Disjecta Contemporary Art Center
8371 N Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
Artists: Bahar Yurukoglu, Claire Ashley, Kevin Cooley, Jessica Mallios, Nathan Green, Laura Vandenburgh, Pablo Rasgado, Andy Coolquitt
Curator: Rachel Adams
Intimate Horizons
September 28–November 4, 2014
Intimate Horizons paired artists Claire Ashley and Bahar Yurukoglu to create an immersive, site-responsive exhibition examining the relationship between geometric abstraction, landscape and architecture. Visual Art Source’s Richard Speer called it “one of the—if not the—most visually dynamic, architecturally responsive exhibitions I have encountered.”
Claire Ashley (b. 1971) lives and works in Chicago. She holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute and a BA from Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Bahar Yurukoglu (b. 1981) lives and works in Boston. She holds an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and a BFA from the School of the Visual Arts in New York.
Sightings
November 22–January 4, 2015
Sightings is an exhibition of recent video works by Kevin Cooley and Jessica Mallios. Both artists explore spatial dynamics through movement while utilizing a singular point of view to present new perspectives. By adopting cinematic tools, such as tracking and looping, to highlight objects and everyday experiences, Cooley and Mallios challenge what we see and how we perceive our surroundings.
Cooley will present his large-scale installation, Skyward, from 2012 and debut A Thousand Miles an Hour. Mallios will present Tower of the Americas from 2014 and a recent work, Rhombus.
Kevin Cooley (b. 1975) lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Visual Arts in New York, and a BA in International Affairs from Lewis and Clark College.
Jessica Mallios (b. 1976) lives and works in Austin. She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Constructs
January 17–March 1, 2015
Constructs introduces a collection of works that address the interactions between scale, architecture and the body. Each artist will create new site-specific pieces, ranging from the calculated and Op-Art inspired abstraction of Nathan Green, to the cascading cut-out paintings of Laura Vandenburgh, to the calculated wall excavations of Pablo Rasgado.
Nathan Green (b. 1980) lives and works in Dallas. He received his BFA in 2004 from the University of Texas at Austin.
Pablo Rasgado (b. 1984) lives and works in Mexico City. He holds a BFA from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico.
Laura Vandenburgh (b. 1962) lives and works in Eugene. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, New York, and a DVM and BS in Zoology from the University of California, Davis.
Andy Coolquitt
March 14–April 26, 2014
Austin-based artist Andy Coolquitt is influenced by the detritus he scavenges from the neighborhoods surrounding his studio. An avid collector, he gathers the remnants of human activity to create objects that imply domesticity, structure, comfort and shelter. His site-specific works reference the individuality of both the gallery environment and socio-economic status of the communities in which he resides. His practice includes pieces that occupy a hybrid position between discrete artworks and what the artist calls “somebodymades” and “in-betweens.” In his first major solo exhibition on the West Coast, Coolquitt will combine discrete sculptures, “somebodymades,” “in-betweens,” and tableaus created on site as part of a six-week residency in partnership with c3:initiative, located in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland.
Andy Coolquitt (b. 1964) is perhaps most widely known for a house, a performance/studio/domestic space that began as his master’s thesis project at the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, and continues to the present day.
About Disjecta
Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2000, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center builds ambitious programs that promote artists and engage communities. Since 2011, the visual arts at Disjecta have been managed through the Curator-in-Residence program, an innovative exhibition series that provides emerging curators with critical resources to execute a full season of exhibitions in a high-caliber, risk-taking environment.
