Exhibitions
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Spirit of Track & Field Sports
Now through August 31, 2008
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Spirit of Track & Field Sports is an exhibit of photography by David Burnett, Kenneth Jarecke, Dilip Mehta, and Annie Leibovitz that captures the speed, power, endurance of Olympic class athletes past and present. The exhibit, prepared by Contact Press Images, New York, features arguably the most famous images of past Olympic games, trials and relays of these extraordinary athletes including Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, and Mary Decker Slaney.
Edward Burtynsky: The China Series
Now through September 7, 2008
Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky, has been working in China since 2002 when he started photographing the social and physical change taking place in the new pro-capitalist China. A group of twenty photographs by Burtynsky will be presented at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in an exhibition circulated by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem, North Carolina. These images document the grand scale of commerce in which China is now investing. Fittingly the brilliant color photographs themselves are of a grand scale, averaging four feet by five feet, making them viewable like a major painting.
The Thinking Body
Now through September 7, 2008
The Thinking Body exhibition examines new ways of understanding how we perceive the body. Featuring objects, jewelry, and constructed spaces, The Thinking Body considers familiar forms in innovative and wonderfully surprising ways. Image credit: Gerd Rothman, German, Vier – Finger – Armreif (Four – Finger – Bangle), 1992, Gold, 43 x 68 cm, Loan courtesy of Susan Beech
Iconicity
On-going
The term icon (from a Greek word for “resemblance” or “likeness”) is commonly used to refer to a broad spectrum of visual representations, ranging from sacred objects that serve as the focus of religious rituals to the folders and other symbols that typically comprise a computer desktop. What these widely disparate usages share is the underlying notion of an image that embodies certain quintessential features which render it immediately and easily recognizable.
All of the works included in Iconicity depend upon the premise of easy recognition, though in most cases that is merely a starting point for exploring a variety of other issues such as the commodification of religious imagery, the nature of cultural and political icons, the creation of personal icons, and the often blurry line between icon and stereotype.
John Piper: Through the Lens
On-going
John Piper: Through the Lens examines the artist’s use of the camera as a mediating device and his placement of the viewer in the position of voyeur. Exhibited works from the Eye and Camera series consider Piper’s fragmentation of the female form through the combination of photography, collage and silkscreen. His images present the female body as an emblem, removing all individuality and rendering it an object of display. Experimenting with Pop Art techniques, Piper fragments, manipulates and obscures his subject to tantalize and draw in the viewer.
A Gaze of Her Own: Women in Japanese Art
On-going
From earliest times through the present, Japanese culture has realized the equality of men and women in many ways. Women’s voices were included in Japanese literary and religious canons since the myths were first written down in the Kojiki and the first poetry anthology, the Manyoshu. As many of the works in this installation illustrate, women have also served as important subjects in the visual arts, especially for woodblock print artists. Less commonly, though nonetheless importantly, women also on occasion rose to prominence as artists themselves. Indeed, the multi-talented Otagaki Rengetsu, several of whose ceramics are on view, is one of the best known and best loved artists of her generation.
A GAZE OF HER OWN was organized by Mara Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, and her students in ARH 399, Kathryn Barton, Ryan Kramer, Miwako Okagami, and Patrick Terry.
Elizabeth Keith in Korea
On-going
From the
Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art, a series of woodblock prints by Scottish artist Elizabeth Keith are on display in the Huh Wing. Keith lived in Asia for many years, recording scenes of everyday life first in paintings and later by using traditional woodblock printing; she was also one of the first Westerners to depict the topography, costumes and social customs of Korea. The colorful scene of a traditional marriage ceremony depicted in "Country Wedding Feast" exemplifies Keith's close observations of the rituals of daily life. In 1937, The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (then the UO Museum of Art) became the first university art museum to exhibit Keith's work, and in 1974 it mounted the first retrospective subsequent to her death in 1956.
Also on View
In addition to our 4,000-square-foot Changing Exhibition Gallery, you will encounter a selection of galleries that reflect the range of the museum's 12,500-piece art collection and the mission of the museum. Opening exhibitions in our collections galleries will present works from the museum, as well as pieces loaned to the museum. Highlights within each gallery will rotate regularly, offering new perspectives to returning visitors.
Collections Galleries Exhibitions:
Not Far From Here: Modern and
Contemporary Art in America
Schnitzer Gallery
Status and Authority in Imperial China
Soreng Gallery
Art and Everyday Life in Japan
Preble/Murphy Wing
True Views: Traditions of Korean
Painting
Huh Wing and Jin Joo Gallery