Please join me for the ~opening receptions~ at the Oregon Contemporary 2024 Artists’ Biennial Saturdays: May 4th, June 1st, July 6th, 5-8pm.
Show opens on Friday, April 26th noon-5pm,
and the gallery is open: Friday noon-5pm, Saturday noon-5pm, Sunday noon-5pm and by appointment through July 2024.
Oregon Contemporary
8371 N. Interstate Ave
Portland, OR 97217
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*SAVE THE DATE*
Sunday, JULY 7th, 3-5pm for a special related event at
Albina Green Park
5134-5138 N Albina Street
Portland, OR 97217
BOOK
Shapes of Land one-of-a-kind fabric book began in 2018 while retracing my footsteps from where I was born in North Dakota, to travels with my husband to his native Argentina, then time spent with family in Central America and Mexico, to our home in Oregon. Along the way, I thought often about place, memory, and connection. This book contains a series of landforms: lake, plains, isthmus, plateau, meander, arch, hill and these images reside alongside bilingual prose by Mauricio Rioseco Milano. Together, we offer these visual and written portals to inspire imagined travel across borders of space and time.
The materials include: cotton buckram, silk thread, natural dyes.
In 2021 Lyla Rowen helped me complete the machine-stitching and compose the hand-embroidery with cut-up text from the existing bilingual prose.
Special thanks to John Eveland and Sally Brewer of Gathering Together Farm for providing a one-month stay in their cabin on the farm outside Philomath, Oregon, while Mauricio and I worked together as artists-in-residence at the Truckenbrod Gallery in nearby Corvallis in 2019.
EVENT
Anne Greenwood, Michael Callahan, and Patrice Kelly co-founders of the Albina Green Community Greenspace located at the corner of Alberta and Sumner in North Portland will host a Soundscape Gathering on July 7th, 2024 from 3-5pm. The Albina Green began as a grassroots movement in the Spring of 1996 with a handful of neighborhood residents intent on transforming a neglected piece of tax foreclosed property into an open and usable green space. As part of the 2024 Oregon Biennial Anne Greenwood will provide Raymains Blanket Co. blankets for lounging on the grass while listening to musicians Katherine Paul and Marisa Anderson and paging through paper book reproductions of Shapes of Land, activating the original one-of-a-kind fabric book of the same name exhibited at the Oregon Contemporary.
The paper book version was printed in an edition of fifty by Gary Robbins at Container Corp. for distribution at this public soundscape event. Partial proceeds from the sale of this book and blankets will help fund the Jefferson High School Art program. For more information on this event or to pre-purchase blankets ($275) or Shapes of Land paper book reproductions ($100), please contact: [email protected]
Thank you to the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation for partially funding this project, Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram for curation, Dustin Williams of Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Joan Truckenbrod, Kent Smith, Cynthia Gladen, Mauricio. Eva, & Lucia Rioseco, Lyla Rowan, Eric Isaacson, Mississippi Records Charles Westmoreland, Red Fox Lounge, Nick O'Neill, Cherry Sprout Market, Piers Rippey, Rivka Sildesky, Sky Buis, and River Seidelman.
Curators:
Jackie Im is a curator, writer, and editor based in Oakland, CA. She currently serves at the Associate Curator of the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries. She is also the co-founder and Director of Et al. and Et al., etc. in San Francisco. Im has organized exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (SF), Queens Nails (SF), The Lab (SF), Important Projects (Oakland), Holiday Forever (Jackson Hole, WY), and SFAC Galleries. Her writing has appeared in Fillip Magazine, Art Practical, Curiously Direct, and various exhibition catalogues. She holds a BA in Art History from Mills College and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.
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Anuradha Vikram is a Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and curator of the upcoming Getty Pacific Standard Time Art and Science exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (September 2024-March 2025) at UCLA. They recently curated the mid-career survey exhibition Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children at Craft Contemporary (January 30–May 8, 2022) and the series Illuminate LA for the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (September 2022-January 2023). Their book Decolonizing Culture is a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces (Art Practical/Sming Sming Books, 2017).
