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Presented by the UO Center for Art Research CFAR Banner at 510 Oak Terry Haggerty: Finding Space
On View: May through August 2025 Location: 510 Oak Street, Eugene, OR 97401
Finding Space is a shaped vinyl banner inviting viewers to experience a duality of perspective. In this composition, two linear structures recede from a shared central point, oscillating simultaneously between two and three dimensions. This deliberate manipulation of perspective challenges the viewer’s spatial understanding and disrupts the predictable geometry of the urban environment. By subverting the conventional rectangular format of a banner, the drawn form becomes a visual anomaly by creating a momentary rupture in the visual language of the cityscape. Its suspended state suggests a transient presence, a form caught between definition and placement. This work functions as a temporary intervention, holding a moment of spatial ambiguity captive within the ongoing construction of the city.
Terry Haggerty (b. 1970 in London, United Kingdom) studied at the Southend School of Art, Essex, United Kingdom and received his Bachelor of Arts at the Cheltenham School of Art, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Haggerty’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium; Von Bartha, Basel; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; PS Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY; and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, among others.
He has been included in exhibitions at numerous institutions including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Carre d’Art-Musee d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France; Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA; M-17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, and elsewhere.
Haggerty lives and works in Eugene, Oregon.
9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
"Peripheral Visions is a thesis exhibition including works by Helena Gallivan, Luna Pelàez, and Sondra White. Themes of memory, loss, nostalgia, and joy are explored through the mediums of photography, ceramics, installation, and printmaking."
4:00–7:00 p.m.
The Division of Graduate Studies invites you to a celebration of the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines. Join us for the popular poster and networking session !
To participate, all graduate-level students are invited to submit a proposal by April 16, 2025. All accepted posters will be judged. Posters are categorized by field; first place in each category will win $300.
For more information, go to https://graduatestudies.uoregon.edu/forum
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Presented by the UO Center for Art Research CFAR Banner at 510 Oak Terry Haggerty: Finding Space Reception and Artist Discussion: Friday, May 9 from 4:00–6:00 p.m. Join us a discussion with Terry Haggerty, Kate Mondloch, Sylvan Lionni, and Tannaz Farsi. Discussion begins at 4:30 p.m.
On View: May through August 2025 Location: 510 Oak Street, Eugene, OR 97401
Finding Space is a shaped vinyl banner inviting viewers to experience a duality of perspective. In this composition, two linear structures recede from a shared central point, oscillating simultaneously between two and three dimensions. This deliberate manipulation of perspective challenges the viewer’s spatial understanding and disrupts the predictable geometry of the urban environment. By subverting the conventional rectangular format of a banner, the drawn form becomes a visual anomaly to create a momentary rupture in the visual language of the cityscape. Its suspended state suggests a transient presence, a form caught between definition and placement. This work functions as a temporary intervention, holding a moment of spatial ambiguity captive within the ongoing construction of the city. Terry Haggerty (b. 1970 in London, United Kingdom) studied at the Southend School of Art, Essex, United Kingdom and received his Bachelor of Arts at the Cheltenham School of Art, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom.
Haggerty’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium; Von Bartha, Basel; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; PS Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York, NY; and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY, among others.
He has been included in exhibitions at numerous institutions including the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Carre d’Art-Musee d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France; Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA; M-17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, and elsewhere.
Haggerty lives and works in Eugene, Oregon.
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The University of Oregon MFA Art Exhibition 2025 culminates three years of independent research and experimentation by a cohort of five artists whose various practices engage a broad range of inquiry. This year, the MFA exhibition returns to the JSMA, making the work accessible to the UO and Eugene community, while celebrating the MFA graduates’ efforts in the professional standard of the museum setting. The 2025 cohort is Adam DeSorbo, Xinyu Liu, Kate Montgomery, Jens Pettersen, and Gracie Rothering. The five artists showcased in this exhibition represent a diverse range of media and practices, spanning ecology and personal/cultural memory, to the bridge between death and the living world, symbolic institutional gateways, and ideas about abstraction through the materiality of painting.
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Enjoy stress-free time together online with disabled and neurodivergent graduate students from across campus. Share experiences, exchange resources, or consult with a GE from the Accessible Education Center.
4:00 p.m.
University of Oregon Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presented by the Department of Art and Center for Art Research
This talk will cover Christina Fernandez's performance for camera work from the very beginning of her photographic practice as an undergrad student at UCLA to the present, including new work that addresses the female body, aging and sexuality. Fernandez has often used her own body before the camera as a stand in for the collective Latina, both becoming or playing the role of an historical/mythical figure, a family member, and as herself.
Christina Fernandez (b. 1965) a Los Angeles–based artist, has spent over three decades conducting rich explorations of migration, labor, gender, her Mexican American identity, and the capacities of photography itself. She earned her BA at UCLA in 1989 and her MFA at Cal Arts in 1996. She is an associate professor at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. Fernandez’s projects have been in major exhibitions including Shifting Landscapes (Whitney Museum of American art) Home - So Different, So Appealing (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2017), Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008). Her work has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York, among many other venues. In 2021, Fernandez was one of the first artists honored with the prestigious Latinx Artist Fellowship and Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures is the first major monographic museum exhibition of her work.
This lecture is made possible by the George and Matilda Fowler Endowment Fund.
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Strengthen connections and unplug on Oregon’s beautiful coast while hiking Hobbit Trail and spending time at the ocean near Florence. Transportation, lunch, and snacks provided.
A $5 deposit through the Outdoor Program (OP) is required to secure your seat. Space is limited to the first 20 students, with priority given to international students.
Please call the Outdoor Program at 541-346-4365 to reserve a spot, or sign up in person at OP's DIY Bike Space in the EMU.