“Welcome, welcome.
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?…Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience. I for one am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. We’re all going to die. Come look at our art.
Goodbye, goodbye.”
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A BFA Thesis Exhibition by Andrei Blaskowsky, Lucy Lyon, and Abbie Lueken.
The Art History Association (AHA) is excited to present the 13th Annual AHA Art Show, The Visual as Political. This exhibition will be accompanied by the University of Oregon’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture Graduate Student Research Symposium. This show aims to explore the relationship between art and politics interpreted in the broadest sense, over a variety of issues and mediums.
“Behind every image, something has disappeared. And that is the source of its fascination,” – Jean Baudrillard
“Disappearance” is a collaborative show with the work of Paige DePaepe, Morgan Miller, Allison Schukis, Chase England, James Hall, Ricky Garcia, Kerilynn Wilson, Kaitlyn Sorenson, Amelia Thompson, and Christine von Raven.
In their first of 3 exhibitions together as a cohort, the 2019 MFA class explores methods and notions of artistic production through a pseudo-industrial workspace approach to a traditionally white gallery space. Be sure to visit the exhibition throughout the duration of the installation to watch the space transform.
Aaron Whitney Bjork
Talon Claybrook
Leah Howell
Sumer Khan
Daniel J. Miller
Neal James Moignard
Stephanie Parnes
Aja Segapeli
Kayla Thompson
Jennifer Vaughn
The Department of Art is pleased to announce the 4th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition showcasing talented students in a variety of majors at the University of Oregon.
The exhibition was juried by Jonathan Bagby along with first year MFA candidates Aaron Bjork, Daniel Miller, Aja Segapeli, and Jen Vaughn. Included in the exhibition is work by Andrei Blaskowsky, Han Cao, Izzy Cho, Ross Doyle Jr, Danny Escalante, Jalan Ember, Aidan Grealish, Will Hart, Rachel Lemme, Malik Lovette, Abigail Lueken, Tanner Mihulke, Daniel Shaw, Marisa Smith, Macon Sumpter, and Scott Suss.
“Throo” contains three-dimensional and two-dimensional works by Mandy Hampton, Ron Linn, Stephanie Parnes, and Jen Vaughn which explore the concept of interior and exterior space, how we interact with such spaces, how we bound and define them, and how we cross between them.
Save for Later is a presentation of the impulses to preserve, to recall, and to postpone. As a collaborative exhibition by Will Hart and Rachel Lemme, two distinct sets of narratives are presented through photography, sculpture, and printmaking.
“It’s a gasp of surprise, or a squeal of delight. Maybe a breathless thank you thank you thank you, or quiet, wide-eyed amazement. When you step into our world of wonder, fun fills the air, and the noise of everyday life fades away.
Ignore the schedule. Decline the call. Build-A-Bear Workshop is where your child grabs your hand and your heart and together you’re inspired to create. Here, everyone is empowered to imagine, and every bear begins a story. Bring your loved ones, and see how building a furry friend is building so much more.”
An art installation by Joe Moore
Silk textiles created during summer 2016’s Fibers in Florence program will be featured in the LaVerne Krause Gallery among other pieces by the individual student participants. Fibers in Florence is a summer session program lead by Emeritus professor Barbara Setsu Pickett that takes students to the Foundation Lisio in Florence, Italy for an intensive 3-week studio course in Jacquard design and silk weaving. Renowned Jacquard expert Eva Basile teaches fabric analysis and the design process, from initial sketch to woven fabric.
Lydia Bales
Cara Murray
Barbara Pickett
Anna Post
Emily Stark
“4 Asian girls show you how to wash your rice before you cook it and how to peel persimmons on the go. How to wrap dumplings and how to stay silent. How it is to be Korean, to be Taiwanese, to be half-Filipina in America.”
Quiet Urgency is an exhibition featuring undergraduate work by Irene Chau, Izzy Cho, Grace Kwon, and Marisa Smith.
“Books are threshold objects. Even with their backs turned on us, spines out, they seem to beckon. Like unearthed artifacts, their appearance is charged with incipience, their small heft suggesting pockets of space and time a reader might re/enter through the conduit of her body (eyes peering, hands grasping, the theater of the mind set into motion). Both as symbolic objects and as experiences, books possess the allure of the real and expansiveness of the immaterial, marking a dilation of presence in absence.”–Rebecca Childers
This exhibit examines the ways in which the book–as object, sculpture, archive–intersects with artistic practice. As perhaps our most ubiquitous form of technology, from its invention the book has developed into an object that is democratic and sharable, a vessel of information both visual and textual. The artists in this show approach the book in a variety of different ways: as sculptural objects in and of themselves, as archives of images, as recepticals of words, and yet each harkens back to this most familiar and mysterious of forms.
Please join us for a closing reception Thursday 4:00-6:00 in the LaVerne Krause Gallery immediately before the Visiting Artist Lecture. And be sure to stop by during the week and peruse this strange and unexpected library.
Artists:
Aaron Bjork
Andrew Douglas Campbell
Chelsea Couch
Mandy Hampton
Laura Hughes
Ron Linn
Daniel Miller
Stephen Milner
Meril Wallace
Chromaphobia by McKenzie Davie is a study of the personal/social connotations of the color pink. Part installation/part performance. Inspired by Janet Reeves/Yves Klein. McKenzie Davie is a senior Art major who focuses on painting, installation, performance art, and photography.
