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Katie and Michael Gaughan (Brother and Sister) play positive, high-energy punk rock with a focus on visual performance and audience participation. Star Tribune calls Brother and Sister, “A sibling duo that is part White Stripes, part Whitesnake and part white noise.”Brother and Sister have toured the Midwest and West Coast. Their most recent scavenger hunt was commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.
Learn moreCandace Avalos is a first-generation American “Blacktina”, daughter of Black Americans from the south and Guatemalan immigrants. Mi nombre en español es Candis Ávalos. Originally from Virginia, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Foreign Languages, with a focus on Spanish and Italian, and Master of Education degree in College Student Personnel Administration from James Madison University. Prior to her current career as a nonprofit executive leader, she started her career as an educator and worked at Portland State University for 8 years providing civic engagement education and advising support for student leaders. She lives in East Portland and is an active member of her community, previously serving as chair of the Citizen Review Committee and Charter Review Commission for the City of Portland, as well as currently on the boards of the Coalition of Communities of Color and Street Roots. Her hobbies include perfecting her Guatemalan recipes, reading social justice literature, playing kickball in her fast pitch league, and exploring Portland's parks.
Learn moreAtlas has created work for film, theatre, television, and museums including the Whitney (New York) and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville (Paris). A pioneer of integrating live video with stage performance, Atlas is best known for his acclaimed collaborations with choreographers, dancers, and performers such as Leigh Bowery, Diamanda Galas, Merce Cunningham, and with Antony and the Johnsons on the audiovisual performance, Turning. Atlas is the recipient of three Bessie Awards and was recently presented with the prestigious John Cage award, by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2006).
Atlas has been active as an interdisciplinary filmmaker and video artist since the 1970s. Over the years he has made pioneering media/dance works, multi-channel video installations, feature-length documentaries, video art works for television, and live electronic performances. In November 2006, London's Tate Modern presented a retrospective of his work, titled Hail the New Puritan.
Learn moreChloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree, Canadian interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection—embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create site-specific installations that sculpt droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound.
Learn moreCool Art is a project by Rob Halverson, an artist and curator whose exhibition Space is a Place was presented at PICA's 2007 Time-Based Art Festival. Cool Art will be on view and for sale at Stand Up Comedy. Future presentations will be held at Art Since The Summer of '69 in New York later this year.
Learn moreCornell Alston is a long time member of Rehabilitation Through the Arts, a not-for-profit that uses the arts as a springboard to teach life skills to individuals both inside and outside of state correctional facilities. He initiated the Youth Empowerment Through the Arts initiative that launched in Queens NY, and he continues to work as an arts-in-education advocate. He is the recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital Award. Alston performed and collaborated with Kaneza Schaal on PLEASE, BURY ME at Baryshnikov Arts Center and GO FORTH during a Performance Space 122 RAMP residency. Other performance highlights include: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 12 Angry Men, and the title role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Learn moreCory Arcangel is a Brooklyn-based fine artist (b. 1978, Buffalo, NY) who makes work in a wide range of media, including composition, video, modified video games, performance, and the Internet. During the past two years, Arcangel has completed several diverse projects. He worked extensively with a team of computer experts from the Carnegie Mellon Computer Club, in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, The Carnegie Museum, and the Carnegie STUDIO for Creative Inquiry to unearth and preserve Warhol's lost digital experiments, which he wrote about for the summer edition of Artforum. This past May, he launched a publishing and merchandise imprint, Arcangel Surfware. In July, he released his debut novel, Working On My Novel, published by Penguin. Recent exhibitions include “Masters” at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2012–13), “Pro Tools” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011), “Beat the Champ” at the Barbican, London (2011), and “Here Comes Everybody” at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2010–11). Recent performances include “Dances For The Electric Piano” at the ICA London, and “Selected Notes on Creativity” at nyMusikk, Oslo, Norway. His work is included in many public collections, including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MoMA in New York, the Tate in London, Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington D.C. And the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich.
Learn moreDan Attoe (American, b. 1975) creates a world of teenage nihilism, fantasy, and alienated rural youth. Simultaneously sincere and ironic, Attoe’s work questions what is real and what is imagined. Operating between indeterminate boundaries between fiction and dreams, Attoe illuminates his work with text. Juxtaposing the luminous glare of neon with phrases and drawings, these works elevate doodles and notes to humorous, poignant, and sometimes perverse effect.
Learn moreDB Amorin (b. Honolulu, Hawai'i) is an interdisciplinary media artist who explores audio-visual non-linearity as a container for intersectional experience. He frequently emphasizes the generative role of error as an opportunity for creation, resulting in media-centered projects driven by DIY methodologies, lo-fi translations, and persistent, inquisitive experimentation with available materials.
His work has garnered awards from esteemed organizations including the Jersey City Arts Council, Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Precipice Fund grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Calligram Foundation and administered by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). His visual art, performances, curatorial & collaborative programming have been presented internationally at A4 Arts Foundation; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival; Onassis Foundation; ICA at MECA&D; Luggage Store Gallery; Soundwave ((7)) Biennial; PICA; Portland Art Museum; the Honolulu Museum of Art; Honolulu Biennial 2019.
Learn moreArgentine director, dancer and choreographer Diana Szeinblum began her career with the prestigious contemporary Ballet of the San Martin General theatre under the direction of Oscar Araiz. On a Goethe Institute scholarship, she studied at the Folkwang Tanz Schule and danced with the FTS company under the artistic direction of Pina Bausch, where she worked with choreographers such as Bausch, Susanne Linke and Urs Dietrich, among others. Her award-winning independent dance theatre work Secreto y Malibú toured across Europe, Asia and the US in 2003 including performances at PICA, The Walker Art Center, Dance Theatre Workshop and the Fresh Terrain Festival in Austin. ALASKA, her last piece, premiered in 2007, in the Konex Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and toured through the NPN Performing Americas Program in 2008. ALASKA will also be included in the Teatro a mil Festival (Chile) CINARS (Canada) the Feria de San Sebastian (España) and he Festival in Madrid 2009. Szeinblum is a sought-after teacher of composition and improvisation classes in Buenos Aires and throughout Argentina.
