Thursday, April 12, 2012

April 14 Smart Art Talks

Worksound has transformed itself into a residency and salon, as principal Modou Dieng takes on curatorial roles around town.

Perceptual Control is an experiment between five artists, writers and curators to engage with one another for four months at Worksound.

Tonight two, Amy Bernstein and Emily Nachison, engage in a dialog and you are invited to listen, question and comment. Amy Bernstein has been thinking about "Form and Absence". "Speech is the replacement of a presence by an absence and the pursuit, through presences ever more fragile, of an absence ever more all sufficing." - Maurice Blanchot. She expresses these ideas in her sparse energetic paintings. She is also an accomplished writer and will take the opportunity to talk about pragmatics in art making from a linguistic and philosophical viewpoint. "Organic/Synthetic" is on the mind of Emily Nachison. She discusses her process of making sculpture and installation from influences in mythology, anthropology, geology and decorative arts.

At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 7PM-10 Free