Earth

Title: Earth
LC Subject: Painting Painting, Abstract painting (image-making) paintings (visual works)
Creator: Gunn, Jef
Description: Jef Gunn is a painter, printmaker and sometimes sculptor, who has worked in Portland, Oregon. Gunn attends to the relationship between consciousness and the phenomenal world, expressed in simple large forms of Nature drawn from memory of experience in wilderness and urban environs, concentrated into shapes, text, pattern and signs. 'I don't know if I care much about self expression. In relation to the wilderness or the city, what is a self? Art is mind revealing mind.' info@jefgunn.com The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Oregon Coast Council for the Arts . You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
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Location: Eugene >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lokey Education Building >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States Lane County >> Oregon >> United States
Award Date: 2009
Identifier: Gunn_Earth
Accession Number: Gunn_Earth
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Gunn, Jef
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Measurements: 48 x 23.5 inches
Material: wire Painting; Collage encaustic, paper, tar and linoleum on wood panel
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: University of Oregon College of Education Project
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: Stairwell
Color Space: RGB Color
Biographical Information: This hand became the 'part of the real' that grounds the painting in some meaning. It is the Touching Earth mudra (gesture) that is found in many statues & paintings of the Buddha.