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Friday Friday Openings

Neither Higher Nor Lower
Sarah Gottesdiener
w/contributors Jenstar Brockman, Michelle Calvert, Lacy Davis, Kaetlin Kennedy, Aaron Montaigne & Publication Studio
Nationale (811 E Burnside, Suite 112)
Opening reception First Friday July 2, 6-9 PM
Artist talk and presentation Thursday July 15th, 7 PM (as part of Nationale membership events)

Over the course of the last few months, Gottesdiener asked four other artists to give her instructions for living. Each time, she took their advice for the duration of one week, and then made art from the ideas their directions had inspired. The work presented here, which includes photographs, paintings, silkscreens, and books published by Publication Studio, intends to be a celebration of collaboration, inspiration, friendship, and the energy of action and living.

Vection
Jeff Jahn
New American Art Union (922 SE Ankeny)
First Friday Reception July 2nd 6-9 PM

Curator, writer, and artist Jahn shows an installation, photography, and an essay, his work addressing, “space, the organs of civilization and our perception of presentness.” He says that his use of recycled materials and “design motifs” in his installation is to be “a digestion of the present challenges at the intersection of man and nature or where concept meets its execution.” And what’s “vection?” According to Jahn/NAAU, “Vection, n. is the sensation of movement of the body in space produced purely by visual stimulation. Also, in veterinary terms it refers to the transference of pathogens from animal to animal.”

POSTED: July 1st, 2010 | AUTHOR: admin | FILED UNDER: art | No Comments »

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