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Visual Studies Artist Lecture: Kristin Lucas
Feb 26, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
PNCA Commons
Kristin Lucas is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works between Austin and New York. Her work investigates the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and the physical and psychological effects of technologies on perception, behavior, and identity. Her video, installation, networked performance, augmented reality, and hybrid media works have been presented internationally at museums and galleries, including: The New Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City); Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Liverpool); Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe); Nam June Paik Art Center (Gyeonggi-do); and at festivals, including: dOCUMENTA (Kassel), Low Lives International Internet Performance Festival, Transmediale Festival (Berlin), and World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam). She has participated in numerous residency programs, including: The Experimental Television Center, Harvestworks, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, P.S.1, ARCUS, ACC Weimar, Eyebeam, and Signal Culture. Her artwork is represented by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and Postmasters Gallery in New York. Lucas earned her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in several graduate and undergraduate art programs, including Bard College and The University of Texas.
Photographs by Mario Gallucci
MFA LRVS Lecture: Sanjit Sethi
Sanjit Sethi
Jul 1, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Sanjit Sethi for a discussion of his work as part of the 2015 Summer Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Born in Rochester, New York, Sanjit Sethi received a BFA in 1994 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in 1998 from the University of Georgia, and an MS in advanced visual studies in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sanjit has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Memphis College of Art, the Shristi School of Art, Design and Technology, and the California College of the Arts. His work deals with issues of nomadism, identity, the residue of labor, and memory. Sanjit recently completed the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance, an olfactory-based memorial in Memphis, and Richmond Voting Stories, a community-based collaboration between local high school students and older members of the Richmond, CA. His current works include Urban Defibrillator, the Gypsy Bridge project, the Richmond Ceramics Workshop, the architecture of inversion series, and Indians/Indians – all of which involve varied social and geographic communities. After completing a Fulbright fellowship in Bangalore, India, working on the Building Nomads project, he continued his strong focus on interdisciplinary collaboration as director of the MFA program at the Memphis College of Art. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of SFAI, Sanjit was Director of the Center for Art and Public Life and Barclay Simpson Professor and Chair of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts. Sethi is currently the Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI). www.sanjitsethi.com
Photos by Matthew Gaston
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
PNCA’s MFA in Visual Studies Low Residency Thesis Exhibition celebrates the first graduating class of the Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program.
Photographs by Marissa Boone, BFA ‘14
MFA Central Gallery
Rhonda Vanover: Between Here and Gone
These photographs present a sublime finish to what has been taken away. My mark making invites the viewer to see what I see: beauty at its end. This revolving door is one of continuous loss: a willingness to give in and succumb to the end. My photographs, while not inviting in the conventional sense, are an invitation nonetheless.
I am intrigued by the mundane and the unusual. How object and body are defined. I look at the everyday life that goes by, eventually ending in our own mortality. My interest is to persuade the viewer into this act of looking. To see the essence of what is left behind, oscillating between the real and the memorial.
Combining photographs and installation techniques I seek to create an unresolved tension between presence of object and absence of being. These intentionally disorienting, introspective, and visceral pieces continue the questions I always seek to ask.
Gallery 214
Jeanne Roderick: The Space Between
I am interested in the way looking and seeing work, how viewers bring narratives to their way of looking. The objects I make seek to destabilize expectations of what people imagine or want art works to be. My current work is about how meaning is made, knowledge is transmitted and the relationship of art to culture. Culture is shaped by the structures developed to support our values, including language.
Books and works of art, both considered objects of knowledge in the past, now exist in a digitally connected world chiefly as objects of the search. The current bewildering combination of words and images heaped upon us daily reflect how historical distinctions between art and media and culture are dissolving. Language in this zone is rendered mute and representation is erased and textual structures reduced to blind alleyways.
My work asks that a viewer look closely and spend time with objects that are both recognizable and foreign, formal and narrative, ancient and contemporary while observing the multi-dimensional, infinite spaces and surfaces that shift in color, texture and light. I want to invite the viewer to contemplate social expectations and the constructed “idea” of a work of art as more than the object itself.
Higgins Gallery
Jill Sattler: Haiyan
Through storytelling my art crosses the threshold of animated space, watercolor, sound and community collaboration. I am interested in how we navigate the spaces where we dwell, both domestic and social. Animation allows me to critically investigate this orientation and explore how it affects our experience and understanding of the world. Such investigation not only allows me to analyze why we are oriented in certain ways, it also allows me to determine my own orientation. My art engages with the viewer through animated space to both define and redefine our habitations. I incorporate objects that tie together the threads of the philosophy behind phenomenology while looking at how we can understand our personal orientations towards the world and how we have the power to shift perception.
MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition
Please join us for a closing reception with light refreshments:
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 3-5pm
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217
Pacific Northwest College of Art is pleased to announce the MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition, PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition. The exhibition will run until July 23rd and is free and open to the public.
PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition is comprised of seventeen MFA candidates who work in an array of multi-disciplinary mediums such as sculpture, painting, drawing, textiles, film, video, writing and comedy. These candidates have moved to Portland, OR, from all ends of the country. This multi-faceted exhibition highlights the growth of each candidate's art practices throughout their first year of attending graduate school.
Exhibiting artists are: Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Jason Berlin, Rebecca Mackay Rosen Carlisle, Maggie-Rose Condit, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Dylan Schietinger, Lauren Stumpf, Rachel Brown Smith and Nikki Vene.
As the curator of PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition, Libby Werbel sought to exemplify the strengths of each student’s processes. Werbel notes, “I hope that the cohesive thread that is established in a show of such varied mediums and practice is the unique collaboration between the students and me."
Werbel founded PMOMA in 2012. In 2014, Werbel was the awardee of the Precipice Grant, a funding initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation distributed through PICA for projects being developed on the edge of new practice.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
The Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies and the first year candidates in the MFA in Visual Studies invite you to “Nascence,” Part 2 of a group exhibition at The Lodge Gallery at Allied Works. These artists represent half of the MFA in Visual Studies class of 2015 and span media including painting, projection, photography, digital media, multimedia and sculpture. Participating artists include Eryn Boone, Maria Davidoff, Lucas Haley, Annie Oldenburg, Min Jung, Nicholas Patton, and V2R2. 12-05-2013, Photo by Micah Fischer '13.
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
Using video, performance, and other media, Leung obliquely reinvents the war stories of our time. Pulling inspiration from objects, people, and writing that have been removed from their origins—through the effects of time, circumstance or historical violence—Leung recombines these parts to form new allegories that challenge the received meanings of his source material. A professor at the University of California, Irvine, Leung has exhibited at the Guangzhou Triennial (2008), Luleå Biennial (2005), Venice Biennale (2003), Whitney Biennial (1993), the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1a Space (Hong Kong), NGBK (Berlin).
January 31, 2013. Photographs by: Micah Fischer '13
PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition.
PNCA - Commons (2nd Floor)
Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design
511 NW Broadway Portland, Oregon 97209
First Thursday Reception - June 4th 6-9pm
Thirteen is a culmination of work from the MFA in Visual Studies class of 2015’s past two years together. Although their mediums, aesthetics, and concepts may follow different lines of inquiry, what threads their individual practices together is the shared dialog and constant support that has thrived during their academic development. Thirteen showcases each artist’s work individually, but when taken as a whole, their collective influences, connections, and experiences highlight the creativity and inspiration amongst the group.
Exhibiting Artists: Maria Davidoff, Lucas Haley, Evan Isoline, Candace Jahn, Marisa Lee, Kelly McGovern, Jung Min, Bertrand Morin, Annie Oldenburg, Nick Patton, Katie Piatt, Veronica Reeves, and Micah Schmelzer.
PNCA MFA IN VISUAL STUDIES
Boris Groys in his essay “Education by Infection” examines contagion and illness as a metaphor that characterizes a productive condition for art education and practice today. Groys locates examples in the work and philosophy of Kazimir Malevich who portrayed the bombardment of influences and inputs directed at art students as a strain of bacilli, ever adapting and incorporating new forms by the host organism. Groys goes on to suggest the art academy once removed from the world, is now cast open to growing impressions and contradictions ¬¬– whether it be the art market, politics, ethical concerns or entertainment. Students who put themselves in this position are tasked without clear boundaries and often-indefinite solutions for their work. It is my hope that through risk and experimentation, we as students, educators and artists embrace such an uncomfortable and indeterminate space, where as Groys posits, we are both the infected and the infecting. This is both a place of vulnerability and influence. Through this lens the thirteen students in the graduating Visual Studies class of 2015 can leverage their time in art school and all the hard work it has taken, knowing that their efforts as creative artists will be that of adaptation and resilience.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
MFA LRVS Lecture: Wendy Given
Jul 22, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Wendy Given for a discussion of her work as part of the 2015 Summer Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Wendy Given was born in 1971 and is an American artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Given studied fine art and was trained in painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture during her BFA undergraduate work at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Given has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including the Vincent Price Art Museum in Monterey Park, California; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York; Fototropía in Guatemala City, Guatemala; Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, California; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon; Indiana University IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana; Humble Arts Foundation, New York, New York; Kasher | Potamkin, New York, New York; Hap Gallery, Portland, Oregon; University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee; whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia and Wieden+Kennedy Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Given has also been awarded residencies with Signal Fire, Portland, Oregon; Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, California; and at Caldera Arts, Sisters, Oregon. She is represented by whitespace in Atlanta, Georgia and Kasher | Potamkin in NYC. www.wendygiven.com
Photos by Matthew Gaston
PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2015 Thesis Exhibition.
