"A few weeks ago, in an interview with Associated Press journalist Liam McEwan, Ringo Starr said he got into digital painting in the 1990s using the program Kid Pix. "The big thing about that," Ringo remembered, "was it had the bucket, and you pressed that and...whoosh...it's all blue." "So hilarious," McEwan responded, "My brother and I used to slam that all the time. It was a great creative outlet." At one point in the conversation, the ex-Beatle looked directly into the camera and implored listeners who had access to the older version of Kid Pix, to send it in."
"I guess someone could inform him that Craig Hickman, the inventor of the digital art program for kids called Kid Pix, lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is a retired University of Oregon art and technology professor who is still active as an artist. In fact, he is currently showing in Electric Mixer, an exhibit on view at Ditch Projects."
"Ditch Projects is a nonprofit art gallery in Springfield, which is just east of Eugene. Electric Mixer 's co-curators, Mike Bray and Laura Hughes, are members who both teach at UO. Bray teaches art and cinema studies and Hughes teaches sculpture. Hughes said at first the idea for the show was to feature only Hickman's art but that concept evolved into a group show with Hickman's work, in particular what one could venture to call his Kid Pix aesthetic from the 1980s and 1990s, setting the tone."
Ringo Starr began digital painting in the 1990s using Kid Pix, recalling its bucket fill tool and urging anyone with older versions to send them. Craig Hickman, the inventor of Kid Pix, lives in Eugene, Oregon, is a retired University of Oregon art and technology professor, and remains active as an artist. Hickman is included in Electric Mixer, an exhibit at Ditch Projects in Springfield. Co-curators Mike Bray and Laura Hughes, both University of Oregon faculty, shaped the show around Hickman's Kid Pix aesthetic, expanding an initial solo concept into a group exhibition that emphasizes playful, thoughtful, technology-related artwork. Hickman has three works in the show alongside other contemporary artists.
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