Lucas Condro began his studies in Argentina in 1997. In 1999 he was invited by the teacher and choreographer David Zambrano to take a seminar at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, where he studied for three years and received the degree of "Dance Maker." In Amsterdam he worked with the choreographers Red Peace, Hooman Sharifi; Nicole Butler and David Zambrano. In 2004 he improved his skills in the Montpellier Choreographic Center, under the direction of Mathilde Monnier. Condro is one of the key performers of Diana Szeinblum's work, appearing in her play 34 Metros, Homage to Kagel and ALASKA. He teaches Improvisation and technical courses in Argentina and throughout Latin America.
Learn moreEiko (female) and Koma (male) began working as independent artists in Tokyo in the early 1970’s, where they met and soon abandoned their studies in law and political science. Their newfound interests in performance took them to several teachers in Japan and Europe, including founders of Butoh and then followers of the German expressionist Mary Wigman in Amsterdam, where they lived and worked before moving to the United States to become permanent residents in the mid-seventies. Eiko and Koma performed their first work in the United States in 1976, White Dance, sponsored by the Japan Society.
Their creative energy has not waned in the last 25 years, they regularly perform in galleries, theaters, universities, museums, and at festivals across North America, Europe, and Japan. The pair was honored as Guggenheim Fellows in 1984 and MacArthur Fellows in 1996, they received two Bessies in 1984 for Grain and Night Tide, and another in 1990 for Passage. Eiko and Koma live and work in New York, where their touring and individual works are regularly supported by numerous grants and foundations, including the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Learn moreEmily Jones and Hannah Krafcik make performances and facilitate movement practices together. They are white settlers residing on the unceded lands of the Cowlitz, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Clackamas, and many other Tribes, also known today as Portland, OR. Hannah (they/them) is a neurodivergent dancer and writer. Emily (she/they) is a dancer, movement educator, and bodyworker. The artists’ long-standing collaboration is driven by considering how power dynamics impact their body/minds and behaviors.
Learn moreErika M. Anderson (EMA) is a new media artist who has been part of the West Coast experimental music scene for two decades. She grew up on the jukeboxes of South Dakota but got noise-pilled by Cali, where she formed her first touring bands and taught herself how to make records. Her signature sound reflects those influences, pairing electronic synth drones with guitar and voice. Anderson has created cross-genre works involving sound, storytelling, virtual reality, and video game technologies, but is most well known for albums released under the name EMA, which have been widely acclaimed and covered by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Der Spiegel, and The Guardian, among others. Anderson has toured extensively, working her way up from warehouse shows to festivals and arenas. Her hybrid performance pieces have taken place at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; Barbican Centre, London, UK; and the New Museum, New York, NY. Anderson currently lives in Portland, OR.
Learn moreThe Feminist Art Gallery (FAG) is a response, a process, a site, a protest, an outcry, an exhibition, a performance, an economy, a conceptual framework, a place, and an opportunity. FAG is located in Toronto, Canada and run by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue.
Learn moreFirst Nations Performing Arts is focused on cultural change, commissioning, touring and presenting Indigenous performance, as well as capacity building for the Indigenous and non-Indigenous performing arts sectors. For our all-ages intergenerational gathering we celebrate the FNPA Network Track members — a coalition of First Nations performing artists — in an evening which will evolve through sharing food, storytelling, interactive performance, music, noise, and artistic experimentation.
Learn moreForensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency, based at Goldsmiths, University of London, investigating human rights violations including violence committed by states, police forces, militaries, and corporations. FA works in partnership with institutions across civil society, from grassroots activists, to legal teams, to international NGOs and media organisations, to carry out investigations with and on behalf of communities and individuals affected by conflict, police brutality, border regimes and environmental violence.
Our investigations employ cutting-edge techniques in spatial and architectural analysis, open source investigation, digital modelling, and immersive technologies, as well as documentary research, situated interviews, and academic collaboration. Findings from our investigations have been presented in national and international courtrooms, parliamentary inquiries, and exhibitions at some of the world’s leading cultural institutions and in international media, as well as in citizen’s tribunals and community assemblies.
Learn moreFrancesca Capone is an artist working at the confluence of visual art and experimental literature. Her last solo exhibition, Oblique Archive took place at Peninsula Art Space in Brooklyn in 2014 and was reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail and The Wild Magazine. Capone recently co-curated Interrupt 3, a conference that highlights intersections of art, literature and digital media at Brown University.
Kristen Mueller is an artist and publisher (& So) whose works often intervene with existing texts, pages and books. Recent publications include 3b (ongoing); Partially Removing the Remove of Literature (Feb 2014); and Language to Cover a Page (Jan 2014). Her work has been exhibited in shows at Artists Space (New York), LUMA Foundation (Zurich) and Motto (Berlin).
Laura Warman is a performance poet based in Amherst, MA. She is the author of How Much Does It Cost? (Cars Are Real Press), DRONE LOVE (Gauss PDF), and WILL GO FAST (Hysterically Real). She is the founder of GLASS PRESS, a publisher of art and poetry on flash drives. Warman has had work in shows at MOCA Cleveland, Flying Object, and Open Engagement.
Learn moreDr. Gregory D. S. Anderson is founder and Director of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Dr. Anderson has degrees in Linguistics from Harvard (AB) and University of Chicago (PhD). He is an expert in endangered languages and the structure and history of languages from across the globe. He has worked with speakers of endangered minority languages in their communities from every continent. He is the author of eleven books and more than eighty academic articles. Dr. Anderson is a National Geographic Society Fellow and was the subject of the critically acclaimed film The Linguists.