PNCA - Commons (2nd Floor)
Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design
511 NW Broadway Portland, Oregon 97209
First Thursday Reception - June 4th 6-9pm
Thirteen is a culmination of work from the MFA in Visual Studies class of 2015’s past two years together. Although their mediums, aesthetics, and concepts may follow different lines of inquiry, what threads their individual practices together is the shared dialog and constant support that has thrived during their academic development. Thirteen showcases each artist’s work individually, but when taken as a whole, their collective influences, connections, and experiences highlight the creativity and inspiration amongst the group.
Exhibiting Artists: Maria Davidoff, Lucas Haley, Evan Isoline, Candace Jahn, Marisa Lee, Kelly McGovern, Jung Min, Bertrand Morin, Annie Oldenburg, Nick Patton, Katie Piatt, Veronica Reeves, and Micah Schmelzer.
PNCA MFA IN VISUAL STUDIES
Boris Groys in his essay “Education by Infection” examines contagion and illness as a metaphor that characterizes a productive condition for art education and practice today. Groys locates examples in the work and philosophy of Kazimir Malevich who portrayed the bombardment of influences and inputs directed at art students as a strain of bacilli, ever adapting and incorporating new forms by the host organism. Groys goes on to suggest the art academy once removed from the world, is now cast open to growing impressions and contradictions ¬¬– whether it be the art market, politics, ethical concerns or entertainment. Students who put themselves in this position are tasked without clear boundaries and often-indefinite solutions for their work. It is my hope that through risk and experimentation, we as students, educators and artists embrace such an uncomfortable and indeterminate space, where as Groys posits, we are both the infected and the infecting. This is both a place of vulnerability and influence. Through this lens the thirteen students in the graduating Visual Studies class of 2015 can leverage their time in art school and all the hard work it has taken, knowing that their efforts as creative artists will be that of adaptation and resilience.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program presents its inaugural lecture with the renowned abstract visual artist, Peter Halley. This lecture is in collaboration with Disjecta, and Halley’s exhibition “Prison” which opens at Disjecta on January 21.
About Peter Halley
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York. Along with a studio practice that includes the production of paintings, prints, and drawings, Halley also served as the director of the MFA Painting program at Yale University from 2002-2011. Additionally, in 1996, he and curator/writer Bob Nickas co-founded index magazine, a publication featuring in-depth interviews with people in diverse creative fields. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, Halley ran index out of his studio, which became a meeting place for writers, photographers and people who were interviewed in the magazine.
Halley’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently “Judgment Day,” an installation of digital prints for the exhibition Personal Structures at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Other venues have included Tate Modern, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; among many others. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired one of Halley’s seminal paintings, “Red Cell with Conduit,” 1982.
January 20, 2012. Photos by: Micah Fischer '13.
Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies Mid-Year Presentations, Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:30pm - 5:30pm The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2014 includes:
Judith Hochman, painting, printmaking
Jeanne Roderick, installation, sound, sculpture, painting
Jill Sattler, animation, installation, sound
Rhonda Vanover. Photography, photographed by Joseph Greer '16
MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition
Please join us for a closing reception with light refreshments:
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 3-5pm
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217
Pacific Northwest College of Art is pleased to announce the MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition, PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition. The exhibition will run until July 23rd and is free and open to the public.
PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition is comprised of seventeen MFA candidates who work in an array of multi-disciplinary mediums such as sculpture, painting, drawing, textiles, film, video, writing and comedy. These candidates have moved to Portland, OR, from all ends of the country. This multi-faceted exhibition highlights the growth of each candidate's art practices throughout their first year of attending graduate school.
