Opening Reception: Saturday, June 20, 2015, 2–5pm
Gallery Hours: Friday–Saturday, noon–5pm and by appointment
Within / Without presents work from 2014–2015 c3:initiative and Pulp & Deckle Papermaking Residency artists Pat Boas, Bukola Koiki, Palmarin Merges, and Mami Takahashi. Culminating from their experiences in the Pulp & Deckle studio, each artist utilized handmade paper as a medium to create new works that present ideas central to their art practice. Their varied approaches result in distinct, yet related artworks. Within / Without considers the boundaries of forms and spaces in which we construct identity, create culture, and perform ritual. Investigations of materiality, language, collective memory, and the public/private are presented in sculptural installations, wall works, and performance.
About the Artists
Pat Boas makes drawings, paintings, prints and digital projects about the activity of reading. Her work has been shown at the Portland Art Museum, the Art Gym, PDX Contemporary, and the Elizabeth Leach Gallery, in Portland, Oregon; the Hallie Fo rd Museum in Salem, Oregon; the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and academic g alleries nationally and internationally. patboas.com
Bukola Koiki was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and has lived in the United States since she was eighteen. In her work, she employs labor-intensive and layered techniques including natural dyeing, embroidery on paper and textiles, printmaking, drawing, and painting to evoke ideas about home, cultural displacement, memory, and time. She received her BFA in communication design from the University of North Texas in 2006 and her MFA in Applied Craft + Design from Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). bukolakoiki.com
Palmarin Merges is an artist whose work draws from the desire to become more sustainable by re-using materials close at hand and by adapting restriction as a generative force for creation. Working primarily in mixed media, printmaking, and painting, common materials formed from the fabric of her daily life are processed then transformed into new work. Merges received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited in Japan, the Philippines, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. palmarinmerges.com
Mami Takahashi is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist and scholar based in Portland, Oregon. She integrates traditional and contemporary approaches in ideas, methods, and media to address foreignness and Americanisms. Takahashi received her MFA in Contemporary Studio Practice from Portland State University (Portland, OR) in 2013. Currently, she is a research scholar at the University of Oregon focusing on the conceptual understanding of Japanese aesthetics. Her work has been collected and exhibited internationally. mamitakahashi.virb.com
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Suburban Signals
Collaborative Performance with Palmarin Merges
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Arrive at 1pm, Performance begins at 1:15pm
Helen Hiebert | Screening + Conversation
Wednesday, July 1, 2015, 6:30pm
c3:initiative | 7326 N. Chicago Ave, Portland 97203
Join c3:initiative for an artist talk with internationally recognized paper and book artist and former Portlander Helen Hiebert. Hiebert will give a hands-on tour of a selection of her artists’ books and unique handmade papers. Her film Water Paper Time will be screened throughout the evening. Copies of Heibert's how-to books and a selection of handmade papers will be available for purchase. Preview Hiebert's artists’ books here.
Heibert is teaching a 3-day workshop at Oregon College of Art & Craft July 10-12. For more information and to sign-up for the class click here.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
The c3: Papermaking Residency was established in 2014 to engage artists with little or no experience in hand papermaking, and offer them an opportunity to learn the craft and stretch the limitations of what the medium can do. Provided with instruction, guidance and technical assistance from a professional papermaker/artist at Pulp & Deckle studio, residents create and exhibit new work outside their usual area of practice. Upon completion of the studio residency year, a group exhibition is held at c3:initiative or a partnering location.
The residency focuses on illuminating possibilities within the medium of papermaking and encourages experimentation, risk, research, and collaborative learning. The group exhibition highlights hand papermaking as a contemporary art medium.