Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/13/2017
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Littman Gallery
1825 SW Broadway St., Suite 250 --Portland
The Littman Gallery is pleased to host Noah Dillon (NYC), Dr. Sue Taylor, and Julie Perini in an artist panel.
Friday, January 13 starting at 5:00 p.m.
Following on the heels of an unpredictable, hellish, and obscene election, America is preparing to face what might be a very different new world dominated by an government that has threatened to act more like a junta. And this comes in the midst of turmoil about the precariousness of the climate, the perpetuation of racism, the role of the US in the community of nations, predation of the poor and disenfranchised by the wealthy and powerful, and so on. Art has historically been perceived as a mode of truth-telling and activism, a humanist force for good in the world. But how and why? Is there a role for art in these movements, or is it ancillary? Is art merely illustrative of more complete critiques of power and its abuse? Has a painting ever stopped a war? And what of art’s use by the powerful, as economic or propagandistic tool? Here, a critic, an experimental/documentary filmmaker, and art historian have a discussion about art’s role in political discourse and action—what it can do, and what it cannot.
Noah Dillon is a writer and artist who lives and works in New York. He has contributed to Modern Painters, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and artcritical, among others.
Sue Taylor is Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Design and Associate Dean in the College of the Arts at Portland State University. She earned her B.A. at Roosevelt University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. A former museum curator and newspaper critic, she has written numerous catalogue essays, as well as articles and exhibition and book reviews for American Art, American Craft, Art Journal, Art News, ArtUS, the Chicago Sun-Times, Dialogue, Fiberarts, the New Art Examiner, and Oregonian. She is corresponding editor from Portland for Art in America.
Her book on the German-born Surrealist Hans Bellmer, The Anatomy of Anxiety, was published by MIT Press in 2000, followed by scholarly articles on Eva Hesse, Jackson Pollock, and Hollis Sigler, among others. Professor Taylor’s psychoanalytic study “Grant Wood’s Family Album” won the Smithsonian’s Patricia and Philip Frost Prize for 2005, and launched the research that has culminated in her book titled “Iowa Secret: The Inner Life of Grant Wood,” currently under review by Fordham University Press.
Professor Taylor has received grants and fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the American Psychoanalytic Association, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, and the Society for the Preservation of American Modernists. In 2014, she received the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Award in the College of the Arts at Portland State University.
Julie Perini creates experimental and documentary videos/films, installations, and live events. Originally from Poughkeepie, NY, Julie has been exploring her immediate surroundings with cameras since age 15 when she discovered a VHS camcorder in her parent’s suburban home. Her work often explores the areas between fact and fiction, staged and improvised, personal and political. Her recent work is often made in response to or in collaboration with leftist social movements happening locally and globally. Julie’s work has exhibited and screened internationally at such venues as the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), Artists’ Television Access (San Francisco), Visible Evidence XX (Stockholm), The Horse Hospital (London), Cornell Cinema (Ithaca, NY), Microscope Gallery (New York City), among others. She has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, Signal Fire, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She has received grants and fellowships in support of her work from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Oregon Arts Commission, and The Precipice Fund.
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