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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.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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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.
In June during UO Zero week, twelve university students studied abroad in
a Global Education Oregon (GEO) program designed and led by Director of
Education Lisa AbiaSmith at the site of her own study abroad university
thirty years ago in Aix-en-Provence.
How do artists reflect and respond to social issues and advocate for
equality, awareness, and change? Those questions inspired 36 UO students
and student athletes from our Art of the Athlete program to create
self-portraits this summer as part of a series of workshops.
The JSMA’s fourth “Common Seeing” exhibition supports the UO’s 2019-20 “Common Reading” of Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes. In the book, the resilient protagonist, 13-year-old Estrella, works in the hot California grape fields while navigating the realities of first love, financial struggle, family separation, and illness.
Wan Koo and Young Ja Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery of Korean Art
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South Korean artist Kwang Young CHUN combines hundreds of paper-wrapped
parcels to create sculptural compositions, called Aggregations, which look
like crystal formations, asteroids, or the surface of the moon.
Tom Cramer (American, b. 1960) is widely known for his intricate relief
paintings, which celebrate the lushness of nature and the mysteries of the
cosmos. This exhibition explores his parallel practice in drawing.
Dissolving the artificial boundary between human society and wild nature
is the goal of this special exhibition, featuring work from two of the
artist’s recent series, "Dreams Before Extinction" and "Under the Earth,
Over the Moon."
As a follow-up to 2018’s popular collections exhibition A Decade of Collecting, JSMA’s curators present newly acquired works as well as recent and planned gifts in honor of Jill Hartz.
The JSMA is excited to present the world-premiere of noted artist Philip Haas’s new work, before it embarks on a year-long tour in the U.S. and abroad. The two-week performance installation incorporates motorized sculpture, construction, totems, altered found objects, film, fetishized costume, movement, sound, spoken word, and music.
