Story archive for the School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Jay’s recent work includes work as guest curator for the UO in Portland’s White Box visual classroom space. “Inspiration China” exhibit runs through November 20.
Creative Cooridor 2009 (PDF)
Kenneth I. Helphand is Knight Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon where he has taught courses in landscape history, theory and design since 1974. He is a graduate of Brandeis University (1968) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (MLA 1972). Helphand has guest lectured at dozens of universities and is a frequent visiting professor at the Technion – the Israel Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous of articles and reviews on topics in landscape history and theory with a particular interest in the contemporary American landscape. He is the recipient of distinguished teaching awards from the University of Oregon (1993) and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (1997). He is the author of the award winning books: Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape. (1991), Yard Street Park: The Design of Suburban Open Space (with Cynthia Girling1994), Dreaming Gardens: Landscape Architecture & the Making of Modern Israel. (2002), and Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime (2006). Helphand served as editor of Landscape Journal, is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, an Honorary Member of the Israel Association of Landscape Architects, a recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal, a Graham Foundation Grant and Chair of the Senior Fellows at Dumbarton Oaks.
Partnering with Portland Community College Rock Creek’s Helzer Gallery, Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith are pleased to announce the opening of the solo exhibition TILT Export: kartz ucci. Kartz Ucci is an installation artist working with relationships of theory, material and concept within an expanded field of visual exploration. In Ucci’s piece an opera for one, the artist hired the young Canadian opera soprano, Deanna Pauletto to sing a capella, Pablo Neruda’s book of poetry, “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”. The piece was recorded in a cement-encased stairwell, 16 stories high. A colour coded score was composed based on Ucci’s interpretation of the relation between colour and its emotional vibration. The resulting installation is a hauntingly romantic response to this effort.
TILT Export: kartz ucci runs September 21-October 30, 2009 at the PCC Rock Creek Helzer Gallery, Building 3, 17705 NW Springville Road, Portland, Oregon. There will be an artist talk Friday October 2 at 3:30pm in the Forum, Building 3. A reception for the artist will follow later that evening in the gallery from 7-9pm. Regular gallery hours are Monday – Friday 9a-5p and Saturday 9a-3p.
Kartz Ucci received her MFA from York University in Toronto in 1995. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues in Soeul (South Korea), Limossal (Cyprus), Basel (Switzerland), Toronto and Montreal (Canada). The sound piece, 368 songs with the word sad in the title was included in Guy Schraenen’s anthology of his collection Vinyl Records and Covers by Artists and traveled with a related exhibition to Porto (Portugal), Breman (Germany) and Barcelona (Spain). The record is also distributed by Art Metropole in Toronto. Other projects include upcoming work as editor on Kent State, a feature film written and directed by Karen Slade. Ucci is currently an Assistant Professor in Digital Arts at the University of Oregon in Eugene. This will be her first solo exhibition in the US.
TILT Export: is an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues for its exhibitions. Founded by Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith, former curators of Tilt Gallery and Project Space, TILT Export: serves as a catalyst for opportunity, awareness, and the challenging of ideas through art making.
These events are free and open to the public.
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How to locate the Helzer Art Gallery
Note: there’s a charge for parking at PCC campuses.
The rock creek gallery is located in building 3 off of the mall area.