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Frank Okada described his paintings as “dedicatory objects,” which expressed gesture, memory, and sensation. In Northwest Ambience, a selection of paintings by Okada from the JSMA’s collection will be exhibited with two portraits of the artist by Seattle photographer Mary Randlett (American, 1924-2019).
Morris Graves’s still life paintings and studies of objects engaged his
interests in furniture design, domestic spaces, symbolism, and
transcendental consciousness. On the Surface is drawn primarily from the
JSMA’s Graves at Oregon collection and includes two photographs of the
artist and his home by Mary Randlett (American, 1924-2019).
E. E. Eischen, a UO Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, developed a new undergraduate course offered spring term 2020—Math and the creative process: A participatory exploration of number theory. In addition to the students’ final projects printed on metal, acrylic, and paper, the exhibition features works made by members of UO’s Department of Mathematics.
Drawn from the permanent collections of the JSMA and Knight Law Center,
this exhibition explores the paintings of Catalan-American artist Pierre
Daura through his answers to a survey conducted in 1953 by Surrealist poet
and founder, André Breton, about the connection between art and magic.
For the past thirteen years, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has organized and presented NewArt Northwest Kids, an annual K–12 juried student exhibition. This year’s theme, Art, Hope and Resilience, encouraged students to share their own stories from 2020 through words and images.
The JSMA and Eugene Symphony Association celebrate an innovative
collaboration with four Oregon visual artists in response to Paul Hindemith
(1895-1963)’s orchestral masterpiece Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of
Weber. Mika Aono, Anna Fidler, Andrew Myers, and Julia Oldham created new
works in printmaking, painting, drawing, and animation inspired by
Hindemith’s most popular work.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is pleased to host Nkame, a solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the late Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). During her short but fertile career, she produced an extraordinary body of work central to the history of contemporary printmaking in Cuba and abroad.
Steve Rowell investigates ecology and post-natural landscapes in his
multicomponent installation Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys (2013-20). The
project’s title combines “remote sensing” (a method of data collection from
the physical world via sensors and other remote technology) and “uncanny
valley” (the cognitive dissonance caused by lifelike replicas of living
things)
For the past 8 years, the Art of the Athlete (AofA) program has been an education program for UO student-athletes as part of the museum’s broad outreach program which engages diverse student groups from across campus. This year, we asked 6 former and current AofA participants to jury artwork made the past 8 years as part of the program.
Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art
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As a teaching museum, the JSMA is dedicated to helping students develop meaningful, life-long connections with art. In addition to regular museum visits and classes, we periodically receive grants that allow us to host scholars with a deeper research focus. In Fall 2019, Bokyoung Hong, a specialist in Korean ceramics, came to the JSMA for a 10-month Korea Foundation Global Challengers internship.
Every year, the JSMA partners with the University of Oregon’s Common
Reading—campus-wide programming around a shared book and its themes—to
organize a Common Seeing exhibition that explores and expands on the Common
Reading through visual art. The 2020-21 novel is This is My America by UO
Assistant Vice Provost for Advising, Kimberly Johnson.
Inspired by the Feminist Art Coalition’s mission to promote feminist art
histories “as a catalyst for discourse and civic engagement” during the
2020 election season and beyond, this exhibition considers the
representation of women by male artists from the Renaissance through the
twentieth century.
In Winter 2019, Art History Professor Akiko Walley and Chief Curator Anne
Rose Kitagawa team-taught an Utagawa School course in which students
studied this vibrant artistic tradition and learned about exhibition
planning in order to contribute to this installation, which features more
than 30 loans from Lee and Mary Jean Michels along with prints from the
museum’s permanent collection.
Entre mundos (Between Worlds) explores the spaces within, between, and
among multiple worlds where transformation and change occur in art and
individuals. The four works on view in Entre mundos entered the museum’s
collection through the generosity of UO students, faculty and departments,
and friends of the JSMA.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) and the Portland Art Museum
(PAM) are co-organizing Nuestra imagen actual | Our Present Image: Mexico
and the Graphic Arts 1929-1956. The exhibition aims to deepen and broaden
the understanding and appreciation of the graphic art of post-revolutionary
Mexico, a landmark in the history of twentieth-century printmaking and
modern art.
