It's the final weekend for IF, with works from the Reed College Art Collection by Kristan Kennedy, Corita Kent, and Hilda Morris. Viewing hours are 12-5pm each day.
Hilda Morris, Shield Bearer, 1963. 56 x 33 x 40 in. Cement on metal. On view in IF, our collection group show, with viewing hours 12-5 Thursday through Sunday. The show closes next weekend.
It's the penultimate week of IF, our collection group show with work by Corita Kent, Hilda Morris, and Kristan Kennedy. Viewing hours 12-5 today through Sunday.
Corita Kent
help or something
1967
23-1/4 in. X 35 in.
Serigraph
Research around IF, our current exhibition, has drawn out connections between the extraordinary Hilda Morris sculptures in the Reed College Art Collection and those held in private collections throughout the Pacific Northwest, emphasizing the mark Morris left on the region. The first image is Morris' "Broken Wheel" (ca. 1960), bronze, 10.5 x 10 inches, currently on view. The third image of a work that is not in our collection is "Spider Ring," dated 1964-68, this one cast in 1968 at much greater scale: 42.5 x 42 x 34.5 inches. IF runs through May 17 with viewing hours Thursday through Sunday 12-5pm.
Jack Snell-Ryan: Ohm Loop now on view in our Caseworks in the Reed College Library.
Where to begin with a loop. The objects in Jack Ryan’s exhibition derive from the formal vernacular of audio culture in an expanded sense of the term to include a range of phenomena from experimental digital music to audiophilic fetishization of equipment to sound trucks, mix tapes, and sonic assault.
Ryan’s mute objects serve as representations of sound in specific historical and geographic instances such punk riffs in a jerry-rigged basement practice studio insulated with the poor-man’s sound-dampening technology of egg cartons and the sounds that produced the mysterious 2017 Havana Syndrome attacks around the US Embassy in Cuba. This tactic of a poetic formal conflation of historical objects with a relation to sound produce a work such as Embassy Tower (2023-2026).
Ryan embeds pencils in a number of his sculptures, possibly alluding to his studio habit of making a drawing, making a 3D object, then drawing the object in his own loop-the-loops. Let's read that pencil as not recording device but battery storing the potential of drawing, drafting, writing, or the potential for concretization of thought and imagination. This is a show then, about history, where the artist’s personal history or biography is overdetermined by History, which is, let’s be honest, everydayeverywhereallthetime. At the same time it is about about the possibility of writing, through action, a history whose outcome is not predetermined. This is the material grounding of the concrete utopian project.
Ohm Loop was organized by Ido Radon.
@jack_snell_ryan_studio #jacksnellryan @idoradon
The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery at Reed College will be closed Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2, 2026.
We re-open for regular viewing hours for our current exhibition, IF: Kristan Kennedy, Corita Kent, Hilda Morris, again on Sunday, May 2 from 12-5. The Cooley Gallery is located in the Hauser Memorial Library.
Our current exhibition, IF, with work from the Reed College Art Collection by Kristan Kennedy, Corita Kent, and Hilda Morris is open Thursday through Sunday from 12-5pm. The Cooley is located in the @reedcollegelibrary
Our collection group show, IF, with work by Kristan Kennedy, Hilda Morris, and Corita Kent continues with viewing hours 12-5pm Thursday through Sunday. @kristankennedy
IF continues this week with work by Hilda Morris and Kristan Kennedy (pictured here, Morris' Centaur’s Laugh (1960-1961) on Kennedy's Floor Thing (2016)) with work by Corita Kent. Viewing hours are 12-5pm Thursday through Sunday.
Open hours for our current exhibition, IF: Kristan Kennedy, Corita Kent, Hilda Morris today through Sunday 12-5pm.
Kristan Kennedy
N.P.C.E. (2017)
56 x 34 inches
bleach and acrylic ink on linen
Hilda Morris
Presence of the Beginning (1963-
1964)
56 x 33 x 40 inches
cement on metal
