The 2014 PSU - MFA in Contemporary Art Practice – Studio Practice - Individual Graduate Project Exhibitions & Public Talks
Wesley Petersen - TOIL - Autzen Gallery
Kathryn Yancey – Like One Each Another - AB Lobby Gallery
Kaila Farrell-Smith - S? aa Mak’s - MK Gallery
Exhibitions: Monday, April 28, 2014-Friday, May 9, 2014, Autzen, AB Lobby, and MK Galleries
Opening receptions: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 4-6 p.m., Autzen, AB Lobby, and MK Galleries
TOIL - Autzen Gallery - Wesley Petersen will be performing: TOIL - Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m., April 28-May 9, 2014
Kaila Farrell-Smith - S? aa Mak’s - Shattuck Hall Annex
Artist talk: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 6-7 p.m.
Kathryn Yancey - Like One Each Another - Shattuck Hall Annex
Artist talk: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 7-8 p.m.
Welsey Petersen - TOIL - Shattuck Hall Annex
Artist talk: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 6-7 p.m.
Location: Shattuck Hall Annex, SW Broadway at SW Hall on the PSU Campus
Wesley Petersen - TOIL - Autzen Gallery
Wesley Petersen’s work deals with concepts of aggression and masculinity, while investigating the human condition through the lens of evolution. TOIL explores the subject of labor, drawing heavily on the artist’s own experience with work and his blue collar heritage.
Wesley Petersen is an Idaho-based performance artist who comes from a small rural logging community. He holds a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Idaho, and is currently an MFA Candidate at Portland State University in Contemporary Art Studio Practice.
Kaila Farrell-Smith - S? aa Mak’s - MK Gallery
S? aa Mak’s is a combination of drum, painting, and sculpture installations inspired for Indigenous art to reclaim contemporary shifting postcolonial spaces. This exhibit focuses on addressing Indigenous resistance against the engulfment into the weapon of whiteness, by not forgetting or allowing American Indian culture’s to be usurped and erased. Materials in this installation bridge two paradigms of approach: traditional materials imbued with spiritual and functional utilization engaging with techniques hi-jacked from western european-north american art histories. Bridging traditional Native art forms with western influenced mark making techniques stimulates dialogue within an Indigenous:settler/colonizers binary, making transparent violent and beautifully complicated legacies.
Kaila Farrell-Smith is a Klamath/Modoc visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Kaila has worked with "Journey’s in Creativity," a tribal high-school youth art camp at Oregon College of Arts and Craft and uses art projects to benefit the preservation and reclamation of American Indian culture through cultivating community creativity. Farrell-Smith has won the 'Spirit of the Northwest' award for her paintings in both the 2012 and 2013 “In The Spirit: Contemporary NW Native Art” exhibitions at the Washington History Museum. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from Pacific NW College of Art in 2004 as a Dorothy Lemelson scholarship recipient and is currently a candidate in her second year of the MFA in Contemporary Art Practices Studio degree program at Portland State University.
Kathryn Yancey – Like One Each Another - AB Lobby Gallery
Like One Each Another explores what it might be like to live in several locations at once, to encounter the wrongness in a shifting environment where a plant can only be understood in the area where it is not. Utilizing both digital and physical space in the construction of ‘sets’, Yancey arranges images, objects and sounds through the lens of poetry, a compositional method that allows the work to exist within the illusive territory at the periphery, where the ‘coming together’ of the disparate elements becomes the subject. Using common digital processing techniques in the creation of layered, time-based sequences, along with more craft-oriented material investigations, there is an insistence upon the illusion of separateness and the complexity that surrounds various fields of containment that leave little mystery or place for the imagination to construct a meaning that is grounded in subjective experience.
Kathryn Yancey (b. 1985, Peoria, IL) is an artist living and working in Portland, Oregon, generating mainly video and installation work through a multi-disciplinary practice that explores the materiality of the poetic voice. It is a reflection inwards that is most critical, the mining of an inner state of being and how the representational world that can be seen, how the expression of a personal voice or feeling can be translated through various technological formats. This is often felt as failure, the failure to communicate, to bring these thoughts into the physical world. Kathryn Yancey attended The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BFA 2009) and is currently pursuing an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
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