The labyrinthine basement under the snack bar —
Reality is an occlusion of the real, ideologically produced and reproduced. That is to say so-called “reality," as a collective consensual hallucination, buries potential, hiding it away from our collective imaginary. And as the statement, "That's just the way things are," actively masks how things could be (and how things got this way), the apparent rationality of advanced industrial/post-industrial civilization masks its intense irrationality.
One way to think about the work is as an attempt to contend with the unrepresentability of the real, the unrepresentability of the abstractions that shape contemporary life. Another way to think about it is invoking science/speculative fiction's project of "engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming present." (Eshun)
What’s hardwired in the grid of the grid?
This question points to thinking about infrastructure (hard and soft) and technologies. Reflecting an enduring fascination with the sharp point of the sword of technological innovation, recent works point to technology’s embedded contradiction: its liberatory potential that is very nearly imperceivable in the shiny glare of its spectacularly seductive administration of every one of us. In this it is a microcosm of the apparatus that structures reality.
This is a practice that is grounded research, critical theory, and radical discourses. It is hyper-aware of the material conditions of the production and reproduction of art and artist. These concerns are necessarily feminist.
C.V.
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
California, ILY2, Portland, OR
2023
KILL SYSTEM, Romance, Pittsburgh, PA
SOCIETY, Veronica Project Space, Seattle, WA
2021
Count Zero Interrupt, Air de Paris, Paris
Mother of Pearl Gasoline Slick, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland
2020
QRV, SAND, Phoenix, AZ
2018
Gate, The Orchards, Boring, OR
2019
LANDER, PANEL.LA, Los Angeles
2017
Joy Stick, Et al., San Francisco
2016
Wholeness Engine, Jupiter Woods, London The sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere, Muscle Beach, Portland
2015
The Condition of the Waters, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
[ ], Artspeak, Vancouver, B.C.
2014
INFINITY INCREASER, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
The Plumb and The Wave, Pied-à-terre, San Francisco
2013
Prototyping Eutopias, Littmann Gallery
2012
ἐπί ἡμέρα, White Box Gallery, University of Oregon
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Inhuman/Alien, Canton Sardine, Vancouver, British Columbia
2016
Holding a Cup on a Boar, RONGWRONG, Amsterdam
2015
Peripheral Array, S1, Portland
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
And down below the earth shown bright, ILY2, Portland, OR
2022
Protean Lattice, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021
Untitled, Audain Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver BC
Immaterial Salon at ART-O-RAMA, Marseilles with Air de Paris
Fragments of a Hologram Rose, FeralFile
2019
phreak, Institute for Speculative Research, Portland, OR
A good way to invent the future, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR
WOOBA Presents: The 2015 Honda Fit Transmission, CoLab, Austin, TX
Louwrien Wijers: Zeppelin Rooms, RONGWRONG, Amsterdam
Touch[ing] down lightly, Moonmist, Houston
Everything’s Raw: Everything is Raw, Cranium Suite, Portland Speculative Frictions, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland
2018
The Poster Show, Phyllis Gill Gallery, Riverside, CA
2017
Discretion, CASTIGLIONI, São Pãolo, Brazil
Core, Out of Site, Seattle
2016
Zero Day, Six Weeks, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Portland2016 Biennial, Oregon Contemporary (Disjecta) Parantola, Titanik offsite at Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium, Finland
Unveiling (you embrace me, as I am), Jupiter Woods, London
2015
GG at the Helm, Bronco Gallery/Portland Women’s Forum
2013
The City and the City, LxWxH Gallery, Seattle
Green Gothic, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle
2011
Shred of Light, Worksound Gallery, Portland
Reading.Writing, Gallery HOMELAND, Portland
Broad Strokes, Carhole Gallery, Portland
2010
Doing It To It, gallery HOMELAND, Portland
EDUCATION
2022 MFA in Visual Art, University of British Columbia