​TRIADS

Performance by aLiCiA deCaY   

"GLItZ" short film series by THE HAND
directed by Jason Thibodeaux

Saturday August 29th 2015 

8:28pm sharp
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Prequel
MAY 9th - AUGUST 8th , 2015.

As a Precipice Fund recipient, Prequel is a juried artist incubator that runs from May 9th through August 8th, 2015 at no cost to its selected artists. The four-month program, which meets primarily on Monday evenings at Sum Gallery (2821 NE MLK Blvd.) consists of weekly critiques and guest speakers that encourage emerging artists to engage in critical conversation with a tight­-knit group of peers. Additionally, each artist is paired with a mentor for continued artistic and professional growth. Prequel concludes with a group exhibition and artist talks open to the public, along with a collaboratively designed catalog and website.

Applications are open from March 5th through April 6th at 11:59 P.M. PST. Click here to begin your application and find out more about our three jurors here (forthcoming).

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October 4th 2014-January 2015

(LEFT)  Jo Hamilton Dr. 'Sir' Steven Toth & (RIGHT) Ryan Woodring It's a Small World-EVACUATED
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The Unfolding Hours: 
Madison Maschger and Alexandra Hulsey

November 16th, 2013 - January 18, 2014

Curated by Victor Maldonado

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Portland based multidisciplinary artist Allexandra Hulsey grew up in Dallas, Texas. Hulsey's projects deploy printmaking, photography, alternative photo processes and bookmaking to depict scenes of cultural transition, road trips and coming of age in the 21st Century. Currently a student at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Hulsey's most recent work explores self identity as a product of design.

Maddie Maschger is a conceptually driven artist who originally hails from Kansas City, Missouri. Working with text, textiles, and photography, Maschger’s art disrupts the status quo and challenges us to reconsider the personal and allow the political to enter the aesthetic plane. Currently a student at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Maschger's work deals with identity, domestic spaces, the power within personal interactions, and the play between artifact, experience, and image. Drawing from her recent cross-country move in addition to her personal relationships and midwestern suburban roots, Maschger works with the anticipatory nostalgia of being a young artist in a period of transition and her changing understanding of "home."

September 14, 2013 - November 1st, 2013

Lonnie Kinser
TRINITY

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"TRINITY"
came out of research from the nearby Hanford Superfund site in Washington state.  A reoccuring theme in my Art, is the conflicted relationship humans have with the natural environment. It seems our earth is more critical to our survival than the "things" we produce, yet our "things" are afforded highly organized forms of security utillizing police, insurance, laws, military etc, whereas environment, plants, and animals are generaly at everyones disposal. Want to shoot a coyote for fun? Hell, go right a-head!  Want to shoot your neighbors television? Your going to jail.

A small town of about 1500, Hanford was repurpossed during WW2 into a sprawling top secret nuclear facility that encompasses 586 sq miles. People were given a short notice to abandon their homes and nine reactors were built.  "B" reactor produced plutonium for the first nuclear detonation known as the "Trinity" test.  Shortly thereafter nuclear fuel was produced for "fat man" and "little boy" two bombs that destroyed Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan.  After this satisfying new result Hanford would go on to produce plutonium for 68,000 nuclear weapons. A few were used in scientific tests to destroy entire islands in the South Pacific. The people were given a boat ride somewhere else, the animals, flora and fauna, not so much. Decades of bomb making at Hanford have left behind a 55 million gallon toxic mess of extremely radioactive corrosive sludges and salts, all housed in 177 enormous tanks that are rotting away and leaking underground next to the Columbia river.

Some narrative in the work refers to beagle experiments. There are thousands of beagle dogs killed by radiation experiments buried at Hanford in 55 gallon drums.  "B" reactor" envisions the Hanford facility as tourist attraction and furthur goals as a National Park.  Test pattern cards are used as signifiers for "correction" or "standard" or as language for "out of order".  The Test Pattern also works as metaphor for an imagined autonomous authority that will "fix" the something gone "wrong", while we wait passively.  Test Pattern also infers animal species as an answer to enviromental stimuli. Intaglio prints show the defensive weaponry of the Irish Elk and Babyrousa ulimately causing their own extinction.  Zero-Time is terminology used for the precise moment of nuclear detonation. A camera called the Rapatronic was developed to capture images of zero-time with a light-valve shutter operating in nano seconds. These images simply cannot be described better than the images themselves.


~LJK 
August 2013

Brain Candy
Jocelyn Duke

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CONVERGENCE
Palma Corral, Cristal Rodriguez, Gary Wiseman
April 2013

  

Stimulus, Sensation, Thought  
(Estímulo, Sensación, Pensamiento)
Palma Corral

"Stimulus, Sensation, Thought  (Estímulo, Sensación, Pensamiento) is a sculptural and sound installation, which studies the concept of fear by investigating its various triggers and the different manifestations of its forms in hopes of understanding its real source and nature. The visual lexicon that is used to present this inquiry includes a mixture of natural materials and manmade objects such as: broken eggshells, shards of glass bound with wire, syringes strung on a chandelier, rope tied into nooses, fallen chairs and pills that form text. The objects will be arranged in the space in such a way as to force the viewer into the space and not be able to avoid confronting the objects. The eggshells will cover the floor and thus the viewer will have to step on them as soon as they enter the gallery space. The glass strands, the chairs and the nooses will block and direct the movement in or out of the gallery space. The chandelier with its syringes for jewels will hang in the center and overhead. The pills will form the text on the wall.

The sound component of the installation is collaboration between Aaron Engum, Ernesto Contreras, Adam Bailey and myself. Ernesto Contreras has assisted me in adapting orations from the Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing In The Bardo by Chogyam Trungpa, and has also translated it into Spanish. Adam Bailey will help with recording Ernesto reading the text in both languages. The voice recordings will then be given to Aaron Engum who will produce the sound arrangement. He will incorporate sounds such as: wind, thunder, heartbeats, broken glass, bell tones and possibly musical elements that may be either soothing or unsettling."


~ Palma Corral.

Las Lindas Piñatas 
Cristal Rodriguez

Las Lindas Piñatas are six ephemeral sculptures, made of papier-mâché.  Five of which will be exhibited as a scene from a party where the guests are standing around a piñatas as one of them is attempting to break the piñatas while blindfolded. The participants here are glittered faced skeleton marionettes about three feet tall, dressed in brightly colored clothes. Los Marionetas are trying to break La Estrella a traditional piñata used in Mexico. It’s a three feet sphere adorned with seven cones that have streamers hanging from its ends, usually decorated with brilliant colors. One of the skeleton marionettes is attempting to kick it, while another is blindfolded and trying to break it open with a stick.

 El Corazon is an interactive performance piece were gallery guests will be encouraged to participated in breaking the heart El Corazon. The piñata will be suspended with rope, which is held by two other people, who will be moving it up and down above the player. Like the marionettes the participants are blindfolded but will also be spun around so that they may be disorientated when tying to beat the piñata with a stick. Once the piñata is shattered they will be rewarded with treats that come from the broken heart.


~ Cristal Rodriguez

(No info)
Gary Wiseman: 

Raul J Mendez : Eschatometacosmo -polisapiensis 
(the beginning)
 
Showing thru mid February 2013.
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