June 2013

Streamlining

In an effort of create more ease and organization in my life I created a news section on my website to use in lieu of trying to manage two sites. To learn about upcoming events and/or news, please visit my website. I also added an articles section which contains links to recent articles written about my work. Enjoy!

November 2012

it may take longer
Solo exhibit at The Brink in Missoula, MT, during the month of November. Click here to read an article featured in The Missoulian.

photo credits: Jen Leutzinger

September - October 2012

Very excited to curate the exhibit Conditions of Possibility for the Umpqua Valley Arts Center's Red Gallery on display September 7 - October 26, 2012.

Possibility is a state of chance or likelihood. Culturally, we are taught, "anything is possible," to "take a chance," and that "the world is our oyster." The word possibility hints at ability. It hints at desire and the opportunity for success. What are the conditions or circumstances required to create possibility? Do we create these conditions ourselves? What are the results when one takes advantage of chance and opportunity?

Using photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, video and audio, artists David French, Sandee McGee, Jon Leach, Amy Stout, Jen Erickson, Ryan Molenkamp, Todd Baldwin, and Kate Renner explore notions of possibility through a variety of imagery.

postcard image by Jen Erickson

August 2012

America!
Kindly Use (Post Card Project) on display in the exhibit America! at Work Gallery in Detroit, MI, from August 3 - 24, 2012.

Here is what curator Joe Levickas says of the exhibit:
"We are immersed in it from birth. We are fed it. We are dressed in it. We are taught it. We are sold it. America - as a place, a culture, a concept, and a sensibility - permeates every aspect of our lives. As artists, we are constantly taking it in and spitting it back out, trying to understand what it means to be part of this all-consuming thing. The works included here respond to this experience with pride and disgust, with fascination and boredom.  In what do we believe? For what do we hope? What do we aim to become? This exhibition is as much an observation of where we live as it is an introspective questioning of who we are both as individuals and as a collective whole."

August 2012

Black Fish Gallery
A small display in Black Fish Gallery's Fishbowl Two in Portland, OR, from July 29 - September 1, 2012. Featuring works from my Tedium series, this display features four works from A Long, Slow, Forlorn Cry group, also Home Sweet Home SOS (cube in corner), and a video piece titled The Work that Might Seem Unrecognizable. 

Click here to see a short video produced by the Black Fish Gallery on YouTube.

July - August 2012

Chase Gallery
A Long, Slow, Forlorn Cry No. 3 and A Long, Slow, Forlorn Cry No. 8 on display at the Chase Gallery in Spokane, WA, from July 10 - August 31, 2013. This exhibit is an invitational group photography show simply titled Photography 2012 and includes works by artists in Idaho and Washington.

June - July 2012

Rogue Gallery & Art Center

Shadow Effects is at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center from Jun 15 - July 14, 2012. Shadow Effects will be a miniature version of itself displayed along side the work of Matthew Litteken and Maggie Javna.

Check my website for images of this exhibit.

Shadow Effects would not have been possible without support from the Oregon Arts Commission's Career Opportunity Grant. 

May 2012

Versal
But the Flowers, They were Ours was selected to be apart of Versal's 10th publication. Versal is an international literally and arts journals out of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

April - May 2012

The Arts Center
We Eat Laughing, Helpless and Forgetful  was selected to be apart of the exhibit Finger Licking Good: Art about Food at The Arts Center in Corvallis, OR. Exhibit runs from April 26 - May 26, 2012. Click here to view works included in the exhibit.

March - April 2012

But the Flowers, They were Ours and Work is What I Do on display in the 15th International Open at WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, IL, from March 2 - April 26, 2012. Juror: Linda Warren.

Artist reception: March 2, 2012, from 6 - 9 pm.

March 2012

Small Gestures

Sent over 200 small drawings to strangers in collected return mailing envelopes from credit card companies, magazines, and other organizations. A small gesture honoring the work the employees at these different companies complete each day.

Click here to see a small sampling of drawings from this project.

February - March 2012

Jentel
Spent one month in rural Wyoming at Jentel Artist Residency Program. An amazing and productive time spent with three other visual artists - Charlie Capp, Joseph Kendrick, and Ryan Molenkamp - and two writers - Alena Graedon and Erica Olson.

