Claudia Cave, "Light House" (detail), 2008
Claudia Cave: Interiors and Interiority
August 28 – December 4, 2021
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Corvallis, Oregon artist Claudia Cave's drawings and paintings range widely in subject matter, from spiky female figures to zooming canines and occasional cats to smoothly excavated landscape forms. The exhibition emphasizes Cave’s penchant for interiors and isolated rooms alive with compulsively rendered detail and fantasy, or cross-sections of entire houses, their spaces and inhabitants rendered for all to see.
Image Gallery Interview with curator Roger Hull
Carl Hall, "Soaring Beach," 1991
Time in Place: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection
September 18 – December 18, 2021
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
This exhibition explores concepts of place as expressed in Northwest art over the past 150 years. Combining social, political, and environmental themes alongside individual interpretations of the Northwest landscape, the exhibition looks at how our sense of place develops through time and relationship with the land.
Terry Toedtemeier, "Lost Boy Cave," 2000
Depth of Field: Selections from the Bill Rhoades Collection of Northwest Photography
January 4 – April 23, 2022
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
The exhibition presents a range of Northwest photographs donated by collector Bill Rhoades over the past few years, and includes works by Robert Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Jim Lommasson, Mary Randlett, and Terry Toedtemeier, among others.
Arvie Smith, "Blondie," 2015
Arvie Smith: Scarecrow
January 22 – March 26, 2022
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and the Maribeth Collins Lobby
Arvie Smith (American, born 1938) is a nationally recognized Portland, Oregon African American painter and professor emeritus from the Pacific Northwest College of Art who explores issues of race, identity, and systemic racism in his work.
murmuration (Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition 2022)
April 16 – May 14, 2022
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior studio art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition represents the culmination of their four years at Willamette.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian, born 1952)/Jim Riswold (American, born 1957), “Putin’s Orphans (Путінські сироти)” (detail), 2022, color digital print, 24 x 34 in., courtesy Vladimir Putin.
Putin's Big Parade
April 16 – May 28, 2022
The Maribeth Collins Lobby
Jim Riswold is back to continue his battle against bullies, and this time his sharp wit is taking aim at Putin. “Putin’s Big Parade” opens April 16 and continues through May 28 in the Maribeth Collins Lobby. All prints are for sale as a fundraiser, and all proceeds and donations will go to the Hallie Ford Museum’s Ukrainian Relief Fund which supports Ukrainian refugees through ICOM (International Council of Museums) Poland.
Chelsea Couch, Handle with Care, 2019-22
Chelsea Couch: boots, bullets, britches, & bologna
April 16 – May 14, 2022
Atrium Gallery
This year’s featured faculty member is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Chelsea Couch, who teaches sculpture, video art, performance art, and time-based media in the Willamette University Art Department.
April Waters, "Ice-Time, Iceberg by Litchfield Island, Antarctica" (detail), 2019
April Waters: Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica
May 7 – August 13, 2022
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
In 2018, Salem artist April Waters as a grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, traveled to Palmer Station, Antarctica, to observe, study, photograph, and sketch the ocean, icebergs, and Marr Glacier. The exhibition features a range of Antarctica paintings created over the past three years as well as text panels that describe her journey and the science being done at Palmer Station.
David Roberts, "Cairo, Looking West" (detail), 1839