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Adee Roberson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a meditation on symbolism and texture. Synthesizing performance and installation, her work melds vibration and technicolor visions through paintings, video, and melodic compositions. These works offer a refracted timeline of black diasporic movement, weaving sonic and familial archives, with landscape, rhythm, and spirit.
They have exhibited and performed at numerous venues including, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Antenna Gallery, Project Row Houses, Palm Springs Art Museum, Human Resources , UTA Artist Space, NADA Miami, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, MOCA Los Angeles, and Art Gallery of Ontario. Adee has been an Artist-In-Residence at Echo Park Film Center, Treehouse Lagos, and ACRE. She is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Cutting Edge Grant and the 2021 Los Angeles Artadia Award. She is based in Los Angeles, California.
Learn moreKnown for her slyly subversive pop portraiture and a keen understanding of cultural zeitgeist, Rose has created inventive music videos for popular national artists like First Aid Kit, Cake, EMA and Bob Mould as well as playing a key role in branding NW bands like The Decemberists, Menomena and many others.
Rose has directed over 30 music videos and released her first narrative short “The Gift of Gravity” in 2014. She is an award-winning still photographer who spent 20 years in the music business doing marketing and sales before turning her eye to filmmaking in 2008.
The scripted comedic web series The Benefits of Gusbandry is her debut foray into digital episodic storytelling and has received wide acclaim from press outlets like The New York Times, A/V Club, PASTE and others. - even landing on the "Must List" of Entertainment Weekly. She is currently in development on future seasons of Gusbandry as well as multiple new TV and feature projects.
Rose is also an accordion player and singer that recorded under the moniker Miss Murgatroid from 1990-2008. She currently writes and performs with Portland Oregon Rock Band Moon Tiger.
Learn moreAmelia Reeber is a choreographer and performer. She received a BA in dance from the University of Washington in 2000. Her solo work has been presented in Seattle at On the Boards, Velocity’s MainSpace Theatre, Freehold Theater, and Chamber Theater, and in Portland, Oregon at PICA’s TBA Festival. She has danced for and/or collaborated with Corrie Befort, Sheri Cohen, KT Niehoff, Katie Duck, and Deborah Hay, among others.
Amelia has received an Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs City Artist Grant, a 4Culture grant, an Artist Trust GAP Award, among others. Currently Amelia is a licensed craniosacral therapist and offers a variety of movement classes.
Learn moreRotaru is a poet and journalist, and the author of two collections of poetry, including In a bed under a white sheet and Southern Lands. She has received numerous awards, including the Mihai Eminescu National Poetry Prize and The Bucharest Writer's Association Prize. Rotaru’s poetry frequently intersects with other artists and practices: she has participated in live poetry performances with jazz musicians and in train stations her first collection of poems dealt with the legacy of Frida Kahlo, and her current explorations involve collaborations with local dancers.
Learn moreFor the TBA Festival, Mr. Ritchey has specially composed a totally unique narrative-form biography of no more than 150 words. This personal biography provides context for the 16mm programs he has organized. At each of the screenings, Mr. Ritchey's exclusive, narrative-form biography will be distributed as an addendum to the program notes. This biography totaling at least less than 150 words will be an important and unrepeatable part of the unique experience of each individual program, as well as the exhibition as a whole. All attendees of the TBA Festival are encouraged to read the program notes for additional details. These program notes will be made available no later than the date of each individual program, at or prior to the start time of each event.
Learn moreAngel Robinson is a woman who wears many hats and is deeply passionate about impacting others through sport and life. A former WNBA and international professional basketball player, she carries the lessons of discipline, resilience, and teamwork into everything she does today.
Outside of her professional role, Angel co-owns a basketball training program where she develops young athletes—teaching not just skills, but confidence, work ethic, and character. She is also involved in her community through coaching, officiating, and mentoring, with a special focus on empowering young girls to find their voice and thrive in sports.
Grounded in faith, family, and purpose, Angel is committed to inspiring the next generation and creating meaningful impact both on and off the court.
Learn moreGray and Paulsen are artists who live and work collaboratively. Their idea-based practice fuses history, fiction, autobiography, and artistic commentary into a wide variety of material works. Their work has been shown and published internationally. They live and work in Portland, where they are represented by PDX Contemporary Art.
Selected Press
Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Nat Andreini, Shift.jp, June, 2011.
Review: Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen at PDX Gallery, DK Row, The Oregonian, July 15, 2010.
Learn moreAnthony Hudson is a Grand Ronde/Siletz artist and writer also known as Carla Rossi, Portland's premier drag clown. Hudson’s performance work—from his award-winning solo show Looking for Tiger Lily to Queer Horror at the Hollywood Theatre—have earned him national fellowships, international engagements including the US Pavilion’s drag clown in residence at the 2024 Venice Biennale, features in Hyperallergic and Art in America, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A 2023 FSG Writer’s Fellowship finalist and 2024 Tin House resident, Hudson’s writing has appeared in American Theatre, BOMB Magazine, and Arts and International Affairs. Hudson is currently adapting Looking for Tiger Lily into a book.
Learn moreCombining spontaneous off the cuff wit and well-written punches to the gut, Anthony's comedy can best be described as Chuck D and Flavor Flav in one person. Beginning stand up in Kansas City, MO at 21, he left the Midwest to further pursue comedy and hasn't looked back since.
Worked with comedians like Ty Barnett, Aparna Nancherla, Rory Scovel, Amy Miller, Aamer Rahman, Baron Vaughn, Curtis Cook, Neel Nanda, JohnRoy, just to name a few.
Credits include Bumpershoot, NW Comedy Festival, Seattle International Competition, NBC Stand Up for Diversity
Learn moreBrede Rørstad is the co-founder of No More Mondays and Fiol. No More Mondays is a creative studio bridging luxury fashion, object design, interiors and digital spaces. Rørstad is passionate about story telling and the user journey in luxury fashion.
Learn moreGerard & Kelly (Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly) have collaborated since 2003 to create project-based installations and performances interrogating the formation of the couple and the critical potential of intimacy. Driven by an inquiry of their own partnership, the duo uses choreography, video, and sculpture to address questions of sexuality, memory and the formation of queer consciousness. Their work has been exhibited internationally at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; New Museum, New York; and The Kitchen, New York, among other institutions. Their ongoing performance series Modern Living, in collaboration with L.A. Dance Project, was recently presented by The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut, and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in West Hollywood, in association with Art Production Fund. Gerard & Kelly have received numerous recognitions for their work, including the New England Foundation for the Arts (2015), Art Matters grant (2014), and the 2014 Juried Award from the New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessies. Gerard & Kelly completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2010, and received their MFAs in 2013 from the Interdisciplinary Studio in the UCLA Department of Art.
Learn moreBrian Rogers is a theater and film director, video and sound artist, and performing arts curator. Since 1997, Rogers has created films, performances, albums, and other time-based projects including Small Songs (2023-2024); Screamers (2018); Hot Box (2012, co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing The Line Festival, PS122’s COIL Festival, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center and supported by a MAP Fund grant); and the Bessie-nominated Selective Memory (2010). Rogers composed the soundtrack for Shaun Iron & Lauren Petty’s film Standing By: Gatz Backstage and has collaborated as a sound and video artist with numerous experimental dance and theater artists in New York and elsewhere. Rogers is a MacDowell Fellow and has had residencies at Yaddo and Mount Tremper Arts.
Rogers is the Co-Founder and Artistic Executive Director of The Chocolate Factory Theater, an internationally recognized venue for experimental dance, theater, and interdisciplinary performance based in Queens, NY. Now in its twenty-second year, Rogers serves as chief curator of The Chocolate Factory Theater’s artistic programming and leads its artistic and administrative operations.
Rogers has taught at Kenyon College, University of Michigan, University of Colorado, The School at The Art Institute of Chicago, St. Johns University, Carnegie Mellon University, Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, New York University, Princeton University, and others. He has served as a panelist/recommender for New York State Council on the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, Fresh Tracks, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital, Pew Charitable Trust, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Yaddo, Macdowell, MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim, and others. Rogers is a graduate of Bennington College.
Learn moreCarlota Ribas, a native of Barcelona, Spain, manages the Client Services group at VIA, a global company focused on facilitating communication across boundaries of language, comprehension, and culture, by delivering services such as eLearning, translation, and localization. Carlota holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in translation, localization and cross-cultural studies and is interested in hybrid solutions of human and automated translation to help meet the ever growing localization needs of the global markets.
Learn moreChris Riser is a human, husband, father, and educator living and working on the stolen lands of the Chinook, Clackamas, Kalapuya, Kathlamet, Molalla, Multnomah, Tualatin, and other peoples who have been here since time immemorial. He works in the field of education as a means of planting the seeds for a world that does not yet exist. He currently serves as the Administrator of HOLLA School in East Portland, with a mission to change the academic narratives for Black, Brown, and Indigenous youth.
Learn moreBorn in Cannes, Christian Rizzo took his first steps as an artist in Toulouse, where he started a rock band and created a line of clothing before studying visual arts at the Villa Arson in Nice. In the ’90s, he performed with and created costumes and soundtracks for choreographers including Mathilde Monnier, Hervé Robbe, Mark Tompkins, Georges Appaix, Vera Mantero, Catherine Contour, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Rachid Ouramdane. Since founding “l’association fragile” in 1996, he has created over 30 performances and dance pieces, alternating with other projects or commissions for fashion and visual arts. He was an artist-in-residence at l’Opéra de Lille, and has performed his works around the world at the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, the Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou, deSingel, the Festival d’Avignon, and On the Boards.
On January 1, 2015, Christian Rizzo took over as the Director of the Centre Choréographique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillion-Midi-Pyrénées, which has been renamed ICI (International Choreographic Institute).
Learn moreC. Riley Snorton is a scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender, sexuality, and race. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (U Minn Press, 2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (U Minn Press, 2017). Snorton is Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Chicago.
Learn moreCrystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom are Portland-based artists who make events, videos, sounds, posters, prints, books, blogs, sculptures, playlists, drawings, emails, and food, individually and collaboratively. In 2012 they created a compilation album of 35 songs based on Sol LeWitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art, titled Songs on Conceptual Art. It is available for free online at http://songsonconceptualart.com. Baxley and Ransom have organized events and exhibited projects at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, the Open Engagement Conference and Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, and the Kadist Foundation in San Francisco.
