Schneider Museum of Art
Views from the Inner Eye: Morris Graves, Ellen Van Fleet, M.R. Renjan
June 16 to August 26, 2011
Our summer show will explore the Expressive Tradition, defined as: expresses the personal vision or feelings of the artist, and is a reflection of their interior state of being. The late Morris Graves was a Northwest icon, a mystic painter of consciousness who is admired and collected widely. Our show is generously loaned from the collection of Dolores Vellutini, a Eureka, CA businesswoman who was a friend of Graves from the 1960's on, and who amassed a large number of his works. Complementing Graves will be a show of watercolors and collage by Ellen Van Fleet, a Northern California artist who taught for years at California State University, Sacramento and at the University of California Davis. Ellen says: "For me the brain and the brawn are aimed at pure visual stimulation and pleasure. I don't have a message." We will also present a show of ink drawings by M. R. Renjan, an Indian artist who is particularly inspired--visually, emotionally and spiritually--by the dance traditions of his native Kerala state.
Emilio Lobato: Mi Linda Soledad (My Beautiful Solitude), and, New Works by Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller
September 29 to December 3, 2011
This show explores the aesthetic style and conceptual nature of Lobato's work, as well as the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural influences that have distinguished his artistic practice. This is the first retrospective of one of Colorado's most prominent contemporary artists, and surveys his twenty-six year career. This show is underwritten and shared with us by the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF). Ellen Wishnetsky is a Rogue Valley artist who is known for her mixed media abstractions that are at once both surprising and pleasing combinations of seemingly disparate materials--generally metal and fabric.
Art Inspired by Science: the 91st annual AAAS Pacific Division Conference and summer exhibition
June 13 to September 3, 2010
In conjunction with the summer conference (June 13-17) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, the museum will mount special shows which highlight the intermedia that exists between Science and Art. These shows will occur in the Center for the Visual Arts galleries (Art Department), the gallery and hallways of the Hannon Library, the Stevenson Union Gallery, and will be on view during the conference and remain through the summer.
Previous Shows
Third Views, Second Sights: a Rephotographic Survey of the American West, by Mark Klett, Byron Wolfe and others;
Andries Fourie, The Indigenous Tourist;
Kevin Haas, Accumulation/Dissipation
January 13 through March 5, 2011
These three shows were curated by the SOU Department of Art and Art History faculty, and support the academic program by featuring photography, sculpture and printmaking. The Klett/Wolfe project updates the rephotographic survey Klett undertook 35 years ago, resulting in comparisons of the same image, from the same vantage point, at the same time of the year and day from the 1870's, 1970's and 2000's. Change is the operative word--environmental, geographic, human settlement and alteration of the landscape. Fourie is an Afrikaner, a white Dutch South African who is Art Department chair at Willamette University in Salem: his works explore identity, race and cross-cultural contact in a divided society. Haas, who teaches at Washington State, directs our attention to overlooked aspects of the built environment--offering silhouettes of common items you might find along interstate highways and especially overpasses and off/on ramps! You will be surprised.
Ashland in Love: 75 years of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
July 12 through September 3, 2010
The Schneider Museum of Art pays homage to the 75th anniversary of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The show will feature displays about Angus Bowmer, set and costume design drawings, as well as period artworks. We are working with the OSF Archive, the SOU Hannon Library and Marjorie Bailey Collection, as well as individual lenders in assembling this show.
Unintended Consequences and the Digital Age
September 30 through December 10, 2010
Three solo shows highlight novel, surprising and unintended consequences of the digital age. Dan Henderson, SOU Alum of the Year 1999, and current SOU Foundation Board member, will be showing sculptures that pay homage to outdated technology, such as a pink onyx Princess Phone, or black marble Viewmaster. University of New Mexico professor Shaurya Kumar will share an installation titled "The Lost Museum." While the title is borrowed from a book of the same name, Kumar focusses on what we are losing, not by war or vandalism and theft, but by placing faith in the durability and reliability of digital media that are proving to be NOT so long-lasting. Marist College (New York) professor Brett Phares will mount an installation that exemplifies his concept of Ambient Media--or, that a glut of information taking place just outside our field of view and on the periphery, is never-the-less impacting our brains, vision, thinking and processing activity--and this includes what we encounter online. Visits and talks by each of the artists TBA.