Learn moreHolland Andrews (they/them) is a vocalist, composer, clarinetist, and performance artist whose work focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build soundscapes encompassing both catharsis and dissonance. Frequently highlighting themes surrounding vulnerability and healing, they create a realm of live performance that is boundlessly present. They have been commissioned by REDCAT, ISSUE Project Room, and the 2024 Whitney Biennial, where they created two sound installations and the performance work Speaker. Notable musical collaborations include Son Lux, Nils Frahm, JJJJJerome Ellis, Christina Vantzou, William Brittelle, Peter Broderick, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. Their work is presented nationally and internationally, collaborating with artists such as Bill T. Jones, Sonya Tayeh, Dorothée Munyaneza, Otobong Nkanga, Jenn Freeman, NARCISSISTER, Demian DinéYazhi, Oliver Beer, and Will Rawls. Andrews is a Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital Awardee, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Awardee, and United States Artists Fellow.
Learn moreIlyas Ahmed has been releasing records as a solo and collaborative artist for almost 20 years. His most recent solo album, A Dream of Another, was released in 2023. He is also a member of the experimental rock band Grails, whose last record Anches En Maat was released in 2023 as well. Records forthcoming on all fronts in the next year. Ilyas lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
Learn moreIna Diane Archer is a Media Conservation and Digitization Assistant at The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. She is a filmmaker and visual artist whose multimedia works and films have been shown nationally. Ina was a Studio Artist in the Whitney Independent Study program, a NYFA multidisciplinary Fellow, a 2005 Creative Capital grantee in film and video, and she has been awarded numerous residencies. Prior to joining NMAAHC, Ina was adjunct faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. She is the former co-chair of New York Women in Film and Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund. Ina earned a BFA in Film/Video from RISD and a Master’s in Cinema Studies at NYU focusing on race, preservation, early sound cinema and technology and she studied Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at UCLA (MIAS) and NYU (MIAP). Finally, Ina is a regular contributor to Film Comment Magazine, and she participates on their podcasts and she is juggling at least three blogs!
Learn moreIntisar Abioto is an artist working across photography, dance, and writing. Moving from the visionary and embodied root of Blackgirl Southern cross-temporal cross-modal storytelling ways, her works refer to the living breath/breadth of people of African descent against the expanse of their storied, geographic, and imaginative landscapes.
Learn moreJ. Ashlee Albies has been practicing civil rights and employee-side employment law for almost 20 years. She has devoted her legal career to advocating for clients who have been harmed by discrimination, retaliation, or unfair treatment by an employer or by the government. Ashlee has a long history of civil rights advocacy — working to use the legal system and her legal knowledge to advance human rights. She has provided legal support to many mass demonstrations in Portland and nationally, and represents community groups and individuals seeking to hold police accountable. She also helped organize legal seminars for prisoners and the Life Without Parole Storytelling Project at Oregon State Penitentiary in 2019. She regularly offers community education and continuing legal education seminars on the First Amendment, free speech, creative uses of the law, trial advocacy, and civil rights litigation.
Website: http://www.albiesstark.com/
Learn moreBorn and raised in Brooklyn, Joan Frosch (producer/director) explores 21st century artmaking through the voices of often previously marginalized artists and thinkers, including the emergent voices of contemporary dancers and choreographers in Africa, and the African Diasporas of France and the USA. Joan's 30 year creative path encompasses making and directing dance theatre, writing as a dance ethnographer/activist, and, now, directing her first documentary feature. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts, Laban Institute of Movement Studies, and Columbia University. At present, Joan is Professor of Dance and co-Director of the award-winning Center for World Arts at the University of Florida, and a founding member of the The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium (USA).
Alla Kovgan (co-director/editor) is a Boston-based filmmaker/intermedia artist/curator, born in Moscow, Russia. Her films have been screened at numerous venues around the world including Boston Museum of Fine Arts, New York Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and others. Among Alla's most recent endeavors is co-directing and editing “Traces of the Trade: a Story from the Deep North” by Katrina Browne about the role of the North in the US slave trade; co-producing with Russian filmmaker Efim Reznikov “Terpsychore's Captives II”, a feature documentary about Bill T. Jones and a Russian prima ballerina Natalia Balakhnicheva; and working with Kinodance Company, on a new intermedia performance "Denizen" that will premiere in May 2007 as a part of Bank of America Celebrity Series. Alla has been teaching and curating dance film and avant-garde cinema worldwide and acts as an International Director of St. Petersburg Dance Film Festival KINODANCE.
Learn moreJo Ann Hardesty is a veteran and civil rights leader whose compassionate vision brings Portland together. As the first Black woman elected to city council, Commissioner Hardesty championed the Portland Street Response, relieving the burden on police to respond to mental health crises. She helped build the coalition that set the national standard for local climate action, and at the height of the George Floyd demonstrations, she crafted a police reform measure that 82% of voters approved. She is a former state representative serving North/Northeast Portland and former President of the Portland NAACP.
Learn moreFrom the barrios of L.A. to the New York performance art scene, Joey has been an enduring figure in queer arts and culture through three decades. Working with the likes of Klaus Nomi and Thierry Mugler, his performances broke boundaries around the world. Friend and colleague Ann Magnuson describes Joey as a “cosmic surrealistic psychedelic glamour clown,” making him the perfect collaborator for third-generation puppeteer Basil Twist, a queer visionary in his own right.
Learn moreJose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and Tony-nominated producer. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants, he founded the non-profit media advocacy organization Define American, named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. His best-selling memoir, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen, was published by HarperCollins in 2018. Most recently, he co-produced Heidi Schreck’s acclaimed Broadway play What the Constitution Means to Me, which was nominated for a Tony Award for “Best Play” and is streamable on Amazon Prime Video. In 2020, Fortune named him one of its “40 under 40” most influential people in government and politics.
