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Rachel Hibbard

The Arts Center Exhibit(s):

• '9th Around Oregon Annual Exhibition,' October, 2011

Statement for '9th Around Oregon Annual Exhibition:'

ON THE HOME FRONT                              
place
I cut images loose so that the dark matter of the American Dream is projected back into my domestic space, remixing geographies of home and the frontline. This work stands between the spheres of war reenactment, photojournalism, and surrealist collage. The viewer is as much a subject of this work as the people in the original photograph. I am constructing a new moment closer to the viewer’s and my own, to get at an embodied connection with what is taking place: running, digging, the direction of a gun, a gaze, the exact particulars of an individual’s face. This work grows out of an examination of “struggle” in its personal and historical manifestations. Embedded in all my work is a skirmish between circularity and transformation.
*debt
I am indebted to the artist Martha Roster and generations of photojournalists whose work I am not so much appropriating as registering the impact of. Place and scale are an important aspect of this series, conceptually and formally. Figures in conflict form small tableaux with domestic architecture; referencing the connections and dislocations of life in the 21st century.

Resume:

Education

• MFA    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• BFA    Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Ore.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2011: meyouus&them, Tacoma Wash.
• 2010: 365 Days, Calendar for a New World, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo.
• 2008: Months of Unequal Lengths, Cascade Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 2007: Atmosphereum, Nowhere Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 2006: Selections from 365 Days, Calendar for a New World, Autzen Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 2004: Reading You, Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, Ore.
• 2003: Weather Vanes & Towers, installation, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Wash.
• 2002: Under the Rainbow, Portland Community College Sylvania, Northview Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 2001: Tree of Living Things, Basil Hallward Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 2001: Solar Field, installation, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Wash1999    
• 1999: Games in the Maze, Portland State University, Gallery 299, Portland, Ore.
• 1993: Chicago Cultural Center Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Ill.
• 1993: Presidential Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Collaborations

2006-09    

• Bins Collaborative, an exploration of community and trickle-down economies featuring sculptural installations and video with over 60 interviews, photographic documentation, and more than 15 years of shopping experience. Collaborators: Sean Regan and Cara Tomlinson
• Added Value, Project Space II, Salem, Ore.
• Bin Labs 2 Second Growth, Soil Gallery, Seattle, Wash.
• Things Never Die, Portland Building installation space, Portland, Ore.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2007: Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale, Geumgang Nature Park, South Korea
• 2006: BESTIARY, Froelick Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 2005: artOBJECTS, Portland International Airport, Portland, Ore.
• 2002: Echoing Nature, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, Ore.
• 2002: L&B Viewing Room, Portland, Ore.
• 2001: NW Narrative, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Ore.
• 2001: Air, Orlo exhibition, Portland, Ore.
• 2000: Open Walls, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Ore.
• 1998: Water and Plastic, Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 1997: UOU&PSU (University of Ulsan & Portland State University), Ulsan, South Korea
• 1995: Portrait, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 1994: Going Going, gone, Art in the Arboretum, Portland, Ore.
• 1994: Prints by Gallery Artists, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
• 1993: Spring Group Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
• 1993: Rachel Hibbard / Eric Thompson, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Hyde Park Art Center’s 55th Anniversary Exhibition, Chicago, Ill.
• 1993: Abstract: Chicago, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Grit and Polish / Art and Space, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Experimental Drawing Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Revision, Near Northwest Arts Council (NNWAC), Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Linda Horn / Susan Kraut / Rachel Hibbard, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, Mich.
• 1991: Willamette Heights Centennial Exhibit, Montgomery Building, Portland, Ore.
• 1991: Essential Form, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Ill.
• 1990: New Faces, Near Northwest Arts Council (NNWAC), Chicago, Ill.
• 1990: Members Show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Ill.
• 1988-89: Art and Science, traveling exhibit
• 1988: Hilton Gallery Print Show, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1987: Schlesser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1986: New Faces, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Ore.