Exhibiting artists are: Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Jason Berlin, Rebecca Mackay Rosen Carlisle, Maggie-Rose Condit, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Dylan Schietinger, Lauren Stumpf, Rachel Brown Smith and Nikki Vene.
As the curator of PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition, Libby Werbel sought to exemplify the strengths of each student’s processes. Werbel notes, “I hope that the cohesive thread that is established in a show of such varied mediums and practice is the unique collaboration between the students and me."
Werbel founded PMOMA in 2012. In 2014, Werbel was the awardee of the Precipice Grant, a funding initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation distributed through PICA for projects being developed on the edge of new practice.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
MFA in VIsual Studies Studios. February 2010. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Heather Zinger '10.
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program presents its inaugural lecture with the renowned abstract visual artist, Peter Halley. This lecture is in collaboration with Disjecta, and Halley’s exhibition “Prison” which opens at Disjecta on January 21.
About Peter Halley
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York. Along with a studio practice that includes the production of paintings, prints, and drawings, Halley also served as the director of the MFA Painting program at Yale University from 2002-2011. Additionally, in 1996, he and curator/writer Bob Nickas co-founded index magazine, a publication featuring in-depth interviews with people in diverse creative fields. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, Halley ran index out of his studio, which became a meeting place for writers, photographers and people who were interviewed in the magazine.
Halley’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently “Judgment Day,” an installation of digital prints for the exhibition Personal Structures at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Other venues have included Tate Modern, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; among many others. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired one of Halley’s seminal paintings, “Red Cell with Conduit,” 1982.
January 20, 2012. Photos by: Micah Fischer '13.
PNCA’s MFA in Visual Studies Low Residency Thesis Exhibition celebrates the first graduating class of the Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program.
Photographs by Marissa Boone, BFA ‘14
MFA Central Gallery
Rhonda Vanover: Between Here and Gone
These photographs present a sublime finish to what has been taken away. My mark making invites the viewer to see what I see: beauty at its end. This revolving door is one of continuous loss: a willingness to give in and succumb to the end. My photographs, while not inviting in the conventional sense, are an invitation nonetheless.
I am intrigued by the mundane and the unusual. How object and body are defined. I look at the everyday life that goes by, eventually ending in our own mortality. My interest is to persuade the viewer into this act of looking. To see the essence of what is left behind, oscillating between the real and the memorial.
Combining photographs and installation techniques I seek to create an unresolved tension between presence of object and absence of being. These intentionally disorienting, introspective, and visceral pieces continue the questions I always seek to ask.
Gallery 214
Jeanne Roderick: The Space Between
I am interested in the way looking and seeing work, how viewers bring narratives to their way of looking. The objects I make seek to destabilize expectations of what people imagine or want art works to be. My current work is about how meaning is made, knowledge is transmitted and the relationship of art to culture. Culture is shaped by the structures developed to support our values, including language.
Books and works of art, both considered objects of knowledge in the past, now exist in a digitally connected world chiefly as objects of the search. The current bewildering combination of words and images heaped upon us daily reflect how historical distinctions between art and media and culture are dissolving. Language in this zone is rendered mute and representation is erased and textual structures reduced to blind alleyways.
My work asks that a viewer look closely and spend time with objects that are both recognizable and foreign, formal and narrative, ancient and contemporary while observing the multi-dimensional, infinite spaces and surfaces that shift in color, texture and light. I want to invite the viewer to contemplate social expectations and the constructed “idea” of a work of art as more than the object itself.
Higgins Gallery
Jill Sattler: Haiyan
Through storytelling my art crosses the threshold of animated space, watercolor, sound and community collaboration. I am interested in how we navigate the spaces where we dwell, both domestic and social. Animation allows me to critically investigate this orientation and explore how it affects our experience and understanding of the world. Such investigation not only allows me to analyze why we are oriented in certain ways, it also allows me to determine my own orientation. My art engages with the viewer through animated space to both define and redefine our habitations. I incorporate objects that tie together the threads of the philosophy behind phenomenology while looking at how we can understand our personal orientations towards the world and how we have the power to shift perception.
Using video, performance, and other media, Leung obliquely reinvents the war stories of our time. Pulling inspiration from objects, people, and writing that have been removed from their origins—through the effects of time, circumstance or historical violence—Leung recombines these parts to form new allegories that challenge the received meanings of his source material. A professor at the University of California, Irvine, Leung has exhibited at the Guangzhou Triennial (2008), Luleå Biennial (2005), Venice Biennale (2003), Whitney Biennial (1993), the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1a Space (Hong Kong), NGBK (Berlin).
