Mindpower Gallery

09/04/2026

⚙️ THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY ART SHOW.

We have never hosted anything quite like it.

Beginning today, Friday, September 4, the Museum of Techno Art brings EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS to the Oregon Coast—an extraordinary exhibition of imaginative machinery, illuminated sculpture, experimental photography, precision metalwork and mysterious artifacts from possible pasts and speculative futures.

If you are an engineer, machinist, fabricator, inventor, designer, photographer, history lover, science enthusiast—or simply curious about how someone could possibly conceive and construct these objects—this is a show not to be missed.

Among the artists coming to Reedsport is Joe Mross, founder of Archive Designs and the creator behind one of Burning Man’s remarkable large-scale installations.

In 2014, Mross and Archive Designs received an official Burning Man Honorarium for Lost Nomads of Vulcania. The steampunk-inspired encampment featured Teluriz, an immense 21-foot-tall Vardo Class Steam Walker that visitors could enter and explore on the Black Rock Desert playa.

That same command of architectural metalwork, theatrical invention and extraordinary fabrication runs through Mross’s work today. Archive Designs has also created stage machinery for the Eugene Ballet, bringing engineering, sculpture and storytelling together in an entirely different setting.

And Joe Mross is only one of nine remarkable artists represented in Lost Fragments:

⚙️ Alan Ott brings the experience of a machinist and mechanical engineer to sculpture, transforming fabricated metal, bicycle components and discarded industrial equipment into forms filled with movement.

📷 Barbora Bakalarova takes photography beyond the conventional print through experimental processes and evolving forms of presentation.

♻️ Steve Mast works freehand with a plasma torch and MIG welder, allowing discarded metal and found objects to suggest what they may become.

💡 Neal Conner—Neon Man draws in three dimensions with heated glass, high voltage, fabricated metal and light. His illuminated sculptures change the atmosphere around them.

🔍 Ralf Huber combines rusted tools, warped metal, glass and historical images in assemblages that reveal the human and social histories hidden inside ordinary objects.

🏗️ Robert Bolman considers what future generations—and future archaeologists—may conclude from the enormous material legacy of industrial civilization.

📺 Steve La Riccia, inventor behind Steamworks Research & Design Labs, combines vintage televisions, typewriters, computers, vacuum-tube electronics and mechanical controls into interactive machines that appear simultaneously plausible and impossible.

La Riccia’s inventive life has even included flying his own kit-built ultralight to Burning Man. While there, he landed on the playa and discovered that people he had just met already owned one of his artworks. His exhibition history also includes Eugene’s long-running Salon des Refusés and San Francisco’s wonderfully theatrical Edwardian Ball.

🔩 Max Rink transforms mill-stock steel through precise design and fabrication, creating sculptural forms that seem equally at home in nature, an industrial past or a retrofuturist world.
Together, these artists represent decades of engineering, metal fabrication, electronics, photography, environmental thought and fearless creative experimentation.
Some works illuminate.
Some invite interaction.
Some transform industrial debris into sculpture.

Others ask what the objects our civilization leaves behind may eventually reveal about us.

All of them reward a closer look.

OPENING RECEPTION Tonight!

Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Meet the artists • Free admission

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport, Oregon

Part of Vintage Nights at the Gallery — Where Art Meets the Vine.

Can’t attend the opening? The exhibition continues through October 10, with free admission during regular gallery hours.

Come during a quieter afternoon, take your time and investigate every illuminated form, curious mechanism and unresolved artifact.

This is a rare opportunity to encounter the Museum of Techno Art—and the inventive minds behind it—right here on the Oregon Coast.

Come curious. Leave inspired.

Putting creative minds to work!

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Meet Max Rink, a metal sculptor whose work brings precision fabrication into conversation with natural, mechanical and retrofuturist forms.

Rink transforms mill-stock steel into intricate sculptural objects, drawing inspiration from nature, materials and the environments around him. His practice combines the discipline of design and fabrication with the freedom to imagine objects that seem equally at home in an industrial past or a speculative future.

Tonight, the archive opens.

See Max Rink’s work—and meet the artists of the Museum of Techno Art—at:

EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS

Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

Exhibition continues through October 10.

09/04/2026

⚙️ ARTIST RECORD 08/09
COUNTDOWN TO LOST FRAGMENTS

Meet Steve La Riccia, the inventor behind Steamworks Research & Design Labs.

For decades, La Riccia was known for painterly manipulation of SX-70 Polaroid photographs. When that film was discontinued, he drew upon his knowledge of vacuum-tube television electronics, mechanical devices, aviation, history and science to begin creating interactive assemblages.

His contraptions may combine typewriters, vintage computers, televisions, mechanical controls and devices whose functions appear simultaneously plausible and impossible.

Unlike his rapidly created Polaroid manipulations, these interactive machines can require months of design and construction.

Enter the Imaginarium when Steve La Riccia comes to Reedsport for:
EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS

Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

09/03/2026

⚙️ ARTIST RECORD 07/09
COUNTDOWN TO LOST FRAGMENTS

Meet Robert Bolman, an artist whose work asks what future generations—or future archaeologists—will think of the civilization we leave behind.

Bolman’s art grows from decades of thinking about green building, sustainability, industrial society and the enormous material legacy of modern life.
Concrete remnants, discarded materials and industrial forms become speculative evidence.

