{"id":2468,"date":"2023-01-31T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:00:11","slug":"tenacious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/2023\/01\/31\/tenacious\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenacious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Curated by Tilly Laskey<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 10 &#8211; June 11, 2023<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 4:00 p.m. &#8211; 7:00 p.m.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"une_library_gallery_link_block-block_2f9d8e8147690d4eba3c90584611e38c\" class=\"une_library_gallery_link_block layout- alignleft\"><a class=\"link-block\" data-fancybox-delegate=\"gallery-block_2f9d8e8147690d4eba3c90584611e38c\" href=\"javascript:;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Particle-Wave-720x720.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Trask, Particle Wave. Multimedia hanging spore composition\" \/><span class=\"title\">Selected Images<\/span><\/a><div class=\"gallery-images\" style=\"display:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Particle-Wave-scaled.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_2f9d8e8147690d4eba3c90584611e38c\" data-caption=\"Ian Trask, &lt;i&gt;Particle Wave&lt;\/i&gt;.  Multimedia hanging spore composition, 2022. \" data-alt=\"Ian Trask, Particle Wave. Multimedia hanging spore composition\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Jelenfy_Arctic6_60x46_2022.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_2f9d8e8147690d4eba3c90584611e38c\" data-caption=\"Karen Jelenfy, &lt;i&gt;Arctic 6&lt;\/i&gt;. Acrylic, house paint, charcoal and oil on canvas, 2022. \" data-alt=\"Karen Jelenfy, Arctic 6, Acrylic, house paint, charcoal and oil on canvas\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/James-Graham-Untitled-2023-oil-on-canvas-60-x-48-scaled.jpeg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_2f9d8e8147690d4eba3c90584611e38c\" data-caption=\"James Graham, Untitled, 2023, oil on canvas\" data-alt=\"James Graham, Untitled, 2023, oil on canvas.\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/jbm_dancingwithspartacus-2020_2022.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_2f9d8e8147690d4eba3c90584611e38c\" data-caption=\"James B. Marshall, &lt;i&gt;Dancing with Spartacus&lt;\/i&gt;. Polyvinyl acetate, plaster, hardeners, graphite, paper. 2018-2022\" data-alt=\"James B. Marshall, Dancing with Spartacus, polyvinyl acetate, plaster, hardeners, graphite, paper.\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/02\/IMG_7040-scaled.jpg\" data-fancybox=\"gallery-block_2f9d8e8147690d4eba3c90584611e38c\" data-caption=\"\" data-alt=\"Tenacious installation in gallery space\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Featuring work by James Graham, Karen Jelenfy, James Bradley Marshall, and Ian Trask, \u201cTenacious\u201d focuses on non-objective abstraction as a generative visual language.&nbsp;&nbsp;The artwork is contextualized through process, with themes of aging, chronic illness, mental health, and the artist\u2019s response to these challenges through the activity of artmaking.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe work in&nbsp;<em>Tenacious<\/em>&nbsp;responds to our ever-changing world, reflecting each artist\u2019s unique perspectives\u2014some inhabiting a body that is changing, or processing environmental crises and current events.&nbsp;The labor-intensive processes of oil painting, mark making with pencils, layering glue onto paper or binding cast-off materials into sculptures, are methods to seek balance\u2014both in creating the finished work, and for the individual well-being of the artists.&nbsp;Relying on lines, shapes, colors, forms, and gestural marks to convey ideas, the work of Graham, Jelenfy, Marshall, and Trask finds whimsy and beauty in adversity\u2014it is tenacious.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Tilly Laskey, 2023&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curated by Tilly Laskey&nbsp; February 10 &#8211; June 11, 2023&nbsp; Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 4:00 p.m. &#8211; 7:00 p.m.&nbsp; Featuring work by James Graham, Karen Jelenfy, James Bradley Marshall, and Ian Trask, \u201cTenacious\u201d focuses on non-objective abstraction as a generative visual language.&nbsp;&nbsp;The artwork is contextualized through process, with themes of aging, chronic illness, mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-portland-campus-art-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}