Completed many projects, including: Kindly Use - a site specific work consisting of hand-painted signs placed along a four mile stretch of Lower Piney Creek Road referencing land-use ethic; Good Neighbor - a work that explored the role of fences in the West; Small Gestures - see January 2012 blog post; and other smaller projects that tracked my observations of this place.

photo credit: Joseph Kendrick

February - March 2012

Shadow Effects is on display at the Douglas County Museum in Roseburg, OR.

Through this exhibit I hijack the topic of land management on O&C (Oregon & California Railroad) Lands from environmental activists, politicians and the timber industry. I also seek to monitor the impacts of the shrinking county budget through looking at the public library. Exhibit runs February 3 - March 31, 2012.

Go to my website to see more images. Click here and here to read articles on the exhibit (News Review subscription needed to view articles).


Shadow Effects would not have been possible without support from the Oregon Arts Commission's Career Opportunity Grant. 

image by Sandee McGee

January - February 2012

curious

Fine Arts Faculty Show at The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College.

I am displaying the beginnings of a body of work called Small Gestures (bottom image). For this project I've collected return envelopes from solicitations of credit card companies, magazine companies, etc. I am creating small drawings to send to the employees of these places - complete strangers - in the mail to acknowledgement the work they complete each day. I will complete the rest of this project - roughly 200 drawings - during my residency at Jentel in Banner, WY.

November 2011 - January 2012

A Long Slow Forlorn Cry - Chapters 2, 4, and 10 on display at the Umpqua Valley Arts Center. Juried by John Olbrantz.

Exhibit runs November 4, 2011 - January 6, 2012.

October - December 2011

Shadow Effects

My multi-media installation Shadow Effects is currently on display at The Pearson Lakes Art Center in Okoboji, Iowa, from October 13 - December 31, 2011.

Click here to see more images.

Shadow Effects would not have been possible without support from the Oregon Arts Commission's Career Opportunity Grant.

October - December 2011

Western Oregon Regional

A Long Slow Forlorn Cry (Chapter 4) on display at the Coos Art Museum from October 14 - December 3, 2011.

September - October 2011

mapping affection

Sandee McGee and I co-curated the exhibit mapping affection at The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College. Featuring the works of Jessica Curtaz, Sally Finch, Charlene Liu, Carly Piccarello, Kerri Rosenstein, Lexi Ryckman-Harriet and Lisa Solomon. Exhibit runs September 12 - October 27, 2011.

August 2011

To Missoula with Love

A postcard show curated by Yaro Neils at FrontierSpace Gallery in Missoula, MT. Artists from across the country were asked to use the "old-fashioned art of correspondence" by sending artist-created postcards. On display for the month of August.

image credit: from FrontierSpace website

July 2011

I won a $1,500 Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission to assist in the completion of my installation Shadow Effects. Excited and honored to have received the grant, which will ensure that the current scope of my project is maintained. Can't wait to begin shopping for materials! The grant eases my stress levels because I can now focus on just making the work.

Shadow Effects will be exhibited at the Pearson Lakes Art Center in northwest Iowa from October 13-December 31, 2011. It will later show at the Douglas County Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Roseburg, OR in February-March 2012; and Rogue Art Gallery in Medford, OR in July 2012.

To learn more about Shadow Effects, click here or view my May - September 2011 blog entry.

July 2011

teduim

Solo exhibit at Rogue Community College's Firehouse Gallery in Grants Pass, OR. Exhibit includes works for the permutation series, the long, slow, forlorn cry series and the sculptural work HSH SOS. Works on display June 29-July 28, 2011.

July 2011

SAAC Juried 2011

But the Flowers, They Were Ours and Work is What I Do on display at the South Arkansas Art Center from July 1-29, 2011. Juror: Astrid Oviedo Clark

June 2011

Finally decided to get a website. Click here to check it out.

June - September 2011

Art of Our Century

A Long, Slow, Forlorn Cry (Chapter 1) on display at Woodbury Art Museum at Utah Valley University in Orem (Salt Lake City), Utah from June 3 - September 23, 2011. Juror: Erin Linder, Exhibitions Director of Kimball Art Center.

