Earlier this month I accompanied my PSU colleague, Julie Perini, on a very quick but incredibly fascinating trip to South Korea. We were invited by the Colleges of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ulsan to attend the opening reception of, “Sending Signals,” a joint exhibition between our universities. Julie gave a lecture to design students and I visited a freshman painting class for a critique. Though the language barrier was a challenge, I had interesting discussions with students and faculty members about the role of craft traditions in contemporary art.

Abstraction Machine (radar), 2001, graphite, gouache, colored pencil, pigment prints

galleryHOMELAND, 2505 SE 11th, Portland, OR

The latest in the Abstraction Machine series (above) was included in Reading. Writing., a group show curated by Lisa Radon. Reading.Writing. focuses on “the intersections between the practices of reading and writing and art making. It is the möbius strip where writing is a kind of reading is a kind of writing ∞.” The exhibition includes work by 18 artists from Portland, San Francisco, Calgary, Belgrade, and Montreal working in video, print, paint, sculpture, embroidery, photography, and publication, and is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay from Anne Marie Oliver and a poem by David Abel.

On August 13, I participated in a panel discussion, “Reading Art, Writing Art” with Abra Ancliffe and Patrick Collier, moderated by Lisa Radon.