LaVerne Krause Gallery

“Middle Child” Second Year MFA Exhibition

Fall 2011 Week 2 Show featuring:

Meg Branlund
Aubrey Hillman
Katherine Rondina
Michael Stephen
Nika Kaiser
Wendi Turchan
Ian Clark
Emily Crabtree
Ben Lenoir
Katherine Spinella
Robert Collier Beam
Morgan Rosskopf

Fall 2011 Week 1: Jordan Brandt, Sara Kuuipo Mishina Kunz, Chase Cranor, Taylor Engel, Anna Connolly

Melissa Mankins, Ryan Paxton, and Jordan Limbach BFA Terminal Show

Ryan Paxton

Paxton is inspired by math, science, philosophy and the pursuit of an understanding of reality. He works with no bounds utilizing disparate parts to create the greater whole. Paxton creates installations that pose questions of perception to the viewer. He became aware of his culturally indoctrinated conception of reality through experience in pottery making.

Melissa Mankins

Yard sales, thrift shops, free boxes, dusty photo albums, and musty clothes inspire Mankins. Working with photography and textile printing, her work is about the idea of family and layered histories. It is about loss and life and the threads that hold us all together.

Jordan Limbach

TSK: Tam Nguyen, Shannon Sullivan, and Kathryn Clark BFA Terminal Show

Kathryn Clark

In her project, “Finding a Place in the Photographic Documentary Tradition: The Midway Worker Re-Illuminated,” Clark aims to portray the dignity of the estranged group of the midway carnival circuit of the northwest in portraiture and photojournalism. The documentary photographic tradition seeks to lift marginalized people from the shadows, bringing them back into the light of humanity. Preferring to work in black and white, with large format photography, Clark’s influences stem from the work of Sebastião Salgado, August Sander, Nan Goldin, and Susan Meiselas.

Shannon Sullivan

Sullivan’s work is inspired by the moments of nature and landscape that she experiences, whether she seeks them out, or whether they infiltrate her routine city life. Sullivan works with oil paints, and her subject matter is related to both landscape and painterly abstraction. The artist seeks to communicate moments of her experience with the landscape, allowing the viewer to re-create those moments in a way that is specific to them. The movement away from representation in Sullivan’s paintings is a method in support of this goal.

Tam Nguyen

In this show, Nguyen’s work is inspired by the idea of wandering and making new interrelationships along the surface of our reality. The artist’s preferred medium is photography and, more specifically, night photography. Nguyen’s work is a reflection of his exploration in the perception of space.

Zoe Sargent, Shaina Dotson, and Ginger Chen BFA Terminal Show

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”, A Craft Exhibition

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

Alexandra Peyton-Levine, Emilee Booher, and Sydney Lane BFA Terminal Show

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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Sarah Morejohn, Hollie Putnam, and Ellyn Weaver BFA Terminal Show

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.”

A.T.O.M.B.

A.T.O.M.B. is a Digital Arts based show consisting of David Mellor, Ray Tsunoda, Josh Burson, Jeremy Androschuk, and Ben Olsen.

David Mellor:

From Portland, OR, illustrator David Mellor has studied art throughout his life, between art camps as a child and advanced art courses at Lincoln High School. Despite being interested in a multitude of mediums, in this show he has chosen to use illustration. Mellor is heavily influenced by the “superflat styling” from artists such as Ippei Gyoubu and Yusuke Nakamura. He takes recognizable real world items and disassembles, then reassembles them to create entirely new “dreamscapes.”

Ray Tsunoda

Before creating a portfolio and moving to Eugene to attend the University of Oregon, Tsunoda worked in Arizona in clothing sales and served sushi. Tsunoda is primarily self-taught web-graphics designer who also uses graphite, India Ink, Coffee, and any Vector/Raster imaging software to create his work. Despite the visually simple designs, Tsunoda’s work is often technical in execution: as Tsunoda describes, “clean yet dynamic.” To see more work visit pages.uoregon.edu/rtsunoda.

Josh Burson:

biographic info: “Grew up in West Philadelphia, spending most of his days at a pool hall called The Playground rather than going to school, and so never had any formal art training.”

preferred medium: “Intuitive Channel Kosmic Karen”

artist statement: “i am a print artisté who makes amazing typography. i got my own design team and everything”

additional information: “my favorite color is neon green. anything neon mostly, and i love flannel”

Jeremy Androschuk

Born and raised in Portland, OR, Androschuk is a Product Design major who works with hand drawing and digital printing of adobe suite illustrations. For Androschuk, art is a glimpse into the imagination. The content of his pieces connect to a range of imagined scenarios or scenes in the artist’s mind.

Benjamin Olsen

Currently a Digital Arts major, Olsen primarily works with video and film. In this show, Olsen works with a short video series of dark comedy self-portraits of intense characters that exist within subtle tendencies. He also explores genetics, psychology, and dance in a series of prints titled “Epigenome.”