Untraceable

Untraceable is an exhibition of artists’ responses to political control, violence and torture. The exhibition is curated by Cooley Gallery director Stephanie Snyder, and is inspired by the work of Reed College political science professor Darius Rejali, an internationally recognized expert on modern torture and the author of Torture and Democracy (Princeton, 2007). Untraceable explores the invisible and covert forms of violence that have come to characterize both modern torture and political oppression. The exhibition includes painting, photography, sculpture and new media.

The group exhibition is curated by Stephanie Snyder, Curator, Douglas
F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, with contributions by
Stuart Horodner, Curator, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta,
Georgia and Mack McFarland, Exhibitions Coordinator, Pacific Northwest
College of Art.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Nubar Alexanian

Hans Haacke

Adam Helms

Natasha Mayers

Walid Raad

Susan Seubert

Image: Nubar Alexanian
Man on the Box (recreation)
2007
Collection of Participant Media, Los Angeles

Ticket info: Free and Open to the Public.

Parallel Sister

Works by Morgan Ritter

BFA student Morgan Ritter paints and draws on found plates to create a display of pattern; exploring family and how coincidence becoming synchronistic phenomena furnishes a psychic home between loved ones. She writes, “I did a performance piece at an art show in December in which I was the lava in a volcano sculpture I built. I wore allred and sat in my sculpture all night with a fog machine and some music. During the same month, my sister Ashley had to do a dance at her new wave, consciousness focused college in San Francisco, and chose to dancelike lava from a volcano! She always seems so calm and amazed when we discover our parallelism. Ever since then, I have been keeping records of any examples of family parallelismand parallelism among closely connected friends. Soon I began to recognize so many convoluted patterns that I drowned in a sea of textiles, repeated shapes, and colors with nothing left to do but tend to this awareness, communicating with loved ones, and ricocheting the excitement/energy. It is so exciting to imagine how much simultaneity that has existed in the entire history of everything! So many overlapping thoughts that the world turns completely opaque with unoriginality! Imagine that. Her work will be up for the month of March.Watch out for info about a closing event on Thursday March 27th.

Ticket info: 923 SW Oak St

Youth Spring Exhibition

PNCA offers the largest, most comprehensive year-round programming for youth ages 4 – 18 in the northwest. The Youth Programs Spring semester culminates in an exhibition of student art with over 100 works ranging from drawings and paintings, to papier mache and clay sculptures.

Ticket info: Free and open to the public.