{"id":8610,"date":"2023-12-07T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T19:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=8610"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T21:08:35","slug":"apex-dawn-cerny","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/event\/apex-dawn-cerny\/","title":{"rendered":"APEX: Dawn Cerny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dawn Cerny\u2019s works are at once formal and reductive while existing in a realm of the playful and ridiculous. The Seattle artist\u2019s newest sculptures and works on paper resemble familiar forms that suggest furniture and domestic objects occupying our interior spaces. Sculptures created from cardboard, fiberglass, and bright, matte colors exude levity while calling our attention to their form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her sculptural work, the objects seductively draw in viewers to contemplate their function, texture, and relation to the human body. Simultaneously, these same works reject the more traditional notions of sculpture and furniture, existing in an awkward place in between. They are gloppy objects that embrace a different kind of abstraction. Amassed within the galleries, their collective presence may evoke the space of a home or independent figures standing together in a room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cerny likens her work to Buster Keaton\u2019s slapstick comedy as \u201can absurdist response to the productive rationalism of modern times\u2014one that both represents and is alienated from everyday life.\u201d Cerny\u2019s work has been exhibited at many venues including Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; Or Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia; Night Gallery in Los Angeles; and Derek Eller Gallery in New York. This will be her first exhibition in Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>APEX is an ongoing series of exhibitions of Northwest-based artists, curated by Grace Kook-Anderson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><em>The APEX series is supported in part by The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Endowments for Northwest Art and the Exhibition Series Sponsors.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns resource-card-image hover-cards is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns hover-card is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-disable-lightbox\" data-gallery-name=\"\" data-modal-description=\"\" data-modal-title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1308\" height=\"736\" data-full-size=\"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2.jpg\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%;\" src=\"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2-1308x736.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of a yellow sculpture with a curtain-like rod and hanging fabric\" class=\"wp-image-8612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2-1308x736.jpg 1308w, https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2-900x506.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1308px) 100vw, 1308px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exhibition brochure<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button hover-card__link is-style-download\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/APEX-Dawn-Cerny-Brochure-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"opens-in-new-window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Dawn Cerny\u2019s works are at once formal and reductive while existing in a realm of the playful and ridiculous. 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