Center for Contemporary Art and Culture

09/25/2024

🚨 Without further ado, CCAC is proud to announce our Fall 2024 Graduate Curatorial Fellow Mallary Wilson! 🚨

Mallary Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who engages in digital and traditional mediums including graphic design, environmental installations, painting, and writing. Her currently research focuses on redefining what technological advancement and profit mean in order to generate workable solutions to systemic issues.

Having honed her craft at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA), her accolades include the Givler Thesis Award Class, the Bridgetown Scholarship Award, the Communication Design Merit Scholarship Award, PNCA Critical Studies Dual Scholarship Award, PNCA MFA Engagement Scholarship, and The Steve O’Hare ‘73 Scholarship. She was also nominated and awarded as one of the Women of Willamette University, 2024.
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She now teaches graphic design and typography at Portland State University while simultaneously pursuing dual master’s degrees at PNCA—Master of Arts in Critical Studies and Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies.

1. Mallary Wilson

2. Bouquet 1- Digital projection, bead curtain, printed poster

3. Christian Nationalist Communion To Go! - Type and Package design. Part of the RealMart installation.

4. Commonalities- Spray paint and acrylic

4. Every Possible Version- Creative non-fiction prose

5. Virtual Reality for the Real Mart installation

11/13/2020

“Dust-free Chatroom Performance and Q&A with Mengda Zhang,” is tonight, Friday, November 13th, at 6PM PST in conjunction with “Networks of (Be)longing,” featuring the work of Canaries, Rami George, Tabitha Nikolai, and Mengda Zhang. Register for this event by emailing [email protected]. ➡️

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10/28/2020

Join CCAC this Friday, Oct. 30th at 5:30 PM PST for “Giant Spiders, Suburbia, and Portals: An Activation and Conversation about Online Communion with Tabitha Nikolai and Emma Lugo”! Visit the CCAC events page for more information and the link ⛓
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Image: Tabitha Nikolai, “Shrine Maidens of the Unseelie Court, 2018. Interactive virtual environment for PC, Mac, and installation, dimensions variable. 📸: Mario Gallucci

[An interactive game on Mac or PC downloaded from the Internet within an installation environment. The installation features a gamer’s home environment with a desktop computer with customized keyboard, neon red lighting, a soiled mattress, posters. In the game, the player navigates a suburban apocalyptic scene in which they have the choice to enter a house and explore a portal to another universe.]

10/16/2020

Join CCAC for the virtual opening of “Networks of (Be)longing” tomorrow at 6:00 PM PST (Zoom link at CCAC Events Page) for a tour with Director of Converge 45 Mack McFarland and Guest Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin followed by a new performance from “Dust-Free Chatroom” by Mengda Zhang, and a Q&A with the artist.

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For more information on the exhibition, see the CCAC website, and stay tuned for the exhibition launch on the PNCA Online Galleries on October 23rd.

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10/12/2020

Join CCAC, the PNCA Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and the Critical Studies Program for three online events in conjunction with upcoming exhibitions:

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Wednesday, October 14, 6 PM PST: Rami George screening of “Video Playlist” and Q&A in conjunction with “Networks of (Be)longing”
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Friday, October 16, 6 PM PST: Virtual Opening of “Networks of (Be)longing” with curatorial tour and performance by Mengda Zhang from “Dust-free Chatroom” (2018)
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Saturday, October 17, 6:00 PM PST: see also: Panel Discussion (featuring artists Onyx Andra, Elena Basada, Sean chamberlain, Mandy Messina, Charlie Miller, and Melaney Mitchell, moderated by Kyle Cohlmia in conjunction with “see also: variable performances of a well-designed site index”

*Visit the CCAC and PNCA website for Zoom links*

Images: (Top) Rami George, Video Playlist (composite video still), 2020. HD Video, color, sound, 41:30 min.; (Lower Left) sean chamberlain, “tearoom” (still from “the democratization of celebrity”), 2019. Video Installation; (Lower right) Mengda Zhang, Dust-free Chatroom (still), 2018. Performance, installation, videos with latex gloves filled with water, charcoal text, Foxconn uniform with artist’s period blood, and photograph of Foxconn employment contract (chewed), dimensions variable. Documentation by Yucong Lu.
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07/19/2020

.yard.projects is featuring 3 this weekend. Message them for same day viewing today 11-4pm

Congress Yard Projects (CYP) is an outdoor exhibition space in our yard. It was created in 2020 as a way of reinhabiting shared cultural space in a time of physical distancing. @ Portland, Oregon

06/23/2020

Very excited for The Ford Family Foundation announcement of the selection of three Oregon visual artists – Natalie Ball, Iván Carmona and Donald Morgan as the 2020 Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts. This is the 11th year of the Fellowship. Each will receive $35,000 unrestricted awards. Congratulations to all!! 🎉 @ Portland, Oregon

05/19/2020

A look back at, Behind the Star: Prints from Derriere L’Etoile Studios from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection.
Nov 3, 2011 - Jan 9, 2012

PNCA Faculty Matthew Letzelter curates a selection of works produced by printmaker Maurice Sanchez. For over 30 years Sanchez has worked with artists in the creation of some of the most technically challenging print works. Artists in this exhibition include: James Rosenquist, Donald Judd, Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, John Baldessari, Red Grooms and Kara Walker.

@ Portland, Oregon

05/11/2020

Have a read of Amelia Rina's take on our current exhibition, The Unknown Artist on site.

05/05/2020

04/28/2020

We are very excited for graduating PNCA student Mikai Arion for publishing "Mustard Greens," a cinematic short story told through writing and film. Co-published by ArionMind and A Black Art Ecology of Portland, led by Sharita Towne , with support from PICA's SPACE Program

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04/23/2020

Have a look at The Unknown Artist, now on display at PNCA’s new online platform! You can read the whole exhibition handout there!

https://pnca.edu/gallery/unknown-artist

The exhibition is just the first to be displayed using PNCA’s new online gallery, and will soon be joined by additional exhibitions, including PNCA students’ BFA and MFA thesis shows!