SPRING/SUMMER 2015 JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART Patron Circle Reception Things You Know But Thursday, April 16, Cannot Explain: 5:30–7:30 p.m. A Symposium Saturday, May 30 RICK BARTOW Public Ceremony Morning Session Friday, April 17, 5:30 p.m. Art & Healing, UO Memorial Quad outside 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Things You Know But Cannot Explain April 18 – August 9, 2015 JSMA Panel discussion with Dr. Opening Reception Patricia Dewey Lambert, Friday, April 17, 6–8 p.m. Program Director, UO Arts and Administration Program, Featuring Rick Bartow and the Rick Bartow is one of Oregon’s best-known artists. Over forty years, he has and Coordinator, Arts in Backseat Drivers band created a powerful body of work, influenced by his Native American heritage, Healthcare Management Con- centration; Sara McDonough, life experiences, physical environment, international travels, and fine art For more event details: LMFT and ATR-BC; Eliza training. In 2012, two of his monumental sculptures were permanently installed jsma.uoregon.edu/ Murphy, writer and healthcare bartowevents professional; and David Reese, on the Mall, outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American graduate student in Philoso- Land, Law, and Liberty: Indian in Washington, D.C. phy and Women’s and Gender Legal Perspectives on Studies, UO. Moderated by Co-curated by Executive Director Jill Hartz and McCosh Associate Curator Tribal Rights Lisa Abia-Smith, Director of Thursday, April 16, Education, JSMA. Danielle Knapp, Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain features 12:30–1:30 p.m. Afternoon Session drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, and mixed media work. In addition Knight Law School, Room 141 Art & (Dis)Place, 2–4 p.m. to showing the artist’s most recent work, the exhibition and catalog explore With Howard Arnett, adjunct Panel discussion with Dr. Amy key themes in the artist’s oeuvre: “Gesture,” “Self,” “Dialogue,” “Tradition,” and professor and attorney; Lonetree, Associate Professor, Jason Younker, Assistant Department of History, “Transformation.” This is the first major exhibition to feature such diverse Vice President and Advisor University of California, Santa Cruz; Patsy Phillips, Director, examples of his work, including many of Bartow’s graphite drawings from the to the President, UO; and Congresswoman Elizabeth Museum of Contemporary late 1970s and large-scale wood and mixed media constructions. Furse, former member of the Native Arts, a center of the Institute of American Indian The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with essays by U.S. House of Representatives; moderated by Dom Vetri, Arts. Moderated by exhibition the curators and Lawrence Fong, former curator of American and regional art at professor emeritus, UO co-curator Danielle Knapp. the JSMA. It will travel to other museums following its showing here, including Artists Panel: A Conversation with Rick Bartow and Barry Lopez the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe; The Heard Museum, A Tribute to Rick Bartow Saturday, April 18, 11 a.m. Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m. Phoenix; Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman; and The Autry With Seiichi Hiroshima, Frank National Center, Los Angeles. LaPena, James Lavadour, and Lillian Pitt; moderated by Dr. Related Events Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain is made possible by the Rebecca Dobkins, Professor First Friday Art Talk Coeta and Donald Barker Special Exhibitions Endowment, Arlene Schnitzer, of Anthropology and Curator April 3, 5:30 p.m., The of Native American Art, Hallie Studio at the Hult Center The Ford Family Foundation of the Oregon Community Foundation, the Ford Museum of Art, Willa- Co-sponsored by the JSMA, mette University Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission Lane Arts Council presents A Conversation with a talk with Rick Bartow, his and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ballinger Endowment, Philip and Rick Bartow Portland gallerist Charles Top: Frog in Orange Britches, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in. Courtesy of the artist and Sandra Piele, and JSMA members. Saturday, April 18, 2 p.m. Froelick and Bob Keefer. Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR With exhibition co-curator Rick Bartow: Prints Danielle Knapp and Lawrence Schrager Clarke Gallery Left: Saki Nepui, 1998. Ink, graphite on Fong, former curator of Top: Self, 1984. Pastel, April 1–May 16 handmade paper, 72 x 26 in. Collection of American and regional art at Reception, Friday, April 3, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art graphite on paper, 22 1/2 x the JSMA 18 inches. Courtesy of the 5:30–7 p.m. Deer Spirit for Frank LaPena, 1999. Acrylic on artist and Froelick Gallery, Family Day: panel, 24 x 24 in. Private Collection. Storytelling through Art Dynamic Collaborations, Portland, OR a Printmaking Workshop: Saturday, May 16, 12–3 p.m. Far left: Bear with Humor Drypoint, Chine Colle, Monotype (For Walt Come a Sunday), Collecting Bartow 2004. Wood with pigment, With Rick Bartow & Seiichi Wednesday, May 20, Hiroshima Catalog Available! metal, 30 x 17 x 13 inches. 