January 31, 2013. Photographs by: Micah Fischer '13
Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies Mid-Year Presentations, Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:30pm - 5:30pm The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2014 includes:
Judith Hochman, painting, printmaking
Jeanne Roderick, installation, sound, sculpture, painting
Jill Sattler, animation, installation, sound
Rhonda Vanover. Photography, photographed by Joseph Greer '16
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
MFA in Visual Studies candidates invite the public into their studio space for an evening of art, performance, and conversation. MFA Visual Studies Class of 2013:
Christina Bailey, Terri Bradley, Erin Dengerink, Kaila Farrell-Smith, Kiel Fletcher, Linden How, Timothy Janchar, John Knight, Matthew Leavitt, Daniel Long, Andrew Lorish, Jordan Meyers, Cristin Norine, Justin Schwab, Edward Trover, Lindsay Williams, Takahiro Yamamoto
MFA VIsual Studies Class of 2012:
Nadia Buyse, Jodie Cavalier, Patrick Driscoll, Kei Horiuchi, Juleen Johnson, Oriana Lewton-Leopold, Fletcher Meisenburg, Jamie Nadherny, James Papadopoulos, Stefan Ransom, Victoria Reynolds, Marilyn Skalberg, Timothy Stigliano
November 19, 2011. Photos by: Matthew Miller '11.
MFA in Visual Studies candidates invite the public into their studio space for an evening of art, performance, and conversation. MFA Visual Studies Class of 2013:
Christina Bailey, Terri Bradley, Erin Dengerink, Kaila Farrell-Smith, Kiel Fletcher, Linden How, Timothy Janchar, John Knight, Matthew Leavitt, Daniel Long, Andrew Lorish, Jordan Meyers, Cristin Norine, Justin Schwab, Edward Trover, Lindsay Williams, Takahiro Yamamoto
MFA VIsual Studies Class of 2012:
Nadia Buyse, Jodie Cavalier, Patrick Driscoll, Kei Horiuchi, Juleen Johnson, Oriana Lewton-Leopold, Fletcher Meisenburg, Jamie Nadherny, James Papadopoulos, Stefan Ransom, Victoria Reynolds, Marilyn Skalberg, Timothy Stigliano
November 19, 2011. Photos by: Matthew Miller '11.
The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Gil Blank as part of the 2013-2014 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Photos by Stephanie Yu MFA VS 14'
MFA in Visual Studies candidates invite the public into their studio space for an evening of art, performance, and conversation. MFA Visual Studies Class of 2013:
Christina Bailey, Terri Bradley, Erin Dengerink, Kaila Farrell-Smith, Kiel Fletcher, Linden How, Timothy Janchar, John Knight, Matthew Leavitt, Daniel Long, Andrew Lorish, Jordan Meyers, Cristin Norine, Justin Schwab, Edward Trover, Lindsay Williams, Takahiro Yamamoto
MFA VIsual Studies Class of 2012:
Nadia Buyse, Jodie Cavalier, Patrick Driscoll, Kei Horiuchi, Juleen Johnson, Oriana Lewton-Leopold, Fletcher Meisenburg, Jamie Nadherny, James Papadopoulos, Stefan Ransom, Victoria Reynolds, Marilyn Skalberg, Timothy Stigliano
November 19, 2011. Photos by: Matthew Miller '11.
Participants learn the core skills of composing positives, processing them to produce a screen stencil and printing them in registration to create a three-color poster. This workshop serves as an introduction to the WNY Book Arts Center (WNYBAC) and ePic’s Community Printshop.
PNCA’s MFA in Visual Studies Low Residency Thesis Exhibition celebrates the first graduating class of the Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program.
Photographs by Marissa Boone, BFA ‘14
MFA Central Gallery
Rhonda Vanover: Between Here and Gone
These photographs present a sublime finish to what has been taken away. My mark making invites the viewer to see what I see: beauty at its end. This revolving door is one of continuous loss: a willingness to give in and succumb to the end. My photographs, while not inviting in the conventional sense, are an invitation nonetheless.
I am intrigued by the mundane and the unusual. How object and body are defined. I look at the everyday life that goes by, eventually ending in our own mortality. My interest is to persuade the viewer into this act of looking. To see the essence of what is left behind, oscillating between the real and the memorial.
Combining photographs and installation techniques I seek to create an unresolved tension between presence of object and absence of being. These intentionally disorienting, introspective, and visceral pieces continue the questions I always seek to ask.
