4th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

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

“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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Build A Bear Workshop

“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

 

 

 

Precious Per Square Inch

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

Quiet Urgency

“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.

 

 

 

Title, Author, Year

“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

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.

 

Hard Feelings

this show is going to suck-

full of rejection, dissatisfaction, apathy, & failure – it digs through the secret piles of art that were never meant to be seen. sifting through the rejects, scraping the crud off the surface to reveal the mysteries of the broken, mediocre, & almost good-enough. “hard feelings” pulls back the curtain to give you the full picture: the raw, unpolished, messiness of making.

“Hard Feelings” is curated by Alexander Wurts and on display in the LaVerne Krause Gallery from
January 9- 13 with a closing reception Thursday, January 12 at 5pm.

 

 

ARMPit PORTal

Work by MFA’s, Mandy Hampton, Laura Hughes, and Mary Margret Morgan.

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laurabutlerhughes.com/

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