Past Event
14 October through 7 December 2008
Orlo, the environmental arts organization based in Portland, has facilitated a new exhibition of artwork currently on display throughout the first floor of the Miller Center for the Humanities on the Lewis & Clark College Campus. Titled The End of Death and Taxes, the exhibit features the work of Portland artist Ryan Pierce. These large-scale acrylic paintings completed between 2006 and 2007 depict humans rebuilding the world after the end of industry.
The End of Death and Taxes is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, currently being shown at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art.
The Pierce exhibition will be on display through December 7.
Past Event
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Holly Andres will speak on September 23 at 7:00 p.m. in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Andres approaches her art in a multidisciplinary manner, and has worked in film, photography, sculpture and installation. Andres’ newest body of photographic work, Sparrow Lane, recently premiered at Quality Pictures Contemporary Art in Portland OR, and this on-going series will exhibit at the Robert Mann Gallery in NYC in Oct.
In 2007 her much acclaimed narrative photo series, Stories from a Short Street exhibited at the DNJ Gallery in LA, the Jen Bekman Gallery in NYC, in ‘Girl Machine’ at the Honfluer Gallery in Washington DC, and at her hometown, The Missoula Art Museum. In 2006 she was represented in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum and at the Annual National Juried Exhibition at Newspace Center for Photography. Andres’ photo work has been showcased in Elle Magazine, the Portland Modern, on the cover of the Portland Mercury, PDX Magazine, and Art Ltd.-who recently profiled her as one of 15 emerging West Coast artists under the age of 35.
Andres has also collaborated with performer/filmmaker Grace Carter to create the short films Nora, Dandelion and Brave New Girl. Their work has been featured in the 31st Annual NW Film + Video Festival, Best of the Northwest Touring Program, the Portland International Film Festival, the Portland Experimental Film Festival and the Perpetual Art Machine in New York. Andres currently teaches studio art classes at Portland State University and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Andres received an MFA from PSU in 2004.
Past Event
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 7 p.m.
Lucinda Parker will speak on September 16 at 7:00 p.m. in room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities.
Parker creates energetic paintings inspired by natural forms. She works vigorously within the boundaries of abstraction while exploring formal issues of geometry and figure/ground: the relationship of foreground objects and background. During the last year, Parker’s studio was dominated by a large commission project (sponsored by the Washington State Arts Commission) that was recently installed at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington.
Often characterized as a regional painter, her work has been exhibited at numerous one-person shows throughout the West as well as in many exhibitions nationally, including the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Seattle Art Museum, the David Findlay Gallery and the Sue Ellen Haber Gallery, both in New York. The Portland Art Museum honored her with a mid-career retrospective in 1995, and the Boise Art Museum gave her a one-person exhibition in 2002. Parker’s work is well collected throughout the Northwest. Major public collections include the Boise Art Museum, Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, the Portland Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum. Public projects include the Lower Columbia College, Longview WA; the Oregon Convention Center, Portland; Midland Library, Gresham, City Hall, Portland; and Southern Oregon University, Ashland.
Past Event
11 September through 7 December 2008
Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art explores the influence of this design philosophy on artists who combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination, and display of art. The exhibition includes existing works, commissions, and previously presented work that has been “recycled,” spotlighting ways in which artists are building paths to new forms of practice. Many of the artists work collaboratively and leaven serious social aims with playful, off-the-grid spark. Their approaches range from the metaphorical to the pragmatic, sometimes serving as models for audience activism.
The exhibition runs from September 11 to December 7, 2008. An opening reception will be held at the gallery, Thursday, September 11, 5-7 p.m.
Past Event
4 April through 11 May 2008
Twenty senior art students’ work will be on display at the Senior Art Exhibition 2008, at the Eric and Ronna Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art. Their work represents the disciplines of ceramics, drawing, graphic arts, painting, photography, and sculpture. This public presentation is the culmination of their work created during their senior year, reflecting many months of experimentation, discovery, and critique.
Past Event
24 January through 16 March 2008
An exhibition of Lewis & Clark art professors’ diverse contributions to the field of fine art.
Past Event
1 November through 16 December 2007
William Kentridge: Weighing… and Wanting is a solo exhibition of the internationally recognized South African artist William Kentridge in charcoal drawings and video projection.
