Artists Archive
PAINTALLICA is a collaborative of artists who come together across state lines and genres to make art together. PAINTALLICA’ s members have exhibited extensively nationally and internationally; individually they have been written about in Sculpture Magazine, The New York Times and Artforum. Some are painters, some are sculptors, one is a published graphic novelist, two are veterans, one made headlines by offending a presidential candidate. Paintallica includes but is not limited to Dan Attoe, Gordon Barnes, Craig Thompson, Shelby Davis, Josh Podoll, Jesse Albrecht, Jamie Boling, Cece Cole, Jeremy Tinder, Tim Bowman, JS Decker, Brandon Buckner, Richard Nelipovich, Josh Wilichowski, Bill Donavan, Greta Songe and Chris Miller.
Learn morePallace is a healing artist based in Seattle. She is director of Queer Astrology Club and teaches at Portland School of Astrology. QAC channel can be found on youtube for free lectures on ancient astrological techniques. She moonlights as a rope bondage specialist and hypnotist who crushes men psychologically and then cackles maniacally and writes poetry about it.
Learn morePallavi Sen is from Bombay, India. She works with installation, printmaking, textiles, and intuitive, musical movement. Current interests include planting gardens and meadows, inner lives of birds and animals, the grief of the anthropocene, South Asian costumes, domestic architecture, altars, atheism and magical thinking, pattern histories, friendship + love, past/presen/future lover, work spaces, work tables, eco-feminism, love poems, the gates to Indian homes, walking, seeds, and twice daily cooking.
She received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from the Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the Assistant Professor of Multiples + Distributed Art at Williams College and dean at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is the author of Dead Planet Cookbook, and is currently working on her second book about a garden based curriculum.
Learn morePamela Council is a New York based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic, BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined and under-valued narratives.
Council has created commissions, exhibitions, performances or presentations for: New Museum for Contemporary Art, United States Library of Congress, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Studio Museum in Harlem, and MoCADA. Council has been Artist-in-Residence at MacDowell, Red Bull Arts, Bemis, Rush Arts, MANA, Signal Culture, Mass MoCA, and Wassaic Project. A recipient of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Grant, Council holds a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Columbia University and is currently artist in residence at ISCP.
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Learn moreFounded in 1991 by Aedin Cosgrove and Gavin Quinn, Pan Pan Theatre has since produced 22 productions, published a major photographic book, and produced a film, One. The ensemble has worked with a host of Irish and international performers and artists, and both worked and toured extensively throughout Ireland as well as Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Korea, and the United States.
Learn moreParenthetical Girls is a pop group. Of sorts. Charting a particularly idiosyncratic course over its complicated chronology, the ensemble has been home to a revolving cast of collaborators in multiple disciplines, with founder and creative director Zac Pennington acting as the sole constant. With a résumé that includes dalliances in chamber music, large-scale experimental theater, electronic pop, and innumerable other aesthetic and sonic diversions, the group has performed its work at a multitude of international arts and music festivals, including Donaufestival (Vienna), Primavera Sound (Barcelona), New Island Festival (NYC), Intersecciones (Gijon, Spain), PuSh Festival (Vancouver, B.C.), Bumbershoot (Seattle), and TBA:08 (Portland). Ever the pragmatists, Parenthetical Girls are in the midst of releasing their latest album, Privilege, as a series of five, blood-numbered 12” EPs, via the group’s own Slender Means Society label.
Learn morePato Hebert is an artist, teacher, and organizer. His work probes the challenges and possibilities of interconnectedness. His creative projects have appeared at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito; Beton7, Athens; the Ballarat International Foto Biennale; and the Songzhuang International Photo Biennale. Hebert is a COVID-19 long hauler, living with the ongoing impacts of the coronavirus since March of 2020, and publicly addressing the pandemic through creativity and community building. His solo exhibition about long COVID, Lingering, debuted at Pitzer College in 2022, curated by Ruti Talmor. His writing about COVID has appeared in Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic (eds. Romero, A.,Tucker, D.,Wang, D.), and The Long COVID Survival Guide: How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next (ed: Fiona Lowenstein). Hebert serves as Chair and teaches in the Department of Art & Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Learn moreIn her practice, Patricia Vázquez Gómez (she/her) investigates the social functions of art, the intersections between aesthetics, ethics, and politics, and the expansion of community-based art practices. She uses a variety of media to carry out her research: painting, printmaking, video, exhibitions, music, and socially-engaged art projects. The purpose and methodologies of her work are deeply informed by her experiences working in immigrant rights and other social justice movements. Her work has been shown at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN; Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery, Portland, OR; Art League Houston, Houston, TX; and Linfield Art Gallery, McMinnville, OR, and also in apartment buildings, neighborhoods, community-based organizations, and schools. She has received support from the Ford Foundation, Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Metro, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Patricia teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Portland State University. Her work can be explored at patriciavazquez.art.
