“A casual show about bows.”
Ashley Campbell
Jens Pettersen
Noa Taylor
Sydney Lee
Ellen O’Shea
“Clusterf*ck encapsulates the relationship between collective memories and the obscurity of childhood. Our works represent the messy, disruptive, and ambiguous nature that takes upon self-discovery. Come in and immerse yourself in the mind of five unpredictable artists and their subjected realities.”
Calize Yepez
Bella Oliver-Steinberg
Tony Hooks
Mario Castro
Jonah Gomez Cabrera
Increasing suddenly, powerfully and intensely. SURGE is an uncontrollable growth and a breaking of 2 dimensions through an exploration of sculptural form. Emphasizing the process of creation and impermanence, we highlight surges of emotion and delve into the vastness of identity and human existence.
Niko Berger
Abhishek Kulkarni
Breanne Swindle
DEVRA RAYNE
SOFIA REIS
ELLYCE WHITEMAN
JACK BACA
SAM BROOKS
JOEY HEIDRICK
In the 2nd Year Exhibition “Over and over again”, five artists collectively explored the theme of repetition in their artistic expression. Such repetition does not only refer to the repetitive process of art labor, but also draws repetitive semiotics, materials and memories from shards of daily life. Through the process of repetition, the artworks refract those representations and emotions hidden behind the facade of social structure and converge them into a collective psychological inquiry for the audience to digest familiarity – like Freud wrote, “every finding of an object is in fact a refinding of it.”
On display September 26th-October 5th featuring work by Adam DeSorbo, Xinyu Liu, Kate Montgomery, Jens Pettersen, and Gracie Rothering.
Following the devastating 2020 wildfires in Oregon, Sarah Grew collected black coals from the fires that she then used through extensive research and experimentation, to create carbon prints of recorded images of the forests themselves. Her process and its resulting prints, with their frilled edges and torn emulsion echo the way natural fire cycles can surmount devastation to provide nutrients to the soil, force a pinecone to disperse its seeds, or shape the landscape, in contrast to the extreme intensity and size of the fires that are now common. The photographs show us the beauty being lost to human negligence and the climate crisis. Printed as lantern slides, the forest memory is held captive on sheets of glass accentuating both the fragility of life and our precarious position. Hung at various heights the viewer is invited to move through the Ghost Forest, witnessing a range of natural elements.
The exhibition at the LaVerne Krause Gallery will also include Jon Bellona’s sound installation Wildfire—a 48-foot-long speaker array that plays back a wave of fire sounds at speeds of actual wildfires. An instructor of audio production in the School of Music and Dance, Bellona hopes the installation will allow viewers to embody the devastating spread of wildfires through an auditory experience.
Sarah Grew creates art based in painting and photography, that expands into installation and environmental art and contracts into collage and printmaking. Her work includes a range from public art projects to wall based pieces belonging in private collections nationally and internationally. In researching the concepts that enrich her work she has become a beekeeper, studied native plant habitats, and worked as an Artist-in-Residence for a recycling facility in California. Recently, she was an artist in residence on a science research boat studying the effects of climate change on the plankton food web. Previously, Grew was awarded residencies at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Playa Artist Residency, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Joshua Tree National Park, the Collegeum Phaenomonologicum in Italy, Brush Creek and the Ucross Foundation. She has also received several support fellowships from The Ford Family Foundation.
Jon Bellona is a sound artist who specializes in digital technologies, and a Career Instructor of Audio Production within the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon. His music and media explore environmental sustainability, data-body interactivity, digital musical instruments, site-specific sound, and choreographic composition. Bellona is a co-director of Harmonic Laboratory, an interdisciplinary arts collective focused on art and technology collaborations. His work has been shown in concerts, festivals, and galleries across North America and Europe.
“Practice Makes Better: Iteration and Improvement in Baggage”
Practice Makes Better shows the result of an advanced baggage studio in Product Design. Students made an ideal everyday bag for themselves, making and testing four prototypes over the course of the term. The result was an exploration of slow, intentional improvement in design and making. All four prototypes will be on display, along with booklets that illustrate the research and fabrication processes.
1st Year MFA Exhibition featuring artwork by:
XINYU LIU
ADAM DESORBO
JENS PETTERSEN
GRACIE ROTHERING
KATE MONTGOMERY
g[ch]Asm COLLECTIVE
ASAKO YONAN
HANNAH GERSHONE
RACHAEL SOL LEE
WILL ZENG
“Our artist collective is interested in exploring digital media, writings, maps, archives, and artwork of diasporic communities. Our shared interests lie in critiques of existing representations of Asian American subjects in mass media, utilizing digital mediums to build Asian American futurities, intergenerational knowledge and archives (especially around food), and community building as means of survival.”
New work by:
Jens Pettersen
Quaye Meadow
Eleanor Randl
New work by:
AARON MCGLADE
ABHISEK KULKARNI
CALIZE YEPEZ
DANIELLE DEGRAW
KEVIN FRASER
LANE WEBSTER
Art and Tech BFA’s
anna hothai
talia jeffrey
kyler shahalami
julian schonfeld
julia stalnaker
lindy mccool
clutch anderson
