Piranesi: Views of Rome
March 22-May 18, 2008
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) was an Italian etcher
and archaeologist who, from 1748 to 1774, created his famous
Views of Rome, a series of prints that depicted the eternal
city's majestic ruins and that served for generations as
the standard representations of Roman grandeur. The exhibition
will include a range of prints drawn from regional collections,
including Piranesi's Arch of Titus in the collection of
the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
Senior Art Majors
April 12-May 11, 2008
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the
work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition
includes work in a variety of media, including painting,
sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography,
and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features senior
theses in art history.
Andries Fourie: Recent Work
April 12-May 11, 2008
Andries Fourie is the newest member of the art faculty at
Willamette University. Born and raised in South Africa and
educated in California as a painter and sculptor, Fourie's
work addresses the horrors of war and the tragedy of apartheid.
The exhibition will feature a range of work from the past
few years.
Adam Bacher: Earth, Water, and Sky
May 24-July 27, 2008
Adam Bacher is a Portland photographer who captures the remote alpine regions
and backcountry wilderness of the western United States, including the Oregon
and Washington Cascades, the Sierra Nevada of California, the Sawtooth Mountains
of Idaho, the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, and the rugged terrain of Glacier
National Park in Montana. Michael Dailey: Time, Light, Color, and Place
June 7-August 31, 2008
Michael Dailey is a Seattle painter and professor emeritus
from the University of Washington. An abstract painter
of tremendous skill and prowess whose work focuses on the
deconstruction of the landscape to its basic elements of
horizon, color, light, and atmosphere, the exhibition features
44 paintings and works on paper drawn from public and private
collections throughout the region that span a 45-year period.
The Collector’s Eye: Contemporary Art from the Leo Michelson
Collection
August 2-October 5, 2008
Leo Michelson is a Portland resident and avid collector of contemporary art.
Beginning in the late 1990s, Michelson donated a large portion of his collection
to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, including works by Rick Bartow, Judy Cooke,
Baba Wague Diakite, James Lavadour, D.E. May, and James Thompson, among others.
The exhibition presents a range of artists and themes found in the Michelson
collection.
The Art of Ceremony: Regalia of Native Oregon
September 28, 2008-January 18, 2009
The Art of Ceremony features historic and contemporary
regalia from native Oregon, offering visitors a rare glimpse
at the beauty, history, and meaning of regalia in tribal
life and thought. Included in the exhibition are objects
made of buckskin and beadwork from the Plateau region of
eastern Oregon, objects with condor feathers from the Columbia
River Gorge, and objects with feather and abalone shell
decoration from the Oregon Coast.
The Second Crow’s Shadow Institute for
the Arts Biennial
October 11-December 21, 2008
The Second Crow’s Shadow Institute Biennial features contemporary prints
created by Native American artists at the Crow’s Shadow Institute on the
Umatilla Reservation in northeastern Oregon. Founded by Native American painter
and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla) in 1992, the Crow’s Shadow
Institute seeks to create educational and professional opportunities for Native
American artists to utilize their art as a vehicle for economic development.
Mary Randlett: Artist Portraits
January 10-March 8, 2009
Mary Randlett is a Washington photographer who has photographed and documented
some of the most prominent artists, writers, poets and thinkers in Washington
and Oregon. Since the late 1940s, she has been a frontline witness to the cultural
evolution of the region. The exhibition features a range of Randlett’s
best portraits of Oregon artists, including Carl Morris, Hilda Morris, Louie
Bunce, and Frank Okada, among others. Harry Widman: Image, Myth, and Modernism
January 31-March 29, 2009
Harry Widman is a Portland painter and professor emeritus
from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The exhibition
surveys Widman’s career over a 60-year period in
works that explore the possibility of a “meaningful
shape” in abstract painting, the role that myth can
play in contemporary expression, and the interplay between
the physical strength of the athlete and the intellectual
delicacy of the poet or philosopher in expressionist modern
art.
From Hestia’s Sacred Fire to Christ’s Eternal Light:
Ancient and Medieval Lamps from the Bogue Collection
March 14-May 17, 2009
Oil lamps were essential objects of daily life in ancient and medieval times,
and every household would have owned several. Like other ceramics, the simplest
oil lamps were plain and purely functional, while others contained ornamental
and/or figural relief scenes, often taken from mythological or religious contexts.
The exhibition features between 30-50 oil lamps from the Bogue collection at
Portland State University.
Senior Art Majors
April 11-May 10, 2009
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the
work of senior art majors at Willamette. The exhibition
includes work in a variety of media, including painting,
sculpture, printmaking, drawing, ceramics, photography,
and mixed media. In addition, the exhibition features
senior theses in art history.
James Thompson: The Vanishing Landscape
April 11-May 10, 2009
James Thompson: The Vanishing Landscape focuses on a body
of work that the artist has been developing for some time
that explores the transformation of the rural western United
States. Thompson holds an MFA degree from Washington University
in St. Louis and has been on the art faculty at Willamette
University since 1986.
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