Archer Gallery presents Plazm: 20 Years of Art and Design, an
exhibition of the inestimably influential art magazine as well as the
design that has supported its lasting production.
The final show for the academic year is the Art Student Annual, a juried presentation of student
artwork. This exhibition highlights the art programs
available at Clark College, featuring works by students
in the ceramics, drawing, graphic design, metal arts, photography,
painting, and sculpture classes of the Clark College Art Department.
Archer Gallery presents Range, works by Thomas Allen, Harrison Higgs, Andrew O’Brien, Devon Oder, and Robert Smith. These artists explore landscape in varied approaches: mystifying the land, creating illusions, exploring representations, and abstraction. Using a variety of methods including photography, video, mixed media and sculpture, these artists explore landscape as science, concept, a physical presence, and a metaphorical or religious manifestation.
Archer Gallery presents Indweller, video works by Victoria Fu, Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli, Noelle Mason, and Lilly McElroy. In each of these works, the bodies are used in a predetermined way within the space of the setting and the frame. The female figures are choreographed or set to a limited structure of movement, rather than used as character explorations. Through controlled gestures, constructed cinematic structures, and suspended moments in time and space, the figures become inseparable from the setting within the video, existing to complete the imagined world of the artist.
Organized by The Art Gym in collaboration with four community college galleries, Perimeter: We Live Here Now is an exhibition of the work of eleven artists who were born and raised outside of the United States, all of whom now live and work in the Pacific Northwest.
Archer Gallery presents new paintings by Yoshihiro Kitai and prints and installation work by Kartz Ucci.
Archer Gallery presents Magnitudes and Increments, an exhibition of works by Peter Happel Christian (Saint Cloud, Minnesota) and Dan Gilsdorf (Portland, Oregon). Both artists interact with the world by measuring, reducing, and recording it through a range of media. The processes vary for the artists, but both Gilsdorf and Happel Christian engage in systematic methods of artmaking in order to gain understanding of what is more true than real, more poignant than scientific.
Archer Gallery presents Trait, an exhibition of artwork exploring aspects ranging from literary devices to genetic characteristics and traits of physical location. Featuring both regional and national contemporary artists working in drawing, painting, sculpture, and digital mediums, Trait views fictional and physical worlds through work beginning with a single detail and developing into an exploration of larger implications. Trait includes works by Craig Drenne, Lilla Locurto and Bill Outcault, Jack Dingo Ryan, and Ashley Sloan.
The last exhibition for the year at the Archer Gallery, the Art Student Annual, is a highly anticipated juried presentation of student artwork and highlights the art programs available at Clark College. Featuring works by students, the exhibition presents work completed in the photography, painting, drawing, metal arts, sculpture, computer imagery, and ceramics classes of the Clark College Art Department.
The Archer Gallery presents an exhibition by Alison Owen, the Clark Art Talks Artist-in-Residence at Clark College. Alison Owen makes site-responsive paintings and installations that alter the environment in subtly invasive ways.
Archer Gallery presents Alight, an exhibition of works on paper by artists Aili Schmeltz (Los Angeles) and Laura Vandenburgh (Eugene, Oregon). Somewhere between the physical and the ephemeral, both artists explore concepts of place through drawing and painting on paper.
Archer Gallery presents Vantage, an exhibition of artwork exploring perspective - visually, contextually, and perceptually. Featuring regional and national contemporary artists working in sculpture, video, computer animation, sound, photography, and installation, Vantage invites viewers into uncommon worlds, where meaning is reconstructed and reality subverted. Vantage includes works by Avantika Bawa, Victoria Haven, Isaac Layman, Golan Levin, Greg Pond, and Stephen Slappe.
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Flotsam & Jetsam and Jetties & Gyres
November 10th- December 10th, 2009
Steven Beatty and Laurel Kurtzs most recent installation furthers the environmental explorations of their previous work.
Art Faculty Biennial 2009
September 29- October 24, 2009
The Archer Gallery opened the 2009-2010 academic year with Clark Colleges Art Department Faculty Biennial.
Art Student Annual
May 13 June 9, 2009
The traditional end-of-year exhibition of student work created in Art Department classes.
Expanded Narrative: The Photographic Image in Mixed Media Constructions
April 7 – May 2, 2009
Featuring work by Theresa Batty, Ian van Coller, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Nathan Lucas, Amy Pruzan, Jacinda Russell,
and Preston Wadley, Expanded Narrative explores the use of the photographic image within the constructed object.
Considered Space
February 17 March 14, 2009
A group show of artists exploring real and perceived space in paint. Featuring the work of Ben Buswell, Jesse
Hayward, Mark R. Smith, Adam Sorensen, Grant Hottle, Cara Tomlinson, and Lise Graham.
Beasts & Botanicals
January 13 February 7, 2009
A group exhibition of ceramic artists (animal and flower imagery)
Pacific Currents
November 4 December 5, 2008
Exhibiting nine contemporary artists of Asian heritage, Pacific Currents presents a broad range of mediums ceramic,
watercolor, cane and bamboo sculpture, photography, mixed media on canvas and paper, and video. Each artists work
references nature and the iconic imagery and materials of the Asian historical tradition, as filtered through contemporary issues and experience.
Ruth Patterson Hart Retrospective
September 30 October 25, 2008
A retrospective viewing of work by Ruth Patterson Hart curated by Trisha and Craig Kauffman.
Few individuals were aware of Hart's early academic training and exhibitions; she set her work
aside in the family attic for 50 years to devote her life to family and friends.
Dialogue: flat/form
April 8 – May 4, 2008
A group exhibition featuring sculpture and flat work by Cris Bruch,
Lauren Clay, Drew Daly, Eric Eley, Whiting Tennis, and Amanda Wojick.
Addressing militarism and its relationship to gender, MB Condon combines news imagery, appropriated text,
Pentagon nomenclature, feminine iconography, and polemical portraiture in her paintings and drawings as
she explores the issues of language, propaganda, and identity.
An exciting multi-media event in collaboration with the Clark College Art Department and Washington State University Vancouvers Digital
Technology & Culture Program.
