Lewis & Clark

Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art

Exhibitions

Learn more about our exhibitions by following the links below.

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    Broadcast is an exhibition that explores the ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio. This is the first exhibition of its kind to explore this engaging subject and to examine this provocative body of work. September 8 - December 13, 2009
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    What is a Trade? Donald Fels and Signboard Painters of South India, exhibits 16 large-scale paintings that explore trade and globalization in India. January 21-March 14, 2010
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    This spring, the Senior Art Exhibition brings together the artwork of 22 graduating seniors in the Art Department. Representing the culmination of the work created during students’ senior year, the exhibition is an event that the Lewis & Clark College community looks forward to and enthusiastically supports. April 3-May 10, 2009
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    This remarkable exhibition is the broadest and most enterprising survey of its kind, showcasing the creativity, ingenuity, and inspiration of 50 up-and-coming photographic artists in over one hundred and fifty superb images. January 22 - March 15, 2009
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    Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art explores the influence of this design philosophy on artists who combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination, and display of art. September 11-December 7, 2008
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    This spring, the Senior Art Exhibition brings together artwork made by graduating seniors in the Art Department at the end of their undergraduate journey at Lewis & Clark College. This is a celebratory exhibition that the Lewis & Clark College community looks forward to and enthusiastically supports. April 4-May 11, 2008
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    The 2008 faculty art show features the works of nine Lewis & Clark art faculty members. January 24 – March 16, 2008
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    An exhibition of the internationally recognized South African artist William Kentridge, WEIGHING…and WANTING, combines the terrains of medical imaging and geological mapping in an exhibition of charcoal drawings and video projection. November 1-December 16, 2007
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    San Francisco artist, Darren Waterston, will be featured in a two-part exhibition in the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art this fall. September 6-October 21, 2007
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    This year, in the largest Senior Art Exhibition to be held during the Hoffman Gallery’s ten year history, 30 students present their projects in ceramics, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, and sculpture. April 5-May 6, 2007
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    In their unflinching look at war-ravaged Iraq, photojournalists Abdul-Ahad, Alford, Anderson, and Leister show that life there is brutal, yet poignant; that compassion co-exists with anger, hatred, and fear. January 18-March 18 2007
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    A mid-career retrospective exhibition presented jointly by The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, and the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College. October 29-December 10, 2006
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    This exhibit is the fourth and final exhibition organized in conjunction with the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial commemoration. September 7-October 22 2006
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    This spring, 18 senior art students will graduate from Lewis & Clark College with a bachelor of arts degree. Their work represents the disciplines of ceramics, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, and sculpture. April 6-May 7, 2006
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    The artwork in The New Utilitarian explores contemporary culture and the impact of new media and technology on the art of ceramics. January 19-March 12, 2006
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    Innovation in glass and sculpture is a hallmark of Seattle-based artists Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora C. Mace. Add a passion for birds to the duo’s artistic genius and the result is a series of stunning works that have brought acclaim to the pair, including their recent designation as fellows of the American Craft Council, alongside glass pioneer Dale Chihuly. November 3-December 18, 2005
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    Robert Glenn Ketchum and Ryan Burns engage in compelling dialogue with the environment: Ketchum through a camera lens, and Burns through various media including rubbing crayons and paper. September 8-October 18, 2005
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    The culminating exhibition of artwork made by the graduating seniors of the Art Department includes projects in ceramics, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, and sculpture. March 31-May 8, 2005
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    An exhibition of recent work by Portland artist Marie Watt. January 20-March 12, 2005
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    Remarkable things happen when world-class photographers get together. In 1952, some of the great photographers of all time, including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Minor White, created the journal Aperture, through which they could explore and celebrate their art form. Fifty years and more than 400 issues later, Aperture is the standard journal in the photographic world. November 4-December 19, 2004
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    Native American Art. September 2-October 24, 2004

Contact Us

E-mail gallery@lclark.edu

Regular Hours Tues - Sun, 11am - 4pm

Voice 503-768-7687

Director Linda Tesner

Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 95
Portland, Oregon 97219