Gallery 214
Jeanne Roderick: The Space Between
I am interested in the way looking and seeing work, how viewers bring narratives to their way of looking. The objects I make seek to destabilize expectations of what people imagine or want art works to be. My current work is about how meaning is made, knowledge is transmitted and the relationship of art to culture. Culture is shaped by the structures developed to support our values, including language.
Books and works of art, both considered objects of knowledge in the past, now exist in a digitally connected world chiefly as objects of the search. The current bewildering combination of words and images heaped upon us daily reflect how historical distinctions between art and media and culture are dissolving. Language in this zone is rendered mute and representation is erased and textual structures reduced to blind alleyways.
My work asks that a viewer look closely and spend time with objects that are both recognizable and foreign, formal and narrative, ancient and contemporary while observing the multi-dimensional, infinite spaces and surfaces that shift in color, texture and light. I want to invite the viewer to contemplate social expectations and the constructed “idea” of a work of art as more than the object itself.
Higgins Gallery
Jill Sattler: Haiyan
Through storytelling my art crosses the threshold of animated space, watercolor, sound and community collaboration. I am interested in how we navigate the spaces where we dwell, both domestic and social. Animation allows me to critically investigate this orientation and explore how it affects our experience and understanding of the world. Such investigation not only allows me to analyze why we are oriented in certain ways, it also allows me to determine my own orientation. My art engages with the viewer through animated space to both define and redefine our habitations. I incorporate objects that tie together the threads of the philosophy behind phenomenology while looking at how we can understand our personal orientations towards the world and how we have the power to shift perception.
Visual Studies Artist Lecture: Kristin Lucas
Feb 26, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
PNCA Commons
Kristin Lucas is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works between Austin and New York. Her work investigates the uncanny overlaps of virtual and lived realities, and the physical and psychological effects of technologies on perception, behavior, and identity. Her video, installation, networked performance, augmented reality, and hybrid media works have been presented internationally at museums and galleries, including: The New Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City); Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Liverpool); Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe); Nam June Paik Art Center (Gyeonggi-do); and at festivals, including: dOCUMENTA (Kassel), Low Lives International Internet Performance Festival, Transmediale Festival (Berlin), and World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam). She has participated in numerous residency programs, including: The Experimental Television Center, Harvestworks, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, P.S.1, ARCUS, ACC Weimar, Eyebeam, and Signal Culture. Her artwork is represented by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and Postmasters Gallery in New York. Lucas earned her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and her MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in several graduate and undergraduate art programs, including Bard College and The University of Texas.
Photographs by Mario Gallucci
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
MFA LRVS Lecture: Sanjit Sethi
Sanjit Sethi
Jul 1, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Sanjit Sethi for a discussion of his work as part of the 2015 Summer Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Born in Rochester, New York, Sanjit Sethi received a BFA in 1994 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in 1998 from the University of Georgia, and an MS in advanced visual studies in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sanjit has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Memphis College of Art, the Shristi School of Art, Design and Technology, and the California College of the Arts. His work deals with issues of nomadism, identity, the residue of labor, and memory. Sanjit recently completed the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance, an olfactory-based memorial in Memphis, and Richmond Voting Stories, a community-based collaboration between local high school students and older members of the Richmond, CA. His current works include Urban Defibrillator, the Gypsy Bridge project, the Richmond Ceramics Workshop, the architecture of inversion series, and Indians/Indians – all of which involve varied social and geographic communities. After completing a Fulbright fellowship in Bangalore, India, working on the Building Nomads project, he continued his strong focus on interdisciplinary collaboration as director of the MFA program at the Memphis College of Art. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of SFAI, Sanjit was Director of the Center for Art and Public Life and Barclay Simpson Professor and Chair of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts. Sethi is currently the Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI). www.sanjitsethi.com
Photos by Matthew Gaston
MFA LRVS Lecture: Wendy Given
Jul 22, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Wendy Given for a discussion of her work as part of the 2015 Summer Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Wendy Given was born in 1971 and is an American artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Given studied fine art and was trained in painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture during her BFA undergraduate work at Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Given has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues including the Vincent Price Art Museum in Monterey Park, California; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York; Fototropía in Guatemala City, Guatemala; Fifth Floor, Los Angeles, California; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon; Indiana University IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana; Humble Arts Foundation, New York, New York; Kasher | Potamkin, New York, New York; Hap Gallery, Portland, Oregon; University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee; whitespace, Atlanta, Georgia and Wieden+Kennedy Gallery, Portland, Oregon. Given has also been awarded residencies with Signal Fire, Portland, Oregon; Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, California; and at Caldera Arts, Sisters, Oregon. She is represented by whitespace in Atlanta, Georgia and Kasher | Potamkin in NYC. www.wendygiven.com
Photos by Matthew Gaston
The MFA VS Low-Residency invited neuroscientist Brian Dunn to give a lecture and have studio visits with the MFA candidates as well as be a guest critic during the summer intensive.
