(Above: Tanzaku by Barbara Setsu Pickett, part of a display women’s art at White Lotus Gallery)
By Randi Bjornstad
Craving the Light of the Moon, by Eugene artist Satoko Motuji
March 8th was International Women’s Day, and the entire month of March is Women’s History Month. To celebrate these events, White Lotus Gallery in downtown Eugene is showing an exhibit of work by women artists.
It’s titled Making Her Mark: Works by Women Artists, and it includes creations ranging from watercolor, painting, mineral pigment drawings, printmaking, and mixed-media to fine jewelry, sculpture, tapestry, and sculpture.
Memento Mori, by Judy Ann Ness
The artists include 10 regional U.S. women artists — Analee Fuentes, Helen Liu, Satoko
Lillian Pitt’s sculpture, Star Spirit Loves the Peaceful River
Motouji, Connie Mueller, Judy Ann Ness, Barbara Setsu Pickett, Lillian Pitt, Nancy Pobanz, Margaret Prentice, and Christine L. Sundt — plus works by several international Japanese and Chinese women such as Shinoda Toko (1913-2021), Iwami Reika (1927-2020), Yoshida Chizuko (1924-2017), Wang Gongyi (b. 1946), and Chen Haiyan (b. 1955), whose art is part of the White Lotus collection as well as major museums and galleries in the United States and internationally.
The Exchange, Oregon mineral pigment drawing by Nancy Pobanz
