Category: Arts Lecture 2010/11 (Page 1 of 2)

Jennifer Combe: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Jennifer Combe is an Evergreen alum, artist and teacher. She graduated from Evergreen with both a Master in Teaching with a focus on art education in 1997, and in 1995, a Bachelor of Arts focused on anti-bias education, cultural studies, and art. In 2009 she earned a Master in Fine Art from The Vermont College of Fine Arts.

“Over the past fourteen years, I’ve engaged in an art practice investigating the cultural contexts of how meaning is derived from mark making both on the canvas and in the classroom. When I began with that first class of bright-eyed five and six year olds I compartmentalized these two acts. This was partially a knee-jerk defense to protect my studio practice from the monumental heap of work that teaching in a public school has become in this time and place. But now that the first decade of mark making and the teaching of mark making have passed, I take comfort, satisfaction, and find a deep joy in these inseparable acts.”

Her visual work has been exhibited in a range of venues, including galleries, homes, state buildings, restaurants, book stores, LGBTQ festivals, and colleges in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Montpelier, VT, Salt Lake City, and Missoula, MT.

Ellen Lesperance: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Female heroism is undersung, but Ellen Lesperance is determined to sing it—not only so it’s not forgotten, but with the hope that it might be catching. Go to her web site, and you immediately hear the chants of the Women’s Peace Camp at the nuclear testing site Greenham Common.

Look at her paintings, outside the elevators at Seattle Art Museum, and you see they’re dot patterns in a grid on brownish paper: patterns for sweaters that, when worn—and however soft—might transform the individual wearer. Lesperance, originally from a hippieish family in Seattle’s U District and now living in the latter-day utopic city of Portland, is both wedded to and critical of collective idealism. She knows how it can hollow out over time, and how dogma or compromise can take over. But she plainly still believes in the sheer power of individual action. How to make it happen? That’s the spur of her work.

The tone of inspiration has become pretty rare in art. It’s fairly rare in the culture at large. Radical acts may remain, but the rousing spirit of radicalism is hard to find. Lesperance’s art actually includes everything from the archival photos she starts with to the titles she writes to the pattern paintings that hang on the wall to thesweaters she wants to be worn. One of her own inspirations was visiting the Asylum for Radical Feminism in Santa Fe, which she found harrowing: The feminists were very few in number, and essentially impoverished. But they had stories to tell; that’s where she learned of Greenham Common.-Jen Graves, The Stranger

“I like the idea that, for example, through the recreation of a Greenham sweater, a new ‘wearer’ might be beckoned. I also have a particular interest in assigning valor to young women from the Pacific Northwest like Rachel Corrie and Beth Horehound O’Brien, women who have sacrificed their lives fighting the good fight.”

Brian Murphy: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Seattle artist Brian Murphy uses watercolor to create introspective self-portraits. Using fleshy, bold colors, Murphy creates invisible and reductive areas, which allude to the mass and solidity of the human form. Murphy’s work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions and in 2001, Murphy received the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Memorial award.

Vic Haven: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Victoria Haven lives and works in Seattle. She received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from Goldsmiths College/University of London. She was the 2004 recipient of ‘The Stranger’ Genius Award as well as the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum. She also received a Pollock-Krasner Award in 1996 and in 2000. Her work has been exhibited at the Frye Art Museum and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland; the Austen Museum of Art, Texas; the Drawing Center, New York; and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, among many others.

“I always think that abstraction is slipping away, that people just aren’t looking…Abstraction, to me, is that fuzzy place, that place between things, where a lot of conflict happens, where a lot of connection happens. Just looking at that building over there and going, okay, this line is in front of that one, but what if it weren’t? Those are really basic observations, but I would like to believe that they could help you open yourself up to ways of thinking that are not so black and white.”-The Stranger

Thom Andersen: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:30-1:00, Recital Hall

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Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and — ——- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.Andersen is also one of the preeminent film educators in the United States, teaching at Cal Arts in Los Angeles where he has lived for most of his life. However his own films are largely unknown except for his 2003 award-winning portrait of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Plays Itself, voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll.

Carolina Silva: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:15-1:30, Lecture Hall 1

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Carolina Silva (b. 1975, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Seattle. She uses installation, drawing, animation and film to contemplate the body and the passage of time through both figurative and abstract work. Her last show at Lawrimore Project entitled, Against Gravity, was part of a series of shows called Has Art? where each month, artists are paired with a writer and a page from Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés.