Brian Dunn is an editor, educator, and researcher in the field of human affective neuroscience. He and his colleagues use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify the neural correlates of human emotional experiences. Since 1994, he directly collaborates with studio and recording artists on the neural and psychological bases of their concerns. He is currently completing a PhD at Concordia University’s Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology in Montreal. July 27, 2012.
Photography by: Matthew Miller '11.
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program presents its inaugural lecture with the renowned abstract visual artist, Peter Halley. This lecture is in collaboration with Disjecta, and Halley’s exhibition “Prison” which opens at Disjecta on January 21.
About Peter Halley
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York. Along with a studio practice that includes the production of paintings, prints, and drawings, Halley also served as the director of the MFA Painting program at Yale University from 2002-2011. Additionally, in 1996, he and curator/writer Bob Nickas co-founded index magazine, a publication featuring in-depth interviews with people in diverse creative fields. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, Halley ran index out of his studio, which became a meeting place for writers, photographers and people who were interviewed in the magazine.
Halley’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently “Judgment Day,” an installation of digital prints for the exhibition Personal Structures at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Other venues have included Tate Modern, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; among many others. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired one of Halley’s seminal paintings, “Red Cell with Conduit,” 1982.
January 20, 2012. Photos by: Micah Fischer '13.
MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition
Please join us for a closing reception with light refreshments:
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 3-5pm
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217
Pacific Northwest College of Art is pleased to announce the MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition, PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition. The exhibition will run until July 23rd and is free and open to the public.
PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition is comprised of seventeen MFA candidates who work in an array of multi-disciplinary mediums such as sculpture, painting, drawing, textiles, film, video, writing and comedy. These candidates have moved to Portland, OR, from all ends of the country. This multi-faceted exhibition highlights the growth of each candidate's art practices throughout their first year of attending graduate school.
Exhibiting artists are: Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Jason Berlin, Rebecca Mackay Rosen Carlisle, Maggie-Rose Condit, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Dylan Schietinger, Lauren Stumpf, Rachel Brown Smith and Nikki Vene.
As the curator of PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition, Libby Werbel sought to exemplify the strengths of each student’s processes. Werbel notes, “I hope that the cohesive thread that is established in a show of such varied mediums and practice is the unique collaboration between the students and me."
Werbel founded PMOMA in 2012. In 2014, Werbel was the awardee of the Precipice Grant, a funding initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation distributed through PICA for projects being developed on the edge of new practice.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition
Please join us for a closing reception with light refreshments:
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 3-5pm
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217
Pacific Northwest College of Art is pleased to announce the MFA in Visual Studies Class of 2016 first year exhibition, PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition. The exhibition will run until July 23rd and is free and open to the public.
PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition is comprised of seventeen MFA candidates who work in an array of multi-disciplinary mediums such as sculpture, painting, drawing, textiles, film, video, writing and comedy. These candidates have moved to Portland, OR, from all ends of the country. This multi-faceted exhibition highlights the growth of each candidate's art practices throughout their first year of attending graduate school.
Exhibiting artists are: Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Jason Berlin, Rebecca Mackay Rosen Carlisle, Maggie-Rose Condit, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Dylan Schietinger, Lauren Stumpf, Rachel Brown Smith and Nikki Vene.
As the curator of PNCA MFA in Visual Studies First Year Exhibition, Libby Werbel sought to exemplify the strengths of each student’s processes. Werbel notes, “I hope that the cohesive thread that is established in a show of such varied mediums and practice is the unique collaboration between the students and me."
