Notes on a Recent Arrival
University of Oregon – Art Department Faculty Show
January 24, 2012 – March 24, 2012
Free Public Reception and Curator Remarks:
March 2, 2012 (5:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.)
Bringing together a set of diverse projects, all by artists on the faculty of the University of Oregon, this exhibition explores the dynamic interactions between agent and environment. It’s title is appropriated from a 1995 essay by art historian Lucy Lippard, in which she laments a loss of connection to the sites we inhabit in the postmodern era, and argues for a renewed relationship to our surrounding environments—one that “makes connections visible.”
In an oblique departure from the oppositional, socially-based practice that Lippard proposes, these artists explore such connections through highly mediated, cognitive processes. Mapping biological, technological, or cultural systems over one another—synesthesia and poetry, semiotics and the labor of ants, biological perception and mechanical recording—the projects installed here not only connect different frames of inquiry, but reveal the gaps in our perception and understanding, forming a deeper, fuller picture of spatiotemporal experience.
Concurrent exhibition at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
New work by the University of Oregon art department faculty
1430 Johnson Lane Eugene, Oregon
January 21 – April 8, 2012 | jsma.uoregon.edu
