The Long Now | New Work from the University of Oregon Art Department Faculty
“The Long Now,” an exhibition featuring the works of twenty-two University of Oregon Department of Art faculty members, will be on view January 21 through April 8 in the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Gallery at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the Eugene campus.
“The Long Now” is curated by Stamatina Gregory, an independent curator and critic from New York City. Gregory has organized an exhibition comprising a set of extremely diverse practices and ideas, from the complex relationships between technology, nature, and labor, to contemporary explorations of gestural painting. Several ambitious installations have been created for the show, including a hands-on, participatory work by Brian Gillis and John Park on the expanded field of broadcasting.
“The overall mode of inquiry for the exhibition is temporality, both in terms of work that unfolds over time, in method or perception and in the sense that the show will document a particular moment in the varied practices of the department,” Gregory says.
Artists featured in the exhibition are: Carla Bengtson, Tannaz Farsi, Surabhi Ghosh, Brian Gillis, Ron Graff, Craig Hickman, Colin Ives, Anya Kivarkis, Sana Krusoe, Sylvan Lionni, Charlene Liu, Donald Morgan, John Park, Dan Powell, Jan Reaves, Jack Ryan, Michael Salter, Ying Tan, Kartz Ucci, Laura Vandenburgh, Terri Warpinski, and Amanda Wojick. More on the art department faculty here.
The exhibition is the art faculty’s first group show in six years. “We are thrilled for the opportunity to share our work with students, our academic colleagues, and the larger community,” says Laura Vandenburgh, the Ann Swindells Chair and Head of the Art Department. “Encompassing diverse contemporary practices and ideas in our field, the show includes work by many terrific younger artists who have joined the faculty recently, as well as compelling new developments in the work of long-standing faculty.”
In addition to the exhibition in Eugene, “Notes on a Recent Arrival,” an installation of selected works by six faculty artists, will be on view at the White Box in Portland. Drawn from the ideas emerging from “The Long Now,” this show will be on view January 24 through March 24. Artists featured in “Notes on a Recent Arrival” are Carla Bengtson, Craig Hickman, Colin Ives, Dan Powell, Jack Ryan and Kartz Ucci. A free, open to the public reception and remarks by the show’s curator, Stamatina Gregory will be Friday, March 2, from 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at the White Box.
Artist Interviews on the Blog
Learn more about the artists by visiting the aaablogs for interviews and images. More interviews with the faculty artists will be posted every two weeks.
Q&As with artists Surabhi Ghosh, Brian Gillis, Sylvan Lionii, and Dan Powell are available on the A&AA blog. Additional Q&As will be posted monthly during the show.
A catalog to accompany the exhibition The Long Now will be available in March and will be available for sale at Precious Cargo: The Museum Store in the museum.
“The Long Now” is made possible with support from the Donald and Coeta Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment Fund, the William C. Mitchell Estate, JSMA members, the Ann Swindells Chair in Architecture and Allied Arts, and the School of Architecture and Allied Arts.
The faculty art show is the first of several planned initiatives made possible by a gift to the School of Architecture and Allied Arts from the late Ann Swindells and the Swindells family. The gift, the Ann Swindells Chair in Architecture and Allied Arts, is assigned to the department head Laura Vandenburgh and is the first endowed faculty position for the Department of Art. The fund supports creative and innovative initiatives, including cross-disciplinary art and art history courses in theory and critical studies and high-caliber exhibitions of contemporary art.
About the Department of Art
The Department of Art offers an innovative curriculum in both studio and digital media—ceramics, drawing, fibers, metalsmithing and jewelry, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and digital arts. The sixth most popular major at the University of Oregon, the department encourages breadth and interdisciplinary investigation, as well as depth and discipline within media. The art department has more than 450 majors and 20 regular faculty members.
About the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
The University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is a premier Pacific Northwest visual arts center for exhibitions and collections of historic and contemporary art based in a major university setting. The mission of the museum is to enhance the University of Oregon’s academic mission and to further the appreciation and enjoyment of the visual arts for the general public. The JSMA is one of six museums in Oregon accredited by the American Association of Museums.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is located on the University of Oregon campus at 1430 Johnson Lane. Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Sundays. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for senior citizens. Free admission is given to ages 18 and under, JSMA members, college students with ID, and University of Oregon faculty, staff and students. For information, contact the JSMA, 541-346-3027.
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