Stephanie Snyder ’91, the John and Anne Hauberg Curator and Director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed, has received rave reviews for her latest exhibition, “Abstract.” The Oregonian recently called her “one of the most ambitious curators at work in Portland and one of the few who makes it a point to infuse her academically grounded programming with heady, challenging currents drawn from the international and national art world.”
Stephanie’s own description of the show states that “abstract and non-objective artistic methodologies are most often associated with Modernism and the European and Russian avant-garde; but visual and material abstraction has flourished for millennia, globally, as an essential human activity, as symbolism, ornament, and plan. This exhibit brings together the work of three contemporary women artists– Léonie Guyer, Ruth Laskey, Lynne Woods Turner–inspired by the breadth of abstraction’s spiritual, esoteric, and ritualistic dimensions.”
There will be a public symposium on abstraction on November 10, 6-9 p.m., at which Stephanie, poet Bill Berkson, exhibition artists Léonie Guyer and Lynne Woods Turner, and Portland artist Michelle Ross will explore the history, practices, and nature of abstraction. Check back at the gallery website for location.
The show runs through December 5, noon-5 p.m., Tuesday-Sunday; the gallery is located in the Hauser Library and admission is free.