During the precious spare minutes University students have while passing between classes, viewing art doesn’t often top the list of things to do. It’s at the campus galleries and museums, however, that many students take a break from their studies and find inspiration.
“Every time I come here it’s different and it’s beautiful,” said Andrew Poole, a University junior who visits the LaVerne Krause Gallery every week.
Poole, who recently walked through the “BFA Terminal Show” painting exhibit in Lawrence Hall, said his favorite piece was a series of 121 pen drawings lining the brown painted walls, each piece of paper ripped from a sketch book.
“It’s something that you wouldn’t expect; it’s very original. I think it definitely shows the diversity of art we have on this campus,” Poole said of his favorite piece, created by Mackenzie Petersen, a painting major.
The bachelor of fine arts exhibits are showcased from April 16 to June 8, changing weekly and varying in media forms from fibers to painting to metalsmithing and jewelry.
“It’s like you get to see a portion of people that you wouldn’t normally see,” Poole said. That is why he is attracted to art galleries, he said.
More painting pieces will be on display in the gallery this week, featuring four different student artists.
The University’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, located near the Knight Library, is also displaying revealing work from a variety of perspectives and presented though a range of media.
“Images from Black Rock,” a photography exhibit by Peter Goin, explores the northwest area of Nevada and will be on display through July 15.
Goin said Nevada’s landscape is very difficult to photograph because of the area’s unusual lighting, but this is what also makes it special and beautiful.
“Ultimately the work is paying homage to the spectacular place,” Goin said. His work has been exhibited in more than 50 museums domestically and internationally.
Goin, a professor of art in photography and videography at the University of Nevada at Reno, said he captures nature’s movements and colors through long and hard work.
“In Nevada we thrive off (the land) as a waste land,” Goin said of the often misunderstood and exploited desert area, which he considers a spiritual place.
“Think about most of the world’s religions and why they originate in arid lands,” he said.
Another exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum that stems from religion, as well as abuse is the “Rose of No One,” a collection of acrylic and ink collages and poems, on display through June 17.
The exhibit’s artwork, created by Colette Brunschwig from proofs of the French translation of Paul Celan’s 1963 German poems is supplemented by an English version of the poems as well.
Both Brunschwig and Celan were European-Jewish victims of World War II. The artwork addresses this through Brunschwig’s collages, which pay homage to the poems.
Brunschwig, a French-Jewish abstract painter, was born in 1927 and spent the last years of the war in hiding. Celan, born in 1920 in what is now Romania, lost both of his parents in the war and experienced ghettoization, according to the museum.
Celan’s poetry is described as fragmented, broken and stammering, which “registers an extreme awareness of the difficulty and importance of rendering the unsayable in words resistant to the numbing force of cliché,” the museum’s description reads.
Upcoming exhibits at the museum include the “Master of Fine Arts 2007,” showing from May 19 to June 17. It will feature the work of 19 of the University’s master of fine arts graduates.
Additionally, the Carl Morris “History of Religions” exhibit, on display from June 28 to September 9, will showcase a series of murals that are “monumental in scale,” and early landscape paintings, according to a brochure.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is free for University students with ID and is open Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The LaVerne Krause Gallery, also free, is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information on the gallery’s exhibits, go to http://krause.uoregon.edu.
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What: LaVerne Krause Gallery
Where: Lawrence Hall
When: Open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Exhibits: “BFA Terminal Show” on display through June 8 features student art changing weekly and varying in media forms from fibers to painting to metalsmithing and jewelry
What: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Where: Between 13th Avenue and the Knight Library
When: Open Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exhibits: “Images from Black Rock” a photography exhibit by Peter Goin on display through July 15, “Rose of No One,” a collection of acrylic and ink collages and poems by Colette Brunschwig and Paul Celan, on display through June 17.
Upcoming exhibits: “Master of Fine Arts 2007,” on display from May 19 to June 17, featuring the work of 19 University master of fine arts graduates, and the Carl Morris “History of Religions” exhibit, on display from June 28 to September 9 will showcase a series of murals and early landscape paintings.