2/8 PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series : Paul Ramírez Jonas

Portland State University's Art Department offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Cooley Gallery at Reed College, Disjecta, Le Happy, Wealth Underground Farm, Bear Deluxe Magazine, and Northwest Film Center.

Paul Ramírez Jonas is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist whose work repurposes and reinterprets found systems and texts. He explains that, "I have always considered myself merely a reader of texts. The pre-existing text can be anything that I can treat as a score: a diary, a plan, an old photo, a footpath, sheet music, etc. The reading can take the form of a performance, a sculpture, a photo, or a video. Therefore, in my artworks, what looks like invention is but re-enactment, and what seems to be exploration is but walking in someone else's footsteps." His work has been exhibited at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK); Alexander Gray Gallery (NYC); Roger Björkholmen (Sweden); and Postmasters Gallery (NYC). 7:30 pm  at PSU: Shattuck Hall Annex: 1914 SW Park Ave.