Robert W. Jensen at Muckenthaler Cultural Center

Monday, 10 October 2005 15:17

FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA.-An exhibition of 90 works by Robert W. Jensen will ?ll the galleries of Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, California. While acrylic on canvas paintings will dominate, Jensen, who enjoys working in many media, will include a number of drawings, watercolors, and original graphics, i.e. serigraphs, etchings, engravings and giclées, as well as some other experimental digital processes. The two themes are Jensen’s interpretations of sports, titled Have You Come to Play? and his reminiscences of world travel, Collected Memories. Jensen’s sports exhibition includes many of his paintings of the USC Trojan Marching Band, including one in which they are performing in front of the Muckenthaler from last year’s rally. Another book ?lled with Jensen’s works on sports, titled The Young Athlete will be featured in the exhibition. One of those paintings titled The Diamond Belt Weigh-In which is now in the collection of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. Sport as Symbol – Images of the Athlete in Art, Literature and Song written by Mari Womack, a research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, chose a number of Jensen’s sports images to use as illustrations in her book along with those by Renoir, Curry, Archipenko, Goya, Stubbs, and many others from the world’s ?nest museums Churchill authored the text for another of Jensen’s books on his travels in the People’s Republic of China, titled The Waking Dragon Beckons. Jensen, has often said, “If there are themes to my paintings, it is simply the natural beauty around me, including the people who inhabit that beauty. I’ve been accused of being a painter of ‘happy’ scenes. I confess to seeing the positive side of things.” That seems a perfect ?t to the motto of the Muckenthaler which is: “We are a celebration of the human spirit through the arts.”

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