In 2011, the New York Times Magazine published a groundbreaking essay he wrote in which he revealed and chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant. A year later, he appeared on the cover of TIME worldwide with fellow undocumented immigrants as part of a follow-up cover story he wrote. He then produced and directed Documented, an autobiographical documentary feature film that aired on CNN and received a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary. Also in 2015, MTV aired White People, an Emmy-nominated television special he produced and directed on what it means to be young and white in a demographically-changing America.
Among accolades he has received are the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA and honorary degrees from Emerson College, Colby College, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Passionate about the role of arts in society and promoting equity in education, he serves on the advisory board of TheDream.US, a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant students.
A product of the San Francisco Bay Area, he is a proud graduate of San Francisco State University (’04), where he was named Alumnus of the Year in 2012, and Mountain View High School (’00). An elementary school named after Vargas opened in his hometown of Mountain View, California in August 2019.
Learn moreJulia Arredondo is an Artist Entrepreneur currently living in Chicago. Originally from Corpus Christi, Texas; Julia is pursuing her MFA at Columbia College Chicago. Julia's latest art business venture currently explores the crossroads of Avon and botánica culture, titled Botánica Avon. Julia founded independent publishing entities, Vice Versa Press and Curandera Press; and continues to explore the intersections between art and business.
Learn moreJulie Atlas Muz, an internationally performing artist who is based between NYC’s Lower East Side and London, UK has been around the block more than twice. One of the most acclaimed, prolific, and experienced creators around, Julie sucker-punches the boundaries between theater, dance, puppetry, film, and burlesque with outrageously loving performances that have secured her place in the underworld of nightlife, as well as solidifying her as a bastion of the art world.
Learn moreJustine A. Chambers is a dance artist and educator living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, Canada. Her practice is a collaboration with her Black matrilineal heritage, and extends from this continuum and its entanglements with Western contemporary dance and visual arts practices. At the centre of her practice is a question often posed by her grandmother: “You feel me?” This question is both a declaration of one’s personal orientation, and an invitation to reorient and include what is held in our flesh. Chambers meets this question in her work by attending to individual and collective embodied archives, social choreographies of the everyday, and choreography/dance as otherwise ways of being in relation. Chambers’ work has been hosted at galleries, festivals, and theaters nationally and internationally including Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY; Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, ON; Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, QC; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany; National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON; Agora de la Danse, Montreal, QC; Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA; Artspeak, Vancouver, BC; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Western Front, Vancouver, BC; The Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC; Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, BC; and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Chambers holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art and is currently Assistant Professor in Dance at the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, and Associate Artist to The Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC. Chambers is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.
Learn moreGenre-defying artist Kai Black (K A I) brings a new and intensely felt expression to the Chicago music scene. A virtuosic multi-instrumentalist born and raised in St. Louis, K A I developed their artistry as a drummer supporting acts such as The Oh My’s, Rich Jones, Via Rosa of Drama Duo, Drea the Vibe Dealer, and more. While studying music performance at Columbia College, K A I joined fellow emerging artists Loona Dae, Gem Tree, Schenay, and Ora in forming The Highness Collective. The group’s eclectic synthesis of funk, soul, and hip-hop quickly made waves through Chicago’s underground scene. After the successful release of their self-titled EP in 2012, Highness agreed to support and nurture each other as they embarked on personal projects.
Learn moreKemi Adeyemi (TBA:16 Guest Scholar) is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is working on a manuscript that explores how black queer women manipulate sound and the body to reorganize the racialized networks of pleasure in the nightlife scenes of gentrifying neighborhoods. Her work has appeared in Palimpsest and Sounding Out!, and she is co-editing the first collected volume on queer nightlife studies. Kemi received a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
Learn moreKye Alive (Kye Grant Kauffman) is a Portland-based performer awkwardly approaching middle age whose work has been described as “Madonna meets Hey Arnold meets Michael Alig meets Grace Jones meets infinity.” Their practice traverses music, dance, vocal experimentation, and collaborative social art, and has taken the form of a pedestrian parade with 5th grade crossing guards; Planet Lloyd, a community newspaper about Lloyd Center Mall; open invitation dance ensemble Public Acts of Dance Company; genre-fluid performance party CLUB ALIVE; an Only Child Support group, and the ten year alien pop star persona Jennifer Vanilla. They have performed at MoMA PS1, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, and hundreds of other venues across the continents. Kye received an MFA in Art + Social Practice from PSU and recently debuted their existential fever dream solo show, TIMES SQUARE LAS VEGAS, to an audience of five at a Fringe Festival. Please send thoughts and prayers.
kyealive.club @kyealive
Learn moreKyle Abraham, a professional dancer and choreographer, began his training at the Civic Light Opera Academy and the Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh. He continued his dance studies in New York, receiving a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. As a performer, Abraham has worked with acclaimed modern dance companies including David Dorfman Dance, Burnt Sugar Dance Conduction Continuum, Nathan Trice/Rituals, Mimi Garrard Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Dance Alloy, The Kevin Wynn Collection, and Attack Theatre. In addition to performing and developing new works for his company, Abraham.In.Motion, Abraham also teaches his unique approach to postmodern dance in various schools and studios throughout the United States.
Abraham.In.Motion (AIM) is an ensemble of dancers whose work is deeply rooted in personal experience. As choreographer, Abraham intertwines his sensual and provocative movement with a strong understanding of music, creating an avenue for personal investigation. Abraham has received tremendous accolades and awards for his dancing and choreography, including a 2010 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for The Radio Show, a 2010 Princess Grace Award for Choreography, a BUILD grant, and an individual artist fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2009 he was honored as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch.”
Abraham’s work has been presented throughout the United States and abroad, most recently at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Harlem Stage, Fall for Dance Festival at New York’s City Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum in his hometown of Pittsburgh. Abraham’s most recent work, The Corner, commissioned by Ailey 2, is currently touring internationally with great reception.
