Opening Reception: First Thursday, May 3, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Artist Talk with Marni Shindelman: Saturday, May 5, 11:00 am

"As a society, we strive for means to abate a loneliness that seems exasperated by an increasingly overly connected culture. Cell phones and instant messaging have simultaneously made us more connected virtually and lonelier than ever."

"Geolocation: UK" is one part of a larger photographic project by the collaborative artistic duo Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman. Using location coordinates of posts made by users of Twitter across the United Kingdom, Larson and Shindleman go to the places where each "tweet" originated and make a photograph of what they find there...."

Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman's collaborative work focuses on the cultural understanding of distance as perceived in modern life and network culture.

New York photographer Lorna Bieber creates large-scale serial installations and photographs using traditional and untraditional means, involving multiple processes of transferral and interpretation within the photographic object.

Bieber's oneiric images resonate with the material and temporal dislocations that the photographs endure as they evolve. Bieber will be in residency at Reed College the week of April 16, working both with Reed students and with K-12 students through the Cooley Gallery's Open Gallery Program.

Curated by Namita Gupta Wiggers

Generations: Betty Feves is the first Museum retrospective to honor the legacy of one of Oregon’s important arts leaders. Betty Whiteman Feves (1918–1985) belongs to a generation of mid-century vanguard artists who set the stage for dynamic shifts in the use of clay in art.

Featuring over 150 objects ranging from her student work in the 1930s to her final projects in the early 1980s, the exhibition spans themes that guided Feves’ work throughout her lifetime: figures, dwellings, sculptural slab structures, pottery, bonfire and raku pots, and large architectural installations.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th 6-9pm

John Wimberley will be showing his new color work, Elegy for an Angel, a tribute to his beloved wife Teri. John Wimberley has been hailed as “one of America’s preeminent landscape photographers.” His critically acclaimed work has been honored with more than 60 major exhibitions and has been published around the world. John’s work is represented in hundreds of public and private collections.

image: Evening Light on Our Kitchen Cabinet

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 19th 2:00–5:00pm

Art, music, poetry, and film come together in Frame’s ambitious project, The Tale of the Crippled Boy. The goal is a feature-length collection of animated and live film vignettes.

Three Fragments of a Lost Tale presents his work during the past five years: installations of handmade figures, stage sets, still photographs, music score, and film vignettes.

Whimsically reinventing icons from popular culture and art history, Seattle artist Claudia Fitch seeks to expose a connection between the cultural and the personal. Using flocking, plastic foliage, glazed ceramic, and fabricated steel allows the artist to invent unique and imaginative works. She states, “I am on the lookout for wholly unexpected behaviors where the very familiar can also be very strange.”

Launched in 2006, APEX is a dynamic exhibition series that continues the Museum’s 117-year tradition of presenting contemporary work by artists living and working in the Northwest.

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Emerging, a selection of more than 50 works, celebrates the diversity and breadth of a set of 500 recent gifts and purchases.

Included are images by such exceptional photographers as Adolphe Braun, Berenice Abbott, Chris McCaw, Linda Connor, and Eadweard Muybridge.

These photographs demonstrate the exciting trajectory of the history of photography as well as the Museum’s commitment to the collection and display of the medium.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 6–10pm

In videos, paintings, and installations, Fogel simultaneously culls from popular media culture as he mines the territory of romantic and family relationships. The centerpiece of the exhibition, With Me… You, is a large-scale five-channel video installation that portrays his family’s wedding and engagement rings in the iconic style of the Home Shopping Network. The installation spans four generations from his great grandmother’s engagement ring to his sister’s wedding ring.

Whether through meticulous re-creations of old love letters or by reanimating family heirlooms, Fogel deftly personifies individuals in the objects they own. His work lays bare private correspondence and intimate declarations, enlarging personal experience to a heroic scale.

Russel Wong: The Big Picture
April 21 – August 12, 2012
The exhibition is made possible with the support from the University of Oregon Office of the President.

Stacey Steers: Night Hunter House
April 18 – June 19, 2012
Cosponsored by Cinema Pacific

Image: Russel Wong (Singaporean, born 1961), Jackie Chan, Hong Kong, 2000. Silver gelatin print, 18 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

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