Visual Magic: An Oregon Invitational

This collaborative exhibition between the JSMA and the George D. Green Art Institute celebrates recent work by forty-five artists who began their creative careers in Oregon during the 1960s and ’70s. Among those whose paintings (as well as sketchbooks, ceramics, and mixed-media works incorporating paint) will be featured are Rob Bibler, Sharon Bronzan, Jon Jay Cruson, Humberto Gonzalez, George Johanson, Connie Kiener, Nancy Lindburg, Lucinda Parker, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Richard Thompson, and Phyllis Yes. 

The exhibition will showcase how this generation of artists continues to represent the highest levels of artistic statement and creative accomplishment, while maintaining commitments to personalized styles. Sixty years after their careers started in this state—in many cases, as students in the University of Oregon’s M.F.A. Program, at Oregon State University, or at Portland’s Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art)—these artists continue to create art that inspires and expands this state’s artistic landscape.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website