Selected Press
Sending Signals with Songs, Struts, and Static, Claudia La rocco, The New York Times, February 27, 2010. (PDF)
Owning it: Kyle Abraham in fast and slow motion, Julie Potter, San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 18, 2011. (PDF).
Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Dance Magazine, March, 2010. (PDF)
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The Radio Show Promotional Video from Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.motion on Vimeo.
Solo Exceprt of Live! The Realest MC (work-in-progress) Part 4 from Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.motion on Vimeo. Learn moreFounded by Luisa Pardo and Gabino Rodríguez in 2003, Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol is a young Mexican theater company reflecting the new dynamics of contemporary Mexican culture. They develop their multimedia stage productions as mechanisms to link work and life and give voice to overlooked moments in social and political historical. Lagartijas has toured widely throughout Mexico and Europe and has received awards from the Impatience Festival and the Zürcher Theater Spektakel.
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Learn moreLaura prefers being called Larry. She is Bay-Area based artist/performance maker. Her work has been presented at PICA's TBA Festival, Austin's Fusebox Festival, and New York's American Realness. She is a core member of Keith Hennessy's Turbulence and regularly collaborates with her brother, Jesse Hewit. She has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, CounterPULSE, Kunst STOFF Arts, and ODC. She created and curates the SQUART performance series.
Learn moreAnderson works as a visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. In 1980, O Superman launched Anderson’s recording career, rising to number two on the British pop charts and appearing on Big Science, the first of her many albums. Anderson has toured internationally with shows ranging from simple, spoken-word performances to elaborate multimedia events, and has collaborated with Wim Wenders, Jonathan Demme, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, and Robert LePage, among others. In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA, and in 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.
Learn moreLemon Andersen is a critically acclaimed poet and actor best known for his Tony Award winning work in Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and HBO. A mainstay in the spoken word and theater scene for the past decade, he’s performed in venues such as the Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Apollo Theater, and Hollywood’s Kodak Theater. His film credits include three films directed by Spike Lee: Sucker Free City, She Hate Me and Inside Man, in which Andersen appeared opposite Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. His theatre credits include Slanguage, which was directed by Jo Bonney and premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop. Other appearances include The Ride, which debuted at PS 122, and U, presented at the Mark Taper Forum.
Learn moreFounded in 2012 by Libby Werbel, Portland Museum of Modern Art (PMOMA) is an investigative project focused on the lack of major contemporary and modern art institutions within a growing metropolis. PMOMA has produced more than 50 exhibitions and events within the context of a self-actualized and community-grown modern art museum.
Learn moreIn early 2010, Holland Andrews began a solo project behind the alias of Like a Villain. She pulls her influences from notable minimalist composers such as Arvo Pärt, contemporary vocalists including Diamanda Galás, modern experimental musicians like Björk, and is heavily influenced by broadway and opera music. By creating tapestry of live loops using her voice, clarinet, and glockenspiel, her aim is to put emphasis on the roots of organic sounds, and to create an emotional realm of sonic healing and magic.
Selected Press
"Holland Andrews (HA) of Like a Villain," Cameron Clowers, Bridge.Town.Low.Down, April 11, 2010.
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Learn moreLinda Austin deploys movement, sound, text, visuals, and props to create non-linear, poetic works laced with an eccentric wit, teetering on the edge between the immediately reprehensible and resolutely mysterious. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Performance Works NW, a Portland non-profit dedicated to the cultivation of experimental performance. Awards include a 2019 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship, the 2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Merce Cunningham Award, and a 2015 RACC Performing Arts Fellowship. Austin has presented work at Performance Space 122, the Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Church, PICA’s TBA Festival, the Risk/Reward Festival, and On the Boards NW New Works Festival, among others. Her work has been supported by residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Djerassi, and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center. Current projects: Ordinary Devotions (solo), a world, a world (ensemble project), and The Thief & the Traveler (collaboration with Allie Hankins.)
Selected Press
"Stop Making Sense: Linda Austin's 'A Head of Time'," Bob Hicks, Oregon Arts Watch, March 26, 2011.
Learn moreLola Arias is a writer, director, performer, and songwriter from Argentina, and founder of the interdisciplinary Compañia Postnuclear. Her works include Striptease (2007), El amor es un francotirador (2007), Mi vida después (2009), Familienbande (2009), and That Enemy Within (2010). Together with Ulises Conti, she composes and plays music, and has release two albums. In 2010, Arias and Stefan Kaegi founded Ciudades Paralelas, a festival of site-specific urban performance projects in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Zurich, and Singapore. Her performances have been staged at festivals including Festival d’Avignon, In Transit Festival in Berlin, We are here in Dublin, Spielart Festival in Munich, Alkantara Festival in Lisbon, and Radicals Festival in Barcelona.
Selected Press
"An interview with Lola Arias," Brighton Festival, April 16, 2013.
Learn moreluciana achugar (b. 1970) is a latinx immigrant from Uruguay; grew up mostly in Venezuela in political exile and developed her voice as a choreographer between New York and Montevideo, Uruguay. She makes work from the rage of being a LatinAmerican living in the belly of the Empire in a post-colonial world. She makes work as a practice of growing a new body; an uncivilized body, a decolonized body, a utopian body. She makes work as a practice of building a new theater, another/other theater, OTRO TEATRO, a utopian theater. She makes work as a practice of growing as one would grow a plant. She makes work with a desire to escape the oppression of the arrow of time; to arrive at a place of beyond time, ritual time, body time…
Since 2013 she has been developing her Pleasure Practice, a deeply sensorial embodied practice to allow for other knowledges to emerge from the knowing in the body, an embodied rebellion by practicing being in pleasure; a practice that she teaches internationally and that continues to inform her creative process and her relationship to making work as resistance and as a possibility for healing and mysticism.
