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PROOF:
a group show / ART : SCIENCE
beppu wiarda gallery
319 NW 9th Avenue / Portland OR / 97209 / 503.241.6460

March 2010
Opening / First Thursday / March 4 / 6 – 8 pm
Gallery / Wednesday – Sunday / 11 am – 6 pm
Discussion led by Abra / Sunday / March 21 / 3 pm

I am so pleased to be a part of the PROOF: exhibition at beppu wiarda in March.  The group show includes multiple artists that focused on female scientists and mathematicians for the content.  I have continued my exploration of 19th century astronomer, suffragist, librarian and educator Maria Mitchell.  My work, “An Explanatory and Annotated Legend and Accompanying List, Utilizing the Path of Venus as Seen from Earth to Discuss the Connections between those in Maria Mitchell’s Personal Library as an Addendum to the Personal Libraries Library of Portland, Oregon.” includes a grid of nine letterpress prints (pictured above) and a take-away stack of offset posters.

Alongside the show, there are a series of discussions led by the contributing artists, art historians, scientists and mathematicians.  There is a discussion every Sunday at 3 pm in the gallery.  I will be leading a discussion on Sunday, March 21 that will involve Maria Mitchell and the Personal Libraries Library.

Other artists and their “collaborators” include:
Katie Ammons : Louise Arner Boyd / Kate Copeland : Zoe Rodriguez del Rey / Kate Fenker : Marcia Ascher / Bean Gilsdorf : Suzanne Gahl / Kim Hamblin : Chrystal Bell / Kim McKenna : Sophie Germain / Sara McKenna : Ada Lovelace / Lorna Nakell : Sophie Brahe

and do not miss:

COPY JAM!
A Printeresting Curatorial Project
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
116 North Third Street / Philadelphia PA / 19106

One Night Only:
Thursday / March 25 / 2010 / 6 – 9 pm

I am also so pleased to be a part of Printeresting’s curatorial project Copy Jam! As the Copy Jam! website relates:

‘”COPY JAM!” will be an interactive print event. During the party, fifty works by fifty artists will be displayed in a grid on the wall. Upon arrival, each guest will be handed a complimentary ticket that can be exchanged for one black & white photocopy of any work the guest chooses. There will be no sales; one ticket equals one copy. Copies will be made LIVE in the gallery for one night only!’

This exciting “show & take” runs in conjunction with SGC’s Mark & Remarque and the inaugural Philagrafika in Philadelphia. I wish I could be there for all of the incredible art, discourse and ephemera!

I have started the Personal Libraries Library, a specially-curated lending library located in Portland, Oregon. The Library is dedicated to recreating the personal libraries of artists, philosophers, scientists, writers and other thinkers & makers. The collection has commenced with the personal library of Maria Mitchell, the 19th-century astronomer, librarian, educator and suffragist.

The Personal Libraries Library has acquired the first book of the Maria Mitchell Personal Library collection: Emerson’s Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book is particularly special because it is also the inaugural book of the entire Personal Libraries Library.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Maria Mitchell were good friends; when he lectured in Nantucket he was welcomed into the Mitchell household above the Pacific Bank on Main Street. Mitchell also found herself defending the work of Emerson to Dr. Whewell, the Master of Trinity College in 1857.

To join the Library, please contact personallibraries@gmail.com and visit the PLL website at www.personallibrarieslibrary.com