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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
