Events and News April 2014
In This Issue
Jesper Just: In Conversation
Tip Toland CAC Tour and Reception
CAC Studio Tour
Recommended: PORTLAND2014 Jesper Just, This Nameless Spectacle (installation view), 2011, Recommended: Miro at two-channel Blu-ray projection. Photo: Jason Mandella. Seattle Art Museum
Recommended: Polly Apfelbaum at the lumber Sunday, April 6th room
New at the Museum Critical Voices Jesper Just: In Conversation Quick Links Whitsell Auditorium - 2:00 PM Portland Art Museum
CAC Members' Reception following To update your Miller Gallery, Mark Building contact information please click here and Join fellow CAC members and the public for the lecture / then click "Update conversation between Jesper Just and Bruce Guenther, Profile/Email The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Address" Contemporary Art, followed by a CAC reception for the artist.
Jesper Just is a Copenhagen-born and New York-based artist who emerged on the international scene in 2004 after CAC Board of graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Directors 2013-2014 Copenhagen. Selected in 2013 to represent Denmark at the President 55th Venice Biennale, Just uses film and installation as an Pam Berg artistic vehicle to create works that address complex Vice President contemporary issues through metaphorically open-ended, Daniel Peabody detail-rich visual narratives. His work is in the collections of over 25 museums including the Guggenheim, MOMA, and Treasurer Jeff Miller the Tate.
Secretary Jesper Just: In Conversation is a ticketed Museum Event. Linda Mantel Members free; nonmembers $15, seniors and students $12.
Membership Space is limited, so advance ticket purchase is Bruce Morrison recommended.
Travel RSVP for the CAC reception by replying to this email or by Christopher Perry calling 503-276-4267 ext. 2 by Thursday, April 3rd. Please
Immediate Past state and spell your name and the names of any guests President who will be attending. James Minden
Board Members At-Large David Adams Matt Cosby Tamara English Michael Greicus Glenda Goldwater Kate Johnson Richard Testut
Chief Curator and The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Bruce Guenther
Council Coordinator Jan Quivey 503-276-4242 [email protected]
Tip Toland, African child with Albinism, 2013, clay, paint, pastel and synthetic hair, 30 x 28 x 20 inches Wednesday, April 23, 2014 6:00 pm
APEX: Tip Toland
Exhibition Tour and Reception Trustee Room, Mark Building
Join the CAC for a curator led gallery tour of the compelling exhibition APEX : Tip Toland. Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art, will explore the work of Washington-based artist Tip Toland, known for her painfully accurate and intricately detailed, larger-than-life figurative sculptures.
Toland has always been concerned with the figure: Her early work was primarily surrealistic, inspired by late Gothic artist Fra Angelico, Persian miniatures, and Surrealists René Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico. Her current work, of exquisitely super-realist monumental ceramic portraits, has a powerful political subtext addressing the plight of African albino children who face horrific persecution. The work is deeply psychological, compelling, and provocative.
Enter the Mark Building for a reception in the Trustee Room on the 4th Floor followed by a gallery tour and conversation with the curator. RSVP by replying to this email or by calling 503-276-4267 ext. 2 by Friday, April 18th. Please give us your name and the names of any guests who will be attending.
Christine Bourdette "Installation view of sculpture & drawings"
Saturday, May 3, 2014 10:30 am
Artist Studio Tour with the CAC
Join a group of your fellow CAC members for a guided tour through the art studios of some of Portland's talented artists. The tour will include one or two locations within walking distance of each other and four or more artist's studios. After the guided tour there will be a no host lunch at a restaurant near the art studios.
This guided artist studio tour is an exciting opportunity to visit artists in their creative environments and see "where all the magic happens". Its a great way to see what some of Portland's artists are working on and exploring. You will recognize the artist's work from recent exhibitions at the Art Gym at Marylhurst University, as well as exhibitions at local galleries. This tour is an opportunity you should not miss!
Artists participating: Jim Blashfield, Christine Bourdette, Clinton Mackenzie, Trude Parkinson, plus possibly others.
Studio Address: Upshur Lofts 1801 NW Upshur Street Portland, OR 97209 * at the corner of NW 18th & Upshur Street
RSVP by replying to this email or by calling 503-276-4267 ext. 2 by Thursday, September 24th. Please give us your name and the names of any guests who will be attending. Also, please indicate if you plan to join the group for lunch so that table reservations can be made.
Christopher Michlig and John Zerzan
Recommended
PORTLAND2014 through April 27th
Disjecta Contemporary Art Center 8371 N. Interstate Ave. Portland, OR 97217
Featuring the work of 11 artists and 4 collaborative artist teams, Portland2014 is a major biennial exhibition celebrating artists who are defining and advancing contemporary art practices in Oregon. Guest curated by Amanda Hunt of LAX-ART in Los Angeles, Portland2014 includes exhibitions, events, and performances in multiple locations throughout Portland through April 27, 2014. The curator's vision is a key component of the exhibition, and as the first non-regional curator of the Biennial, Hunt's perspective engages artists and audiences in new ways.
Portland2014 venues include Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Upfor Gallery, White Box at University of Oregon, Portland, and The Best Art Gallery in Portland, which will be complemented through a series of public artworks, interventions, and a Saturday Series of public lectures and panels designed to engage diverse audiences by activating new contexts for contemporary art throughout the city.
Portland2014 continues the tradition of the Oregon Biennial inaugurated by the Portland Art Museum in 1949. In 2010, Disjecta reintroduced the Biennial, following the final iteration of the Museum's Biennial in 2006. Portland2014 will be on view through April 27, 2014. Please see Disjecta's website for directions, additional venues, and gallery hours.
