Sunday, August 30, 2009

Robert Frank's Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later

Pretty great little story - the link is below:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112389032&ft=1&f=1001

Image Credit: Robert Frank/Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art

Monday, August 24, 2009

Pat Boas @ Marylhurst's Art Gym in Oregon

I know not many of you will be able to make it out to Portland for this exhibition, but Boas' work is worth having a close look at, especially for those of you in the new Introduction to Digital Media course. You can find out more about her work by reading the press release from Marylhurst and also from the artist's own website - www.patboas.com

Pat Boas — Record Record.
Preview Reception
Sunday, Sept. 13, 3 to 5 PM
Exhibition continues through October 28.
http://www.marylhurst.edu/aboutmarylhurst/pressrelease20090805.php

Gallery Talk
Thursday, Oct. 8 at Noon

Pat Boas is an artist who has intrigued me for a number of years. The artist makes work
that explores and examines language in context— letter by letter, word by word, image
by image. I have long been drawn to the elegance of her ideas and their expression.
The Art Gym exhibition Pat Boas — Record Record includes four series that comment in
very quiet ways on the text and images in The New York Times and a new series of digital
works What Our Homes Can Tell Us that captures language found in the artist’s home and
places of importance to her extended family.



From the series NYT Little People
June 22, 2008 Inside the Interrogation Of a 9/11 Mastermind, 2009 (detail)
Gouache on paper



From the series What Our Homes Can Tell Us, 2008-09, digital prints and projected video

Above content provided by Terri Hopkins, Director and Curator of The Art Gym