Tonight is First Thursday in the Pearl and it is sure to be a very festive evening as First Thursday celebrates 25 years!
Get out tonight and see art and help celebrate this vital part of the arts community here in Portland, Oregon. Some of the Galleries that will be open tonight:
Laura Russo
Attic Gallery
Camerawork Gallery
Portland Art Museum
Annie Meyer Gallery
Butters Gallery
Augen Gallery
Bullseye Gallery
Guardino Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Craft
and so many more - have a great evening exploring the Galleries or The Pearl!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
What's New at Disjecta
DISJECTA ANNOUNCES
CALL FOR CURATORS
Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center is accepting proposals for a curator-in-residence for its 2012-2013 exhibition season. The curator-in-residence will present a series of five to six exhibits from September 2012 through August 2013. At least three of the exhibits must highlight regional work from artists living and working in the Pacific Northwest.
Disjecta developed its Curator-in-Residence program to allow emerging local and national curatorial talent the opportunity to develop and expand the scope of their practice through a series of exhibitions in Disjecta’s dynamic 3,000-square-foot space. Rotated on an annual cycle, the program seeks to provide a nationally recognized curatorial opportunity in the underserved state of Oregon, stimulate significant contemporary discourse that is able to cross disciplines, engage new artists and patrons, and raise the visibility of Portland’s art scene.
Jenene Nagy, Disjecta’s first curator-in-residence, selected six artists for solo shows during the 2011-2012 exhibition season, including Iranian-American artist Tannaz Farsi. Farsi’s first solo exhibition in Portland, “Losing Themselves in a Distance to Far Away Heights," opens on Oct. 8 (see below).
Proposals for the curator-in-residence position are due by Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. For details about the position, visit disjecta.org or click here for the PDF.
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Losing Themselves in a Distance to Far Away Heights
A New Installation by Tannaz Farsi
Opens Saturday, October 8 from 6 to 9pm
October 8 – November 5
Gallery Hours: Fri – Sun 12pm – 5pm
What does it mean to live the dream?” This is the question artist Tannaz Farsi asked Iranians this past summer in preparation for her first solo exhibition in Portland, Losing Themselves in a Distance to Far Away Heights. In gathering information, Farsi – herself an Iranian-American – sought answers from Iranian immigrants, those living in exile, refugees and those still living in Iran. Her conversations, conducted via email, focused on breaking through the American cliché of “living the dream” and engaging her participants in a discussion focused on issues of nationalism and cultural identity as it relates to the individual.
Farsi attempts to conflate civic and devotional space in an effort to better understand the systems that both bind and loosen us from our geographic locations and cultural identities. The objects in the exhibition – simple, pared down forms acting as icons – together with the use of documents and drastic shifts of scale are reflective of Farsi’s larger body of work that continuously situates the personal as political. The installation seeks to inspire conversation around tensions created between the actual space of the gallery and the psychic space of the work.
Tannaz Farsi is the Assistant Professor in Sculpture at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including the Tacoma Art Museum, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art Grand Rapids, Mich., Ohge Ltd., Seattle, Wash., and Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio. She has participated at residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Neb. and the MacDowell Colony in N.H.
Her work has been acknowledged with an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, and this past year, Farsi was a finalist for both the Brink Award offered through the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Wash. and the Portland Art Museum's Contemporary Northwest Art Award. She received her BFA summa cum laude from West Virginia University (2004) and her MFA at Ohio University in Ceramics (2007). Farsi’s show at Disjecta is made possible through the University of Oregon Faculty Research and Creative Work Grant and the MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
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OBJECT LESSONS
Michelle Liccardo & Ralph Pugay
Opens Saturday, October 8 from 6 to 9pm
October 8 – November 5
Gallery Hours: Fri – Sun 12pm – 5pm
Object Lessons by Michelle Liccardo and Ralph Pugay is an installation that captures the many absurdities associated with functioning in a world of ever-present uncertainty and relativity. This collaboration capitalizes on the artists' sense of humor and imperfect sculptural styles to create a large scale diorama that operates as a sort of alternate version of The Myth of Sisyphus. In Object Lessons, the small figures that must tumble down a large staircase while trying to avoid the many obstacles in their path arrive at the bottom injured, yet jubilant. Find out more at: vestibule.disjecta.org
CALL FOR CURATORS
Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center is accepting proposals for a curator-in-residence for its 2012-2013 exhibition season. The curator-in-residence will present a series of five to six exhibits from September 2012 through August 2013. At least three of the exhibits must highlight regional work from artists living and working in the Pacific Northwest.
Disjecta developed its Curator-in-Residence program to allow emerging local and national curatorial talent the opportunity to develop and expand the scope of their practice through a series of exhibitions in Disjecta’s dynamic 3,000-square-foot space. Rotated on an annual cycle, the program seeks to provide a nationally recognized curatorial opportunity in the underserved state of Oregon, stimulate significant contemporary discourse that is able to cross disciplines, engage new artists and patrons, and raise the visibility of Portland’s art scene.
