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Traditionally attributed to Zhou Mi. Chinese, Lao Laizi, from the Twenty‑Four Paragons of Filial Piety (Ershisi xiao), Album leaf; ink and color on silk, 10 1/4 x 12 inches. Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art, MWH32:C26.22

Benevolence & Loyalty: Filial Piety in Chinese Art

August 08, 2015 to July 31, 2016

Co-curated with Professor Ina Asim in support of her Chinese and Asian history courses, this selection of paintings and objects represents ideals of benevolence and loyalty, Confucian values that exerted strong ethical and political influence in China, Korea, and Japan for more than 2,500 years. Featuring an album depicting the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety (Ershisi xiao) – a series of virtuous men and women whose exemplary conduct has been extolled for generations – along with an exquisite nineteenth-century nonofficial formal jacket for a woman on which are embroidered scenes from The White Snake and Dream of the Red Chamber, and other related works from the museum’s permanent collection.

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Attributed to SHIN Hakgwon. Korean; Joseon dynasty, 19th century. Complete View of the Diamond Mountains (Geumgangsan jeondo). Eight-panel folding screen; ink and light color on paper, 53 1/2 x 138 1/2 inches. Frederick Star Collection, 1964:3.15

“True” Korean Landscapes & Virtuous Scholars

July 14, 2015 to May 15, 2016

During Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), literati and professional artists created a new type of landscape painting that combined classical Chinese models with native Korean scenery.  Famous historical sites such as the Diamond Mountains were visualized as both real and ideal spaces in a development fueled by heightened national consciousness and a boom in tourism. This exhibition, co-curated by Anne Rose Kitagawa, chief curator and curator of Asian art, and Gina Kim (MA, art history, 2014) Korea Foundation Global Museum Intern, features a number of distinctive Korean landscape paintings, maps, and travel attire. A second theme explored is that of Korean Neo-Confucian scholars who wore pure white clothing and used undecorated porcelain vessels to symbolize their lofty aspirations of frugality and virtue.

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Gloria Paniagua, Untitled, 2004, gelatin silver print

Visual Storytelling: A Collaboration between PH15 and Kelly Middle School

May 30, 2015 to September 13, 2015

This special exhibition presents a photographic dialogue between youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and students from Kelly Middle School’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program. Ph15, a nonprofit organization that uses photography as a tool for visual storytelling, gave cameras to youth in one of the worst slums in Buenos Aires so they could respond to their surroundings.  A selection of those works is being shown alongside photographs taken by Kelly School AVID students, who participated in a two-month workshop program led by Nori Rice, a UO graduate student and JSMA Arts and Healthcare GTF, and university volunteers. The AVID program aims to close the achievement gap by building critical thinking, literacy, and math skills among at-risk and under-represented middle schoolers.

 

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Anonymous (Mexican)
Otomi Embroidered Textile with Animals and Birds, mid-late 20th century
Embroidered textile
27 ¾ x 32 ½ inches
Gift of Robert D. Bradley

Birds & Beasts: Animal Imagery in the Permanent Collection

June 20, 2015 to September 13, 2015

Prompted by a recent generous gift of Mexican folk art by local collector Robert Bradley, this exhibition features images of domestic and wild animals from around the world. Organized by associate curator June Black and museum educator Arthurina Fears, Birds & Beasts supports our “Animals in Art” summer camp session and Spanish-language art lessons.  Among the works featured in the exhibition are an Otomi embroidered textile and coconut masks from the Mezcala region of Guerrero State, as well as prints, photographs, paintings, and sculptures highlighting all manner of birds and beasts, from cats and cockatoos to doves and dogs

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Amanda Marie, Talking In Circles, 50cm x 70cm , aerosol, acrylic, sewing pattern, on cotton rag, 2013

Amanda Marie and X-O: The Many Places We Are

May 09, 2015 to August 09, 2015

This two-artist exhibition explores the concept of emotional travel. When we travel, especially when we travel in intimate proximity to our travel partners, not only do we move through physical space, but we move through emotional place. During extensive travel, emotional bonds develop that are nearly guaranteed to make intense and complex waves in the lives of these travelers. A visual representation of this deep idea is explored by both artists, who have indeed traveled extensively together. Amanda Marie’s signature visual language, built from an ever-expanding toolbox of hand-drawn, hand-cut stencils, is her mode of expressing the complexities of sharing emotional travels. For Hyland Mather, aka X-O, his stylistic habit of collecting “lost object” materials along his travels is the basis for his often large-scale interpretations of memory and emotion, which he visits through shape, color, and texture.

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Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Filmmakers by Jonas Mekas

April 01, 2015 to June 07, 2015

Jonas Mekas is considered by many to be the “godfather of American avant-garde film.” He is revered for his experimental diary films, his founding of the New York film institutions Filmmakers Cooperative and Anthology Film Archives, and his passionate promotion of avant-garde cinema when he was a film critic for The Village Voice. At 92 years old, he has, in recent years, started a new career as a gallery artist, exhibiting photographic blowups of adjoining frames from his 16mm film diaries. His “frozen film frames” have been exhibited and acclaimed at the Venice Biennale, MOMA/PS1, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among other venues.

The exhibition, which features twenty-two photographic portraits, is co-curated by Richard Herskowitz, director of the Cinema Pacific film festival, and Deborah Colton, owner and director of the Deborah Colton Gallery in Houston. The Deborah Colton Gallery has shown Mekas’s work since 2005 and was founded as an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide. Frozen Film Frames features, among others, images of Robert Frank, Elia Kazan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andy Warhol, Wim Wenders, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, observed filming their experimental film Bottoms.

Also showing in the gallery is Mekas’s 1997 feature film Birth of a Nation, which consists of 170 portraits, sketches, and glimpses of independent film makers and activists shot between 1955 and 1996.

This project is made possible by a JSMA Academic Support Grant.

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