect but functioning relationships invoking Legacy Rusell's “Glitch Feminism.” Penguin Random House writes, "A glitch is normally thought of as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology, and the body. The glitch offers an opportunity for us to perform and transform ourselves into an infinite variety of identities." Artist Bio Zoë Gamell Brown is a queer, first-generation Boviander Guyanese American integrative artist, educator and storyteller based in Kalapuya Ilihi. Her work explores multiplicity within Guyanese relationality, extending from South American shores to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf Coast through ancestral practices, ceramic sculptures, culinary catharsis, creative nonfiction, experimental video, photopoetry, restorative cartography and sonic arts. Brown is a doctoral student in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies' inaugural cohort and a recipient of the New Media and Culture Certificate. Their research explores the shoals where race and Indigeneity meet within Boviander ecologies, using critical autotheory to practice creative, culinary, microbial and spiritual care. In 2020, she founded Fernland Studios to reimagine environmentalism through artist residencies, educational retreats and writing workshops with Black, Indigenous and people of color. They are a 2023 Lilla Jewel Award recipient through Seeding Justice and a Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellow through the UO College of Arts and Sciences. Brown received a Digital Evolution/Artist Retention Fellowship through the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute and a Louise Westling Distinguished Environmental Justice Fellowship through the UO Pacific Northwest Racial and Climate Justice Futures Institute and the Holden Center for Leadership in 2022. She was a part of the inaugural UO Women Innovation Network cohort and a member of the National Education for Women's Leadership of Oregon through Portland State University in 2021.
7 months ago
Charlotte Pearce
The Ponds Collage sealed with art resin 12" x 12" x .5" $250.00 Every photograph I select for this collage tells a unique story, while collectively they form a narrative of the delicate balance and resilience of the natural world. Each image is a small glimpse into the vast web of life, reminding us of our interconnectedness with all living beings and the responsibility we bear as custodians of this precious planet. Artist Bio It is Charlotte's daily practice to be immersed in nature every day. Her art doesn't replicate what she observed, but instead relies on these precious moments as inspiration. It is her goal to pay tribute to this beautiful world we live in and to remind us to take a breath and feel a moment of appreciation.
7 months ago
Ryman Yang
Plasticity Shower curtains, fabric scraps, plastic bags, nylon ripstop, packaging and other various recycled materials Repurposed wool scraps, denim scraps and cotton blend fabrics NFS From Maude Kerns Art Center's Mayor's Teen Art Show, September 2023 This satellite exhibit is on display in the lobby of the Atrium (99 W 10th Ave) “Plasticity” is a collection of three garments made with all recycled materials. Sustainability is at the forefront of design in my mind. This collection demonstrates the importance of repurposing materials in creative ways. We must be adaptable and malleable, conscious of how we can reuse materials. Visually, I wanted to capture the aesthetic characteristics of plasticity. I utilized organic lines, shapes, forms, textures and materials which I felt captured a sense of plasticity. I felt it was important to show how materials can be manipulated into both functional garments and aesthetically oriented garments.
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Natalee Paul
Diagnosed Ceramic 8”x4”x10” NFS Open Minded Ceramic 5.5”x6”x8” NFS From Maude Kerns Art Center's Mayor's Teen Art Show, September 2023 “Diagnosed” is a ceramic style statement piece that puts into the perspective of my journey through cancer, along with surgeries and treatments. It was important to me to recreate my own foot as best as I could even down to the smallest details. It is meant to represent a vase that beautiful flowers or plants are put into to determine that an ugly situation can turn into something beautiful. “Open Minded” is a plant pot ceramic style statement piece that represents my hair growth journey after my various cancer treatments. The plant's growth inside the pot determines the hair in direct relations with the process of actual hair growth from post cancer patients. I tried to recreate the emotion of excitement for other people by recreating the slow process of the hair/plant growth.
7 months ago
Susan Detroy
Biking The Yellow Road Video $300.00 This video may be viewed publicly in the 5th Street Market Alley between Oct 6-15, or online at youtu.be/hGcaven2Np8 My artworks tell a story using images, color, music and movement. "Biking the Yellow Road" is my visual homage to biking in the city where I live. "Biking the Yellow Road" culminates three years of cycling and artmaking. The video is a stimulating example combining two of my life passions: making art and bike riding. In 2020, both these passions changed. With Zoom classes, I expanded my video editing skills. Simultaneously, I chose daily biking in response to the constant frightening pandemic, finding a way to stay active and feel a sense of freedom from the worries in our world. This video is an excellent example of how I learned to make videos integrating my experience, as well as building an intertwined story using my recordings, still images and music. Because my biking and artmaking widened, I now make art films about nature, flowers and riding my bike. "Biking the Yellow Road," as well as many of my video pieces, offers meditative joy and a visual adventure, communicated using mobile art. The title "Riding the Yellow Road" echoes the words "follow the yellow brick road" from "The Wizard of Oz," an influential childhood film, referring to possible hopeful outcomes. I chose the color yellow symbolizing brightness and joy. My happy, cycling video uses energy, color, movement and animated imagery, presenting the audience a visual and auditory experience of cycling along Eugene, Oregon pathways. Artist Bio Susan Detroy is a life-long visual storyteller. Her art career includes ten series in historic and digital photography, transfer prints, paintings and video. Simultaneously forging self-employment careers as a photographer, art curator and gallery manager, she developed unique artworks using alternative photographic techniques. During her years exhibiting hard copy art in the US and Europe, Ms. Detroy broadened her skills to master digital camera-phone and iPad art techniques, applying them to her still imagery and producing fascinating artworks. Beginning in 2016, employing digital devices and apps, Ms. Detroy responded to internalized messages about aging, fabricating her "Portrait of a Woman" project. 2023 marks the seventh year of "Portrait of a Woman" with the newest video series, "Built for The Future." In the pandemic, utilizing her personal lived experience, Ms. Detroy produced a 40-minute commissioned documentary "In the Now." In the same time period, she developed "The Corona Diaries," vignettes highlighting pandemic living as well as meditative films about her biking and florals. "Las Flores Divinas" are emotive works, offered as NFTs. "Biking the Yellow Road" is her latest video featuring cycling. Scheduled for release in summer 2023 is "Planetary Sisters," art combining Ms. Detroy’s face and aging AI-created women. Susan Detroy's active lifestyle provides her opportunity to capture her surroundings, turning her life events into stirring, artful videos. Ms. Detroy combines her life experience with natural and cosmic elements leading viewers on intriguing visual journeys. She brings a feminist, woman-affirming perspective to her inventive artworks portraying earth and self-love.