Show opens on Friday, April 26th noon-5pm,
and the gallery is open: Friday noon-5pm, Saturday noon-5pm, Sunday noon-5pm and by appointment through July 2024.
Oregon Contemporary
8371 N. Interstate Ave
Portland, OR 97217
***
*SAVE THE DATE*
Sunday, JULY 7th, 3-5pm for a special related event at
Albina Green Park
5134-5138 N Albina Street
Portland, OR 97217
BOOK
Shapes of Land one-of-a-kind fabric book began in 2018 while retracing my footsteps from where I was born in North Dakota, to travels with my husband to his native Argentina, then time spent with family in Central America and Mexico, to our home in Oregon. Along the way, I thought often about place, memory, and connection. This book contains a series of landforms: lake, plains, isthmus, plateau, meander, arch, hill and these images reside alongside bilingual prose by Mauricio Rioseco Milano. Together, we offer these visual and written portals to inspire imagined travel across borders of space and time.
The materials include: cotton buckram, silk thread, natural dyes.
In 2021 Lyla Rowen helped me complete the machine-stitching and compose the hand-embroidery with cut-up text from the existing bilingual prose.
Special thanks to John Eveland and Sally Brewer of Gathering Together Farm for providing a one-month stay in their cabin on the farm outside Philomath, Oregon, while Mauricio and I worked together as artists-in-residence at the Truckenbrod Gallery in nearby Corvallis in 2019.
EVENT
Anne Greenwood, Michael Callahan, and Patrice Kelly co-founders of the Albina Green Community Greenspace located at the corner of Alberta and Sumner in North Portland will host a Soundscape Gathering on July 7th, 2024 from 3-5pm. The Albina Green began as a grassroots movement in the Spring of 1996 with a handful of neighborhood residents intent on transforming a neglected piece of tax foreclosed property into an open and usable green space. As part of the 2024 Oregon Biennial Anne Greenwood will provide Raymains Blanket Co. blankets for lounging on the grass while listening to musicians Katherine Paul and Marisa Anderson and paging through paper book reproductions of Shapes of Land, activating the original one-of-a-kind fabric book of the same name exhibited at the Oregon Contemporary.
The paper book version was printed in an edition of fifty by Gary Robbins at Container Corp. for distribution at this public soundscape event. Partial proceeds from the sale of this book and blankets will help fund the Jefferson High School Art program. For more information on this event or to pre-purchase blankets ($275) or Shapes of Land paper book reproductions ($100), please contact: [email protected]
Thank you to the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation for partially funding this project, Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram for curation, Dustin Williams of Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Joan Truckenbrod, Kent Smith, Cynthia Gladen, Mauricio. Eva, & Lucia Rioseco, Lyla Rowan, Eric Isaacson, Mississippi Records Charles Westmoreland, Red Fox Lounge, Nick O'Neill, Cherry Sprout Market, Piers Rippey, Rivka Sildesky, Sky Buis, and River Seidelman.
Curators:
Jackie Im is a curator, writer, and editor based in Oakland, CA. She currently serves at the Associate Curator of the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries. She is also the co-founder and Director of Et al. and Et al., etc. in San Francisco. Im has organized exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (SF), Queens Nails (SF), The Lab (SF), Important Projects (Oakland), Holiday Forever (Jackson Hole, WY), and SFAC Galleries. Her writing has appeared in Fillip Magazine, Art Practical, Curiously Direct, and various exhibition catalogues. She holds a BA in Art History from Mills College and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.
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Anuradha Vikram is a Los Angeles-based writer, educator, and curator of the upcoming Getty Pacific Standard Time Art and Science exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (September 2024-March 2025) at UCLA. They recently curated the mid-career survey exhibition Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children at Craft Contemporary (January 30–May 8, 2022) and the series Illuminate LA for the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (September 2022-January 2023). Their book Decolonizing Culture is a collection of seventeen essays that address questions of race and gender parity in contemporary art spaces (Art Practical/Sming Sming Books, 2017).
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