Learn moreDez Ramirez is a writer, filmmaker, artist and DJ. Known as DJ La Cosmica, Dez has been a member of the Noche Libre DJ Collective since 2018, and has hosted, recorded and produced episodes of Radio Noche Libre! on XRAY FM. Currently living between the Mojave Desert, Los Angeles, and Portland - La Cosmica's style and musical curation ranges widely as she draws from the influences of dramatic wilderness, urban vibrancy, and the pulse of collective and radical liberation in the communities in which she lives and creates. Recent flavors consist of electrocumbia, electronica, house, synth, R&B, bass, reggaeton, norteno, salsa, and disco.
Find her at:
@silver_mother
Learn moreEast Rodeo has recently become popular in the European experimental sound scene under the leadership of the Sinkauz brothers—Alen and Nenad—who were born in Pula and formed the band while studying musicology in Italy. Since the release of their third album, Morning Cluster, they have been noticed by important critics, and have gained the affections of their audiences. At the same time, the brothers Sinkauz also work in the theater, but all too rarely.
Learn moreFounded in 2020, Elbow Room is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community art studio and gallery dedicated to supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. More than 30 participating artists visit Elbow Room’s SE Portland studio (and satellite community art programming) each week to develop their creative practice, experiment with new materials, cultivate their portfolio of finished artwork, and to build community through friendship and collaboration. Elbow Room provides art materials and mentorship in painting, drawing, creative writing, sewing, digital media/video, music, hand tool woodworking, ceramics, and many other forms of art making. Participating artists pay no out-of-pocket expenses for materials or studio access, and they have opportunities to show and sell their work through Elbow Room’s gallery and through Elbow Room’s efforts to network with other contemporary art spaces.
Elbow Room and PICA have fostered an ongoing community partnership since 2022. Through weekly studio arts programs hosted by PICA, Elbow Room artists have access to PICA’s library of art books for inspiration and immersion into contemporary art, and can work with a wide range of artistic media in PICA’s Resource Room.
Learn moreFounded in 1991 by Artistic Director John Collins, Elevator Repair Service creates original works with an ongoing ensemble.
ERS’s theater pieces are built around a broad range of subject matter and literary forms; they combine elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, both literary and found text, and the group’s own highly developed style of choreography.
ERS creates its performances through extended periods of collaboration. A typical development cycle includes 4-6 intensive work periods within a 2 year period, which conclude with work-in-progress showings. Time off between development is filled with touring and presentations of finished works. Following completion, the piece is presented in NYC for an extended run and is toured throughout the US and abroad.
Learn moreEmily Roysdon (1977) is a New York and Stockholm based artist and writer. Her working method is interdisciplinary and recent projects take the form of performance, photographic installations, printmaking, text, video, curating, and collaborating. Roysdon developed the concept "ecstatic resistance" to talk about the impossible and imaginary in politics. The concept debuted with simultaneous shows at Grand Arts in Kansas City, and X Initiative in New York. She is editor and co-founder of the queer feminist journal and artist collective, LTTR. Her many collaborations include costume design for choreographers Levi Gonzalez, Vannesa Anspaugh and Faye Driscoll, as well as lyric writing for The Knife, and Brooklyn based JD Samson & MEN. Recent solo projects include new commissions from Performance Room, Tate Modern (London), If I Can't Dance (Amsterdam), PICA's TBA Festival, Visual Art Center (Austin), Art in General (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Konsthall C (Stockholm) and a Matrix commission from the Berkeley Art Museum. Roysdon is a recently appointed Professor of Art at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden.
Learn moreOver the past ten years, Rose has released recordings, created sound installations, scored films, and performed internationally. He has worked with a number of artists and organizations including Gus Van Sant, Molo Design, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. His work was recently featured in a project curated by Tilt Export at Gallery Homeland (OR). Upcoming exhibitions and projects include an original score for the feature film Nothing Personal and a collaborative installation with glass artist Andy Paiko at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Rose was recently awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission.
Learn moreFreddie Robins’ practice crosses definable categories of art, craft and design. She combines these elements elegantly, and with playful wit subverts meaning and making, fusing a melting-pot of approaches to ‘craft’.
She uses knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition, as well as the cultural preconceptions surrounding knitting as craft. Her work aims to disrupt the notion of the medium as passive and benign. Her pieces often incorporate both humour and fear. There is also a display of almost obsessive perfectionism in the quality of each piece’s hand-made finish.
Freddie Robins’ work is in several private and public collections, including the Government Art Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, Crafts Council, Nottingham Castle Museum, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland and Kode, Bergen, Norway. She has exhibited internationally, including most recently, History in the Making: stories of materials and makers, 2000 BC – Now, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK; If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 – 2022, Hepworth Wakefield and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; I Put a Spell on You – New Magic and Mysticism, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester, UK; Creature Comforts, JGM Gallery, London, UK; Kette und Schuss, Mönchengladbach, Germany; CC binder, Puurs-Sint-Amands, Puurs, Belgium; and We are Commoners: Creative Acts of Commoning, a Craftspace national touring exhibition.
Currently Professor of Textiles at the Royal College of Art, Robins is the 2025 Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Visual Arts Program, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR. She lives and works in Essex, UK and London, UK.
Learn moreGolden Retriever was formed in Portland during the year 2008 by multi-instrumentalists Jonathan Sielaff and Matt Carlson. Focusing on the relationship of two primarily monophonic instruments—modular synth & bass clarinet—and utilizing layering with a deft balance of improvisation and composition, the duo has created an infinitely varied approach to their sound world. Their latest record, Occupied with the Unspoken, was released last year on Thrill Jockey.
Learn moreRodman is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. His work has a structural/performative bent and often integrates gestural painting, diagrammatic drawing, and intense color, and he has often collaborated with others to realize “event-based group figurative sculptures.” Rodman received his BA in sculpture from The College of Creative Studies at UCSB and his MFA from Columbia University and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally at venues including Guild & Greyshkul (New York), The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, and, in collaboration with the SFBC, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Recent shows include a solo presentation at Arte Portugal 10 (Lisbon), and group exhibitions at Laurel Gitlen (New York) and Sue Scott Gallery (New York).
Selected Press
The Wolves from Three Angles; Or, The Benefits of the Middle,, Claire Jarvis, ARCADE, January 26, 2011.
"A Room, In Three Movements,", Naomi Fry, Artforum.com, March, 2011.
The Tension of Objects in Space, Michelle Levy, ArtSlant, February 27, 2011.
Selected Video
The Navigator from Doublr on Vimeo.
This video documents two events, one year apart: The Navigator (3/26/2006) + Navigator Two (3/25/2007). The footage for both years is overlain and made transparent allowing the two events to be seen at the same time.
THREE_CLOUDS from Doublr on Vimeo.
Three simultaneously conceived improvisational sculptures of a cloud of smoke exhaled by a furloughed ill cigarette factory worker constructed as unfolding in time by or through an experimental cooperative photography workshop in conjunction with and within the premises of ohad meromi's rehearsal sculpture at art in general, 79 walker st., ny, ny on the 6th floor at 6:30pm on tuesday, feb 1st 2011 Learn moreHéctor Remedios Fernández is a graduate of the Faculty of Visual Art at the University of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba, where he is currently a professor in the New Media Lab. Remedios is concerned with the relationship between performance and the fields of Art-Science- Technology (ACT) with a particular interest in the practices of Bio-art. He is the author of a thesis on Sustainable (Auto)-Interaction Processes [PI(A)S], in the field of art. He is specifically interested in the bioelectricity that emanates naturally from the human organism, particularly, when it is generated during processes related to artistic creation. The bioenergy communion between the actors of an artistic event offers critical ideas about art and the human relationships established through it.
Remedios is also co-founder of the Órbita project, a space for dissemination and knowledge exchange that was designed to fill gaps in the academic program of the ISA. To date, Órbita has held more than twenty extracurricular conferences. In addition, Remedios co-founded DOT (Desarrollo de Obras Tecnológicas), a project dedicated to create viable ideas based on alternative technology in the Cuban context.
Remedios has been published in Cuban Art News and in journal of the University of the Arts (ISA). He served as an organizer for the 12th Havana Biennials at the University of Arts (ISA) as well as for its theoretical program; he was also a member of the Organizing Committee of the VI and VII International Festival of Video Art of Camagüey (FIVAC). Remedio´s work has been exhibited in various spaces including the Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Villa Manuela Gallery, and during the 11th and 12th Havana Biennials.
Learn moreMichael Gaughan is a musician and artist who graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2002. It is then that he began rapping as Ice Rod and playing music in the rock n’ roll scavenger hunt band Brother and Sister. Ice Rod currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. An exhibition of Gaughan’s drawings of fantasy bands were recently on view at The Future Perfect Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.
Learn moreJen Delos Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her work as an organizer as a key component of her continued creative work.
Jen Delos Reyes is a creative laborer, educator, writer, and radical community arts organizer. Her practice is as much about working with institutions as it is about creating and supporting sustainable artist-led culture. Delos Reyes worked within Portland State University from 2008-2014 to create the first flexible residency Art and Social Practice MFA program in the United States and devised the curriculum that focused on place, engagement, and dialogue. The flexible residency program allows for artists embedded in their communities to remain on site throughout their course of study.
She worked with the Portland Art Museum from 2009-14 to create a series of programs and integrated systems that allow artists to rethink what can happen in a museum, and reinvigorate the idea of the museum as a public space.
She is the director and founder of Open Engagement, an international annual conference on socially engaged art that has been active since 2007 and hosted conferences in two countries at locations including the Queens Museum in New York. She is working on I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning, a book exploring the artist impetus toward art and everyday life.
Delos Reyes currently lives and works in Chicago, IL where she is the Associate Director of the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois Chicago.
[1] Credit to Saul Alinsky in form, and for the reminder that often the most formative educational experiences happen outside of the classroom.
Learn moreReeves is a New York-based filmmaker, who has shown at the Berlin, New York, Vancouver, London, Sundance, and Seoul Film Festivals, as well as at the Whitney Biennial, Princeton University, and the Museum of Modern Art. She has made 20+ film works since 1990, pushing the boundaries of film through optical-printing, film stock “misuse,” and direct-on-film techniques including hand-painting film frames.
Selected Press
When It Was Blue, Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, 2008.
Outward Bound, Ed Halter, artforum, October 27, 2008.