Patricia is a 2022/3 Golden Spot Residency awardee.
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 morePatrick Long is an artist and illustrator, his simple and evocative pen and ink drawings mimic and mirror how we look and live. Through his eyes the hilarity of man is captured in a wry facial expression, the artfulness of a couture gown in the flourish of a sleeve. Long draws the awkward, the under-appreciated, the fashion forward and the utterly mundane with equal reverence . His illustrations have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, National Geographic Explorer, Vouge Nippon, Fantastic Man and Assouline. His work was featured in “Crossing the Line” an exhibition for the Heathman Hotel organized by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. His famous drawings of “Cops in Love” were featured in Plazm Magazine and in Core Sample, a city-wide exhibition in 2003.
Learn morePaul Clipson is a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His work has been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance.
Learn morePeggy Piacenza has been creating work and building community in Seattle for over 30 years. She is committed to generating new work and collaborating with others to create lasting relationships that impact the artist community. Peggy’s work embodies a wide spectrum of experience drawing from explorations in improvisation, video art, performance, meditation and interdisciplinary collaborations. Her latest project, The Forever Project, utilizing video installation and live performance, premiered in January 2024 at On the Boards.
In addition to her own work, she is currently working with NYC/Toronto-based performance collective Same As Sister (S.A.S.). She has collaborated and performed with Seattle-based dance-theater companies 33 Fainting Spells and Pat Graney Company, choreographers Dayna Hanson, Stephanie Skura, Lionel Popkin, Deborah Hay and others. Peggy will be choreographing for the 2025 Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation’s Performance Cohorts showcase at Velocity Dance Center.
She is a co-founder of Base, a non-profit organization dedicated to elevating risk and invention in dance, performance and multidisciplinary art.
Peggy is the recipient of a 2024 Artist Trust Fellowship. In 2011, she was the inaugural recipient of the Helen Gurley Brown Magic Grant, supporting a project that brought Cambodian and American artists together in Cambodia for cross-cultural dialogue and dancing within classical and contemporary dance forms. A documentary film about this project was screened at Velocity Dance Center’s Speakeasy Series.
She is a 2010 graduate of Smith College’s Ada Comstock Scholars Program, where she majored in Religion and Gender Studies.
Learn morePepper Pepper is a Portland, OR-based multidisciplinary artist. His work transforms vulnerability into spectacle - using artifice, technology, and camp to metabolize trauma into luminous, often magical performance worlds. Pepper has presented performances on stages and at festivals including Risk/Reward, the Time-Based Art Festival (TBA), Performance Works Northwest, NCECA, and internationally at OFF! Biennale Budapest. Their visual and installation work has been exhibited at Oregon Contemporary, Linfield University, Seattle Central College, and The Budapest Art Fair.
Pepper has incubated new experimental works at residencies like MacDowell, Monson Arts, Playa, Caldera, Signal Fire, and PonderosaTanz (Germany), Pepper’s practice bridges experimental performance and nightlife legacy. With over 20 years in cabaret and drag production, Pepper has appeared at and been featured at The Austin International Drag Festival, OUTstages (Victoria, BC), and is co-host of The Portland Drag Theatre Festival alongside frequent collaborator Anthony Hudson.
His ongoing project Pink Moment explores PINK as queer energy, ritual, and resistance while hybridizing performance, photography, and installation into an evolving archive of embodied glamour.
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www.thepepperpepper.com Learn moreWith a steady onslaught of independent media cropping up around the city in theaters, galleries, clubs, basements, and warehouse walls, Portland has gained a reputation as an important center for experimental and underground film and video. A major force in this scene is Peripheral Produce, a film and video screening and distribution project that has since 1996 offered roving, site specific experimental film events that showcase moving-image works by local, national and international artists. In its original form, the project organized monthly events in various locations throughout Portland to present experimental and underground film and video shorts. As popularity grew, Peripheral Produce expanded to include a video distribution label that compiles and releases videos of selected short works for sale to the public. Peripheral Produce’s nomadic screening format has now morphed into one large annual event, the PDX Film Festival, which has quickly become both locally popular and nationally recognized.
