SHARED VISIONS EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

In the fall of 2020, the JSMA launched Shared Visions, a wide-ranging exhibition and academic enhancement program that facilitates connections between important works of art and University of Oregon students and faculty, JSMA members and visitors, and all of our virtual audiences. Shared Visions represents both a rebranding and an evolution of the museum’s Masterworks on Loan initiative that has brought exceptional works of art from private collections to the JSMA, including a diverse cross-section of contemporary and postwar art, and select, stellar examples of 19th and 20th century modern art. Sharing the visions of artists—whose works are in turn shared with the museum by their collectors—Shared Visions supports the museum’s teaching mission by providing students and the community access to historically significant works of art otherwise inaccessible to UO and Eugene audiences. The display of Shared Visions works in the JSMA’s galleries is complemented online by curatorial commentary and study guides, an edited list of links to selected learning resources about the artists and their work, images of the artworks themselves, a periodically updated gallery slideshow, as well as virtual tours of Shared Visions works in the galleries.

With an increased focus on amplifying the artistic and cultural vision of diverse artists, growing the next generation of art enthusiasts and museum professionals, and providing a platform for cross-cultural understanding, Shared Visions reflects the belief at the heart of the JSMA: that knowledge of art enriches people’s lives by fostering human empathy and understanding.

The JSMA is grateful for the opportunity to share works from the private collections of Shared Visions lenders. In turn, lenders are invited to visit the museum, learn about the academic mission enhanced by their loans, and offer much appreciated support for the JSMA’s operational and programmatic needs.

Since July 2019, the JSMA has had the pleasure of working with dozens of lenders to share exceptional works by artists such as Josef Albers, Ruth Asawa, Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marc Chagall, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Helen Frankenthaler, Barkley L. Hendricks, Eva Hesse, Rashid Johnson, KAWS, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, René Magritte, Édouard Manet, Kerry James Marshall, Alice Neel, Georgia O’Keefe, Pablo Picasso, Robert Ryman, Chaim Soutine, Cy Twombly, Matthew Wong, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Billie Zangewa and many more.

As this list demonstrates, Shared Visions loans have played a particularly strong role in bringing significant racial, gender, and international diversity to the JSMA’s galleries.

For complete list of Shared Visions during FY20 and FY21, go to: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/annualreport

Bottom right, top: Ruth Asawa (American, 1926-2013). Untitled (S.786, Hanging Two-Sectioned, Open Window Form), ca. 1954-58. Galvanized steel wire. 52 ½ x 19 ½ x 19 ½ in. Private collection. L2021:20.1

Bottom right, bottom: Marc Quinn (British, b.1964). Frozen Wave (The Conservation of Memory), 2017. Stainless steel. 127 3/16 x 291 5/16 x 126 3/8 in. Private Collection. L2019:121.1