Learn moreJen Rosenblit makes performance engaging bodies, architectures and ideas between New York City and Berlin. Her works focus on an improvisational approach to choreographic thought, locating ways of being together amidst impossible spaces. Recent works include Hands (upcoming, 2016, The Invisible Dog/New York Live Arts), a Natural dance (2014, The Kitchen), Pastor Pasture, in collaboration with composer Jules Gimbrone, (2013, Issue Project Room), In Mouth (2012, Dance Theater Workshop), and When Them (2010, Danspace Project). Rosenblit is a 2015-16 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Emerging Choreographer for a Natural dance and was awarded the 2012 Grant to Artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Rosenblit was included in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York exhibition in October 2015, and has received commissions from The Kitchen, The Invisible Dog, New York Live Arts, Danspace Project, and Issue Project Room. Rosenblit has also collaborated and performed with artists including Simone Aughterlony, Young Jean Lee, Ryan McNamara, Yvonne Meier, Sasa Asentic, Anne Imhof, Miguel Gutierrez, A.K. Burns, and Kerry Downey with Joanna Seitz. Rosenblit's upcoming work, Swivel Spot, in collaboration with Geo Wyeth premiers at The Kitchen in March 2017. A new collaboration with Simone Aughterlony, Everything Fits in the Room, premieres January 2017 as a commission between HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Haus der Kulturen Der Welt in Berlin as part of their 100 Years of Now festival.
Learn moreJesus Rodales is a Hillsboro native. He started his dance career as a freestyler, specializing in Tutting and Popping. He is co-founder of Find A Way Threads, a lifestyle brand dedicated to its self-explanatory purpose. Through Find A Way, they hope to help create opportunities for their community!
Learn moreJon Raymond is the author of the book of short stories, Livability; the novel, The Half-Life; and the movies Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. He was an editor at Plazm Magazine and received his M.F.A. from the New School University. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Learn moreJoseph Rosenburger has not let hardships, tragedies, and adversities stop him from excelling in the written word. His wit matches his wisdom, both of which are plentiful beyond his years. Newly released from five years in three institutions, Joe has much to offer the people.
Learn moreKameelah Janan Rasheed (East Palo Alto, CA) is an artist, writer, and former public school social studies teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. In her interdisciplinary and research intensive practice, she considers ideas of selective legibility and opaqueness as a political strategy; the tension between narrative contingencies and narrative resolutions; as well as black traditions of covert literacies and self-publishing. She has exhibited at Studio Museum in Harlem, Bronx Museum, Queens Museum, Smack Mellon Gallery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Project Row Houses, among others. She has been the recipient of awards including the Keyholder Residency at Lower East Side Print Studio, Triple Canopy Commission at New York Public Library Labs, Artadia Grant, Queens Museum Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, Art Matters Grant, among others. She is a curriculum writer for NYC public schools, the Arts Editor for SPOOK Magazine, a contributing editor at The New Inquiry, and on faculty at School of Visual Arts. Currently, she is an artist in residence at Smack Mellon.
Learn moreInspired by the creative brilliance of ’90s artists like Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, and Eve, Karma Rivera is looking to revive that era’s sense of authenticity and ingeniousness while showcasing her lyrical skills as an MC to the forefront. The Chicago raised and now Portland dweller, Karma Rivera beguiling bars will land like a Mayweather jab, hitting effortlessly and continuously.
Learn moreLeyya Mona Tawil (Lime Rickey International) is an artist working with sound, performance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Tawil uses voice, transactive choreography, interactive surfaces, and electronics to build hybrid performances and sound compositions. Her work has been presented in over 40 cities throughout the states, Europe, and the Arab region. She was nominated for a Bessie Award in Music for Lime Rickey International’s Future Faith, commissioned by Abrons Arts Center (NYC) and KONE Foundation (Helsinki). Recent residencies and exhibitions include Wysing Art Centre/British Council (UK), Arab American National Museum/JAM3A Festival 2021, FUSEBOX Festival 2022, and the Tarek Atoui Sound Residency at Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE). As a curator/producer, Tawil is on the team of Live In America Festival, Southern Exposure Gallery, TAC (Temescal Art Center), and was also the 2020 ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow for her NOMADIC SIGNALS series, which continues into 2022. She is the founding director of Arab.AMP.
Learn moreLisa Radon makes poems that may be publication, object, essay, installation, website, performance. Her books include The Plumb and The Wave (2014), Prototyping Eutopias (2013), An Attempt at Exhausting a Place (2013), The Book of Knots (c_L, 2013), A Reading (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2012), Sentences on Sentences on Paragraphs on Paragraphs (Publication Studio, 2011). Her work has been presented recently in solo exhibitions at Pied-à-terre, Littman Gallery, and White Box, as well as in exhibitions at Hedreen Gallery and LxWxH, and publications for MK Gallery, Disjecta, and Appendix Project Space. Radon publishes the journal EIGHTS.
Learn moreLucy Raven was born in Tucson, Arizona in and lives in New York City and Oakland, California. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings internationally at Berlinale, Berlin (2013); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Whitney Biennial, New York (2012); MoMA, New York (2010); and PS1, New York (2010). Raven is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine, and her writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, and October. She has curated projects for the Goethe Institute, New York (2010); Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2008); and was the co-creator of Bump City, a series of online documentaries for the Oakland Museum of California (2012).
Selected Press
"Lucy Raven," Jason Simon, BOMB, Fall 2012.
"Greater New Yorkers | Lucy Raven," Kevin McGarry, T Magazine, May 13, 2010.
Learn moreFounded in 1993, Mammalian Diving Reflex is a research-art atelier dedicated to investigating the social sphere, always on the lookout for contradictions to whip into aesthetically scintillating experiences. Mammalian creates site and social-specific performance events, theatre-based productions, gallery-based participatory installations, video products, art objects and theoretical texts. They create work that recognizes the social responsibility of art, fostering a dialogue between audience members, between the audience and the material, and between the performers and the audience. It is their mission to bring people from across the planet together in new and unusual ways to create ideal entertainment for the end of the world. For greater context and a more in-depth exploration of Mammalian Diving Reflex's projects and philosophy, click here to view a PDF of collected reviews, interviews, articles and links. A great resource for those who really want to dive into the Festival!
Learn moreMarbles Jumbo Radio is a dancer and movement thinker who works within performance, video, and discussion based platforms that engage experiences of social marginality with politics of place, belonging, land, and identity.
Learn moreMark Russell is a writer and cartoonist living in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of God Is Disappointed in You and has written several acclaimed comic book series, including the DC reboot of The Flintstones, Second Coming, and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, which won the 2019 GLAAD Award for Outstanding Comic.
Learn moreMatthew Rempes is a video instrument designer, synthesist, and educator based in Portland, Oregon. His work is centered around creating novel analog computing instruments, exploring obsolete analog video formats, and experimental sound design. Matthew is passionate about sharing the joys of audio/video synthesis and enabling others to create their own instruments, having taught dozens of workshops on synthesis theory and DIY synthesizers in the Portland area. He primarily administers Synth Library Portland's Lending program and organizes opportunities for local and visiting artists to lead synthesis-related workshops.
Learn moreReinsch is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon, where he earned his MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2009. His work incorporates performance and activated sculptural props to explore human connection and disconnection, often through themes of celebration and melancholy.
Learn moreMichael Rohd is founding artistic director of Sojourn Theatre, a sixteen-year old ensemble-based company and a 2005 recipient of Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy Exemplar Award. He devises and directs new work around the nation and is on faculty at Northwestern University, where he helps lead the MFA Directing Program. He wrote the widely translated book Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue (15th printing, Heinemann Press, 1998). He leads the Center for Performance and Civic Practice, an ongoing body of activity comprised of research, programs and projects that aim to make visible the power of the arts to demonstrably increase civic capacity.
Rohd's work with the Center, Sojourn, and in non-arts sector settings around the nation focuses on social practice and civic practice cross-disciplinary projects through collaboratively designed arts-based engagement and participation strategies. He is the 2013-2016 Doris Duke Artist-in-Residence at Lookingglass Theater Company in Chicago. Recent/current projects include leading a two year Sojourn Artist-in-Residence collaboration with Catholic Charities USA poverty reduction sites around the US; a Sojourn partnership with Planning Commissions around the country utilizing civic practice in public engagement settings to help communities deal with difficult conversations and resource allotment; and collaborating with theaters and universities around the country to mount locally specific projects based on Sojourn's model performance/engagement process/production How To End Poverty in 90 Minutes.
Learn moreMorgan Ritter has a BA in Intermedia from the Pacific Northwest College of Art (2011). Her visual and written work has been exhibited through institutions such as the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), the Henry Art Museum (Seattle), LUMA Foundation (Zurich) and Centre Pompidou (Paris). She has been awarded residencies in New Mexico, New York, Washington and Colorado. Ritter has published three books and is working on a new book of poetry to be published by Ambient Press (NY) and a multi-media release with Musical Archive (LA).
Learn morePatrick Rock is a conceptual artist who has shown internationally, most recently with the collective AMERICAN MEAT LLC., and with the post-punk trio PISS in the Sequences Live Art Festival in Reykjavik. He is the director of ROCKSBOXCONTEMPORARYFINEART, a short-term artist residency and exhibition space in Portland, as well as the director of the Portland State University Art Department galleries, where he also teaches as an adjunct instructor of its Art Department.
Learn moreRabbits Road Press is a community Risograph print studio and publishing press founded and run by OOMK. The project was commissioned by Create London and is based at Old Manor Park former Carnegie Library. The small-scale publishing press provides printing and book binding services for artists and community groups in Newham in East London and beyond. A responsive programme of workshops and events explore a contemporary model for community publishing, bringing together artists, designers, writers and neighbours.
Learn moreAs an artist, Rachael Archibald plays with the conventions of art categorizations and conforms them into digital processes, as an all inclusive art form.
Currently she is expanding her practice into graphic arts and visual communication; having already designed posters and promotional media for other artists, musicians and galleries.
Although living and working in Brisbane, Australia, most of her work has been shown overseas in Bristol, Venice, Brooklyn, and online as part of the The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale.
Learn moreRachel Carrico is a scholar and practitioner of dance and performance. She holds a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California–Riverside and an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU. She has published her research on second lining, an improvisational dance form rooted in New Orleans's African diaspora parading traditions, in TDR: The Drama Review, TBS: The Black Scholar, and several anthologies. Fellowships and awards include the Society of Dance History Scholars' Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for excellence in dance scholarship, the UC Center for New Racial Studies Research Grant, and the Center for Gulf South Research Global South Fellowship at Tulane University. Also a practitioner, Carrico completed the Limón Institute's dance teacher training. In 2008, she co-founded Goat in the Road Productions in New Orleans, with whom she has directed two international artist residencies and launched Play/Write, a youth playwriting festival, in New Orleans schools.
