Escorting us on a tour of the campus, Ivi brought us to the Hoffman Art Gallery, a clean, simple, minimalistic high-ceilinged space reminiscent of traditional warehouse/loft galleries seen everywhere over the years. The work of only one artist was featured, Stephen Hayes, a veteran Oregon artist who is/was? an OSU art professor, showing a 30-year retrospective of his work. While photography was not encouraged, I did grab one of Hayes’ self-portraits, seen below. Really a fine show; I could have spent much more time there than we did. However, you can see more online.
Next, we visited the Library, itself brimming with art on almost every wall. Here the featured exhibit was an extraordinary display devoted to Denis Diderot, the French philosopher who was the main powerhouse behind the early Encyclopédie of the mid 1700s. Along with a few pictures below, we brought home the exhibit catalog and booklet, a copy of which was targeted for Grandma Janet.
The Library turns out to be Ivi’s second “home” on campus, where she apparently spends the great majority of her waking hours, even to the extent of friends delivering meals to her there as she works/studies/researches. I likedthe place myself, and can understand its pull. Ivi points out that the young woman incorporated as subject into one of the art pieces on the wall happened to be her RA from last year.
