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.
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 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.
Schedule of Defenses (open to the public):
Tuesday, April 10
12:30 p.m. Mary Vertulfo
3:30 p.m Aidan Grealish
1st Year MFA Exhibition featuring work by Joseph Coniff, Elnaz Talaei, Doran Asher Walot, and Junwei Zhang.
“I kinda feel like selfies are kind of a few years ago.”
-Kim Kardashian
SELF is a collection of self portraits from four artists exploring identity in the epoch of the “selfie”.
We’re soooo bad at captions. #mightdeletethislater
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Work by Allison Schukis, Chase England, Baily Thompson and Meg Arnold.
Three strangers have come together as colleagues to present a collection of work. There will be multiple pieces, from these individuals, in one space. The air in the room will be elusive, to say the least.
Includes work by Cullen Sharp, Kaitlyn Mccafferty, and Elijah Roth.
Space(s) seeks to disrupt dichotomies that create separations between realms: public vs. private, virtual vs. physical, interior vs. exterior. Our work is located somewhere between these boundaries, challenging the fragmentation of our bodies in the virtual world, and acknowledging the various ways that we as individuals navigate through and occupy space. Space(s) includes work by Izzy Cho, Michelle Ferguson, Tricia Knope, Marisa Smith, and Ariel Stach.
“How do we move forward without recognizing what brought us here? What we eat, how we live. Who will take care of our home, if not us? It is a practice of maintenance that we engage with everyday. Though we are apart, the gestures and rituals of our past keep us close to home.”
Work by Irene Chau and Teddy Tsai
• bananas
• plums
• bread
• milk
• SUPERMARKET addresses the sensory and emotional narratives unique to store aisles. Production, repetition, sensory overload, familiarity, navigation, search and discovery, organization and impulse, nature and artificiality, need and consumption.
• yogurt
• flour
An exhibition by Hyperplum, this year’s Art and Technology cohort.
The University of Oregon School of Art + Design is pleased to present the work of 10 MFA candidates during their second of three years of study. Their compilation of diverse calculations hovers as an associative playground where connections between artists are unintentional yet accessible. Featuring work by Aaron Bjork, Talon Claybrook, Leah Howell, Sumer Khan, Daniel Miller, Neal Moignard, Stephanie Parnes, Aja Segapelli, Kayla Thompson and Jen Vaughn.
– Soon it will be the future. Which will be more like right now than The Future. Cars will hover but you’ll still have stains on the seats from that day you ate three Doritos® Cheesy Gordita Crunches® on your way to watch your 7 year old compete in a VR tennis match. No matter how High the Def. the real-time experience will always be enhanced and supplemented with the imperfect touch of a human mind. – DM/AB
Work by Aaron Bjork and Daniel Miller