Carolina has had one-person shows in 2010: Galeria Travesia Cuatro, Madrid; La Conservera Center for Contemporary Art, Murcia, Spain (with Lili Duourie, Elena del Rivero, and Lily van der Stokker), (catalog); 2007: La Casa Encendida, Madrid. 2006: Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; Art Space Tetra, Fukoa, Japan. 2004: Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco. 2003: Fish Tank Gallery, New York. 2002: Next Gallery, New York. Her work has also been seen in 2009: Explum, Puerto Lumbrera; Becas Generación 2008, Madrid; Doméstico09, Madrid, 2009. 2008: IVAM, Valencia; Museo de Pollença; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca. 2007: Planes Futuros. Baluarte, Pamplona; Aquí y Ahora, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Destino Futuro, Jardín Botánico, Madrid. 2004: The Line Up. Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco.

Deborah Stratman: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 12:15-1:30, Lecture Hall 1.

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Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum and many international film festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Ann Arbor and Rotterdam. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships and she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Free to the public.

A free screening of “O’er the Land” will be held on Tuesday, February 8th at 8pm at the Northern in downtown Olympia.

http://www.northernolympia.org/2011/01

Marilyn Freeman: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:15-1:30-Lecture Hall 1

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Marilyn Freeman is an interdisciplinary, process- and time-based artist living in Olympia, Washington. Her work is characterized by themes of identity, tolerance, faith and alienation. Baptism is the first in a series of autobiographic essays and installations about growing up Catholic. Freeman’s contemplative film work, collectively entitled, CinemaDivina, is screened in spirituality centers as well as film and arts venues. Freeman’s experimental feature film, Group, distributed by Frameline, was released on DVD in 2009 following its 2002 theatrical run and extended educational market release. In addition to numerous accolades for directing and producing, Freeman has received financial support from The Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation, Centrum, and the Washington State Artist Trust in the form of a Media Arts Fellowship and a Gap Grant for her screenplay, Sophisticated: The Hollywood Story of Miss Dorothy Arzner. Freeman’s film, Meeting Magdalene (1995), played festivals worldwide and led to her short story collection, Meeting Magdalene (Naiad Press, 1996). Presently, Freeman is in post-production with The R Word, a feature-length documentary about the self-advocacy movement of people with developmental disabilities. She holds a BFA in Theater from the Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She is a Visiting Artist at The Evergreen State College and cofounder of the media arts studio, Wovie.

Eric Eley: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:15-1:30-Lecture Hall 1

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Eric Eley’s resin drawings, works on paper, and sculptures are informed by his fascination with the rational language used in physics and higher mathematics. His analytical use of lines and points allows him to arrange elements in space in order to provide a unique way of seeing. His materials are deceptively simple—string, wire, wood, dry pigment, graphite, resin. With these materials, the artist confronts the limitations of time, space, and physical effort while incorporating or discarding the benefits and drawbacks of those limitations. In his practice, Eley balances physical labor and intellectual work. He is truly an “analog” artist, one who physically moves in space, up and down a ladder, back and forth from wall to wall, rather than plotting elements on a computer screen. He is a thinker, delighting in the usually unseen connections that exist in any given atmosphere. His work is both landscape and architecture. Not a natural landscape but a landscape of articulated space. Not static architecture, but an exploded view of perspective and scale.

Eric’s work has been included in group shows in the Kunsthaus Hamburg and the Outdoor Sculpture Projects at Volta03 in Basel, Switzerland. He has also had solo shows at Gallery4Culture, the Hedreen Gallery at the Lee Center for the Arts, both in Seattle, and the Kolva/Sullivan Gallery in Spokane. He mounted a solo show at Art Agents Gallery in Hamburg, Germany in 2008 and his work was included in the group show “Unnatural Presence” at Platform in 2006. His solo exhibition, Prospect Fields, was shown at Platform Gallery in 2008 and his solo exhibition, Look Out, in 2010. During January 2011, Eric will be creating an installation in Suyama Space (Seattle, WA).

www.ericeley.com

http://www.platformgallery.com/artist_pages/Eley/Eley_main.html

Susie Lee: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 11:30-1 Lecture Hall 1

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Susie Lee was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania and grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She was awarded a Bachelors of Science in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and a Masters in Education at Columbia University. She received her MFA at the University of Washington and currently resides in Seattle. Susie is represented by Lawrimore Project in Seattle and Galleria Tiziana Di Caro in Italy.

Although often ephemeral, my time-based works have always been deployed in conjunction with a commitment to materiality and always firmly rooted in the context of something that exists to the touch. While still sensitive to the “hand,” my practice has expanded to more integrate my background in molecular science and urban education. Through a series of progressive, though infinitesimal, steps, matter, ideas and relationships are transformed, sometimes towards decay and sometimes towards definition. As teacher and researcher, I shift towards a practice based upon collaborations with, and outward observations of, others. Inherently, these connections take time, and it is through watching, listening, and conversing that the center of works emerges.

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