Terri Warpinski:
Liminal Matter: Fences and
Liminal Matter: Traces are two editions of our collaboration that are much like books each a set of broadsides (unbound printed pages) in a custom case or box. However, Laura and I would more describe them as portfolios.
Will the work be displayed as a book or as wall-
hanging photos?
We have a display set of the individual broadsides that are mounted for presentation on the wall. We will also have the boxed sets visible in a display case.
What got you going on “Fences” and “Traces”?
I began working on landscape photographs that were based on the U.S. border with Mexico in 2008-09 when I was on a sabbatical from the UO and teaching as a visiting professor at the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. It was a time when there was much construction of fortified fencing taking place just before the Obama administration came into power. I continued to photograph along the border from Texas to California over the next six
The dignity, color and pride of Latinx art is on full display this month at Emerald Arts Center in Springfield with the exhibit
De Colores. Curated by Analee Fuentes, the exhibit’s curatorial statement notes that the exhibit has a range of pieces that show “a deep reverence for the environment to complex issues of identity. Here are conceptual manifestations of ceremony, ritual, cross-cultural mythology, iconography and even whimsy inspired by childhood memories.” Paintings, photographs, mixed media works and sculptures come from 10 artists, including Richard Keis (Curator’s Choice Award) and Suzanne Tellez Campbell (Jurors’ Choice Award and pictured). Other artists include Rogene Mañas, Mery Escobar, Ellen Gabehart, Marina Hajek, Vicki Idema, Kimberly Long, Patricia Montoya Donahue and Robert Varela.