Learn moreRachid Ouramdane is a French choreographer of Algerian descent at the forefront of Europe’s conceptual dance thinkers. His projects reassess the definitions of “performer” and “choreographer” and question modes of producing and circulating artwork. Prior to founding L’A. in 2007, Ouramdane collaborated with artists such as Emmanuelle Huynh, Meg Stuart, Christian Rizzo, Alain Buffard, and choreographer Julie Nioche, with whom he co-founded Fin Novembre in 1996. Ouramdane has worked with institutions also focused on visual art, including FRAC Champagne/Ardennes, Manège de Reims, and the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris. Besides choreography, Ouramdane regularly leads artistic workshops and moderates international encounters with artists.
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The Purple Shall Govern, Daniel Fernández Pascual, deconcrete, June 8, 2011. Learn moreEducated at the Institut supérieur d'art dramatique (ISAD) of Tunis, choreographer Radhouane El Meddeb was rewarded as 'young hope of the Tunisian theatre' in 1996 by the Tunisian section of the International Theatre Institute. Subsequently, he was selected to participate in the education and research courses at the Théâtre National de Toulouse under the direction of Jacques Rosner.In Tunisia he worked with key artists of the Arab world such as Fadhel Jaïbi, Taoufik Jebali and Mohamed Driss. In France he collaborated with theatre directors Jacques Rosner, Lotfi Achour and Catherine Boskowitz, and with authors such as Adel Hakim and Natacha de Pontcharra. He performed in two films by Férid Boughedir (Un été à la Goulette et Halfaouine, l’enfant des terrasses) and took dance classes with Jean-Laurent Sasportès and Lisa Nelson.
In 2005 he created his first dance solo, performing himself, Pour en finir avec MOI, followed by a creation for Montpellier Danse in 2006, Huwa, ce lui. In 2007, Radhouane performed in Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux' 1000 Departures of Muscles. In 2008 he created Quelqu’un van danser…, commissioned by the festival Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis. That same year, invited by choreographer Salia Sanou, he conceived a culinary dance performance for the event “Sonorités et corps d’Afrique”, entitled Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer. It premiered at Centre National de la Danse and is still a highly demanded piece. In 2010 he created his first group piece, Ce que nous sommes, premiering as well at the Centre National de la Danse. Other works since: Chant d’amour (2011), Aletroit (2011), Tunis, 14 janvier 2011 (2011), Sous leurs pieds, le paradis (2012), and Nos Limites (2012, a piece for two young circus performers, produced by the 104-Centquatre in Paris). In spring 2014 followed Au temps où les Arabes dansaient… (2014) premiered at CDC Toulouse. In April 2015, Radhouane will present a prelude to his new creation, Heroes, with ten performers, at the Paris Panthéon, premiering within the framework of the festival Séquence Danse of the 104-Centquatre, where Radhouane has been associate artist since 2011.
Learn moreElisa Harkins, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, and Zoë Poluch came together in 2019 to create Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ. The work was borne in part from a common interest in minimalism in art and music, which led to a wish to create a first work together. Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Hanako Hoshimi-Caines is a mother, dancer, performance-maker, writer, questioner, enthusiast, and organizer born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her work plays with the pleasure and the haunt of the familiar as strategies of resistance and transformation. Zoë Poluch’s artistic practice puts into motion different mediums and takes shape in different rooms. Her relationship with the “contemporary dance” scene is based on a long-term and practice-based interest in the politics and poetics of moving and sensing. She is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Learn moreRadoslaw Rychcik is a young director living and working in Poland. He began his career as an assistant to renowned director Krystian Lupa on Factory 2 and later worked on Stanislaw Wyspianski's drama Protesilas and Laodamia. In 2008, Rychcik directed Dictator, a performance based on Charlie Chaplin’s film, for the Wybrzeze Sztuki Festival in Gdansk. Most recently, Rychcik has presented A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes at the Drama Theatre in Warsaw and an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s Versus: In the Jungle of Cities at the New Theatre in Krakow and the Under the Radar Festival in New York.
Selected Press
Rychcik burns actors (Solitude of Cotton Fields), Beata Frysztacka, e-splot.pl, December 20, 2009 (Translated from Polish).
Loneliness is Discovered, Agata Piecuch, e-teatr.pl, January 6, 2010 (Translated from Polish).
Learn moreRahila Naomi Stadem Coats is an improviser, choreographer, and dancer based in Chicago. Her works have been shown through the support of Twenty Percent Productions, the 2018 Jerusalem Jazz Festival, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Company Projects, Synapse Arts, Thodos Dance Chicago, DanceWorks Chicago, and the University of Ghana at Legon. Currently, she dances for Red Clay Dance and is a vocalist with music group Family Junket. She is excited to continue this journey with FORCE! and its loving constellation.
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The cavernous and beautiful project of renowned DJ and Further Records headmaster Chloe Harris, Raica walks a fine line between lucid animation and blurred darkness.“Originally released as a tape in 2012, Dose marked a difficult transition for Chloe Harris, the Seattle-based producer and co-head of Further Records. Before she made experimental synth music as Raica, Harris toured the world as a progressive house DJ and close associate of John Digweed, an artist who couldn’t be further removed from the music on Dose. Harris says the tape (now a record) was the sound of her trying to claw her way out of that world, or at least find a new one. Looking back on it now, Dose is a stunning document of vulnerability and volatile inspiration couched in seriously experimental, mind-bending music.” – Resident Advisor on Dose (2012)
Learn moreInspired to perform by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s injunction to "Throw your body into the fight," Hoghe was born in Wuppertal, Germany, and began his career as a writer. Until 1990, he worked as dramaturge for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. In 1994, he produced his first solo for himself, Meinwärts, which together with the subsequent Chambre séparée (1997) and Another Dream (2000) made up a trilogy on the 20th century. Since 2002, Hoghe has choreographed group productions or duos that reinterpret classic dance pieces, including Swan Lake, 4 Acts (2005); Sacre — The Rite of the Spring (2004), with Lorenzo De Brabandere; Boléro Variations (2007) and L'Après-midi with Emmanuel Eggermont (2008).
Learn moreConceived in 2002 by Nick Jones and Raja Azar, the group began with a song, Pyrate Love, performed while they were working for the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, and the two set out to create a massive live musical pirate puppet sea saga. Four years, six “episodes,” and hours of bizarre musical material later, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang have toured the US, Canada, Ireland, and have recently finished a residency in Bangkok for the Hoontown Puppet Festival. In 2005, they released their first album, Songs to Drown By, and recorded a DVD (forthcoming) adapting Crabquistador, the latest episode of their saga.
Learn moreRaja Feather Kelly is a choreographer, a director, and the artistic director of the feath3r theory. He is a three-time Princess Grace Award winner (2017, 2018, 2019), two-time Lucille Lortel Award nominee (2019, 2020), and 2019 Chita Rivera Award nominee. In 2020 he was the Obie Award winner and Outer Critics Circle Award honoree for choreography for the Pulitzer-winning musical A Strange Loop. In 2019 he was an SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award finalist for both A Strange Loop and the Pulitzer-winning play Fairview. Raja is also the 2019–2020 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and a 2019 Creative Capital award recipient. He is a current fellow of HERE Arts, the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, and a Creative Associate at The Juilliard School. Over the past decade, Kelly has created fifteen evening-length premieres with his company the feath3r theory as well as directing and choreographing extensively for Off-Broadway theatre in New York City. His choreography has also garnered a 2018 Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) and the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), and he was Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018). He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College.
Learn moreWith a career spanning over 25 years, Rakesh has captivated audiences worldwide as a versatile performer, choreographer, teacher, and producer. His journey through the realms of artistry began in Bollywood dance, where he lent his talents to numerous films in South India. Evolving his craft, Rakesh found a new passion in Contemporary movement art, drawing inspiration from his family's lineage of yoga and disciplines like Kalarippayattu and other Indian dance forms.
For the past 15 years, he has traversed the globe, immersing himself in diverse cultures and artistic landscapes, shaping his unique perspective and vision. Experience the culmination of Rakesh's passion, dedication, and global influences in every performance and creation.
Learn moreRalph Pugay is an artist who was born in the province of Cavite, Philippines, and has resided in Portland, OR for the majority of his adult life. He creates imaginative and thought-provoking tableaus that prompt viewers to contemplate the boundaries of cultural norms, identity, and social perception. His works have been exhibited at various venues, including Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Seattle Art Museum, Upfor Gallery, Marinaro, Webb Art Gallery, Vox Populi, AA|LA, and King School Museum for Contemporary Art. Pugay is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award, a Betty Bowen Award, and an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship among others. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Joan Mitchell Center, the Rauschenberg Residency, Vermont Studio Center, PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab, Crows Shadow, and the University of Oregon’s Center for Artistic Research.
Learn moreRap Class is an eclectic DJ and producer who has been operating out of the Pacific Northwest for the better part of the last decade. His styles are routed in a heavy sample-based audio collage and disco mix champion influence. He can deliver anything; changing the ins and outs of his routine is his specialty. Every time you see him it’s like drawing a prize out from a bag. His one goal: to keep his audience guessing. Seeing him live, audiences may just learn that forward thinking electronic music doesn’t merely exist in the present, but lives as a culmination of all music history, a fact to be presented by the right DJ at the right place & time: Rap Class.
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"Rap Class: Brothers Superhero," Christian Santana, XLR8R, August 10, 2012.
"Rap Class," Reed Jackson, Willamette Week, October 31, 2012.
Learn moreRaquel André was born in Caneças, Portugal in 1986. Her artistic path began early on. In 2009, her first performance was created out her the discovery of a box full of handwritten letters from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. André has since cultivated an interest in collecting—particularly in the performing arts—and in 2016, she completed her master’s thesis at University Federal of Rio de Janeiro on the subject.
In 2011, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, where a five-month artistic residency in Companhia dos Atores turned into five years. There, she began working with director and actress Bel Garcia on several theater productions. André also worked with actor, curator, and director César Augusto in Galpão Gamboa, where she co-programmed and produced theater, dance and music. André studied in the Theater and Film School of Lisbon, and worked with several Portuguese artists from different artistic languages. Her work has been shown on television, and in Portugal, Spain, Poland, Cuba, Argentina, and Brazil.
Learn moreRaven Chacon is a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of a United States Artists fellowship in music, a Creative Capital award in visual arts, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM.
