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New Work: Deliquesce

Photography courtesy of Nudashank Gallery

GLASS HOUSE

Caitlin Cunningham
Todd Knopke
Emily Nachison
Heidi Norton
Paul Wackers

Nudashank is pleased to present GLASS HOUSE, a summer group show that embraces the heat and botanical vibrance of the season. Artists examine the domestic and indoor presentation of plants, bringing them into the gallery through painting, sculpture, installation and sewn works.

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 13th, 7 - 10pm
Show Runs from August 13th - September 3rd

NUDASHANK
H&H Bldg 3rd Floor
405 W. Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD

SHARE

As part of First Friday, August 5th, head out to SHARE, a new event hosted by The Stables, MS.MS. & Other People's Projects.

Enjoy drinks, friends, music, and support community collaboration while a dozen or so of your favorite Portland makers create work. As artworks are completed throughout the night they will be put up for sale (at crazy low prices) with profits benefiting CHARITY:WATER.

With music from DJ Ramophone, friends, beers, a Picture Parlour photobooth, all while you hang out in 100 year old police stables.

A partial list of featured artists:
Mark Warren Jacques
Timothy Karpinksi
Chase Velarde
Lynn Yarne
David Wein
Alec Zemper
Sohaila Adela
Mia Nolting
Emily Nachison
Morgaine Faye

We hope to see you there!

Check out more info on MS.MS. here: http://tinyurl.com/3hqphwd

SHARE
@ The Stables
910 SE Taylor
6p-11p, FREE!

Some images from my studio.

New blog project with Michael Endo of collected images and articles. 

MEANENEMY

Artist Talk this Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 1:30PM

Beginning at 12PM, this coming Saturday, FalseFront will host the closing brunch and artist talk for Emily Nachison's Hylozoic. In addition to the talk, is the release of HYLOZOIC: MATTER LIFE, the exhibition catalog containing exploratory photography and collected source images relating to the site-specific sculptural installation. Paperback, 44 pages, special edition of 25.

Emily Nachison's talk is scheduled for 1:30PM. This light brunch/talk is entirely free and open to all.

FalseFront

4518 NE 32nd Avenue

Portland, OR 97211

info@falsefrontstudio.com | 503.781.4609

Sat/Sun 12 - 3PM and by appointment

Coming Soon

A new book by Emily Nachison

HYLOZOIC: MATTER LIFE is an exploration and collection of images relating to Hylozoic, a site-specific installation for FalseFront in Portland, Oregon. 

Paperback, 44 pages
Edition of 25 

Hylozoic

Images of my most recent piece Hylozoic.
Hylozoic will be on view until April 23, 2011 at FalseFront Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

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Photography by Dan Kvitka

Studio

Emily Nachison | Hylozoic

April 2 – April 23, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 7 – 10PM
(Viewing Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 12 – 3PM, and by appointment)

Closing Reception, Light Brunch/Artist Talk: April 23, 12 – 3PM

FalseFront
4518 NE 32nd Avenue
Portland, OR 97211
www.falsefrontstudio.com

FalseFront is pleased to present the site-specific installation, Hylozoic, from Emily Nachison. Working from the philosophical theory that all things–living and inanimate hold life, and therefore are universally related, Nachison constructs grand geologic environments from the man-made synthetics.

Hylozoism, (from Greek hyle, “matter”; zoe, “life”), in philosophy, any system that views all matter as alive, either in itself or by logically in the operation of a world soul or some similar principle. Hylozoism is logically distinct both from early forms of animism, which personify nature, and from panpsychism, which attributes some form of consciousness or sensation to all matter.
-Encyclopedia Britannica

Artist Talk This Sunday
Vanessa Calvert: Wall Shade
Emily Nachison: Suspension, Stage 1 and Corridor
Dustin Zemel: SHOW SHOW, SHOW tell, SHOW SHOW

PLACE is very pleased to host Artist’s Talks by Vanessa Calvert, Emily Nachison, and Dustin Zemel. They are each raising questions about spatial relationships and how we navigate them.  Nachison is looking at transitional spaces creating environments that are both inviting and displacing. Calvert is exploring very personal discomfort and the space between concealment and exposure. Zemel’s seven panel video installation examines “artificial visual landscapes” and the relationship we have to the information we receive and the possible limitations to our navigation.

Sunday January 30th, 3:00-4:00 pm
700 SW Fifth (3rd floor) Pioneer Place, Portland, Oregon
Contact: placepdx@gmail.com

Working on “Suspension, Stage 1” one of two in-process installations I have up at PLACE.