Jenene Nagy, Disjecta’s first curator-in-residence, selected six artists for solo shows during the 2011-2012 exhibition season, including Iranian-American artist Tannaz Farsi. Farsi’s first solo exhibition in Portland, “Losing Themselves in a Distance to Far Away Heights," opens on Oct. 8 (see below).
Proposals for the curator-in-residence position are due by Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. For details about the position, visit disjecta.org or click here for the PDF.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Losing Themselves in a Distance to Far Away Heights
A New Installation by Tannaz Farsi
Opens Saturday, October 8 from 6 to 9pm
October 8 – November 5
Gallery Hours: Fri – Sun 12pm – 5pm
What does it mean to live the dream?” This is the question artist Tannaz Farsi asked Iranians this past summer in preparation for her first solo exhibition in Portland, Losing Themselves in a Distance to Far Away Heights. In gathering information, Farsi – herself an Iranian-American – sought answers from Iranian immigrants, those living in exile, refugees and those still living in Iran. Her conversations, conducted via email, focused on breaking through the American cliché of “living the dream” and engaging her participants in a discussion focused on issues of nationalism and cultural identity as it relates to the individual.
Farsi attempts to conflate civic and devotional space in an effort to better understand the systems that both bind and loosen us from our geographic locations and cultural identities. The objects in the exhibition – simple, pared down forms acting as icons – together with the use of documents and drastic shifts of scale are reflective of Farsi’s larger body of work that continuously situates the personal as political. The installation seeks to inspire conversation around tensions created between the actual space of the gallery and the psychic space of the work.
Tannaz Farsi is the Assistant Professor in Sculpture at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including the Tacoma Art Museum, the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art Grand Rapids, Mich., Ohge Ltd., Seattle, Wash., and Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio. She has participated at residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Neb. and the MacDowell Colony in N.H.
Her work has been acknowledged with an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, and this past year, Farsi was a finalist for both the Brink Award offered through the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Wash. and the Portland Art Museum's Contemporary Northwest Art Award. She received her BFA summa cum laude from West Virginia University (2004) and her MFA at Ohio University in Ceramics (2007). Farsi’s show at Disjecta is made possible through the University of Oregon Faculty Research and Creative Work Grant and the MacDowell Colony Fellowship.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
OBJECT LESSONS
Michelle Liccardo & Ralph Pugay
Opens Saturday, October 8 from 6 to 9pm
October 8 – November 5
Gallery Hours: Fri – Sun 12pm – 5pm
Object Lessons by Michelle Liccardo and Ralph Pugay is an installation that captures the many absurdities associated with functioning in a world of ever-present uncertainty and relativity. This collaboration capitalizes on the artists' sense of humor and imperfect sculptural styles to create a large scale diorama that operates as a sort of alternate version of The Myth of Sisyphus. In Object Lessons, the small figures that must tumble down a large staircase while trying to avoid the many obstacles in their path arrive at the bottom injured, yet jubilant. Find out more at: vestibule.disjecta.org
Monday, October 3, 2011
OPA Holiday Guide
Hi All You OPA Members!
It's that time again.... Time to participate in the 2011 OPA Holiday Guide. If you want to find out more about it, check out the registration form attached, or give me a call/email. The reg forms/checks/digital photos are due by October 14th or the sooner the better. Thanks and good luck with your holiday sales this year!
THE DETAILS!
Holiday Studio Sale Guide Application
Please provide:
NAME:
TELEPHONE # AT SALE:
ADDRESS OF SALE:
DATE(S) OF SALE:
HOURS OF SALE:
TEN WORD DESCRIPTION OF WORK:
(If sale includes more than one person, use a separate sheet of paper)
MAP: Please provide either a digital file or drawing of a map to your sale location. It can be the immediate area and main streets around your location.
If sale includes a non-OPA member, include name and 5-word description of work (to be included if space allows)
FEE: Please make checks payable to Jennifer Lakeman
$40 for one person (100 flyers allotted)
$75 for two people (200 flyers allotted)
$95 for three or more people (300 flyers allotted)
If you will need more flyers, tell us now. There will be an additional charge for extra flyers.
PHOTOS: PLEASE INCLUDE A PROFESSIONAL COLOR OR BLACK & WHITE PHOTO OR DIGITAL IMAGE OF YOUR WORK. Digital files must be 200 to 300 dpi at final printed size (approximately 2” x 2”). Please do not send postcards, computer printouts or color photocopies.
DEADLINE: OCTOBER 14th
Please mail this form and a check to: me! I'll send my address if you are interested.
Printed flyers may be picked up at the November general OPA Meeting.
Please contact Jenny Lakeman at 503-413-0641 or jennylakeman@gmail.com to make other arrangements if you will be unable to attend.
Thanks all!
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