Learn moreRay Anthony Barrett's interdisciplinary practice is situated at the intersection of art and gastronomy. Since 2018, his pop-up, CINQVÉ, has been devoted to tracing the evolution of Soul Food from California to its West African origins. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, a project commissioned by Active Cultures, traces a seven month journey across the varied landscapes of the Western states. This multifaceted endeavor—spanning writing, research, film, and cooking—unfolded over the course of two years, interrogating the evolution of agricultural and land practices and the impact of dispossession and colonialism on foodways, tracing its roots from settler colonialism to present day modes of capitalism, and overconsumption. Barrett's drawings, photography, and installations elaborate on these themes. His projects have been featured at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Dak’Art: African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal, among others. His work has been profiled in Hyperallergic, Compound Butter, and Los Angeles Times.
Learn moreRay Beldner is a sculptor and mixed media artist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and can be found in many public and private collections including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C., 21c Museum, Kentucky, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Oakland Museum of California, and the San Jose Museum of Art, among others.Born in San Francisco, Beldner received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Mills College. He has received numerous awards and fellowships including a California Arts Council Fellowship in New Genres, a Creative Work Fund Grant from the Haas Foundations, and a Potrero Nuevo environmental art grant. He has taught sculpture, interdisciplinary studies, and professional practices at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco State University, and University of California, Santa Cruz.His work has been reviewed in publications including Art in America, Arte, Art On Paper, Artweek, Wired, Playboy, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.
Learn moreRebecca Gates is an Oregon based musician, artist, curator, and activist. She has toured and released albums internationally, and appeared on recordings by a range of artists including Willie Nelson, Akito Katayose and The Decemberists. Her programs and work relating to issues of sound and space, listening, and artist's roles in their communities have been hosted by PS1, Mass MOCA, WFMU's Radiovision Festival, PICA Symposium, The Museum of Contemporary Craft, New York University and galleries in the United States and Europe. Gates co-curated Ballroom Marfa's sonic exploration of land arts, "The Marfa Sessions", co-founded The Relay Project audiomagazine, and is chief wrangler at The Agency League of Musicians, a musician centered think tank and action network.
Learn moreArtist, musician, engineer, teacher, mentor... Reese is an accomplished, multi-disciplinary designer with nearly two decades of experience designing, testing, and building products for the technology industry. His personal work has been exhibited in Portland at galleries like PDX Contemporary and Disjecta, and he has been performing across genres in electronic music at multiple venues across the city (S1, Holocene, Disjecta, Ace Hotel, KEX, the NW Film Center...).
His various works, prototypes, writings, and music performances are showcased at reesebowes.com.
Learn moreReggie Watts made his name playing and singing in the band Maktub, a central part of the Seattle music scene throughout the 1990s. Embarking on his solo career in 2004, Watts has focused on developing a unique comedic style that synthesizes elements from R&B, beatboxing, alternative theatre and video. A prolific artist, Watts has completed projects with The Yes Men, collaborated with SOULLIVE and Yunchen Lhamo, and appeared at SXSW, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Cape Town and Edinburgh Comedy Festivals, TBA Festival in Portland, The Fuse Box Festival in Austin, Bonaroo, Sasquatch Festival, plus several BBC live radio events. He is winner of the 2005 Malcolm Hardee Oy! Oy! Award and the 2006 Andy Kaufman Comedy Award. In 2006 he was also a recipient of the Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award.
Learn moreRennie Harris has won many awards for choreography, including the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (1996), The Pew Charitable Trust's Repertory Development Initiative Grant (PRDI), The Susan Hess Choreographer's Project residency fellowship, City Paper's Critic's Award for "Most Exciting Dancer/Choreographer" (1993) and People's Choice (1994), and a Philadelphia Dance Projects Choreographic Commission (1996) made possible by the Multi Arts Production Fund of the Rockefeller Foundation. Rennie Harris PureMovement has received rave reviews for its performances locally in the Philadelphia Dance Projects, at The Painted Bride Art Center, Movement Theater International's Dance Kaleidoscope, and City Dances, and nationally as a featured company in Chuck Davis' Dance Africa and the Spoleto Festival. His company, Rennie Harris PureMovement, has received support from the City of Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Learn moreReno is a stream of consciousness style solo comedic performer living in New York City. Her evening length shows have had several runs Off-Broadway, both commercially and at the Public Theater and tour regularly on what might be called the "museum circuit." She adapted her show Reno In Rage and Rehab into an ACE Award-nominated HBO comedy hour (for "best writing for an entertainment special"). She has also made other short form tragi-comic "essays" for various outlets such as Comedy Central, VH-1, and PBS.
Reno has done some non-solo acting as well, most notably in Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day at The Public Theatre; as Dr. Lopex, Edith Ann's shrink in Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's series of animated specials, Edith Ann on ABC; and for CBS as Shapiro in last year's Witt/Thomas unscheduled sitcom, Hollywood Precinct.
Recently, Reno has been consumed with initiating her first feature film project, Reno Finds Her Mom. The piece, a "near-real-docu-comedy" follows Reno as she actually tries to track down the mother who abandoned her at birth, and will use this verite footage in combination with fictional material she is writing as the search is unfolding. The film is being directed by Nancy Savoca, produced by Reno and Rich Savoca, with Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner and Paula Mazur as executive producers.
Understandably, Reno's being called "...Rush Limbaugh's vision of the Anti Christ" and many versions thereof in the press tweaks terribly the curse on her soul that will only dissolve when she finds the way into the Television Set and can nightly deconstruct Rush and that unsavory element that is Time Magazine's Man of the Year, 1995. Do you know how to accomplish this? "Just think lovely thoughts" has not yet done the trick.
Learn moreReuben Tomás Roqueñi is a Program Officer in the Performing Arts Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in San Francisco making grants to sustain artistic expression and encourage public engagement in the arts. These grants embrace a wide range of artistic disciplines, aesthetics, and cultural traditions in the areas of dance, media, music, and theater that engage people across diverse communities.
Prior to Hewlett, Reuben served 5 years as Program Director at the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, a national arts philanthropic organization, located in the Portland, Oregon area and serving Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian artists, organizations, and programs. The grantmaking strategies included artist fellowships that focusing on innovation in contemporary arts practices; project support investing in social change and community development through the arts; and operating support working in partnership with Native arts service organizations to leverage broader support for the field. Previously, Reuben served as Grants Manager at a public agency, the Tucson Pima Arts Council in Tucson, Arizona, directing all grantmaking processes and program administration, supporting the region’s nonprofit arts organizations and individual artists.
Reuben currently serves on the board of Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) whose annual Time Based Art Festival (TBA) supports the experiments of innovative contemporary performing artists. He serves on the board of The Association of American Cultures (TAAC), whose bi-annual Open Dialogue conference provides leadership in achieving equal participation in policymaking, equitable funding for all cultural institutions, and an elevation in multicultural leadership that impact cultural policies. He is also on the Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) national Thought Leader Forum on Racial Equity in Grantmaking. Previously he served on the Board of Directors at Access Tucson (public television) and was a founding Board member of the Tucson Musicians and Artists Health Alliance (TAMHA). He is a graduate of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s (NALAC) Leadership Training Institute and the first NALAC Arts Advocacy Institute in DC. Reuben has served on grants review panels, national to local, for the National Endowment for the Arts, ArtPlace, NALAC Fund for the Arts, Rasmuson Foundation, Artist Trust, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Regional Arts and Culture Council (Portland), Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, and Pro-Neighborhoods Tucson.
Reuben is of mixed ancestry (Yaqui/Mexican). He began his career in arts administration at the afterschool arts and business program, Old Pascua Youth Artists (OPYA), serving Yaqui youth and as an artist educator in the public school system. He spent 6 years in the private sector with American Airlines and has lived in Seattle, St Croix, New Orleans, and San Antonio. He was raised in California, received his BFA from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is a multi-media visual artist.
Learn moreReuben Tomás Roqueñi
Director of National Artists Fellowships
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
Reuben is a nationally respected arts administrator with over 15 years in progressive program development, management, artist-centric support systems and grantmaking experience. He is currently Director of National Artists Fellowships at Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, serving Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian artists, organizations, and programs across the US. Previously, Reuben was Program Officer in the Performing Arts Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area, one the nation’s largest arts and culture funders. Formerly, Reuben served as Grants Program Director at the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona. Reuben is a board member at MAP Fund in NYC and a former a board member at PICA. Reuben is of mixed Yaqui/Mayo/Chicanx ancestry and is currently living in Portland, Oregon.
Learn moreRhea Wolf is feminist, witch and astrologer whose life purpose is to help people awaken their inherent creativity, activate their authentic selves and deepen their connections to the larger world. Rhea is motivated by a vision of an emerging culture based on respect, beauty, justice and relatedness.
Rhea Wolf has been a workshop facilitator for fifteen years, bringing creative writing, theater arts and The Work that Reconnects to a variety of groups, including at-risk youth and women in prison. After her Saturn Return, she began her journey as a professional astrologer and a mother of two daughters.
Rhea has worked as the Program Coordinator for Write Around Portland and was a performing artist and teacher with Sowelu Ensemble Theater. Rhea has a BFA in Theater Performance from Wichita State University. In addition, she has studied theater and deep ecology at the Naropa Institute, and trained extensively with world-renowned author Joanna Macy. After 4½ years of intensive study, she graduated from Colette Gardiner's Blue Iris Mystery School in 2009.
Rhea is the author of The Light That Changes: The Moon in Astrology, Stories and Time. Her articles have appeared in The Mountain Astrologer, hipMama, Perspectives, and VoiceCatcher. For the past seven years, she has offered workshops on astrology, spirituality and creativity to groups large and small throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Rhea’s passion for astrology began in childhood when she was given an impromptu tutorial of the zodiac by her hippie teen-aged babysitter. She remembers feeling a sense of wonder and also familiarity. Since then, she's devoured countless books on astrology and has received training and guidance from astrologers such as Demetra George, Emily Trinkaus and Steven Forrest. Rhea brings her love of the Earth, the spirit of wonder and her desire to deepen relationships to all that she does. She enjoys helping people find ways to claim more beauty and magic in their daily lives.
Rhea is a Leo Sun, Leo Rising, Taurus Moon and North Node in Scorpio. Full chart information is available upon request for students and potential students.
Learn moreRhodessa Jones is a masterful storyteller and one of the most charismatic and soulful theater artists working today. An actress, dancer, singer, writer, and teacher, she lives and works in San Francisco and is the director and founder of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, a program designed to promote self-awareness and self-esteem through the creation and production of personal theater pieces. As Co-Artistic Director of Cultural Odyssey, the San Francisco based performing arts company, Jones and her partner musician Idris Ackamoor have toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. Jones has received rave reviews and numerous awards for virtually each original piece she has launched, include a 1993 "Bessie" Award for Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women.
