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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Diego Rivera’s 1931 painting La ofrenda (The Offering) and Rufino Tamayo’s
1942 painting Perro aullando a la luna (Dog Howling at the Moon) are
masterworks the artists made during periods of great professional and
critical success in the United States.
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.
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.
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.
This installation introduces the history and performance of Nō theater
using selected prints by TSUKIOKA Kōgyo (1869-1927) recently donated to the
museum by Elizabeth Moyer and Michael Powanda. Established in the
fourteenth century, Nō (sometimes spelled Noh) is one of Japan’s oldest and
most revered theatrical forms.
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With the appointment of Jill Hartz as executive director of the museum,
nearly ten years ago, the JSMA’s collections have grown in breadth and
quantity in support of its mission to serve as both a teaching museum and a
cultural center for our larger community.
JSMA founder Gertrude Bass Warner lived in China for many years, amassing
a collection with special interest in art of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912).
She bequeathed enviable riches to the museum, among them some with fine
Daoist iconography. Next to the teachings of Confucius, Daoism is one of
the two indigenous philosophical traditions of China that have evolved over
more than 2,000 years.
