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Project 4 presents : DRIVE BY

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Kim Beck
Martyn Blundell
Zlatko Cosic
Sarah McKenzie
Michael A. Salter
Gregory Thielker

February 5 –  March 5, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 5, 2011 –  6:30pm – 9:30pm

The show Drive By at Project 4 Gallery features six artists whose drawings, paintings, collages, and video art offer unexpected insight into the common scenes we observe while moving through the structures of an urban and suburban landscape.  People play a periphery role in the artwork and are frequently absent altogether. The material objects that encapsulate our urban lifestyle take on subtle psychological, emotional, and spiritual characteristics. Mundane landscapes and ordinary object are transformed by the artist into quiet reflections of the intangible structures that form the individual experience in a Western culture.  The featured artists Kim Beck, Martyn Blundell, Zlatko Cosic, Sarah McKenzie, Michael A. Salter, and Gregory Thielker take different approaches to explore what we miss when driving by seemly unimportant landscapes, too trivial for our conscious recognition or attention. Kim Beck creates cut paper collages from silhouette drawings of ubiquitous tree island found in suburban parking lots, transforming islands into forests. Martyn Blundell weaves video of highways in Europe and the U.S. into stunning visual abstraction challenging the viewer’s sense of perspective, speed, and time. Zlatko Cosic touches on themes of freedom and privacy in a surveillance style video that using the politically charged Berlin Wall as the portal. Sarah McKenzie uses geometric abstraction in oil and acrylic paintings of suburban sprawl construction sites. Distinct moments of visual rupture reveal cracks in the suburban American dream. Michael A. Salter‘s digital drawings and animations use subtle humor to explore themes of isolation in suburbia by observing the daily activities of urban wildlife amongst seemingly unoccupied homes. Gregory Thielker‘s oil paintings distort the world observed through a car window. Water running down the windshield abstracts the viewpoint and creates a sense of tension between fixed orientation and implied mobility.

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Perimeter – Yoshihiro Kitai, Kartz Ucci

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Photo credit: Kartz Ucci, installation view, 20 love poems and one desperate song, vinyl.

Perimeter

Yoshihiro Kitai

Kartz Ucci

Exhibition: January 11- February 5, 2011
Artist Reception: Saturday January 15, 6-8pm

http://www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/2011exhibitionperimeter.php

Organized by The Art Gym in collaboration with four community college galleries, Perimeter: We Live Here Now is an exhibition of the work of eleven artists who were born and raised outside of the United States, all of whom now live and work in Oregon; they are Sang-ah Choi (Korea), Baba Wagué Diakité (Mali),Yuji Hiratsuka (Japan), Una Kim (Korea), Yoshihiro Kitai (Japan), Petra Sairanen (Lapland), Horatio Law (Hong Kong), Akihiko Miyoshi (Japan), Motoya Nakamura (Japan), Ying Tan (China) and Kartz Ucci (Canada).

Archer Gallery presents new paintings by Yoshihiro Kitai and prints and installation work by Kartz Ucci.  Yoshihiro Kitai was born and raised in Japan.  After studying traditional ceramics in Gifu, he moved to the United States and studied printmaking under a Master printer, Paul Clinton at Pierce college in Tacoma, WA. He received a BFA in printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2002, and his MFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 2004. Kitai has had solo exhibitions at Pulliam Gallery and the Portland Art Center, as well as many group shows. His work is represented by Pulliam Gallery and is in various public and private collections. Kartz Ucci’s multidisciplinary practice is informed by language theory and philosophy.  Ucci received her MFA in 1995 from York University in Toronto, Canada. She has been teaching at the University of Oregon since 2004, prior engagements include York University, McMaster University and Ryerson University in Canada.  Her work circulates in the Americas, in Europe, and in Asia, as well as being recently included in the Portland 2010 exhibition organized by Disjecta and a solo exhibition at Linfield Gallery.

The other artists will be showing at four other college galleries—the Art Gym at Marylhurst University, and Portland Community College galleries at the Cascade, Rock Creek and Sylvania campuses.  The Art Gym is also hosting two free public conversations with artists from the overall project on Thursday, January 27, at noon and Sunday, March 6, at 3:30 p.m.


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Department of Architecture’s Rome program celebrates its 25th Anniversary Alumni

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Alumni, emeritus and current faculty were invited to share memories and history of the Rome Program.

This year marked the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Architecture’s Summer Rome Program. A Rome Reunione reception was held Oct. 9 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art to celebrate the alumni and faculty who had lived and worked in the Eternal city since the program’s inception in 1984.

Rome Reunion Slideshow

A slideshow digital album featuring photos from past summer study abroad program activities was presented during the reception, as well as the exhibition Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour, curated by university architecture professor James Tice and art history professor James Harper. The current 2010 Rome program students were also present to meet and greet previous alumni and faculty.

“Studying in Rome is important for two reasons,” explains Tice. “Firstly, Rome is the center of Western Civilization; there’s a history of us that goes back to Rome…Secondly, we’re designers, and Rome gives us ideas of what we can do. It’s a critical lens through which we can see our own world.”

The Rome program began in 1984 in a studio near the Pantheon in the Palazzo Pio, located at the Campo dei Fiori. Students today are in the same location and are able to live and study within walking distance to the city’s most famous landmarks.

“Having the opportunity to study in such a historically significant city was wonderful,” says student alumnus Susan Petrus. “We actually got to live and work [in the city] and feel like more than just a tourist.”

The Rome Reunione Reception was held Saturday, Oct. 9 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.  Opening remarks and welcome were given by Christine Theodoropoulos and professors Gary Moye (Rome 1984 & 2004), Don Peting (Rome Prize recipient and 1987 Rome program) and James Tice (Rome 1997) spoke about their teaching in Rome. The Rome program offers both undergraduate and graduate studies to students of art history, architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture.

“Rome has always been intriguing,” says retired university professor and former dean, Bill Gilland, who participated in the 1996 Rome program. “It’s the context of the transformation of a city over centuries with a history that’s important for architects of all ages to know.”

University of Oregon architecture faculty members have led a summer term program in Rome for more than ten years. The twelve-credit program consists of a studio, a media course and a seminar. Rome is the laboratory for each of these courses. In addition to these classes, the Rome program also offers a number of field trips with opportunities to explore other cities in Italy. This program is available to interior architecture and architecture students who have successfully completed at least four design studios.

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Contact: Karen Johnson, AAA Communications, (541) 346-3603, karenjj@uoregon.edu

Source: Christine Theodoropoulos, Architecture Department Head and Associate Professor, (541) 346-3656, ctheodor@uoregon.edu; James Tice, Architecture Professor, (541) 346-1443, jtice@uoregon.edu

Links:  Rome Study Abroad Program

Story by Emily Wilson