The work ranges from sculpture and collage to oil painting and photography, and demonstrates the EOU Art Department’s mission to “actively contribute to the aesthetic and conceptual dialogue that is visual art.”

Participating in the show are:

•Peter C. Johnson, associate professor of ceramics;
•Doug Kaigler, professor of sculpture;
•Susan Murrell, assistant professor of printmaking and drawing;
•Cory Peeke, associate professor of art history and gallery director;
•Jessica Plattner, associate professor of painting and drawing;
•Jessica Riva Cooper, visiting assistant professor of ceramics;
•Michael Sell, assistant professor of photography.

The exhibit will be on display through Dec. 7 on both floors of North Santiam Hall, which is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Images of the exhibit are below. For more information, contact LBCC Gallery Coordinator Rich Bergeman bergemr@linnbenton.edu.

Complete Run Turok, Dinosaur Hunter (#1-#12, July’93-June’94)

NEW ORLEANS – Heriard-Cimino Gallery presents Between the Pages, mixed sculptures by Aaron McNamee. This Opening is in conjunction with Whitney White Linen Night and will be on view August 4 through September 24, 2012. A reception to meet the artist will be held on Saturday, August 4th, from 6 until 9 p.m.  The public is invited.  Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 until 5, or by appointment.

This exhibition could not be more timely! Aaron McNamee presents one entire and complete year of the Times-Picayune daily newspaper, presented month by month in individual panels – a premonition perhaps of things to come. The New Orleans newspaper as we have known it, first established one hundred seventy-five years ago, has now become extinct – the morning ritual of New Orleanians gone, as well as the artist’s performative daily ritual of utilizing the city’s daily newspaper to create his sculptures.

About the Exhibition:  The printed words and images of newspapers, magazines, and comic books is a primary component in McNamee’s work.  His fastidious building of his sculptures page by page, leaf by leaf, paper and glue, becomes blurred, denying any specific information of content. The colors and words intermingle, bleeding through layer upon layer. The result, a painting without paint. McNamee utilizes the New Orleans Times-Picayune, complete years of American Rifleman, Mother Earth News, Road and Track, Smithsonian and The Incredible Hulk, Legends of the DC Universe, and Professor Xavier and the X-Men.

The labored repetition of aligning and gluing each piece of paper seems to be a kind of meditation. The viewer experiences the alchemical result, the transmutation of the familiar into the sublime.

Aaron McNamee received his undergraduate degree from Eastern Oregon University and his M.F.A. from University of New Orleans. Since his moving to New Orleans five years ago, the artist has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions. This is his first solo exhibition at Heriard-Cimino Gallery. The artist lives and works in New Orleans, LA.

Heriard-Cimino Gallery website:

http://www.heriardcimino.com/current_x/cx1.html