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Diálogos mines the JSMA’s growing collection of Latin American and Latino art to encourage dialogue around themes relevant to contemporary life. The exhibition features fourteen prints, photographs, kinetic sculptures, and mixed media installations by artists from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
This rotation features a selection of works by Pacific Northwest artist
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) from the JSMA’s collection, including new
acquisitions from the Elizabeth Cole Butler Estate. The paintings and
lithographs on view demonstrate how Tobey’s signature “white writing,”
calligraphic marks that conveyed energy and light, appears in different
media.
Corvallis-based installation artist Clay Lohmann presents his room-sized fabric installation Camo Cubes. Lohmann has worked in a variety of media and disciplines. Camo Cubes is constructed from enormous, modular panels that play on the popular “Tumbling Blocks” or “Baby Blocks” quilt pattern.
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Taking over a decade to complete (in summer 2014), American Qur’an is Birk’s most ambitious project to date. Every verse of the holy book of Islam is hard-transcribed and illustrated, using the calligraphy of the individual verses to frame scenes of contemporary American life.
This year’s exhibition features the work of athletes Megan Conder, women’s golf; August Raskie, volleyball; and football players Ugo Amadi, Gary Baker, Evan Baylis, Tyrell Crosby, Cameron Hunt, Dylan Kane, Canton Kaumatule, Fotu Leiato, Malik Lovette, Austin Maloata, Rex Manu, Jonah Moi, Tyree Robinson, Arrion Springs, Tui Talia.
A San Francisco based artist, Outlaw is recognized for her rigorous and unexpected explorations of material—from printmaking and photography to wood, glass, and bronze. For this exhibition she employs a range of materials to create a dialogue between shape, color, light, surface, and interiority.
Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery
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Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present
investigates the history of football imagery by prominent American artists
and photographers beginning with Winslow Homer’s engravings for Harper’s
Weekly at the close of the Civil War and culminating with the work of
contemporary artists such as Catherine Opie and Shaun Leonardo.
¿Identity? is an English word contained within Spanish punctuation. It is what might be considered “Spanglish,” an English–Spanish hybrid for a Latino reality experienced in and between two languages. The paintings and drawings on view explore the emotional and physical realities inherent in the multiple heritages of two artists, Victoria Suescum and Lee Michael Peterson.
