New work by Destiny Martinez.

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Map to location of Foyer Gallery in Lawrence Hall

Nurtured Spaces is a multimedia exploration of belonging, resilience, and self-discovery. These spaces foster intimate conversations that encourage vulnerability and openness, allowing individuals to share their stories. Nurtured Spaces invites everyone to reflect, grow, and find a sense of community in their shared journeys.

Miyako Barnett

Katie Springer

Luna Pelaez

Amelia Koh

Aubrey Jayne 

Nurtured Spaces is a multimedia exploration of belonging, resilience, and self-discovery. These spaces foster intimate conversations that encourage vulnerability and openness, allowing individuals to share their stories. Nurtured Spaces invites everyone to reflect, grow, and find a sense of community in their shared journeys.

Miyako Barnett

Katie Springer

Luna Pelaez

Amelia Koh

Aubrey Jayne 

University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research

Tyler Hays is an American artist, born and raised in northeastern Oregon. He received his BFA in painting at the university of Oregon in 1994. Throughout his life, he has worked creatively and professionally in a wide array of mediums—from painting, food, music, and furniture, to ceramics, metalwork, fashion, and architecture—with a through-line focus on material science and engineering. He often says the true unifying subject of his work is finding the lines between things. “The harder you look, the more similar everything becomes, and the more difficult it is to know where to stop.” Much of the art, for Hays, is the alchemy of finding these connections.

Tyler hays grew up with a strong desire to make everything in his universe from scratch. This foundational impulse started very young— sewing and cooking, taking apart his toys—and followed him to art school, where he mixed his own paints and made his paint brushes from scratch with hand-pounded silver ferrules. His interests and fluencies are surprisingly expansive yet always centered around the same soup-to-nuts compulsion and fetish-level research into the deconstruction of objects down to their elements. While painting continues to be his primary and most consistent medium, Hays has become best known as the creative force behind the enigmatic company BDDW, which has maintained galleries in New York, London, and Los Angeles. BDDW continues to be the exclusive retailer and auction house of his furniture, art, and objects. Tyler lives and works between Philadelphia, New York, and Oregon.

This lecture is made possible by the Davis Family Endowed Fund in Art.

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. 

A solo exhibition by Kate Montgomery

"Ten days of iterative exploration and experimentation, engaging a daily practice of unearthing and response"

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*Note: UO ID card with building access is required to gain entry to Washburn Gallery.*