Working Out

Title: Working Out
LC Subject: Drawing Painting Sports acrylic painting (technique) acrylic paintings (visual works) collages (visual works) drawing (image-making) drawings (visual works) painting (image-making)
Creator: Brown, Clint
Description: A visual design consisting of eleven separate six-by-six foot panels--each reflecting different sporting activities, and all created with acrylic paint, charcoal and color conte. Each panel is constructed of ¼ inch birch plywood backed and supported by a one-by-two-inch fir framework. Clint Brown; Working Out; Installation: OSU Dixon Rec. Center; 2008 Clint Brown has been a professor of art at Oregon State University, where he has taught drawing, painting, and sculpture since 1970. He served as a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) in Nottingham, England, and has taught art as Seattle Pacific University and University of Southern California. He is author of Drawing from Life (Harcourt Brace, second edition 1996) and editor of Artist to Artist: Inspiration and Advice from Artists Past and Present (Jackson Creek Press 1998). His art work had been exhibited widely throughout the West. His drawings on the AIDS pandemic, The Plague Drawings, traveled to Japan, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
Location: Dixon Recreation Center >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 425 SW 26th Street, Corvallis Oregon
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 2004_osu_dixon-rec-cntr_04_a04
Accession Number: 2004_osu_dixon-rec-cntr_04_a04
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Brown, Clint
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: (11) 6 x 6 foot panels
Material: Drawing; Painting; Mixed media Consisting of eleven separate six-by-six foot panels, each panel is constructed of 1/4 birch plywood backed and supported by a one-by-two-inch fir framework. The birch ply is covered on the front with three coats of acrylic gesso and two layers of acrylic stain as a base for the images. The visual design was created with acrylic paint, charcoal and color conte. The finished design has been sealed with six thin coatings of acrylic matte media. The back of each panel was given a coating of shellac as a moisture barrier.
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 2004 OSU Dixon Recreational Center 2004_osu_dixon-rec-cntr
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: To access an OSU campus map with contextual view of Dixon Recreational Cente, go to http://oregonstate.edu/cw_tools/campusmap/locations.php
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: This eleven-panel wall mural was created with a desire to express the movement and energy of physical exercise and the dynamics of the many recreational activities the Dixon Center provides . The primary subject and aesthetic motif is the human form in motion. The gestural, freely drawn lines make reference to our anatomy and the choreography of the body's movement.The geomentric lines and shapes that run through each composition visually connect all eleven panels and serve as a visual metaphor for both the structure of the recreational arena and the disciplined nature of a physical workout. Just as this work of art was inspired by the energy and activity of Dixon's many patrons, it is the artist's hope that the work will, in turn, inspire and energize those who see it. (Brown, 2004)