LaVerne Krause Gallery

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Tangible

Pheonix Booth and Alex Nielson present “Tangible”

Using craft to establish a shared language “Tangible” seeks to bring transitory human experiences into a touchable reality. In “Comfort Objects” Pheonix has created site specific body objects to be utilized during moments of anxiety. In “Patchwork Parlour” Alex explores how the act of making reflects human experience and creates community and connection.

Again and Again

Come again?
Count to ten.
1,2,3,4….how many am I counting?
It’s hard to speculate…the colors are clowning.
I catch my breath, again and again.

Again and Again features multimedia work by Michelle Ferguson, Arnold Sharp and Marisa Smith. It will be shown in the Laverne Krause Gallery from May 29th to June 1st.

HAZEY

“HAZEY” is a group art exhibition that contains a variety of paintings and prints from 3 young artists with their own backgrounds and interests; by using different aesthetic and narrative elements, it primarily focuses on articulating the mundane onto a personal and intimate level therefore to offer people an opportunity to answer the questions and question the answers from both scientific, social and cultural aspects throughout this visual experience.

Work by Ross Doyle + Ariel Sanchez + Han Cao

Ephemera

Ephemera is a thesis exhibition including works by Brieana George, Diya Wang, and Emily Sexton. It is a nuanced exploration of narrative, nostalgia, and memory through the form of photography, metalsmithing, and installation.

Primary Polyethylene

Primary Polyethylene seeks to explore the wonders of the imaginative and colorful landscapes of childhood. From idea to creation, the artists are interested in reimagining the creative processes of our childhoods. While referencing color, shapes, absurdist and oftentimes bizarre objects, the artists attempt to explore the alternative realities, and the avenues to get there, that are so often accessed in childhood and yet forgotten in adulthood.

A BFA Thesis Exhibition by Luna Sansone and Ariel Stach

Fixed Tracts

“Fixed Tracts treads the wilderness, posing the questions:
How will we remember this place?
And how will it remember us?”

BFA Thesis Exhibition by Chase England and Samuel Snowden

SWERVE

Swerve is a collaborative exhibition between Hyperplum and Lucy Miller, a second year art history master’s student. The concept of the swerve came from a desire to break with linear progression and harness lateral thinking to reconsider the trajectory of each artist’s work as a communal gesture. Swerve upends perceptions and inverts perspectives, dissecting distance and disconnect, and reversing expectations at the juncture where individual and collective collide.

Turn into the swerve.

Contested Memories

Who decides how the past is remembered? What is privileged? And, what is lost? In response to the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, the 2018 University of Oregon Art History Student Association Art Show “Contested Memories” explores issues of memory and memorialization. The works in this show interrogate the construction and transmission of familial, historical, personal, and social memories.

The Best Offense

The Best Offense showcases the three honors theses of Aidan Grealish, Teddy Tsai and Mary Vertulfo, each consisting of a creative component and a written research paper. While the College of Design and the Robert D. Clark Honors College may seem dissident in focus, their purpose is much the same. Both academic and creative interrogations serve our students in the pursuit of knowledge and growth; the potential for critical analysis in an empty gallery is equal to that of a blank sheet of paper.