RACC Press Releases
July 25, 2008
Things Never Die: Stories from the Edge of Excess
at the Portland Building July 28-August 22, 2008
The Regional Arts & Culture Council presents the installation, Things Never Die: Stories from the Edge of Excess, by Bin Labs – a collaboration of Portland artists Rachel Hibbard, Sean Regan and Cara Tomlinson, in the Portland Building Installation Space, July 28-August 22, 2008. The Portland Building, located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue, is open to the public from 7am - 6pm, Monday through Friday.
Regan, Hibbard and Tomlinson collaborate to investigate issues of consumerism, redistribution and the communities that form around excess resources. This is the first installation in several planned projects by the artists focusing on the Goodwill Outlet Store in SE Portland. The Bins is a sorting station which transfers material goods from one state to another, from one owner to another, and from one purpose to another. Using interviews with individuals, collections of materials and objects and through a deep examination of place, the artists explore how the Bins subvert and highlight systems of prestige and the symbols of value, and how they reveal patterns of culture.
The installation examines our relationship to objects and recreates the Bins experience for the viewer through the use of objects, sound and video. A sculptural mass of discarded consumer goods (from the Bins) will define the space and videotaped interviews of Bin shoppers will reveal community and individuals’ relationships to objects they find and repurpose. A sound montage of conversations, movement and sorting will be available for viewers to listen to on headphones.
Opening Reception: 5:00-7:00 p.m., Tuesday, July 29th
Read more about it: Willamette Week, “Goodwill Hunting”, April 16th, 2008.
Hear more about it: KBOO interview on Art Focus, Thursday, July 24th from 10:30-11am.
Background
Cara Tomlinson is a Portland native whose work has been shown in solo and group shows across the country including the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts; the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY; Davenport Museum of Art and the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa; the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Virginia Center for Creative Art. She is represented by the Mark Woolley Gallery and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Lewis and Clark College. Tomlinson received her MFA in Painting from the University of Oregon.
Sean Regan is a video artists, performer and educator. He has exhibited his work at Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Everson Museum in New York, the Athens International Film and Video Festival and THAW International Festival of Video and Digital Art. He has also screened his work in Split, Croatia; Berlin, Germany; and Antwerp, Belgium. He currently teaches in the Media Studies program at Washington Statue University in Vancouver. Regan received his MFA in Intermedia Arts from the University of Iowa
Rachel Hibbard has organized exhibitions for environmental arts organizations, college galleries and public parks. She has exhibited her work at the Cultural Center in Chicago; the State of Illinois Gallery; the Betsy Rosenfield and Kline Galleries in Chicago; the Maryhill Museum; and PICA. She has taught at the Chicago Art Institute and is currently an adjunct instructor at Portland State University. Hibbard received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Upcoming installations: Paula 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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