February 12 - 28, 2010
Yesterday:Today:Tomorrow celebrates ten years of Gertrude Press featuring eight visual artists or collectives whose work has been published in the journal. The show considers "Queerness"—an identity in constant flux—and addresses themes of otherness, sameness, and cultural collapse.
Portland Q Center - 4115 N. Mississippi, Portland, Oregon [map]
Participating Artists: Michelle Acuff, Dawn Forbes, Frank Munns, Neil Meitzler (posthumously), Kimberly Miller, Operation Pinko, and Sigrid Zahner.
Curated by Jedidiah Chavez, Art Editor, Gertrude Press.
Made possible through a grant from The Standard. Food provided by Hedge House.
Learn more about the artists:
Michelle Acuff received her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and currently teaches in the art department at Whitman College. Throughout her career, Acuff has received multiple awards for both her artistic productions and her scholarship. Her work has been displayed in numerous exhibitions from Chicago to Memphis.
Dawn Forbes holds an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College. Forbes is a professional artist whose work engages in explorations of psychology, archaeology, gender identity, and the extraordinary body. Forbes currently teaches as an adjunct assistant professor of art and directs the Sheehan Gallery at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. She was the featured artist in issue 12 of Gertrude and served as the Guest Art Editor in Spring of 2009.
Kimberly Miller holds a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Vermont College. She has screened or shown her work at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee and in New York, Helsinki and Bangkok. Stated interests and concerns: employing dance, stand-up comedy, theater and multiple modes of address to "destabilize the subject and call a 'you' into being."
Sigrid Zahner is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Purdue University. Born in London, England, her current research is based on the iconoclastic leadership of the Dada movement which she feels is a model and reminder that art, by definition, needs to be forever in a state of flux. Her work is materials based, but includes any medium or dimension that will lend itself to her interest in our attachment to religion, judgment and the constant sacrifice of our children to war. She was the recipient of both a creative renewal grant from the IAC in 2002, and an individual grant in 2005. Sigird is proud to say she broke a barrier by being asked to be the first straight artist included in the Oregon quarterly publication of Gertrude Journal as a featured artist.
Operation Pinko is a collective based out of Paris, France. They have no names only political agendas and they have shown internationally in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, The Kitchen, Potentially Your Backyard, and the Dubai Institute for Contemporary Culture.
Neil Meitzler (d.2009) is part of the historical Northwest School of artists, which also includes Kenneth Callahan, Mark Tobey, and Morris Graves. His work has been in numerous exhibitions throughout the Northwest and occupies a number of prominent collections including the Jundt Museum, the Museum of Northwest Art, and the Seattle Art Museum.
Frank Munns is an artist based out of San Francisco and Walla Walla, WA. He holds a B.A. in Classics from the University of Washington, an M.A. in Archaeology from Indiana University, and an M.F.A. in painting and sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has been prominently showcased in various venues in Washington, California, and New York. He has also held academic teaching positions in Art History, Anthropology, and French.
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