Month: April 2011

Zoe Sargent

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Shaina Dotson

Dotson is interested in the human bonds we have with objects and the spaces that we inhabit. Through jewelry, worn on the body, we are able to carry and preserve these emotional vessels with us. Searching for the clarity within the chaos, each piece commemorates a specific childhood memory. The pieces are about memory, identity and nostalgia.

Ginger Chen

Chen is receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Oregon. Through various printmaking techniques and collage, her work explores childhood memories and its connection to language and the comic book form. In her work, Chen also looks at the use of animals in folklore and how their anthropomorphic qualities replace the human character.

Materiality is an exhibition curated by Liz Glass and Lyndsay Rice, showcasing work from the California College of the Arts and the University of Oregon. Conceived out of an interest to investigate the uses of craft in these two communities, Materiality brings together works in a multitude of materals.

The works in Materiality reflect the expansive use of craft materials and methods to create expressive objects. Usually associated with the dialogue of “use,” these works demonstrate the ability of craft to transcend function, and the power of the materials at conveying concepts. Some of the works build their own mythology, while others activate pre-existing cultural tropes; some are engaged, primarily, with examining the nature of their own material, and others use these media as a means to an end. The works inMateriality take up many themes personal and cultural themes, including the hiddenness of history, the collision of cultural forms, and the experience of sound.

Artists included
MAX ESPLIN
ALEX HERNANDEZ
ALIDA BEVIRT
ROBERT MERTENS
CARLOS RAMIREZ
JAKE ZIEMANN
MEGHAN URBACK
COURTNEY KEMP
AUBREY HILLMAN
BEAN GILSDORF
ZOE SARGENT
LILY LEE
SARAH NANCE

Emilee Booher
Booher is interested in using a variety of media forms including photography, painting, and sculpture. Booher finds ways for each medium to communicate with one another. Her recent work explores ideas of social interactions and the juxtaposition of the internal and the external of an individual within the social sphere.

Alexandra Peyton-Levine
Peyton-Levine is an oil painted inspired by “Richard Serra, a rejection of Greenbergian philosophies and [her] personal experiences with art and art making.” She seeks to empower the painting as an object-becoming-subject. Peyton-Levine understands the artist-artwork relationship as an exchange of information between the two, rather than a one-way creative effort from the artist alone.

Sydney Lane
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Hollie Putnam is a BFA in Painting whose work centers around the figure. She works with the figure by constructing, interrogating, entangling and then deconstructing to reveal performative and authentic moments. Putnam’s background in feminist activism, women’s and gender studies, and history inform her work.
A native Oregonian, printmaker Ellyn Herman looks to nature for inspiration in her work, using photography, drawing, printmaking, and collaging to capture moments when nature reclaims what man has made its own. Herman creates a visual representation of the life force “present within each of us and the world around us.” Though this force is “better realized as an experience,” Herman attempts to capture these moments in her show this week.

In this show Morejohn explores the different shapes of time through drawing. She explains that these shapes of time are “slow or quick, orderly or disarrayed, vivid of peripheral.” Morejohn looks at Time as “how we are aware or not aware, how we forget, how we navigate past and present.”