The Linfield Art Gallery

Exhibitions

Spheres of Influence

Spheres of Influence, a multigenerational exhibition by members of the Hoskinson family, will be featured in the Linfield Gallery in the Miller Fine Arts Center at Linfield University from Aug. 28 to Oct. 5.

This exciting exhibition, featuring traditional ceramic vessels, sculpture, painting and drawing, honors the works and artistic output of three generations of one artistic family — parents Don and Cindy, daughter Mya and their grandchildren. The family’s special relationship to Linfield University spans several decades, with both Don and Cindy teaching at Linfield University at different periods and Cindy currently teaching. In addition, daughter Brittney graduated from Linfield and has contributed an essay for the exhibit.

Opening Reception: There will be an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 29. In the Gallery with wine and light refreshments.

Artist Talks: Members of Hoskisson family will present artist talks at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17. in the Delkin Recital Hall in the Vivian Bull Music Center, with wine and light refreshments to follow in the Gallery. Delkin Recital Hall is located in the Vivian Bull Music Center at 57 Keck Drive, near the corner of Lever Street. There is ample free parking in the lot east of the building.

About the Artists:

Don Hoskisson is a potter and painter whose artistic practice has spanned more than 50 years and ranges from ceramics to drawing and painting. He received his Masters of Art from Utah State University in 1964 and his Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State in 1971. He taught at Jarvis Christian College from 1966–1969, and at Western Oregon University for over 38 years, retiring in 2003. Hoskisson then team–taught at Linfield with Cindy until 2015. In addition to teaching, he has been a practicing artist throughout his career with a productive studio practice.

Cindy Hoskinson is an educator and studio potter who has been working in clay since 1980. She was the manager at East Creek Anagama for 30 years. She taught at George Fox University then co–taught with Don at Linfield, where she is currently teaching. Additionally, Hoskinson has had an illustrious career as a studio potter, exhibiting in numerous exhibitions, fairs, and galleries.

Daughter Mya Cluff is a studio artist living and working in Montana. Cluff graduated from the Oregon College of Art and Craft, receiving a BFA in Craft with an emphasis in Ceramics. Cluff is intrigued with the psychological, political, and interpersonal ramifications of motherhood. She uses her own experience as inspiration, as well as the stories of her peers, written accounts of motherhood, and maternal feminist theory to inform her work. Cluff was a short–term resident at the Red Lodge Clay Center in 2019, Pentaculum at Arrowmont in 2023, and Chehalem Cultural Center in 2024. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in group exhibitions and has work in various private and public collections.

Daughter Brittney Bailey is a Graduate Fellow in the department of Art History at Rutgers University, specializing in late–nineteenth and early–twentieth century Modernism. Brittney received her BA in English Literature from Linfield University in 2008 and her MA in Art History from American University in 2015. Her research interests include questions of gender, race and transnational exchange. Brittney has held internships in the education departments of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC and the Portland Art Museum. She has taught at Rutgers University and Moore College of Art and Design in Philidelphia and George Fox University.

Cindy Hoskisson shares the following statement regarding Spheres of Influence:

“When you sit down with a ball of clay at the wheel, no matter what the finished work is going to become, you start by making a sphere — a strong yet flexible circle that can be stretched wide or lengthened for height or squeezed tight or flattened to create a disk.

When you throw a stone to skip across the water, you create a sphere that continues to spread and make more and more spheres.

For our family, there are many spheres:

• The spheres that bond us together.
• The spheres that require us to create.
• Spheres of community that give us friendships and cause us to stretch and grow, and require more of ourselves and each other.
• Spheres of teaching and sharing what we have and know with each other and with those we are lucky enough to have stewardship over for a short time.

This show represents many of those spheres. The work is old and new, done by us individually and collaboratively. We work together at times to influence each other and support each other. At times, we work alone or separately, but the influence is always there. One piece may touch another just as our spheres hopefully continue to grow and spread, so our work changes and stays the same, and the influence continues.”

SPONSORSHIP: This exhibition is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and the Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Series at Linfield University is made possible by the generosity of arts benefactor Ronni Lacroute. The series, sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Fund at Linfield, is dedicated to helping the University present art events and activities for the campus and community. It provides programs featuring artists in the areas of music, art, and theatre

Past 2023-24 exhibits

Connected to the Land

An Exhibition by Leland Butler

March 20 — May 3

(Closed March 25 - 30)

Artist Talk & Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 20 from 5 to 7 PM in the Linfield Gallery

STATEMENT FROM THE ARTIST: “Over the course of making photos, I’ve become attached to the duality of light and shadow and the beauty it creates in an image. With that same idea, there is an internal exploration that takes place throughout life and similarly, one can find the beauty in the duality of our own internal light and shadow through expression and exploration (internally and externally). This collection of photos explores that concept through landscape photos of the Pacific Northwest that were created while also exploring the internal light and shadow. The spiritual journeys we embark on to find life’s answers about self often brings us back to nature and that's what connects us to the land.”

ARTIST BIO: Leland Butler is a Grand Ronde tribal member who is also Siletz (tribe) and Yurok (tribe). Leland started taking photos 10 years ago with the curiosity of self in mind and exploration of land and people. Today that curiosity has brought him to exploring further into the duality of light and shadow and how the two co–exist both in nature and inside of us.

