Salon Refu owner Susan
Christion posted this on Facebook: “I have an art gallery, Salon Refu. This
evening we finished installing a quiet, enticing, initially mysterious show of
works by Shaw Osha, my friend and an important artist. Sometimes I don't
understand what Shaw is doing in her work as an artist. Right now I do
understand it. It's beautiful, thoughtful, compelled by feeling. You should
come in and see what happens inside of you.”
Shaw Osha is a painter
and visual arts professor at The Evergreen State College known for her earlier
figurative paintings in an abstract-expressionist style, works somewhat
reminiscent of Richard Diebenkorn’s early figurative works and more recently for
conceptual work.
The work she is
currently showing at Salon Refu is a radical departure from earlier work. It is
a group of collages with dried flowers and a theme of racial relations that is not at all made clear in the work itself, the only hint
being one piece that has collaged onto it in words cut from a newspaper “who is
white” and “who is black.”
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