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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
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.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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
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 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
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
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 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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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
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 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.
Laura Hughes ’10 defends her MFA in Visual Studies thesis project. May 19, 2010. Goldsmith Building. Photo by Heather Zinger ’10.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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
Ezra Johnson: MFA Visual Studies Lecture
Mar 4, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Ezra Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, video animation and sculpture. Ezra has exhibited work both nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and film festivals including: Freight and Volume Gallery, Festival for Contemporary Arts, Pianello Val Tidone and Rocca Scotti Agazzano, Italy, New Galerie, Paris, France, Dia Center, New York, NY, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, and UCLA Hammer Museum Hammer Projects, ICA, Video Art: Replay in Philadelphia and SITE Santa Fe among many others.
Photographs by Joe Greer
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.
Ezra Johnson: MFA Visual Studies Lecture
Mar 4, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Ezra Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, video animation and sculpture. Ezra has exhibited work both nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and film festivals including: Freight and Volume Gallery, Festival for Contemporary Arts, Pianello Val Tidone and Rocca Scotti Agazzano, Italy, New Galerie, Paris, France, Dia Center, New York, NY, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, and UCLA Hammer Museum Hammer Projects, ICA, Video Art: Replay in Philadelphia and SITE Santa Fe among many others.
Photographs by Joe Greer
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.
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.
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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 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.
Letha Wilson
Apr 9, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Letha Wilson was raised in Colorado, received her BFA from Syracuse University, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Letha attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and her artwork has been shown at many venues including Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, International Center for Photography, and the Essl Museum of Contemporary Art (Austria). Letha’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, The New Yorker, among others. Letha has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, The Farpath Foundation (France), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe -Walentas Studio Program. She was recently awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and chosen as the Deutsche Bank Fellow, and was awarded a 2014 Jerome Foundation Travel Grant. Letha currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Photos by Joe Greer
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.
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.
Ezra Johnson: MFA Visual Studies Lecture
Mar 4, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Ezra Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, video animation and sculpture. Ezra has exhibited work both nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and film festivals including: Freight and Volume Gallery, Festival for Contemporary Arts, Pianello Val Tidone and Rocca Scotti Agazzano, Italy, New Galerie, Paris, France, Dia Center, New York, NY, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, and UCLA Hammer Museum Hammer Projects, ICA, Video Art: Replay in Philadelphia and SITE Santa Fe among many others.
Photographs by Joe Greer
The Class of 2015 in the MFA in Visual Studies invites you to join us for a First Thursday exhibition by PNCA’s Class of 2015 MFA in Visual Studies Candidates Annie Oldenburg, Marisa Lee, Kelly McGovern, and Maria Davidoff.
Photos by: Stephanie Yu MFA Visual Studies '14
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.
Letha Wilson
Apr 9, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Letha Wilson was raised in Colorado, received her BFA from Syracuse University, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Letha attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009, and her artwork has been shown at many venues including Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, International Center for Photography, and the Essl Museum of Contemporary Art (Austria). Letha’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, The New Yorker, among others. Letha has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, The Farpath Foundation (France), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe -Walentas Studio Program. She was recently awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography and chosen as the Deutsche Bank Fellow, and was awarded a 2014 Jerome Foundation Travel Grant. Letha currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Photos by Joe Greer
Ezra Johnson: MFA Visual Studies Lecture
Mar 4, 2015 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Ezra Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, video animation and sculpture. Ezra has exhibited work both nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and film festivals including: Freight and Volume Gallery, Festival for Contemporary Arts, Pianello Val Tidone and Rocca Scotti Agazzano, Italy, New Galerie, Paris, France, Dia Center, New York, NY, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, and UCLA Hammer Museum Hammer Projects, ICA, Video Art: Replay in Philadelphia and SITE Santa Fe among many others.
Photographs by Joe Greer
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 AA Bronson as part of the 2012-2013 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
AA Bronson formed General Idea with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal in 1969. The trio lived and worked together for 25 years, undertaking more than 100 exhibitions and public art projects. They were known for their magazine, FILE (1972–1989), their production of low-cost multiples, and their early involvement in punk, queer theory, and AIDS activism. In 1974, General Idea founded Art Metropole, a distribution center and archive in Toronto for artists’ books, audio, video, and multiples. Bronson’s solo work focuses on death, grieving, and healing. He founded the Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Photography by Micah Fischer 13'
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
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 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.