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Homage: Re-enactments, Copies and Tributes to Open at The Art Gym
For Release: October 02, 2008Homage
Re-enactments, copies and tributes by
Sherrie Wolf, Christopher Rauschenberg, Michelle Ross, and Brad Adkins
Opening reception 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, November 2, 2008
Gallery talk noon, Tuesday, November 18
Exhibition continues: November 3 - December 7, 2008
Closed for Thanksgiving November 27 - 30
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University
Homage: Re-enactments, Copies and Tributes will open at The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, with a preview reception on Sunday, November 2. Curated by The Art Gym Director Terri Hopkins the exhibition presents works by four artists—Sherrie Wolf, Christopher Rauschenberg, Michelle Ross and Brad Adkins—who have studied, copied and re-enacted the work of other artists. All four artists live and work in Oregon. The exhibition continues through December 7. Admission is free.
At noon, Tuesday, November 18, curator Terri Hopkins will moderate a gallery talk with the artists.
Sherrie Wolf has made a full-scale (12 x 21 feet) copy Gustave Courbet's oil painting "The Painter's Studio: Allegory of Seven Years off My Artistic and Moral Life" (1855) as a tribute to the artist.
Christopher Rauschenberg pays tribute to French photographer Eugene Atget who photographed Paris extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rauschenberg has sought out and re-photographed approximately 500 of the places Atget photographed 100 years ago. Homage includes approximately 20 of those photographs paired with reproductions of the originals by Atget.
Michelle Ross is a painter. Inspired by the centuries-old Tantric tradition of monks hand copying abstract meditation drawings, in 2006 Ross invited 18 artists to successively copy a series of 15 of her own abstract paintings on paper. As a part of the exhibition Homage, Ross will exhibit a selection of those paintings and her own copies of Tantric monk drawings.
Brad Adkins has re-enacted visual arts related performances, including works by Belgian artist Francis Alÿs and Oregon artist Michael Bowley. For Homage Adkins is re-creating a work that Oregon artist and musician Nate Slusarenko created in The Art Gym in 1991 by sanding away layers of paint.
The Art Gym programs are supported in part by the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University is located at 17600 Pacific Highway (Hwy. 43), Marylhurst, Oregon, 97036. The gallery is open Tuesday - Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. The Art Gym is located on the third floor of the B.P. John Building on the Marylhurst University campus, one mile south of Lake Oswego. Admission is free. (503-699-6243)
Founded in the fall of 1980, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University has a 26-year history of presenting work by hundreds of artists based in the Northwest. The Art Gym has published more than 50 exhibition catalogues and sponsored more than 100 conversations about art, in the region. In 2004-2005, The Art Gym was a recipient of the Governor's Arts Award.