Lectures & Events Fall 2008

Visiting Artists Series

Art 411 Senior Seminar

All Lectures (except 2) are scheduled for Tuesday evenings and begin at 7pm in Room 102, Miller Center for the Humanities Bldg. Lectures are open to the college community and the public.

9/16 LUCINDA PARKER

Lucinda 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. Originally, from Boston, Parker received a BA jointly from Reed College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She went on to receive a MFA from Pratt Institute, New York in 1968. 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.

9/23 HOLLY ANDRES

Holly 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.

9/30 JENENE NAGY

Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. Blurring the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and installation, Nagy's work aims to simultaneously reference where we are and where we wish we could be.

Nagy received her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1998, and her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2004. Her work has been exhibited as numerous venues including arthouse in Austin, TX, Brewery Project in Los Angeles, CA, Dam Stuhltrager in NY, and Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Germany. She has had solo exhibitions at Dinnerware ArtSpace in Tucson, AZ and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. Lisa Radon of Ultra has called Nagy "a force to be reckoned with on all fronts." Nagy's work has been reviewed in the Willamette Week, PORT, the Oregonian, and the Portland Mercury. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is also the Director and Co-Curator of Tilt Gallery and Project Space, a venue for experimental and difficult to show work.

10/7 JUDY COOKE

One of the Northwest's most influential abstract painters, Judy Cooke has investigated abstract imagery

and the structure of painting for over 30 years. Her new body of work explores a highly physical painting process, working on the surface of found aluminum plates, rubber, and wooden panel surfaces. Through sanding, scraping, and stripping the panels, she simultaneously defines and defies the medium, exposing what lies beneath.Irregular in shape, sometimes staggered when assembled, Cooke's work continues to cross the precipice between painting and sculpture. The split or division in the individual paintings reflect the artist's ongoing formal process, as well as correspond with the artist's personal perceptions of current politics. Cooke's awareness of, and frustration with, the war is subtly made manifest within her dark, somber palette, use of rubber, and use of the black line throughout the work. Though the dark line continues, the introduction of color later in the series lifts the mood, the work becoming more expressive and painterly.

Judy Cooke received her degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the early 1960's

and moved to Portland in the late 1960's. She was recently awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in

Painting from the Oregon Arts Commission, and throughout her career has received awards such as

the Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Art, Portland's Regional Arts and Culture Council's Visual Artist Fellowship Grant for Painting, and a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

10/16 SAM GOULD (RED76)

Begun in January of 2000 in Portland, Oregon, Red76 is the moniker for collaboratively based initiatives conceived, most often, by Sam Gould, and fleshed out by a group of like minded folks, who include, or have included; Khris Soden, Zefrey Throwell, Paige Saez, Colin Beattie, Jen Rhoads, Laura Baldwin, Gabriel Mindel Saloman, and many others. Red76 has initiated projects, large and small, that have been realized in North America, and Internationally. The guiding principle between many of these initiatives is the facilitation of discussion, thought and action within public space, as well as the examination of what that space can be, and where that space may reside at any given time. Along with producing many independent initiatives, Gould and Red76 have engaged in projects commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Drawing Center, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Printed Matter, Creative Time, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery at Reed College, 01 San Jose, and many others.

Gould is also a founding member of MessHall, an experimental social space on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois' Rogers Park neighborhood, as well the co-editor, along with John Vitale, of "......." (dots and quotes), a free arts publication, last sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, distributed internationally. In 2006 Gould was one of nine nominees' for the de Menil collections distinguished Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement.

10/23 HEIDI PREUSS GREW

Heidi Preuss Grew's sculptures combine animal and human imagery that straddle real and fictional worlds. Her works are often accompanied by large scale drawings, wall installations, or porcelain paintings. Her figurative sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including in the Portland Art Museum, Contemporary Crafts Museum in Portland, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin, the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, the Keramion Museum in Frechen, Germany, FuLe International Ceramic Museum in Fuping, China, and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague. Preuss Grew has participated in numerous international symposia and was honored in 2007 with election into the International Academy of Ceramics. Her work and research has been supported by grants from the following: the Illinois Arts Council, the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, an Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, the Hewlett Foundation, and Fulbright-Hays. She is presently an Associate Professor of Art at Willamette University and divides her time between Portland and Salem, Oregon.

11/11 SUE TAYLOR

An art historian, curator, and critic, Sue Taylor received her B.A. in art history from Roosevelt University, and her M.A. and Ph.D., also in art history, from the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Portland State University in Oregon, she served as Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and as Associate Curator at the David and Alfred Smart Museum at the University of Chicago.

Formerly critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, Dr. Taylor is corresponding editor for Art in America and has also published articles in American Art, American Craft, Art Journal, Art News, Dialogue, and the New Art Examiner. With fellowships and grants from the American Association of University Women, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, American Psychoanalytic Association, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Society for the Preservation of American Modernists, she has brought feminist and psychoanalytic insights to the art of Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, and numerous other modern artists. Her book on Surrealist Hans Bellmer: The Anatomy of Anxiety was released by MIT Press in 2000. Currently in progress is a book on Grant Wood beyond Regionalism. The title of her talk for Lewis & Clark is "Grant Wood, Truth and Lies."

11/18 JOHN GRADE

"Grade is a master at transforming experience of place into material manifestation. Earlier work involved travel to far-flung places to see how different cultures celebrated and preserved life forms: the pyramids, funerary towers in Peru and burial mounds in Jordan near Petra. The resulting works captured mood without resorting to the representation of actual objects. His current body of work still requires the artist to travel, but his works have begun to get in on the act too, as Grade exhibits, displaces and re-positions his work in new, often radically different territory". -Suzanne Beal, August 2008, Sculpture Magazine

John Grade is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Award (NY), A Pollock Krasner Foundation Award (NY), and a Tiffany Foundation Award (NY). He has been awarded grants from the City of Seattle, King County's 4Culture, the Washington State Arts Commission and Artist Trust. He has exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and is represented in Seattle by Davidson Contemporary where he will have his seventh solo show with the gallery this year. His work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, Sculpture, the Boston Globe, and on NPR's All Things Considered and Studio 360. An upcoming exhibition of his work at the Bellevue Arts Museum opening August 26, 2008 will be accompanied by an 80 page catalog documenting his current body of work.

12/2 LAURA VANDENBURGH

Laura Vandenburgh's drawing-based practice has encompassed drawing installations, wall drawings and works on paper, which explore our relationship to and within the natural environment. Her work has been exhibited at the Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto, the Portland Art Museum, the James Harris Gallery in Seattle, PICA and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY among other venues. The work has been supported by grants and residencies from the Ucross, Ragdale and Saltonstall Foundations. Vandenburgh received her MFA from Hunter College in New York City, following BS in Zoology and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from the University of California at Davis. She lives and works in Springfield, Oregon, and teaches at the University of Oregon.