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11/2/2011

Geraldine Ondrizek and two collections

Portland Art Museum, Portland

Apex
Geraldine Ondrizek

Curated by Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art.

Art magnifies, informs, and is informed by science in Geraldine Ondrizek’s haunting recent work. Scientific processes are made both visually and aurally articulate in these three restrained multi-sensory installation works: The Sound of Cells Dividing and Cellular from 2008 and Case Study from 2010. Ondrizek has worked for years to successfully employ metaphorical representation to “illustrate” the leading technical edge of science. The works featured in APEX are a striking achievement.

A wall of hand-formed paper replicates the texture of healthy cellular tissue. The disturbed cry or sonorous hum of, respectively, cancerous or healthy cells as they divide reverberates within the delicately stretched abaca paper skin, creating an eerie invitation throughout the galleries into the artist’s architecturally constructed installation. It is a space for contemplation; beautiful, yet because of what it depicts, also ominous.

Ondrizek has served on the faculty at Reed College since 1994. She received her MFA from the University of Washington and BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University.

APEX is an ongoing series of exhibitions showcasing Northwest-based artists.

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untill May 22, 2011

Riches of a City: Portland Collects

Riches of a City: Portland Collects celebrates arts patronage in Portland and the influence these collections have on the Museum. Portland’s rich tradition of art collecting began with its earliest citizens and continues to the present day. For nearly a year the Museum’s curators have been exploring local collections of photography, prints, drawings, silver, Asian art, European art, and modern and contemporary art, uncovering exceptional objects including works by Picasso, Lautrec, Miro, and Warhol.

The exhibition title references a quote from C.E.S. Wood, a founder of the Portland Art Museum and arts patron: “Good citizens are the riches of a city.” One of the oldest museums in the United States, the Portland Art Museum prides itself on a wide-ranging collection from Asian art to European silver. Through the years, curators have guided and cared for the Museum’s collection, but the greatest influence has been the passions of collectors and patrons; nearly 80 percent of the Museum’s permanent collection has been made possible by their generous gifts of art.

This exhibition offers a rare glimpse behind closed doors, featuring more than 200 objects from private collections and revealing a variety of collecting interests and passions.

Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Bruce Guenther, chief curator and curator of modern and contemporary art; Maribeth Graybill, Ph.D., The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art; Annette Dixon, Ph.D., curator of prints and drawings; Julia Dolan, Ph.D., curator of photography; with the assistance of Jennifer Harper, Ph.D., curatorial assistant and Lynn Katsumoto, research associate for Asian art.

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untill April 17, 2011

Safety in Numbers? Images of African American Identity and Community

Drawn from the Museum’s collection and private lenders, the exhibition features approximately 50 prints, drawings, and photographs exploring the ways in which isolation, community, and the search for identity affected African Americans during the 20th century. Early in that century, 47 percent of the black population migrated from the rural South to the industrial North in search of the American dream. Through often poignant imagery, the exhibition examines the ways in which artists portrayed the struggle of blacks to forge a new life, both public and private, in the Northern urban centers of the United States.

While the majority of artists featured in the exhibition are African American, several non-black artists whose work is especially insightful in observations of the black community are included. Throughout the 20th century, images of black Americans revealed unique symptoms of displacement and the search for identity and community through ever more complex means.

The exhibition is organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Jennifer Harper, Ph.D., curatorial assistant.

Image: Geraldine Ondrizek

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