Peripheral Produce founder and curator Matt McCormick is a Portland-based filmmaker whose works offer abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture and environment. His films have shown widely, including the Sundance Film Festival and Lincoln Center, have been praised in publications including Art Forum and The New York Times, and will be featured in the upcoming Baja to Vancouver West Coast Contemporary Art exhibition.
Learn moreSomewhere in the murky recesses of childhood memories—of Sunday-morning television, mounds of improbably coloured junk food, and inane addictive jingles—lurks Peter Burr, a tech-gnostic agent. His mission: to subjugate the innerspace, chock open the escape hatch, and enable the immoderate two-way flow of synthesised realities. Burr’s green-screen dream is yours too. A television is broadcasting from within you as you watch it; a boiling, aberrant, hysterical fusion of mind and matter, technology and cultural form. Confronting the malaise of too much television, Burr’s diagnosis is also his prescription: more of the same!
Peter Burr (b. 1980) is an artist from Brooklyn, New York. His work has been presented in a variety of spaces including Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, ES; and the International Film Festival, Rotterdam. Past residencies include the MacDowell Colony (NH); Bemis Center (NE); and IMPAKT Works, Utrecht (NL). He is also the founder of Cartune Xprez.Selected Press
"AO Interview — Peter Burr before his "SPECIAL EFFECT" performance at the Museum of the Moving Image," D. Creahan, ArtObserved, January 17, 2013.
"The Dream Outside: An Interview with Peter Burr About Cartune Xprez," Caroline Picard, Bad at Sports, June 22, 2011.
Learn morePeter Coffin was born in Berkeley, California in 1972. He has had solo exhibitions at Herald St, London; Andrew Kreps Gallery (NY); The Wrong Gallery (NY); the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (CA); Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami (FL); The Horticultural Society of New York (NY); and le Confort Moderne, Poitier, France; as well as recent group exhibitions at the Tate Modern, London, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in NY. He is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery.
Learn moreBorn and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Peter Falanga decided to attend school in New Orleans, Louisiana to study music at Loyola University New Orleans. Upon volunteering at the 2009 New Orleans Film Festival, he switched his major from music to film and digital media, and added a minor in philosophy. Immediately upon earning his BA, he decided to pursue a master’s degree that would align with his interests in philosophy, film theory, community outreach, and video making.
Peter moved to Portland, Oregon last August to become a member of the MA Critical Theory and Creative Research program’s inaugural cohort at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Currently, he is working on his master’s thesis, which is an extensive study of sincerity and its expression in the works of David Foster Wallace, the films of the New Sincerity, and in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall.
Learn morePeter Kreider received his BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1995, and his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University, 2004. Kreider’s recent exhibitions include The Ghosts of Coleridge (NY) 2009; Material Afterlife, Grand Rapids (MI) 2009; The Blank Show in Shanghai, China, 2007; Up as if Down, Cuchifritos (NY) 2007; Tropical Punch, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn (NY) 2007; and Material World, Public Art Fund, Metrotech Plaza, Brooklyn (NY) 2005. Kreider is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY. Kreider is included in the White Columns Curated Artist Registry. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Learn morePeter Ksander is a Stage Designer who holds a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Previously he has lived and worked in Brooklyn NY , Chicago IL, Iowa City, IA and Los Angeles, CA.
Design credits include scenic and/or lighting designs for: Man in a Case (Big Dance Theater, Hartford Stage,) The Brothers Size (The Public Theater, The Studio Theater in Dublin, The Old Globe), There There (Kristin Kosmas / Chocolate Factory, On The Boards,) Othello (Theater for a New Audience, Intiman Theater), On the Levee (Lincoln Center Theater 3), The Scarlet Letter, Arms and the Man(Intiman theater), A House In Bali (Bang on a Can/ Cal Performances), The Misanthrope (Portland Stage Company), Making of Americans (Walker Art Center), Laude in Urbis (Compania di Colombari, Orvieto Italy), This Place is a Desert (w/ Jay Scheib, Institute of Contemporary Art, Under the Radar Festival, MIT), Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (The Theater of a Two-Headed Calf), Stanley 2006(HERE Art Center w/ Lisa D'Amour), Saint Joan of the Stockyards (Stillpoint/PS122) and several productions for the California Institute for the Arts, including Baal, The House of Bernarda Alba and...Or the Whale (an operaic adaptation of Moby Dick by boxer Julie Crocket) His design work has appeared in the Buanos Aries in Translation Festival, at The Maison des Arts de Creteil and The Ontological Hysteric Incubator, PICA's Time Based Art Festival, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2008 he won an Obie award for the scenic design of Untitled Mars (this title may change), created and directed by Jay Scheib and presented at PS122 and the National Theater of Hungary.
