Evergreen Artist Lecture Series

Storm Tharp builds his strange and beautiful characters by first drawing contours on the page with water. Before the water has a chance to dry, he applies drops of mineral ink, resulting in unruly and expansive bleeds on the paper.  Tharp takes his inspiration from a wide-ranging set of influences including 1970s American cinema and Japanese portrait prints. His characters have names, histories, and narratives, but they suggest multiple interpretations. Is the woman clutching a knife in Pigeon (After Sunshen) defending herself or is she a vengeful murderess? In these enigmatic portraits Tharp investigates the performance of identity and the point where the myth of a person supercedes reality and becomes truth. -Whitney Museum. “My work can be distilled in two distinctive points of interest. One would be the tradition of the hand made object and its inherent ability to reflect nature. ” His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Saatchi Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Reed College, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.

Molly Landreth is a Seattle based artist who explores concepts of identity and community through intimate large-format film photography and multi-media collaboration.  She is most well known for her series, “Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America” which she continues to exhibit and speak about frequently.  She has been featured in, and photographed for, publications including The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Advocate, OUT, Marie Claire and The New Yorker.  She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Lisa Radon writes about art and makes art about writing. She makes text-based art, poem, word-sound performance, and collaborative, durational writing projects.

She writes regularly for art ltd. and ArtsWatch, and has contributed to Oregon. Humanities, American Craft, Portland Monthly, Textile, and others. She edits ultra: arts portland (ultrapdx.com). Recent catalogue essays include those for exhibitions at YU, the Lumber Room, and Half/Dozen.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica has been shown at over 200 film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide.

Dana Schutz, whose vibrant, large-scale paintings are collected by many major museums, gives a lecture at the CFA School of Visual Arts Contemporary Perspectives Lecture series, which brings professional artists, including painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers, and art educators and critics, to campus to share their experiences.

Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on November 3, 2008.

The last three weeks of the Artist Lecture Series will feature student talks on studio work and/or research projects. This week,  student Marshall Astor from the program Museum or Mausoleum? The Framing of Art, Culture and Neuroplasticity and Mosoleum,  and students Valerie Wernet and Willy Smart, who have individual learning contracts with Julia Zay, will be giving talks on their research.

The last three weeks of the Artist Lecture Series will feature student talks on their studio work and/or research projects. This week Student Originated Studies: Visual Art  students, Graham Jones, Jessica Sage, Eva Boynton and Kyle Rollins will be giving artist talks. They have been developing a rigorous studio practice by establishing an inquiry through materials and research and studying 20th c. art history for two quarters.

Robert Yoder Works in painting and collage. “The details and elements of his paintings and collages that are “missing” are really right there in front of the viewer, which can either create a disorienting sense of disconnection or a strong connection with his works.”

Born in Danville, VA, Robert Yoder lives and works in Seattle. He received his B.F.A. from the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA and his M.F.A. from the University of Washington. He is represented by frosch&portmann in New York, and the Froelick Gallery in Portland. His work is in the collections of the Frye Art Museum, the Seattle, Portland and Tacoma Art Museums, and The Henry Art Gallery, as well as numerous city and private collections .

Dan Webb  Works in a variety of materials including wood, limestone and bronze. Two themes that have been sources of inspiration for the past several years. The first is the idea that much of the meaning of a work of art is elusive and, to an extent, hidden. Neither the artist nor the viewer can be aware of every possible meaning within a work since each interpretation is revealed only by the experience and perceptions of the individual. Webb carves, in stone and wood, objects seemingly covered by a material that hints at what is beneath. The subject of the work is the fact that so much in the image is covered up and unseen. The show’s second theme concerns the dandelion as a metaphor for resiliency. Despite man’s efforts to prevent its growth, dandelions always find a way to resist those efforts.

Dan Webb has won numerous awards including a Pollock-Krasner award, the Betty Bowen Award, and Artists Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Seattle Art Museum as well as various public art commissions and private collections.  He is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle. Dan received his BFA in 1991 from Cornish College of the Arts.