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The Ford Family Foundation celebrates the contributions of outstanding
Oregon artists working in fine art and craft with its prestigious Hallie
Ford Fellowships in the Visual Arts, awarded annually to five recipients by
an independent jury of regional and national arts professionals. This fall,
the JSMA will present new and recent work by the fifteen artists named
Fellows in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Encounters pairs works by Oregon artists Laura Fritz (b. 1970) of Portland
and Rick Silva (b. 1977) of Eugene. Together, Silva’s web-based,
audio-visual piece The Silva Field Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future and
Fritz’s three-dimensional Alvarium 2 suggest interactions between the
natural and the digital worlds, human and animal activity, and knowing and
not knowing.
The award-winning work of American etcher and master printer Mildred
Bryant Brooks (1901-95) explores the physical and metaphorical beauty of
the natural world. With a keen eye for detail, exceptional technical skill,
curiosity, and empathy, Brooks brought to life the forest, desert, and
ocean landscapes of her native California, reflecting on the symbiotic
relationship between nature and humanity
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Mildred Bryant Brooks
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The award-winning work of American etcher and master printer Mildred Bryant Brooks (1901-95) explores the physical and metaphorical beauty of the natural world.
Every Word was Once an Animal explores the overlapping forces of nature
and culture between humans, animals, and language, merging art, science,
dance, music, and olfaction.
This exhibition, organized by UO Department of Anthropology Professor
William S. Ayres with the assistance of MA archeology student Angelica
Kneisly and Department of Anthropology Courtesy Research Associate Maury
Morgenstein, compares archaeological potsherds from fieldwork in Thailand
and ceramic objects from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
The JSMA’s Soreng Gallery of Chinese Art has just undergone a long-awaited
renovation facilitated through matched support from Betty Soreng and others
who wish to remain anonymous. The largess of these donors made it possible
to update the gallery floor, walls, casework, and lighting to a level
commensurate with the quality of the collection.
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Over his long and prolific career, distinguished American artist and
educator Roger Shimomura has channeled his outrage and despair into
beautiful, provocative, often irreverent, and sometimes inflammatory art.
He uses a brightly colored Pop-Art style to depict a dizzying combination
of traditional Japanese imagery and exaggerated cultural stereotypes.
Nationally celebrated Portland-born artist Carrie Mae Weems uses
photography, video, and installation to examine contemporary life and the
African-American experience. In her exhibition The Usual Suspects,
organized by Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Weems asks, “How do
you measure a life?”
Inspired by an almost microscopic examination of nature, Claire Burbridge
creates beautifully drawn magical worlds. Her subjects, trees, flowers,
plants, fungi, insects, morph from realistic depictions into a heightened
reality that entices our vision and invigorates our spirit. The current
exhibition features works produced since 2015, as well as new works,
informed by a recent visit to Iceland.
Selected from the JSMA’s collection by Thom Sempere, Associate Curator of
Photography, STILL Photography highlights thirteen images representing work
that is wide-ranging in style, time, location and subject. Iconic images by
Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Lewis Hine and Raúl Corrales are brought
together with contemporary works of Sally Mann, Dan Powell and Richard
Tuschman, among others.
The 2019-20 rotation of the Margo Grant Walsh Twentieth Century Silver and
Metalwork Collection explores the history of table service, dining
etiquette, and international food culture through twentieth-century
tableware and dining accessories created by celebrated silversmiths such as
Allan Adler and Porter Blanchard, Albert Edward Bonner, Alexander Sturm,
and Carl Poul Peterson.
This exhibition introduces viewers to the dynamic history of satire and
caricature permeating eighteenth- and nineteenth-century print culture in
Western Europe. Selections from the JSMA’s collection explore consecutive
eras of printmaking in Great Britain, Spain, and France through the work of
William Hogarth, James Gillray, Francisco de Goya, and Honoré Daumier.
This exhibition celebrates the history of Japanese mezzotint prints.
Mezzotint is Italian for “half-tone,” a reference to this intaglio
technique’s capacity to produce a broad tonal range of deep blacks through
bright whites.
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Organized by the non-profit Ralph Steadman America, in close cooperation
with the artist and his family, this touring exhibition offers a
retrospective of the visual legacy of one of the most influential British
graphic artists of the last fifty years.
