Visiting Artist Program

 

All lectures begin at 5pm in room 105 in Miller Center for the Humanities on the Lewis & Clark College campus unless otherwise noted. Sponsored by the Lewis & Clark College Art Department, all lectures are open to the college community and the public. For information, contact the Art Department: 503-768-7390 or awalcott@lclark.edu.

Fall 2011 Visiting Artist Lectures

September 8th
Helen Lessick is a sculptor, conceptual artist, curator, and writer, who primarily works in the field of public art.  Her work explores nature, culture, language and audience. She has extensively shown her work nationally and internationally and has work in the collections of the Getty Research Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Public Library in New York and the Oregon Health Science Center. Lessick currently lives in Los Angeles. Lecture Co-sponsored by the Lewis & Clark Hoffman Gallery and Art Department.

September 13th
Stewart Luckman focuses on large scale sculptural works predominantly in stone and metal with qualities of both geometric and organic abstraction. Luckman was head of the Bethel College sculpture program for years and currently teaches in visiting artist programs in the Midwest and on the West Coast. He has exhibited his work extensively for over 30 years and has received a number of prestigious awards and commissions, including fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Sculpture Space, and Minnesota State Arts Board.

September 20th
Hsui Wei was born and raised in Taiwan by Chinese immigrant parents.  She works in the mediums of photography, performance, installation, writing and video.  Her work examines Eastern and Western cultural paradigms and uses photography as a pedagogical tool to understand subjectivity, collective expression, individual choice and freedom in the global context. She shows her work nationally and internationally. Currently, Hsui Wei lives and works in Portland, Oregon and teaches at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

September 27th
Nan Curtis is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and independent curator based in Portland. Her recent work explores ideas about collections, memory, home, place, family, childhood, and social relationships. She has exhibited her work regionally, nationally, and internationally, including shows at ConsolidatedWorks, Seattle; the Tacoma Art Museum; DiverseWorks, Houston; FAARM Gallery, Philadelphia; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; FOURTEEN30 Contemporary, Portland; Nottdance Festival Nottingham, England, as well as at the Melbourne Art Center, Melbourne, Australia. She teaches sculpture at PNCA in Portland. Lecture Co-sponsored by the Lewis & Clark Hoffman Gallery and Art Department.

October 4th
Susie J. Lee is a Seattle video artist and sculptor. Lee’s work has traveled nationally, including the Denver Art Museum and Blanton Museum of Art and internationally to Italy and Gallery Hyundai in Korea. She was the winner of the Stranger Visual Art Genius Award in 2010 for her diverse practices in sculpture, video, and performance and for her video portraits. In 2011, the Portland Art Museum selected her as one of the recipients of the Northwest Contemporary Art Award. 

October 11th
Kristan Kennedy is an artist and curator. She is the Visual Art Program Director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Kennedy’s curatorial work focuses on the creation of new work by emerging artists and helping steer projects from concept to completion. She has organized national exhibitions and presented or commissioned projects by many of the leading contemporary artists today. She currently teaches at Portland State University and mentors at PNCA.

October 18th- 3:30pm in the Hoffman Gallery
David Eckard is a sculptor, performer, and artist who works on paper.  Through his performances, costumes, interventions and inventions, he investigates conditions of masculinity, identity, endurance, authority, and absurdity.  He shows his work nationally and internationally. He was the subject of a single artist exhibition at The Art Gym in 2003 and was in the 2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum.  His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Flash Art, Art in America, Artnews, and Sculpture.Lecture Co-sponsored by the Lewis & Clark Hoffman Gallery and Art Department.

October 27th- Building Incorrectly with James M. Harrison
James M. Harrison  has made a career of taking the craft practices of one genre and incorrectly breeding them with the craft practices of a different genre.  He builds large strange things for a living, and uses sculpture as a way to study the world.

                 

November 1st
Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s idea-based practice fuses history, fiction, autobiography and artistic commentary into a wide variety of material works: from poster projects, sculpture and multi-media installations, to publications, indexes and performative lectures. Their work has been shown and published nationally and internationally.  Each hold a BFA in Intermedia from Pacific Northwest College of Art, and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University.  They are represented by PDX Contemporary Art.

November 8th
Dan Attoe is a painter and sculptor. Much of his work explores the tensions and anxieties that underlie American culture.  The American landscape serves as a psychological backdrop that reflects the actions of minute individuals playing out recurring themes of sex, violence, death and religion. He is represented by Peres Projects in LA and Berlin and shows his work nationally and internationally. He has been featured in Art Forum, The L.A. Times, Art Review, and The New York Times.

November 15th
Kris Cohen received his Ph.D. in Art History from The University of Chicago in 2010. His current work addresses the aesthetic, social and political relationships between art practices and networked cultures. Specifically, his research and teaching focus on the long and dynamic relationship between art, capitalism and mediated intimacy and engages with the work of Felix Gonzales Torres.  He currently is Assistant Professor of Art History at Reed College in Portland, OR. (Photo credit: Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling,  1994, Installation views. Pictured: Untitled (Revenge), 1991. Images courtesy of The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago.)

November 22nd
Gerri Ondrizek creates architectural scaled works that house medical and biological information. Since 2001 she has collaborated with geneticists and biologists to gather images of human cellular tissue and genetic tests relating to ethnic identity and disease. Ondrizek shows her work nationally and internationally. In 2011, Ondrizek had a solo show at the Portland Art Museum. She has been an artist in residence at CAMAC in France, Gasworks in London and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. She teaches at Reed College in Portland, OR.

 The Visiting Artist program invites a variety of practicing artists, critics and curators to share their expertise and experiences with the Art Department and College community.  The Department often coordinates this diverse selection of artists with the Hoffman Gallery, other departments and local galleries.  The following is a partial list of past guest speakers.

Fall 2010 Visiting Artist Lectures

Ken Allan
Julian Dolan
Tannaz Farsi
Jesse Locker
Stewart Luckman
Victor Maldonado
Whiting Tennis
John Urang

Fall 2009 Visiting Artist Lectures

Red76 Sam Gould
Hun-chung Lee
Matt McCormick
Ryan Pierce
Beth Sellars
Storm Tharp
Elise Wagner

 

Fall 2008 Visiting Artist Lectures

Holly Andres
Judy Cooke
Laurie Danial
Daniel Duford
Red76 Sam Gould
John Grade
Heidi Preuss Grew
Jenene Nagy
Lucinda ParkerSue Taylor
Laura Vandenburgh

 

Fall 2007 Visiting Artist Lectures

Chandra Bocci
MK Guth
Michelle Ross

Past Visiting Artist

Lisa Orr
Laura Valenti