Artist
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Work
Colonnades
Arrays
Lattices
Stacks
Tapestries
Fences
Baffles
Links
Public Art
Flock Behavior
Circadian Loop
Cross Section
Exhibitions
Inhabitations
Artist
CV
Work
Colonnades
Arrays
Lattices
Stacks
Tapestries
Fences
Baffles
Links
Public Art
Flock Behavior
Circadian Loop
Cross Section
Exhibitions
Inhabitations
His approach emerges from decades of engagement with maker-culture: skateboarding in the late 1980s, art school in the 1990s, experimental music with independent record label JagJaguwar and professional practice in both graphic design and architecture.
Born in Virginia and now living and working in Portland, Oregon, Nathan is an active contributer to the art and design community. He worked with Portland State University to design their new art gallery, holds a recurring open studio to share new work called “New Art on One Wall in the Basement” and is a regular attendee at Hide & Seek Gallery’s radical hospitality lunch gathering.
In addition to gallery exhibitions, he has realized large-scale sculptural installations for public audiences at a science research building in Colorado, a corporate headquarters campus in Utah, and an urban sport court facility in Washington.
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
2007
ARCHITECTURE IN SCANDINAVIA
SUMMER STUDIO AND RESEARCH GROUP
Stockholm, Sweden
Oslo, Norway
Copenhagen, Denmark
Helsinki, Finland
1996
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
Museum Acquisition
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
at University of Oregon
2026
Group Show
Spectrum II, Kristen Lorello, New York, NY
2026
Group Show
Mixed Flock, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
2026
Solo Exhibition
Inhabitations, Sculpture, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
2020
Commission, Public Art Sculpture
Flock Behaviour, 98ft x 14ft, Exterior wall-mounted sculpture, colored glass and stainless steel, Brio Building, Bellevue, WA
2018
Commission, Permanent Public Art Installation
Cross Section, 5ft x 22ft, High-density ceramic tubes, stainless steel, enamel, Colorado School of Mines Coorstek Science Building, Golden, Colorado
2016
Commission, Public Art Sculpture
Circadian Loop, 30ft x 3ft, Interior wall-mounted sculpture, painted aluminium plate, digital printing on aluminium, Nuskin Headquarters, Provo, Utah
2009
Solo Exhibition
To and From, Drawing series, Piano Nobile Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008
Solo Exhibition
Many to Make One, Sculpture & drawing, Piano Nobile Gallery, Seattle WA
2004
Solo Exhibition
Lost Tourists, Photographic series, Gallery Unpublished, Seattle WA
2003
Solo Exhibition
Flock & Still, Paintings and drawings, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA
2001
Solo Exhibition
Keys to Keys, Social sculpture with accompanying publication, John Homs Gallery, Richmond, VA
1996
Group Exhibition
Sinking Ships, Painting, Juried Group Show, Anderson Gallery Richmond, VA
Gallery Owner
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
PORTLAND, OREGON
Phone:
(503) 222-0063
Email:
jb@pdxcontemporaryart.com
Lis Charman
Director / Professor
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design
Phone:
(503) 725-3515
Email:
charman@pdx.edu
Research Fellowship
VALLE SCHOLAR AT THE
ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS
Copenhagen, Denmark
Committee Member
PSU School of Art & Design
Percent for Art in Public Places
Oregon Arts Commission
2007
Volunteer
Henry Art Gallery
Student Advisory Committee
University of Washington
The Paper Website™ [view]
Publication
Newspaper tabloid format
Documenting four years of work
2001
Keys to Keys
Publication
Newspaper tabloid format
Social Sculpture documenting
community members and the stories
behind elements on their keychains
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