Rhoda London & Harrison Higgs at PLACE PDX

Rhoda London & Harrison Higgs



Rhoda London and Harrison Higgs are working collaboratively on and … , an installation combining artifacts, video, and drawings used in a way that asks the audience to reflect on what’s next . London’s previous two works presented at Place examined mortality, memory, and death. The direction for this next installation carries on those themes, but ask whether the questions themselves are an act in futility. Their work will be delving into the space between what can be said and what shows itself. London and Higgs were a part of the inaugural exhibition in Place in June of 2010.



Bios



Rhoda London has curated many exhibitions in Portland, including the exhibition and conference for “The Other Portland: Art & Ecology in the 5th Quadrant,” and at Portland Art Center. She has also been involved in Art on the Peninsula, a group that held art exhibits in St. Johns at local stores and restaurants. London’s private work has been awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and a grant from the California Arts Council. Her work about immigration is in the private collection of the Ellis Island Museum and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She now teaches at Washington State University. www.rhodeworksart.com


Harrison Higgs uses photography, sculpture, printmaking, and digital imaging to reconsider the industrial impulse and its relationship to the individual. Most recently he participated in the group photo show, Range, at Archer Gallery (2011). Harrison participated in the inaugural exhibition for Place in 2010. In 2008, he received an Artist Trust GAP grant in visual art. His photography, installation, and video has been shown in Portland, Seattle, Toronto, Melbourne, Nashville, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Higgs teaches photography, digital imaging, and printmaking at Washington State University Vancouver. www.harrisonhiggs.com

Rhoda London at MilePost 5

Rhoda London’s installation
"The Representation of Space'

signifies the place where the outside world intersects with her paintings by enhancing the notions of space on the canvas and in “real” space. By placing her paintings in an installation environment she is increasing the paintings’ visibility and the viewer’s interaction with the paintings.

“The paintings have become part of a performative act of dissection, they went from being four large canvases concerning ideas about beauty, representation, and self-image to a series of fragments, intuitively chosen and cut, which can be continually reconfigured in new sequences. The re-sequencing of the canvas segments creates new, non-linear narratives, which relate to strategies in contemporary film, video and photography.”

Rhoda London has curated many exhibitions in Portland, including the exhibition and conference for “The Other Portland: Art & Ecology in the 5th Quadrant,” and at Portland Art Center. She has also been involved in Art on the Peninsula, a group that held art exhibits in St. Johns at local stores and restaurants. London’s private work has been awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and a grant from the California Arts Council. Her work about immigration is in the private collection of the Ellis Island Museum and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She now teaches at Washington State University.

"Framed" at PLACE PDX

Framed or Frame of Mind by Richard Schemmerer Enter at your own risk because you will be framed at the moment you walk in there and observe what is the frame work through which you see how you operate as a human bio chemical processing plant. You are the product of what you bring to the table of observance. Nothing and nobody created your thought patterns they are all yours to manage. You agree to be framed and release all rights to your image and intellectual property. This is an art installation functioning as conduit for multiple planes of experience and your experience has now altered your frame of mind. Making sense has been shifted to the nonsensical. Richard Schemmerer welcomes you to this theater of hallucinations and aborted dreams. This factory also will be closed soon because of cutbacks on the backs of the artists and their supporters. Quote to sum it all up: “Life is not a synchronized swimming event but idiosyncrasy on steroids sponsored by your corporation of choice.” Bio Richard Schemmerer in his own words: “I was born to parents and that is the only thing I have in common with other humans besides my bodily functions of course. I am alien to this planet and my art expresses this alienation to the standards and values nobody lives up to. I had so many art exhibits in my life that I got bored with cataloging them for a system I don't belong too or believe in. Non tradition is my tradition and cease the day and the night my motus operantis (modus operandi). I like to misspell and to be the thorn on the rose. Happiness is the key to my being and all my artistic output is like a paver in the road and if you follow it you'll find the same un quantified happiness that lets me thrive in a world that doesn’t give freedom freely.” califunia.blogspot.com www.pdxart.blogspot.com ___________________________________________