Sandy Brown Jensen
Host Viz City, KLCC's Arts Review ProgramSandy Brown Jensen has an MFA in Poetry and is a retired writing instructor from Lane Community College. She is an artist and a photographer with a lifetime interest in looking at and talking about art. Sandy hosts KLCC's long-running arts review program Viz City.
She also keeps a childhood memoir, musings on spirituality and shares art and poetry on her Substack newsletter The Mystic Road. You can read and subscribe for free at https://sandybrownjensen.substack.com.
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Sandy Brown Jensen explores the vast horizons and piercing "circular gazes" of the 20th Annual Emerald Spring Exhibition, now showing at the Emerald Art Center.
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Sandy Brown Jensen reviews Josh Voynick’s sculptures at Don Dexter Gallery, where discarded shovels and scrap steel are forged into narratives of healing and nature.
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Explore Pam Stevens’ "Outrageous Abundance" at the Don Dexter Gallery. Viz City’s Sandy Brown Jensen reviews this vibrant abstract exhibit and its lessons on natural resilience and hope.
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Sandy Brown Jensen explores the atmospheric landscapes of Demetra Kalams at the Emerald Art Center, finding a "visual prayer" that silences the noise of everyday life.
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Explore the profound connection between the tactile and the creative in "As We See It: Six Sculptors." Witness how stone, clay, and bronze evoke the important landmarks of life’s journey.
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Viz City: Sandy Brown Jensen reviews Street Scenes at Midtown Center. See Hassett’s Eugene & Scudder’s Vienna—where Hopperesque light meets the patina of ancient stone.
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Explore how the JSMA’s "Communities and Connections" uses art to bridge memory loss. Sandy Brown Jensen shares a moving journey of creative aging and the artist’s soul.
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Viz City dives into the superb curation of Liberty Rossel. See how four Northwest artists turn the Maude Kerns gallery into a sacred sanctuary.
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From Noah Strycker’s global snail mail art to Eugene’s hidden artist studios, Sandy Brown Jensen explores how seeking out the extraordinary creates a deeper connection through art gifting.
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Viz City spotlights the December First Friday ArtWalk, featuring Bree's Way and The New Zone, before diving into the major collaborative show, Wonder/Tender, this Saturday at Oblivion Gallery. Artists include Sandy Brown Jensen (24K gold media), painter Shanna Trumbly, sculptor Renee Mahni, poet Jorah La Fleur, and ofund metal artist Jud Turner.