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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.
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.
Stray Fires, an exhibition by first year MFA in Visual Studies students, runs July 10 - August 8, 2010 at Disjecta. Pacific Northwest College of Art. Portland, Oregon. Photo: Heather Zinger '10.
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.
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
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
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 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 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
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.
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
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
Cynthia Ona Innis’ biomorphic abstractions on satin, velvet, and vinyl investigate formal expressions of transformation, revealing the moment one thing transitions into the other. Innis holds a BA in Studio Art from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Painting from Rutgers University. Her works are included in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.
Check out her website and read a blog post on Beautiful/Decay.
July 12, 2012.
Photographs by: Matthew Miller '11.
New Zealand-born Anna Sew Hoy is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice is rooted in ceramics, but also includes works on paper, soft sculpture, installation, photography and a myriad of other media. Playful and uncanny, she navigates between figurative and abstract imagery. She engages the modernist avant-garde’s conflicting obsessions with primitivism and the “purity” of sculpture.
March 8, 2012. Photos by: Kaija Cornett '12.
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
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
A frame part of a series of frames taken for a Pierre Tremblay's Animation of Still Images in Visual Studies. The animation was set to a cover of Blow Out by Radiohead by Lo-Freq and were taken with a my constructed digital holga in Rosedale Valley and Wellesley Park with Amanda
MFA in VIsual Studies Studios. February 2010. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Heather Zinger '10.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Stray Fires, an exhibition by first year MFA in Visual Studies students, runs July 10 - August 8, 2010 at Disjecta. Pacific Northwest College of Art. Portland, Oregon. Photo: Heather Zinger '10.
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'
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 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
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
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
Xylor Jane and B. Wurtz is a two-person show highlighting recent work of two important artists who consistently surprise with the simplicity of their means and process. B. Wurtz (b. 1948) makes sculptural assemblages from string, socks, buttons, household implements and plastic bags. Xylor Jane (b. 1963) draws on basic mathematical algorithms to make intricate painted patterns. This exhibition is curated by MFA in Visual Studies Chair, artist and curator, Arnold J. Kemp.
February 3, 2012. Photos by: Kaija Cornett '12.
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
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
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
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
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
Samantha Wall MFA in Visual Studies '11 in her studio. February 2010. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Heather Zinger '10.
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
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
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