Squeaky Wheel Film Media Art Center Animation Festival
Artists responded to Windowfront Exhibitions Phone call to Artists. The goal of the telephone call is to provide professional person opportunities for artists and creatives to nowadays their work, back up and increase the presence of art in downtown public spaces, celebrate multifariousness, engage community, provide a platform for historically under-served communities and support and increase positive interactive activities downtown. The console reviewed 32 stellar proposals and 13 proposals were accustomed.
Kum Ja Lee
Meditative Layers | fiber, basketry, newspaper craft, thread, wood, nail, hook, concrete stone, reed, straw, tissue paper, LED puck lite, project lights
Dates displayed:March 4 - June 12, 2022
Location: 856 Willamette Street
About:Combining Western and Eastern concepts, my work explores the different relationships that exist between gimmicky practices and conventional approaches in visual arts.
This piece of work is a self-reflection about how we can construct our internal earth by contemplating time. My work explores visibility and invisibility with the concept of time and spontaneity and physicality in the process of installation. It examines worldviews of time and space through Eastern and Western perspectives and reflects the meditative feel of emptiness as dynamic space. My piece of work is rooted in the Asian belief that life is a wheel while also reflecting the principle of Yin and Yang. I use these concepts and theories in guild to express my response to the natural menses of life and the duality of ideas betwixt the East and Due west. My installations contain both concepts of fourth dimension from the Due west and E — 1 from the West where time is understood equally linear and 1 from the E where information technology is regarded as circular. They correspond the progression of time that embraces and filters all human emotions in its immeasurable vastness.
In eastern Asian cultures, a lotus flower symbolizes the one who overcomes the hurting that prevails in the material earth and becomes enlightened, just similar the lotus bloom that grows in dingy and muddy h2o simply manages to surpass the water and produce a perfect bloom. The lotus flower centered in the wood of threads signifies purity, enlightenment, cocky-regeneration and rebirth as a symbolic meaning regarded in eastern Asian cultures. klee1@pnca.edu
Hannah Hamalian
Walking the Butte/Dancing the City | digital video and Isadora performance capture
Dates displayed: March 4 - June 12, 2022
Location: 1004 Willamette Street
Credits:Video and Concept/Hannah Hamalian, Technical Support/Michael Maruska, Move Performers/Colton Brown, Jung-chen Liang, Grace Roberts.
Project description:How do we move through familiar spaces? Who sees the city from the superlative of the Butte after a hike? Who witnesses the changing face of the city every bit they move through its streets? Different locations create the opportunity to make a choice for a different kind of movement, which in turn affects the way we see the earth. Past offering a view of the metropolis that would normally exist impossible to feel from within it, this corner can become a mirror or a portal to those who movement beside it. Here is a chance to be transported loftier above the city, out into nature, and back to the corner of 10th and Willamette, all while considering how our bodies tin can decide to move or dance between them.
This site-specific video installation combines video footage recorded from the top of Spencer Butte with documentation of a dance performance. The software called Isadora was used to capture video of dancers in front of a camera and create an animated return of the movement in combination with audio inputs in real fourth dimension. The resulting pulses and stylized changes in the epitome are the results of a now-lost soundtrack, replaced with the sounds of the buses, cars and people around the installation.
Artist argument:Hannah Hamalian (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who is curious about how movement can be used to correspond the unspoken processes that weave the states together, both as individuals and every bit a community. She is intrigued by how complicated the globe is and aims to speak the language of complexity by experimenting with animation and film in poetic, rather than narrative, modes. She works with the motion of trip the light fantastic and structure of landscape to wrestle with paradox, seeking the multiple layers of feel at work in any given moment. Her intention in any of her piece of work is to create a space specifically designed for asking questions.