In 2014 he won a Bessie award along side the other designers for the visual design of This was the End.
Over the years he has worked with Richard Foreman (Bad Behavior, Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind is Dead, Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland, Astronome: a Night at the Opera, Idiot Savant), Erik Ehn (Ideas of Good and Evil, ICE: Cry me a river...), Karin Coonrod (Laude in Urbis, The Blackamoor Angel, Love's Labors Lost, Orfeo), Mark Wing-Davey (1:23, Small Tragedy, Behind the Eye, Pericles,) and Robert Woodruff (Oedipus).
Between 2001-2004 Ksander was associate scenic designer to Douglas Stein, working on projects both nationally and internationally. In 2006, Stein and Ksander begun co-designing projects, which have included: Carson Kreitzer's Behind the Eye and Lemon Andersen's County of Kings.
In 2005 Peter was a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program, through which he spent two years investigating how experimental theater ideas are explored at all levels of production in the United States.
In 2006 He joined the curatorial board of the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator and for the next five years served as a curator of new and experimental work. At that time he worked along with co-curator Brendan Regimbal to develop the SHORTFORM program, a residency for artists to explore serial and sequential performance works.
In 2011 Ksander relocated to Portland OR to take up a teaching position in Scenography at Reed College. In 2013 he was on the selection panel for the Risk/Reward festival and began working with Portland companies Hand2mouth, The Portland Playhouse and the Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble.
His work as a generative performance artist includes creating, in collaboration with other artists, performances including: Seeing the Elephant, and The Sleeping Dane Effect (a collaboration with animator Melissa Chimovitz). He is co-founder of Tiny Elephant, whose first piece, The Stupid Butterfly Project, was presented by Arts at St. Ann's, as part of Puppetlab. He is a member of TENT, a company rooted in image and performance-based ensemble generated work that questions theatrical tradition. Most recently TENT developed Ugly Children do not get Cake, a rooftop performance exploring the distance between an individual and the dreams contained in the architecture of a city. Previous projects with TENT include: Zero Winter, Oh Sweet Captain or the Ahab Stomp, Your Shipwreck is No Disaster, KG: Life in a Tin Can, and He bent his head and watched his steps, for this helped him avoid thinking.
Peter also has continuing artistic relationships with the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, The Object Collection, Lear DeBessonet, Jay Scheib, Quinnopolis NY, Restless NYC, and Banana Bag and Bodice.
Learn morePeter Simensky’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum 52, New York; The Swiss Institute, New York; and Project Row Houses, Houston. Selected group exhibitions at Sculpture Center, NY; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mass Moca, North Adams; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New York; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York among others. Simensky’s Gold Dust was recently featured in Cabinet’s, Money Issue. He has received awards and grants from LMCC, NYFA, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He lives and works in Portland, OR and Brooklyn, NY.
Learn morePetra Kovacic was born in Split, Croatia. In 2008, she graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Kovac’ic’ has exhibited in fifteen group and solo exhibitions and has performed her in numerous festivals in Croatia and abroad in New York, France, and Macedonia. She collaborated in workshops on artistic and pedagogical praxis and is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists, Zagreb and Split, and the Moving Academy of Performing Arts.
Learn morePhilip Edward King lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. Their interdisciplinary work deals with questions surrounding the loosely defined term "human nature" juxtaposed with themes of crisis unique to the 20th and 21st centuries.
Learn moreAbout Philip Glass, by Tim Page
Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times.
The operas – Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, Akhnaten, and The Voyage, among many others – play throughout the world’s leading houses, and rarely to an empty seat. Glass has written music for experimental theater and for Academy Award-winning motion pictures such as The Hours and Martin Scorsese’s Kundun, while Koyaanisqatsi, his initial filmic landscape with Godfrey Reggio and the Philip Glass Ensemble, may be the most radical and influential mating of sound and vision since Fantasia. His associations, personal and professional, with leading rock, pop and world music artists date back to the 1960s, including the beginning of his collaborative relationship with artist Robert Wilson. Indeed, Glass is the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music -- simultaneously.
He was born in 1937 and grew up in Baltimore. He studied at the University of Chicago, the Juilliard School and in Aspen with Darius Milhaud. Finding himself dissatisfied with much of what then passed for modern music, he moved to Europe, where he studied with the legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger (who also taught Aaron Copland , Virgil Thomson and Quincy Jones) and worked closely with the sitar virtuoso and composer Ravi Shankar. He returned to New York in 1967 and formed the Philip Glass Ensemble – seven musicians playing keyboards and a variety of woodwinds, amplified and fed through a mixer.
