Evergreen Gallery

 

Exhibition

Joe Feddersen: Pattern Recognition

Exhibition dates: November 16, 2009 – January 13, 2010
(closed: November 23-27 & December 14-31)

Artist lecture: Wednesday November 11, 11:30 am, Lecture Hall 1
Opening reception: Thursday November 12, 5 - 7 pm, Evergreen Gallery, library 2204
6 pm: remarks by the Artist and Michael Holloman, Director, Center for Plateau Cultural Studies, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture
Reception sponsored by the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center

Joe Feddersen views the world through an aesthetic lens that understands the visual beauty of the everyday, the echoing patterns throughout history and culture, the connecting threads through layers of meaning and complexity. In his artistic creations, he melds ideas, symbols, and geometric pattern from the weavings of the Plateau tribes, his ancestors, with Modernist considerations. Through these diverse references and his ability to make color, shape, texture, materiality communicate on a profoundly evocative level, Feddersen expresses the essential importance of home, of connections to people, place, and past generations, of being acutely aware of our physical and societal environment.

Joe Feddersen is Emeritus Faculty at The Evergreen State College. His art has been widely exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally, and is in numerous permanent collections, including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis; Heard Museum, Phoenix; Missoula Art Museum; Portland Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of the American Indian; Tacoma Art Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art. The touring exhibition Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs, organized by Rebecca J. Dobkins and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, is currently at the Tacoma Art Museum, and is accompanied by a major catalogue.

This exhibition is part of a two-year celebration of the art of Joe Feddersen; many individuals and organizations have made this possible. Evergreen Gallery and artist Joe Feddersen sincerely thank them for their generosity and creative energy: Froelick Gallery, Portland; Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR; University of Washington Press; the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, with hands-on assistance from the hot shop crew; Tacoma Art Museum. The Evergreen State College has supported the project in myriad ways; special thanks to President Purce and College supporters Sandy Desner and Laura Hogge, Fred Goldberg and Carolyn Lakewold, Anne and David Proffitt, Mary and Dan Weiss; to the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center; and to Bob Woods, Tanner Milliren, Jeff Konen, Mattie LaRue, Erin McGuire for studio assistance.