Her work has been shown in most contemporary dance venues in NYC and many venues across the US such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN and the Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX; as well as in a few Festivals in Europe, in Mexico, Cuba and in Uruguay. She was a two time Bessie Award recipient plus once nominated; and has received numerous accolades such as the Alpert Award in Dance, the Creative Capital Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Learn moremanuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is an artist and writer from the Bronx. They received their BA in Linguistics from Reed College in 2014, and currently live and work in a garage in southeast Portland. Recent group exhibitions with Rhizome and the New Museum (online), the Cooley Gallery (Portland), Chicken Coop Contemporary (Portland), Veronica project space (Seattle), and AA|LA Gallery (Los Angeles). Recent publications in Art in America, Rhizome, CURA, SFMoMA Open Space, AQNB, et al. abreu is the author of List of Consonants (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and transtrender (Quimérica Books, 2016), and their debut collection of critical writing is forthcoming 2018.
Learn moreMarina Abramović was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. A pioneer of performance as a visual art form, Abramović has used her body as both subject and medium of her performances to test her physical, mental, and emotional limits—often pushing beyond them and even risking her life—in a quest for heightened consciousness, transcendence, and self-transformation. Characterized by endurance and pain—and by repetitive behavior, actions of long duration, and intense public interactions and energy dialogues—her work has engaged, fascinated, and sometimes repelled live audiences. The universal themes of life and death are recurring motifs, often enhanced by the use of symbolic visual elements or props such as crystals, bones, knives, tables, and pentagrams. While the sources of some works lie in her personal history (the circumstances of her childhood and family life under Communist rule in the former Yugoslavia), others lie in more recent and contemporary events, such as the wars in her homeland and other parts of the world. Marina Abramović attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (1965–70) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (1970–72). She received an honorary doctorate from the Art Institute of Chicago (2004). She has also received many other honors, including a Golden Lion at the 47th Venice Biennale (1997); a Bessie (2003); and awards from the International Association of Art Critics (2003, 2007). Abramović has had major exhibitions and performances at the Garage Art Center, Moscow (2011); Manchester International Festival (2011); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2005); Whitney Biennial (2004); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2001); Irish Museum of Modern Art (2001); Documenta (1977, 1982, 1992); and the Venice Biennale (1976, 1997, 2009). Marina Abramović lives and works in New York City. -From Art21.
Learn moreMarisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her deeply original work applies elements of minimalism, electronic music, drone, and 20th-century classical music to guitar-based compositions rooted in blues, jazz, gospel, and country music. Anderson’s music re-imagines the landscape of American music, asking questions about tradition, adaptation and belonging, and exploring how music travels with people geographically and across generations. The New Yorker calls Anderson “one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation,” while NPR refers to her as among “this era’s most powerful players.” Her work has been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, SPIN, Pitchfork, the BBC, and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White, was released May 10 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score A Perfect Day For Caribou, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron, and Big|Brave. Past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten, and Circuit Des Yeux, among others.
Learn moreMaster Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr. is Black, Italian, Queer, Non-Binary, Neurodyvergent, and practices primarily in america. Their collaborative approach results in artwork by and for the people.
Stevenson’s practice has been dedicated to supporting young people ages 4 to 18 in developing the necessary skills to encourage advanced imaginative thinking and self-confident expression. In 2019 they developed the Afro Contemporary Art Class at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School which has had many forms since, including Afro Futurist February, and three years of Fred Hampton Summer Camp. Supporting community efforts as well, taking the shape of support for the effort to Save Dr. Martin Luther King School from being displaced by the expansion of Interstate 5 which has triggered the need to move Harriet Tubman Middle School. Stevenson is currently working in the Albina community to develop a Living Archive at Jefferson High School with students, community, and the architectural design team. Stevenson also has a robust portfolio of artist projects centering food and gathering around it, projects involving sculpture, drawing, and photography, and new work in collaboration with currently and formerly incarcerated folks. These include Tin Can Phone, a podcast all about life in and outside of prison, and Gallery Blue, a curation and exhibition project both of which are owned and operated by formerly incarcerated individuals. Stevenson pursues these professional and creative goals passionately because they believe that empowered and open-minded young people and communities are the best and most direct way toward ensuring a sustainable and prosperous future for all.
Learn moreMiguel A. López (Lima, 1983) is a writer, researcher, and co-director and chief curator of TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica. His work investigates collaborative dynamics and feminist re-articulations of art and culture in Latin America in recent decades. He has recently curated "Cecilia Vicuña. Seehearing the Enlightened Failure" (Witte de With, 2019; and MUAC, 2020); and “The Words of Others: León Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War” (with Ruth Estévez and Agustín Díez Fischer), REDCAT, 2017. He is the author of Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (2019).
Learn moreGutierrez is a New York-based dance and music artist who makes solo and group pieces with a variety of artists under the moniker Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. His work has toured internationally to festivals and venues including American Realness Festival in New York; Festival d’automne à Paris; Antipodes Festival in Brest, France; Out There Festival at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; UNAM in Mexico City; and ImPulsTanz in Vienna. He is the winner of three New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” awards.
Learn moreNana Adusei-Poku, PhD, is Assistant Professor in African Diasporic Art History in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley, California. She was previously Associate Professor and Luma Foundation Fellow at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. Her book Taking Stakes in the Unknown: Tracing Post-Black Art was published in 2021 with Transcript Verlag and her articles have been published in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, e-flux, Kunstforum International, Flash Art, L’Internationale and darkmatter. She curated the event “Performances of Nothingness” (Academy of Arts, Berlin, 2018) and Black Melancholia (Hessel Museum Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 2022).
Learn moreForever cascading forward in a positive direction, gleefully instinctive, No Age erupt out of your speakers, blasting away the clouds above the smoggy cityscape to reveal a solar flaring sun. With an ecstatic force bubbling around and beyond their music, they release contagious energy like they’re main-lining a field full of whirring wind turbines, while tuned into an ancient celestial power source.
