The University of Oregon Department of Art will be visited through October and November by several artists who will lead a lecture and share their catalogue of work in the fall 2015 Artist Lecture Series.
All lectures are free and open to the public. The series begins Thursday, Oct. 8.
Scott Reeder – “It’s All In My Head”
6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8
Lawrence 115
Reeder’s sculptures, paintings and films often blend an abstract expressionism, fascination with syntax and a wry sense of humor. Often inspired by language and text, he created a minimalist “text paintings” series in 2013 of thirty paintings that pair two sequential four-letter words drawn over a soft gradient canvas, such as “Word Jazz,” “Look Poor,” and “Free Acid.”
Reeder is a painter, filmmaker and professor of painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Enrique Chagoya – “Cannibal Palimpsest”
6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15
Lawrence 115
Mexican-born
painter, printmaker and Stanford art professor Enrique Chagoya draws
from his cross-cultural background to depict often-contentious and
touchy subjects, from colonialism and oppression.
Chagoya’s provocative work “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals” portrayed Jesus Christ and other religious figures in an amibuously sexual context. While Chagoya said the piece was intended as a commentary on cases of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, a woman destroyed the painting with a crowbar in October 2010 as it was displayed in an exhibit in Loveland, Colorado.
This lecture is made possible by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition “Enrique Chagoya: Adventures of Modernist Cannibals,” which will be on display through Dec. 6, 2015 in the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery at the JSMA.
Paula Wilson – “Mooning”
6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21
Lawrence 115
Paula Wilson explores femininity and identity in her multimedia pieces, paintings, prints and videos. Her ornamental style is often layered with dense designs and bold colors that resemble extravagant stained-glass windows.
She’s been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Johan Berggren Gallery in Sweden.
Chris Coleman – “Emerging Terrains”
6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29
Lawrence 115
Coleman writes on his website that his art intends to consciously create “disruptions” in daily life. Through his iconoclastic approach to digital art, Coleman creates sculptures, videos, animations and creative coding. His open-source software program “Maxuino,” developed with colleague Ali Momeni, has been downloaded more than 50,000 times and has become a staple in physical computing courses.
His work has been showcased at exhibitions and festivals in more than twenty countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Singapore, Finland, Italy, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, Latvia, and throughout North America.

Samantha Bittman – “Material Data”
6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12
Lawrence 115
Bittman paints patterns on hand-woven textile that create visual tricks to the viewer by exploiting the fabric and graphics by painting patterns on stretched cloth that become distorted in the final product, and often create a multidimensional impression to the viewer.
Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in several New York City galleries and group exhibitions in Miami, FL; San Francisco, CA; and NYC.

Steven Matijcio ­­
6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18
Lawrence 177
Steven Matijcio is a world-renowned curator of art museums, including his current role as curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his prior job as curator of the Contemporary Art at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
His 2013 essay “Nothing to See Here: The Denial of Vision in Media Art” was accepted into the RENEW: Media Art Histories Conference in Riga, Latvia.
This lecture is made possible by the University of Oregon’s Connective Conversations: Inside Oregon Art, a partnership with The Ford Family Foundation’s Visual Arts Program Curators and Critics Tours and Lectures.
Anders Ruhwald – “Thinking Through Spaces: Objects and Site”
6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19
Lawrence 115
Anders Ruhwald has gained an international admiration for his ceramic work and large-scale sculpture installations. In 2011, he was awarded the Gold Prize at the Icheon International Ceramics Biennale in South Korea.
Glenn Adamson, Director of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design wrote that Ruhwald’s sculptures are “enlivened by inexhaustible nuance … Ruhwald takes seriously the idea that surface is where form interfaces with spatial context, so his surfaces have an intensity in all registers.”
His work is represented in more than twenty public collections around the world, including The Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom; Musée des Arts décoratifs, France and The Denver Art Museum.
This lecture is sponsored in part by the Robert James Ceramic Endowment.