Past Exhibitions

A triptych of floating islands with various green foliage, set against a white background with textured blue waves.

Keith Achepohl: Vision of Nature/Vessel of Beauty

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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This extensive body of work in painting, drawing, and collage by Eugene, Oregon-based artist Keith Achepohl was inspired by three weeks spent at the Morris Graves Foundation Artist Residency in 2011.

Painting in muted colors of a square vessel with rounded feet and raised, sloping handles

Morris Graves Layers of Time

Morris Graves Gallery

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In recognition of the importance of Morris Graves’s work and home to Keith Achepohl, we asked Achepohl if he would curate a companion exhibition. This selection, from more than 500 drawings by Graves (American, 1910-2001) in our collection, celebrates Graves’s symbolic and highly personal use of vessel imagery over the course of his life.

A courtyard installation featuring large bronze animal head sculptures on tall plinths, set against a brick building. This view shows different animal heads.

Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads

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The “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” series is internationally-acclaimed artist AI Weiwei ’s reinterpretation of the twelve bronze animal heads representing the traditional Chinese zodiac that once adorned the famed fountain-clock of the Yuanming Yuan (Old Summer Palace), an imperial retreat outside Beijing. The work will be on view in the JSMA’s North Courtyard.

Japanese print crop if a woman in traditional dress climbing a ladder.

Long Nineteenth Century in Japanese Woodblock Prints

Fay Boyer Preble and Virginia Cooke Murphy Wing

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Featuring more than fifty superlative works from the distinguished private collection of Dr. Lee and Mary Jean Michels, the exhibition explores this transitional moment in Japanese history through woodblock prints.

A colorful painting of a woman holding a paintbrush, standing in a room filled with art supplies.

Mark Clarke and Margaret Coe Our Lives in Paint

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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This retrospective exhibition will celebrate the half-century relationship of Eugene painters Margaret Coe and Mark Clarke.

Hanging sculpture of headless, armless body with large white wings wearing a long apron covered with white paper feathers

Barbara MacCallum Appropriating Science

Artist Project Space

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Irish-born artist Barbara MacCallum uses the scientific papers of her husband, Robert Johnson, an engineering professor at the University of Virginia to create beautiful, powerful, and provocative works of art. Composed of scientific papers, polymer mediums, wire screening, Irish linen thread, and other materials, the art commands space and creates an environment both otherworldly and familiar.

A sepia-toned print of a person in traditional attire, draped in animal pelts, sitting against a patterned background. The detailed textures and the subject's expression convey a sense of history and culture.

Conversations in the Round House Roots, Roads, and Remembrances

Focus Gallery

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This academic year, all UO first-year students received Louise Erdrich’s novel The Round House; faculty are using the book in courses across campus for undergraduate and graduate students. Last year, more than sixty classes used the museum’s first exhibition organized specifically to support the “Common Reading.”

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Painting of a football player wearing a black and green uniform, set against a marbled red and gold background with dollar signs and text.

Art of the Athlete VI

Education Corridor

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Comprised of works of art created by 25 UO student-athletes enrolled in AAD 408: Art of the Athlete during summer term 2017, our sixth exhibition in this series features self portraits and collaborative pieces inspired by Jackson Pollock’s action paintings. The works address themes of representation and peace, including the role of unity and coming together as a nation.

Pop art-style painting featuring repetitive red and yellow faces, with a larger central portrait of a person in a military hat.

Graphic Ideology Cultural Revolution Propaganda from China

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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Working closely with UO faculty members and students in the Departments of the History of Art and Architecture, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and History, the JSMA is proud to present a special exhibition of Chinese Cultural Revolution propaganda posters.

Black and white photo of an Asian person in a wheelchair. Their  clenched fists are raised in front of their chest in either triumph or pain.

Brilliant and Resilient Celebrating the Power of Disabled Women Activists

Education Corridor

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The JSMA is honored to present selections from this special touring exhibition, which features photographs and personal stories of women with different types of disabilities, all alumni of Mobility International USA’s Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability.

Abstract painting with vibrant splashes of color, including blues, oranges, and yellows, with black splatters and lines throughout.

Pour It On! Watercolors from the West

Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery

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The Watercolor Society of Oregon present “Pour it On!” a combined effort featuring three exhibitions: The 42nd Annual Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, The Watercolor Society of Oregon and an exhibition of curator Jeannie McGuire’s work.

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