Fractal Beings

“In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of ‘critical mass.’ It’s always about critical connections.” -Grace Lee Boggs

We gather for nourishment, protection, and connection. Infinite loops spread out in resonance, murmurations, echoes. Diaspora of wings, roots, voices flow in defiance.

New work by Anastasiya Gutnik and David Peña.

 

My Very Own Private Apocalypse

So much of our present moment has been experienced in collective isolation. While we have all processed these unfolding visions of calamity together, we have weathered them in circumstances that are entirely our own. Now, as we emerge from our hermetic existences into the third (and counting) end of a global pandemic, what do we carry with us?
Coming together from different disciplines, this exhibition offers a moment to examine the sites at which our orbits intersect. To explore what happens when a line is drawn between distant points. To see the fires upon re-entry not as a disintegration, but as a crucible for something uncanny and new.
/// Featuring work by Christian Alvarado, Ashley Campbell, Connor Gordon, Sydney Lee, Ellen O’Shea, and Noa Taylor. ///

Entangled Fragments

New work by Sammie Claire, Bailey Lemkau, Ella Maris and Paige Wells.

My God, You Are So Ugly!!

In Amy Sillman’s Essay “Shit Happens, Notes on Awkwardness”, she describes the process of creating akin to looking down at your own self and reflecting on its undesirableness. She writes, “Like the body, you look down at your creation and think, ‘My god, you are ugly’.”

Artists Will Zeng, Lily Wai Brennan, and Ellen O’Shea’s work reflects parallel moments of unease. Their work inhabits these visceral moments together in a shared space, both insulting and confiding in being deemed ‘ugly’”.

LANDSCAPE MAKERS

A maker-driven art + design exhibition featuring UOLA MLA and BLA collaborations. The landscape-inspired work explores cultural narratives of PNW forests through interior installation and interdisciplinary environmental-communication. The collective work is a snapshot of a longer ongoing creative project currently in development with the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes, the Center for Art Research, and the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest.

 

Everybody’s Got a Hungry Heart

In How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change Allan deSouza writes that “even under the regimes of constraint (and there are never not such regimes), desire is unruly, irrepressible, excessive, bursting into visibility often through codes of gesture, metaphor, insinuation, association; the glance askew, the tilted head, the stretched foot, the curled foot.” The works included in Everybody’s Got a Hungry Heart reject the notion of the guilty pleasure. They are love letters, power ballads— gushing, blushing, overflowing. These are the codes and codexes of hunger, abundance, lust, and excess that elude the grasp of legal, moral, and economic structures.

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Dana Buzzee

Agnese Cebere

Kara Clarke

Noelle Herceg

Erin Langley

Caroline Lichucki

Hannah Petkau

Tyler Stoll

“Roaming Charges”

Sophie Barlow
Emmett Dalye
Kevin Fraser
Anna Hothai
Bailey Lemkau
Tahoe Mack
Lily Masl
Lindy McCool
Zachary Smith

 

Irene.House

“Irene.House” is a collaboration between Kevin Yatsu and Irene June. This project examines Irene’s relationship to ancestry, home-making and play through the lenses of performance and virtual space. For the LaVerne Krause Gallery exhibition, three short films are interwoven via a simple computer program. This single-channel video is accompanied by two piles of rice that emit a softly churning atmosphere.