April - May 2011

37th National Photo Exhibition

Permutation (June 18), A Long, Slow, Forlorn Cry (Chapter 1),and A Long, Slow, Forlorn Cry (Chapter 3) on display at the Larson Gallery in Yakima, WA, from April 8 - May 7 2011. Ann Pallesen (shown above), Gallery Director of the Photo Center NW in Seattle, WA, juried this exhibit.

Reception held on April 8, 2011.

March - May 2011

Celebrating Collage: Contemporary Artists Respond

Exhibit curated by Jon Leach at The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College from March 28 - May 12, 2011. Other artists participating in this exhibit include: Siobhan Clancey-Burns, Shelley Curtis, Nicole Dally, Suzan Fant, Cynthia Herron, Susan Lehman, Keith Pace, Vinita Pappas, Susan Rochester, Pat Snyder, dorothea tortilla, Donna Watson and myself.

Opening reception on Friday, April 8, 2011, 5 - 7 pm.

January - February 2011

Examinations and Explanations...

Works by Susan Rochester, Sandee McGee, Ted Isto, Greg Price and myself are on display for the UCC Faculty Exhibition at the The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College.

Exhibit includes, but the roses, they were our's, made from over 3,800 pinches of salt and old work gloves (above left), as well as other works made from a variety of media, including collected lint, collected ash, collected tears and photography.

Exhibit opens January 3, 2011. Reception to be held January 27, 2011, from 4 - 6 pm.

December 2010

Ink Spot Print Exchange on display at the Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande, OR, from December 1-10, 2010. Click here to read the press release for this exhibit.

I've participated in the Print Exchange for the past three years. This year, my work was a silk screened image of the words Steal Time/Steel Time, a play on words inspired by Bruce Nauman and our cultural perception on time.

Postcard image by Angela Katona-Batchelor

October - November 2010

Work is What I Do currently on display at the Coos Biennial from October 1 - November 27, 2010 at the Coos Art Musem in Coos Bay, OR. This is a nice little fundraiser that I like to participate in as a gesture of support for the museum.

Work is What I Do examines where and how our identities are derived. One's identity is a multiplicity of roles derived from one's job and personal relationships. Through collecting ash from my wood stove and ash from one month of burned paper work, I tried to measure compare work completed at two sites that shape my identity.

Click here to read a short article in the Coos Bay newspaper about the exhibit.

image by Jon Leach

August - October 2010

4th Annual 100 Valleys

There is No Bottom to Reach (detail, right) and I Snap Alive at this Ritual (detail, left) are on display in the 100 Valleys Regional Exhibition juried by Kerri Rosenstein at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association from August 27-October 29, 2010. I Snap Alive at this Ritual was award Best in Show.

image (right) by Sandee McGee

August - September 2010

Art at the X

Escaping the Everyday is on display in Art at the X National Juried Exhibition at Xavier Univeristy Art Gallery at the AB Cohen Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Juried by Dennis Harrington, this exhibit runs August 27 - September 24, 2010.

Escaping the Everyday responds to the essay "Clearing the Everyday" by French philosopher Henri Lefebvre. I want to re-stage this image as a looped video.

August 2010

sanctuary: an echo of frustration
MFA thesis exhibition at the T.W. Wood Gallery at Vermont College of Fine Arts including sculptures responding to the questions, "what is work?" and "what is our relationship to work?"

Exciting work by my fellow graduates also on display. Click here to see images of my work and the work of my fellow graduates.

Opening reception: August 3, 2010
Graduation reception: August 7, 2010

Shown above: 10 Pillows not to be Laid on Again (March 25, 1911/2010) and three other thesis works in the background.

image by Polly Gaillard

July 2010

2010 Annual Juried Art Competition

The Strictest Discipline and We Eat Laughing, Helpless and Forgetful are currently on display at the South Arkansas Arts Center from July 2 - 29, 2010. Juror David Houston, chief curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, selected The Strictest Discipline for third place honors.

images by Susan Rochester

June - August 2010

UVAA Open
Umpqua Valley Arts Association's annual members exhibit on display from June 18 - August 20, 2010.

