Green Oregon
June 4-27 2009 at PNCA's Manuel Izquierdo Gallery
Robert Adams
Bruce Conkle
Erik Geschke
Maria T.D. Inocencio
Marne Lucas
Justin "Scrappers" Morrison
TJ Norris
Ryan Pierce
Patrick Rock
Mark R. Smith
Bailey Winters
Christy Wyckoff
Curated by Justin Bland and Mia Nolting
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The Manuel Izquierdo Gallery is lacated in PNCA's 3D Building (825 NW 13th)
and will be open Thursday - Sunday, 1pm to 5PM or by appointment.
Robert Adams For more than 40 years, Robert Adams (born 1937) has photographed the landscape of the American
West, particularly in California, Oregon, and his home state of Colorado. His work is inspired both by his joy in the
inherent beauty of the landscape, and his dismay at its exploitation and degradation for residential and commercial
development. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he
received the MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. In 2009, he received the Hasselblad Award for his
achievements in photography. He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and the Matthew Marks
Gallery in New York.
Bruce Conkle loves snowmen, coconuts, gingerbread, Sasquatch, crystals and meteorites. He is interested in making
work which uses art and humor to address contemporary attitudes toward nature and environmental concerns. His work
often deals with escapism, artificial worlds and man’s place within nature, and frequently examines what he calls
the “misfit quotient” at the crossroads. Conkle has had solo shows throughout the U.S. and in Iceland.
Erik Geschke is a sculptor / mixed-media artist who has exhibited both nationally and internationally at venues
including the UCLA Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles, ZieherSmith and Knoedler & Company in New York, The Navy
Pier in Chicago, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, FIAC Contemporary Art Fair in Paris, and Zaum
Projects in Lisbon, Portugal. He has received awards from the Seattle Art Museum (Betty Bowen Special Recognition
Award), Seattle Arts Commission (Seattle Artists Award), Jerome Foundation, College Art Association, Sculpture Space
Inc., and The Vermont Studio Center. Erik received his M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001,
attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1996, and received a B.F.A. from Cornish College of the
Arts in 1993. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Portland State University.
Maria T. D. Inocencio Much of Inocenco’s recent multimedia work is related to the experience of taking walks in
various environments. Inocencio has had solo shows in Portland and New York, and has received awards from the
Pollack-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Marne Lucas is a photographer and installation artist whose work addresses themes of nature, pop-culture and
sexuality. Her best-known work is portraiture based, exploring intimacy with candor in her pin-up portraits of men
and women. Lucas and collaborator Bruce Conkle’s recent projects include, Warlord Sun King: The Genesis of Eco-
Baroque, Eco-Baroque Variation, and a public art residency at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student
Union. She is a RACC project grant recipient, a Caldera Artist Residency alum and co-founder of the artist
collective, Blinglab.
Justin “Scrappers” Morrison is a self-described “urban folk artist” whose paintings, drawings, and sculptures are
often made using salvaged and recycled materials. He has designed clothing for Uniqlo and has recently exhibited
work at Damien Minton Gallery in Australia and Giant Robot in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Morrison is a Wieden +
Kennedy 12 alum, co-owner of Portland’s Grass Hut Gallery, and Art Director at The Portland Mercury.
TJ Norris is a multimedia artist and curator who has worked with art institutions across North America, including
Tufts Aidekman Art Center, Linfield College, SUNY Binghamton Art Museum, and Newspace Center for Photography.
Norris’s multimedia work explores photography, installation, video, sculpture and collaboration, and has been
called conceptual, ascetic and minimal. Having recently completed an audio/visual environment called Infinitus
with French composer, Christian Renou, Norris has collaborated with a host of composers including Nobukazu Takemura,
Scanner, Asmus Tietchens, Terre Thaemlitz, Paul Schutze and Janek Schaefer, and has compiled recordings for both
Innova Recordings/Ameri-can Composers Forum and Beta-Lactam Ring Records. Norris is represented by Portland’s New
American Art Union.
Ryan Pierce earned a BFA in Drawing from Oregon College of Art & Craft in 2003, and an MFA in Painting from
California College of the Arts in 2007. He was a recipient, that year, of a fellowship from the Joan Mitchell
Foundation, and a Cadogan award from the San Francisco Foundation. His work has been exhibited nationally,
including the CUE Foundation and Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in New York, and Roberts & Tilton
Gallery in Los Angeles. Forthcoming exhibitions include “Written from Exile,” at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in
Portland, and “NextNew: Green,” at San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art. Pierce is an arts writer and the
co-founder of Signal Fire, an organization that provides wilderness opportunities for artists. He volunteers for
Bark, Defenders of Mt. Hood, and teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland.
Patrick Rock is a native born Oregonian whose youth was divided between the empty rugged coastline, high mountain
lakes, muddy hippie fairs, strawberry shortcake festivals, and handgun ranges of the Pacific Northwest. He spent
ten years in semi-self-imposed solitude living in various beach shacks and splitting firewood before receiving his
BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in New Genres. Rock has exhibited his performance, installation,
sculpture, and video work internationally and is the founder and director of Portland’s ROCKSBOXFINEART, which
functions as a short-term artist residence and exhibition space with a focus on international artists producing
contemporary conceptual and performance-based work. He is the co-founder of ROCKSBOOKS, Leipzig/Portland, a
publishing house for artists’ catalogs. Patrick is the current director/curator of the Autzen and MK Galleries at
Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
Mark R. Smith’s creative process is fueled by frequent searches through the as-is clothing bins at the Goodwill Store,
where chance encounters with floral printed skirts, rock and roll tee-shirts and striped cotton-knit pajamas inspire
formal and conceptual approaches to making work. Employing cast-off clothes as painting material, Smith re-envisions
collective dwellings and temporary crowds among other types of social units, filtered through self-regulating systems
of organization found in the natural world. Smith is represented by Portland’s Elizabeth Leach Gallery.
Bailey Winters is originally from Santa Cruz, California, and has lived in Portland for several years. His current
paintings, influenced by photography and film, represent personal narratives enacted in historical settings. Winters
received his BFA from San Francisco’s California College of the Arts, and has had solo shows at Mack B gallery in
Sarasota, Florida, and Gallery 114 and New American Art Union in Portland.
Christy Wyckoff is a visual artist whose work explores the territory where photography, printmaking, and drawing
intersect. He has had solo exhibitions at the Alysia Duckler Gallery, Blackfish Gallery and Elizabeth Leach Gallery
in Portland Oregon; Gravura Brasileira in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Museuo da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba in Curitiba,
Brazil, and his work can be found in several museum and private collections internationally. Wyckoff received his BFA
from the University of Oregon and his MFA from the university of Washington. He is chair of Printmaking at Pacific
Northwest College of Art.
Justin Bland is an artist, curator, zine maker and native Oregonian who has recently shown work with New York’s
Deitch Projects. His recent zine, Peter Pan, is available at Reading Frenzy in Portland. Bland is a member of the Los
Angeles artist collective Comune and received a BFA in Painting from PNCA in 2008.
Mia Nolting is an a multimedia artist and illustrator who is has worked on projects with Oregon Health Science
University, Nike, The U.S. Forest Service, Penguin Publishing, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and Regional
Arts and Culture Council. Nolting recieved her BFA in illustration from PNCA in 2008 and has shown work in Portland
and Los Angeles.
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