The Ford Family Foundation Names Three Oregon Visual Artists as Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts for 2024
The Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts have just been announced. From a pool of 179 applicants, Marcus Fischer, Sam Hamilton and Charlene Liu were selected for the quality, evolution and impact of their work.
“Charlene, Marcus and Sam are blazing paths through the contemporary art world,” said Kara Inae Carlisle, president and CEO of The Ford Family Foundation. “They are living into the vision Hallie Ford held for robust and transformative visual arts here in Oregon.”
Read the press release: Meet the artists.
Vanessa Holyoak on “Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images BY Chinese American Artists”
Working across video, installation, photography, language, and performance, the artists in “ABC” produce images that “move” both literally and affectively. Diasporic familial relations are foregrounded throughout. Taiwan-born, US-based Charlene Liu’s qípáo prints, Red Dress, Petals Undone, and Perfect Brightness (2015), for example, feature digitally manipulated photographs of qípáos hailing from both the artist’s and curator’s families. These adorn a wall of her large-scale installation China Palace (2023), an in-situ recreation of the artist’s mother’s now-shuttered Chinese restaurant, formerly located in a Wisconsin strip mall.
Aapi La Podcast presents another Beautiful Country with Jenny Lin, Vivian Wenli Lin, and Charlene Liu
Another Beautiful Country is an exhibition that draws its name from the Chinese translation of America (美國/měiguó) and the common term, American-born Chinese, or ABC. The exhibit features many local AAPI artists and presents their experiences. Through their works, the artists present transnational relations, familial dynamics, and intimate tales of migration. Those featured in this episode are the exhibit’s curator, Jenny Lin, Vivian Wenli Lin, and Charlene Liu.
Exhibition Review: Another Beautiful Country by Hsin-Yun Cheng, InVisible Culture
Charlene Liu’s room-size installation, China Palace (2023), presents diverse and splendid objects, borrowed from the artist’s mother’s old restaurant in Wisconsin. The setting includes colorful vases with artificial flowers, tchotchkes placed on tables, finely carved dividing screens, framed qípáo patterns, exported oil paintings, and photographs of the restaurant and its hostess in the 1980s. The antique, dazzling, and mixed-cultural collection alludes to how foreign objects, as metonyms of cultures and communities, are translated and transported into new environments.
Labor of Love: 5 things to know about show devoted to workers by Amy Wang for The Oregonian/OregonLive
Hidden labor is the subject of “Labor of Love,” a group exhibit that runs through April 27 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University. Eight artists, including three from Oregon, “seek to explore that which is often hidden just under the surface or kept at arm’s length: the physical, emotional, and intellectual labor that is vital to the smooth and ongoing function of innumerable aspects of our everyday lives,” curator Alexandra Terry wrote in her overview of the show.
BOUND/UNBOUND, Books Made by Artists at the Neiman Center Gallery, Curated by Megan Foster
Bound/Unbound brings together a group of artists who investigate books as art objects that exist at the intersection of printmaking, photography, experimental text, visual arts, graphic design and publishing. Artists' books, like reading, are a physical experience allowing a viewer to connect with an object, blurring the boundaries between the written word and visual art. Understanding a book as an artwork invites a reflection on the properties of the book form itself. A common theme throughout the show is experimentation and how to present a medium that tends to require hands-on interaction in a gallery or museum context. Bound/Unbound is inspired by artists such as Ed Ruscha and Dieter Roth who helped to bring about the modern conception of an artist book. On view March 18-April 24, 2024.
Prototype 1.0 Curated by Tomas Vu | Springs Projects | April 12 - May 20
Thinking through the relationship between object-hood and origin, the notion of the prototype can be engaged not only with the physical models but also with the modeling of ideas, concepts and dreams. First encountering Buckminster Fuller’s blueprint of the Dymaxion car, I became plagued with understanding the underpinnings of what comprises the artist’s vision, and the process of channeling infinite realms of possibility. With this exhibition, I wanted to highlight that initial spark – the beginning – as the essential moment of creative generation. Tomas Vu
Artists, Constellations, and Connections: Feminist Futures
Artists, Constellations and Connections is on view at the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art from January 27 - June 17. The exhibition has been organized by the JSMA and seven members of the UO Department of Art as part of the 50th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society. It features current work by University of Oregon studio art faculty members installed alongside and in conversation with works they have selected from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Explore the virtual tour here!
Exhibition tour with artists and curators on Sat, 02/10/2024 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Labor of Love at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art PSU Curated by Alexandra Terry, Curator of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
The artists featured in Labor of Love produce work that aims to expose and highlight labor practices that have been historically and systematically concealed from the public sphere. Working across a wide variety of media and using a range of conceptual approaches, the eight artists exhibited here seek to explore that which is often hidden just under the surface or kept at arm’s length: the physical, emotional, and intellectual labor that is vital to the smooth and ongoing function of innumerable aspects of our everyday lives. On view January 16 - April 27, 2024.
Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images by Chinese American Artists curated by Jenny Lin, Phd/林珍妮博士
Another Beautiful Country is on view at the USC Pacific Asia Museum from January 26, 2024 through April 21, 2024. Artists: Patty Chang /張怡, Jennifer Ling Datchuk /玲, Richard Fung /房惠晴, Rania Ho /何颖宜, Andrew Thomas Huang/黃卓寧, Simon Leung/梁碩恩, Candice Lin/ 林從欣, Vivian Wenli Lin /林雯莉, Charlene Liu /劉家瑜, Ken Lum / 林蔭庭
Group show: Gathering at The Corner Gallery Organized by Anne Couillaud. On View July 1 — August 27, 2023.
The feeling of summer… To me, it implies friends and flowers. Leaning solely on this impression, we are presenting Gathering at the Corner Gallery in Andes, New York. Summer is the unhurried season of long utopic days spent with friends. Gathering after months of being apart in a moment of convergence, this exhibition is a reinvigorating circle of friends in the countryside. Guided by love and kinship, an economy of scale, and our interest in this way of connecting, we invited a group of artists to send us a work on paper representing the summer wildflower of their choice via postal mail. Anne Couillaud