Sandy Brown Jensen describes the Erik Sandgren show at Karin Clarke Gallery.
This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. There is so much art going on everywhere in the KLCC listening area.
Artists we think we know are surprising us with unprecedented explosions of creativity. Check out what Margaret Coe is doing with oil paints and light on Facebook or the exciting work being shown almost daily on Instagram by Margaret Prentice, Robert Canaga, Sarah Sedgewick, and others.
However, it’s Erik Sandgren that has me in what Irish writer James Joyce called “aesthetic arrest.” That means stop where you are and take it all in art. He has a big new show up at the Karin Clarke Gallery, and I can t stop bringing his paintings up on line and staring at them.
Last summer, artist Erik Sandgren stood at a vantage point on Crater Lake, overlooking Umpqua National Forest as swaths of old growth trees, fields and familiar hiking trails went up in flames. He’d spent the last week on a painting trip with his wife, painter Kathryn Cotnoir, along the Umpqua River, capturing his native Oregon landscape in sketches and acrylics. Now he watched as many of the sacred scenes he’d painted were reduced to char.
Throughout his more than 50-year career, Sandgren has strived to encapsulate the symbiotic relationship between humanity and nature. His current exhibit at the Karin Clarke Gallery
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Floating into February on a misty cloud, Eugene-Springfield’s arts and culture scene brings a number of streaming and live exhibitions and performances to soak up that creative urge.
For a full listing of goings-ons, visit registerguard.com/events. Online Jazz Dance Party, Track Town Swing
Track Town Swing brings the grooves back to Eugene this Thursday with a virtual dance party. With six hours of DJ d boogie tunes, folks can Lindy Hop, Jitterbug and do the Charleston on a flexible schedule.
Instructors will step in to show jazz fiends some moves for a portion of the show. Otherwise, participants can watch and wiggle on Twitch and/or Zoom. Remember, it don’t mean nothin’ if you ain’t jumpin’.
The Eugene City Council met at 7:30 pm Monday, Jan. 25, for their bi-weekly council meeting to discuss tax exemptions for an affordable housing community, listen to concerns from a flurry of environmental advocates during the public forum, and help fill an empty seat on the city’s Toxics Board.
To open the meeting, the council voted unanimously in approval of resolution approving a Low-Income Rental Housing Property Tax Exemption (LIRHPTE) for the Garfield Trailer Park on North Garfield Street.
The Garfield housing community includes nine apartments and six mobile homes. The proposed rents, which would affect all properties range from $331 monthly for a studio and $612 for a three-bedroom unit. The changes would not be possible without a LIRHPTE in effect and would only be offered to residents earning no more than 60 percent of the area’s average, said Ellen Meyi-Galloway, a member of the Committee of Development. Furthermore, all money saved through the exemption would go
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Stock analysts are expecting another positive quarter for natural gas utility earnings, with consensus forming that the utility sector is undervalued and environmental, social and governance concerns are overdone.
Six out of nine gas utilities are expected to post higher fourth-quarter 2020 EPS than during the prior-year calendar period, according to S&P Capital IQ consensus estimates. The gainers include Atmos Energy Corp., One Gas Inc., Southwest Gas Holdings Inc., New Jersey Resources Corp., Chesapeake Utilities Corp. and Northwest Natural Holding Co.