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c <br /> News Rele se Airport Artists Selected <br /> October 1 1988 <br /> Page 2 <br /> Thre suspended wing forms are planned by Peter Teneau to hang over the <br /> escalator in the central main lobby area. The wing forms will be drawn from <br /> birds and aircraft images and the series will reflect a takeoff that soars to <br /> full flig t. The wings will be created from aluminum, fiberglass, wood, <br /> acrylic s eet, and stainless cable and will be installed during the summer <br /> of 1989. Teneau will be paid $40,000 for his work. <br /> Tene u is a northwest artist well-known for his large-sized pieces that <br /> i <br /> combine m diums drawn from art, science, and engineering. Each of Teneau's <br /> ~ works is adically different and is created specificially to fit an individual <br /> site. Hi most recent work is a 75-foot wall-based optical pieces for the <br /> Explorato ium in San Francisco. His most famous local work is located in the <br /> <br /> ~ Revenue B ilding in Salem. Teneau has won an award from the National <br /> Endowment for the Arts for his work. <br /> Davi Joyce, a local artist and instructor at Lane Community College, <br /> was selec ed to provide a photosculptural series of "flying air travellers," <br /> for the 2 4-foot long, second-level concourse. The Commission selected <br /> j Joyce's p oposal because it created feelings of excitement, dynamic movement, <br /> freedom, nd flight. Joyce will be paid $15,000 for his work. He plans to <br /> use local people for the photosculpture, a medium he calls "life-size <br /> photograp is sculpture." <br /> i Joyc 's work is represented in gallerys in New York, Los Angeles, and <br /> Seattle, nd his most recent show in Eugene was at the University of Oregon <br /> i <br /> ~ Museum of Art. In 1986, he was awarded an Oregon artist fellowship by the <br /> Oregon Ar s Commission. Joyce has lived in Eugene since 1970 and teaches <br /> more <br /> <br />