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.

The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Ann Hamilton as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. This event is co-sponsored by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. 11-01-2013, Photo by Marissa Boone '14

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

PNFA MFA in Visual Studies presents the 2014 first year exhibition "HEAVY LIGHT".

Opening reception- July 5, 6-9 pm

An evening of video and performance- July 12, 6-9 pm

Participating Artists:

Maria Davidoff

Evan Isoline

Lucas Haley

Candace Jahn

Kelly McGovern

Marisa Lee

Betrand Morin

Jung Min

Annie Oldenburg

Nicholas Patton

Katie Piatt

Veronica Reeves

Micah Schmelzer

Photos by Stephanie Yu MFA VS '14

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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

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: 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

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

The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Ann Hamilton as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. This event is co-sponsored by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. 11-01-2013, Photo by Marissa Boone '14

The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Ann Hamilton as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. This event is co-sponsored by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. 11-01-2013, Photo by Marissa Boone '14

PNFA MFA in Visual Studies presents the 2014 first year exhibition "HEAVY LIGHT".

Opening reception- July 5, 6-9 pm

An evening of video and performance- July 12, 6-9 pm

Participating Artists:

Maria Davidoff

Evan Isoline

Lucas Haley

Candace Jahn

Kelly McGovern

Marisa Lee

Betrand Morin

Jung Min

Annie Oldenburg

Nicholas Patton

Katie Piatt

Veronica Reeves

Micah Schmelzer

Photos by Stephanie Yu MFA VS '14

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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 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

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 Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies presents a lecture by neuroscientist Brian Dunn.

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 26, 2012.

Photography by: Matthew Miller '11.

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

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

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

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

Laura Hughes ’10 defends her MFA in Visual Studies thesis project. May 19, 2010. Goldsmith Building. Photo by Heather Zinger ’10.

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 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 Jayson Scott Musson as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Best known for his alter ego “Hennessy Youngman,” who delivers pointed and very funny art world critiques from an outsider perspective via YouTube, Jayson Scott Musson is an interdisciplinary visual artist and an original member of hip-hop group Plastic Little. Musson has been featured in Art in America, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Artnews. He holds an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

November 29, 2012. Photographs by: Micah Fischer '13.

The course on a visit to Bergh Apton where we have been invited to contribute to the Bergh Apton sculpture trail.

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

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

PNFA MFA in Visual Studies presents the 2014 first year exhibition "HEAVY LIGHT".

Opening reception- July 5, 6-9 pm

An evening of video and performance- July 12, 6-9 pm

Participating Artists:

Maria Davidoff

Evan Isoline

Lucas Haley

Candace Jahn

Kelly McGovern

Marisa Lee

Betrand Morin

Jung Min

Annie Oldenburg

Nicholas Patton

Katie Piatt

Veronica Reeves

Micah Schmelzer

Photos by Stephanie Yu MFA VS '14

heavy-light.com/

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 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 in Visual Studies welcomes Ann Hamilton as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. This event is co-sponsored by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. 11-01-2013, Photo by Marissa Boone '14

The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies presents a lecture by neuroscientist Brian Dunn.

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 26, 2012.

Photography by: Matthew Miller '11.

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

The MFA in Visual Studies welcomes Amanda Hunt as part of the 2013-2014 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Amanda Hunt is a Curator at LAXART, Los Angeles. She has worked at various galleries and institutions including Whitechapel Gallery, London; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Hunt served as Curatorial Assistant to LAXART Director Lauri Firstenberg on the Los Angeles City Pavilion produced by Walead Beshty as part of the 9th Shanghai Biennale in September 2012, and most recently curated Steffani Jemison’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at LAXART. Hunt will curate the 2014 Portland Biennial at Disjecta.

Photos by Joseph Greer '16.

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 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.

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

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 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.

The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies presents a lecture by neuroscientist Brian Dunn.

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 26, 2012.

Photography by: Matthew Miller '11.

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

The Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies presents a lecture by neuroscientist Brian Dunn.

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 26, 2012.

Photography by: Matthew Miller '11.

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