A survey of works by Oregon visual and performing artists
April 26–August 4, 2024
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2024 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial: ablaze with our care, its ongoing song. Curated by Jackie Im and Anuradha Vikram On view through Sunday, August 4, 2024.
Participating artists: Carla Bengtson, Meech Boakye, Srijon Chowdhury, Epiphany Couch, Megita Denton, Michael Espinoza. Marcus Fischer, Bean Gilsdorf, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, Anne Greenwood, Bridgette Hickey, chimaera/project, Horatio Hung-Yan Law, Maxx Katz, Rainen Knecht, Methods Body, Morgan Ritter, Sarah Rushford, Tyler Stoll, UwU Collective, Vo Vo.
What does it mean to care? To connect with others, with a place, with other beings, and to practice a kind of love, empathy, and respect with something that is outside of yourself? In this first Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial since 2019—since a worldwide pandemic shifted everyone’s lives and perspectives—we started by asking how do we care for others and ourselves? We invited participating artists to respond to this question by bringing the people they care for, and who care for them, together in a spirit of reconnection and mutual aid. For many of the artists in the Biennial, care means to share space, and to open up resources and visibility to others. They share their space with communities both local and afar, they share their space with the natural world and ecologies, they share their space with their ancestors and those on whose sovereign land we still walk. Their work in the Biennial acts as portals giving access points to each reflect on our own relationships, our connections to one another, and how we can move through the world with compassion, self-love, and shared responsibility for all.
