CV - Beaux-Arts des Ameriques

EVA SPEER
Born/Né: Salem, Oregon 1981.
Ce qui m’intéresse ce sont les différentes façons
que nous avons pour tenter de naviguer à travers
les angles essentiels mais inexplorés de la vie. Les
outils ainsi que les formes de réconforts que
amenons avec nous, ou que nous trouvons en
chemin, pourront parfois engendrer
une
évolution, d’autres fois, ils
accentuent la
désorientation. Cette métaphore commune du
voyage est aussi riche avec ses trésors de
découvertes que ce dernier l’est avec un butin
de pacotille, des idées inhospitalières et des
efforts humains saccagés. Comme lorsqu’on utilise
des métaphores dans la conversation, je pense
aux couleurs et aux textures avec lesquelles nous
caractérisons des entités inconnues, afin de
donner une dimension et une proportion à ce qui
nous est étranger. Par ce processus, nous nous
réconfortons et classons les découvertes pour une
future référence. Grilles, flèches, marques de tics
et objets brillants qui demandent compréhension,
repos, richesses ou demeures, tous contiennent le
dessin ou le schéma d’un parcours, dont la
structure est à la fois pressentie et engendrée,
dont les parties semblent s’envoler au moment où
la personne fait un pas.
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I am interested in the ways we try to navigate an
essentially uncharted expanse of a lifetime. The
tools and comforts we take with us or find will
sometimes steer a progression, sometimes deepen
disorientation. This common metaphor—the
journey—is as rich with the treasures of discovery
as it is with counterfeit booty, uninhabitable ideas
and vandalized human endeavours. Like using
metaphors in conversation, I think about the
colours or textures with which we characterize
unknown entities, to give dimension and
proportion to what is unfamiliar. By this process we
comfort ourselves and chart discoveries for future
reference. Grids, arrows, tick marks and shiny
objects that beckon toward understanding, rest,
riches or home all comprise this blueprint or
schema of a journey, whose structure is both
glimpsed and generated, whose parts seem to fly
up just as one takes a step.
FORMATION ACADÉMIQUE / EDUCATION
MFA Painting, Indiana University,
Bloomington
BFA Painting, University of Washington,
Seattle
Otis College of Design, Los Angeles
EXPOSITIONS INDIVIDUELLES / SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2012
2010
2009
2007
Disjecta Membra, Beaux-arts des
Ameriques, Montréal, QC
Superficial Injuries, Hartman Fine Art,
Portland, OR
Landscaping, Hartman Fine Art,
Portland, OR
Consolation, Hartman Fine Art,
Portland, OR
Primordial Soup, Viveza Gallery,
Seattle, WA
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES / GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2012
Exposition d’art en milieu de travail /
Exhibition in the Workplace, ROI
Research, Montréal, QC curated by
Beaux-arts des Amériques, Montréal,
QC
Event Horizon, Littman Gallery
Portland State University
True Places, Swarm Gallery, Oakland,
CA
2011
2010
2009
2008
Connecting, Chambers@916
Gallery, Portland, OR
Summer Selections II, Hartman Fine
Art, Portland, OR
artMRKT San Francisco with
Hartman Fine Art
Suite Dallas with Hartman Fine Art
Art Toronto with Beaux-arts des
Ameriques
Au Premier Régard, Beaux-arts des
Ameriques, Montréal, QC
SQFT, Blackfish Gallery, curated by
TJ Norris, Portland, OR
.META, Miller Fine Arts Center,
Linfield College, McMinville, OR
Faire la Paix Avec la Vie, Beaux-arts
des Ameriques, Montreal, QC
PRIX ET MENTION / AWARDS AND EVENTS
Indiana University Travel Fellowship to Italy
(2005, 2006)
Indiana University Grant in Aid of Research,
Painting (2004, 2005)
2007
2006
Divine, Tilt Gallery and Project Space,
Portland, OR
Introductions, Seattle Art Museum
Gallery, Seattle, WA
One Day, Ruschman Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN
ArtNow Miami, Claremont Hotel,
Miami, FL
The Affair at the Jupiter, Jupiter Hotel
Art Fair, Portland, OR
Soft, Tilt Gallery and Project Space,
Portland, OR
Environmentalists, Portland Modern
Issue no. 5, Portland Art Center, OR
MFA Thesis, Indiana University Art
Museum, Bloomington, IN
Indiana University Graduate Fellowship
University of Washington School of Art Grants
(2002, 2003)
Otis College of Design Travel Grant to Paris
Otis College of Design Undergraduate Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
2012
2011
2009
2008
The Oregonian, “’Painter Eva Speer at Charles Hartman Fine Art,” D.K. Row, April
6, 2012
Willamette Week, WW April Picks, Visual Arts, Richard Speer, 2012
Willamette Week, WW September Picks, Visual Arts, Richard Speer, 2010
PORT feature 7/16/10, “Eva Speer’s ‘Landscaping’ at Hartman Fine Art,” Patrick
Collier
Art Ltd., Eva Speer ‘Consolation’ at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Richard Speer,
May 2009
The Oregonian, “’Fragile Reality’ at Elizabeth Leach and Eva Speer at Hartman
Fine Art”, Brian Libby, March 12, 2009
Willamette Week, WW March Picks, Visual Arts, Richard Speer, 2009
Willamette Week, Issue #34.31 Visual Arts, ‘Divine Phantasmagoria,’ Richard
Speer, 2008
2007
Oregon Art Beat, Oregon Public Broadcasting, original air date: February, 2008
Portland Modern, Issue no. 5
The Oregonian, ‘Portland Modern as Talent Scout’, Brian Libby July 13, 2007