Glen Fogel
dal 12/4/2012 al 29/6/2012
Segnalato da
12/4/2012
Glen Fogel
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art - Pica, Portland
The Institute officially welcome the public into its new home. Its several artistic projects and programs, starting with an exhibition of videos, paintings, and installations by the Brooklyn-based artist. The Resource Room Residency program is launches with Alex Felton; on May the experimental performance ensemble Big Art Group.
On April 13, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) will officially welcome the public into its new facility, launching a full spring of artist residencies and projects with an exhibition by Glen Fogel. Located on the third floor of an iconic midcentury building at 415 SW 10th, PICA’s new home features 5,500 square feet of flexible space for staff offices, events, artist projects, and the Resource Room collection. An additional 4,500 square foot outdoor deck will open to the public this summer. The space opening marks the culmination of a long strategic plan and ushers in new opportunities to directly engage with the city and to support contemporary artists and their ideas.
PICA will open its new home with the launch of several artistic projects and programs, starting with an exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist Glen Fogel entitled My Apocalyptic Moment. (Please see accompanying release for more details.) Fogel’s videos, paintings, and installations will take advantage of the unoccupied second floor space as a temporary gallery. Following this, the organization will initiate a series of Resource Room Residencies with artist Alex Felton, who has been invited to work in and with PICA’s library and the idea of collections and archives generally.
Continuing an emphasis on new work, PICA will host two major artist residencies for projects that will debut at the TBA Festival this September. Caden Manson/Big Art Group will visit Portland in May to conduct video interviews for The People, their large-scale, multimedia, live performance about democracy and community.
Glen Fogel
My Apocalyptic Moment
In his art, Glen Fogel simultaneously culls from popular media culture as he mines the territory of romantic and family relationships. The centerpiece of the exhibition, With Me… You, is a large-scale five-channel video installation that portrays his family’s wedding and engagement rings in the iconic style of the Home Shopping Network. The installation spans four generations from his great grandmother’s engagement ring to his sister’s wedding ring. Whether through meticulous re-creations of old love letters or by reanimating family heirlooms, Fogel deftly personifies individuals in the objects they own. His work lays bare private correspondence and intimate declarations, enlarging personal experience to a heroic scale.
Fogel lives and works in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited widely at venues including Sikkema Jenkins, The Kitchen, Momenta Art, Artists’ Space, NGBK (Berlin), Callicoon Fine Arts, Participant, Inc., Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and the Museum of Modern Art. His work has screened in the Toronto and London International Film Festivals, and in 2002, he was included in the Whitney Biennial. Fogel has an MFA from Bard College, and has received grants from the MAP Production Fund and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and was a recipient of the 2009 Princess Grace Award.
The exhibition is partly organized by PARTICIPANT INC, New York.
Alex Felton: I Don't Want to Work. But I Love the Workplace.
Resource Room Residency
The RRR program launches with artist Alex Felton, who has been asked to work with and around PICA’s library and the idea of collections generally. Felton will explore the boundaries of the artist’s studio and an anti-didactic impulse in art. Through June 30.
Caden Manson/Big Art Group
Big Art Group is an experimental performance ensemble that remixes traditional theater structures through deconstructed narratives and real-time film. Co-founder and Artistic Director Caden Manson will discuss the company’s blend of marginal and mainstream culture and technology, and their 2012 Time-Based Art Festival residency project, The People—Portland. May 15
PICA Symposium: Bodies, Identities & Alternative Economies
In residence to develop his TBA:12 work, choreographer Keith Hennessy will lead a weekend symposium of live performance and conversations that question convention, queer our practices, and expose the moment of artistic creation. Featuring a screening of A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns socio-sexual film, Community Action Center; Neal Gorenflo of online magazine Shareable.net; and a one-night performance of Crotch, Hennessy’s seminal solo dance. June 21–24
Image: Glen Fogel, With Me You
Press contact:
Patrick Leonard - Communications Director (503) 242-1419 x221 patrick@pica.org
Opening Party and Reception Friday Apr 13, 6-10 pm
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art - PICA
415 SW 10th Avenue, Suite 300 Portland OR 97205
Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11am–6pm; Saturday, 11am–4pm
Free Admission