ART TALKS: 2009FEBRUARYThursday, February 12 - Art Talk: Rebecca Lubas. Installation artist Rebecca Lubas discuses her work currently on exhibit in Gallery 5 at the DIVA Center. Lubas' exhibit consists of two large installation pieces. The first is a construction of many pages of oil-painted vellum paper into a wing-like structure that extends from a corner to fan out into the room. The second is a large multi-panel ink on paper drawing than spans two walls crawling over the doorway and onto the floor and ceiling. Friday, February 13 - Art Talk: Bruce Klepinger. Guide and photographer Bruce Klepinger will give an Art Talk and slideshow providing a brief look at the landforms and how they have influenced peoples and cultures across the Himalaya. Mr. Klepinger's exhibit, "Arc of a Life: An Exhibit of Himalayan Photographs and Textiles" is currently on view at DIVA through the end of February. APRILFriday, April 17 - Art Talk: Michael Wherley. Michael Wherley’s series of digital color photographs study the Reflection as a natural abstraction of form. His keen eye investigates palettes of color, shape, and movement on various reflective surfaces such as water and glass. Wherley will meet in the Member's Gallery to discuss his work. MAYFriday, May 8th - Art Talk: Micah Weber. Micha Weber Weber encourages viewers of his work to see this series of mixed media art in its totality as a singular work that reflects patterns and elements that are evident in the individual pieces. Rather than moving towards a direct straightforward conclusion, each piece is to be seen as a lateral shift; a continuation of the same thought from different vantage points. The idea being that each drawing/painting/book is a part of a larger concept (a concept that is only realized by its absence.) Friday, May 15 - Art Talk: John Paul Gardner and Sam Jeibmann, exhibiting their "Maybe there will be Sound" have created a sculptural installation that incorporates existing architectural elements within the gallery space. Viewers are to become active participants within the created immersive environment. Friday, May 22nd - Art Talk: Judy Alison, ceramic artist. Judy Alison is a ceramic artist living in Eugene and is best known for her meditative clay pinch pots. Her current exhibit in DIVA's Members' Gallery further explores her enigmatic clay work including hangings and 3D work. Friday, May 29th - Art Talk: Jacqueline Lukowski. Abstract painter Jacqueline Lukowski is currently exhibiting the first showing of her abstract paintings. Jacqueline works in oil, watercolor and other aqueous media. She is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon; the New Zone Artist's Collective and is an active participant in the Eugene/Springfield Plein Air Painters group. JUNEFriday, June 19th - Art Talk: Gwen Seemel, painter. Gwenn Seemel is a Portland painter whoes multi-ethnic portraits mix more than color. Seemel has gathered subjects that don’t always come to mind when one thinks of a U.S. citizen: first and second generation Americans. And, instead of simply painting the participants as they are, Seemel has blended their likenesses with American icons. These combinations are a kind of allegorical portraiture cum political cartoon that leave those leaning both left and right questioning their understanding of the United States. JULYFriday, July 10th - Art Talk: Sandi Wetzel, painter. Contemporary artist, Sandi Whetzel will discuss her current exhibit of acrylic paintings titled, "Succulence! Fantasy blends with reality". Her work is inspired by the artist’s fascination with organic shapes in the world of succulents. Her art embraces and explores the nuances in shapes, patterns and color inspired from the plant world. Whetzel is an acrylic artist living in rural Days Creek, Oregon, south of Roseburg. For the past twelve years she has been instructing Community Education art classes for Umpqua College. Friday, July 17th - Art Talk: Lewis Forquer. Photographer Lewis Forquer will discuss his current "Places In Mind" exhibit of images based on constructed miniature settings reflecting "snapshots" of inner subconscious images as a youth. Friday, July 24th - Art Talk: Leah Wilson. Painter Leah Wilson will discuss her solo exhibition of recent work titled, Tropes, a group of paintings based on debris she has found in the rivers of Oregon and California. AUGUSTThursday, August 13th - Art Talk: Kate Harnedy. Photographer Kate Harnedy will discuss her exhibit titled "Labor of Love: Life at Alpha Farm," Friday, August 21- Art Talk At Noon: Geoff McCormack. Geoff McCormack discusses his "Greek Stones Speak" exhibit of watercolors inspired by his travels on the isle of Lesvos. SEPTEMBERFriday, September 18 - Art Talk: Eugene Grid Project. Blake Andrews will discuss The Eugene Grid Project (EGP). This is a photographic study of Eugene is based on a similar project in Portland Friday, September 18 - Gallery Talk: Youth Empowerment Project. Karen Olch, Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) coordinator will be joined by a workshop participants as they explore the role of arts in the lives of youth in the community who lack access to arts opportunities. Tuesday, September 22 - JulieAnn Mills-Testi. Painter JulieAnn Mills-Testi, born with a disability called Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita, making impossible to use her arms and hands. Friday, September 25 - Art Talk: Sheila Roth. Ceramist Sheila Roth, who is one of 33 area artists on DIVA's annual Open Studios Art Tour in October, will explore the concept; "From what sources are ideas for art generated? Where do you get your ideas to create art?" OCTOBERFriday, October 9 - Art Talk: Youth Empowerment Project. Karen Olch, Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) coordinator will be joined by a workshop participants as they explore the role of arts in the lives of youth in the community who lack access to arts opportunities. Thursday, October 22 - Art Talk: Justin King, Photographer. Justin King will present slides from his second tour in Iraq as a freelance photographer embedded with the Oregon National Guard. King returned to Iraq this summer to see how the situation had changed since the US began it's withdrawal. Friday, October 23 - Art Talk: Crystal L. Scott. Crystal L. Scott will discuss her exhibit of drawings in the Members' Gallery. NOVEMBER Thursday, November 19th - Art Talk: Brooke Borcherding. DIVA Member Brooke Borcherding will discuss her painting and sculpture exhibit, "Plastic Presence" now on view in DIVA's Members' Gallery through November. DECEMBER Saturday, December 12 - Art Talk with sculptor Andries Fourie . Fourie will discuss his current exhibit, "From the Heart of Darkness to the Rainbow Nation: South Africa Reinvents Itself". His presentation will provide cultural and historical context to the works on view and share the stories behind them. Thursday, December 17 - Art Talk with Christina Karns. Christina Karns will discuss the current, "Observatory", a collaborative installation between Karns and sculptor Gareth Spor. "Observatory" explores the ways in which scientists and artists a like work to expand the ways in which we see and hence, understand our universe.
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