Past Exhibitions

Black and white photograph of a couple sitting on a piano bench with a dog at their feet. One wearing a dress and pearls sits on the lap of the other who wears a suit and hat while they hold hands.

Qosqo, entre el pasado y el presente Photography in Cusco 1895-1945

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Qosqo, entre el pasado y el presente: Photography in Cusco 1895-1945, is a portrait of a city and a culture at the dawn of the modern era, drawn from the work of nine photographers who lived in the Cusco region. Subjects range from Inca sites to romanticized evocations of Peru’s indigenous past.

Two people viewed from behind walking down a forest path with tall trees on the right and green and red grasses on the right

NewArt Northwest Kids Protecting the Northwest’s Natural Beauty

Education Corridor

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The annual NewArt Northwest Kids exhibition returns to the JSMA for its twelfth year. This year’s theme, Protecting the Northwest’s Natural Beauty, examines the roles people have in caring for the environment and recognizing the collective responsibility to preserve the quality and safekeeping of the land, air, water, plants, and animals.

Album over for “Lo Mejor de la lupe.” A medium-dark skinned person stands on the cover with one hand on their hip and the other holding a cigar. Their smiling mouth is open and their head is tilted back, surrounded by shoulder-length black curls. They are wearing a plum-colored brimmed hat and a tan jacket. “La lupe” is repeated three times down the left side.

Visual Clave The Expression of the Latino/a Experience through Album Cover Art: 1940-90

Artist Project Space

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Visual Clave explores the evolution of Latin album cover art with particular focus on the United States market. It pays critical attention to issues of identity and aesthetics through depictions of Latino/a people and cultures, historical context, and the unsung graphic artists who helped present Latin music—and its attendant socio-cultural themes—to the world.

A surreal painting set inside a grand cathedral-like space with high vaulted ceilings and tall stone pillars. In the foreground, a flowing pink fabric or garment swirls dramatically, with a golden pitcher suspended in mid-air. The floor is a red and white checkerboard pattern, reflecting the soft, ethereal light from stained glass windows in the background. The composition is dynamic, with the flowing fabric leading the eye into the distant, shadowy interior, where religious statues and an altar can be seen

Visual Magic An Oregon Invitational

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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This collaboration between the JSMA and the George D. Green Art Institute celebrates recent work by over forty artists who began their creative careers in Oregon during the 1960s and ’70s.

An open book with French handwritten text on the left page and an illustration of a woman in a striped dress riding a bicycle on the right page. The background of the illustration is bright yellow.

Fernand Léger’s Cirque and the livre d’artiste

John and Ethel MacKinnon Gallery

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Published in Paris in 1950, Cirque was a collaboration between French modernist painter Fernand Léger and book publisher Tériade. It is one in a series of twenty-seven such projects conceived by the publisher between 1943 and 1975. Known as livres d’artiste, these finely printed, large-format books pair handwritten text with original artwork from some of the 20th century’s most prominent artists.

A detailed painting of a woman resting her head on a table filled with books and vases. The intricate patterns and vibrant colors create a rich and ornate composition.

Graceful Fortitude The Spirit of Korean Women

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

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This installation introduces art created by, for, and/or about Korean women and features paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, lacquer, furniture, and personal adornments dating from the twelfth through the twenty-first centuries. It also includes recently acquired works by contemporary Korean women artists AHN Seongmin, NA Suyeon, and PARK So Eun, among others.

A set of copper kitchenware, including a kettle and two smaller pots, with wooden handles and decorative finials. The polished surfaces reflect light, highlighting their craftsmanship.

Expressions of Design

John and Ethel MacKinnon Gallery

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The fall 2018 rotation of the Margo Grant Walsh collection explores the principles of design with a broad range of metalwork selections, including tableware. Co-curated by Tom Bonamici, instructor in Product Design, and new JSMA extern Caroline Phillips, the installation supports several courses in the College of Design’s Product Design area.

Painting of a woman in an Oregon basketball jersey holding a basketball

Art of the Athlete VII

Education Corridor

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Comprised of works of art created by UO student-athletes enrolled in AAD 408, as well as works from the GEO study abroad program and outreach to the Seattle Boys and Girls club, Art of the Athlete features self-portraits and collaborative pieces inspired by Jackson Pollock’s action paintings.

Painting of trees and a red house in a field with red flowers

Exploring Identity and Place through the Arts

Education Corridor

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Through travel as well as artistic appreciation and creation, our UO students, with little to no background in art, experienced a similar oasis in which they could artistically and historically reflect on autonomy, social construction, and power relations in their personal lives. Selections of their work will be featured in the exhibition.

Woman in a white dress created with cheap plastic toys

Plastic Entanglements Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials features 58 works by 30 artists from 13 countries that investigate the complex material nexus that is “Plastic.” Organized around the oncept of entanglement, the exhibition explores the unique materiality of plastic, as an artistic material and symbol of Western modernity, and considers the environmental consequences of its widespread use.

Small, circular photographs spread out over a red and black surface, overlaid with several layers of uneven, intricate blue, red, and brown grid lines

Matthew Picton Cultural Mapping

Artist Project Space

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To call Matthew Picton’s sculptural works “maps,” is both accurate and a misnomer. His three-dimensional aerial cartographies are each based in a particular city and feature layers of cultural references and historical text. Each work documents and invites us to explore particular times of societal and cultural change, specific to that area of the world.

Rainbow pixelation over an image of a light-skinned person wearing a red shirt. Most of the underlying image is obscured by the pixels.

Reframing the Fragments The Best We Could Do

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The JSMA presents its third annual Common Seeing, Reframing the Fragments: The Best We Could Do. Works made since 2000 by such artists from the Vietnamese diaspora as Binh Danh, Dinh Q. Le, and Ann Le embody the complex sensations related to remembering and forgetting, tradition and innovation, and trying to make sense of fragments of memory and history.

An intricate paper sculpture resembling abstract, cloud-like formations against a black background.

Paper Weight Works in Paper by Elsa Mora

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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Paper Weight is Elsa Mora’s latest exhibition of painstaking works made solely of paper and glue. Mora’s 2D and 3D pieces, presented in this exhibition, are inspired by the five cognitive faculties that form the mind: consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, and memory.