Residency 2024: Museum as Muse IV

The residency show returned to the 1122 Outside Gallery this year, with 3 returning and 3 new residents with a variety of projects. For information on the residency program, see here

Another Eye In Another World
Heléna Dupre Thompson

Macrophotography of selected museum artifacts and exhibits, including mud panels, patinaed copper scrolls, and dehydrated kombucha scobies. Heléna is a self-taught photographer, specializing in abstracting complex patterns from the "other world" of the very small. She is represented by Laura Vincent Design & Gallery in Portland and recently had a one-person show there, Detritivore .

Indelicate Grass
Lyndsay Hogland

3-D painting with metal salts preserved in resin, pioneering a competely unique medium. This work is a continuation of experiments begun during a 2023 museum residency, growing delicate silicate gardens. More info here. Lyndsay has worked behind the scenes to support artists and their projects for over 25 years, including as a scenic and prop designer. The "Zmov Vainc" project for her 2023 museum residency was her first gallery show.

The Age of Plastics
Patty Burns

A miniature museum exhibit relating to the impact of plastic in the Modern Age Patty is the founder and co-director of The Bywater Museum of Unnatural History, a diorama and oddities museum in New Orleans. She was living in Albany, Oregon during the residency and has moved to Utah.

Archeological evidence of Urauch k'Dejn people of the Zymoglyphic Region
Zac Banik

A priestly robe and a language machine. See here for a catalog Zac is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with functional objects, sculpture, drawing and textile art. He has a background in anthropology and in this project explores speculative culture and theology.

Florovirus
Alice Langlois

Sculpture series inspired by fasciation (a condition in plants that causes unusual and contorted growth patterns) as well as other botanical mutations and diseases Alice is a filmmaker and sculptor working with natural objects and ecological themes. Her work aims to express a reverence and wonder for nature, especially the wildlife and environments most often overlooked or seen as undesirable. In her 2021 residency, she created a stop motion animation from items in the museum's archive.

The Turning Wheel
Sam David

A Rust Age artifact that maps moments in time represented by a wise owl protecting a wheel of fortune. The wheel holds the mystery of growing from a young person to an old person, the changing seasons, play, pain, community, death, and consciousness. Sam is a multi-media artist inspired by and using found objects and discards. Sam's previous museum residency presented "Moments in Time", an immersive installation looking at the preservation of memory of the various ages of the Zymoglyphic region. Fabrication assistance was provided by Matt Baum.