September 3 –
October 31, 2009
Celebrating
Lane County Artists
JURORS INFO:
The jurors reserve the right to accept or reject any entry.
THE 2009 MAYOR’S ART SHOW JURY:
ANDREAS SALZMAN
I received my Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture in 2000 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I had previously received my Bachelor of Science in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 1997 after transferring with an Associate Degree in Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Marathon Campus.
After teaching at various university positions for 5 years in the Midwest, I accepted a position at Lane Community College teaching Sculpture and Ceramics. This fall will mark my sixth year as a member of the college and the community of Eugene, OR. I have established my career as an artist over the past 15 years through various national and international exhibitions. These exhibitions and permanent collections include pieces throughout the Midwest, New York, California, and Japan. My work is mixed-media sculpture, made up of primarily wood and clay.
Like my life, my work is a complete integration of my family, teaching and studio work.
DAVID TURNER
“I like to look,” is a version of the statement often repeated by the Chauncey Gardiner character played by Peter Sellers in the movie, Being There. And I love looking at visual imagery that expresses an individual’s point of view of the world. Thus I enjoy jurying art exhibitions for it gives me a great chance to look at many objects made recently and then try to sort through them in order to choose ones I believe should be seen again by others. During the past 30 years I have been able to jury art exhibitions from Atlantic coast of Florida to high mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and may places in between.
With a career of over thirty years in art museums, I have been involved in hundreds of exhibitions, curating many of them, writing about them, and helping build a connection between artist and the public. I have served as Director of four museums in the West and Southwest: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Colorado spring Fine Arts Center, and the Amarillo Art Center, Texas. Additionally I am an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Oregon, where I hold a M.A. in Art History, and have taught classes in Museum Ethics, Museology, Art and Gender, Art and Visual Literacy, History of Photography, Photography in the American West, and Modern American Photography.
Currently I am the Director of the Lane County Farmers Market and work toward building resources for nutritious, safe, local food.
RACHEL WITT
I was born in Chicago in 1972 but spent most of my childhood in Salem, Oregon. I received a BA in Fine Arts and Spanish from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1994 and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Oregon in 1997. I taught silkscreen as an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon for five years while simultaneously working at the U of O Bookstore as an art supply buyer. Currently I am the Team Leader of the Art and School Division at the U of O Bookstore.
The primary media that I work in is intaglio and silkscreen with a focus on gender politic and pop culture imagery.
The jurors reserve the right to accept or reject any entry.
THE 2009 MAYOR’S ART SHOW JURY:
ANDREAS SALZMAN
I received my Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics and Sculpture in 2000 from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. I had previously received my Bachelor of Science in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 1997 after transferring with an Associate Degree in Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Marathon Campus.
After teaching at various university positions for 5 years in the Midwest, I accepted a position at Lane Community College teaching Sculpture and Ceramics. This fall will mark my sixth year as a member of the college and the community of Eugene, OR. I have established my career as an artist over the past 15 years through various national and international exhibitions. These exhibitions and permanent collections include pieces throughout the Midwest, New York, California, and Japan. My work is mixed-media sculpture, made up of primarily wood and clay.
Like my life, my work is a complete integration of my family, teaching and studio work.
DAVID TURNER
“I like to look,” is a version of the statement often repeated by the Chauncey Gardiner character played by Peter Sellers in the movie, Being There. And I love looking at visual imagery that expresses an individual’s point of view of the world. Thus I enjoy jurying art exhibitions for it gives me a great chance to look at many objects made recently and then try to sort through them in order to choose ones I believe should be seen again by others. During the past 30 years I have been able to jury art exhibitions from Atlantic coast of Florida to high mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and may places in between.
With a career of over thirty years in art museums, I have been involved in hundreds of exhibitions, curating many of them, writing about them, and helping build a connection between artist and the public. I have served as Director of four museums in the West and Southwest: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Colorado spring Fine Arts Center, and the Amarillo Art Center, Texas. Additionally I am an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Oregon, where I hold a M.A. in Art History, and have taught classes in Museum Ethics, Museology, Art and Gender, Art and Visual Literacy, History of Photography, Photography in the American West, and Modern American Photography.
Currently I am the Director of the Lane County Farmers Market and work toward building resources for nutritious, safe, local food.
RACHEL WITT
I was born in Chicago in 1972 but spent most of my childhood in Salem, Oregon. I received a BA in Fine Arts and Spanish from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1994 and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Oregon in 1997. I taught silkscreen as an adjunct professor at the University of Oregon for five years while simultaneously working at the U of O Bookstore as an art supply buyer. Currently I am the Team Leader of the Art and School Division at the U of O Bookstore.
The primary media that I work in is intaglio and silkscreen with a focus on gender politic and pop culture imagery.
2009 Mayor’s
Art Show Award Winners
There were 360 entries, with 52 pieces chosen.
Viewer's Choice Award:
Siuslaw River Bridge at 10 p.m., Photography by Stephanie Ames
Directors’s Choice Award:
Rocking Speedway, 3D sculpture by Kerry G. Wade
Mayor’s Choice Award:
“Pioneer Couple” commissioned for Oregon Sesquicentennial, oil on black and white Silver Photography by Annette Gurdjian
Jacobs Gallery Board President Award:
The Magician, printmaking by Tallmadge Doyle
Honorable Mention Award:
Generation, drypoint by Richard D. Owens
The first Juror’s Choice Award:
Woman with Accordion, photography by Bob Crow
The second Juror’s Choice Award:
Vacant Apartment, oil by Walter D. Stevens
The third Juror’s Choice Award:
Ms. Adede’s Aluminium, oil by D. Brent Burkett
2009 Mayor’s Art Show “Best of Show Award”:
Fabric MRI: Bill’s Brain, textile by Marjorie Taylor
There were 360 entries, with 52 pieces chosen.
Viewer's Choice Award:
Siuslaw River Bridge at 10 p.m., Photography by Stephanie Ames
Directors’s Choice Award:
Rocking Speedway, 3D sculpture by Kerry G. Wade
Mayor’s Choice Award:
“Pioneer Couple” commissioned for Oregon Sesquicentennial, oil on black and white Silver Photography by Annette Gurdjian
Jacobs Gallery Board President Award:
The Magician, printmaking by Tallmadge Doyle
Honorable Mention Award:
Generation, drypoint by Richard D. Owens
The first Juror’s Choice Award:
Woman with Accordion, photography by Bob Crow
The second Juror’s Choice Award:
Vacant Apartment, oil by Walter D. Stevens
The third Juror’s Choice Award:
Ms. Adede’s Aluminium, oil by D. Brent Burkett
2009 Mayor’s Art Show “Best of Show Award”:
Fabric MRI: Bill’s Brain, textile by Marjorie Taylor
