Alexis Day: Artist Talk
Alexis Day, Loveseat, 2019, mixed media tapestry, 49 x 32"
Please join us at Elizabeth Leach Gallery for an artist talk featuring Alexis Day and Nan Curtis on Saturday, February 1, 2020, at 11:00 am. The artist will be discussing her studio practice and the work on view in Cascades - Synapse and Satin.
Alexis Day is a Portland-based mixed media artist, originally from the coastal town of Bandon, Oregon. Day earned an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019, a BS in Art Practices from Portland State University in 2016 and a BS in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Putting it Together 2, at the Foundry (St. Charles, MO), Figuratively Speaking at the Liberty Arts Collective (Bend, OR) and Dismantled, a solo exhibition at the Lodge Gallery (Portland, OR).
Nan Curtis received her MFA from the University of Cincinnati & BA from the College of Wooster. Curtis's practice is interdisciplinary, mining site, home and personal narrative to reframe what can be considered mundane. Major exhibitions include Mira Costa College, San Diego; DiverseWorks, Houston; Tacoma Art Museum; ConsolidatedWorks, Seattle; Linfield College, OR; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Elizabeth Leach, Williamson/Knight, 1430Contemporary, NINE & The Art Gym in Portland. Nan received the prestigious Bonnie Bronson Fellowship in 2011. She has attended residencies at Mira Costa College, OCAC & Caldera. Her work has been featured in ArtForum, ArtWeek, The Oregonian, Seattle Stranger & Portland Monthly. Her work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Sarah Miller Meigs, Reed College & Joan and John Shipley. She was the Director/Curator of the Feldman Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art, is currently faculty & the Chair of Studio Arts.