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July 23, 2007
Below Marquam at the Portland Building
August 6-September 4, 2007
The Regional Arts & Culture Council presents the installation, Below Marquam, by Portland artist Benjamin Stagl in the Portland Building Installation Space, August 6-September 4, 2007. The Portland Building, located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue, is open to the public from 7am - 6pm, Monday through Friday.
Stagl is transforming the installation space into a view below the east end of the Marquam Bridge as seen from OMSI and the Eastbank Esplanade. He is constructing an “imagined beautiful moment below the Marquam Bridge’s looming double deck cantilever.” Representations of the bridge’s supporting pillars and massive cross support will be the central focus of the installation with a bridge form extending across the space. Sounds of both the highway and river traffic will softly spill over the installation as light is cast upward off of a reflective representation of the Willamette.
Stagl’s intention is to create a space that “reconsiders our existing infrastructures and examines ways in which we can address our urban landscape in a positive and creative sense.” His long term goal is to create a light based installation at the actual site under the Marquam Bridge. This installation serves as a catalyst for discussion about that possibility.
Background
Ben Stagl grew up in Rockwood, Oregon, and received his BFA from Oregon State University in 2003. He has exhibited his work at the Arts Factory in Las Vegas, the RAKE Gallery in Portland and has worked with youth at the p:ear gallery to develop exhibitions. He is interested in systems of growth and constraint and how to develop new ways of constructing/describing them.
Upcoming installations: Tore Djupedal, September 10-October 5; Noah Nakell, October 15-November 9; Gary Wiseman and T. Reginald Bluebell, November 19-December 14; all the art that fits (City/County employee art exhibit), December 21-January 25, 2008; Becca Bernstein, February 4-29; and Marie Watt, March 10-April 4, 2008.
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