Past Exhibitions

3D artwork of red and white painted wood with a circle cut into the middle and two bars across the circle at an angle

Su Kwak Light Journey An Odyssey in Paint

Focus Gallery

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Organized by the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University and curated by Dr. Jungsil Lee, this retrospective exhibition of the art of Su Kwak brings together a body of work that affirms the artist’s distinctive use of light and color to affirm her spiritual life.

Photograph of a medium-light skinned person sitting on a black and white striped bench wearing a white three-piece suit with a black tie and a black and white fedora. The table and room have black and white stripes in varied directions with one strip each in neon yellow, neon blue, and neon orange.

Ming Wong Life and Death in Venice

Artist Project Space

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In conjunction with the fourth annual Cinema Pacific film festival, which this year focuses on the cinema of Singapore and Mexico, Singapore-artist Wong shows his 3-channel Life and Death in Venice.

Abstract print of overlapping curved lines in vibrant rainbow colors

Piero Dorazio & the Responsive Eye

John and Ethel MacKinnon Gallery

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In conjunction with the American Association of Italian Studies Conference, held in Eugene April 11–14, this special exhibition presents a series of nearly twenty experimental Op (Optical) art color aquatints and lithographs by the influential Italian artist Piero Dorazio (1927-2005).

Focus on Tibet

Focus Gallery

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In conjunction with the May 10 Eugene visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the JSMA is presenting a small selection of art from Tibet and relating to Tibetan Buddhism, largely drawn from the museum’s permanent collection.

Abstract painting in black and brown with vague white shapes of a vase and other objects

Morris Graves Effort to Bloom

Gordon Gilkey Research Center

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To celebrate the publication of “Morris Graves: Selected Letters,” edited by independent curator Vicki Halper and retired Curator of American and Regional Art Lawrence Fong, a small selection of works by this major American painter and key member of the Northwest School will be on view in the Gilkey Center

Porcelain dish with blue images of cake and pizza and text

Julie Green The Last Supper

Artist Project Space

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In conjunction with Eugene Opera’s presentation of Dead Man Walking, the JSMA invited Corvallis-based artist Julie Green to present a selection of The Last Supper, a series of some 500 porcelain painted plates that illustrate final meal requests of U.S. death row inmates and a video of final meal requests.

A colorful drawing featuring the letters A, B, and C with various illustrations and figures around them.

NewArt Northwest Kids Language Arts

Education Corridor

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Language Arts is the theme for the Sixth Annual “New Art Northwest Kids” exhibition

Photograph of the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Novgorod, showing its distinctive white walls and silver domes.

Historic Russian Orthodox Cathedrals and Churches from the 11th to the 20th Centuries

A. Dean & Lucile I. McKenzie Gallery

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Presented here are cathedrals and churches built from the 11th to the 20th centuries in a vast array of architectural styles in locations as diverse as St. Petersburg, Russia, and Unalaska, Alaska—a small city 800 miles southwest of Anchorage in the remote Aleutian Island chain.

A photograph of a brightly painted bus with the word "Zomeworks" parked in a desert landscape, with geodesic dome structures visible in the background under a cloudy sky.

West of Center Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West – from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest – broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the countercultural movement.

Expressionistic painting of two light-skinned women in knee-length dresses dancing side by side

German Expressionism

Focus Gallery

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This exhibition of German Expressionist works, including prints by Wassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and features the recently restored double-sided painting Ballet Dancers (recto)/Two Women in Lamplight (verso), which the artist Max Pechstein painted in 1912.

Black and white photograph of a Chanel advertisement featuring a woman in water, with the text 'THIS IS THE SPELL OF CHANEL FOR THE BATH.'

Violet Ray Advertising the Contradictions

Artist Project Space

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Violet Ray created his unique 1960s ad collage series Advertising the Contradictions, documented in the West of Center catalog, by inserting disturbing new imagery into real advertisements to reveal the hidden meaning and subconscious values of consumer culture.

A display of various ceramic bowls and cups, labeled with descriptions, in a museum setting.

Chinese Foodways

Betty and John Soreng Gallery

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Organized in collaboration with UO Department of History Professor Ina Asim to coincide with the international conference Chinese Foodways (May 8-9), and co-organized by Professor Dan Buck, the exhibition features ritual food-related objects, ranging in date from the 3rd century B.C.E. to the early 20th century, from the collection and on loan from distinguished California collections.

Rectangular red house with a porch with white railing. Front and back doors are open revealing a large body of water in the background.

Building Light & Shadow The Architecture of Emilio Sanchez

Artist Project Space

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Born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1921, Emilio Sanchez credited the landscape of his youth with developing his life-long interest in the effects of light and shadow on color. Although his early works explored figurative themes, Sanchez began his best known series of paintings and prints highlighting houses and other types of architecture in the 1960s.

An abstract painting with a bright yellow center and surrounding shapes in various colors. The composition suggests a vibrant and dynamic scene.

Carl Morris History of Religions

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Carl Morris was commissioned by the Oregon Centennial Exposition to create mural-size paintings celebrating the state’s religious histories. In eight weeks, he painted nine murals, arguably his most accomplished paintings.

Yellow person with an open mouth wearing a yellow and blue patterned dress bent in front of a green circle on a lime green and yellow background

Rolando Rojas Pinceladas En El Insomnio

Upper Hallway Galleries

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Born in Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, Rolando Rojas is inspired by the legends, stories, and myths passed down from the ancestors of the people of Tehuantepec, who believed that they descended from mystical trees and animals.