The new musical style that Glass was evolving was eventually dubbed “minimalism.” Glass himself never liked the term and preferred to speak of himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures.” Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragments that wove in and out of an aural tapestry. Or, to put it another way, it immersed a listener in a sort of sonic weather that twists, turns, surrounds, develops.
There has been nothing “minimalist” about his output. In the past 25 years, Glass has composed more than twenty operas, large and small; eight symphonies (with others already on the way); two piano concertos and concertos for violin, piano, timpani, and saxophone quartet and orchestra; soundtracks to films ranging from new scores for the stylized classics of Jean Cocteau to Errol Morris’s documentary about former defense secretary Robert McNamara; string quartets; a growing body of work for solo piano and organ. He has collaborated with Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Yo-Yo Ma, and Doris Lessing, among many others. He presents lectures, workshops, and solo keyboard performances around the world, and continues to appear regularly with the Philip Glass Ensemble.
Learn morePhilip Grass is the electronic project helmed by Burton Schaber and Ben Durfee. The two met in 2011 while studying at University of Massachusetts, and began to slowly and increasingly orbit developments in electronic music together, attending shows on a regular basis, until they began to collaborate on their own material in early 2012. Their sound is characterized by an uncompromising instinct for change, as shuffling drums and moody pitch-shifted vocals can give way to riotous synth chords, jazz samples, or any number of other possible vibes. One can usually best identify a Philip Grass track by the sense of nocturnal nostalgia that permeates their melodic sensibility. The duo explore these seeming incredible transitions during their live performances, triggering samples, drums, and often playing live keys, with an animated air that communicates just how busy they are on stage.
Selected Press:
"Philip Grass 'All I Need'," XLR8R, by Derek Kaneko, February 18, 2014
"Devonwho's Remix of Philip Grass' 'All I Need' Is a Smoky Dream," SPIN, by Chris Martins, March 26, 2014
Learn morePhilip Iosca is an award-winning designer, visual artist and published poet. Currently a designer for EF Education's Architecture and Design Studio, Iosca focuses on large projects in North America including New York, Boston, Miami, Toronto, Washington DC, and San Diego.
Previously Iosca founded his own art and design studio, Iosca Industries; served as the director of marketing and design for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA); worked as a cultural engineer for Ace Hotel Portland, initiating their collaboration with Pendleton Woolen Mills; and was a member of Wieden+Kennedy’s experimental advertising agency WK12.
Iosca graduated with honors from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, with a major in Textiles. Iosca has exhibited in California, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and internationally in Holland and Italy. A collection of his poems entitled Ballad of the Sad Young Men was released by Publication Studio in 2011. Iosca's art version of Jean Cocteau's The White Paper was published by Container Corps in 2013.
Philip Iosca lives and works in New York City.
Learn moreBlanc is a native of France.
Learn morePhilippe Parreno makes work that revolves around the nature of an image as well as the modes of its exhibition. He often draws on already-existing material and enriches it with his own, mostly narrative ideas. He lives in Paris.
Learn moreBorn in 1970, Philippe Quesne received his education in Visual Arts. For 10 years he designed sets for theater, operas and exhibitions. In 2003, he created the Vivarium Studio Company, and directed his first show, La Démangeaison des ailes, based on the acts of taking off and falling down. Philippe Quesne hunts the marvelous, the tiny, and pushes to the extreme experiences of our daily lives as well as the relationship between mankind and nature. As he did as a child, collecting insects, he now works and studies small communities under his microscope. The scenography is used as an ecosystem in which he immerses his actors into. His shows, such as La Démangeaison des ailes (2003), Des expériences (2004), D’après nature (2006), L’Effet de Serge (2007), La Mélancolie des dragons (2008), Big Bang (2010), Swamp Club (2013), Next Day (2014), compose a repertory that tours all over the world. In addition to his work for the theater, he creates performances and interventions in public spaces or natural sites, and displays his installations in the context of exhibitions. Since January 2014, he has been serving as the co-director of Nanterre-Amandiers, National Dramatic Center. In 2016, he will create Caspar Western Friedrich at Kammerspiele in Munich and Welcome to Caveland! at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels
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La Mélancolie des dragons 5 © Pierre Grosbois Learn morePhoebe Davies (London) is a Welsh artist and researcher based at Somerset House Studios. Working across video, sound, performance, and print, her practice investigates how people perceive their social framework, often working with—and in response to—individuals, and communities, generating work through collaboration, collective action, and DIT (Do It Together) strategies. She currently co-facilitates two research groups, Synaptic Island, a London-based, womxn and non-binary sound collective, and Art is Action, a UK-based social practice research group. Phoebe Davies Website
Learn morePictureplane is Travis Egedy. Having cut his teeth on killer remixes for Crystal Castles, HEALTH, Thieves Like Us, and worked with Beirut's Zach Condon, Pictureplane's debuts with the anthemic and otherworldly "Trance Doll" 7-inch. Grimy synths, broken beats, and bucolic vocals collide somewhere between early 90s house music and the gnarly soundscapes of Black Dice to forge a sound wholly unique and endlessly exciting. It begins here: Pictureplane is going to destroy dance-floors in 2009.
