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Photo credit: Photo by Mario Gallucci. Courtesy of Adams and Ollman.

Laura Heit: Two Ways Down

January 24, 2015 to March 29, 2015

A hand-drawn animated installation and film, Two Ways Down takes inspiration from the Hieronymus Bosch work The Garden of Earthly Delights.  Reflecting on the momentary nature of life, Heit’s fantastical piece uses thrown shadows from tabletop dioramas and reflected and refracted animated projections to create a fleeting world where human-animal hybrids, specters, and body parts morph and flit across the walls.  

Portland-based, Heit is an experimental filmmaker and performance artist who has been making puppet shows/performance work and animated films for more than fifteen years. Disquieting and evocative, her films and performances seamlessly cross genres to unfold poetic visual narratives. Heit employs a strong handmade aesthetic, an irreverent sense of humor, drawing, puppetry and animation, to bring together ideas and stories about phantoms, ghosts, love, loss, and invisibility. Her works have been screened extensively in the U.S. and abroad (including Rotterdam, Annecy, Hong Kong International Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film festival, Walker Art Center, MOMA, Millennium Film, and the Guggenheim Museum). Recent performance venues have included the Pompidou Centre, Paris; FIMFA Puppet Festival Lisbon, Portugal; TBA, Portland; REDCAT, Los Angeles; and Santa Monica Museum of Art. Heit has a BFA in film from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London. From 2007 to 2011, she was co-director of the Experimental Animation Program at Cal Arts in Valencia.

Faculty and Staff Museum Night

  • 10% off everything at The Museum Store (15% off for JSMA members)
  • Become a member! UO Faculty and staff take $20 off any membership level! Offer can be applied to gift memberships.
  • Wine Wednesday at Marche Museum Café - $4 glass pours and $4 yummy bites with Wine Queen Kirsten Hansen pouring Beaujolais and Gamay
  • 15% off all food and coffee items on the Marche Museum Café menu
  • Free film, free popcorn! Schnitzer Cinema: The Video Art of Julia Oldham starts at 7 p.m.

Graduate Student Family Museum Night

Each fall, the Graduate School hosts several orientation events to supplement your academic department’s orientation. These events are a great way to meet graduate students from outside your department and gather some valuable information. Enjoy free food and beverages, take a guided tour of the museum, drop in for the family art activity,  and earn about and meet members from graduate student groups and campus resources.

 

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Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation

January 24, 2015 to March 29, 2015

Until the 1940s, most American artists viewed prints as an inferior medium, practiced by those who were concerned solely with the technical aspect of making art rather than with the importance of creative expression. Yet over the next two decades, bolstered by the adventurous spirit of experimentation championed by artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Helen Frankenthaler, printmaking became one of the most dynamic fields in contemporary art. During the 1950s and 1960s, independent print workshops, such ULAE (United Limited Art Editions) on Long Island and Gemini G.E.L. (Graphic Editions Limited) in Los Angeles, started opening their doors. Staffed with highly-skilled technicians, these studios supplied artists with the equipment, space, and expertise they needed to push the limits of printmaking. Welcoming the opportunity to expand their practices, artists transformed print workshops into laboratories where media and techniques intertwined and a new visual language emerged.

Reflecting on the process of printmaking, Jasper Johns once commented, “The process of printmaking allows you to do things that make your mind work in a different way than, say, painting with a brush does…things which are necessary to printmaking become interesting in themselves and can be used in painting where they’re not necessary but become like ideas.” Recognizing that prints are a natural extension of their existing practices, many of the artists featured in Under Pressure who are still making work today have followed Johns’ lead in moving fluidly among media.

Jordan Schnitzer’s expansive collection includes prints from the 1960s to the twenty-first century. Featured artists include Radcliffe Bailey, John Baldessari, Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Bechtle, Mark Bennett, Vija Celmins, Enrique Chagoya, Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Richard Estes, Joe Feddersen, Eric Fischl, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellen Gallagher, Red Grooms, Damien Hirst, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Hung Liu, Brice Marden, Kerry James Marshall, Sarah Morris, Judy Pfaff, Martin Puryear, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Roger Shimomura, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Donald Sultan, Fred Tomaselli, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol and Terry Winters.

Support for the exhibition and related educational and outreach programs has been made possible by a grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.  Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment, The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and JSMA members.

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Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain

April 18, 2015 to August 09, 2015

Representing more than forty years of work, Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain features a broad selection of sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from public and private collections, including the artist’s studio, that affirm this extraordinary artist’s regional, national, and international impact.  The exhibition culminates in outstanding examples of Bartow’s most recent work, which evidenced a new freedom of scale and expression.

Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated catalog, with essays by co-curators Jill Hartz, executive director, and Danielle Knapp, McCosh Associate Curator, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and Lawrence Fong, former curator of American and regional art at the museum. The catalog is made possible with support from The Ford Family Foundation and the Harold and Arlene CARE Foundation.

Personal experiences, cultural engagement and global myths, especially Native American transformation stories, are the heart of Bartow's art. Animals and self-portraits populate his iconography, and he is known for astute interpretations of literary, musical and visual sources.

Rather than follow a chronological survey, the exhibition explores such themes as “Gesture,” “Self,” “Dialogue,” “Tradition,” “Transformation,” and “New Work.”

Born in Newport, Oregon, in 1946, Bartow is a member of the Wiyot tribe of Northern California and has close ties with the Siletz community. He graduated in 1969 from Western Oregon University with a degree in secondary arts education and served in the Vietnam War (1969-71).

His work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and is in numerous public and private collections. A recent career highlight was the completion of We Were Always Here, a monumental pair of sculptures over 20 feet high installed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The work was commissioned by The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

Support for the exhibition is provided by the Ford Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Arlene Schnitzer, the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment, The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Ballinger Endowment, Philip and Sandra Piele, and JSMA members.

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UO ArtWalk

Johanna Seasonwein, JSMA senior curator of Western art, and Danielle Knapp, JSMA McCosh associate curator, lead this public tour. The third annual University of Oregon ArtWalk begins at the JSMA and includes several stops on campus. Organized by Lane Arts Council and sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Marché Museum Café.

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