May Exhibits @ New Zone Gallery
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Featured Artist
Taghrid Alghadban "Old Damascus, Aphrodite Is Walking" Vivid images have long called out to me from the mists of memory: the stone façade of my grandfather’s house against a twilit sky, its large, wooden doors and windows opening and closing intermittently to the rhythms of family life pulsating behind it. As a young girl I marveled at the workings of the doors and windows of my town. I was fascinated by how they seemed to set a secret stage for the myriad stirrings and gestures of life. Sitting on the steps of my grandfather’s house, I would contemplate these strange thresholds, and from their depths a beautiful mystery stared forth. Elaborated in acrylic, ink, colored pencil, and textured paper, my paintings are addressed to the concealed, the partially opened, the soon to be shut. the forms mirrors the content: just as a door or window serves as a threshold for a space that is beyond, my paintings point to an inner reality residing behind the canvas. They are metaphors for all the stories that remain unknown to us, the possible lives and potential histories that never pierce the veil. During certain stages of the painting process, I summoned into myself the spirit of the little girl that I once was. I sought to imitate the ingenuous adventures of her brush strokes, the outlandish twisting of her pencil, the insightful naivety of her forms. It is my hope that this spirit, this voice of childhood, calls out to the viewing eye, beckoning it to enter the doors and windows of my memory. - Taghrid |
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SPOTLIGHT ARTIST
Wayne Singer "Amidst Surf & Forest" I chose to explore natures beauty, her depth and wonder. Her world of riotous stillness, of separateness, her whispered gifts. To listen at her voices, hymns that are only for me to hear. Alas, to often they are lost in the din of my own making. Portraits are for the exploring of another beauty, that of a person’s theater. To marvel at the garlands and brightly colored threads all in crosswise wanderings. - Wayne |
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In the Klausmeier Room
Phil Beck & Steve Mast "Fun Industrial Shapes" Having worked for large Metal fabrication shops, I was always intrigued with the patterns and shapes of the industrial scrap that was generated and found some just perfect to be repurposed into fun garden shapes. 
3D art by Phil Beck and Steve Mast, who turn scrap metal into happy, fun sculpture.
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New Summer Classes & Workshops @ New Zone Gallery
Weekly Figure Drawing Sessions has resumed at New Zone Gallery, every Wednesday at 6:15pm - $8 per session.
The Drum Circle has moved to the each third Thursday, this April 21st @ 6pm.
Photography of Oregon Film Series is on the Last Friday of each month, 7pm.
New Zone Gallery is open 7 days a week 12-6pm. Gallery phone - (541) 683-0759
For more information, contact: Steve La Riccia ~ Gallery Coordinator (541) 517-1488
steamworkslabs@centurylink.net www.newzonegallery.org
For more information, contact: Steve La Riccia ~ Gallery Coordinator (541) 517-1488
steamworkslabs@centurylink.net www.newzonegallery.org
New Zone Arts Collective is a non-profit 501c members art gallery, continuing
to bringing the arts alive to downtown Eugene, Oregon for the past 35+ years.
For more information about New Zone ~ Steve LaRiccia ~ Gallery Coordinator
(541) 517-1488 ~ steamworkslabs@centurylink.net
to bringing the arts alive to downtown Eugene, Oregon for the past 35+ years.
For more information about New Zone ~ Steve LaRiccia ~ Gallery Coordinator
(541) 517-1488 ~ steamworkslabs@centurylink.net
Pix below from our new cool digs at a great new location downtown, 110 East 11th Avenue @ Oak Street.
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Thank you Eugene/Springfield Arts Community!
The New Zone wants to give a huge thank you to our supporting partners & Associate Members
OREGON ARTS COMMISSION ~ THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
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