Learn morePieter Ampe grew up in Ghent, Belgium, and studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, the Arnhem Dance Academy, and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. Together with Guilherme Garrido, he has created and performed Still Difficult Duet (2007) and Still Standing You (2010). In 2006, Ampe took part in danceWEB, a scholarship program at Vienna’s ImpulsTanz-festival, and since 2009, he has been an artist-in-residence at CAMPO. Ampe has worked with stage director Jan Decorte, performance duo United Sorry, artist Roland Seidel, noise-rock quartet The Germans, and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, among others. Guilherme Garrido is a Portugese-born artist, dancer, and musician. Between 2007 to 2009, he was the curator of Show Rooms within the frame of the annual Festival da Fábrica in Porto. He has performed as a dancer with Maria Clara Villa-Lobos, Ibrahim Quraishi, and Tommy Noonan/PVC company. In 2011, he premiered his first solo work, GO JOHN, at Fresh Festival in Croatia, and in 2012 he presented BEST BEAST, his first group piece as choreographer in HAU, Berlin. He has performed Still Standing You with Ampe at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Festival Transamerique in Montreal, and PuSH Festival in Vancouver, BC.
Learn moreFeaturing 10-12 musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand, South America and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with more than 50 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Symphony, and the BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2011; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia; two sold-out concerts at Paris’ legendary L’Olympia Theatre in 2011; and Paris’ fashion house Lanvin’s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012. Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000. Pink Martini released Hang On Little Tomato in 2004, Hey Eugene! in 2007 and Splendor In The Grass in 2009. In November 2010 the band released Joy To The World—a festive, multi-denominational holiday album featuring songs from around the globe. Joy To The World received glowing reviews and was carried in Starbucks stores during the 2010 and 2011 holiday seasons. All five albums have gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey, and have sold well over 2.5 million copies worldwide. In Fall 2011 the band released two albums – A Retrospective, a collection of the band’s most beloved songs spanning their 17-year career, which includes eight previously unreleased tracks, and 1969, an album of collaborations with legendary Japanese singer Saori Yuki. 1969 has been certified platinum in Japan, reaching #2 on the Japanese charts with the Japan Times raving “the love and respect Saori Yuki and Pink Martini have for the pop tradition shines through on every track.”
Learn morePrem Krishnamurthy (b. 1977) is a designer, author, and educator. He received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Communications Design in 2015 and KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s “A Year With…” residency fellowship in 2018. His professional papers were acquired by Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies in 2019. In 2022, Domain Books published his book-length epistolary essay, On Letters, which was named one of Fast Company’s “Best Design Books of 2022”. Prem graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art from Yale College in 1999 and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany the same year.
He currently directs Wkshps, a multidisciplinary design studio, and organizes Department of Transformation, an itinerant workshop that practices collaborative tools for social change. In addition to leading design projects with artists, cultural institutions, and nonprofit organizations across the world, he has curated several large-scale exhibitions. These include Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, the 2022 edition of FRONT International, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art; Our Silver City, 2094 at Nottingham Contemporary; and Ministry of Graphic Design in Sharjah, UAE. Previously, Prem founded the design studio Project Projects and the exhibition space P! in New York.
Learn moreLarrakia language. Born 1938. Died 2OO2.
