Big Sky Country

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Artwork Information

Artist:

Brandon Stahlman

Date:

Unknown

Media:

Monoprint on paper

Size:

Location:

STEM Building (SBG), first floor hallway

About the Artist:

Brandon Stahlman is a Sacramento-based artist and musician. His printmaking work was primarily woodblock printing using traditional Japanese methods and materials.

Artwork description:

Black and blue ink on white paper. Simple shapes create a landscape with the horizon very low on the page, a simplified building with two smokestacks and a large black, blue and white smoke cloud covers much of the paper.

Acquisition Information:

This work was obtained by Archer from the Flight 64 Studio in Portland, Oregon.

In 2016, James "Jim" Archer donated much of his private art collection, over 100 pieces to Clark College; selected works from the collection were shown in the gallery that bears his name, in an exhibit called “Archer @ Archer.”

Archer grew up in Vancouver and received his Associate of Arts degree from Clark College before going on to earn his Bachelor of Arts in graphic design from Portland State University and his Master of Fine Arts from Washington State University. Afterward he returned to Clark College to teach. In addition to serving as gallery director, Jim taught art and art history at Clark College for 23 years.

Archer originally became curator of Clark’s art gallery in 1982, when it was still located within the Clark College Bookstore and was called the Index Gallery. Successful in attracting well-known Northwest artists, the Index Gallery became known as one the region’s top alternative venues for contemporary artists. Archer announced his retirement in 1995. That same year, the gallery—which by then had been relocated to a larger space within Gaiser—was renamed in Archer’s honor. It moved to its current location in the lower level of the Penguin Union Building in 2005.

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