RACC Press Releases
January 23, 2008
The Last Room at the Portland Building February 4-29, 2008
The Regional Arts & Culture Council presents the installation, The Last Room, by Portland artist Becca Bernstein in the Portland Building Installation Space, February 4-29, 2008. The Portland Building, located at 1120 SW 5 th Avenue, is open to the public from 7am - 6pm, Monday through Friday.
For this installation, Bernstein will create a furnished apartment of a fictional resident in a long-term care facility complete with all the details that lend themselves to daily life and celebrations. Her intent is to create an intimacy between the subject and viewer that is deep enough to perhaps light a spark of recognition and empathy.
Bernstein’s art typically addresses issues of community and the “awkward dance of human interdependence.” Her nine years of working closely with residents of senior care homes in Oregon and Scotland has led her to explore relationships, developed or abandoned, in this contemporary age.
Background
Becca Bernstein is a 2008 recipient of the George Sugarman Foundation Grant for socially conscious artists. Her newest painting series, “Keyhole Miniatures,” is on view at Gottlieb Gallery, 220 SW Yamhill St, February 2 nd – 29th. “The Last Room” is made possible with additional help from Providence Elderplace. She earned a B.A. in art from Lewis and Clark College in 2000 where she majored in Studio Art/Drawing. Her work can be found in the public collections of the City or Lake Oswego, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, the Northwest Business for Culture and the Arts, and the Oregon Ballet Theater. She is represented by galleries in Portland; Park City, Utah; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Aberdeen, UK.
Upcoming installations: Horatio Hung-Yan Law, March 10-April 4, 2008; Cara Tomlinson, Sean Regan, Rachel Hibbard, July 28 – August 22; Paul Rebsom, September 1 – 26; Dan Senn, October 6 – 31; Gabe Shaughnessy, November 10 – December 5; all the art that fits (employee art exhibit), December 10 – January 9, 2009; Carolyn Matsumoto, January 19 – February 13; Robert McConaughy, February 23 – March 20. For more information, contact RACC at 503.823.5111.
A website that features images, proposals and statements of all installations featured in the space since 1994 can be found at www.racc.org/installationspace.
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