Known as Midpul to his Larrakia kin, there is some debate as to how Prince of Wales acquired his royal epithet. Some suggest it was because he danced for Queen Elizabeth II when she visited Darwin in 1963. More likely is that it was because he was the son of King George (Imabul) and grandson of King Miranda, the recognized leader of the Larrakia at the time of the British arrival in Darwin. Midpul never ascended to King because by the time he became leader of the Larrakia, the patronizing colonial practice of “crowning” Indigenous leaders had been eliminated. Irrespective, Midpul was a proud and important leader of his people. In 1971, he and his brothers mounted a public protest to have parts of Darwin declared a Larrakia reserve, and later he was actively involved in the successful Kenbi Land Claim. Despite suffering a stroke that paralyzed most of his left side, Midpul began painting in 1995, drawing his inspiration from the body markings used in ceremonial rituals. Although the Larrakia had a long artistic tradition, Midpul was the first artist to seek a sustained engagement with the contemporary art world. Without any template to work from, he produced works of singular poetry and grace; restrained yet visceral; tremulous yet compellingly assured. Compared to the tight-knit dot- paintings of the Central desert, Midpul’s paintings were a revelation. Across stark, unmodulated grounds, his marks hover like ghostly fingerprints. Haptically direct, these marks offer a stark evocation of the body in movement, creating a haunting metaphor for the memory ancient rituals burnished into the ether of time. In 2OO1, Midpul was awarded the general painting prize at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. His works are held in most state collections in Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Learn morePrincess Bouton is a Black Transfeminine freelance filmmaker and performance artist based in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from the Portland State University film program in the spring of 2020. Her work often incorporates movement art and explores topics of intersectionality and pleasure activism. She has a dance background that includes modern dance, ballet, and vogue and she creates from a place that draws from each form. Princess Bouton is also a community builder and organizer in the Portland Kiki ballroom scene and is the princess of the kiki House Of Flora. The QTPOC models seen in her work are often individuals from her local queer community, who she invites to be highlighted and celebrated.
Learn morePSU’s Art and Social Practice MFA program was founded in 2007. The Program combines individual research, group work, and experiential learning in order to train artists to make meaningful work, and to collaborate effectively with people, organizations and institutions. Portland State University emphasizes civic engagement and pursuing research that serves the community and the Art and Social Practice MFA program energetically supports that mission. Our community is our classroom.
Learn morePortland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year.
PSU MFA MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES ON VIMEO
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Learn morePublication Studio is an experiment in sustainable publication. They print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers they admire, books that both respond to the conversation of the moment and can endure. They attend to the social life of the book, cultivating a public that cares and is engaged. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense — not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through deliberate acts: the circulation of texts; discussions and gatherings in physical space; and the maintenance of a digital commons. Together these construct a space of conversation, a public space, which beckons a public into being. At TBA, Publication Studio will conduct real-time collaborations with Festival artists and performers, strategizing and producing new books on-demand in a retail storefront.
Publication Studio was founded and is run by Matthew Stadler, formerly the literary editor of Nest Magazine and co-founder of Clear Cut Press, and Patricia No.
Selected Press
Book Publishing as Common Ground, Caroline Cummins, Oregon Humanities, Spring 2010.
A Very Long - and Very Interesting - Interview with Matthew Stadler of Publication Studio, Matthew Simmons, HTMLGIANT, March 18, 2010.
Learn moreRaised by wolves in parts unknown. Classicly trained in Europe, art has been a part of her life and provided a therapeutic output for years of untrained trauma. Black lives matter. Believe victims. Find beauty in our collective ugliness.
Learn moreQuasi was formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1993 by Sam Coomes & Janet Weiss. They have toured or recorded with, either individually or collectively, Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Built to Spill, Bright Eyes, Heatmiser, the Go Betweens, Pink Mountain, Blues Goblins, The Takeovers, Jandek, and numerous other less recognizable but just as seminal bands. Prior to Quasi, Coomes was in the San Francisco band Donner Party (c. 1983-1988) and both were in the Portland power trio Motorgoat (c. 1990-1992). Joanna Bolme (Jicks, The Minders, Calamity Jane) joined the band in 2006. Quasi still lives in the new, gentrified Portland and will release a new album in the fall of 2009.
Selected Discography: Quasi (self-released, 1993); Split Single 7" (w/Bugskull) (Red Rover, 1994); R&B Transmogrification (Up, 1997); Featuring "Birds" (Up, 1998); Field Studies (Up, 1999); The Sword of God (Touch & Go, 2001); Hot Shit! (Touch & Go, 2003); When the Going Gets Dark (Touch & Go, 2006).
Learn moreQueaz Otti is South Sacramento raised, a loving father, aspiring rapper, and street philosopher of the people.
Known to many as a loyal brotha and voice of understanding.
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.
Selected Press
"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
New York Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
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.
ARTISTS' BIOS
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.
