Rebecca Ripple

Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series

Rebecca Ripple received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1995. Her work has been exhibited at the Brewery Project in Los Angles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, and Ludwig Drum Factory in Chicago, among others. Her work has been reviewed in the LA Weekly, ArtScence, the Chicago Tribune, and American Craft. Ripple attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she received a full scholarship, and was awarded a Fellowship and Artist Residency at the Bemis Foundation in Omaha. She is currently a faculty member at California State University, Northridge.

Tilt Gallery and Project Space will present new work by Los Angeles artist Rebecca Ripple. language/habit/rubber/God negotiates the artist's experience of her suburban Long Island childhood and her strict Catholic upbringing. The work examines the forces of these two opposing value systems and the desires constructed within them.

language/habit/rubber/God will be on exhibit from May 1-24, 2008 at Tilt Gallery and Project Space, 625 NW Everett #106, Portland, Oregon. Regular gallery hours are Thursdays and Saturdays noon-5pm, and by appointment.

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the twenty-third lecture in the PMMNLS for this season. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, PSU's Department of International Studies, and Ben Rosenberg Studio. If you or your organization are interested in becoming a supporter of the lecture series please let us know.

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