Halloween Hangover presents new video work by Tim Stigliano (Portland, OR), George Pfau (Oakland, CA), and Mike E. Stephen (Austin, TX). The screening will be followed by an artist-led discussion centered around the artists' shared interest in horror cinema.

The evening is free and open to the public. Snacks and refreshments will be served.


About the Artists

Tim Stigliano
Tim Stigliano’s home-based art and research practice concerns lowest common denominators. He assembles small-scale formal sculptures out of cheap household materials; alters adult-themed magazines with simple repetitive actions; constructs large-scale interactive sculptural spaces; and makes short videos as a nameless persona performing familiar but unsettling solitary activities. His work’s formal and conceptual relationships derive predominantly from pulling apart and re-organizing devices common to horror cinema, pornography, and art history. According to Tim, “The unique exchange between moving image and viewer—particularly while watching vulnerable bodies physically turn inside out on screen--is a metaphor for looking deeply within ourselves and a powerful tool when used to relate uncomfortable ideas."

Stigliano was born and raised in northeastern New Jersey. He graduated from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts with a BA in English and a BFA in Painting. In 2012, Stigliano completed PNCA’s MFA in Visual Studies Program. His sculptures, videos, and performances have been shown nationally at venues such as Rocksbox Contemporary Fine Art, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Art Basel Miami Beach, and online at Art F City. He lives and works in Portland, OR.

For more, visit: timstigliano.com


George Pfau
George Pfau's artwork deals with the notion of the human body as a permeable screen, in-flux with its surroundings. Stemming from his graduate thesis work at the California College of Arts, he is engaged in a deep exploration of the historical and pop-cultural framework of “zombie.” He approaches "zombie" as a celebration of conversations about legibility, inbetweenness, contradiction, binaries, identity, and death. Much of the art engendered by these ideas is an investigation of how human beings recognize one another, and what assumptions occur when a person or group comes into focus.

Recently he has presented slideshows and exhibited videos, paintings, and photographs at Pro Arts, Queen’s Nails, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, and the Luggage Store Annex in the Bay Area; the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Reaves Gallery in New York; Gallery 400 in Chicago, and the Portland 'Pataphysical Society. He is currently working collaboratively with the group ERNEST at C3:Initiative in Portland, OR. Pfau lives and works in in Oakland, CA.

For more information, visit: georgepfau.com


Mike E. Stephen
Mike E. Stephen is a contemporary artist working in the expanded fields of sculpture, installation, video and performance. Mike's work interrogates the narrative paradigms of film to create new avenues of dialogue with screen-based media. Through sculptural forms, lighting techniques, and staged materials, his work mines the seductive illusion of the Hollywood set. He examines formulas and filmic tropes within horror cinema by exposing their constructs, both physically and metaphorically, in order to deconstruct the effects they have on our psyches.

In his most current series of works, the era of the VHS, and at times the object itself, acts as a transmitter to the past. Through found materials and appropriated objects, each piece examines, chronicles, and archives a deeply rooted fascination with horror film cultism and its autonomous sensibilities.

Mike’s creative practice and research, one that utilizes contemporary media in order to critique its own place within our society and culture, has been building stamina. Within the last year, selected solo and group exhibitions of his work include: Black Blaze at Kino Kino Center for Art and Film in Sandnes, Norway; Speaking Between at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland, OR; Urban Underground Exhibition at the Peoria Art Guild in Illinois; and the Imaginary Exhibition in Lecce, Italy. He was also selected to serve as a guest lecturer at the Rogaland Art School in Stavanger, Norway and recently received a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission to fund his Artist-in-Residence in Holland in the summer of 2015. Mike currently lives and works in Austin, TX.

For more information, visit: michaelstephenart.com