Past Exhibitions

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.

A mixed media artwork of a figure holding a staff, created with layered paper and thread in various colors.

Lesley Dill's Poetic Visions From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Lesley Dill is one of the most prominent American artists working at the intersection of language and fine art. Her elegant sculptures, art installations, mixed-media photographs, and evocative performances draw from both her travels abroad and profound interests in spirituality and the world’s faith traditions.

Print of a Japanese woman reclining with darkened skin and dreadlocks in her hair, wearing a red robe that is falling open to reveal a patterned bra.

The Female Figure Artistic Multiplicities

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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The Female Figure: Artistic Multiplicities draws from works in the collection, supplemented with special loans which present women as complex, nuanced individuals, as well as potent vehicles for symbolic meaning.

Black and white image of a cabbage leaf with light coming from above accentuating the shadows of the leaf ribs

The History of Photography

Focus Gallery

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The exhibition surveys the history of photography from its origins as a new medium in the early 19th century through its diverse manifestations in contemporary art and society today.

A black and white photo of a smiling man seated at a desk, drawing a comic strip. He is wearing a checkered shirt and looking towards the camera.

GOOD GRIEF! A Selection from 50 Years of Original Art from Charles M. Schulz’s PEANUTS

Artist Project Space

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Charles M. Schulz’s PEANUTS is not only the most successful newspaper comic strip in the history of the form; it also represents one of the more remarkable achievements in the history of twentieth-century artistic endeavor, in terms of qualitative consistency and sheer longevity. The strip debuted on October 2, 1950, and ran continuously for almost fifty years

Shredder over a pile of shredded film with the message “Your films hold once-in-a-lifetime moments you’ll never be able to recapture. Once destroyed, they cannot be replaced” on it

Movin’ On Michelle Given

Artist Project Space

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In conjunction with the JSMA's summer camp program, we present Movin’ On, an installation that depends on audience participation. Viewers must start the timer to see the old family movies, thereby committing themselves not only to thirty seconds of footage, but also to the permanent destruction of thirty precious seconds of the same film.

A black and white portrait of an elderly woman in a cowboy hat standing beside a horse.

Tough by Nature Portraits of Cowgirls and Ranch Women of the American West

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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For the past nineteen years Lynda Lanker, a Eugene, Oregon, based artist, has been traveling throughout the western United States sketching, painting, interviewing and photographing iconic women. This exhibition and accompanying publication will present the portraits and stories of forty-nine women, from thirteen western states, who gain their sustenance and livelihood from the land.

East Asian dragon snaking through black and light gray swirling clouds. The head is at the center bottom of the artwork with the tail at the top. The underside is striped blue and white, and the rest of the scales have red at the base.

Traditional and Contemporary Korean Art from the Mattielli & JSMA Collections

Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art

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This installation features distinguished examples of Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) through contemporary calligraphy and painting as well as a selection of contemporary Korean ceramics drawn from the JSMA and the distinguished private collection of Robert and Sandra Mattielli.

Naked peach-colored girl with yellow hair clutching a bouquet of white flowers between her legs and against her chest

Provenance In Honor of Arlene Schnitzer

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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This exhibition, curated by Lawrence Fong, Curator of American and Regional Art, and Danielle Knapp, McCosh Fellow Curator, and featuring more than 40 major works from her collection, will tell the story of Arlene Schnitzer’s personal relationships with the artists, curators and collectors she championed and influenced.

Black and white photograph of Jackie Chan’s face and upper body in martial arts pose

Russel Wong The Big Picture

Focus Gallery

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Considered the "Avedon of Asia," Wong strives to distinguish his work by re-defining and re-styling glamorous figures with greater depth, texture, and imagination.

A vibrant forest scene in Oregon with snow-covered pine trees and a large, prominent brown tree trunk in the foreground. The snow is delicately settling on the branches, creating a serene winter atmosphere.

Enduring Bonds Recent Japanese Acquisitions in Memory of Yoko McClain

Fay Boyer Preble and Virginia Cooke Murphy Wing

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A selection of eight of those gifts, plus two more Sekino portraits purchased using funds donated by McClain’s friends and admirers, are displayed in this inaugural installation celebrating Professor Sekino’s magnanimous gift and commemorating Yoko McClain.

Promotional image for “The Long Now” with a list of the 22 University of Oregon art department faculty who participated

The Long Now

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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The first JSMA Art Department faculty exhibition in six years features the work of many artists who have joined the faculty recently as well as significant developments in the work of long-standing artists.

Gallery view of two artworks, one an overhead shot of people sitting at a conference table and the other a closeup portrait of Dick Cheney

XIAOZE XIE Amplified Moments 1993-2008

Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art

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Xiaoze Xie is one of the most prominent of China’s contemporary artists