Artist Talk: Tuesday October 4th at ⁣⁣⁣7:30pm Lewis and Clark College (Miller 105)

Artist Reception ⁣⁣⁣, Saturday, October 8th ⁣⁣⁣⁣from 11am-1pm⁣⁣⁣⁣ Melanie Flood Projects

In 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 Lyndon Barrois Jr. works across media to explore the CMYK color model as a foundational system for information—one which mirrors societal structures and holds the potential to inform one’s perception of self. ⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Lyndon Barrois Jr. is an artist and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He is half of LAB:D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged two exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019). Using magazines, advertising, cinema, and vernacular imagery as primary subjects of inquiry, Barrois’ multimedia practice breaks down and re-configures the languages of print, design, and popular culture in order to investigate underlying ideology, ethics, and conceptions of value. Recent solo exhibitions include Mirage Collar at Artists Space, Others Who Struggle with Nature at Rubber Factory NYC, Vague November at Van Eyck Open 2020, and Zaal 8 at Kasteel Oud Rekem in Belgium, and the two-person exhibitions Mercantile with Addoley Dzegede at Sharp Projects, and Dreamsickle with Kahlil Robert Irving at 47 Canal. Barrois Jr. received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2006). He has recently completed residencies at Latitude in Chicago, Loghaven in Knoxville, the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands, Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland. ⁣⁣⁣⁣

Yaelle S. Amir is a curator and educator currently based in Portland, OR. Her writing and curatorial projects focus primarily on artists whose practices supplement the initiatives of existing social movements—rendering themes within those struggles in ways that both interrogate and promote these issues to a wider audience. She has independently curated exhibitions at Artists Space (NY), CUE Art Foundation (NY), Franklin Street Works (CT), ISE Cultural Foundation (NY), The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Marginal Utility (PA), the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University (NY), and HOLDING Contemporary (OR), among other institutions. Her writing has appeared in numerous art publications including Art in America, ArtLies, ArtSlant, ArtUS, Beautiful/Decay, and Sculpture Magazine, as well as several exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. She has also worked at major art institutions, such as the International Center of Photography (NY), the Museum of Modern Art (NY), and NYU's Institute of Fine Arts. Yaelle is the recipient of several curatorial fellowships and awards by regional and national organizations from the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland to The Luminary in St. Louis and the Art & Law Program in New York. Her programs have taken place in art institutions throughout the U.S., including Portland’s Newspace Center for Photography, where she was Curator of Exhibitions & Public Programs from 2015 to 2017. She curated the 2019 Portland Biennial (along with Elisheba Johnson and Ashley Stull Meyers), and was recently the 2020-2021 Curator-in-Residence at University of Oregon's Center for Art Research (CFAR). She is Commissioning Editor (2022-2024) for Critical Conversations, a publishing platform spearheaded by the Ford Family Foundation and University of Oregon. She presently teaches curatorial studies and professional practice at Lewis & Clark College.

Hours: Friday-Saturday 12-5 + by private appointment

Detail of Blush #2, Inkjet collage on Platine Luster, 20in. x16in., 2022