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May 15 , 2006
Imperial Designs at the Portland Building
June 5-30, 2006
The Regional Arts & Culture Council presents the installation, Imperial Designs, in the Portland Building Installation Space, June 5-30, 2006. The Portland Building, located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue, is open to the public from 7am - 6pm, Monday through Friday.
Inspired by Michael Graves’ signature forms and colors that adorn the Portland Building, artist Tim Young extends these elements into the art installation space in the building’s lobby in what he calls a “handcrafted gentrification.” Combining wall panels, fake tile, vacuum-formed curves, paint, photos, and a new building directory, Young sets out to obliterate the artiness of the installation space while pursuing the themes of the psychological and socializing effects of the built environment and the dominance of bourgeois values in Portland’s developing self-image.
Background
Tim Young lives and works on forty wooded acres in South Central Washington. He divides his time between video production, political activism, and furniture design, often in various combinations of the three. He has a Masters in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. 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 2006 include Jenine Nagy, July 17-August 11; Rachel Siegel, August 21-September 15; Adam Kuby, September 25-October 20; Rhoda London, October 30-November 24; all the art that fits: City/County employees art exhibit, December 1-January 5, 2007; Carolina Aragon, January 15-February 9, 2007; Susan Gladstone, February 19-March 16, 2007.
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