Faster, Higher, Farther: The Spirit of Track & Field Sports
June 18 - August 31, 2008
FREE Reception: Wednesday, June 25, 6 p.m.
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
June 26 – September 7, 2008
FREE Preview Reception: Wednesday June 25, 6 p.m.
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
June 26 – September 7, 2008
FREE Preview Reception: Wednesday June 25, 6 p.m.
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
Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World
August 27 through December 14, 2008
Carved by Korean folk artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these tiny, brightly painted sculptures of clowns, tigers and acrobats—known as kkoktu—have been used in Korea for centuries to decorate coffins. Costumed and posed to reflect the realities of rural Korean village life of the past, individual kkoktus are a window on a period that has left few written records. They’re also a window onto a timeless, characteristically Korean attitude towards death. Though the kkoktus’ gaiety seems incongruous with mourning, they express their culture’s deep desire that the dead enter the next world surrounded by joy-and its appreciation of the fleeting nature of all experience. Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World is organized by the Korea Society in collaboration with the Ockrang Cultural Foundation.
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from The Farber Collection
October 4, 2008 through January 4, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, October 3, 2008
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from The Farber Collection, making its West coast premiere at the JSMA, dramatizes the extraordinary production and innovation of Cuban artists over the past century. It represents a variety of styles and media including painting and photography. The exhibit captures a wide range of experiences and points of view, reflecting the rich and complex experiences and expressions of artists who share a common love for Cuba.
Looking Forward/Looking Back
January 24 through April 12, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, January 23, 2009
Looking Forward/Looking Back draws heavily from the extensive collection of the JSMA highlighting many of the outstanding pieces and will include recent and new acquisitions. Over the course of 75 years the collection has grown significantly. This important anniversary exhibition focuses on the individuals who helped form the core of the collection in the past and celebrates the new generation of supporters who are shaping its future.
MFA 2009 Exhibition
May 2 through June 14, 2009
FREE Preview Reception: Friday, May 1, 2009
The annual Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate exhibition is the culminating event, constituting the equivalent of a master’s thesis, for art students who have completed the graduate program and are candidates of the Master of Fine Arts degree. The exhibition is jointly presented by the Department of Art, UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.