LINDA HUTCHINS' FIRST PERMANENT PUBLIC ARTWORKS UNVEILED AT OCAC
Plus three regional opportunities to view her studio work
The plaza looks out over the valley to the coast range. I imagine the valley as an ocean and the plaza as a sandy shore.
The undulating design of the railing is inspired by the swell of waves or wind ...
With the interior stairway, the design makes
visible the flows of energy, creativity and consciousness that stream through the building.
— Linda Hutchins, 2010
Linda Hutchins' first permanent public artworks, Swell and Stream, will be unveiled to the public at Oregon College
of Art and Craft's Community Celebration, held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 2, 2010. Using large-scale laser-cut steel,
Hutchins has taken vocabulary from her two-dimensional line drawings and applied it in the site-responsive context of the campus'
architectural space and landscape. She designed an exterior plaza railing and an
interior stairway railing for the new Jean Vollum Drawing, Painting and Photography Building and the Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson
Thesis Studios. The buildings were designed collaboratively by Charles Rose Architects, Inc.
and COLAB Architecture + Urban Design LLC as part of BOORA's multi-part master plan for the college.
Ripe: Juicy Contemporary Still Life
October 11 - December 3, 2010
Seattle Pacific Art Center Gallery in Seattle, WA
Opening Reception Friday, October 15, 7 - 9 pm
Through Line - solo exhibition
April 4 - 27, 2011
OSU Fairbanks Gallery in Corvallis, OR
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Linda Hutchins received a BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and a BFA in Drawing from Pacific Northwest College of Art.
She has received two fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and is looking forward to her
third artist residency at Caldera in February, 2011. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including 4Culture, the King County
Public Art Collection, the Multnomah County Public Art Collection and Museum of Contemporary Craft. Hutchins' past exhibitions have garnered national
press coverage—including a
cover article
in American Craft, a
feature
in Fiberarts, a
review in Art in America, and
critical attention on the blog PORT—and she was awarded the Jurors' Prize for her work in the 2009 Northwest Biennial.
Hutchins is represented by
Pulliam Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
Images:
Swell, laser-cut steel plaza railing, Oregon College of Art and Craft, photo: Dan Kvitka
Stream, laser-cut steel stairway railing, Oregon College of Art and Craft, photo: Dan Kvitka