— Jun 8, 11:37 AM — 

FLIGHT - an installation

Pacific Northwest College of Art Presents British Artist Dryden Goodwin Installation is part of PLATFORM International Animation Festival

PNCA will present Dryden Goodwin’s installation Flight in the Feldman Gallery from June 7-28th, 2007. The installation combines live action, animated intervention, a multi-layered sound track and hundreds of pen and ink drawings.

This will be the first time Flight will be shown in the U.S., following a solo exhibition at one of London’s primary spaces for public art, the Chisenhale Gallery, last year. Goodwin’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain, both in London, along with group exhibitions in Istanbul, New Delhi and the Venice Biennale, among many others.

Flight is described as a fugitive escape path across five interlinked spaces. The film tracks movement from urban to forest, and further outward to the sea and the sky. Evoking the fear of pursuit and a restless inability to settle, the animated interventions allure with transformative quality to suggest a superimposed fantasy.

Five illuminated display cases filled with hundreds of pen and ink drawings frame a circle placing the viewer in the center. The close proximity of film and drawings allow a combination of static and moving images to interact in both the journey and viewer’s unique formation of memory. Rhythmic tensions between bursts of acceleration and stillness suspend time in the film. The drawings, whether minimal marks or more elaborate compositions, form tensions that share with the viewer unique gestures and a new way of understanding the relationship one has with people, place, and self.

Dryden Goodwin is a London-based artist. Central to his practice is a fascination with drawing. Often combining drawing with photography, film and large-scale screen-based installations with soundtracks. His work explores the physical and emotional dynamics of different environments, such as airports, hospitals, religious spaces and city networks; concerned with the interaction between people and qualities of time and space.

Flight is the cornerstone for a series of animated installations that PNCA will present during the Platform Festival in Portland in June. PNCA will host a walking tour of the final animated installations, which are both on campus and in the surrounding Pearl District neighborhood on June 28th starting at 8pm.

Dryden Goodwin will be an artist in residence at PNCA in June. He will give a public lecture on June 14th at PNCA, and lead a student workshop entitled One Location, Two Experiences. For registration information visit www.pnca.edu.

Dryden Goodwin solo exhibitions include Sustained Endeavour: Portrait of Sir Steve Redgrave, (National Portrait Gallery, 2006), Flight (Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2006), Draw In/Draw Out (New Art Gallery, Walsall, 2004), Dilate (Manchester Art Gallery, 2003), Closer (Tate Britain, 2002). Group shows include Global Cities (Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London 2007) Strangers with Angelic Faces (Akbank, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006), Cross Town Traffic (Apeejay New Media Gallery, New Delhi, India, 2005), Clandestine (50th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2003), A Century of Artists Film in Britain (Tate Britain, 2003), Cathedral Camera (Baltic, Gateshead, 2003) and Reality Check (international touring show with 5 venues through out eastern Europe). Works in public collections include, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Arts Council of England, The British Library and Unilever. Exhibits regularly with Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

PNCA’s Animation Inside Out is funded in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. PNCA receives additional support from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Artist Lecture: June 14, 2007
Swigert Commons, 6:30pm
Free & Open to the Public

Exhibition: June 7 – July 28, 2007
Feldman Gallery + Project Space
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