envelop | 2019 C3: PAPERMAKING RESIDENCY EXHIBITION
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ON VIEW TBD - postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic This exhibition presents work from 2019 c3:papermaking residency artists Amy Bay, Megan Hanley, Jess Perlitz and Hannah Kim Varamini. Culminating from their experiences in the Pulp & Deckle studio, each artist utilized handmade paper as a primary medium to create new works that present ideas and forms central to their art practice. This residency seeks to create alternative models and spaces for material exploration in art making. |
While each artist approached papermaking through their own unique lens there is a thread in the culminating works presented. Investigations of skins and coverings weave their way through the exhibition. What is on the surface, and what lies below? Each piece in envelop encourages viewers to question their relationship to body, home, and land.
To accompany the exhibition, we are releasing a publication celebrating the fifth year of this residency program. We are excited to feature the exploratory process of making via the 20 artists who have participated in the program, with 60% being locally based in Oregon. Publication pre-orders will be available throughout the exhibition, with discounted rates available to students, schools and libraries.
This exhibition is generously supported by a grant from The Ford Family Foundation Visual Arts Program. We are honored to have this support, which has allowed us to expand and strengthen our program offerings.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
FIRST THURSDAY OPENING
TBD - Postponed in response to the COVID-19 panemic.
PANEL DISCUSSION: PAPER THEN + NOW
New date TBD. A conversation moderated by Barb Tetenbaum with former papermaking residents Yoonhee Choi, Jenene Nagy, and Mami Takahashi, addressing how the program impacted their artistic practice, and reflecting on where craft practices fit within the current moment in the arts ecosystem.
PUBLICATION RELEASE
New date TBD. A publication launch of a 5-year retrospective catalog highlighting the vast array of creativity and experimentation within the medium of papermaking.
CLOSING RECEPTION + ARTIST WALK THROUGH
New date TBD. Join the 2019 residents as they discuss the work presented in envelop and talk about their residency experiences.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
The c3: papermaking residency was established in 2014 to engage artists with little or no experience in hand papermaking, and offer them an opportunity to learn the craft and stretch the limitations of what the medium can do. Provided with instruction and guidance via technical assistance from a professional papermaker/artist at Pulp & Deckle studio and exclusive 24/7 access to the studio, residents create and exhibit new work.
Visit our info page to read more details about this residency program and how to apply.
To accompany the exhibition, we are releasing a publication celebrating the fifth year of this residency program. We are excited to feature the exploratory process of making via the 20 artists who have participated in the program, with 60% being locally based in Oregon. Publication pre-orders will be available throughout the exhibition, with discounted rates available to students, schools and libraries.
This exhibition is generously supported by a grant from The Ford Family Foundation Visual Arts Program. We are honored to have this support, which has allowed us to expand and strengthen our program offerings.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
FIRST THURSDAY OPENING
TBD - Postponed in response to the COVID-19 panemic.
PANEL DISCUSSION: PAPER THEN + NOW
New date TBD. A conversation moderated by Barb Tetenbaum with former papermaking residents Yoonhee Choi, Jenene Nagy, and Mami Takahashi, addressing how the program impacted their artistic practice, and reflecting on where craft practices fit within the current moment in the arts ecosystem.
PUBLICATION RELEASE
New date TBD. A publication launch of a 5-year retrospective catalog highlighting the vast array of creativity and experimentation within the medium of papermaking.
CLOSING RECEPTION + ARTIST WALK THROUGH
New date TBD. Join the 2019 residents as they discuss the work presented in envelop and talk about their residency experiences.
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY
The c3: papermaking residency was established in 2014 to engage artists with little or no experience in hand papermaking, and offer them an opportunity to learn the craft and stretch the limitations of what the medium can do. Provided with instruction and guidance via technical assistance from a professional papermaker/artist at Pulp & Deckle studio and exclusive 24/7 access to the studio, residents create and exhibit new work.
Visit our info page to read more details about this residency program and how to apply.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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Amy Bay (b. Elkhart, IN) is a painter based in Portland, OR. Bay holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Winchester School of Art. She also completed the London-based Turps Banana Correspondence Course for painters. Bay's heavily worked paintings use motifs and imagery that draw from decorative sources. She values the subjective, the emotional, error and mishap. She is interested in the mutability of the picturesque and conventional feminine imagery. Bay has exhibited her work at venues in the Pacific Northwest including Melanie Flood Projects, UNA and SNAG Gallery, as well as throughout New York City at Peninsula Art Space, The Painting Center, The Drawing Center, Printed Matter, Brooklyn Public Library, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has shown internationally in group and solo shows and has been awarded grants and projects from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, The Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donné Papermill and Women's Studio Workshop. She teaches at Portland Community College and Village Home Education Resource Center and hosts monthly gallery-based discussions through ART HOUR.
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Megan Hanley is an artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. She creates art to continue a dialogue around the theory of posthumanism and the physical processes of biology and geology. By creating drawings utilizing natural materials from sites of investigation she urges us to consider that humans are part of a complex ecosystem, equal to bacteria, minerals, plants, and animals. In 2017 she was awarded the Andries Deinum Prize for Visionaries and Provocateurs and a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to complete a year of research in collaboration with the Center for Life in Extreme Environments at Portland State University in preparation for the exhibition In/Habitable. Hanley has also taken part in a backpacking residency with Signal Fire in the Siskiyou Mountain region of Northern California, and a three-week dig with the Sanisera Archaeology Institute on the island of Menorca, Spain as part of her research-based practice. Her work has been selected for juried exhibitions at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, the Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR and the CICA Museum in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. Most recently her drawings have been published in the Pacific Coast edition of New American Paintings. Hanley received a BFA in Art Education from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2008 and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice from Portland State University in 2017. She is currently teaching drawing at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
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Jess Perlitz makes work focused on considering landscape and the ways in which we define and seek to recognize ourselves within it. Grappling with how space gets articulated, her projects take many forms - traversing performance, sculpture, and drawing. The work has appeared in a variety of venues such as playgrounds, fields, galleries, and museums, including the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Socrates Sculpture Park in NY, Cambridge Galleries in Canada, and De Fabriek in The Netherlands. Born in Toronto, Canada, Jess is a graduate of Bard College, received her MFA from Tyler School of Art and clown training from the Manitoulin Center for Creation and Performance. Jess is currently based in Portland, Oregon where she is Assistant Professor of Art and Head of Sculpture at Lewis & Clark College. Jess was recently named the 2018 Joan Shipley Fellow from the Oregon Arts Commission and was an artist in residence in Omaha, NE at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Her project, Chorus, is currently installed at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA as part of the museum’s ongoing artists installation series.
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Hannah Kim Varamini is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. She was born in Washington, D.C. to first-generation Korean immigrants. She received her BFA from Cornell University and MFA from the art program at California Institute of the Arts. Her work employs language and symbology to examine ideologies of nationalism, and personal histories of diaspora and cultural hybridity. She spent time in Namibia on a Fulbright fellowship in 2008, which propelled an ongoing interest in postcolonial discourse. She has presented work in various contexts including the Santa Cruz Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the National Art Gallery of Namibia. |
