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More about each artist

Karl Burkheimer

"Organized by Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) professors Michelle Ross and Karl Burkheimer, "Open House Opening" brought 13 local artists together for the one-night show, which extended from the basement closets to the second-story bathtub to the birdhouse in the backyard.”

Open House show by Michelle Ross and Karl Burkheimer, reviewed by Chas Bowie, 2009, The Oregonian

In September of 2018, Oregon based artist Karl Burkheimer's new interactive art installation "tautline" opened at the Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery. This documentary follows Burkheimer though the process of building the installation, opening of the show, and student's interaction with the art piece. This documentary is a production of the Valley College newspaper, The Valley Star News. The film was directed by Mickie Shaw.

Ben Buswell

“Through his own work, contemporary affect theory, and precedents in the history of art, Ben Buswell speaks to the object as a space of social potential and subjective connectivity.” Artist Lecture, 2017

Tannaz Farsi

“Tannaz Farsi’s practice straddles sculpture, installation and image making allowing her to work within a serial structure to create interdependencies in meaning. She uses organic materials such as flowers and plants, creates spatial compositions from light, air, words and continually engages with the history and specificity of objects to critically address broader socio-political systems through both an analytical and poetic framework.”
Tannaz Farsi interviewed by Brainard Carey, Podtail Podcast, 2019

Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies Summer Lecture Series, PNCA 2015

MK Guth

“M.K. Guth is a visual artist working in video, photography, sculpture, performance, and interactive based exchange projects. Small shifts in what is familiar amplify human presence and speak to the intricacies of social relations in MK Guth’s work. ” Evergreen State College, Art Lecture Series, 2015

Anya Kivarkis

“It looks like a piece of fine jewelry.  But something is off. There is a lacuna, a flat spot, or an unexpected asymmetry. If the archival turn is all the rage in contemporary art, there is probably not a smarter application of the practice of mining the archive for sociopolitical content than that of the work of conceptual jeweler Anya Kivarkis.”

Anya Kivarkis, Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship Recipient, 2014

Geraldine Ondrizek

Tom Prochaska

Wendy Red Star

STORY TRADER: AN INTERVIEW WITH WENDY RED STAR by Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Art in America, 2017

Jack Ryan

Blair Saxon-Hill

Artist Blair Saxon-Hill discusses "Dzunuk’wa Feast Dish" (circa 1900), by an unknown Kwakwaka'wakw artist. November 20, 2014, at the Portland Art Museum.

Storm Tharp

View highlights of this Artist Talk in which Storm Tharp discusses the biographical, philosophical, and aesthetic building blocks shared by Agnes Martin’s painting Untitled #15 and Shirakura Jihô’s four-paneled literati painting, Visiting A Mountain Recluse.

Samantha Wall

“With her striking, expressive drawings of women and their bodies, Portland artist Samantha Wall explores the internal forces that drive us. Born in South Korea and raised in the U.S., Wall uses charcoal and crayon to navigate everything from multiracial experiences to the apocalypse, hidden emotions to the depiction of women in Asian horror cinema.”

Samantha Wall: Oregon Art Beat Interview, 2015

Lynne Woods Turner