Featuring

Inappropriate Appropriation (IA)

 

Littman and White Galleries
Portland State University

Exhibition Dates:
October 8th - October 24th

Opening Reception:
October 11th
5 to 8pm

Featuring:
Crystal Baxley
Paul Clay
Sam Guerrero
Rochelle Kulei

With a short story from:
Kesheena Jean Doctor

“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted”

Jonathan Letham via Lawrence Lessig

IA is an opportunity for five artists of different mediums to appropriate inappropriately or to appropriate the inappropriate. I wanted to do this show because I saw things in my immediate surroundings that disgusted me: that made me embarrassed to be associated with a culture that accepted hate or ignorance so readily but I was unsure of how respond to these feelings. I knew that these artists often addressed appropriation- cultural,  sexual or otherwise- in their work and I wanted to give them a venue. The artists might not have the answers, they might be pointing at something, or they may be suggesting or nudging you in a certain direction.  IA is about seeing things anew that you may have taken for granted before: it’s about appropriating inappropriately so that we might appropriate appropriately.