Tending Home
Curated by Maggie Heath
Kitchen/Hall/Bathroom curated by Carly Mandel
March 28th, 2015 6-9pm - Opening Reception
April 17th, 2015 7pm - Artist talk
Works by Emily Wobb, Michelle Latourette Wood, Tovah Rudawski, Dave Hannon, Buzzy Napoli, Lauren Bennett, and Jesse Siegel.
April 17th, 2015 7pm - Artist talk
Works by Emily Wobb, Michelle Latourette Wood, Tovah Rudawski, Dave Hannon, Buzzy Napoli, Lauren Bennett, and Jesse Siegel.
What are our conditions for home? What does it mean to re-consider these conditions? How were they decided? What is the purpose of reconditioning? Why do we want to overhaul or renovate? Wasn’t the condition supposed to be a desired state for us? Do the artists do that? Or do they simply choose to destroy? to make foul? to take apart the couch? to saw the table in half? to dismantle the house?
The artists selected were asked to consider their relationship to the home and examine ideas of deconstructing cultural paradigms. The hope is th, at a general prompt could allow for a varied interpretation and aesthetic. The interest lies in the differences between works as a way to achieve a more complex understanding of the home and the many relationships we have within it.
Curators
Maggie Heath is a Portland artist who focuses on figurative and theatrical sculptural installations, with the use of labor-intensive processes. Heath is currently finishing her BFA at Portland State University and was awarded an honorable mention in International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Program during the summer of 2014. She has shown in various galleries throughout Portland, works as Gallery Preparator at the Littman and White Galleries and is on the advisory board for Surplus Space, an artist run project space.
Carly Mandel is a Portland based artist born in St Louis, Missouri. Her work focuses on installation based ceramic works, she is interested in exploring contemporary language for everyday objects. She has exhibited work with Surplus Space, S1, Table of Contents, Lowell, PLACE, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Forthcoming exhibitions include a publication of new work with HQ Objective, group show with Open Gallery, and a collaborative exhibition at FalseFront with Andre Filipek. Mandel is due to graduate Pacific Northwest College of Art this upcoming fall 2015 term.
The artists selected were asked to consider their relationship to the home and examine ideas of deconstructing cultural paradigms. The hope is th, at a general prompt could allow for a varied interpretation and aesthetic. The interest lies in the differences between works as a way to achieve a more complex understanding of the home and the many relationships we have within it.
Curators
Maggie Heath is a Portland artist who focuses on figurative and theatrical sculptural installations, with the use of labor-intensive processes. Heath is currently finishing her BFA at Portland State University and was awarded an honorable mention in International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Program during the summer of 2014. She has shown in various galleries throughout Portland, works as Gallery Preparator at the Littman and White Galleries and is on the advisory board for Surplus Space, an artist run project space.
Carly Mandel is a Portland based artist born in St Louis, Missouri. Her work focuses on installation based ceramic works, she is interested in exploring contemporary language for everyday objects. She has exhibited work with Surplus Space, S1, Table of Contents, Lowell, PLACE, and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Forthcoming exhibitions include a publication of new work with HQ Objective, group show with Open Gallery, and a collaborative exhibition at FalseFront with Andre Filipek. Mandel is due to graduate Pacific Northwest College of Art this upcoming fall 2015 term.
In Good Night
Emily Wobb
White Box
Emily Wobb is a naive patriot who destroys symbols of suburban life to create a spectacle and presents the pieces as art. In Good Night, Wobb recalls BMW X5's and Ryan Model homes from her hometown in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, and builds a neighborhood from a collaboration with a wood chipper.
Emily Wobb enjoys Nascar races, monster truck rallies, and tiny ponies. After finishing her undergraduate degree in 2013 at Carnegie Mellon University, Wobb drove cross-country three times and enjoyed Portland the most--after Haines Junction, Yukon Territory. Wobb is in pursuit of expressing fear of death as the reason behind everything people do by destroying sculptures that she builds.
emilywobb.com
Emily Wobb enjoys Nascar races, monster truck rallies, and tiny ponies. After finishing her undergraduate degree in 2013 at Carnegie Mellon University, Wobb drove cross-country three times and enjoyed Portland the most--after Haines Junction, Yukon Territory. Wobb is in pursuit of expressing fear of death as the reason behind everything people do by destroying sculptures that she builds.
emilywobb.com
Doodah in the Pain Saw
Michelle Latourette Wood
Parlor
Michelle Latourette Wood is in the BFA program at Portland State University. Deconstructing familiar objects, here window blinds, a kitchen table, pillowcases, she responds to external pressures and constructions, through installation and performance to express her point of view.
Michelle Latourette Wood was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Besides making art and working with children, she enjoys spending time outside; skating in the city, surfing at the beach, reading, dancing, climbing trees, and growing vegetables, herbs, and native plants for food and to provide year-round habitat for other species at home.
Michelle Latourette Wood was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Besides making art and working with children, she enjoys spending time outside; skating in the city, surfing at the beach, reading, dancing, climbing trees, and growing vegetables, herbs, and native plants for food and to provide year-round habitat for other species at home.
Currents
Tovah Rudawski, Buzzy Napoli, Dave Hannon, Lauren Bennett
Black Box
Tovah Rudawski, Dave Hannon, Buzzy Napoli, and Lauren Bennett are MFA candidates at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This collaborative project is the result of a trip to an artists home in well fleet, Massachusetts on cape cod and approaches the deconstruction of home through the visual obfuscation of domestic space.
Tovah Rudawski, Dave Hannon, Lauren Bennett and Buzzy Napoli are MFA candidates at UMass Amherst. They come from different disciplines, which include printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, and painting. They wanted to collaborate around a shared experience and learn from each other's practices and approaches to artistic process.
Tovah Rudawski, Dave Hannon, Lauren Bennett and Buzzy Napoli are MFA candidates at UMass Amherst. They come from different disciplines, which include printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation, and painting. They wanted to collaborate around a shared experience and learn from each other's practices and approaches to artistic process.
Jesse Siegel
Curated by Carly Mandel
Kitchen/Hall/Bath
Jesse Siegel is an artist, designer and curator from Mexico currently living and working in Portland, OR. Siegel’s work is motivated by creating self-sustaining systems of making and using them to find relationships, emotions and shared locations. His current body of work focuses on unearthing messages in both publications and videos, creating an alternate imagined narrative and aesthetic.
As an artist he has shown at Gallery 454 (San Francisco), participated in Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair and hosted radio programming at San Francisco Art Institute’s Tower Radio. He has co-curated exhibitions at Incline Gallery (San Francisco), FM Gallery (Oakland) and Worksound Gallery (Portland, OR). While in the San Francisco Bay Area he helped found the curatorial project Mosshouse and the Basement creative collective. He is a member of the Worksound International team in Portland, OR and pursuing a BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
As an artist he has shown at Gallery 454 (San Francisco), participated in Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair and hosted radio programming at San Francisco Art Institute’s Tower Radio. He has co-curated exhibitions at Incline Gallery (San Francisco), FM Gallery (Oakland) and Worksound Gallery (Portland, OR). While in the San Francisco Bay Area he helped found the curatorial project Mosshouse and the Basement creative collective. He is a member of the Worksound International team in Portland, OR and pursuing a BFA at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
