+ the P.O.'d Postcard show
Preview Reception: Sunday, April 15, 3 to 5 pm
Gallery Talk: Thursday, April 19, noon
+ the P.O.'d Postcard show
Preview Reception: Sunday, April 15, 3 to 5 pm
Gallery Talk: Thursday, April 19, noon
Opening Reception: First Thursday, May 3, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
No Man's Land explores the margins of urban and rural environments in Italy and Spain as experienced by what appear to be women soliciting sex, all captured by Google Street View cameras. Sourcing locations from online forums where men share local knowledge on the whereabouts of sex workers, artist Mishka Henner searches for these areas online and then re-frames each scene using Street View cameras.
Artist Mishka Henner holds degrees from Loughborough University and University of London. Henner's work has been exhibited at venues in the US and Europe, and he was chosen as a signature artist in From Here On (2011), a group show representing the new age of photography at Les Rencontres d'Arles in France....and much more..
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.
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6:00–9:00 pm
Closing: June 3, Noon–6:00 pm
The University of Oregon Department of Art and School of Architecture and Allied Arts present the work of six master of fine arts graduate students in art:
Brooks Oierdorff
Courtney Kemp
Lilly Martina Lee
R. Mertens
Lyle Murphy
Lyndsay Rice
We thank the following sponsors for their generous support:
The Ballinger family in memory of Court Ballinger
Geraldine Leiman
Gamblin Artist's Oil Colors
University of Oregon Alumni Association
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.
Jessica Auer is a documentary-style landscape photographer from Montreal Canada.
Drawing inspiration from history and archeology, her work is largely concerned the study of cultural sites. From the beaten track to the frontier, Jessica explores places where history and mythology are woven into the landscape, and where contemporary landscape issues emerge.
Taking on the role of observer-participant, her photographs present narratives that incite the viewer to engage with place using their imagination, as well as look at the practice of sightseeing from a critical perspective.
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4th 6-9pm
Lecture by Jessica Auer: Saturday, May 5th 1pm
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: Thursday, February 2, 4:00–7:00pm
Four weeks of one small group show per week, with opening receptions each Wednesday:
April 11, 18, 25, 27 and May 2, 4:00-7:00pm.
Students in the College's BFA and Certificate programs spend their final year perfecting their craft in the creation of an original body of work. This final thesis project reflects their personal and conceptual ideas and finely tuned craftsmanship. The entire learning experience at Oregon College of Art and Craft culminates in the exhibition of their work.
Image: Don Goble, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 19th 2:00–5:00pm
Originally presented by The Drawing Center, New York in 2010, Day Job features works selected through an open call to the emerging artists in the Center’s Viewing Program.
Rather than subscribing to the idea that non-artistic work is by definition disruptive to an artist’s practice, Day Job looks at the ways in which the information, skills, ideas, working conditions, or materials encountered in the work world can become a source of influence.
Comprised of a selection of works from the original exhibition, this presentation of Day Job is curated by Nina Katchadourian of The Drawing Center and organized for PNCA, Feldman Gallery, by Mack McFarland.
Image: Westgate Shopping Center (Asheville, NC) / Glacier National Park (MT), 2010, Collage, by Mary Lydecker
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.
One of the most controversial internationally known German avant-garde artists of the postwar years, Beuys (1921-1986) was an influential theorist and teacher for several generations of European artists.
The exhibition features the monumental environmental work, Blitzschlag mit Lichtschein auf Hirsch (Lightning with Stag in its Glare), 1958-1985, along with selected multiples that extend the installation’s conceptual framework.
For more information:
http://portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/
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.
For more exhibition information: http://portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/
One of the leading American artists of the 20th century, Mark Rothko began his life in art in Portland, Oregon.
The 45 works in the exhibition trace Rothko’s artistic path from the late 1920s until shortly before his death in 1970.
The exhibition presents Portland’s first comprehensive look at the artist’s development and aesthetic issues that shaped his production.
For more exhibition information: http://portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/
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.
For 100 days this summer, explore five masterpieces by one of the 19th century’s most significant artists. Two of the most popular Impressionist paintings in the Museum’s collection—Waterlillies and River at Lavacourt—are joined by three additional Monet landscapes from a private collection.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the world through Claude Monet’s eyes and discover the progression of his painting practice from vivid impression to abstraction in these exquisite canvases.
Free with membership or Museum admission.
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.
The White Box will be one of several participating exhibition spaces that will showcase new work by local and regional contemporary artists through the winter and spring of 2012.
Featured artists at the White Box include
Vanessa Calvert: www.vanessacalvert.com
Sang-ah Choi: www.sangahchoi.com
Daniel Duford: www.danielduford.com
Wendy Red Star: www.wredstar.com
Vanessa Renwick: www.odoka.org
Opening Reception: March 31, 2012 6:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
More information can be found at www.whitebox.uoregon.edu
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.
EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity.
In Honor of Arlene Schnitzer
Image: Katherine Ace, 'Alleged Songs', 2003, alkyd/mixed media on canvas, 30 x 30 inches.
Courtesy of the artist and Froelick Gallery.