08/08/2023
S O C I A L
F O R M S
Art as Global Citizenship
Stelo is pleased to partner with Converge 45 as one of the sites for ASSEMBLY, a multi-location group exhibition taking place as part of the 2023 biennial, Social Forms, running from August 24th to October 8th.
Rolling openings at Pearl District partner spaces will take place on August 25th
● 2:00pm: Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue at the Oregon Jewish Museum and
Center for Holocaust Education
● 2:30pm: Richard Mosse: Occidental exhibition viewing at Blue Sky
● 3:00pm: Amanda Ross Ho at ILY2
● 3:45pm: Assembly at Parallax Art Center
● 4:30pm: Assembly at Stelo
● 5:00pm: Assembly at PNCA
Gallery hours are Thursday - Sunday, 12-5 and by appointment
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ABOUT ASSEMBLY
Assembly brings together a diverse company of Portland-based and international artists across three venues located in Portland’s legendary Pearl District. These venues are the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Parallax Art Center and Stelo Arts. Long known as the city’s most prominent gallery district and home to a number of its more important arts institutions, the Pearl District has an extensive record of fomenting experimentation for Pacific Northwest artists, as well as playing host to select national and global artists.
A fundamental part of Converge 45’s project of putting artists and works of art-as-a-social-form into active conversation, this group exhibition explores, among other values, ideas of identity, representation, inclusion, citizenship, labor, landscape, cityscape, ecology, trade, regionalism and globalism, at a time when the very meanings of these terms are shifting. Because Converge 45 views its participating artists—to borrow a phrase from the Romantic poet Percy Bysse Shelley—as the unacknowledged legislators of the world, Assembly has designed this group show as a series of colloquies. Each features creators and their artworks dialoguing across geography and difference. When viewed from the vantage point of our age of intolerance, this presents as a model good in itself.
