Excited about the visiting artists series for this term, we’ve got a tremendous lineup. This week is MATT CONNORS! More info below. (flyers made in collaboration with the one and only Sean Schumacher) psustudio: As you’ve probably seen peeking around the corners of buildings on campus, Matt Connors is coming to Portland State this Wednesday!  On February 1st at 7pm, the PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series kicks off the new term in our new location in the Central Auditorium of Shattuck Hall with Matt speaking about his work; then, on Thursday the 2nd at 5pm, Matt’s work will be on view for DARK ROOMS, presented by C-O-O-L ART, in the downstairs gallery of the Art Building.  From the exhibition statement: The effects of colours are unpredictable. Our architecture is not delicate enough for pure and strong tones. At the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer attempted to introduce colourful and cheerful furniture into the apartments. The solution he found for my bedroom was surprising. He painted it black. Black is the colour of sleep; the colour that best allows us to forget our memories of reality. I protested that black is, strictly speaking, the colour of death and that I would like to see a little blue, or at least grey-blue, on the ceiling, The architect, however, justified his notion on solid grounds. He said: “Black is the colour of death only when it is painted matt on a rough foundation. Highly polished, on a smooth surface, it does not have a dreary effect. Depending on the angle of the light falling upon it and the colour of the light source, it reflects white or coloured light. The bedroom would certainly not have the effect of a death chamber. It would probably be the best solution for bedrooms as a whole, as dreams could no longer take hold so easily. They, too, would fall asleep.” He dismissed my wish for a midnight blue ceiling as romantic, youthful ignorance. He was all for polished black. When I returned from a journey, my room was painted black. I laid myself down to sleep, and would have been grateful if a little blue had shimmered above me since, behind the shaded ceiling light, the promised reflections of the painted black were swallowed up in an infinite depth that seemed to reach further than the cosmic dome of the nocturnal skies. My romantic fantasy seemed cruelly dismissed. In the morning, I grasped my new circumstances. I remembered the comforting effect of the white reflections and found the white bed linen mirrored on the wall and ceiling. I was appalled when i sat up and saw how my God-given body was reflected, swollen and torn asunder - made surreal by the unevenness of the four walls. After this demonstration, I never entered the bedroom again. It was packed full with cases and superfluous household objects. White would have been good enough for that, too. DARK ROOMS runs through February 24.

Excited about the visiting artists series for this term, we’ve got a tremendous lineup. This week is MATT CONNORS! More info below. (flyers made in collaboration with the one and only Sean Schumacher)

psustudio:

As you’ve probably seen peeking around the corners of buildings on campus, Matt Connors is coming to Portland State this Wednesday!  On February 1st at 7pm, the PSU MFA Studio Lecture Series kicks off the new term in our new location in the Central Auditorium of Shattuck Hall with Matt speaking about his work; then, on Thursday the 2nd at 5pm, Matt’s work will be on view for DARK ROOMS, presented by C-O-O-L ART, in the downstairs gallery of the Art Building.  From the exhibition statement:

The effects of colours are unpredictable. Our architecture is not delicate enough for pure and strong tones. At the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer attempted to introduce colourful and cheerful furniture into the apartments. The solution he found for my bedroom was surprising. He painted it black. Black is the colour of sleep; the colour that best allows us to forget our memories of reality. I protested that black is, strictly speaking, the colour of death and that I would like to see a little blue, or at least grey-blue, on the ceiling, The architect, however, justified his notion on solid grounds. He said: “Black is the colour of death only when it is painted matt on a rough foundation. Highly polished, on a smooth surface, it does not have a dreary effect. Depending on the angle of the light falling upon it and the colour of the light source, it reflects white or coloured light. The bedroom would certainly not have the effect of a death chamber. It would probably be the best solution for bedrooms as a whole, as dreams could no longer take hold so easily. They, too, would fall asleep.”

He dismissed my wish for a midnight blue ceiling as romantic, youthful ignorance. He was all for polished black. When I returned from a journey, my room was painted black. I laid myself down to sleep, and would have been grateful if a little blue had shimmered above me since, behind the shaded ceiling light, the promised reflections of the painted black were swallowed up in an infinite depth that seemed to reach further than the cosmic dome of the nocturnal skies. My romantic fantasy seemed cruelly dismissed.

In the morning, I grasped my new circumstances. I remembered the comforting effect of the white reflections and found the white bed linen mirrored on the wall and ceiling. I was appalled when i sat up and saw how my God-given body was reflected, swollen and torn asunder - made surreal by the unevenness of the four walls. After this demonstration, I never entered the bedroom again. It was packed full with cases and superfluous household objects. White would have been good enough for that, too.

DARK ROOMS runs through February 24.