Place Gallery is pleased to present a public lecture and Q&A with Portland-based, Hanford-raised artist Wynde Dyer, whose 1/2-scale home, 1751 Easy Street: For Sale By Owner is on exhibit through November 27th, 2011. Pacific Northwest College of Art Assistant Professor Mary Preis will join Dyer as discussion facilitator on Monday, November 21st from 7-9 p.m.
1751 EASY STREET: FOR SALE BY OWNER
By Wynde Dyer
October 15-November 27, 2011
Closing Reception November 19, 6-9 p.m.
Artist Talk Monday, November 21, 7-9 p.m.
Place Gallery
Pioneer Place Mall,
3rd Floor Atrium Building,
700 SW 5th Ave.
Portland, OR.
SHOW STATEMENT
Following the vein of Portland-based artist Wynde Dyer’s work in the area of architecture and memory, 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner, features a 1/2-sized scaled replica of the artist’s childhood home. Fabricated on-site with the intention of being burnt down off-site during a post-exhibition performance, 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by
Owner engages processes of construction and destruction to explore the notion of home as both a physical and psychological space.
While the home in question houses near and far recollections of the artist’s direct experiences of loss—including the loss of her sense of safety to childhood abuse, the loss of her mother to depression and substance abuse in 2010, and the subsequent loss of her childhood home—it also convenes around the innately human search for home in one’s self and in one’s world.
Built with only internal walls (a representation of the intentional and unintentional walls built within us), sans covered windows or a roof (for greater ease of exploration), and with spaces left between the lath (to add literal and metaphorical transparency and light to an otherwise dark place), 1751 Easy Street: For Sale by Owner is an incomplete and possibly inaccurate recreation from memory, not unlike our sometimes fractured and sometimes fabricated narratives of self.
ARTIST BIO
Wynde Dyer (1980) spent the first 18 years of her life in a two-bedroom home located at 1751 Easy Street, Hanford, CA 93230, before moving to Portland more than ten years ago to become the artist, curator, community builder, and maker-of-things-happen she is today. Dyer holds an M.S. [ABT] in Communication Studies from Portland State University, and is the founder and creative director of Golden Rule Gallery, a currently on hiatus volunteer-run social experiment in creativity and commerce otherwise known as a concept shop.
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