Today One Year Ago

I was interviewed for PDX Mag. The article never saw the light of day, but I had a great conversation and got some sweet photos.

Photography by Jayna Milan

Hyperallergic Article about Governors Island Art Fair

The annual Governors Island Art Fair (GIAF), which features the work of emerging artists from around the region and across the globe, opens this Saturday, September 5, and continues every Saturday and Sunday in September.

For the first time, the fair will present artist installations in the Fort Jay magazine, a series of six cavernous brick chambers underneath Fort Jay that housed ammunition and explosives during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Varying in size, the magazine spaces will feature video and sound installations that take advantage of the raw environment and underground acoustics. Additionally, the 2015 edition of GIAF will feature more outdoor installations than previous years, creating a pathway of art between Fort Jay and the historic homes of military officers at Colonels’ Row— the fair’s primary location on the Island.

More here

Bronco Gallery July Shows

Bronco

Tatyana Ostapenko
www.tatyanaostapenko.com
The Bronco Gallery is a small gallery space based out of
a 1991 Ford Bronco. Emily Wobb and Maggie Heath
started the gallery because they wanted to give
emerging artists a platform and they didn’t have a
building, they had an SUV.
Being a 4WD space the gallery is meant to not only
provide another gallery within the established art
community in Portland, but also engage in dialog with
non-typical art events. The Bronco Gallery’s opening
receptions celebrate alongside institutions, galleries,
festivals, rodeos, car shows and the like, by tailgating
these events.
www.broncogallery.com
Tatyana Ostapenko was born and raised in Soviet
Union (now independent Ukraine.) She holds a BA
in Spanish and International Business from Georgia
State University and a BFA in Studio Practice at
Portland State University. He work focuses on the
recent history of once-Soviet states: the enormous
changes and simultaneous lack of change, social
ambivalence, political uncertainty, and the daily
experience of people caught in the midst of
July Tailgates
July 23 // 6PM Portland International Raceway, 49th Anniversary Race
July 31 & August 1 // ALL DAY Seattle Art Fair

 

Bronco at Motocross

Siren Nation's Art Show and Fundraiser

Stop by Olympic Mills building this Saturday to see work by more than 40 local artists and a dueling easel painting demo I will be doing with one and only Hyunju Kim.

107 SE Washington St, Portland OR  

6pm to 9pm

BFA Thesis Exhibition "Fences, Buckets, Mud and Heels"

Procession

Opening reception

Friday, June 5th, 4-7pm 

Littman Gallery

1825 SW Broadway St, Portland, Oregon 97201

Artist Statement

The major themes of my work revolve around the recent history of once-Soviet states: the enormous changes and simultaneous lack of change, social ambivalence, political uncertainty, and the daily experience of common people caught in the midst of momentous changes.
I am after the familiar yet confounding, commonplace yet unsettling, the uncannily mundane, and the ordinary strangeness. My subjects’ confusing and confounding motivations expose the rudderless and rapidly shifting environs of the places torn off from established meaning. I wish to communicate the reluctant repulsion/attraction I feel toward my place of origin, exposing the unjustified sentimentality of nostalgia along with the émigré’s moral difficulty at passing judgments on the land she abandoned.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/278213459016083/

Take Care / Make Many BFA Thesis Exhibition

 

AB Lobby Gallery / Portland State University / School of Art + Design

Art Building, First Floor, 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland, Oregon 97201

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m., or by appointment: tnikolai@pdx.edu

 

MK Gallery / Portland State University / School of Art + Design

Art Building, Second Floor, Room 207, 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland, Oregon 97201

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m., or by appointment: tnikolai@pdx.edu

 

Autzen Gallery + NH Video Display Case / Portland State University / School of Art + Design

Neuberger Hall, Second Floor, 724 SW Harrison St., Portland Oregon 97201

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m., or by appointment: tnikolai@pdx.edu

 

Littman Gallery / Portland State University

Smith Center, Second Floor, 1825 SW Broadway Ave., Portland, Oregon 97201

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 12-4 p.m., 503-725-5656, littmanandwhite@gmail.com

 

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take care / make many

 

BFA Thesis Exhibitions 2015 / School of Art + Design / COTA / Portland State University

 

Exhibition Dates: Friday, June 5 – Friday, June 12, 2015 (Littman Gallery until Friday, June 26)

 

Opening Reception (all venues): Friday, June 5, 2015, 4-7 PM

 

Galleries

 

AB Lobby Gallery: Edward Ershbock

 

MK Gallery: Christina Boom, Chang*diaz, Ben Miller

 

Autzen Gallery: Ryan Collard, Matthew Hall, Maggie Heath, Hannah Pope

 

Neuberger Hall Video Display Case: Ryan Collard

 

Littman Gallery: Maggie Irwin, Kate McCourt, Tatyana Ostapenko, Craig Overbey, Michelle Wood

 

SW 5th Ave. between SW Jackson St. and SW Lincoln St.: Will Elder

 

Exhibition Statement

 

The School of Art + Design / Art Practices Bachelor of Fine Arts Program 2014-15 presents take care / make many, the thesis exhibition of its fourteen graduating students. Their diverse practices incorporate painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installation, photography, print and digital media, representing the full breath of the program. take care / make many is exhibited across PSU’s campus art galleries and is open to the public from Friday, June 5 through Friday, June 12 (Littman Gallery until Friday, June 26). 

 

The BFA Program in Art Practices offered by the School of Art + Design at Portland State University is designed to provide a selected group of Art Practices students with one-year of specialized studies before graduation. The program is intended to complement the Art Practices BA/BS degree tracks and to facilitate an open dialog on contemporary art, its practices, and its cultural implications. This experience is offered as an extra step towards a future professional career. Upon admission, students commit to an intensive one-year residency in which they research, practice, construct, and discuss a body of work, in part to be presented as a public exhibition at the end of the program. These exhibitions represent a documentation of that experience and highlight some of its varied manifestations.