Windowfront Exhibitions
Spring Exhibit
March 5 - April 23, 2021
Downtown Eugene
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Downtown Eugene’s empty storefronts will become interactive artworks and galleries this spring along with new and evolving murals. Come downtown by foot, car or bike to enjoy windowfronts transformed into art installations by local artists, artisans and creatives.
Windowfront Exhibitions showcases local artists and arts organizations, transforms vacant storefronts into works of art, highlights our downtown businesses and offers color and light to the community. We believe that all empty spaces have great potential to be transformed by artists and innovation.
Art Installations
Art Installations from local arts collectives and organizations: OSLP Arts & Culture Program, House of Strange Rituals and Whiteaker Community Arts Team.
Whiteaker Community Arts Team
NEIGHBORHOOD DIARIES | 2021 Video and mixed media
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: Whiteaker Community Arts Team
Location: 824 Charnelton Street
About: Whiteaker Community Arts Team (WCAT) joins three community artists to collaborate by combining video and mixed media/sculpture work. The concepts expressed in the work relate to memory, deterioration, and determination incoming together as a community to not only persevere during tough times but to show that creativity can still flourish. By documenting the collaboration of three different artists in the neighborhood and showcasing their willingness to work together we hope to provide a positive example of art’s ability to bond people and ideas together.
WCAT facilitates the use of non-traditional gallery spaces by underserved artists, in order to both celebrate and invigorate the vibrant arts community in the Whiteaker neighborhood. WCAT encourages partnerships among artists, businesses, and community organizations in the Whiteaker by promoting the use of public spaces and non-traditional venues as pop-up gallery spaces and producing the Whiteaker Art Walk, a monthly self-guided art tour.
Susan Detroy creates digital and hard copy art including five lifetime series. Currently Susan works in mobile photography producing digital and video imagery. Ms. Detroy’s art explores life around her. Her videos are experimental visions of Covid living. portfolio.susandetroy.com, susandetroy.com, facebook.com/susan.detroy.7, instagram.com/slynndetroy_art
Myles Morris is a musician and visual artist. Using secondhand and discarded video and audio equipment, he strives to reanimate glimpses of the past. Mr. Morris shows the viewer that the past can become a catalyst for a conversation for the present through visual metaphor. He utilizes VHS tape loops, a video mixer and 1980’s VHS cameras to create visual elements that interpret modernity. instagram.com/playboy.smooth
Travis Kerr is a found object artist who uses discarded materials and items recast, transformed or shaped into sculptural pieces. His installations subvert expectations of what art is or isn’t and provokes viewers to questions their definition of beauty.
OSLP Arts & Cultural Program
FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE | Window gallery
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: OSLP Arts & Culture Program
Location: 856 Willamette
About: Larry Hurst III paintings often depict scenes of nature inspired by photographs that range from realistic to surrealistic interpretations. Many of his paintings also include unique and fantastical architecture. Hurst enjoys plein air painting and likes to work outdoors if he can. He also likes to take photographs of nature or people to use as references for paintings. In addition to painting, Hurst is also a very talented model house builder and has produced scale models of several houses that he has lived in, as well as the historical Shelton McMurphey House.
Hurst has been making art for over ten years and learned to paint while living in Texarkana, TX. He continues his studies at the OSLP Arts & Culture Program since the winter of 2013. His other areas of interest include jewelry making, wig making, photography, and portrait drawing. He has completed two mentorships in painting and portrait drawing, working one-on-one with a mentor artist.
The purpose of the OSLP Arts & Culture Program is to break down barriers to participation in the arts for people of all abilities and building bridges to a more diverse and inclusive community for all.
House of Strange Rituals | AHFEMME
BLINK | 2021 Mixed media/new media and performance art
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: House of Strange Rituals
Location: 1038 Willamette Street
Special Performances: Friday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. & Friday, April 23 time TBA
Be sure to stop by for the First Friday ArtWalk on April 2 as well as National Dance Week on April 23 for special performances inside of the window.
About: House of Strange Rituals is a female-led art collective based in Eugene, OR. They specialize in interactive art that enlivens the senses, calling upon the participation of users to truly bring their pieces to life.
AHFEMME dedicates their deviant souls to the creation and curation of art that loudly says what has not been said before. They use a variety of mediums to produce multi-sensory performances and events.
Blink is a collaborative piece between House of Strange Rituals and the newly formed AHFEMME. This interactive exhibit sits at the intersection of sculpture, nature, technology, fashion, and performance. A surrealistic depiction of the natural world that elicits wonder. Inside of this magnified ecosystem you will find felted bees, honey hives, and giant poppy pods that awaken as the public pass by.
Windowfront Paintings
Northwest flora and fauna paintings by Urban Canvas artists bring color and vibrancy to windowfronts.
