Opening Saturday January 21st

New Function is a collaboration between two Portland artists, Daniel J Glendening and Jason Lee Starin. Glendening presents new objects and images challenging mortality, impotence, hope and prosthetic spirituality. Starin’s practice reconsiders function as being more than utility by extending its meaning into the experiential need to comprehend with our hands. His interest lies in how digital material influences our notion of physical form in reciprocal and possibly reactionary manners.

Daniel J Glendening is an artist and writer based in Portland, OR. He completed his Masters of Fine Arts in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2011. His work has been exhibited in Portland, San Francisco, Oakland and elsewhere, and he was recently an artist in residence at The Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. He collects books and mystical shit. www.danieljglendening.com

Jason Lee Starin received his MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art in Applied Craft and Design.  Originally from Michigan, he currently resides in Portland, Oregon.  www.jasonleestarin.com

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Intimate Historical Fictions

Gabe Flores 

Statement from show:

Gabe Flores is curious about his own history and how very little of it really seems like his own.  He feels he’s become an excellent storyteller for the character “Gabe Flores,” but doesn’t think that character is the present day-to-day self he wakes up to and sees in the mirror.  He isn’t suggesting that we all change with age and feel differently about the individual who we used to be. For one he thinks this is all virtual reality, no joke. Also, he sincerely doubts that really getting a good handle on who the character “Gabe Flores” was is even possible because there is a self-communication barrier. Any attempt at giving language to his former Jehovah’s Witness, closeted, restaurant working, Yamhill County living (etc.) self is incredibly problematic because of the difficulty in putting language and emotions to those former selves based on his current disposition. He thinks the real “Gabe Flores” is lying somewhere in the future and is playing the best “Wouldn’t it be funny?” on his current 36 year old body.  Without the whole virtual reality deal, Flores believes most people could relate to a lost and fictionalization of the stories we tell about our supposed former selves.

 

Flores’ installation is a construction of three sculptural events all with slight physical variation.  The events have an illumination in and of themselves, but what he is really wanting to present are the residue/histories of how they have existed and eventually how we turn our backs on our precious events and become more intrigued by the residue/remainder.

 Bio

Gabe Flores’ work often deals with his reflections on identity-based ideologies and personal narrative. His current and near future work explores displacement as well as social/cultural navigation and he works in whatever medium he feels will best help him exemplify his pursuit.  Flores received a BS in Sociology, Political Science, and History with a minor in Psychology from Portland State University and has pursued some graduate studies in English and History at the same institution. Flores is a Curator and Director of Place and Settlement. Gabeflores.com or hindsitespecific.com

The Red String

The Myth of Memory 
Jane Schiffhauer

Jane Schiffhauer’s work is about relationships, memory and mythology. She is  interested in exploring how interpersonal relationships are mediated and refracted through time and memory to create personal narratives and myths.  Schiffhauer’s  work often references the body and her personal experiences often act as a catalyst to investigate issues of gender and power.  As a multidisciplinary artist she uses a variety of media including sculpture, video, installation, printmaking and photography to explore these themes.  

Bio

Jane Schiffhauer is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes objects, prints, drawings, sculptures, photographs and videos using a range of materials.  She explores the human condition by focusing on the issues of relationships, memory and myths.  Working from intuitive reflexes, Schiffhauer plays with both formalism and abstraction in creating work in both two and three dimensions.

In 2010 Schiffhauer earned her Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Prior to that she earned a B.S. degree from Syracuse University and studied Graphic Design at Kent State University in Ohio and photography at Parsons in Paris.  In the past she has been a resident artist at both Caldera in Oregon and Edenfred in Madison, Wisconsin. www.janeschiffhauer.com

PositionMax Beta is a new work of performance in which several performers assume previously unmanageable positions with the aid of an apparatus. The practical demonstration of a technological device is cultivated as a site of meditation, a thoughtful exploration of the essential characteristics of technology and its comportment toward the human being.

November 19th   6 - 9pm

Framed a Frame of Mind

Richard Schemmerer

It is about how we frame ourselves, others and how we are framed by others, society, the system and what not. 

What frames you, frames your experience and by what have you have been framed?

Are you framed by convention conviction confusion desires addictions affairs

Are you framed by your table of contents your frame of mind or framed by issues

quote to sum it all up: “Life is not a synchronized swimming event but idiosyncrasy on steroids sponsored by your corporation of choice.”

1751 Easy St. (For Sale By Owner)

Wynde Dyer

Fabricated on-site with the intention of being burnt down off-site during a post-exhibition performance, 1751 Easy Street (For Sale by Owner) engages processes of construction and destruction to explore the notion of home as both a physical and psychological space. While the home in question houses near and far recollections of the artist’s direct personal experience, it also convenes around the innately human search for home in one’s self and in one’s world.
 
Built with only internal walls (a representation of the intentional and unintentional walls built within us), without closets (an idealization of a life without places to hide), sans windows or a roof (for greater ease of examination and understanding), and ultimately wallpapered in shredded childhood photos reconfigured as grained wood paneling (suggestive of the growth patterns of human development) the house itself is an incomplete and possibly inaccurate recreation from memory, not unlike our sometimes fractured and sometimes fabricated narratives of self.
 

BIO

 
Wynde Dyer (1980) spent the first 18 years of her life in a two-bedroom home located at 1751 Easy Street, Hanford, CA 93230, before moving to Portland more than ten years ago to become an artist, curator, community builder, and maker-of-things-happen. Dyer holds an M.S. [ABT] in Communication Studies and Linguistics, and is the founder of Golden Rule Gallery, volunteer-run social experiment in creativity and commerce. www.wyndedyer.com www.goldenruleportland.com