EUGENE–A University of Oregon artist’s design received one of only seven awards presented at a national exhibit in New York.

Leon Johnson, UO assistant professor of fine arts, won the Columbus College of Art and Design Award for Technologically Integrated Media at the 41st Annual Exhibition of the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts. The $300 award is presented to art works that use technology as an artistic medium.

Johnson’s award-winning diptych pairs a black and white self-portrait with a color saturated image of a man wearing lace pants. The images were scanned and manipulated through a computer to produce an ink jet print.

Johnson says the design was sought to create a dialogue about the truth and fantasy of the roles men engage in and to elicit suspicion of these supposed irreconcilable images.

Twenty-seven artists were finally selected to exhibit 83 works in the juried show.

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