Author: bagby@uoregon.edu

Echo Echo Echo

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

Substratal Spectacle

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.

 

Going Steady

Work by Anna Baldwin, Katie Cooper, Brendan Lenz, Tuesday Lewman, Kathryn Liu, Madeline Maskz, Kaya Noteboom, Clancy O’Connor, and Elijah Stewart.

 

Deorbit and Self-Portrait

Deorbit:

New work by Shinyan Jin and Hongyu Yu.

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Self-Portrait:

Self-portraits and “self-portraits” by three artists, exploring the storied genre in the contemporary moment.

Featuring work by Allison Schukis, Mady Maszk, and Baily Thompson. Performance by Allison Schukis in the gallery April 25m, 1-5pm.

 

 

 

Nevertheless: The Art of Persistence

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.

COHROT

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

#hope #history / #surfnturn #TYN / #puppy #intimacy / #boom #(…) / #q #softbodysimulation / #love #flowersandshit / #contingency #ancestrality / #rational #notirrational / #array #consortium / #diaspora #institution

 

5th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

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

THE BEST WE COULD DO

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:

Meg Arnold

Irene Chau

Izzy Cho

Desi Colley

Kailie DeBolt

Meggan Dodds

H. Duhaime

Reid Ellingson

Amanda Fang

Rachel Harsey

Macon Sumpter

Chad VanNatta

Anna Warnecke

Sam Wrigglesworth

Jin Wu

 

Grad Review Winter 2019

 

 

It’s Hard to be a Person

Divided Alignment presents artwork based on why we spend so much goddamn time staring at a screen. A search for emotional intelligence in the realm of the digital.

Work by the Art and Technology BFA Cohort:

Kayla Degenfelder

Gaby Burkard

Jarom Knudsen

Amy Lee

Aaron Moreland

Amelia Thompson

Meg Arnold

Drywall

Is there a place in our minds where we feel trapped? Are we trapped by ourselves or someone else? Do we confuse the two? Is a home a physical place or a place in our minds or somewhere in between? Like rituals we do at home, are there rituals in our minds that we are devoted to?

Analee Ackerman
Meg Arnold
Thompson Bain
Desi Colley
Mark Drevdahl
Brad Hodgin
Ariel Lenkov
Allison Schukis
Sam Wrigglesworth

 

 

 

Regularly Scheduled

Q: Didn’t you all just have a show? Technically, two shows…each?

A: You aren’t wrong. We’re just fulfilling a predetermined requirement that predates us on the calendar.

Q: That’s a glib way of approaching this.

A: Only if you conflate transparency with a lack of investment, which isn’t what’s happening here. Did you have an actual question?

Q: What am I looking at?

A: Work by three second-year MFA students, a few months further down the line than their last show(s). Spot the changes!

Q: Weren’t there four of you at some point?

A: Actually, we’d like it if you just looked at the art.

Q: Why does this feel hostile?

A: You’re just projecting. We’re very happy here. Thank you for taking the time to look at our show. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress.

New work by 2nd year MFA’s Elnaz Talaei, Doran Asher Walot, and Junwei Zhang