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Tina Schrager

The Arts Center Exhibitions:

• 'Portals,' Winter Show & Silent Auction, 2011
• 'Where Birds Dream' Winter Show and Silent Auction, 2010
• 'Shrines & Reliquaries,' Winter Show & Silent Auction, 2009
• 'Layers of Life', 2008
• Around Oregon Annual, 2005
• 'Segmentum,' 2003

Artist's Statement for 'Portals,' Winter Show & Silent Auction, 2011

“MENTAL PORTAL”
Plexiglass, glue, matboard

This project pushed my limits and buttons, and bent my brain!  I set out to use plexiglass to create a crystaline form inspired by the sri yantra, an Indian meditation tool.  But plexiglass is not friendly.  I cut – with hack saws, band saws, table saws; I attached – with pegs, glue, wires; I drilled, snapped, shattered, and started again.  After the fourth manifestation, I stopped.  Here it is.

So, intriguing as the material is, I may never touch it again!  Or I might. . . .

BIOGRAPHY

Tina Schrager was born in New York City, lived in eight states and one foreign country, before finally settling in Northern California for twenty years.

Her first incarnatiion as a Linguist was followed by many years creating Wearable Art. Upon moving to Oregon in 1991, she gave up pins and needles and picked up pencil and paper.  Recently, most of her work is mixed media collage.

Tina Schrager worked as Exhibits Coordinator at the Maude Kerns Art Center in Eugene until she retired to her studio in 2005.