Lisa Yu
MAKE WAY
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 858 W. Park
About: Lisa Yu is a painter and assemblage artist originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She uses mostly re-purposed materials. Her art celebrates ordinary life, through subject matter, means of exhibition, and media. As an artist, she thrives on collaboration and works to support social and environmental justice. Since moving to Eugene in 2009 from Chicago, she has taken part in public art projects utilizing various mediums: Upstream Art Springfield, the Umbrella Project, Eugene Storefront Art Project, RainPlay and BRIDGE Exhibitions: Reflections Space. lisayuart.wordpress.com
Eleanor Soleil
HUMILITY OF NARCISSUS IV
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 133 W. Broadway (Pipeworks Studios)
About: Eleanor Soleil is from Eugene, Oregon. Her work is inspired by experiences as a nonbinary trans woman, a person with mood disorders, and the struggle for liberation under the weight of capitalism. Through a variety of self-taught painting techniques, ranging from photorealism to impressions to total abstractions, she creates surreal paintings that combine a personal and common mythos to weave the real with the imaginary with the symbolic. She is passionate about art and the liberation of the oppressed classes, and considers her art practice as one of the only ways that she can truly be free. As a 21 year old emerging artist, she has been involved with many projects and collaborations with artists in the Eugene and Portland area, most notably with the murals by Ila Rose. She received the Mayor’s Art Show People’s Choice Award for best artist in Eugene in 2019.
David Placencia
SPRING OWL
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 1045 Willamette Street
About: Born in Southern California, David CP Placencia moved permanently to Eugene, Oregon in 2008 to focus on his art practice. 2012 marked his first solo exhibition at a local art gallery and he continues to show artworks, public art and provides art instruction in Eugene religiously since graduating from the University of Oregon in 2013. Teaching and being active in community projects became a large part of his practice. In 2019 he founded WheelHaus Arts, a K-12 art studio and gallery. khaostasis.com/
Dorothy Siemens
A QUIET SPRING NIGHT
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Location: 833 Willamette Street
About: Dorothy Siemens has found her life’s work in illustrating, drawing, painting, and bringing joy to people through her art. She discovered her style in warm texturized peripheral shapes composed of bold and bright colors and spirited but casual actors. After studying printing making at the U of O, she lived and worked as an artist in Japan, co-directing a nomadic gallery. Dorothy now resides in her hometown of Eugene, Oregon. Her portfolio includes contract work with Fiverr, band posters, magazine ads and editorials, children’s books and everything in between. deedeeoho.tumblr.com/
Janene Block
SPRING FLING
Dates displayed: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Presented by: Urban Canvas
Locations: 39 W. Broadway (Manifest Brewing)
About: Janene Block is a local artist who has lived in Eugene/Springfield most of her life and received her education in Fine Arts at the University of Oregon. She is an illustrator and painter with a passion for studying the human body through dance and portraiture. She is a special needs mom who, in her spare time uses painting as a means of catharsis. She also enjoys painting landscapes and murals while finding comfort and solace in creating portraits, particularly those who have passed on. It is a great honor for her to commemorate people through her paintings. It is a spiritual and intimate experience and a very special gift to share with others as a way to give back to her community. facebook.com/JaneneBlockStudios/
Whiteaker Community Market
Dates open: March 5 - April 23, 2021
Location: 873 Willamette Street
About: The Whiteaker Community Market is a weekly summer farmer's and art market in the heart of the Whiteaker neighborhood at 4th & Blair and Scobert Park. This community of farmers, artists, and makers work together to provide affordable fruits, veggies, art, and more, as well as to support an inclusive gathering space where everyone is welcome. The Whiteaker Community Market has even expanded to host virtual markets as well as special events!
Artists:
Alcea Rose - Amaranthine Pip-Dream
Angelina Hellar - Formosa flower Farm
Ashley Lowe - Ashley Sterling Lowe Painting & Photography
Audri - Audri's Alchemy
Bekah Zeimetz - Beah Zeimetz Art
Bri - de la terracotta
Celeste Johnson - Arose Atelier
Gracie Schatz - Heart of Willamette Cooking School
Hannah Austin - Needle OR Thread
Jasmine Rose - Jasmine Rose Doula Services
Jen McFadden - Fiddle and Fern Leathers
Jordana Miller - Roosevelt Wares
Juniper Harwood - howdyitsjunebug
Ki Ki Tong - Qi Qi Naturals
Kristin Walker - Twin Ravens Press
Mack Hambrick & Sarah Kruit - Bumble Boutique
Marcia Hudgel - 3 OMs Batik Boutique
Maya Yaropa - Far-Off Design
Nicole Hummel - Nicole Hummel Ceramics
Sasha Chang - Made With Sol
Sierah Edwards - sierah SEW fresh
Susan Belcher & Geof Horvath - Foxglove Apiaries
Tallulah Kidd - Tealulah's Traveling Tea
Tanja - Hatshe
Zia Oshun Lasky - Zia Oshun Art and Design
The Whiteaker Community Market will also be open every Sunday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., May through mid-October at 4th & Blair!
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Contact Us
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Public Art Manager
Kate Ali
Ph: 541-682-6314
Downtown Program Assistant
Chanin Santiago