Head over to the Cooley on Monday the 8th for performance, music, art, and a film screening. "Love: Personified" promises a "live and virtual encounter" by Stephanie Gervais and Alexandra Schmidt (4 pm) followed by Zoe Roller (5 pm) and two David Reed videos (6-9 pm; BYO cushions and pillows for lounging). One piece, "Judy's Bedroom," was inspired by and appropriates from the Hitchcock classic "Vertigo," so the gallery is showing that film as well. Admission is free.
The Cooley Gallery is in the library building at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard in Portland, and online at www.reed.edu/gallery .
Love: Personified
A live and virtual encounter by
Stephanie Gervais and Alexandra Schmidt
Monday, December 8
4 p.m. at the Cooley Gallery
PLEASE NOTE THIS PERFORMANCE CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT
This is Love: Personified, a live and virtual encounter orchestrated by Stephanie Gervais and Alexandra Schmidt. In Love: Personified, performers Alexandra Schmidt and Michael McManus embark upon a journey from one kind of fear to another. They begin from separate origins at the sound of a shofar blasted by athlete Andrea Glaser, walking towards one another via a long, white path, meeting at a clawfoot bathtub. Once there, the performers adorn one another in color like fire—made to protect them.
They then enter the bathtub, replete with a thousand goldfish. This is a gift to the performers as well as the spectators. This is an act of enrichment, meant to extend the non-mediocre aspects of life. The performers embrace youth like a beast, for everyone involved. —Stephanie Gervais
Followed by music with Zoe Roller
5-6 p.m. at the gallery
And continuing into the evening with
Dreamtime with David Reed
A RECUMBENT FILM SCREENING IN THE PRESENCE OF PAINTINGS
6-9 p.m. at the gallery
Bring your pillows, camping rolls and cushions and come lounge on the soft Hemlock floors of the Cooley Gallery for a very special screening of two video works by David Reed, Scottie's Bedroom, 1994 (pictured below), and Judy's Bedroom, 1992, inspired by and appropriating Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece VERTIGO, followed by a showing of Vertigo in the same space.
Arthur Danto has described David Reed and his highly inventive synthesis of painting, installation art, and electronic media as an "exemplar of the contemporary moment in the arts."
Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitors in the Arts
David Reed
Lives of Paintings
October 29–December 9, 2008
Exhibition curator: Stephanie Snyder, Director
Join Cooley Gallery education outreach coordinator Gregory MacNaughton for a special family tour this Saturday, December 6, 12 p.m., at the gallery
Renowned New York abstract painter and Reed College alumnus David Reed returns to the college for a one-person exhibition of paintings created over the last three decades, from 1965 to the immediate present. Entitled Lives of Paintings, this diachronic installation brings together interrelated bodies of David Reed’s work: early gestural landscapes, time-based performative paintings from the 1970s, and large-scale, intensely optical paintings from the last twenty years. Each body of work illuminates the strategies and nuances of the others, exploring the “lives” of the paintings within the intimate conversational space of the Cooley. To investigate the lives of the paintings as social objects, the Cooley Gallery is publishing an experimental monograph that includes a collection of individual, large-format reproductions of each painting in the exhibition; and the translocational “life story” of each painting is explored.
Completing his 1968 painting thesis at Reed College with Willard (Bill) Midgette, David Reed cites Reed College as the catalyst for his artistic awakening, and the milieu in which he first experienced the intellectual and material rigor of artistic life. Before returning to Reed to complete his degree, David Reed studied painting with Philip Guston and Milton Resnick at the New York Studio School. David Reed has had solo exhibitions at the Max Protetch Gallery in New York since 1976. Large exhibitions of his paintings and video installations traveled to US museums in 1998 and 2005, and to European museums in 1995 and 2001. David Reed has received grants from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and received the Skowhegan Medal for Painting in 2001 and the Ursula Blickle Foundation Art Award in 2002. David Reed initiated and advised the exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-75.
High Times, Hard Times was curated by Katy Siegel and organized by the iCI, Independent Curators International, New York. Traveling for three years to numerous institutions, the exhibition not only captured a tumultuous period of political and social change, but also reflected the impact of the civil rights struggle, student and anti-war activism, and the beginnings of feminism in the art world.
Designed by Joshua Berger of PLAZM in collaboration with the artist, the monograph includes essays by Jeffrey Kipnis, Lisa Ann Favero, and Reed College Professor Emeritus Charles Rhyne; a conversation with exhibition curator Stephanie Snyder; and a preface by Reed College Professor of Art Michael Knutson.
For more information about the exhibition, visit: www.reed.edu/gallery
The Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitors in the Arts Program was established by a generous 1988 gift to Reed from longtime friends of the college Edward and Sue Cooley and John and Betty Gray in support of art history and its place in the humanities. The mission of the program is to bring to campus creative people who are distinguished in connection with the visual arts and who will provide a forum for conceptual exploration, challenge, and discovery.
The Cooley Gallery is open Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
The gallery is located in the Reed library, admission is always free
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202
www.reed.edu
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