Recommended:
Miró: The Experience of Seeing Through May 26, 2014
Seattle Art Museum 1300 First Avenue Seattle, WA 98101 (206) 654-3100 Hours: Wed. & Fri. - Sun. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Thurs. 10:00 am - 9:00 pm.
This exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, offers a fresh assessment of the late period in Miró's work-a body of work that audiences in the United States have not had the opportunity to fully appreciate. The exhibition brings together over 50 paintings, drawings and sculptures made in the period between 1963 and 1981 that testify to the artist's ingenuity and inventiveness to the very end of his life. Bold and colorful paintings employing his personal visual language alternate with near-abstract compositions. Although Miró had experimented with sculpture in earlier periods, it is only in the late years that painting and sculpture stand in direct dialogue with each other-a principal feature of this exhibition.
The paintings and sculptures in the exhibition plumb the process of making art, part of Miró's concern since his earliest works. In his quest to transcend easel painting, Miró expanded pictorial space across vast canvas fields, using an increasingly simplified language to turn accidental or fortuitous motifs into calligraphic signs. In his sculpture, the inspiration of found objects is more overt, linking the work to his Surrealist explorations of the 1920s as well as the sculptural inventions of his contemporary, Pablo Picasso. Miró also employs many of the same forms and signs in his sculpture, as in his paintings, creating a synergy between the two bodies of work. His work during these mature years represents a personal language where painting and sculpture are equally valued.
This exhibition is curated by Chiyo Ishikawa, the Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art and Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, and Catharina Manchanda, the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Polly Apfelbaum, Color Stations Portland, installation view, lumber room, Portland. Image by Jeremy Bitterman, Courtesy of lumber room
Recommended
Polly Apfelbaum: Color Stations Portland the lumber room 419 NW 9th Avenue Portland, OR 97209
Through April 27, 2014 Open Hours: Friday & Saturday, 12:00 - 5:00 pm
Known for her fiber-based installations, Polly Apfelbaum has been showing consistently in New York and abroad since her first one-person show in New York 1986. A major mid-career survey of her work opened in 2003 at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. The show traveled through 2004, and a catalogue surveying 15 years of work was published by ICA. In addition to her show at the ICA in Philadelphia, Apfelbaum has also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all in New York; the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio; and other venues ranging from India to Switzerland.
Fresh from winning the Rome Prize in 2013, Apfelbaum is showing her evocative Color Stations at the lumber room through April. In addition to Apfelbaum's installation, also on view, art selections from the Miller-Meigs Collection personally chosen by Apfelbaum, adding historic context to her installation.
New at the Museum
This section of the CAC newsletter is designed to demonstrate the activity and vitality of the contemporary art galleries at the Portland Art Museum. It lists modern and contemporary artworks on display at the museum for a limited time. Don't wait too long to visit the museum galleries or you may miss seeing these artworks.
David Hockney (British, born 1937) Woldgate Woods 4, 5, and 6 December, 2006 Oil on canvas Private Collection Belluschi Building, Sammons Gallery, Lower Level.
Sol LeWitt (American, 1928-2007) Irregular Grid, 1999 Gouache on paper Private Collection Belluschi Building, Sammons Gallery, Lower Level.
Marc Chagall (French, born Russia, 1887-1985) Paysage de Paris (Landscape of Paris), 1978 Oil, ink, and crayons on Masonite Lent by the Atwood Family Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 1st floor.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, active France, 1881-1973) Portrait of Man Ray, 1934 Ink on paper Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 1st floor.
Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968) Untitled (Photocollage landscape study for Etant donnés 1.la chute d'eau, 2. Le gaz d'éclairage), c. 1946 Textured wax, pencil, and ink on paper with cut gelatin silver photographs mounted on board Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 1st floor.
Cy Twombly (American, 1928-2011) La-La, 1953 Oil-based house paint and graphite on paper The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 1st floor.
René Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967) L'Idée (The Idea), 1966 Oil on canvas Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 2nd floor.
Konrad Lueg (German, 1939-1996) Untitled (Kopf Mit Hut), (Head with Hat), 1963 Casein and tempera on canvas Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 2nd floor.
Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997) Stretcher Frame, 1968 Oil and magna on canvas The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 2nd floor.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, active France, 1881-1973) Femme Assise dans un Fauteuil (Woman Sitting in an Armchair), 1960 Oil on canvas Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 3rd floor.
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, active France, 1881-1973) Sylvette, 1954 Painted metal Lent by Bettina and Donald Bryant Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 3rd floor.
Mark Grotjahn (American, born 1968) Untitled (White Butterfly), 2002 Acrylic on canvas Lent by the James B. Tananbaum and Dana S. Tananbaum Family Trust Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 4th floor.
Martin Kippenberger (German, 1953-1997) With a Little Help of a Friend, 1985 Oil on canvas Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 4th floor.
Mike Kelley (American, 1954-2012) Memory Ware Flate #9, 2000 Mixed media on wood Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 4th floor.
Isa Genzken (German, born 1948) Mutter Mit Kind (Mother with Child), 2004 Mixed media assemblage Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 4th floor.
Laura Owens (American, born 1970) Untitled, 2013 Acrylic, oil, and charcoal on canvas Lent by the James B. Tananbaum and Dana S. Tananbaum Family Trust Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 4th floor.
Rosemarie Trockel (German, born 1952) Day and Night 2, 2013 Mixed acrylic material Private Collection Mark Building, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, 4th floor.
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