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 Chris Gander leads a crew hanging Lucinda Parker's mural in the Rose Center for the Performing Arts at Lower Columbia College. Bill Wagner / The Daily News
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Artist's largest work placed at LCC
Monday, February 11, 2008 6:55 AM PST
By Tom Paulu tpaulu@tdn.com
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E-mail this articleIt was a lot tougher than hanging the average painting.
On Friday, Portland artist Lucinda Parker and a crew hung her 10- by 40-foot mural in the lobby of the Rose Center for the Performing Arts at Lower Columbia College.
The mural, entitled "Where Water Comes Together with Other Water," is a loose representation of logs and water rushing into the Columbia River.
It’s the biggest single piece of canvas Parker has ever painted, she said. It took her a year to create the work at her Portland studio.
She shrank the canvas with hot water before painting with acrylic paint, sometimes using a sheetrock spatula.
The finished canvas was rolled onto cardboard tubes normally used in the construction of concrete bridge pillars.
The crew led by Chris Gander, an expert in gallery installations, worked on two levels of scaffolding to gently unroll the huge piece of canvas.
They put screws into the wall through the 108 grommets ringing the canvas. "If you did it with staple guns, it would pull out of the wall," Parker said.
The mural will be visible through the Rose Center’s large front windows. The $24.6 million center includes two theaters, an art gallery, a recording studio and classrooms. A grand opening is planned for June, college spokeswoman Janelle Runyon said.
kg wrote on Feb 11, 2008 8:04 AM:
Louie wrote on Feb 11, 2008 8:37 AM:
Great wrote on Feb 11, 2008 9:28 AM:
news. "
kendra wrote on Feb 11, 2008 11:35 AM:
do you really think it wont get ruined there?
if it does get ruined what is your plan to do with it next?
would you re-make it?
I think you should just put it in a safe place like behind glass or someting.
I dont think all kids will respect the person who took the time to do this amazing art work and might do things to it.
I think people in muesseums would enjoy it more there. "
M.D. wrote on Feb 11, 2008 11:38 AM:
Re: Kendra wrote on Feb 11, 2008 2:42 PM:
dirtyfrank wrote on Feb 11, 2008 8:10 PM:
heck, even a bigger parking lot would have been better than this waste of money "
Louie wrote on Feb 11, 2008 8:44 PM:
What a project that was. It is high enough that it will be in a relatively safe location. The exposure is westerly and I am hopeful the windows are tinted and will protect it from sunlight...the bane on artwork. "
please wrote on Feb 11, 2008 9:35 PM:
kendra wrote on Feb 12, 2008 11:16 AM:
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