The Settlement: Occupation

December 18, 2010 from 6pm - 10pm

People's, Place, Store, and Trade 

Pioneer Place 700 SW 5th Ave

Portland, OR

Place gallery

December 18, 2010 from 6pm - 10pm, The Settlement ignites the 3rd floor of Pioneer Place Mall with “Occupation” comprised of four artist-run gallery spaces including: People, Place, Store, and Trade.

People's - spearheaded by Chris Haberman and Jason Brown. People's offers original, small-scale works by local artists. Two dimensional and small scale sculpture will be featured by People. All work is cash and carry and priced mod...estly.

Place - Continuing to build on its mission of presenting process-oriented installation work, Place offers Terror and Ego. An exhibition featuring the work of Joshua Berger, TJ Norris, Dustin Zemel, Emily Nachison, Rhoda London, and Vanessa Calvert. Place is co-curated and directed by Palma Corral, Gabe Flores, and Gary Wiseman.

Store - The product of The Settlement’s collaboration with PNCA continues to develop and feature installation works by the BFA students of Victor Maldonado's Art , Ethics, and Transgression class.

Trade - The most fluid of the galleries focuses on local institutions that fill a creative and experimental niche. Trade’s initial activation will be by the curatorial collaboration of Nim Wunnan of Research Club, Tori Abernathy of Recess Gallery, Wynde Dyer of Golden Rule, Elizabeth Lamb gallery director of The White Box, and Max Ogden creating ontologies for communication.

My portfolio was chosen as one of the Top 50!

More info on Art Takes Miami

See the portfolios 

Nice write up on reve de la mode:
"For those of you who are unfamiliar with Emily Nachison's mesmerizing work, her current work explores space, natural growth and the human perception of nature. Her fantastic work is constructed through a series of manmade materials, given a completely new identity as they transform into a lively spectacle. While at first glance her conceptual designs may appear to resemble a spiderweb or an untangled ball of yarn, one cannot help but look twice, and really think what is this mess? Perhaps the thing I am fond of the most about this series entails the fact that work like so, can be interpreted anyway the viewer pleases, thus, highlighting the fact that art is not right nor wrong, rather it's a bit ambiguous and strange, which is half the reason we are all drawn to it in the first place. "
Thanks guys!

Great write up on the awesome Los Angeles based blog Kitsune Noir:

"There is something slightly unnerving about the installations by artist Emily Nachison. Perhaps this mood stems from the imposingly tangled and unkempt webs that she suspends from gallery ceilings. Or maybe it is that her strange and otherworldly structures appear to simultaneously suggest emptiness and congestion. A repository for Nachison’s diverse mixture of inspirations, which include New Age culture, the Victorian era, storybook illustrations and nature, her work aims to explore “space, natural growth and the human perception of nature.” In so doing, she aims to “create naturalistic environments out of man-made materials by mimicking plant growth patterns and geological accumulation. This juxtaposition of natural versus artificial is an investigation into the cultural creation of landscape.”

This play on recreating a version of nature through the use of man-made materials is undoubtedly at the crux of the tension present in Nachison’s installations. Her work is both fascinating and beautiful to view in photographs, so I can only imagine what it would be like to walk through her amazing pieces. It is quite apt that she has appropriated a quotation from writer C.S. Lewis to open her artist’s statement, as I feel that seeing and experiencing her work would be akin to opening the wardrobe door and wandering into Narnia."


Visit: Kitsune Noir

The Detroit Museum of New Art presents The Facebook Show

Featuring the profile pictures of more than 600 art-worldists in curator Jef Bourgeau's friend list, The Facebook Show examines what Bourgeau calls the "beneficial catastrophe of Facebook." For better or worse, it has made the world a smaller place.

Artists include; Achille Bonito Oliva, Alan Feltus Cindy Sherman, Dave Roberts, David Salle, Ed Ruscha, Emily Nachison, Evan Abramson, Ferdinando Cotugno, Nick Hottmann, Sharon Louden, Victor Romao, Liz Cohen, Jeff Koons, Jef Bourgeau, Eva Winkeler, Ashley Bickerton, William Wegman and Sandro Chia.  

Show runs October 2 - 30, 2010
For more information visit:
www.detroitmona.com
Read: Metro Times article by Travis R. Wright 9/29/10

Crystal Crag: a window installation for the Emerson Space Case
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 6, 2010  7 - 10 pm

The Emerson Space Case
5304 NE 30th Ave, Portland, Oregon
The Emerson Space Case is a window gallery that displays installation art by local artists. The space is located at NE 30th and Emerson, one block south of Killingsworth, in the Alberta Arts District.