Art gallery openings, gallery talks, films and artist panels are some of the events hosted by the OU Art Gallery. Below are all of those upcoming events along with additional information about each one. All gallery events are free and open to the public.
Online
Lecture
Lecture
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
3:00pm
Indigenous Archives & Food Sovereignty
A conversation about seeds, food, collections, art, and the Indigenous communities who make and steward them. To attend this Zoom lecture pre register here. This lecture is Co-sponsored by: College of Arts & Sciences; Departments of English; History; Art & Art History; Women and Gender Studies; Sociology; Anthropology; Social Work, and Criminal Justice; and Kresge Library
Online
Artist
Lecture
Artist
Lecture
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
11:30am
Professor Colleen Ludwig Worlds Collide: Research In Progress
Join us for a noontime Zoom talk as Colleen Ludwig, Associate Professor fo Studio Art, Reviews her research progress at Michigan's Taubman School of Architecture in the Digital and Material Technologies program. Here is a world where software is named for animals like Rhino, Grasshopper and Python. Natural materials like wood and clay are shaped by robots. Building blacks are influenced by algae, mushrooms and living plantscapes. Nature and Technology collide all while researchers/designers rethink the built environment in the face of climate chaos, a global pandemic and the quest for social justice. To attend this Zoom lecture click here Meeting ID 947 3976 0937 Passcode 656879
Online
Artist
Lecture
Artist
Lecture
Thursday February 4, 2021
7:30PM
Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan
This year's Braun Lecture features Nazomi Naoi, talking about 20th century graphic design in Japan. Join us for the Zoom Braun Lecture here. Meeting ID:951 8217 2466 Passcode:097932
Online
Artist
Lecture
Artist
Lecture
Wednesday February 3, 2021
Noon
Jeanette May
Jeanette May is a photo-based artist using a critical, sometimes playful, approach to investigate representation. Early training as a painter is evident in her carefully arranged compositions and rich color palette. May’s photographs are constructed, staged, lit, and carefully considered. Her recent still life projects confront the anxiety surrounding technological obsolescence. May received her MFA in Photography from CalArts and her BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has been awarded grants, fellowships, and residencies from the NEA Regional Artists’ Projects Fund, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Ms. Foundation. Her work is exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Milan, Athens, Barcelona, and Shanghai. May lives in Brooklyn, NY. Visit her website at www.jeanettemay.com. To attend this Zoom lecture, register here
Online
Artist
Lecture
Artist
Lecture
January 20, 2021
Noon
Christiane Feser
Christiane Feser works in ongoing series of unique three-dimensional photo objects that are assemblages of repeated forms and shadows represented through photography and construction. Simultaneously representational constructions and optical experiments, they lead us to question what has form and what is a representation of that form. The repeated forms are assembled in dense patterns and collectively evoke an abstract work that seems filled with an organic energy. Ultimately the work is sculptural, expanding our visual vocabulary and our perception of dimensions. Feser was born in Würzburg, Germany in 1977. She studied photography at the Offenbach University of Art and Design in Germany. Feser recently had a retrospective of her career to date at the Opelvillen, Rüsselheim, Germany and was included in the 2018 exhibition Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brown University, Rhode Island, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Sentrum für Kunst and Medien, Karlsruhe, Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, CCPC-Cisnero Collection, New York and Fotografische Sammlung Schloss Kummerow, among others. The artist lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany. Visit her website at www.christianefeser.de. To attend this Zoom lecture, register here
Online
Artist
Lecture
Artist
Lecture
December 3, 2020
Noon
Ryan Mendoza
Ryan Mendoza (b. 1971, New York City) is an American artist who lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and Sicily, Italy. Ryan’s work has been exhibited widely in numerous exhibitions throughout The United States,England,Germany,Belgium,the Netherlands, Italy,The Czech Republic,and Japan.In 2016 Ryan was ranked as one of the 500 Most Successful US artists born after 1966 by Artnet. Visit his website at ryan-mendoza.com. To attend this Zoom lecture, register here.
Online
Artist
Lecture
Artist
Lecture
Thursday, November 12
Noon
The Intersection of Transient and Permanent with Raheleh Filsoofi
Filsoofi is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her work utilizes ancient and contemporary art media: ceramics, poetry, ambient sound, and video to address issues regarding the human condition to provide a holistic sensory experience for viewers. Filsoofi is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Art. Visit her website at rahelehfilsoofi.com. To attend this Zoom lecture, please pre-register here.
News
Friday, September 11 at noon
The Art Gallery is re-opening to the public with "Moving Forward" Exhibition
Lecture
Thursday, April 2
5pm
Peter John Brownlee: Reframing the Past to Address the Present: Another Look at Nineteenth-Century American Art and Visual Culture
Examining works featured in the exhibition as well as a number of others, this talk traces the interrelated development of an infrastructure for art in the United States during the nineteenth century and the social and political character of the artistic production it facilitated. Considering how and where Americans encountered art and how they saw themselves and their historical past in paintings and other images, the talk raises questions both about the subjects that found representation in the nineteenth-century visual field and those that were only alluded to or excluded altogether.
