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CURRENT & UPCOMING 

WILL BRUNO  WHEN I WOKE WE WERE SEVERAL THOUSAND MILES NORTH
PSU MFA Candidate Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Monday, April 2 - Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 5, 2012, 5-7 pm
Public Lecture: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 6-7 pm, Shattuck Annex
Exhibition Statement & Artist Bio

SAM GUERRERO  Stop Crying
PSU MFA Candidate Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Monday, April 16 - Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21, 2012, 5-7pm
Public Lecture: Tuesday, April 17, 6-8 pm, Shattuck Annex

SEAN SCHUMACHER  The Book of Sand
PSU MFA Candidate Graduate Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Monday, April 30 - Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 5-7 pm
Public Artist Lecture: Tuesday, May 1, 6-8 pm, Shattuck Annex

OPEN ENGAGEMENT
Conference Dates: May 18 - May 20, 2012

THE PSU BFA GRADUATE EXHIBITION
Exhibition Dates: Monday, June 4-Friday, June 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 5-7 pm

PAST      

DARK ROOMS
C-O-O-L ART presents: MATT CONNORS
Curated by: Rob Halverson
Exhibition: Thursday, February 2-Friday, February 24, 2012
Reception: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 5-7 pm 

VENICE IN PORTLAND
la Biennale di Venezia.54 2011 - A video by PSU Associate Professor of Art Horia Boboia
 
Exhibition Dates: Monday, January 9 – Friday, January 27, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 5-7 p.m.
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m.
AB Lobby Gallery, PSU Art Department Building Lobby, 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland, Oregon 97207

Exhibition Statement
This video presents a personal documentation of the last Venice Biennale. Without commentaries, and using only the moving images and the local sounds to guide us through this art maze, I want you to walk with me, look around and think: What is art? When is art? How is art? Is this art? Who is whom and what is what?
 
The Venice Biennale is one of the ‘oldest’ venues, where every other year, ‘contemporary’ arts are brought together. The City of Venice sincerely embraces this event and art is everywhere. You have the two main Venice Biennale venues: “Giardini” (the Venice gardens, where the main national pavilions are established), “Arsenale” (the old Arsenale docks, where the main group exhibitions are installed) and then of course many other citywide exhibitions. Last year, with 83 artists invited to the main exhibition, 89 national pavilions and 37 collateral events participating, and half a million visitors later, the Biennale.54 was the largest ever. Many of the artists were presented under the cold curatorial eye of Bice Curiger, the Swiss curator of the 2011 Biennale. If nothing else, it was the place to see what is happening in the arts NOW. Combine that with the perennial beauty of Venice and you’ll have a great dialog about what is ‘contemporary’ and how easily it turns into ‘history’. “ILLUMINATIONS” was the name of the whole exhibition, so you can imagine the scope, the dare and the failure of it all! “ILLUMINATIONS”? Beautiful, let’s try this every other year! And if we fail “to illuminate” it now, so be it… It’s not the first time… As it is with the “contemporary”, there is always going to be a next time…
 
This video is also intended as a tool of research for our art courses, as an alternative to the usual but sometimes dry power point presentations, so please feel free to invite your classes for a viewing! In less then an hour you will be seeing a substantial segment of our contemporary arts, selected and compiled as a broad documentation, but also as a personal way of experiencing it.
 
For more info on the 2011 Venice Biennale and the artists presented please visit the 2011 Venice Biennial website: 2011 Venice Biennial

This video is presented in conjunction with the “MADE IN ITALY” exhibition in the MK Gallery.

A copy of this DVD will be available in the PSU Art Department AB Library, third floor, room AB 310. Please ask for librarian Mary McVein.
 
V BIENNALE / 2011 / Single channel video / DVD / 55:22 minutes – Horia Bobia

 Lexa Walsh  Meal Ticket
PSU Contemporary Art Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: November 28-December 9, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, December 1, 4:00-7:00 p.m.

The PSU Art Department Scholarship Recipient Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, October 6, 2011-Friday, October 21, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:00-7:00 p.m.

Zeyneb Akel + Michael Conlan LIMITS OF SPACE 1.1 (Memory of Space)
BFA Thesis Exhibitions
Exhibition Dates: June 2 -June 30, 2011
Opening reception: June 2, 2011, 4 to 7 pm, Art Building  
Open Engagement May 9-19, 2011

PAINTALLICA!
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - Thursday, MarcH 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, Marcy 3, 2011 | 4-6 p.m.

now you c me now you don't / joker n the deck The Oregon Painting Society
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, February 3, 2011 – Friday, February 25, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 5-8 p.m.
>>read artist statement and bio

Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride: African American Murals
Voices from the Walls: African American Artists Talk About Murals
Exhibition Dates: Monday, January 3, 2011 – Friday, January 28, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 4-6 p.m.

Curated by Grand Detour SOUNDabout 
Exhibition: Friday, October 15, 2010 – Friday, October 29, 2010
Opening reception:  Thursday, October 21, 2010, 5-7 p.m.
Artists of Grand Detour: Dustin Zemel, Ben Popp, Karl Lind, and Hannah Piper Burns | SOUNDabout features new work from Jesse Malmed, Tyler Wallace, David Bryant, and Jeffrey Von Ragan.

Warren Hatch Microscopy
c/o The People’s Biennial | Co-Curated by: Harrell Fletcher and Jens Hoffmann
Monday, September 27, 2010 – Friday, October 15, 2010
press release
The People's Biennial
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Anna Gray & Ryan Paulsen A Limited Anthology of Edits
PSU Contemporary Art Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition
Wednesday, June 16 – Wednesday, July 30, 2010
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 26, 2010 | 6-8pm

Constance Hockady  The Making of a Gentle Person
Contemporary Social Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition
Friday, June 4, 2010 - Monday, June 14, 2010
Artist Lecture: Monday, June 7, 2010 | 12 p.m. | New Video Gallery @ PSU

Jason Zimmerman Stories!!!
Contemporary Social Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday, May 3, 2010 – Thursday, May 13, 2010
Artist Reception: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 | 6-8 p.m. | New Video Gallery @ PSU
http://jasonzimmerman.info
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Helen Reed Twin Twin Peaks
Contemporary Social Practice MFA Thesis Exhibition
Saturday, April 17, 2010 – Wednesday, April 28, 2010 | Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 10-5 p.m.
Artist Reception: Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 6-8 p.m. | New Video Gallery @ PSU
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Sam Durant (Los Angeles) PMMNLS
Video run dates: April 5 - 30, 2010
Opening Reception: April 5, 2010 | 4-6 p.m.

Curated by: Modou Dieng & Damien Gilley Flashstream, New Video
Exhibition Dates: Monday, March 1 - Friday, March 26, 2010
Artists: Hannah Piper Burns, Carl Diehl, Jacob Fennell, Weird Fiction, Jaclyn Fronzack, Matthew Green, MK Guth, Ryan Jeffery, George Kuchar, Chris Larson , Bob Moricz, Randi Razalenti.

Alex Hubbard Native Son, Video Compilation 2007-2009
Video run dates: January 3 - 29, 2010
Opening Reception: January 11, 4-6 p.m.

Sarah Johnson, Israel Lund, Jesse Sugarmann Something Like the New Young Turks
Video run dates: December 3 - January 1, 2010


Harrell Fletcher Some Random Videos
Run Dates: September 28 - 23, 2009

AB Lobby Gallery | PSU Art Building Lobby | 2000 SW 5th Ave. | Portland, OR 97201
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m. - Nighttime window video viewing: dusk to dawn