Category: Portland

Jenene Nagy: South Waterfront Artist in Residence

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Jenene Nagy: Lecture
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2004. Nagy’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Portland Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, and Dam Stuhltrager in NY, among others. Recent awards include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission and a three-month residency at Raid Projects in Los Angeles. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is a full-time faculty member at Clark College and one half of the curatorial team TILT Export.    www.jenenenagy.com

ABOUT THE PROGRAM: In cooperation with the South Waterfront 20/20 Art, Culture & Science Committee, South Waterfront Community Relations and the University of Oregon are happy to announce the UO/SWF Artist in Residence Program’s spring artist, Kartz Ucci, Professor of Art at the University of Oregon. Kartz will be living in the John Ross, teaching at the University of Oregon White Stag Building and creating in the John Ross Plaza Studio.

Donald Judd: April 25 – May 21

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Donald Judd
White Box
April 25-May 21
UO in Portland
24 NW First Ave.

From the outside, the work of artist Donald Judd is seamless. But each piece tells a story of how one of the most influential American minimalist artist used others to fabricate his work. An exhibition of Donald Judd works are featured in the University of Oregon in Portland’s White Box through May 21.

In addition to two floor and two wooden wall pieces, the exhibit features the personal archives of Peter Ballantine, Judd’s longtime fabricator. The archives include Judd’s drawings, instructions, photos and letters. A short documentary about Judd’s life and work is also being screened in the Gray Box.

The exhibition will be part of the First Thursday art walk from 5 to 8 p.m. on May 6.

The works, from 1963 to 1989, include a bright red floorpiece constructed of Douglas Fir plywood with 27 dividers, a stainless steel, wire and amber-colored transparent plexiglas floorpiece, an unpainted single-unit Douglas fir wallpiece and a two-unit unpainted Douglas fir wallpiece.

The White Box is open from noon to 6 p.m., Tuesdays to Saturdays.

Growing the Greatest Places: New Strategies and Tools to Regenerate Centers and Corridors

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Growing the "Greatest Places"

Wednesday May 12, 2010 at 5:30pm
White Stag Block, 70 NW Couch, Portland

Andrés Duany is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). DPZ is recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism, an international movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. In the years since the firm first received recognition for the design of Seaside, Florida, in 1980, DPZ has completed designs for close to 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects. This work has exerted a significant influence on the practice and direction of urban planning and development in the United States and abroad.

Andrés Duany’s recent publications include The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. He is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, where he continues to serve on the Board of Directors. Established in 1993 with the mission of reforming urban growth patterns, the Congress has been characterized by The New York Times as “the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years.” As DPZ’s principal in-charge of all Gulf Coast recovery initiatives, Andrés has directed charrettes for the Mississippi Governor’s Commission on Recovery and Renewal, the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the Unified New Orleans Plan.

Andrés studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and earned degrees from Princeton and Yale. His has been awarded honorary doctorates from Brandeis and University of Virginia.  He has been recognized for his practice and scholarship in architecture and urban design from the National Building Museum, for community planning and design from the Seaside Institute and for his sensitivity to the historic continuum and fostering of community with the Richard H. Driehaus Prize.