Join us for a conversation with
Horatio Law & Rachel Wolf
Current Artists in Residence at Rose Villa
Sunday January 13, 1-3pm
Location: Rose Ville 13505 SE River Rd, Portland OR
PACT offers ongoing monthly events for artists to meet and have conversations about our art practices and careers. Each month a new topic will serve as the springboard to start a dialog about ideas and issues that impact our lives. PACT is about creating an opportunity for artist to connect with each other in an open and supportive environment.
Horatio Hung-Yan Law is a Portland-based installation and public artist. He was born and raised in Hong Kong and came to the US at age 16. Much of his work stems from his Asian American identity and his experience as an immigrant. His projects often include a strong community process, engaging stakeholders in planning and production of the artwork. His main interests are to work and collaborate with culturally diverse communities. His work examines the effects of the current culture of consumption on our daily life and explores the invisible foundation of a community–identity, memory and history. He is interested in the intricate issues created by the long arc of global commerce: From ancient Silk Road trades to our current reliance on cheap labor in developing countries; and how different cultures can exert influence through the things they make for each other. He is equally fascinated by our ability to invest meanings into ordinary objects. A common thread in his projects is the use of unexpected but simple material and imagery to create meaning and metaphor that connect individuals with community and place. His public art portfolio includes works created for the City of Tacoma, the Housing Authority of Portland, Seattle Public Utilities, Oregon State Hospital, Sisters Of The Road, Tri-Met’s Portland-Milwaukie Light-Rail Line, Portland Parks & Recreations, Asian Counseling and Referral Service and the Northwest Housing Alternatives.
Rachel Wolf specializes in camera-less photography, alternative/antique processes, and immersive environments through light-based installations. Many of her projects are experiments in which the external world is lensed in a way that considers inner reality and visual perception; photography implies an objectivity, whose impossibility masks potent subjectivities. One of her principal methods of working involves directly exposing photographic paper to light and chemicals. She chooses to return to these irreducible elements, the invisible tools of analogue photography, in order to produce a new, tangible photographic subject. Rachel is an educator and speaker in the field of photography. She is also a founding member of FO(u)RT Collective, a multi-disciplinary arts collective that creates/curates exhibitions and events. Rachel exhibits her work nationally, including; Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH and National Video Center, New York, NY. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Rachel earned her BA from Hampshire College and her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She is represented by the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Portland OR and Picture Clear Art, Brooklyn, NY. Rachel currently resides in Portland, OR.