No Age is the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall, they are on a constant journey to explore the furthest reaches of sound. They set out with one particular rule in mind: To write songs that we would be psyched to listen to. On a first listen, discovering each new dose of their alchemy is exhilarating—they produce perfectly crafted songs, underpinned by infectious melodies and ear-piercing cacophony. This swirling mix of unstoppable momentum is catapulted into the stratosphere by sweeping bursts of symphonic growls. Their power is enunciated through their ability to take their core of catchy song-writing and expand its emotional influence through tone, structure and noise. Everything in Between, their third album and follow-up to 2008’s Nouns has now arrived.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 moreSahar al-Sawaf (she/her) is an Iraqi-American filmmaker, visual artist, and photographer based in Oregon. Born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Lebanon and Iraq, she fled to California just before the Gulf War. Her work explores war, displacement, and fragmented family memory shaped by her experiences in Iraq and the United States. Her short films “Uncle Ma’an,” “Um Abdullah,” and “Shadow of Paradise” have screened internationally, including at DOC NYC, Chicago International Film Festival, and Animafest Zagreb. She was a Creative Culture Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center in New York, NY, and a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Video/Film. Most recently, she completed a photogravure intensive at Mullowney Printing, supported by a Regional Arts Cultural Council grant. Her photo-performance work is featured in the 2026 Artists’ Biennial, The Price of the Ticket, at Oregon Contemporary.
Learn moreSaint Abdullah is the moniker of Mohammad and Mehdi, New York based Iranian-Canadian brothers working across sound, and music. Inspired by Iran’s religious, political and cultural history, the project was formed out of a deep frustration with the way the West perceives – and treats – Muslims and the Islamic faith. We aim to challenge stereotypes and act as a conduit between unnecessary enemies.
Learn moreSalimatu Amabebe (they/he), is a Bay Area-based chef, multimedia artist and the founder/ director of Black Feast. Amabebe's work focuses on the intersection of food and art, drawing from family memories, Nigerian recipes, and Black culinary history.
@salimatuamabebe Learn moreTBA:16 Guest Scholar Sampada Aranke (PhD, Performance Studies) is an Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her research interests include performance theories of embodiment, visual culture, and black cultural and aesthetic theory. Her work has been published in Art Journal, Equid Novi: African Journalism Studies, and Trans-Scripts: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine. She’s currently working on her book manuscript entitled Death’s Futurity: The Visual Culture of Death in Black Radical Politics.
Learn moreSarah AbuAbdallah lives and works in Qatif, Saudi Arabia and studied art in both Rhode Island School of Design for a Masters in Digital Media, and in the College of Art and Design in University of Sharjah. She is currently an artist and puzzlemaker. Working with video, installation, poetry and images. Shown work in Sharjah Biennial 11, Serpentine Galleries Marathons, Fluidity in Kunstverein in Hamburg, Co-Workers in Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Do it Arabic, Prospectif Cinéma/Filter Bubble in Centre Pompidou and Luma Foundation, Private Settings in Warsaw Museum of Modern Art; Arab Contemporary in Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Rhizoma in the 55th Venice Biennale, amongst others
She is the recipient of Sharjah Art Foundation’s production programme grant (2016) in collaboration with Josh Bitelli for their project To Gaze at Ten Suns Shining and is a shortlisted artist for Abraaj Group Art Prize 2017.
Learn moreSholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist whose immersive works, performances, and audience participatory scores implicate the viewer-participant into future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound. Asgary’s practice is a conglomeration of visual, sound, and collective processes, all of which she is deeply dedicated to.
Featured in Art in America’s 2022 “New Talent Issue,” Asgary has been supported by numerous residencies, most recently including Headlands Center for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, UCLA Art Sci, ARoS Kunstmuseum, and Berkeley Art Center. Her work has been presented through performances, exhibitions and screenings by such institutions as Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Minnesota Street Project, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, 500 Capp St., and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Asgary holds an MFA from Mills College and BA from San Francisco State University. Learn moreSophia Tweed Ahmad is a freelance movement artist, vocalist and costume maker. Over the years she has been exploring the intersections of dance, the voice, and costume design. Her movement training stems from Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation and Capoeira currently training in Portland with Capoeira São Salvador with Mestre Pedro Cruz. Her choreography has been presented by Ten Tiny Dances, Performance Works NW, Stripart Festival, Choreoscope Dance & Film Festival, and is currently in Residence at Shaking the Tree Theatre. Find her at Capoeira Rodas, teaching Soft Acrobatics and working with multicultural youth.
Learn moreSounds et al is an independent record label exploring sound, product design, collaboration and curation.
Learn moreJacob Ciocci is an artist; a current Eyebeam Fellow; one third of the American art collective Paper Rad; and a prolific producer of music, installations, websites, and animations. David Wightman is completing a PhD in Music Composition at UC San Diego where he is a Lecturer of Pop Music Studies. Some of his many musical projects include Fortress of Amplitude, Powdered Wigs, and Chariots of Fire. Together, Jacob and David connect like Voltron in the high-NRG electronic music band Extreme Animals. They have toured the country every summer for the past 8 years presenting their music, videos, and art.
Selected Press
Eleven Evocations (For Paper Rad), Ed Halter, Rhizome, September 2, 2009.
Learn moreThe Javaad Alipoor Company (TJAC) is a contemporary theater company that makes work for a changing world and a global audience. Rooted in experimental and multiplatform practice, their work asks the most pressing questions we all face. With a commitment to internationalism, complexity, diversity, and fun, they make work for the twenty-first century, transforming what people think theater can be and what it can do.
