Round Weather’s first solo show highlights the powerful work of Yulia Pinkusevich. Born in Kharkov, Ukraine, the bodies of work represented range in tone from Pinkusevich’s scarily prescient Isorithm series based in a declassified military manual for mapping predictions of the impacts of nuclear bomb airbursts to her grandly soothing Sakha series meditating on connections with the ancient Siberian spirituality of her ancestors.
Since the 1980s, Andrea Fraser (b. 1965, Billings, Montana) has achieved renown for performances that interrogate social structures with incisive analysis, humor, and pathos. Fraser continues this investigation with This meeting is being recorded, a performance-based video exploring formations of race, gender, and age in an intergenerational group of seven self-identified white women.
Each phase of The Cold Read builds on itself to create a space for the participating artists to initiate and engage in critical discussions, through prompt-based exhibitions and by simply hanging out with one another.
Zena’s seventh artist project season presents the work of Shanghai based Chinese artist/filmmaker Yang Fudong (b. 1971) at the 1857 Hallock & McMllan, returning Zena to Portland’s oldest building located in the heart of Old Town Chinatown.
This second installment of 1989 brings the work of established and emerging artists from Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Poland, Cuba, Suriname, USA, China, Iran, and New Zealand. Their works offer poetic and philosophical reflections on the exhibition theme through a range of experimental video and documentary film, photography, digital animation, music composition, poetry, and performance.
Humor serves a social function in many ways.
Drawing from trauma, memory, family history, and aspirations, Wang’s work mines the vulnerabilities, contradictions, and beauty that reside in identity formation as an Asian woman in diaspora.
To ask the question, “What is the value of a public outcry in the aftermath of failed metamorphosis?”
This work is about the birds, rivers, trees, fruit, forests, apartment blocks, and the people and streets of six lives and the forces that lead one to leave the treasured and familiar behind.
Guth’s multidisciplinary practice includes video, photography, sculpture, performance, and interactive exchange-based projects.