Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE — 2010 CE
Co-curated by Richard Torchia and Gregg Moore,
Arcadia University
Image: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han-Dynasty Urn, 1995, each print 49 5/8 by 39 1/4 inches, triptych of gelatin silver prints. Courtesy private collection, USA
Since 1993, Nina Katchadourian's 'Sorted Books' project has taken place in locations ranging from private homes to specialized public collections. After sifting through a library of books, Katchadourian selects particular titles and groups of these books into clusters so that the titles can be read in sequence. Taken as a whole, the clusters examine each particular collection's focus, idiosyncrasies, and inconsistencies—a portrait of that library's holdings.
Part of PICA's TBA: 10
image: 'What is Art?', 14.5 x 20 inches, 2009. Photo: Nina Katchadourian
The Art Gym 30th Anniversary Exhibition
30th Anniversary Celebration:
Thursday, September 30
RSVP required: events@marylhurst.edu
The Contemporary Art Series is sponsored in part by the Miller Meigs Endowment for Contemporary Art and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.
image: Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Dancing Black Butterflies), 2007, color pencil on paper in 9 parts variable, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica. © Mark Grotjahn. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
Léonie Guyer
Ruth Laskey
Lynne Woods Turner
ABSTRACT presents the work of three contemporary women artists inspired by the history of abstraction’s spiritual, esoteric, and ritualistic dimensions. For Guyer, Laskey, and Turner, geometric abstraction provides a means for examining experience and sensation as directly as
possible, rigorously visualizing, in the words of Agnes Martin “…what is forever known in the mind.”
Reception with the artists: September 8, 6–9 pm
Free and open to the public.