Learn moreBorn and raised in L.A. but based in Portland, Alana Chenevert became left-field rapper/singer The Last Artful, Dodgr when she moved up the Left Coast. Chenevert grew up in the middle of Los Angeles, with one of her earliest memories being a drive-by shooting that left her brother bleeding on the porch. She was only three years old, and her brother survived, but this kind of crime drove the young MC indoors, where she recorded her debut mixtape, 199NVRLND (2013). That same year, she moved to Portland, where her tape caught the ear of the local Fresh Selects. In 2015, Dodgr released the Fractures EP with production from Neill Von Tally. A year later, she partnered with Australian beatmaker DJ WNTD for the single "Squadron" and released the collaborative EP Rare Treat with Myke Bogan. Preceded by the lead single "Oofda," Chenevert and Von Tally released the collaborative LP Bone Music in early 2017 via Eyrst. Her single "Win Is Enough" was released in July 2018 on her own PARTySIZE imprint.
Learn moreAngell was born in Portland, Oregon and lives and works in New York where he has produced and studied video, film and music. His work has been exhibited in Portland, New York, London, Europe and Australia and recently at the Istanbul Biennial. Angell gained notoriety in New York City by projecting his first nature video Jackie-O Forestry Center on the Guggenheim Museum and at Ground Zero. This year at the Caldera residency he inaugurated the first of his “myth building” public art projections on the snow-covered mountains and trees of central Oregon for the edification of unsuspecting drivers.
Learn moreThe Speculative Archive (Julia Meltzer and David Thorne) produces videos, photographs, installations, and published texts. From 1999 to 2003, Archive projects centered on state secrecy and the production of the past. Current works address the use of documents—images, texts, objects, bodies, and physical structures—to project and claim visions of the future. The Archive is a collaboration of Los Angeles-based artists Julia Meltzer and David Thorne. Recent projects have been exhibited in the 2006 California Biennial (Orange County Museum of Art), Gallery Akbank Sanat (Istanbul), Kunstmuseum Goteborg (Sweden), Palazzo de la Papesse, (Siena, Italy), Apex Art (New York), Momenta (New York), the Hayward Gallery’s (London) travelling exhibition program, Whitechapel Gallery (London), the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany), the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Video Festival, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival, among others.
Julia Meltzer believes in the power of art to build and transform communities and has worked to create opportunities for the marriage of art and advocacy for nearly three decades as a filmmaker and the founding director of Clockshop in Los Angeles.
She directed two feature films and multiple short films. Her films about a women’s Qur’an school in Damascus and a mother-daughter who arrive in LA escaping the war in Aleppo, Syria, are quiet feminist stories that upend expectations about who Muslim women are and what they can be.
Her film and video work has been broadcast on POV as part of the 25th anniversary season and as the opening film of the 30th anniversary season. Meltzer is a recipient of multiple grants including the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005-6 where she taught independent filmmaking at the University of Damascus. Her current project focuses on documenting and preserving histories of the neighborhoods along the LA river in Northeast LA where she lives with her family.
David Thorne is an Australian humourist, satirist, Internet personality and New York Times best-selling author. His work has been featured on the BBC, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Thorne gained public recognition in late 2008 for an email exchange in which he attempts to pay an overdue bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. The exchange spread virally via email and social networking sites, leading to a surge of visitors to his website 27b/6 (27bslash6). 27b/6 features a collection of humorous emails and articles from Thorne's life. These and additional essays appear in Thorne's book, The Internet is a Playground. Published by Penguin Group and released on 28 April 2011, the book debuted at number four on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Learn moreThird Angle New Music Ensemble is one of the foremost producers and performers of contemporary chamber music in the United States, and is recognized as a primary creative force in the cultural landscape of Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Since 1985, Third Angle has presented more than 90 programs of contemporary music, commissioned more than 25 new works and released nine recordings to critical acclaim.
Learn moreTim Smith-Stewart | Jeffrey Azevedo is a Seattle based artist duo creating contemporary art at the intersection of performance and installation. They are currently artists in residence at On the Boards, where they are developing their latest project Salvage Rituals. Tim was recently a resident artist in the spring 2018 PICA Creative Exchange Lab cohort.Tim and Jeffrey premiered Awaiting Oblivion—Temporary Solutions for surviving the dystopian future we find ourselves within at present at On the Boards in February 2017 and The Perpetual Insurrection of Claude Cahun at the Henry Art Gallery in October 2017.
Twenty-minute selections of Awaiting Oblivion have been presented at: On The Boards NW New Works Festival (SEA), Risk/Reward Festival (PDX), and Fresh Oysters Performance Research (MSP). Tim and Jeffrey have presented multiple installations including their video/paper tapestry installation, Queer City Lost, at New Tomorrow, Erasure curated by the Lion’s Main Art Collective, and the Velocity Dance Center Big Bang. They also presented Stained glass in my replacement church at the 2014 Lofi Arts Festival.
From 2011-2013 Tim & Jeffrey co-created The Eternal Glow Project—a four part performance/installation which premiered work at The Seattle Center Next50 (The Eternal Glow of Electric Hearts), On the Boards NorthWest New Works Festival 2013 (Ω<1), and Lofi Arts Festival at Smoke Farm 2013 (Less than red, more than violet).
Learn moreSelected Press
Interview: How Artist Tom Russotti Creates Art from Drinking, Dancing, and Sports, Peter Simek, FrontRow, July 21, 2011.
Drinking and Dancing, Mike Kepka, San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 2009.
Learn moreVictoria Anne Reis (b.1982, East Meadow, NY) is trying to be a good mom and a good person. She lives with her parents and daughter, and works on a tree farm, in Boring, OR.
Learn moreWeird Allan Kaprow (WAK) is a post-colonial conceptual karaoke band comprised of artists Mariah Carrie Mae Weems, Yoko Bono, Jasper John Lennon, and Joseph Beuys II Men.
WAK projects have been featured in the Agitprop! exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York; the Out Of Sight Survey of Northwest Art in Seattle, Washington; the Writ Large festival at The Great Wall of Oakland, California; the Auto Body exhibition in Miami, Florida; the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Shine a Light at the Portland Art Museum, the POW Film Fest, the Converge 45 art fair, and the Hollywood theater in Portland, Oregon.
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