Artist Instagram: @leland_butler1

This exhibition is co–curated with the Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Linfield Gallery. It is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and the Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Series at Linfield University is made possible by the generosity of arts benefactor Ronni Lacroute. The series, sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Fund at Linfield, is dedicated to helping the university present art events and activities for the campus and community. It provides programs featuring artists in the areas of music, art and theatre.

 Ripples

May 8 - 25, 2024

Immerse yourself in the works of Linfield University’s studio and digital art capstone students. Ripples debuts the newest projects from artists Daniel Olson, Annemarie Mullet, Adrian Lee, Allison Hmura and Andrew Goodwin. All of the works pay close attention to dimensions and space as they ripple conversations about home, nostalgia, and comfort. They range from expressive, introspective complexities to cathartic, aggressive confrontations. The exhibition is the result of a year-long collaboration between the artists with ongoing mentorship from contemporary creatives and Linfield faculty.

“The rippling oscillations between past trauma and pleasurable nostalgia function as a binary and a means of navigating the wavy waters of one’s life—sometimes up, sometimes down,” suggests Brian Winkenweder, professor of art history. “These artists surf on the ripples of their memories to produce works of art that provoke us to enjoy the euphoria of happier days behind and ahead of us and the awareness that our trauma indelibly orients our identity.”

A gallery opening with refreshments will take place in the Linfield Gallery at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8. Artist talks will take place in the Nicholson Library’s Austin Reading Room at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15. An additional gallery reception, also with refreshments, will follow the artist talks.

About the artists

Coming from an engineering and design background, Daniel Olson (he/him) wants to expand his skills to every facet digital art has to offer. His goal is to learn as many different softwares and techniques as he can, ranging from graphic design to animation. Follow him on Instagram.

Annemarie Mullet (she/her) enjoys finding ways to merge digital art with other, more traditional art mediums such as crochet and printmaking. Her work is primarily introspective, filtering elements of her life through art. Find her and purchase many fun crochet items on Instagram.

Adrian Lee (she/her) is a multimedia artist who upcycles materials within her art to help heal the inner child. Her art conveys feelings of joy and nostalgia through playful visuals and whimsical themes. Follow her on Instagram.

Allison Hmura (she/her) uses the means of installation art, painting, and photography to show the human experience of living with pain and what it takes to repair and enjoy one’s life. For her, creation is a means of protesting against an imbalance of work and life. She draws from the nature around her in search of comfort. Follow her on Instagram.

Andrew Goodwin (he/him) uses art video and experimental film to concretize the disjointedness between his upbringing in Oregon and his extended family in North Carolina. He draws on current events and literature for inspiration. His works can be found on YouTube.

Earth & Place/Roots & Movement

An Exhibition by Jess X Snow & Kill Joy

Exhibition Dates: February 7 — March 16, 2024
Opening Reception Wednesday, Feb. 7: 5–7 p.m.
Artist Talk in the Austin Reading Room 5–5:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading and Refreshments to follow in the Gallery.

Earth & Place/Roots & Movement explores the works of queer Chinese diasporic artist, Jess X Snow and Filipino American artist Kill Joy. Through films, liberation graphics, community–created murals, poetry and installation, the works imagine healing in the aftermath of violence and transnational worlds without borders.

Drawn from their ancestors, lands of origin, and speculative visions, these multimedia works create visions of abolition, feminism and mutual care. Bridging the historical intersections of art and social movements, this exhibit plants seeds of coalition–building across the Asian diaspora. In collaboration with New Orleans–based Palestinian organizer and poet, Amira A, the exhibit includes an interactive altar offering a healing space to help the viewer keep Gaza alive in their hearts and examine the ways their own struggles can be entwined with Palestinian liberation. 

In-between Poetical Absurdities

Oct. 18-Nov. 17
Artist talk and opening reception on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m. in Delkin Recital Hall in Vivian Bull Music Center.

Serhat Tanyolacar is a Turkish artist, autism father, educator, socio-political activist, and free-expression advocate currently living in Oregon. This exhibit takes us into his journey of being an oppositional artist.

As a conscientious objector, he has been self-exiled from his native country since 2015, producing poetically political artworks through print, performance and multimedia. For more than 20 years of his artistic career, he has shown works and intervened in public life both in America and internationally with his provocative and radical art-making process.

Serhat Tanyolacar is an assistant professor of studio art at Linfield University.

Blame it on Art: Creative Mentorship Outside The Frame

Aug. 30-Oct. 6, 2023

If youth experiencing houselessness can make films, they can do anything. At Outside The Frame, we believe that creative collaboration is an essential ingredient for healing, growth and empowerment. Our professional and peer mentors take the work of making art seriously - and playfully - with those we support and in our own art practices. At the Linfield Art Gallery, see Outside The Frame youth films alongside mentor-made art.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and the Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Series at Linfield University is made possible by the generosity of arts benefactor Ronni Lacroute. The series, sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Fund at Linfield, is dedicated to helping the university present art events and activities for the campus and community. It provides programs featuring artists in the areas of music, art and theatre.