RACC Press Releases
December 22 , 2005
Shed
a temporary installation
January 17 – February 10, 2006
The Regional Arts & Culture Council presents the installation, Shed, by Ashland artist Marlene Alt, in the Portland Building Installation Space, January 17-February 10, 2006. The Portland Building, located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue, is open to the public from 7am - 6pm, Monday through Friday.
Marlene Alt is a collector of objects and materials, and always in search of discards. Shed focuses on one such discard, a pair of deer antlers. Volumes of off-white, cast wax antlers will form frozen waterfalls that originate at the ceiling and flow down the walls. The cascading waterfalls, frozen in time, present the natural world as a muted landscape of desire and transformations. Shed suggests a normal occurrence in nature and also refers to a metaphorical pouring fourth that brings with it regeneration and liberation.
Background
Marlene Alt is an Associate Professor of Art at Southern Oregon University. In 2005, she spent the spring quarter in the Bubec Sculpture Studio in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She has had one-person exhibitions throughout the United States, including the Ohio University Art Gallery in Athens, Ohio; the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan; the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana; Artemisia Gallery in Chicago; W.A.R.M. Gallery in Minneapolis; the Mandeveille Gallery at UCSD in San Diego; and the Nine Gallery in Portland. Her work has been included in international exhibitions in the Czech Republic, the American Embassy in Togo, and the University of Guanajuato Museum in Mexico, along with numerous group exhibitions in the United States. She received an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in 1993 and in 2000 an Outstanding Faculty Artist/Scholar Award through Phi Kappa Phi at Southern Oregon University.
Sponsored by the Regional Arts & Culture Council since 1994, the Installation Art Series at the Portland Building invites the general public to re-examine its expectations and definitions of art, encourage dialogue about the role of art in public spaces, and provide artists with alternative exhibition space for their work. Artists featured through June 2006 will be: Geraldine Ondrizek, February 20-March 17; Ethan Hamm & Annie Brissenden, March 27-April 21; Mike Barber, Linda Austen, Carla Mann, Margretta Hanson, Cydney Wilkes, May 1-26; and Tim Young, June 5-30.
Through vision, leadership and service the Regional Arts
& Culture Council works to integrate arts and culture in all aspects of
community life.
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