Marne Lucas’ “Sitting City” at W@W
Jayme Hansen. photo: Marne Lucas from “Sitting City”
Marne Lucas latest project, “Sitting City: Portland Artist Portraits,” is her PDX-centric answer to Andy Warhol’s screentests, but in a far more cinematic vein, ironically, than Warhol’s essentially still (“don’t even blink”) 3-minute motion picture portraits. This makes the result more fun for us and surely the process more fun for Lucas. Photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and subversive provacateur, here Lucas turns her lens on a small, eclectic slice of Portland art-makers including M.K. Guth (Red Shoe Delivery Service, etc.), performance artist/musician Jayme Hansen (Fleshtone), filmmaker Chel White, writer and artist Harvest Henderson, plus three Panders, Bruce Conkle, Trish Grantham, and pop-installation artist Chandra Bocci.
Jayme Hansen. photo: Marne Lucas from “Sitting City”
The exhibition of color photographs from the project opens this Friday, December 1 with a reception from 6-9:30 PM at Mark Woolley’s Woolley at Wonder (128 NE Russell). Lucas says, “The portraits were conceptualized with a very intuitive approach to my instinct about the artist�s personality, whether I was well-acquainted with them or not. The balance between art direction and personality in the images was a gift….” So Paul Green is depicted as a figure out of one of his own paintings while M.K. Guth’s portrait finds her in a modification of a childhood memory…ice fishing, but at a hockey rink. Go see.
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