Mixed Medusa of Suburbia I

source: artltdmag

Although she now lives in Aspen, Colorado, and directs the painting, drawing, and printmaking programs at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, artist/curator Jenene Nagy has a long history in Portland. She was the director of the experimental art space TILT and was the nonprofit Disjecta’s first curator-in-residence–all the while exhibiting her own installations and drawings. Nagy returns to Portland in April to curate “TILT Export: Fanatic,” a two-person show at UPFOR Gallery. Artist Rebecca Ripple, who earned her MFA in sculpture at Yale University, creates challenging, sinuous works from unconventional materials, while artist and educator Tim Flowers is known for enigmatic paintings and drawings that finesse distinctions between abstraction and representation. Together, Ripple and Flowers hold forth on the phenomenon of fanaticism among professional sports fans. Joining forces, they deploy (fanatically?) obsessive techniques and diverse materials in fetishistic depictions of the ultimate fan
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source: klowdenmann

(b. Huntington, New York)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Rebecca Ripple’s practice is focused around sculptural installations that use highly worked material, often at large scale, to invoke both visceral and intellectual response.
Holly Meyers has written of Ripple’s work, “In each of her sprawling yet meticulous works, one feels Ripple prodding and plying received truths in search of contradiction and paradox, sorting what is allowed from what is prohibited and playing the two against each other. Each piece sits on some viscerally uncomfortable line—between the secular and the spiritual, the intellectual and the emotive, constraint and movement, idea and sensation, language and materiality—pinning the viewer in a state of intellectual and sensorial conflict.”
Ripple received her M.F.A from Yale University in 1995, and has exhibited throughout the United States and in Italy, including shows at Klowden Mann, Kristi Engle Gallery and the Brewery Project in Los Angeles, the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Santa Monica, Upfor Gallery and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Ludwig Drum Factory in Chicago, and many others. Her work has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, and reviewed in Artillery, Art Ltd., LA Weekly, ArtScene, Chicago Tribune and American Craft. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has received multiple awards including a C.O.L.A. City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship and a Nathan O. Freedman Endowment for Exceptional Creative Accomplishments Award. She teaches at California State University,