October 9: PNCA'S 100 Year Celebration With MEMORY/FREQUENCY at Worksound Gallery
MEMORY / FREQUENCY
October 9 through October 30 2009
Opening Friday Oct 9 . 7pm to 11pm .
This Exhibition is an array of Installations involving Sculptures, Sound, Videos, and photographs by 3 Artists/Faculty at PNCA.
Carl Diehl, Tracey Cockrell, Lennie Pitkin .
Lennie Orleonok Pitkin has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and in site-works and commissions regionally, nationally and abroad, with an interdisciplinary approach to media. His current work explores contemporary extinction theory, memory, and loss through reductive imagery, text, and sound. Represented by Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, solo exhibitions include: Koplin and Oranges, Sardines Galleries, Los Angeles; Hodges/Banks and White Galleries, Seattle;Northwest Visions, Rome, Italy; Selected collections include: Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Peter Norton Collection, Los Angeles. Pitkin received his BFA from PNCA (67) and is Painting Department Chair and Director of Global Studies at PNCA .
Tracey Cockrell completed her MFA at the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. An interdisciplinary artist, Cockrell has cultivated a studio practice that synthesizes sculpture, experimental music, horticulture and social practice. Most notably, her work has been featured at Boston Center for the Arts, Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, Oakland Arts Council, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her studies include a fellowship to Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, post-baccalaureate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BA from the College of William and Mary. She is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Foundation at PNCA and has just completed a Senior Residency in Woodworking at OCAC.
Carl Diehl is an artist living and working in Portland. Diehl's creative practice ranges from single-channel video to live media art performance, from installation, to graphic design and curatorial pursuits. Diehl received his BFA in Art Video from Syracuse University in 2000 and his MFA in Digital Art from University of Oregon in 2007.With an on-going interest in the audio-visual vocabularies inherent to electronic and digital media, Diehl is particularly fascinated by the curious gestures of malfunction. Diehl has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Cine-Cycle in Toronto, Other Cinema and Studio 27 in San Francisco.
….Performance by Weird Fiction at 9:30 !
Weird Fiction is Carl Diehl, Mack McFarland, jeff Richardson, Zack Benfinld,Vihn Manson .
Weird Fiction operates live.They employ an array of obsolete video mixers, recursive digital devices, live percussion and assorted cine-molecular interventions, exploding and exploring vidsonic trajectories in real-time. A nebulous ensemble of artists and musicians. www.weird-fiction.net