Hannah is currently based in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches at Lane Community College in the Media Arts department. Her piece of work has screened and shown at festivals internationally, including ADF'south Movies past Movers, KLIK Amsterdam Blitheness Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio, Us), and the Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (New York, USA). She received her BA from Carleton College and her MFA from UW-Milwaukee. hannahhamalian.com
UO Student Collaboration
Seeing Within (Seeing Without) | glass, mirrors, reflective films, digital collage/projection, scavenged objects
Dates displayed: March iv - June 12, 2022
Location:833 Willamette Street
Contributing artists:Abby Pierce, Audrey Rycewicz, Zachary Smith, Tahoe Mack, Ellen O'Shea, Anastasiya Gutnik
Projection description:This project, "Seeing Within (Seeing Without)," is an invitation to the community of Eugene for a cathartic feel, a space to process all that we have collectively felt in this time of the pandemic, social insurgence, wildfires, etc. Every bit the pandemic drags on, emotions manifest, ebb and flow in myriad of ways. Nosotros notice ourselves finding refuge in new avenues, shifting our values of what is important and finding more gravity in celebrating the everyday while feeling the weight of a radically shifted earth. Some experience grief at lost familiarity, grief at the loss of ourselves every bit we were, and grief for the loss of loved ones. Similarly, we have found that joy and wonder spring up in unexpected or fifty-fifty mundane places. The works collected were open-concluded interpretations, guiding participants only past a prompt that invited the widest form of submissions. We asked our community what grief and joy look similar in their lives. We offer an introspective reflection via various physical diffractions suspended in the space. We create a tapestry of lived human experiences in this piece of work. Upon passing, catching sight of your own reflection adds to this web of experiences, connecting nowadays to past, with your ain fleeting experience.
Artist argument: Nosotros are a group of University of Oregon students pulling from our various backgrounds of sculpture, ceramics, digital arts and landscape compages. With the culmination of our various artistic abilities and our shared — all the same isolated — experiences, we take imagined this wonderful and meaningful creation for our customs here in Eugene. We are grateful to have the opportunity to come together to envision and install a public fine art piece with the capacity to bring people together to reflect upon what we accept lost, what we have gained and what nosotros volition remember from the past two years. Through the collection and sharing of digital memories from the customs, we promise to create a infinite which is interactive, introspective and cultivates interconnectedness. Thanks to all who contributed to this project! griefjoyeugene@gmail.co
Lindsay Swing, Honey + Sass
Spring Emerges | mixed media
Dates displayed:March iv - June 12, 2022
Location: 280 West Broadway
Project description: "Spring Emerges" is a celebration of the vernal equinox and the early signs of the world around u.s. awakening from its winter sleep. Using mixed media to capture the feeling of a season, "Leap Emerges" aims to elicit the same excitement and joy as the first sunny days through the eyes of a person looking to the sky and seeing the showtime blooms and songbirds of the year. The feeling of relief that comes with the end of wintertime in Oregon also mirrors our community'due south feelings equally nosotros pass through another flavour of isolation during this pandemic. This piece represents hope for the futurity, reemergence of creativity and customs and the glory of the natural world that we are so lucky to be a role of in the Pacific Northwest.
Artist statement: Captivated by the beauty of the natural earth, Lindsay strives to capture the wonder in all things around her by exploring non-traditional mediums. With her scientific groundwork heavily influencing her piece of work, she enjoys the challenge of creating with natural and salvaged materials with vintage windows equally her primary canvas. She employs transmission carving and freehand analogy to create each one-of-a-kind piece. Her aggregation pieces combine foraged biological oddities, such as bones, insects and botanicals, with clay and grown crystals to create surreal worlds with an emphasis on cultivating a respect for nature and conservation. She strives to capture the imagination of her viewer by using unexpected ways through unexpected mediums to highlight the dazzler of the earth effectually us. honeyandsass@gmail.com
Windowfront Paintings
Urban Canvass artists bring color and vibrancy to windowfronts.
Alejandro Sarmiento
SNOW BIRDS
Dates displayed: October 8, 2021 - Leap 2022
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location:1038 Willamette Street
Nearly: My art is ever changing, ever evolving. I believe that repetition is the mother of perfection so I aim to create equally much every bit I can whenever and wherever I am. I love creating representational fine art, and currently, I am really enjoying mixing references from real life with images with my imagination. To me, the melange of existent with imagined feels similar adding my own season or lens to life.
Alejandro Sarmiento is an artist who specializes in acrylic painting and cartoon. He began his artistic journeying at a young age, drawing on any surface he could find and filling his school notebooks with doodles. Mostly self-taught, Alejandro further developed his skills with a few years of formal fine art training at Lane Community Higher in his mid-twenties. Today he continues to acquire and evolve his craft through daily practice, interacting with other mediums and artists, and contained research of techniques and best practices. Alejandro has created artwork for local and city projects, in both the private and public sectors, including big-scale murals, custom portraits, logos, and collaborative pieces. Later 8 years of working equally a paid professional creative person, Alejandro opened his ain fine art business in 2020 where he continues to create commissioned work and teaches fine art classes for both novice and experienced painters. Artwithalejandro.com
Source: https://www.eugene-or.gov/4637/Windowfront-Exhibitions
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