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Learn moreAssembled in a NW Portland warehouse in 2005, Root Beer and French Fry started as a “for fun” computer song writing project. Relying initially on pre-recorded sounds, samples, and drum machines, the group stumbled upon a system for generating short, catchy, poppy songs. Integrating live instruments (guitars, bass, keyboards, drums) and receiving the name “Root Beer and French Fry” as a birthday present helped to turn the project into an actual band. The group is now comprised of Brendan Monroe, Cory Jones, Andy Parker, Adam Sorensen and the more inanimate yet equally important member, Apple Computer.
Learn moreRose Bond creates work at the juncture of expanded cinema and experimental animation. Her large-scale animated installations navigate the allegories of place and illuminate urban space with fragments of the often overlooked – the ‘other’. With roots in frame-by-frame, hand drawn animation, she has since turned her focus towards public media performances. Her current work-in-progress, Earths to Come, an interdisciplinary collaboration with composer inti figgis-vizueta and Roomful of Teeth, pushes her cinema-born aesthetic into the spatialized terrain of VR and domes. Earths to Come, was developed in part at a Multi-disciplinary residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC and at the 2024 Venice Biennale Immersive College.
Recent work includes large-scale, multi-screen live projections for symphony with works by avant-garde composers Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, 2020 and Olivier Messiaen‘s Turangalîla- Symphonie, 2016. Other animated installations include: two pieces for the permanent collection at the Portland Chinatown Museum, 2018; Illumination No.1 reprise at Portland’s Old Town Society Hotel, 2014; a prototype for a media installation in the Smithsonian’s Arts & Industries Building, 2012;Broadsided! at Exeter Castle, 2010; Intra Muros, shown during the 2007 Platform International Animation Festival and reprised for the Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, 2008, and Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2011.
Bond’s paint-on-film animated films have been presented at major international festivals and are held in the MoMA Film Collection. She has received support from The Princess Grace Foundation, Bloomberg LP, Prince Bernhard Culture Foundation, Creative Heights Oregon Community Arts, the National Film Board of Canada, Arts Council England, the Canada Council for the Arts, American Film Institute, and the National Endowment for the arts. Her work has been cited in numerous publications including Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art, Re-imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image, The Animation Bible, Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives & Practices, and the Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital. Rose Bond is a Canadian born media artist based in Portland Oregon.
Learn moreRose Nordin is an artist and graphic designer based in London with a focus on print and publishing as social practice. She is a co founder and graphic designer for OOMK zine and art publishing collective. Rose co runs Rabbits Road Press a Risograph community press in East London focused on producing small press publications through collaboration. Rose is currently an Artist in Residence at Somerset House Studios and Serpentine Galleries. Recent publishing design projects include The Place is Here — The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain (Sternberg Press), Still I Rise: Feminism, Gender and Residence (Nottingham Contemporary) and Shy Radicals (Book Works)
One of My Kind (OOMK) is a collaborative publishing practice led by Rose Nordin, Sofia Niazi and Heiba Lamara. Working together since 2013, they design, publish and distribute books and printed works which arise from self-initiated projects. OOMK functions as an annual publication centreing women, creative practice and activism. OOMK also commission new works by artists and co-curate DIY Cultures, one of the UK’s largest annual independent publishing fairs. Together OOMK founded and run community Risograph printing studio, Rabbits Road Press.
Rabbits 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.
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Learn moreRoyal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE) has performed rituals at the Guggenheim Museum, Under the Radar Festival, FringeArts, Under the Radar’s Incoming! Series, Gibney Dance Center, Kate Werble Gallery, Special Effects Festival at Participant Inc., Prelude Festival, AUNTS Arts@Renaissance, and JACK. ROKE received a 2016 Creative Capital award for The Art of Luv series, and has been awarded a Franklin Furnace Fund grant (2013) and a BAX Space Grant (2014). They were part of the Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group and PS122’s RAMP residency program. They spent the summer of 2014 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and were 2015 CUNY Hunter Artists-in-Residence in ceramics. The Art of Luv (Part 1): Elliot is created with support from The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Working Group, Gibney Dance Center, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and a residency at CUNY City Tech. Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble is supported by Immediate Medium’s AGENCY program, which provides financial, administrative, and equipment support to emerging artists. The Art of Luv is a project of Creative Capital.
Learn moreRoy Pérez teaches and writes about gender, sex and race in contemporary literature, art, and performance. He is an associate professor of English, American Ethnic Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. His poems and essays have appeared in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017), Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (OSUP, 2017), Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, the Best of Panic! poetry anthology, Bully Bloggers, and FENCE Magazine, and he is co-editor with Kadji Amin and Amber Musser of "Queer Form," a special issue of ASAP/Journal. He is writing a book titled Proximities: Queer Configurations of Race in Latinx Literature and Performance.
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