Learn moreRian Dundon (b. 1980) is a photographer in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of the books Protest City (2023), Fan (2015), and Changsha (2012), and the recipient of a 2020 Magnum Foundation fellowship. Dundon is a contributing photographer at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. He teaches photography at Clark College in Vancouver, WA.
Website: https://riandundon.com/
Learn more(b. 1975 in Hampton, Virginia)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New YorkEducation
1998
Ohio State University, OH, BFASolo Exhibitions
2016
MDD, Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Time Stopped, Time Started, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY2015
Ten Years of Richard Aldrich from the Collection of Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York, NY2014
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium2013
Twins, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
The Words of Tuck Tuck Tuck, Karma, New York, NY
Forget Your Dreams, All You Need is Love / A Day in the Life, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY2012
Half of What I Say, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium2011
New Work: Richard Aldrich, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Once I Was…, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Museo, Corvi-Mora, London, United Kingdom
Richard Aldrich and the 19th Century French Painting, Contemporary Art Museum St.
Louis, St Louis, MI (cat)2010
Slide Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan2009
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Art Statement, Art I 40 I Basel, Switzerland
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY2008
Narrative with 5 Characters, Corvi-Mora, London, United Kingdom2007
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden2006
Corvi-Mora, London, United Kingdom2004
Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NYSelected Group Exhibitions
2015
Teoría del Duende, Centro Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
The Radiants, curated by Jacob King and UNITED BROTHERS, Bortolami, New York, NY
New Acquisitions, The University of Manchester, The Whitworth, Manchester, United Kingdom2014
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY
Hypothesis for an Exhibition, Dominique Lévy, New York (cat)
Biennale of Painting: The Touch of the Painter, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Abstract Possibilies 2, Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Hawker, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, United Kingdom
Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, touring
2014 – 2016, Museum & Galleries of NSW, New South Wales, Australia
Outside the Lines, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Houston, TX2013
My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio
Why Not Live For Art? II, Tokyo City Opera, Tokyo, Japan
Roving Signs, Mathew Marks, New York, NY
10 Years, Wallspace, New York, NY
Inevitable Figuration, Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy (cat)
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY2012
Out Of The Blue, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Twenty Years After, Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
September, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
If There Would Be a Face, This Would Be a Cat, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
How Do It Know, Essex Street, New York, NY
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMoMA Collection,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Risk + Reward, Foster Gallery at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI2011
The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Straw, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Catalogue of the Exhibition, Triple V Gallery, Paris, France
Time Again, Sculpture Center, New York, NY (cat)
With One Color, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY
Provisional Painting, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
Five Easy Pieces, Galeria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art From the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art
Institute, Dayton, OH (cat)
Rational Abstraction, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela,
Spain (cat)2010
Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
Re-Dressing, Bortolami, New York, NY
New Work From New York, Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gradation, Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal
Next Generation, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Le Tableau, Cheim and Read, New York, NY
Exhibition #3, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
Feint Art, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat)
Off The Wall, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Gustavsberg, Sweden (cat)2009
Doors, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture, The
Kitchen, New York, NY
Cave Painting Installment #1, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY
Richard Aldrich, Zak Prekop, Lesley Vance, Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
My Summer Show, Galerie LeLong, New York, NY
Abstractionists Unite! Who Give You Just Enough To Last a Lifetime, The Glendale
College of Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Collection of…, White Columns, New York, NY
Strip/Stripe, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
House Call, Three's Company, New York, NY2008
Sphinxx, Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
Catawampus (for H.D.), Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (cat)
Here's Why Patterns, Here's Why Patterns, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Bob Nickas -Recent Acquisitions, Gifts and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2008,
White Columns, New York, NY
Black Noise, Centre National Édition Art Image, Chatou, France2007
Black Noise, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Catawampus (for H.D.), Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL
People Take Pictures of Each Other, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
Laying Bricks, Wallspace, New York, NY
Bastard Creature, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture, Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Richard Aldrich & Meredyth Sparks, Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Painting as Fact, Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland (cat)
M R A I T C T H A A N M D Y, The Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA
The Back Room, Celda Contemporánea, Mexico City, Mexico2006
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (cat)
Music is a Better Noise, P.S.1, New York, NY
Flesh Records, Haswellediger, New York, NY
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Endless Summer, West London Projects, London, United Kingdom
Audio, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Surfing the Surface, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome, Italy
Supports, Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA2005
Richard Aldrich + Paul-Aymar Mourgue d’Algue, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome, Italy
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Lesser New York, Fia Backstrom Production, Brooklyn, NY
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1, New York, NY (cat)
KA/VH:RA/AG, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA2003
The Club in the Shadow, Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York, NYSelected Performances
2013
An American Tuk Tuk in Paris, Green Tea Gallery, Paris, France2012
A Ridding, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY2011
Mandolin, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NYSelected Bibliography
2015
“The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,” Aran H. Merjan
Freize, April, 2015
“Painting Now,” Suzanne Hudson, Thames & Hudson, 2015
“Formal Attires,” David Geers, “Freize, March, 2015
“Seeing it Now,” Mary Ann Caws, The Brooklyn Rail, March, 2015
“Forever Now Tomorrow,” Barbara Rose, The Brooklyn Rail, March, 2015
“Structure Rising: On MoMA’s Painting Survey,” David Salle, ArtNews, March, 2015
“In The Studio: Richard Aldrich,” Ross Simonini, Art in America, February 20152014
“The Paintbrush in the Digital Era,” Roberta Smith, The New York Times, December
11, 2014
“The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,” Laura Hoptman.
MoMA, New York, 2014
“The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,” Margaret Ewing.
MoMA, New York, 2014
“It’s Not About What This Painting Does,” Richard Aldrich, Mousse Magazine,
December, 2014
“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, July 21, 2014
“Hypothesis for an Exhibition,” Begum Yasar, Dominque Lévy, 2014
“Painting is a Painting is a Painting,” Ben Eastham, Elephant, Spring, 2014
“Richard Aldrich,” Cynthia Nadelman, Artnews, February, 20142013
"The Inevitable Figuration," Davide Ferri, Silvana Editoriale, 2013
“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, August 12, 2013
“Bull Tongue,” Thurston Moore, Byron Coley, Arthur Magazine, April 2013
“Richard Aldrich and Josh Brand,” Andrew Long, Doingbird, Winter 20132012
"September," Satoru Nagoya, Flash Art, November, 2012
"Progression of Forms: The Art of Daan Van Golden," Richard Aldrich, Artforum,
Summer 2012
"Neo-Modern," David Geers, October, Winter 20122011
"Vitamin P2," Jonathon Griffin, Phaidon, 2011
"Catalogue of the Exhibition 1984-2011," Bob Nickas, 2nd Cannons Publications, 2011
“Richard Aldrich "Once I Was…" at Bortolami…", Will Heninrich, NY Observer,
September 27, 2011
"Richard Aldrich," Mark Prince, Art in America, September, 2011
"Time Again," Katie Kitamura, Art Monthly, July-August, 2011
"Time Again," Roberta Smith, New York Times, July 7, 2011
"Despite Their Dissimilar Features," Forrest Nash, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2011
"Painting and Silence (Waving My Arms in the Air)," Laura Fried, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2011
"Abstraccion Racional," Mariano Navarro, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 2011
"Dear Picasso," Ann Landi, Art News, May, 2011
"Provisional Painting," Martin Coomer, Time Out London, May, 2011
"Time Again," Fionn Meade, Sculpture Center, 2011
Critics Pick, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, April 25, 2011
Critics Picks, Anne Thompson, Artforum.com, 2011
"Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection," Ellie
Bronson, Dayton Art Institute, 20112010
"New Abstract Painting," Joanna Fiduccia, Michael Ned, Kaleidoscope, Winter, 2010
"Richard Aldrich,” Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, November, 2010
Christopher Knight, LA Times, October 1, 2010
"Focus: Richard Aldrich," Natalie Haddad, Frieze, October, 2010
"Le Tableau: French Abstraction and Its Affinities," Roberta Smith, The New York
Times, June 2, 2010
"Ready-Made Painting," Barbara Buchmaier, Spike Art Quarterly, Summer, 2010
"Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture," Caroline
Busta, May, Issue 03, 2010
"There Is No Such Thing as 'Painting,” Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdorfer, Texte Zur
Kunst, Issue 77, March, 2010
"Besides, With, Against, and Yet," Morgan Falconer, Frieze, March, 2010
"Change We Can Believe In,” Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, March 8, 2010
"Whitney Biennial 2010,” Fionn Meade, Whitney/Yale, 2010
“Besides, With, Against, and Yet,” Suzanne Hudson, Artforum, February, 2010
"MicroTate,” Tate Etc., Issue 18-Spring, 20102009
"The Artists' Artist," Artforum, December, 2009
"Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting," Bob Nickas, Phaidon, 2009
"Provisional Painting," Rubinstein Raphael, Art in America, May 2009
Kai Turner, ArtNews, May 2009
"Coming From Many Places," interview by Alessandro Rabottini, Mousse, April/May, 2009
"Reviews Marathon, New York," Joshua Mack, Art Review, April, 2009
"Openings: Richard Aldrich," Scott Rothkopf, Artforum, April, 2009
"Richard Aldrich," Michael Wilson, Artforum, March, 2009
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, February 6, 2009
The Brooklyn Rail, Nora Griffin, February, 2009
“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, January 26, 2009
"Week in Review: January 18, 2009," Contemporary Art Daily,
contemporaryartdaily.com, January 18, 2009
"Questionnaire: Richard Aldrich is Serious!," Alex Gartenfeld, Interviewmagazine.com
January 8, 2009
"New York Artists Dictionary Part 1," Flash Art, January/February, 2009
"Reviews Marathon, London," Martin Herbert, Art Review, January/February, 20092008
"Buoys, Props and Signs: Richard Aldrich & Lisa Williamson," Michael Ned Holte, Artlies.org, Winter 2008
