“Our exhibition showcases three BFA’s from three different crafts. A painter who feels that she examines her interest in creation through destruction with the “traditional” language of painting, using untraditional materials and processes. A metalsmith focused in jewelry who sees her work as being about the relationship between rules and the body, creating different visual experiences for the viewer and the wearer. And a photographer who sees his work as exploring the spaces between what is the visual norm, to encourage perception from different points of view.”
A BFA Thesis Exhibition by Meggan Dodds, Jin Wu, and Chad VanNetta.
source, weeping, peeling, stretching, hold(hand), awe: i just want to be in love with life. ritual, dream, translation, space, light leak: maybe a pat on the back is enough. sunny, vessel, itching, chenille, drip, whisper, home: i think about the third grade, sleeping after swimming. window, soft, happy, warm, eating, playing, crying.
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BFA Thesis Exhibition by Irene Chau, Desiree Colley, and Anna Warnecke
Kailie DeBolt challenges the conventions of the female nude through works that present an unforgiving reality of her body encased within emotional and unconventional colors.
Amanda Fang explores the space between reality and abstraction through the play of familiar forms and patterns drawn from day to day life.
Rachel Harsey focuses on fully embodying her own space as a tall and fat woman, using clay as a surrogate for and an extension of her own body.
A BFA Thesis Exhibition by Amanda Fang, Kailie DeBolt, and Rachel Harsey.
Nevertheless: The Art of Persistence highlights creative practices that engage with art as a civic duty and bring lived experiences from the margins to the foreground. It explores the deeply personal elements of identity, community, and political engagement that propel us forward and call us to build, create, and act – even when the odds are against us. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Art History Student Association’s 15th Annual Graduate Symposium to expand upon scholarship addressing similar issues. Through this discourse between scholarship and artwork, the exhibition seeks to add nuance and bear witness to the complex intersection of art and social justice.
Featuring new work from Sajad Amini, Claire Anderson, Devon Devaughn, Eden V. Evans, Tannon Reckling, Ian Sherlock Molloy, Caroline Turner, Nathan Ward, Carol Yahner, and Kevin Yatsu, COHROT presents a wide-range of production, investigation, and exploration. At times playful, serious, unified, and disparate, the varying methodologies and modes of output exemplify the spectrum of intuition within the first-year MFA cohort.
Everything is an ecosystem
One aeffects the other
Cling on to what can be grasped
In the shift there’s something to discover
The Department of Art is pleased to present 14 undergraduate artist’s work spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, fibers, video, and other media.
Artists included in the exhibition:
Thompson Bain
Desi Colley
Keegan McDonald Dysert
Tuesday Lewman
Kathryn Liu
Madeleine Maszk
Daniel McNamara
Madeline Olson
Josh Rollo
Elijah Roth
Madison Skriver
Megan Shull
Kaitlyn Wallace
Sam Wrigglesworth
In response to the 2018-19 University of Oregon common reading THE BEST WE COULD DO, by Thi Bui, UO art students created works of art inspired by ideas of family, memory, and connection. Working in photography, sculpture, jewelry and metalsmithing, painting, printmaking, fibers, and ceramics, each artist produced an original work specifically for this exhibition.
Organized by Amanda Wojick, Professor of Art, featuring student artwork by:
