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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.
8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
The Student Activities Board invites you to view works by Ana Leovy in the Adell McMillan Gallery.
Based in Cancun, Mexico, Ana Leovy is a graphic design graduate, and holds a Masters in graphic design and illustration. Leovy is passionate about celebrating diversity through her work inspired by feelings, dreams and everyday life. Her art intends to represent strong confident characters living in vibrant worlds which are often a fusion between real life and imagination.
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11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Gathering: A Photographer’s Collection presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the personal collection of Portland, Oregon-based photographer and curator, Christopher Rauschenberg. Over five decades, Rauschenberg has compiled a truly distinctive archive of photographs encompassing a wide array of themes, styles, uses of the medium, and range of subjects and content. This important resource represents a diverse mix of international and nationally emerging and established photographers.
Rauschenberg typically acquires photographs directly from the artists or from non-profit community-based arts organizations exhibiting or representing their works. Rauschenberg has also traveled extensively and participated for decades as a highly regarded reviewer of photography portfolios at international gatherings of specialists who utilize and support opportunities for working creative photographers.
In Gathering, one will find a wealth of individual points of view that, when engaged, may broaden each of our own visions: whether those considered perspectives are personal, familiar, social, cultural, political, or spiritual.
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
James Lavadour: Land of Origin presents the most comprehensive survey to date of works by painter and printmaker James Lavadour (Walla Walla). Spanning five decades of work, this national retrospective celebrates Lavadour’s deep connection to the eastern Oregon landscape, particularly the Umatilla Indian Reservation and surrounding Blue Mountains region where the artist has spent most of his life, and recognizes his esteemed place in contemporary American painting. The exhibition includes nearly thirty of Lavadour’s magnificent signature grid paintings, works on individual panels, and prints, most of which have never been exhibited together. It will draw on significant loans from the artist, major museum collections, and private lenders. Recognizing one of Oregon and the nation’s most original and powerful artists, James Lavadour: Land of Origin will also be accompanied by a full catalogue.