Collections

• 2005: City of Portland, permanent collection
• 2000: Kristy Edmunds, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) founder, private collection
• 1993: Andree Stone, director, Dart Gallery, private collection, Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Harold L. Klawans, private collection, Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Greg Night, curator, Chicago Cultural Center, private collection, Chicago, Ill.
• 1992: Frank Paluch, director, Perimeter Gallery, private collection, Chicago, Ill.
• 1989: Gordon W. Gilkey Print Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Ore.
• 1988: Renaissance Center Print Collection, corporate collection, Detroit, Mich.

Awards

• 2003: Project Grant, Regional Art and Culture Council, Portland, Ore.
• 2003: Faculty Development Grant, Portland State University, Portland, Ore.
• 2001: Faculty Development Grant, Portland State University, Portland, Ore.
• 1990: First Prize for Painting, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Ill.
• 1988: University of Michigan, Dean’s Acquisition, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1982: Carey Prize for Drawing, Second, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Ore.
• 1981: Mary L. Peterson Memorial Scholarship, Voorhies Drawing Prize, First Place
• 1980: Doro Haskell Johnson Memorial Scholarship

Catalogues

• 2007: Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale, Geumgang Nature Park, South Korea
• 2006: Overlapping Lines, University of Ulsan, South Korea, and Portland State University, USA
• 2004: Dialogue, University of Ulsan, South Korea, and Portland State University, USA
• 2001: Air, Orlo exhibition, Portland, Ore.
• 2000: 2x2x200 Blackfish Gallery 1979–1999, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Ore.
• 1997: UOU&PSU (University of Ulsan & Portland State University), faculty exhibition
• 1993: Abstract Chicago, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Ill.
• 1991: Willamette Heights Centennial Exhibit, Portland, Ore.

Artist-Authored Publications

• 2006: Weather Series, Lewis and Clark College
• 2004: Echoing Nature, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, catalogue
• 2003: Weather, artist’s book, in collaboration with Alon Raab and Mary Sillman
• 1992: Independent Publishers Group (cover illustration and miscellaneous prints)
• 1991: Chicago Rainforest Action Group (poster, flyer & bookmarks)

Curatorial Projects

• 2002: Echoing Nature, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts, Portland, Ore.
• 2002: ON THE ROAD: Bike-based Correspondence Art, Orlo exhibition, Portland, Ore.
• 2001-02: Orlo exhibition committee, Portland, Ore.
• 1997-98: Co-curator / organizer with Hugo Anaya Barba: Going Going Gone

Lectures, Talks

• 2010: Open Engagement, panel member, Collaboration, Portland, Ore.
• 2005: Artist’s Talk, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Ore.
• 2003: Environmental Art, Panel Member, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Ore.  
• 2003: Why Paint, overview of my paintings, Pacific Northwest College of Art class
• 2003: Artist’s Talk, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Ore.
• 2002: Artist’s Talk, Portland Community College Sylvania, Portland, Ore.
• 2002: Organized and designed community mural, Lane Arts Council, Conference Art and Communities lecturer, Eugene, Ore.
• 2001: Artist-consultant, Air, Orlo exhibition, Portland, Ore.
• 1994: Visiting artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (faux finishes demonstration), Chicago, Ill.

Selected Professional Experience

• 2009: Visiting faculty, winter quarter, University California at Davis, Davis, Calif.
• 1996-09: Adjunct faculty, Painting, Drawing and Basic Design, Portland State University, Portland, Ore.
• 2002: Visiting artist, thesis critique, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Ore.
• 2000: Visual Arts Fellowship Panel member, Regional Arts and Cultural Council, Portland, Ore.
• 2000: Artist / consultant, Metro Murals, Portland, Ore.
• 1998: Artist / teacher, Orlo mural, Disappearing Willamette, Portland, Ore.
• 1997: Artist / teacher, Private Industry Council Mural Project, Portland, Ore.
• 1996: Visiting faculty, First Year Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
• 1988-96: Mural renderings and technical assistant, Chicago Architectural Arts, Chicago, Ill.
• 1994: Teacher, Printmaking, Gallery 37 Apprentice Artist Program, Chicago, Ill.
• 1988: Visiting faculty, Basic Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1987-88: Teaching assistant, Basic Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• 1987-88: Visiting artist, Printmaking, Metropolitan Learning Center, Portland, Ore.