Werbel founded PMOMA in 2012. In 2014, Werbel was the awardee of the Precipice Grant, a funding initiative of The Andy Warhol Foundation distributed through PICA for projects being developed on the edge of new practice.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
MFA LRVS Lecture: Sanjit Sethi
Sanjit Sethi
Jul 1, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Sanjit Sethi for a discussion of his work as part of the 2015 Summer Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Born in Rochester, New York, Sanjit Sethi received a BFA in 1994 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, an MFA in 1998 from the University of Georgia, and an MS in advanced visual studies in 2002 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sanjit has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Memphis College of Art, the Shristi School of Art, Design and Technology, and the California College of the Arts. His work deals with issues of nomadism, identity, the residue of labor, and memory. Sanjit recently completed the Kuni Wada Bakery Remembrance, an olfactory-based memorial in Memphis, and Richmond Voting Stories, a community-based collaboration between local high school students and older members of the Richmond, CA. His current works include Urban Defibrillator, the Gypsy Bridge project, the Richmond Ceramics Workshop, the architecture of inversion series, and Indians/Indians – all of which involve varied social and geographic communities. After completing a Fulbright fellowship in Bangalore, India, working on the Building Nomads project, he continued his strong focus on interdisciplinary collaboration as director of the MFA program at the Memphis College of Art. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of SFAI, Sanjit was Director of the Center for Art and Public Life and Barclay Simpson Professor and Chair of Community Arts at the California College of the Arts. Sethi is currently the Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI). www.sanjitsethi.com
Photos by Matthew Gaston
Featured artists include:
Amory Abbott, Sean Barnes, Rachel Brown Smith, E.M. Fuller, Alex Godbold, Anastasia Greer, Tessa Heck, Aaron Christopher Johnson, Caitlin Rooney, Maggie-Rose Condit, BriAnna Rosen, Tait Simonson, Lauren Stumpf, Jason Berlin Thomas and Nikki Venè.
724 NW Davis St, Portland
May 22 - June 17
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies
Thesis Oral Defense ScheduleClass of 2015
PNCA - 511 NW Broadway Portland, OR - Dorothy Lemelson Innovation Studio
Monday, August 3rd
4:00pm
Liz Randall, Wake, photography installation.
“Wake” uses Liz’s family photos digitally combined with her own photography to retell lost moments experienced over five generations. The installation probes how memories are forgotten, passed down, and retold in the wake of passing time.
5:30pm
Trish Brownlee, About Face, mixed media installation.
Through personal experience and research, Trish Brownlee explores post-9/11 military life in the mixed media artwork exhibited in About Face. This work was created through collaboration between artist and subject and suggests that art is capable of serving as a tool to bridge the gap between military and civilian communities. The exhibit offers a space for open communication and welcomes all who are willing to bear witness. This work serves as a voice for those who too often remain silent.
7:00pm
Alanna Risse, Chasing the Whale, immersive installation.
Chasing the Whale is an immersive installation embracing transformation and humor through the use of the sperm whale as symbolic representation of fear.
Tuesday, August 4th
4:00pm
Dana Rudolph, Omission, mixed media installation.
Through examination of personal history and personal anxiety Dana Rudolph creates memory spaces that are amalgamations of truth and fiction, of time and space, and of past and present. The work is inspired by loss and grief, and documents the physical toll of anxiety.
5:30pm
Judith Hochman, Otherwise, print installation and video.
Otherwise is an installation of multimedia prints on silk and a video projection. The human face in relationship to water is used as a strategy to examine the mutability, vulnerability and unknowability of the Other.
7:00pm
Amanda Wilcox, Poetics of Becoming Art, painting and photography.
Surface and the process of mark making within my work observes moments of beauty and discontent, and is a means of reimagining what could be. My amalgamations of photography, painting and drawing explore the influence of diverse perspectives, contemplative moments and the liminal threshold between two states of being.
Photos by Mario Gallucci
The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies program presents its inaugural lecture with the renowned abstract visual artist, Peter Halley. This lecture is in collaboration with Disjecta, and Halley’s exhibition “Prison” which opens at Disjecta on January 21.
About Peter Halley
Peter Halley was born in 1953 in New York. Along with a studio practice that includes the production of paintings, prints, and drawings, Halley also served as the director of the MFA Painting program at Yale University from 2002-2011. Additionally, in 1996, he and curator/writer Bob Nickas co-founded index magazine, a publication featuring in-depth interviews with people in diverse creative fields. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, Halley ran index out of his studio, which became a meeting place for writers, photographers and people who were interviewed in the magazine.
Halley’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently “Judgment Day,” an installation of digital prints for the exhibition Personal Structures at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Other venues have included Tate Modern, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy; among many others. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired one of Halley’s seminal paintings, “Red Cell with Conduit,” 1982.
January 20, 2012. Photos by: Micah Fischer '13.