"The Best of 2008," Michael Ned Holte, Artforum, December, 2008
"Qu'est Que La Peinture Aujoud'hui?", Judicael Lavrador, Beaux Arts Editions, 2008
Kitamura, Katie, Frieze.com, November 17, 2008
"Looking Back: Emerging Artists,” Connie Butler, Frieze, January/February, 20082007
"Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts," Amra Brooks, LA Weekly, December 26, 2007
Must See Art, Amra Brooks, LA Weekly, December 12,
2007
Critic's Picks, Christopher Bedford, Artforum.com, 2007
"Introducing," Nuit Banai, Modern Painters, December 2007
"I Heart Information," Anthony Huberman, Afterall, Autumn/Winter 2007
"Steven Parrino,” Bob Nickas, Artforum, September 2007
"In These Shows, the Material is the Message," Roberta Smith, The New York Times, August 10, 2007
"Build it High: Laying Bricks," Tyler Cobum, Art Review, July and August 2007
"In the Borderland Between Abstraction and Figuration," Joanna Persman, Svenska Dagbladet, June 2, 2007
"A Show With Chutzpah," Jennifer Landes, The East Hampton Star, May 2007
"Music is a Better Noise," Mark Beasley, Frieze, April 2007
“Bunch Alliance and Dissolve," Jennie Klein, Art Papers, March/April 2007
"Non-Specific Objects," Jerry Saltz, Modern Painters, March 2007
"Viva," Modern Painters, March 20072006
"Menace, Glitter and Rock in Visions of Dystopia," Roberta Smith, The New York Times, December 29, 2006
"Musical Chairs," Sarah Kessler, Art Krush, December 13, 2006
"Raoul De Keyser," Roberta Smith, The New York Times, November 17, 2006
"Richard Aldrich," Lupe Nunez-fernandez, Saatchi Gallery, June 2006
"In Absence of the Figure," Alissa Bennett, Michael Clifton, Issue Magazine, March 2006
"UT Artist in Residence Bienniel 2006," Joe Fyfe, Catalog essay, 2006
2005
“Greater New York 2005,” Sarah Lewis, Catalog essay, 2005
“Dire Diary,” Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice, April 25, 2005
“Don't Miss: Lesser New York,” Andrea Scott, Time Out New York, April 7, 2005
“Local Heroes,” Andrea Scott, Time Out New York, March 31, 2005
“KA/VH:RA/AG,” Roberta Smith, New York Times, March 18, 2005
“DJ Funnywalk,” interview by Sabrina Geshwandter, Knit Knit, 2005
“Beers for peers,” Michael Wilson, ArtForum Diary, March 16, 2005
Critics' Picks, Michael Ned Holte, Artforum.com, 20052004
Andrea Scott, Time Out New York Magazine, July 7, 2004
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, July 2, 2004 “Panorama Pittura,” Andrea Bellini, Flash Art Italia, April 2004
“Dictionary of New York Painters,” Andrea Bellini, Sonia Campagnola, Flash Art Italia,
April 2004Collections
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The Whitworth Art Gallery Learn moreRichard Foreman is an internationally acclaimed playwright, director and designer. Born in New York City, he received a BA from Brown University in 1959 (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in 1962 from Yale University. In 1968 he founded the Ontological-Hysteric Theater which soon became internationally known as one of the major avant-garde theaters of our time. He has written, directed and designed over thirty of his own plays both in the United States and abroad (with foreign casts and in the appropriate language, including six world premieres in Paris, one in Rome and one in Stockholm). His plays have often been co-produced with such groups as The New York Shakespeare Festival, La Mama, The Wooster Group and the Festival d'Automne in Paris. Three of Foreman's plays have received OBIE awards as best play of the year: Rhoda in Potatoland, The Cure, and Film is Evil: Radio is Good. He has been awarded four additional OBIEs for direction and "Sustained Achievement." In 1995 he was awarded a prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship for his "original vision and helping to shape American avant-garde theater." He received the annual literature award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1992, and in 191 he was one of the first recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts award for "Lifetime Achievement in Theater." Mr. Foreman has directed and designed many classical productions with major theaters around the world, including Three Penny Opera, The Golem, and plays by Havel, Botho Strauss and others for the New York Shakespeare Festival; Die Fledermaus at the Paris Opera; Don Giovanni at the Opera de Lille; Philip Glass' Fall of the House of Usher at the American Repertory Theater and Maggio Musicale in Florence; Woyzeck at the Hartford Stage Company; Don Juan at the Guthrie Theater and The New York Shakespeare Festival; Kathy Acker's Birth of the Poet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Ro Theater in Rotterdam; and Gertrude Stein's Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights at the Autumn Festival in Berlin and Paris. He also collaborated (as librettist and stage director) with composer Stanley Silverman on eight music-theater pieces produced by The Music Theater Group and the New York City Opera, including Africanus Instructus which was produced in Paris, Lille and Madrid. Mr. Foreman has also directed the Houston Grand Opera production of Where's Dick?, the feature film Strong Medicine, and three video films which were broadcast nationally on PBS. Mr. Foreman has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Playwright's Award, a NEA Playwright's Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation New American Plays Award. His work has been consistently supported by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Foreman's work has also been the subject of six books: My Head Was A Sledgehammer and Other Plays, released by Overlook Press in the summer of 1995; Unbalancing Acts, which includes essays and the texts of five of his recent plays, was issued by Pantheon Books in 1992 and as a paperback by TCG Publications in 1993; Love & Science, featuring Mr. Foreman's librettos for music-theater was released in 1991 by TCG Publications; Reverberation Machines, The Later Plays and Essays, released by Station Hill Press in 1985; The Theater of Richard Foreman, published in 1978 by UMI Press; and Richard Foreman, Plays and Manifestos, published in 1976 by New York University Press. His latest work of fiction, No-Body, is a novel in parts and was published by Overlook Press in 1997.
Learn moreBased in Los Angeles since the early 1970s, Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure. His wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on “action” painting has dramatically extended its performative dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience.
Jackson has exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include,'The Little Girl’s Room, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles CA, (2011) and 'Accidents in Abstract Painting', The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA, (2012). The latter saw Jackson fly and crash a radio-controlled, model military plane with a fifteen-foot wingspan, filled with paint, into a twenty-foot wall that read “accidents in abstract painting.” He was most recently the subject of a retrospective exhibition entitled Richard Jackson : Ain't Painting a Pain at the Orange County Museum of Art. Jackson is represented by Hauser and Wirth.
Learn moreRichard Taylor is a Professor of Physics, Psychology and Art, and the director of the Materials Science Institute and the Fractals Research Laboratory at the University of Oregon. He has worked in the USA, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and has published more than 250 papers, including 8 papers in Nature and 3 in Science. (Links to selected publications) In addition to his career in science, Taylor is a trained painter and photographer. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach to studying natural patterns called fractals, exploring them across physics, psychology, physiology, geography, architecture and art.
Taylor uses his interests in fractals to encourage collaborations between the arts and sciences and to promote public awareness of science. His work has been featured in TV documentaries, including The Art of Science (ABC, 1998), Hunting the Hidden Dimension (PBS, 2008) and The Code (BBC, 2011) and has been the subject of popular press articles (e.g. in The New York Times and The London Times), magazine articles (e.g. in Scientific American, Time, The New Yorker, New Scientist and Discover) and ten popular science books. He also regularly lectures around the world, commissioned by organizations as diverse as the Nobel Foundation, the Royal Society and national art galleries such as the Pompidou Centre and the Guggenheim Museum.
He has been honored with the following teaching awards: “Outstanding Teacher in Higher Education Award” by the Oregon Academy of Sciences, a Williams Fellowship for Innovative Teaching, the Thomas Herman Distinguished Teaching Award, and a Cottrell Scholarship for Outstanding Teacher-Scholars I have authored (e.g. “Light, Color and Vision”) and edited (e.g. “Physics – Principles and Application”) undergraduate textbooks and received a number of educational grants.
Learn moreHelgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel founded the theatre label Rimini Protokoll in 2000 and have since worked in different constellations under this name. Work by work, they have expanded the means of the theatre to create new perspectives on reality.
Rimini Protokoll often develops their stage-works, interventions, performative installations, and audio plays together with experts who have gained their knowledge and skills beyond the theatre. Furthermore, they like to transpose rooms or social structures into theatrical formats. Many of their works feature interactivity and a playful use of technology.
Hence, Rimini Protokoll declared the “General Assembly” of Daimler stockholders a theatre play, or, with “Call Cutta” and “Call Cutta in a Box,” they set up a transatlantic conversation between a worker in an Indian call center and each audience member.
With “100% City,” they have created a worldwide, ever-newly contextualizing work in which 100 statistically selected inhabitants of the city gather on a theatre stage. Their production “World Climate Conference” mirrors the drama of diplomatic efforts to protect the Earth's atmosphere at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg. For the multiplayer video walk “Situation Rooms,” they built a hyperrealistic set in which the 20 audience members follow the tracks of people whose biographies have been shaped by weapons.
In “Utopolis,” the audience is guided through the city by 48 portable speakers that set a course for shared or contradicting utopias.
Recently, more immersive and interactive works have been created for museums, such as “win><win“ and “Urban Nature.”The pieces "All right. Good night." (2022), “Chinchilla Arsehole, eyeye” (2020), “Situation Rooms” (2014), “Wallenstein” (2006), and “Deadline” (2004) have been invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen. On top of that, Rimini Protokoll received the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis for “Karl Marx: Das Kapital, Erster Band,” the German theatre award Faust, the Grand Prix Theatre from the Swiss Federal Office for Culture, the European Theatre Award, the Silver Lion at the Theatre Biennale in Venice, as well as the German Audio Play Award and the War Blinded Audio Play Prize.
Since 2003, the production office of Rimini Protokoll has been in Berlin.
Learn moreThe multi-talented Rinde Eckert is an acclaimed performer, director, writer, composer, librettist, and musician whose virtuosic command of gesture, language, and song takes this total theatre artist beyond the traditional boundaries of what a ‘play,’ a ‘dance piece,’ an ‘opera,’ or a ‘musical’ might be. Eckert creates solo work, chamber pieces and through-composed operas with larger casts in collaborations with choreographers, composers, directors, and new music ensembles. His Opera/New Music Theatre productions have toured throughout the U.S. and to major European and Asian festivals. Current theater and music projects in which he performs include My Lai with the Kronos Quartet; The Aging Magician with Paola Prestini and Beth Morrison Productions; and Five Beasts with composer/performer Ned Rothenberg and beat box artist Adam Matta. Among his many awards, Rinde Eckert was the 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Learn morerise x fall is an in-progress multimedia collaboration between rubén garcía marrufo, maximiliano, and Jaleesa Johnston. Conjured from liminal space, this work considers the rise and fall of an empire, and the possibilities between stability and instability. Taking inspiration from the ocean’s crashing waves against the earth, rise x fall simultaneously inhabits the space between the pain and fear of death, as well as the hope and growth of rebirth.
