Kartz Ucci’s installation art has been exhibited internationally at venues in Soeul, Limossal, Basel, Toronto and Montreal. Ucci is currently an Assistant Professor in Digital Arts at the University of Oregon in Eugene. TILT Export: kartz ucci runs September 21-October 30, 2009 at the PCC Rock Creek Helzer Gallery.

Sentimental, humorous yet sorrowful, haunting, the paintings of Chris Knight read as fragments of larger stories sewn together in uncanny montages. Chris Knight is the recipient of the 2007 WK Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. He currently teaches drawing and painting at Oregon College of Art and Craft and Portland Community College.

Chas Bowie writes about contemporary art and photography. He is an art critic for the Oregonian and a contributor to numerous art and culture publications. Bowie currently teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art and his artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally.

Ben received his BFA from Oregon State University and MFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He has exhibited recently in Portland, San Francisco, and Michigan and was included in the 2006 Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum. Ben currently teaches Sculpture and Design in Portland, Oregon.

Isaac Layman’s photographs are hyper-real, psychologically charged visions of the spaces and objects found in his Seattle home. His most recent solo show in 2008 garnered reviews in Art in America and Artweek. Layman was the Betty Bowen Award winner of the Seattle Art Museum in 2008. He is represented by Lawrimore Project. Layman’s artwork will be on display in the Archer Gallery January 12th-February 6th.

Aili Schmeltz is a Los Angeles based sculptor and installation artist who has exhibited widely nationally. She has recently been awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and residency fellowships at Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin as well as the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. Schmeltz will also be leading a workshop at Clark and her artwork will be in the Archer Gallery February 16th-March 15th.

Mike Bray is a video and installation artist from Chicago, Illinois. His work examines artifice within the construction of cinematic space. Over the past year,he has exhibited in the Guys Doing Guy Things at the Art Gym in Marylhurst, Oregon; Summer Show at Fourteen30 Contemporary in Portland, Oregon; and in Nashville Tennessee’s Fugitive Projects Traveling Video Show.

Karl Burkheimer is an Associate Professor and Department Head of the wood program at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon. He has taught internationally in Qatar, Turkey, and Africa. These unique and rich experiences resonate strong influences over his current work in sculpture.

Bonnie Fortune is an artist, writer, and educator based in Chicago. Her project-based work explores issues surrounding the environment, health, technology, and aging. She has exhibited in such diverse locals as Chicago, Mexico City, Aberdeen and Nashville, TN. Fortune will also be leading a workshop at Clark in addition to her lecture.

Alison Owen is the Clark Art Talks Artist- in- Residence for Spring Term 2010. She will be lecturing, leading workshops, and creating an installation for a solo exhibition in the Archer Gallery.

Alison Owen makes site-responsive paintings and installations that alter the environment in subtly invasive ways. She focuses on the peripheral, using delicate materials and colors to create works that reward sustained investigation and attention. Owen has exhibited extensively across the US and is participating in the id11 artist residency in Delft, the Netherlands in 2009.