WARD SHELLY

WARD SHELLY

If you missed this lecture, check out photos and download a podcast of Ward’s talk here:
http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/news/692/mfa-in-visual-studies-lecture-ward-shelley

Yes, I got so caught up in the TBA madness that I was unable to post the lecture schedule on this blog. However, I don’t feel entirely bad about it since there were grips of posters all over the college advertising when and where the artists were going to be. I can’t do everything, people. Anyways…

Guess who’s coming to PNCA this week? Oh, I don’t know… just WARD SHELLY! If you’re not familiar with Ward’s work, then you should feel ashamed, embarrassed and generally out of the loop. He’s the bee’s knees, folks. Here’s a little info action if you’ve been living under a rock for the last decade:

Ward Shelley is a Brooklyn based artist. He specializes in large projects that freely mix sculpture and performance. Over the last five years, Shelley has concentrated on bizarre functioning architectural pieces in which he lives and works during the exhibition monitored with live surveillance video equipment. In 2004 Shelley lived and worked inside the walls of Pierogi Gallery for 5 weeks for an exhibition called “We have mice”. Shelley also works with the collaborative artist group BBS and talented young artists such as Douglas Paulson and Alex Schweder with whom he realized the monumental Flatland project at New York’s SculptureCenter in 2007.
Shelley also works on a series of diagrammatic paintings, timelines of art-related subjects such as the careers of artists working in de-materialized media and the history of art scenes. Ward Shelley’s works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Brooklyn Art Museum, and The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

Ward Shelly will be giving a public lecture about his practice on Thursday, September 24th at 6:30pm in the Lab at the Museum of Contemporary Craft (724 NW Davis).

September is totally going to flip you out...

Whoa, welcome back to school. So this is my first post of the school year for the Visiting Artist Program and I have sort of an obnoxious amount of material to share with you that I’ll get up tomorrow. Read on and get your brain blown out of the back of your skull by artistic awesomeness…

STEVE BADANES!
Wednesday, September 2nd / 6:30pm
MFA in Applied Craft & Design Studios
@ the Bison Building
421 NE 10th Ave
PDX/OR

Steve Badanes is an architect and an educator, recognized by The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture as an ACSA Distinguished Professor. Currently at the University of Washington in Seattle, he holds the Howard S. Wright Endowed Chair position of the College of Built Environments. Badanes received a BA from Wesleyan University in 1967, and a Masters of Architecture from Princeton University in 1971. He is known for both the practice and the teaching of design/build. In 1972, seeking an alternative to conventional practice, Badanes and partners Jim Adamson and John Ringel founded the Jersey Devil design/build firm. The Jersey Devil firm has designed and built a myriad of projects over the past three decades and their work has been the subject of two books, Jersey Devil Design/Build Book (1985) and Devil’s Workshop: 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture (1997). Their projects have also been covered extensively in professional and popular media in the form of numerous articles.

Since the 1980s, Badanes has taught students his unique approach to design/build practice at various schools of architecture and art. He was on Yestermorrow Design/Build School’s Board of Directors in Warren, VT from 1983 – 2002, and has taught Community Design Build there every summer since 1994. Additionally, he has conducted design/build workshops at the University of Technology in Helsinki, Finland, Auroville, India, the University of Oregon, the University of Miami, Atlantic Center for the Arts, McGill University, UNCC, Ball State University, the University of California at San Diego, Florida A&M University, Miami University in Ohio, North Dakota State University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin. Badanes speaks frequently across the country and internationally at architecture schools.

www.jerseydevildesignbuild.com

Tom Zummer & Saul Ostrow

TOM

Thomas Zummer is a scholar, writer, curator and artist. His other publications include Crash: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace (with Robert Reynolds); Rouen: Touring Machines/Intermittant Futures (with Judith Barry and Brad Miskell); What the Hell is That? (a semi-fictional digital e-book); and “Projection and Dis/embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual” in Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Chrissie Iles (catalogue essay for the exhibition of the same name at The Whitney Museum of American Art). He is currently completing a study on the history of reference-systems entitled Interessionary Technologies: Archive/Database/Interface. Mr. Zummer has curated exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Thread Waxing Space, New York; and the Katonah Museum of Art, New York. Mr. Zummer’s drawings and sculptural works have been exhibited world wide. He currently teaches in the Critical Studies Department at New York University.

Tom Zummer will be giving a two part workshop on Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction in the PNCA Commons…
Part I: Monday, Oct 13 4-5:30pm
Part II: Tuesday, Oct 14 4-5:30pm

SAUL

Saul Ostrow is an art critic and the Chair of Visual Arts and Technologies at The Cleveland Institute of Art. Trained as an artist he is best known as a critic and curator, having curated over 80 exhibitions since 1985. He also writes for various arts publications and is art editor for BOMB Magazine as well as the editor for the book series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Criticism, published by Routledge, UK.

Saul Ostrow will be giving lunchtime lectures at PNCA...
Tues, 10/14 in 125: Models of Critical Production
Thurs, 10/16 in 125: Kaprow, Situationiste and Relational Practice

Saul Ostrow and Tom Zummer will also be taking a group of MFA students to the Caldera Residency at the end of October. After the ten day trip, they will be doing a discussion with Anne-Marie Oliver and the students here at the college on Friday, October 31.