Sandy Brown Jensen

KLCC's arts review program Viz City takes you to the Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera Exhibit in Portland

I want to personally invite you to a lavish exhibit of 83 photographs currently showing at a location you may not yet have visited: The new Midtown Arts Center on 16th and Pearl in Eugene.

This is a visually stunning book, so when you’re in the New Zone, seek it out and look at the details of faces, fingers, smiles on faces young and old. And also pause to read some of the voices telling you about the inner life of this Garden of People called Cottage Grove.

Sarah Grew’s innovative installation at Lane Community College called “Ghost Forest” seeks to capture the ephemeral memories of the burning forest.

Ready to drench your eyes in the old gold of a Viennese palazzo reflecting sunset light into a brilliant canal? Absolutely, yes! Take me there!

Five artists were invited to re-imagine the various gallery spaces around the theme of "Social Being," and I think you’ll enjoy being surprised by them.

I love how the gallery owners work so hard to show off their artists. This Friday, go up into the festive Gordon Alley and visit the Karin Clarke Gallery at the Gordon. Painter Heather Jacks is their featured artist, and you’ll fall into her wide skies, her endless vistas lush with the pale dove gray and peach tones of dawn.

Each Hamanishi image is like a serene snow globe you can fall into and watch time and your breath slow to perfection.

I find sometimes when I am feeling or thinking deeply that an art show within an art show will come out of hiding and speak to me and my concerns personally. It’s like my own secret gallery.

This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. The days darken down into the celebration of two major autumn festivals: Halloween and The Day of the Dead. Both emerged from ancient traditions that say this is a time of year when the veil between the living and the dead thins, and souls of the dead can draw near to their loved ones in the living world. For a short while, time is a swinging door that goes both ways, and spirits can cross over and back.