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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.

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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. "
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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."


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