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Students fill LaVerne Krause Gallery with their art
Five students will have their projects on display through Friday
by Hannah Aronowitz | Freelance Reporter |
The once-blank walls of the LaVerne Krause Gallery were splashed with creativity, color and the unique artwork of five University students Monday.
For most of the students, it was their first art exhibition and filling the white walls was a daunting task. After an exhausting night, the students proudly displayed the fruits of years of labor to the public when the gallery opened at 10 a.m. Monday.
Last spring, the five friends petitioned to put their work up in the LaVerne Krause Gallery, where it will stay until Friday at 3 p.m.
"It feels like the culmination of three or four years of work. To finally have it in a gallery setting is really fulfilling," Dane Eisenbart said, wearing a proud smile.
Eisenbart's oil paintings are vibrantly colored with multi-dimensional additions, such as snails and hands of the clock reaching out from the canvases. His major sources of inspiration are Salvador Dali, Vladimir Kusch, the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," natural elements and his mother.
One corner of the gallery is filled with Eisenbart's tiny canvases, which are covered with psychedelic snails. The snail bodies are made of polymer clay with real shells from sea snails and forest snails he collected in the Eugene area. To Eisenbart, the snails reflect the perfect beauty of nature and the finitude of life.
"The spiral of a shell grows outward similar to the rings of a tree to create a timeline of sorts. But of course, eventually the spiral has to stop," he said.
Erica Knutson's art showcases her use of several different mediums. For some pieces she uses acrylic paint on canvas, cardboard, paper or wood. Others are screen-printed or woven from wool and she often combines mixed media into one piece.
Like Eisenbart, Knutson uses nature as a recurring theme. Knutson has added real bees, butterflies, dragonflies and even the dried body of a frog to her paintings. After an exhausting night she smiled, seeing the early crowd in the gallery Monday morning.
For most of the students, it was their first art exhibition and filling the white walls was a daunting task. After an exhausting night, the students proudly displayed the fruits of years of labor to the public when the gallery opened at 10 a.m. Monday.
Last spring, the five friends petitioned to put their work up in the LaVerne Krause Gallery, where it will stay until Friday at 3 p.m.
"It feels like the culmination of three or four years of work. To finally have it in a gallery setting is really fulfilling," Dane Eisenbart said, wearing a proud smile.
Eisenbart's oil paintings are vibrantly colored with multi-dimensional additions, such as snails and hands of the clock reaching out from the canvases. His major sources of inspiration are Salvador Dali, Vladimir Kusch, the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," natural elements and his mother.
One corner of the gallery is filled with Eisenbart's tiny canvases, which are covered with psychedelic snails. The snail bodies are made of polymer clay with real shells from sea snails and forest snails he collected in the Eugene area. To Eisenbart, the snails reflect the perfect beauty of nature and the finitude of life.
"The spiral of a shell grows outward similar to the rings of a tree to create a timeline of sorts. But of course, eventually the spiral has to stop," he said.
Erica Knutson's art showcases her use of several different mediums. For some pieces she uses acrylic paint on canvas, cardboard, paper or wood. Others are screen-printed or woven from wool and she often combines mixed media into one piece.
Like Eisenbart, Knutson uses nature as a recurring theme. Knutson has added real bees, butterflies, dragonflies and even the dried body of a frog to her paintings. After an exhausting night she smiled, seeing the early crowd in the gallery Monday morning.
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connie cloyed
posted 10/23/07 @ 10:59 AM PST
thanks for the article on the gallery opening for these students. the information was clearly presented and the details about the artists were insightful and interesting. (Continued…)
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