What will future archaeologists make of a civilization capable of producing so many things—and throwing so many of them away?

Few artists connect more directly with the central mystery of Lost Fragments: the possibility that today’s debris may become tomorrow’s archaeological record.

See Robert Bolman’s work in:
EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS

Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

09/02/2026

⚙️ ARTIST RECORD 06/09
COUNTDOWN TO LOST FRAGMENTS

Meet Ralf Huber, an assemblage artist who uses found materials to connect physical objects with larger human stories.

Warped metal, rusted tools, utensils, shards of glass and photographic images become part of works that ask viewers to look carefully—not only at the object, but at the history and consequences contained within it.

In an earlier exhibition addressing child labor, Huber used historical and contemporary photographs with industrial materials to connect past working conditions with present-day consumer choices.

His work reminds us that an artifact is never only an artifact. It may also be evidence.

See Ralf Huber’s work in:
EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS

Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

09/01/2026

⚙️ ARTIST RECORD 05/09
COUNTDOWN TO LOST FRAGMENTS

Meet Neal Conner—Neon Man—an artist who describes his work as “luminous sculpture in three dimensions.”

Trained as a neon tube bender and sign installer during the 1980s, Conner draws with light using heated glass, high-voltage illumination, metal fabrication and carefully developed finishes.

Wood and metal frequently join the illuminated glass in constructions inspired by mythology, tribal traditions, human figures and animals. His sculptures do not simply occupy space: they change the atmosphere around them.

Encounter Neal Conner’s illuminated work in:

EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS
Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

09/01/2026

🍷 THIS WEEK AT VINTAGE NIGHTS: J. SCOTT CELLARS

There may be no better wine to pair with an evening of art than one made by a winemaker who describes wine itself as an art form.

J. Scott Cellars puts it beautifully:
“It is our belief that wine is a form of consumable art, where no two pieces are ever exactly alike.”

This Friday, we’re delighted to welcome winemaker Jonathan Scott Oberlander of J. Scott Cellars to Mindpower Gallery.

Jonathan’s journey brought him to Eugene in 2003, where he began building J. Scott Cellars and a portfolio of wines that reflects both the diversity of the Pacific Northwest and the individuality of each vintage.

And this Friday, that Eugene connection goes even further.

September 4 is also opening night for Exostoria Mechanica: Lost Fragments, the Museum of Techno Art traveling exhibition featuring an extraordinary collection of Oregon artists and makers.

Wine as art.
Machines as art.
A gallery full of people who make things.

📍 Mindpower Gallery
📅 Friday, September 4
⏰ 4–7 PM

🍷 J. Scott Cellars with Jonathan Scott Oberlander

⚙️ Opening Reception — Exostoria Mechanica: Lost Fragments

Vintage Nights at the Gallery — Where Art Meets the Vine.

09/01/2026

⚙️ ARTIST RECORD 04/09 COUNTDOWN TO LOST FRAGMENTS

Meet Steve Mast, a self-taught Oregon artist who transforms discarded metal and found objects into sculpture.

Mast allows the existing shape of each piece of metal to guide what it may become. Working freehand with a plasma torch and joining forms with a MIG welder, he creates both two- and three-dimensional work for interior and outdoor settings.

His practice began after retirement in 2009 and has since reached juried exhibitions and collections throughout the western United States, Canada and Mexico.

What others discard, Mast recognizes as unfinished possibility.

See his work in:
EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS

Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

08/31/2026

Museum of Techno Art- Lost Fragments

⚙️ ARTIST RECORD FOR 03/09
COUNTDOWN TO LOST FRAGMENTS

Meet Joe Mross, artist, designer, metalsmith and founder of Archive Designs

Mross began with the belief that architectural metalwork could be more imaginative, compelling and artistic. From a single workbench in his garage, that idea grew into a multidisciplinary design and fabrication studio.

His background encompasses fine and applied art, metalsmithing, printmaking, sculpture, photography and animation.

His work draws from Arts and Crafts traditions, classical and modern design and rustic materials which, combined with steampunk imagination, bring about his signature style.

In his hands, metalwork becomes more than construction. It becomes narrative.

See Joe Mross’s work in:
EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS - 1 of 9 artists exhibited in the upcoming showcase.

Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

08/31/2026

Museum of Techno Art - Lost Fragments

⚙️ ARTIST RECORD 02/09

COUNTDOWN TO LOST FRAGMENTS

Meet Barbora Bakalarova,
an experimental photographer who moves photography beyond its customary boundaries.

Originally from Prague in the Czech Republic, Bakalarova has lived in Oregon for approximately thirty years. Her work uses nontraditional photographic techniques and evolving methods of presentation.

She resists being confined by a single style, subject or trend—allowing each experiment to determine what the finished image may become.

Her photographs invite us to reconsider where photography ends and the constructed art object begins.

Discover her work in:
EXOSTORIA MECHANICA: LOST FRAGMENTS

Opening Reception
Friday, September 4 • 4–7 PM

Mindpower Gallery
417 Fir Avenue • Reedsport

Part of the Vintage Nights series.
#2 of 9 participating artists at the upcoming Museum of Techno Art exhibit. — Where Art Meets the Vine.