Gertrude Press Presents Lounge Night, a special event featuring live performances by Annie Vergnetti,
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Tricia McInroy
BEYOND BOUNDARIES

Q Center
1028 SE Water Street (entrance on SE Taylor)
Portland, Oregon
Hours: Sun 1-5 pm, Mon-Wed, 4-8 pm

Exhibit Opening:
Friday, September 8, 2006, 6pm-8pm

Gertrude Press is proud to present, in conjunction with Portland's Q Center, the internationally known photographs of Tricia McInroy.

The photographs on display through the month of September, are a small portion of McInroy's larger body of work in which she documents immigrant border crossings along the Arizona and Mexico border. Her photos speak of desperation, solitude, and more importantly, McInroy provides faces to challenge immigration politics that are undoubtedly imbued with racism.

Relying on the perceived boundaries that define the concept of "the other," her work navigates the spatial relationships between photojournalism and art activism. As an out lesbian, McInroy demands that, "oppressed communities must reach out to others that exist on the margins. Only in this way can we begin to cooperatively deconstruct the very social systems that have failed us all."

For more info, contact: Jedidiah Chavez, Art Editor, via email at art@gertrudepress.org.

About the Artist:

Tricia McInroy has been a professional photographer for more than ten years with photos appearing in publications such as Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, Washington Post, and the fall 2006 issue of Gertrude.