In this moment of COVID-19 restrictions, when people around the world are being asked to limit their travel, Eugene’s White Lotus Gallery presents us with art from as far away as China and as near as Eugene.
Highlights from the Gallery Collection is drawn from the gallery’s permanent collection and features works from 21 different artists. The exhibit runs until March 6.
A problem that artists often face, regardless of the culture with which they identify, is how to make a portrait that is both personal and universal.
Yuji Hiratsuka, whose intaglio with collé print called “Urban Preacher II” is included in the show, typically leaves specific features off of his figures. Leaving off the eyes the so-called windows to the soul might seem a strange custom for an artist, but Hiratsuka relates this practice of omission to the simplicity of zen.