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Emily Ginsburg

Sylvania North View Gallery

Feedback Loop

Abstract painting with collage consisting of horizontal bands on a ground of black and white. Rectangular blocks of colors – including red, orange, blue, and purple – combine with patterned areas to create an overall fluid image.

Transmission #15, 2017, acrylic on stonehenge paper, 44″ x 30″

  • Artist in residence: June 17 to August 2, 2019
  • Exhibition dates: August 3 to September 20, 2019
  • Opening reception: Saturday, August 3, 2-4pm
  • The opening reception will feature a performance by Michael Reinsch at 3pm.

We are pleased to welcome Portland based artist Emily Ginsburg for an informal summer residency in the North View Gallery.  Ginsburg will be in the space from late June through July in preparation for her August/September exhibition Feedback Loop.  Among the artist’s plans for the space are a series of paintings, an installation, and a performance.  Visitors are welcome to engage Ginsburg in the space when she is there working.

Feedback Loop

As notions of meaning and resonance become increasingly ephemeral and mediated, this exhibition explores how to make visible and material the affective impact of our communicative transmissions. The desire within the work is to expose the visual and emotive confluence between synaptic and media derived patterns as abstract records of consciousness.

Cell phones, newspapers, television, social media, and streamed content allow us to author, participate, and witness these phenomena. These cumulative signals and noises are intertwined with direct physical interaction between bodies and sites in our everyday lives. Through the processes of painting, installation, digital fabrication and performance, Ginsburg engages the call and response interaction between materiality, transmission, and the reverberations that linger on.

About the artist

Emily Ginsburg received her BA in Art History from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1986 and an MFA in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1991.  Her conceptually driven work maps physical, written and spoken behavioral patterns in the context of the everyday through diverse media.  These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally as well as commissioned for public art projects at Seattle City Light, Seattle Washington, Portland State University and Cyan/PDX in Portland, Oregon.  The artist Professor and Chair of Media Arts at Pacific Northwest College of Art where she teaches in the Intermedia and MFA in Visual Studies programs respectively.

  • Panorama view of art gallery. On the left wall are six multicolored large abstract paintings; on the right wall are smaller multicolored abstract paintings that form a large rectangle. At center is a wall of glass windows that look out to greenery, with seven large bands of colored vinyl installed vertically across the glass.
  • Artwork of vinyl rectangular colored decals on two glass walls. Colors include blue, red, green and yellow and are arranged as verticals. The trees and walkway are seen behind the glass.
  • Artwork of vinyl rectangular colored decals on two glass walls. Colors include blue, red, green and yellow and are arranged as verticals. The trees and walkway are seen behind the glass.
  • View of performance for the exhibition. A man stands to the left of an empty chair, a guitar and other objects are on the floor beside him. He is holding a large metal ring with painted cards on it and reading from the cards. Behind him is a wall of glass with large bands of blue, magenta, yellow and green vinyl.
  • View of performance for the exhibition. A man is sitting on a chair playing a small guitar. On the floor beside him are objects. . Behind him is a wall of glass with large bands of blue, red, yellow and green vinyl.
  • Sculpture consisting of a large metal ring with a series of small paintings on paper hanging from it. The paintings are grommeted on the end attached to the ring and have colorful abstract images on them.
  • Sculpture with a series of small paintings on paper that have holes in one corner. They are strung together on a metal ring. On the left is one painting has text, on the right a number of paintings show abstract color images.
  • Gallery wall has an installation of 98 small paintings on paper, each measuring 11 by 30 inches. The paintings are directly adjacent to one another so as to form a rectangle at the perimeter of the wall; they form a large rectangle that touches the edges of the wall at the ceiling, the floor, and to the left and right. The center of the wall is empty except for the circular shapes created by the lighting for the artwork. The paintings are multicolored and abstract.
  • Detail view of larger wall installation. Abstract painting based on a grid, showing rectagular and square forms on a predominantly pink background. Colors include many shades of red, green,black, pink, yellow, blue, orange and white.
  • Detail view of larger wall installation. Abstract painting based on a grid, showing black dots on a grid of pencil
  • Vertical abstract multicolored painting consisting of layers of shapes. The space divided in two, with mostly blue and orange on top and green and blue on the bottom. Discreet layers of differing shapes and lines in contrasting colors are layered on one another to create an atmosphere of apparent nonstop activity.
  • Vertical abstract multicolored painting consisting of layers of shapes. Orange and pink concentric brush strokes form the periphery of the image. At the center are varied small shapes and lines that are layered over one another and appear to be floating within the pink shape. Colors include many shades of red, green, pink, yellow, blue, orange and white.
  • Vertical abstract multicolored painting consisting of layers of shapes. The painting is visually divided on a diagonal with the upper left corner dominated by a large white shape with smaller ovoid shapes floating on top. The lower right has a background of small interlocking geometric forms with the same ovoid shapes floating in the foreground. Colors include many shades of red, green, pink, yellow, black, blue, orange and white.
  • Vertical abstract multicolored painting consisting of layers of shapes. On the bottom right foreground is a pink form with black and white horizontal wavy lines inside; on the bottom left foreground a black triangle with a scalloped edge. In the center are green rectalinear lines on top of a background or various geometric forms; the top half of the painting is very busy with smaller dots and squares and thin wavy lines. Colors include many shades of red, green, pink, yellow, black, blue, orange and white.

Performance by Michael Reinsch

Ways to Disappear in Plain Site

Using Ginsburg’s paintings and text prompts from Ways to Disappear in Plain Site as source, Reinsch will perform a collection of poetic improvisations as part of a project they created for Albatross in February of 2019.

Michael Reinsch is a multi-disciplinary artist living in rural Southern Oregon. Reinsch is an iconoclast who uses digital/analog collage, performance, poetry, and painting to pick at notions of received beauty and being. In addition, Reinsch has nationally performed a gallery called Albatross; a low impact endurance piece where art is displayed in a lanyard around their neck. Reinsch earned both a BFA and MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art where he also taught for 6 years.

Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 8am-4pm, Saturday 11am-4pm

Directions: Follow signs to the bookstore and visitor parking. The gallery is located in the Communications and Technology (CT) building, adjacent to the bookstore, on the NE corner of campus.