PNCA graduate Eliza Fernand produced several shows of sculptural multiples including at Rake and for the Scratching the Surface show by the Willamette where her work was swept up by an over zealous maintenance person but recovered before being sent to the landfill. It is good work, but the maintenance man was the wrong audience. She has moved to Brooklyn and is keeping up a busy schedule of shows and performances. Tonight she returns for interactive installations and a musical performance at Gallery Homeland. Fernand's installations at Homeland include Connect, felty doorways as bridges for gestural interactions between the participants; Floating Tube Clouds dispensing snacks; and a costumed performance with Molly Enright as the Voluptuary Pair. After she performs with her band Dang Moma.
It has been over a month since we have awarded our copywriting award, so: "The performance art of Eliza Fernand combines the reality of our time and place with an abstract and fluctuating surreality. With her costumes, performance objects, and her body, she transforms familiar materials and reference points, leaving the audience with an array of sensations to cling to".
At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th (corner of Division) 8PM