5:30 p.m. Accompanying the exhibition Collection of Arlene and April 25–26, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. With gallerist Charles Froelick, is a fully illustrated catalog Harold Schnitzer LCC Building 10, Room 223 collector Bill Avery, and Susan of the same name. The Kennedy Zeller, Associate $200 ($60 LCC/UO students) Little Hawk’s Spirit, 2013. publication was made Curator, Native American Art, For more information, Watercolor and acrylic on possible thanks to the early Brooklyn Museum.; moderat- contact Mary Jo Kreindel, panel, 12 x 12 inches. Private ed by Danielle Knapp [email protected], generous support of The Ford collection 541.463.5411 Family Foundation of the Oregon Community Art and Healing Workshop Foundation, Arlene Schnitzer, Philip and Sandra 47th Annual UO Mother’s Saturday, May 30, 1–3 p.m. Piele, the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Day Powwow at Mac Court See page 12 Foundation, and the Oregon Arts Commission May 8–10 and the National Endowment for the Arts. Free admission at museum Members receive 10% off the $35 cover price. this weekend [ 2 ] [ 3 ] FROM THE DIRECTOR Amanda Marie and X-O Frozen Film Frames The Many Places We Are Portraits of Filmmakers by Jonas Mekas Being a museum director Artist Project Space | April 1–June 7 is a deeply rewarding— Schnitzer Gallery | May 9–August 9 and often challenging— This two-artist exhibition explores the concept of emotional travel. When we Jonas Mekas is considered by many to be the “godfather of American avant- occupation. Most of travel, especially when we travel in intimate proximity to our travel partners, not garde film.” He is revered for his experimental diary films, his founding of the time, I don’t have only do we move through physical space, but we move through emotional place. the New York film institutions Filmmakers Cooperative and Anthology Film time to curate a major During extensive travel, emotional bonds develop that are nearly guaranteed Archives, and his passionate promotion of avant-garde cinema when he was a show, let alone focus to make intense and complex waves in the lives of those with whom we travel. film critic for The Village Voice. At 92 years old, he has, in recent years, started on art, but this spring A visual representation of this deep idea is explored by both artists, who have a new career as a gallery artist, exhibiting photographic blowups of adjoining is different. Danielle indeed traveled extensively together. Amanda Marie’s signature visual language, frames from his 16mm film diaries. His “frozen film frames” have been exhibited Knapp, our McCosh built from an ever-expanding toolbox of hand-drawn, hand-cut stencils, is her and acclaimed at the Venice Biennale, MOMA/PS1, the Museum Ludwig in Associate Curator, and I teamed up to curate mode of expressing the complexities of sharing emotional travels. For Hyland Cologne, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among other venues. Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Mather, aka X-O, his stylistic habit of collecting “lost object” materials along The exhibition, which features twenty-two photographic portraits, is Explain, the most comprehensive exhibition his travels is the basis for his often large-scale interpretations of memory and co-curated by Richard Herskowitz, director of the Cinema Pacific film festival, ever mounted of one of Oregon’s (and our emotion, which he visits through shape, color, and texture. and Deborah Colton, owner and director of the Deborah Colton Gallery in nation’s) finest artists. Working with Rick, Gallery Tour with Artists | Saturday, May 9, 2 p.m. Houston. The Deborah Colton Gallery has shown Mekas’s work since 2005 his dealer Charles Froelick, and so many and was founded as an innovative showcase for ongoing presentation and others, near and far, who love and admire BEAUTIFUL TIMES promotion of strong historical and visionary contemporary artists worldwide. this man’s art and being, has been one of the For the past year, X-O (Hyland Supported in part by a JSMA Academic Support grant, Frozen Film Frames Mather) and Amanda Marie features, among others, images of Robert Frank, Elia Kazan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, most meaningful experiences I have ever had have been making street art and Brett Weston (American, 1911–93). Trees and Fog, Oregon, 1971. working in a museum. The term “labor of love” documenting the results, as they Andy Warhol, Wim Wenders, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, observed filming Silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 in. Gift from the Christian Keesee travel west, from Brooklyn and their experimental film Bottoms. is fitting, as the more we have learned about Collection Philadelphia to the Midwest and, Also showing in the gallery is Mekas’s 1997 feature film Birth of a Nation, the artist and his art, the deeper our dedication soon, Eugene.