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October 27, 2009

Paul Oberst, a Frankfort native, who now lives in Maine, is giving a talk about his art work at the Aegon Gallery in the Jones Visual Arts building at Centre College Friday, October 30, 3:30 p.m. PAUL OBERST '77: CEREMONIAL OBJECTS, TENTS, TEMPLES AND BLANKETS, a show of Oberst work has been on display at the Aegon Gallery and will run through Saturday, October 31.
Oberst attended Frankfort High School graduating in 1973. He graduated from Centre College in 1977. Oberst worked at the Cleveland Centre for Contemporary art (now Cleveland MOCA) and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
Oberst has shown his work and is represented in museum, commercial, academic and corporate galleries since 1982.
The works at the Aegon Gallery range from sculptures to wall hangings and even two wall pieces executed by Centre art students to his specifications.
Oberst work presents "a temple" which the artist describes as a "locus of the human spirit", in many different media. The Centre show also displays "ceremonial objects" that Oberst says one might find within the temple architecture.
A show of Oberst's work, PAUL OBERST: CEREMONIAL OBJECTS, DEVICES & FORMS opens November 3 at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery in Philadelphia , PA. Information on that show can be accessed on the Bridgette Mayer Gallery website: www.bridgettemayergallery.com

Photo Information: Ceremonial Blanket/Coba Pepper, oil on canvas, 40"x 30".






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    Posted by realdeal November 2, 2009
I personally think it's very cool looking. I would hang it up in my house. It would look good against a red wall.

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    Posted by Orbit October 31, 2009
Bridgette Mayer has a really good painter who is incidentally a member of a minority (Tim McFarlane). Elsewhere Mark Bradford, who got a McArthur 'genius' grant.

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    Posted by Orbit October 31, 2009
It's the Gees Bend quilt conga line. Visual art, roughly: 19th Century valued beauty, 20th- innovation, 21st- virtue. Doesn't matter what it looks like or if it even exists materially. If the artist's intentions are deemed virtuous by the academy and/or the funders- or the artist belongs to what they consider an oppressed minority= fast track career advancement.

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    Posted by Need4speed October 30, 2009
Wow, that looks like crap. My grand daughter can draw better.

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    Posted by smartgirl October 30, 2009
Lyle Lovett is going to be in concert at Centre the same night....I'd choose Lyle.

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    Posted by Orbit October 29, 2009
New Age Post-Minimalism. Can we move on, PLEASE?