after / time is excited to introduce R Stranger as our Artist in Residence for the month of July. Their residency will take place July 7-29. Stop by the gallery on our regular gallery hours on Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:00-8:00 pm and Saturdays 12:00-5:00 pm as they continue researching their recently completed MFA thesis from PNCA. after / time continues its support of new and emerging artists and arts writers by providing the resources, space and time for their respective practices.
“My recent work explores grief not as an isolated experience, but as a location you can be met in; where our experiences of loss can be understood and supported as fundamentally altering events. During this July residency at after/time collective, I will extend this work towards community care and harm reduction through an interdisciplinary lens. By creating collective grieving spaces, my work will contribute to a dialogue around loss, somatic processing, living with ghosts, and examining memory by centering the necessity of community engagement in processing trauma.” – R. Stranger
More public programming, including an artist’s reception, to be announced shortly.
R. Stranger (they/she) is a queer Jewish interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the SF Bay Area. Through engagement with various modes of storytelling—writing, photography, film, performance, book arts, and installation—their work centers queer experience, having/being a body, and the transformative quality of grief. Drawing on their grassroots community organizing background, Stranger’s art practice is heavily collaborative and multimedia in nature. They believe in the power of art as a healing and liberatory practice, and dream of the dismantling of settler colonialism everywhere, standing firmly for a Free Palestine.
(Stranger holds a BLA in Critical Art Practices from Hampshire College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University. They live in Portland OR with their chihuahua mix Rugelach).
(This exhibition was made possible through the generous support from Prosper Portland, PICA, the Ford Family Foundation and RACC)