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mononymously named, maximiliano, is a conceptual artist working in BLKwvv, a generative multimedia mythos: a Black reclamation rococo aesthetic and agenda based in exploring and expanding the multiplicity and fluidity of the Black self through pleasure, desirability, innocence, and imagination as performance, video, GIF, sculpture, thought, and publications.
rubén garcía marrufo is a border artist.
https://rubengarciamarrufo.com/
Jaleesa Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and arts administrator currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been the recipient of the AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Centrum’s Emerging Artist Residency, and Open Signal’s New Media Fellowship. She has exhibited her work in cities along the West Coast, including San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, and she occasionally facilitates workshops and classes in new media and performance art. Jaleesa also organizes public programs as Programs Lead in the Learning and Community Partnerships Department at the Portland Art Museum.
Learn moreRobbie Wing is a sound artist and musician from Tulsa, OK. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His practice focuses on acoustic geographies, ecological sound art, installation, and composition. He is a multi-instrumentalist, field recordist & researcher. He has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sustainability and a master's degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma.
Learn morerobbinschilds (Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins) have presented choreographed and video works since 2003, in venues including P.S. 122, Marfa Ballroom, The New Museum, and Autumn Skatebowl. Most recently, robbinschilds was commissioned to create original choreography for David Byrne and premiered a new work, Sonya and Layla Go Camping, at The Kitchen.
Learn moreRobert Alexander Clarke is a designer, educator, and theorist practicing at the intersection of culture, identity, and architecture. His work aims to develop and canonize black aesthetics, thus authenticating it as a lens through which to practice architecture. His design office, BAS ( Black Aesthetic Studio ) was founded by Clarke, Cleo Davis and Kimberly Morland; their studio explores how to unearth new aesthetics that are immensely specific to African American culture, experience, and identity.
Before joining as Activist in Residence at UCLA’s City Lab, Clarke held posts as a Wilson Smith III Design in Spatial Justice Fellow at the University of Oregon’s College of Design. As well as Research Fellow at Newlab under the supervision of architect and New York University Associate Professor of Practice Mitchell Joachim. Before opening his practice, Clarke worked for many years at architectural firms across the globe, including HOK, Terreform ONE, Gensler, and Archi-Union.
Learn moreBoyd's work has been exhibited at venues such as the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong (2009); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY (2008); Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT (2008); Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2008); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (2008); The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis (2007); 303 Gallery, NY (2007); PKM Gallery, Beijing (2006); Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2006); and Participant Inc, NY (2006). His work is included in several public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création in Paris.
Learn moreRobert Mackey is an investigative journalist who joined Forensic Architecture in 2023. Before that, he was a senior writer at The Intercept and a reporter for The New York Times. His visual investigation of how Fox News and the Trump White House used deceptively edited video of Black Lives Matter protests to smear racial justice protesters won a Mirror Award in 2022.
Learn moreRobert Quillen Camp is a theater artist and scholar whose current research focuses primarily on the ways in which expanded dramatic practices intersect with contemporary post-conceptual visual art. His other research areas include European modern drama and the phenomenology of performance.
He has written extensively for the stage, including writing the text for Pig Iron Theater Company’s OBIE-award winning CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN, which has toured internationally and been published by 53rd State Press. His most recent play, ALL HANDS, a collaboration with the Hoi Polloi Theater Company, premiered at NYC’s Incubator Arts Project in 2012, directed by Alec Duffy, with music by Dave Malloy and choreography by Dan Safer. Another collaboration with Pig Iron, the Barrymore Award nominated PAY UP, returned to the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival in the fall of 2013. His plays and performance works have been produced at many venues in the US and abroad, including the Public Theater Under the Radar Festival, the Ohio Theater, the Ontological-Hysteric, Peak Performances at Montclair University, The Empty Space, Prelude Festival, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and HERE. His plays have been published in the literary journals Conjunctions, Chain, Conundrum, Factorial, and Play A Journal of Plays.
He currently teaches in the theatre department at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR.
BA Reed College, MFA Brown University, PhD University of California, Santa Barbara.
Learn moreRobert Trafford is a journalist by training, and an assistant director with Forensic Architecture, a human rights research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, with whom he has worked since 2017. There, he leads investigative research projects, writes and edits for exhibitions and publications, and supports other team members to bring investigations to publication, and to think about how their research can be activated across a range of forums in pursuit of accountability. His work with Forensic Architecture has covered the extrajudicial killing of civilians by Cameroon’s special forces, chemical weapons attacks by the Assad regime, and counter-protest violence by US police. He has jointly led investigations into the 2020 right-wing terror attack in Hanau, Germany, the 2011 killing of Mark Duggan by London’s police, and the agency’s acclaimed TRIPLE-CHASER investigation, which premiered at the 2019 Whitney Biennial in New York.
Learn moreRobert Tyree is a dance artist, writer and educator. He has trained in dance at the University of Washington, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Montréal's after-hours clubs, and Vienna's danceWEB (2011). Tyree has enjoyed working with choreographers Lucy Yim, Kaj-anne Pepper and Meshi Chavez, but maintains a longstanding practice with Tahni Holt since 2008. Tyree's performance writings have been published via several art blogs as well as in FRONT, a Portland-based dance newspaper that he co-publishes.
Learn moreRobert Wilson is a phenomenon whose range and importance has no parallel in contemporary theater. As both a designer and director, Wilson was a leading figure in the New York avant-garde theater scene of the sixties.
He has dominated European theater for the past twenty years with his original productions and unique adaptations of theatrical and operatic works.
His monumental multi-media epic, the CIVIL warS, commissioned for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival, has never yet been performed in its entirety and has become a legend in the theater.
Wilson's art works have also been shown extensively in museums and galleries throughout the world, including major retrospectives at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Valencia.
Composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson's first collaboration, Einstein on the Beach, was heralded as one of the most important and innovative operas of this century and catapulted both artists into the international spotlight. A dazzling explosion of movement, music, design, rhythm, voice, language, sound and light, Einstein completely overwhelmed its audience when it premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976. Twenty-two years later, their newest collaboration, Monsters of Grace, promises to do the same.
Learn moreRob Halverson is an artist and curator living and working in Los Angeles, California. Recent solo exhibitions include XO the Sky Billions Star, Chapter NY, New York, Warm Side of Zero, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles and List Grows Eyeball, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon. Halverson has been included in exhibitions at Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, Queer Thoughts, Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua and Misako & Rosen Tokyo, Japan. Halverson will be part of a two person exhibition with Chadwick Rantanen at Soloway, Brooklyn, New York in December. In 2016 Halverson will be curating Lasting Concept at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
Learn moreRobin Deacon (born 1973 Eastbourne, England) is a British artist, writer and filmmaker currently based in the USA. Active from the 1990’s, his work explores questions of memory, absence and fiction in performance, through a constant reconfiguration of his role as an artist - as journalist and biographer, operator and technician, imposter and stooge. His recent research projects have explored histories of video documentation and outmoded media formats, and the practice and ethics of performance re-enactment. His live and screen based work has been commissioned and programmed throughout Europe, the US, and Asia. A MacDowell Fellow, he has been a recipient of a variety of awards and fellowships from organizations such as the Delfina Foundation, British Arts Council, Live Art Development Agency and Franklin Furnace Inc.
Learn moreRobin Lane began studying dance, gymnastics, theater, and visual art as a child. At fourteen, she created her first evening-length performance at the Robert Frost Auditorium, combining her high school gymnastic team with the dance club and creating an original score with the school orchestra playing office equipment. As a director/choreographer/writer, her focus has always been telling stories, linear and nonlinear, bringing to life the visual images, metaphors, and stories she sees in her head. She uses whatever vocabulary the images demand. Her intent is always to hone each new work to communicate and connect with her audiences. Exploration, collaboration, and ensemble building are core elements of her creative process.
In 1977, Lane founded Do Jump to explore her unique genre. Lane has created 19 original, full‐length works and countless smaller site‐specific pieces, events, and spectacles.
In 1983, Lane and company renovated the Echo Theatre in southeast Portland, OR, creating a permanent home for Do Jump! The following year she opened the Do Jump Physical Theatre School, sharing her unique teaching style with children and adults, providing a training ground for the company. Lane has toured extensively with Do Jump, including multiple extended runs in the New Victory Theater in NYC, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. “That Happened,” Lane’s first feature film, just had its first screening at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater in Portland, Oregon
Robin is the recipient of the Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in Dance, three creativity grants from the NEA, and the 2010 Regional Arts and Culture Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Performing Arts. Lane attended a joint program between Reed College and the Portland Museum Art School. She studied the LeCoque Method and was a member of Theatre Elan Company. In 1973, Lane studied aerial dance with Terry Sendgraff in San Francisco and Bill & Arnie Zane in NYC. In Portland, Oregon, she created and choreo/directed original works for Storefront Theater, Tygres Heart Shakespeare, Portland Family Circus, and others.
Learn moreRoland Dahwen Wu is a filmmaker whose work explores migration, race and memory. His films and installations have been shown at CalArts, Portland Art Museum, Time Based Art Festival, Northwest Film Center, and numerous galleries. His films span nonfiction, experimental, and narrative genres, and are commonly marked by poetry: from his first documentary about the whistling language of the Canary Islands (There are no birds in the nests of yesterday) to his recent short film about 20th century Asian migration (Haft-Seen).
Learn moreRonaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Prize, Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest books are Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2015), finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2017). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is also a mixed media artist, dancer and performer. His Off the Dome: Rants, Raps, and Meditations, an online album, exists on The Conversant. His short films “Grey,” “White,” “Blue,” “Red,” “Green,” “Brown,” “Pink,” “Black,” can also be found online at the Center for Art and Thought. Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program, and co-directing the Creative Writing Program. He splits his time between Santa Cruz, CA and Long Island, New York.
Learn moreBass is a visual artist and musician who lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally at institutions and galleries including P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), The Kitchen (New York), James Cohen Gallery (New York), The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), The Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow, Scotland), and The Contemporary Art Center of Tel Aviv (Israel). Musical compositions include the score for Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Bass is currently producing a hip-hop album intended for release in 2012.
Selected Press
500 Words: Ronnie Bass, Miriam Katz, Artforum.com, December 9, 2009.
2009, A Space Odyssey-Ronnie Bass at Marginal Utility, Libby Rosof, The Artblog, November 8, 2009.
Art in Review: Ronnie Bass, Ken Johnson, New York Times, October 17, 2008.
Selected Videos
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