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Pat Boas — Record Record
For Release: August 05, 2009Reception for the Artist: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, September 13, 2009
Exhibition continues through October 28, 2009
Gallery talk noon, Thursday, October 8
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University
Pat Boas — Record Record will open at The Art Gym on Sunday, September 13 with a free public reception for the artist from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Pat Boas — Record Record features drawings, prints, photographs and video by Portland-based artist Pat Boas. The exhibition continues through October 28.
At noon, Thursday, October 8, curator Terri Hopkins will moderate a gallery talk with the artist. Admission is free.
Pat Boas — Record Record includes four series of artworks generated in response to The New York Times and digital photographs and videos from the artist’s new series What Our Homes Can Tell Us. A 60-page catalogue accompanies the exhibition. The publication contains color reproductions of the works in the exhibition and an essay by Stephanie Snyder, director and curator of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery at Reed College. The exhibition and publication were supported in part by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
More about Pat Boas — Record Record
Since 2001, Pat Boas has examined The New York Times as a record and repository of language and images. In 2001, she began several series that focused on the paper’s texts and images. The Art Gym exhibition includes two of them — Alphabet (NYT 01/01/01) and All the Heads on the Front Pages of the New York Times, 2001. In Alphabet (NYT 01/01/01) Boas used a solvent transfer process to examine the front page of the January 1, 2001 issue of the Times letter-by-letter. All the Heads on the Front Pages of the New York Times, 2001 is a set of twelve drawings each of which contains a month of traced silhouettes of people who appeared on front pages of the Times everyday in 2001.
More recently, Boas created two additional series that examine the Times. Her A3 series calls attention to the haunting pairings of the international new summary and Tiffany jewelry ads that was prevalent for a number of years, a practice that the paper ended recently. NYT Little People is an ongoing series of gouache paintings on paper of people who are not famous, but who the Times has chosen to feature on its front pages since 9/11.
The exhibition also includes digital photographs, and single and multiple channel videos from the series What Our Homes Can Tell Us. For this new body of work, Boas has assembled a photographic lexicon of words found on objects in her house and in the European hometowns of significance to her family and ancestors. She writes, "I began photographing as many words as I could in my house, looking for what sense could be squeezed and scraped off the sides of everyday objects. I continued collecting as I traveled to cities I had particular connections with and composed the resulting texts by sifting through the captured vocabularies until messages emerged."
More about the artist
Pat Boas is an artist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her drawings and projects have been shown at the Portland Art Museum, the Boise Art Museum, the Salt Lake Art Center, the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming, and Seattle’s Consolidated Works. The recipient of several grants and awards for her studio work, she has written articles and exhibition reviews for such publications as Art Papers and artUS. Boas is an assistant professor of Art Practice and chair of the Master of Fine Arts Program at Portland State University.
About The Art Gym
The Art Gym programs are supported in part by the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Art Gym is on the third floor of the B.P. John Administration Building at Marylhurst University, which is located one mile south of Lake Oswego on Highway 43. The Art Gym’s regular hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For additional information, call 503.699.6243.
Founded in the fall of 1980, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University has a 28-year history of presenting work by hundreds of artists based in the Northwest. The Art Gym has published more than 50 exhibition catalogues and sponsored more than 100 conversations about art in the region. In 2004-2005, The Art Gym was a recipient of the Governor’s Arts Award.