Lecture
Wednesday, March 10
Noon
Kidada Williams: Confronting the Deforming Mirror of Truth: African Americans,Racist Violence, and Counter-Histories of the Nation
The histories Americans love to tell ourselves about the nation look very different from the perspectives of African Americans lashed by racist violence.
Lecture
Tuesday, March 10
Noon
Randall Wyatt: Shamelessly White: Antiblack Representation In Popular Media
This lecture uses critical whiteness theory to analyze the portrayal of African Americans in the hit Showtime drama Shameless. I argue that the show gives visibility to poor urban
whites while only casting a familiar, stereotypical view of Blacks that ultimately renders them unseen.
Lecture
Tuesday, February 18
Noon
Joohee Yoon: Up Down Inside out
JooHee Noon is an illustrator and printmaker who creates drawings with bold colors and laters of textures to tell stories. Her work has been featured in the The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. Her impressive client roster also includes Warby Parker, Topic Media, Mailchimp, Lincoln Motors, and Groundwood books. In addition to her editorial work, JooHee creates her own books, and gives talked and workshops around the world. The talk is sponsored by the Judd Family Endowed Fund.
Lecture
Wednesday, March 4
Noon
Chris Dingwall: American Painting in the Age of Emancipation
How can a painting illustrate historical change? This talk explores the problem of painting in the age of emancipation, when American artists tested the aesthetic form and social role of their art in response to the unfinished revolution for African American freedom.
Lecture
Thursday, February 20
Noon
Roy Finkenbine: What's Missing from the Picture
The era of American history, 1850-1940, represented in the Nancy and Sean Cotton Collection was an especially turbulent time. Yet, there are major gaps in
who or what are portrayed in these works of art. Notably absent are people of color, immigrants, the Civil War, and the “dark side” of a rising industrial America.
Opening
Reception
Reception
Friday, April 17th
5-7pm
Winter Senior Thesis 2020
The senior thesis exhibition features the graduating studio art and graphic design students.
Opening
Reception
Reception
Friday, January 10
5-7 p.m.
American Paintings from the Nancy and Sean Cotton Collection, 1850-1940
This exhibition is organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts and made possible by the Nancy and Sean Cotton Collection. This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of the Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative. Generous support is provided by the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation.
Opening
Reception
Reception
Friday, December 6
5 - 7 p.m.
Fall Senior Thesis 2019
The senior thesis exhibition features the graduating studio art and graphic design students.
Lecture
Thursday, October 24
Noon
Mindfulness Meditation for Lines of Flights of Fancy
What if paradise is right here and right now? Proponents of mindfulness meditation believe so. Drawing on a so- ciological perspective, George Sanders explores whether the faddishness of mindful living is diluted by self-help gurus and corporate managers. Or, is mindfulness a reasonable strategy for coping with a highly rationalized and frenzied society?
Lecture
Wednesday, October 16
Noon
The Problem of Heaven: How to Get from Here to Eternity
The Problem of Heaven: How to Get from Here to Eternity is a lecture by Mark Rigstad, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics.
Special
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Lecture
Tuesday, October 8
Noon
Behind the Scenes: Pondering Paradise
All religions have some concept of a paradise; one from which we came, one to which we return. How are these concepts of paradise the same, and how do they differ? Dr. Engle will take us on a theological and artistic trek “behind the scenes.”
Lecture
Monday, October 7
Noon
Language and Archive: Nicole Killian
Nicole Killian's work uses graphic design, publishing, video, objects and installation to investigate how the structures of the internet, mobile messaging, and shared online platforms affect contemporary interaction and shape cultural identity from a queer perspective. They are interested in the repetition, looping, and dissemination of content.
Lecture
Wednesday, October 2
Noon
Singing to Utopia: Lesbianism, Feminism and Music
In the late 1960s to 1970s, the United States was in the midst of social turmoil. Despite the number of social movements seeking equal rights and opportunities, women who identified as lesbian found themselves shut out of the movements they thought would accept them. Making music the core of their community, this is the story of how lesbian separatists used song in an attempt to create a utopia.
Lecture
Thursday, September 26
Noon
Controlling Threats
What individuals perceive to be the threats in need of most urgent attention can in fact be stand-ins for deeper, less manageable dangers. This presentation outlines four strategies individuals often use to attempt to manage perceived (substitute) threats. While these efforts may be partially satisfying, insofar as they allow individuals to feel a sense of control, I argue that the four strategies are ultimately disappointing and often morally and politically damaging.