Willamette University

Past Exhibitions

Our past six exhibitions are shown below.  See our archive for a complete list.

Holly Andres, [italics]The Secret Portal[/italics], 2008

Holly Andres, The Secret Portal, 2008

Holly Andres: The Homecoming

June 1 – August 4, 2013

Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery

Holly Andres is a Portland photographer who creates stunningly beautiful and evocative color photographs that deal with personal narrative and feminist subjectivity. Her imagery, says Andres “…relies on the tension between an apparently approachable subject matter and a dark, sometimes disturbing subtext.”  A major exhibition of her work will open on June 1 and continue through August 4, 2013, in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery.

John Rock (American, 1919-1993), [italics]First Class Carriage on the Midlands[/italics], no date, lithograph, 21 in. x 14 in., Hallie Ford Museum of Art, gift of Jon Jay Cruson, 2006.033.001.

John Rock (American, 1919-1993), First Class Carriage on the Midlands, no date, lithograph, 21 in. x 14 in., Hallie Ford Museum of Art, gift of Jon Jay Cruson, 2006.033.001.

On Demand

May 21 – August 4, 2013

Maribeth Collins Lobby

The Hallie Ford Museum of Art invited their Facebook friends to curate an experimental exhibition entitled “On Demand.” 

Constance Fowler, [italics]Heceta Lighthouse, Oregon Coast[/italics], 1938

Constance Fowler, Heceta Lighthouse, Oregon Coast, 1938

Constance Fowler: Tradition and Transition

May 11 – July 21, 2013

Study Gallery and Print Study Center

Constance Fowler (1907-1996) was a painter, printmaker, author, and educator who taught at Willamette University from 1935 to 1947.  Best known for the expressive realism of her paintings and wood engravings produced in the 1930s and 1940s in Oregon, she would eventually work in personal variations of abstract movements that dominated American art after 1950.

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Senior Art Majors

April 13 – May 12, 2013

Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery

Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition represents the culmination of their four years at Willamette and includes work in a variety of media, from painting, drawing, printmaking and photography to sculpture, ceramics, installation and mixed media.Art: Senior Art Majors

James B. Thompson, [italics]Creones[/italics], 2011

James B. Thompson, Creones, 2011

Linear Metaphysics: Contemporary Mark-Making and Time-Based Art Works

April 13 – May 12, 2013

Atrium Gallery and Maribeth Collins Lobby

James B. Thompson, Professor of Art, teaches drawing, painting and printmaking at Willamette University. He has created this new exhibition featuring a variety of original works that reflect their origins as both, part of a time-honored ancient tradition or continuum of mark-making by human beings and the original forms of time-based media through his examination of our shared humanity in the remnants, fragments, and archaeological remains comprising the stratification or layering of time in the unique cultural landscape of the peoples of ancient Scotland and Britain.

Michael C. Spafford, [italics]V. Hercules Cleaning the Stables of Augeias[/italics] (detail), 2010, woodcut

Michael C. Spafford, V. Hercules Cleaning the Stables of Augeias (detail), 2010, woodcut

Michael C. Spafford: Hercules and Other Greek Legends

February 23 – April 28, 2013

Study Gallery and Print Study Center

Michael C. Spafford is a noted Seattle painter, printmaker and professor emeritus from the University of Washington who focuses on Greek mythology in his work. An exhibition of Spafford’s woodcuts entitled Michael C. Spafford: Hercules and Other Greek Legends has been organized by Hallie Ford Museum of Art Faculty Curator and Art History Professor Ann M. Nicgorski. The exhibition features a range of woodcut prints created by the artist during the past 30 years and includes his 12 Labors of Hercules, as well as other popular Greek legends and myths.