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Jenene Nagy is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California, for the month of June.

Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.

Additionally, there will be a live, virtual studio visit on the Iris Project's Instagram LiveTV on June 26th from 2-5pm. To tune in visit their Instagram @irisprojectresidency

For more information visit: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/nagy-smith
To tune in for the studio visit on Instagram LiveTV: @irisprojectresidency

Congratulations, Jenene!

Jeffry Mitchell is currently in a group exhibition, Breakfast Under the Tree, at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate, UK curated by Russell Tovey of TalkArt.

“Breakfast Under the Tree brings together a diverse range of depictions of contemporary social scenes, group portraits and shared spaces. Populated by characters both real and imaginary, and wide-ranging in style, from neo-realism to cartoonish dreamscapes, they together form a pictorial survey of how we live now.”

The exhibition includes works by Ana Benaroya‌, Susan Chen‌, Caroline Coon‌, Lenz Geerk‌, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings‌, Oscar yi Hou‌, Cheyenne Julien‌, Jon Key‌, Doron Langberg‌, Lindsey Mendick‌, Jeffry Mitchell‌, Cassi Namoda‌, Toyin Ojih Odutola‌, Sola Olulode‌, Benjamin Senior‌, Salman Toor‌, Charmaine Watkiss. 


Breakfast Under the Tree is on view from 4 June – 14 August 2021.

Marie Watt's exhibition Each/Other with Cannupa Hanska Lugar at the Denver Art Muesum was featured in The Art Magazine.

"The American artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger originally envisioned their joint exhibition Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum (until 22 August) as a project that would activate the galleries with collaborative, hands-on events evoking Indigenous art-making and community-building traditions. But with plans upended by the coronavirus pandemic, the artists shifted their focus “toward the idea of shelter, both as it relates to the global health crisis but also the civil unrest in the US that ensued over the last year”, Luger says. The show comprises more than 20 mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, installations and two crowd-sourced works."

To read the entire article visit: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/marie-watt-and-cannupa-hanska-l…

Marie Watt's new exhibition Each / Other with Cannupa Hanska Luger opened at the Denver Art Museum on May 21. The exhibition celebrates collaborative art-making that involves public participation.

"Exploring the collective process of creation, Each/Other will feature 26 mixed media sculptures, wall hangings and large-scale installation works by Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) and Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European), along with a new monumental artist-guided community artwork. While each artist’s practice is rooted in collaboration, they have never before worked together or been exhibited alongside one another in a way that allows audiences to see both the similarities and contrasts in their work.

Watt and Luger's work is divided into two sections that explore the artists’ engagement with community, materials and the land. A new collaborative piece will be located where the two artists’ works converge within the gallery. Works on view in Each/Other will consist of materials including carved wood, ceramic and fabric sculpture, photography, installation works with concertina and oil drums, video-based interpretive elements and documentation pieces to show past performance works by the artists."

The exhibition was featured in the New York Times, to read more about the exhibition:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/arts/denver-indigenous-artists.html?…

To learn more about the exhibition: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/each-other

Marie Watt was featured in Cowboys & Indians Magazine.

"Her project today is a snapshot of what she’s best known for: using humble everyday objects as touchstones, blankets in particular. Since she first rummaged through the city’s thrift stores in 2003, scavenging for wool blankets, anything around $5 apiece to make the totemlike tower sculptures of stacked blankets, she has relied on reclaimed objects as a primary medium for her artwork. Beyond that, her process is largely collaborative. That may mean working with a printmaker, like she’s doing today, or gathering blankets and their individual histories from friends and strangers, and weaving that element into her pieces, too."

To read the full article visit: https://www.cowboysindians.com/2021/05/art-gallery-marie-watt/

Joe Rudko is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California, for the month of May.

Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.

Congratulations, Joe!

For more information visit: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/joe-rudko

Congratulations to Iván Carmona for the acquisition of his piece, Juey, into the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation collection.

Today, Joseph R. Biden and the inauguration committee shared, “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ‘Everyone can be great because everyone can serve.’ It’s one of his many lessons that endures today, as we’ve seen throughout this pandemic. From sewing masks to dropping off groceries to elderly neighbors, Americans across the country know that service — looking out for one another — is part of who we are as a nation.”
It is in this spirit that PDX will donate 1/2 of the proceeds to the Oregon Food Bank from the sale of this work.

Iván Carmona
Juey, 2020
flashe paint on ceramic
34 3/4” x 30” x 9”

On the occasion of Joe Rudko's show Support System, we are pleased to share a short, casual exhibition walkthrough with the Artist.

Please let us know if you would like any additional information about the work or if you would like to schedule an appointment to view the exhibition. Joe Rudko's show remains on view through May 1st.

https://vimeo.com/535338555

Marie Watt will be a panelist in Quilts, Blankets, and Tapestry: Contemporary Art and Textiles with Aaron McIntosh, Marie Watt, and Ebony Patterson with the Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on Wednesday, April 21, 4 PM PDT.

Discover the innovative practices of three artists who have turned to textiles—incorporating or referring to them in their work—in this discussion moderated by BAMPFA Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm, presented in conjunction with Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective.

To register please visit:
https://bampfa.org/event/quilts-blankets-and-tapestry-contemporary-art-…

In conjunction with Yamamoto Masao’s current exhibition Bonsai, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present an online showing of a selection of works from the Artist’s earlier series A Box of Ku and Nakazora.

Taking images of everyday occurrences, and oftentimes overlooked moments, Yamamoto Masao makes us further consider what is happening in the world around us— to stop, look, and savor. His undeniable ability to capture seemingly simple, mundane moments and make them feel complex, transitory, and poetic is a hallmark of his practice.

Small silver gelatin prints, hand-toned and slightly worn, present like found objects. Made in editions of 20 or 40, the Artist treats each individual piece as one in its own— slightly scratching through the gelatin surfaces, adding small specks of gold paint, weathering the edges, and toning the images. Purposefully small prints are carried around in the Artist’s pocket to add a natural wear to the image. With each finesse and subtle mark, poetic and mysterious objects are born.

To view the online shop visit: www.pdxcontemporaryart.com/shop
10% of all proceeds from this pop-up will be donated to Portland Japanese Garden.