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Simulated Archetypes
Sylvania North View Gallery
An Evolving Installation by Karl Burkheimer
- Dates: July 16 to Sept 16 2016
- Opening: Saturday, July 16, 5–7pm
- Opening of subsequent iterations: Saturday, August 13, 5–7pm
- Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 8am–4pm, and Saturday, 11am–4pm
For this North View Gallery project, Portland-based artist Karl Burkheimer has constructed a series of sculptural armatures inspired by the architecture of billboard signage. For the duration of this exhibition, Burkheimer has invited students and members of the larger PCC community to participate in a collective art process through contributing imagery, text, gestures and marks to the sign-like facades of these works. Burkheimer will respond, by further manipulating and integrating those contributions. The artist describes Simulated Archetypes as “an ongoing, ever-evolving installation, continually changing through the accretion of creative acts, whether additive or reductive.”
Karl Burkheimer is a 2016 recipient of a Hallie Ford Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship. His work has been exhibited nationally, including recent exhibitions in Seattle, Washington; at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York; the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon; the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Portland Art Museum. Burkheimer earned an MFA from the Department of Crafts and Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture from North Carolina State University. He is currently Professor and Chair of the MFA in Craft at the Oregon College of Art and Craft (OCAC) in Portland.