The MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research at PNCA and the Reed College Art Department welcome sculptor Geoffrey Mannto Portland, Oregon, and invite the public to his talk “SOLID AIR: Materialising the Intangible” with reception following.
PNCA, Swigert Commons
Monday, February 18, 2013
Talk: 6:30–8pm
Reception: 8:30pm
Complete series of events
February 18: Talk in Swigert Commons, PNCA, with reception following
February 19: Roundtable discussion, “The Space Between,” at The Studio Art Building, Reed College, with light dinner following
February 20–24: Spring Colloquium and Artist Residency at Westwind on the theme “What Are Design Fictions?”
Embedding time and motion within concrete objects, Scottish sculptor Geoffrey Mann creates work that blurs the lines between art and research, thinking and making, theory and practice. He is the winner of the Newcomers Bombay Sapphire Award, the World Crafts Council-Europe EUNIQUE Award for Glass, and the Jerwood Contemporary Makers Prize, among others. Group exhibitions include Design and the Elastic Mind at MoMA, New York (2008); European Glass Context at the Bornholm Art Museum and Grønbechs Gård, Bornholm, Denmark (2008); Collect at Saatchi Gallery, London (2009); Object Factory II: The Art of Industrial Ceramics at MAD, New York (2009); Power of Making at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2011); London, Talk To Me at MoMA, New York (2011); Curious Minds at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2012); and Mark-ing at Gallery Libby Sellers, London (2013). He is Programme Director of Glass at the Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh.
About the MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research
CT+CR seeks to help forge a discipline that does for the new relations obtaining between words, images, and objects what the field of rhetoric accomplished for language; to unify the major strands of critical theory, revivifying it as a powerful tool of criticism and critique; and to create new ways of understanding, situating, and configuring knowledge and research in the new century. If you would like to know more, please contact Founding Co-chairs Anne-Marie Oliver (T 503 236 0345; [email protected]) and Barry Sanders (T 626 826 2222; [email protected])
About the Reed College Art Department
The Art Department at Reed includes both studio art and art history, complementary and interrelated disciplines with a shared interest in the art object and its historical and theoretical contexts. The two branches of the department are united philosophically and, to an extent rare among liberal arts institutions, in actual practice.
Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW Johnson Street
Portland, Oregon 97209
Reed College
3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard
Portland, Oregon 97202
