Visiting Artist Lectures
Undergraduate Exhibitions
MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Curator and Critic Tour
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
New work by E. Franco Aguilar
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Map to location of Foyer Gallery in Lawrence Hall
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
New work by:
Mario Castro Grace Drum Ayla Fung Jonah Gómez Cabrera Sophia Greene Ethan Hewitt Valentine MacLean Raven Muir Calder Muller Andrew Schumacher Cole Thomas
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*Note: UO ID card with building access is required to gain entry to the Washburn Gallery.*
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
In 2024, Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought opened the exhibition, Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN--the first comprehensive retrospective for the Louisiana-born artist, Tina Girouard (1946-2020). Moving between genres and geographies, Girouard invested objecthood with meaning through ritual, performance, role-playing, and community participation. From the 1970s until her death, Girouard played a galvanizing role in the founding and development of communities and organizations, including the Anarchitecture Group, the interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Street, FOOD restaurant, The Kitchen, P.S. 1, the Festival International de la Louisiane, and as a collaborator in artist communities in Louisiana, New York, and Haiti. Her practice indelibly shaped community-engaged, feminist, craft, textile, performance, and video art of the last century and invested New York’s avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s with ritual and vernacular knowledge of the American and global south. And yet, Girouard’s practice has been largely erased from canonical histories of the avant-garde. This lecture places Girouard and her fellow female collaborators at the center of major philosophical shifts in postwar American art, and points to the archives as a site of her defiant, radical praxis of care.
Jordan Amirkhani is Curator and Head of Research and Project Development at Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought—a non-profit organization based in New Orleans, Louisiana committed to research and publishing, exhibitions and convenings on art of the global diaspora. Prior to taking on these roles, Amirkhani held academic positions at American University in Washington, DC, and the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN. Recent curatorial projects include Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN (2024); Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul (2023); Troy Montes Michie: Rock of Eye (2022); Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind (2021), co-curated with Andrea Andersson; and the2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction. Amirkhani has written scholarship and essays on the work of historical and contemporary artists such as Tina Girouard, Helen Cammock, Wendy Red Star, Sheida Soleimani, Soheila Sokhanvari, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Vesna Pavlović, and the British collective Art + Practice. Her work has been featured in many national and international publications, including: The Paris Review Daily, Artforum, Art in America, Baltimore Arts, Boston Art Review, X-Tra, Mousse, and Burnaway.org. Her emphasis on contextualizing contemporary art and artists working in the American South garnered her a prestigious Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation “Short-Form” Writing Grant in 2017 and three nominations for The Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
This lecture is made possible by the Critical Conversations program, a partnership between the Ford Family Foundation and the University of Oregon Department of Art's Center for Art Research with Reed College’s Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Portland State University.
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Center for Art Research Exhibition
On view in the UO Design Library Camilla Leach Room, from November 22 – December 6 Artist Talk: Friday, November 22 at noon Hours: Monday- Friday from 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Metrica is an installation that delves into the psychological breakdown of a building management system. As the room’s lights switch on and off at irregular intervals, a receipt printer emits transcripts of an ongoing dialogue, one that resembles a psychotherapy session mandated by the system’s employer. Referring to the contents of state archives—including the earliest recorded land ownership claims to the exhibition site—the system interprets its own lighting decisions, regurgitating and rationalizing fragments from these official histories as if they were its own memories. The surrounding reading room becomes an extension of this psychic, literary struggle, with a mise-en-scene that suggests states of deep storage: certain books are ceremonially sealed and packed, while others seem to have lost their sense of stability as the images on their dust jackets slide off at oblique angles.
Metrica Vol. 1 was exhibited in the library of Rupert (Lithuania) for the Earth Bonds symposium (2023). Metrica Vol. 2 was exhibited in the library of the Headlands Center for the Arts (2024).
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter‘s (USA/NL) collaborative site-adapted videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings intercept infrastructural platforms and linguistic architectures from official worlds. They have exhibited work in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (BR); 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (IT); Msheireb Museums (QT); The Renaissance Society (US); The Arts Club of Chicago (US); The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, US); Ditch Projects (US); and Contemporary Art Brussels (BE). Their work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (US), the National Endowment for the Arts (US), the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation (US), and the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (NL); they have participated in residences at Rupert (LT), the Banff Centre (CN), the Jan van Eyck Academie (NL), and the Headlands Center for the Arts (US); and their work has been reviewed by Artforum (US), Revista (BR), Agenda Magazine (BR), and Hyperallergic (US), and published with Mousse Publishing (IT).
noon
Center for Art Research Exhibition
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter: Metrica Vol. 3
On view in the UO Design Library Camilla Leach Room from November 22 – December 6
Artist Talk: Friday, November 22 at noon Hours: Monday- Friday from 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
noon
Center for Art Research Exhibition
On view at the UO School of Art + Design 510 Oak Building from November 23- December 6, 2025 Reception: Saturday, November 23 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. First Friday ArtWalk: Friday, December 6 from 5:00- 7:00 p.m. Hours: Saturday- Sunday from noon- 4:00 p.m.
Metrica is an installation that delves into the psychological breakdown of a building management system. As the room’s lights switch on and off at irregular intervals, a receipt printer emits transcripts of an ongoing dialogue, one that resembles a psychotherapy session mandated by the system’s employer. Referring to the contents of state archives—including the earliest recorded land ownership claims to the exhibition site—the system interprets its own lighting decisions, regurgitating and rationalizing fragments from these official histories as if they were its own memories. The surrounding reading room becomes an extension of this psychic, literary struggle, with a mise-en-scene that suggests states of deep storage: certain books are ceremonially sealed and packed, while others seem to have lost their sense of stability as the images on their dust jackets slide off at oblique angles.
Metrica Vol. 1 was exhibited in the library of Rupert (Lithuania) for the Earth Bonds symposium (2023). Metrica Vol. 2 was exhibited in the library of the Headlands Center for the Arts (2024).
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter‘s (USA/NL) collaborative site-adapted videos, sculptures, installations, and drawings intercept infrastructural platforms and linguistic architectures from official worlds. They have exhibited work in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo (BR); 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (IT); Msheireb Museums (QT); The Renaissance Society (US); The Arts Club of Chicago (US); The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, US); Ditch Projects (US); and Contemporary Art Brussels (BE). Their work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (US), the National Endowment for the Arts (US), the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation (US), and the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst (NL); they have participated in residences at Rupert (LT), the Banff Centre (CN), the Jan van Eyck Academie (NL), and the Headlands Center for the Arts (US); and their work has been reviewed by Artforum (US), Revista (BR), Agenda Magazine (BR), and Hyperallergic (US), and published with Mousse Publishing (IT).
Image caption: Metrica Vol. 1 (2023) from Rupert, in Vilnius, LT
5:00–7:00 p.m.
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter: Metrica Vol. 3 Reception: Saturday, November 23 from 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
On view at the UO School of Art + Design 510 Oak Building from November 23- December 6 Hours: Saturday- Sunday from noon- 4:00 p.m.
6:30–10:00 p.m.
This event is put on by 20 first-year students and features art that appropriates from popular culture to make social commentary on anything from fast fashion, politics, entertainers, brands, the food system, the climate catastrophe, etc. It features art made by the students, faculty, and the community. The event is open to the public and free to attend.
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