January - February 2010

A group exhibit juried by Lily Mayfield at WomanMade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. The exhibit shows a wide range of work of 35 artists from across the country who are currently pursuing their BFA’s or MFA’s from January 22-February 24, 2010. Click here to read the press release for this exhibit and here to read a blog post on WomanMade's blog.

January - March 2010

Review Session

A group exhibit featuring works by UCC Fine Art Faculty at The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College from January 11-March 11, 2010. (image above)

East Meets West

A group invitational exhibit at the Giustina Gallery at the LaSells Stewart Center at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, on display from January 11-February 24, 2010.

January - February 2010

The Strictest Discipline on display in the exhibit Americas 2010: Paperworks juried by Heidi Goldberg at the Northwest Art Center of Minot State University in North Dakota from January 11-February 24, 2010.

December 2009 - February 2010

On the Cutting Edge
A regional exhibit juried by Kay Campbell, Jon Leach and Beverly Soasey at the Coos Art Museum. The exhibition is on display from December 11, 2009 – February 12, 2010.

September 2009

Labor Day's Labor

Currently exploring wage labor and domestic labor. How we value labor? Where it take place? What does it produce? Domestic labor is a series of erasures, occurring in a private space while wage labor produces something and often occurs in a public space.

In a series of photographs taken on Labor Day, I went to a road in much need of repair, yet skipped over by the recent wave of stimulus-related road construction and repaired it using materials used in or waste produced from domestic activities.

Individual video stills will be selected to create a limited edition series of images.

August - October 2009

3rd Annual Hundred Valleys Exhibit juried by Walt Padgett at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association. The exhibit will run from August 28 to October 30, 2009.

The Strictest Discipline focuses on the notion of language as an object. For this work, I compiled phrases that spoke directly to communication from a book by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

image by Susan Rochester

April 2009

2009 College Clay Collective at the Genesee Center for the Arts in Rochester, New York. While creating these works, I was thinking about the communicative properties of the body. These porcelain and bathing suit material works were completed during my first semester at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

January 2009

Fine Arts Faculty's group exhibition Process on display at The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College. Fine Arts faculty members include myself, Susan Rochester, Sandee McGee, Ted Isto and Greg Price. Inward Movement (shown above) is a large intestinal landscape; Sandee McGee's work can be seen in the background.

I donated two works to Palate to Palette, the largest grossing fundraiser at Umpqua Valley Arts Association. Funds donated at this event help ensure arts education to elementary students in Douglas County.

images by Susan Rochester

November 2008

Salt Soda National juried by Jim Koudelka at the Clay Studio of Missoula in Missoula, MT. Topography (Green) was fired in Hiroshi Ogawa’s Ana-Naborigama in the July 2008 workshop.

October 2008

An invitational ceramics exhibit at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association. Clean Dirt,is an exciting display of functional and non-functional ceramic works by Hiroshi Ogawa, Hank Murrow, Ted Isto, Susan Roden, Natalie Warrens, Terry Inokuma, Cheryl Weese, Greg Price, Dennis Meiners, Peppi Melick and myself.

September 2008

Buena Vista University's new facility for the Fine Arts is exhibiting works by alumni as the gallery's first exhibition. Above are images of my work and the works of Andy Wilson and Dave Boelter.

Tina Rinaldi juried three works into 100 Valleys, a state-wide juried art exhibit at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association.

March 2008

Solo exhibition entitled Paisajes in one of DIVA's (Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts) five gallery spaces in Eugene, OR.

Works from this on-going series were also shown at The Art Gallery at Umpqua Community College in Janurary 2007 in a two-person exhibit with Krissy Trenor-Weaver; in 100 Valleys state-wide juried exhibit at the Umpqua Valley Arts Association (3rd place winner, juror: Mary Harden) in August 2007; in From Our Perspective at the WomenCenter at Oakland Community College in Michigan in October 2007; and Hair: A National Juried Exhibition at the Columbia Art Center in Columbia, Maryland in August (through October) 2006.