"McMINNVILLE - With the start of a new academic year, Linfield University ushered in the fall arts season last week with an exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture by one of its own instructors, Portland artist Richard Cutshall. It's a delightfully surreal and sensuous feast, just the sort of thing to widen the eyes of incoming art students and hint at the depths they might one day explore."
"In the past year or so, the art gallery on the McMinnville campus has brought in thoughtful shows looking outward, featuring work by artists engaging with the corrosive intersection of politics, race, class, war, and capitalism. But in Return to the Fool's Garden, which runs through Sept. 26, the Mexican-American artist looks inward with a collection of rustic but elegant works that excavate dark, archetypal imagery from the psychic shadows. It's weird stuff, occasionally disturbing, and yet somehow subversively playful."
Linfield University's McMinnville gallery opened the fall arts season with Return to the Fool's Garden, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture by Portland artist Richard Cutshall. The exhibition presents delightfully surreal, sensuous works that widen viewers' eyes and hint at depths for students to explore. Recent gallery programming engaged outward political themes, but this exhibition turns inward, presenting rustic yet elegant pieces that excavate dark, archetypal imagery from psychic shadows. The title evokes layered meanings: a reprise of earlier shows, art-historical garden imagery from Eden to Bosch, and the fool as trickster archetype across Shakespeare, popular culture, and tarot.
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