Yale Union
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Yale Union is a non-profit contemporary art center in southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. It is located in the Yale Union Laundry Building built in 1908.[1] The center was founded in 2009.
Mission
Yale Union supports emerging contemporary artists, proposes new modes of production, and stimulates public discourse around art. Curatorial emphasis is on producing and presenting new works by emerging and established national and international artists, and in providing supplemental lectures and educational programming.[2]
History
Founded by Curtis Knapp and Aaron Flint Jamison, the artist-run Yale Union opened to the public on May 6, 2011 [3] after three years of development.[4] It is located in the historic Yale Union Laundry Building which was purchased in 2008 for the creation of Yale Union.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions have included the first visual arts exhibition of influential American poet, Susan Howe in 2013, the first West Coast exhibition of work by Scottish artist Lucy Skaer,[5] the first US exhibition of an index of masculine and feminine body language by German conceptualist Marianne Wex,[6] and an exhibition of work by Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. Yale Union is in process of screening every one of George Kuchar's 200-plus films.[7]
References
- ↑ "YU Contemporary". New Museum. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
- ↑ "YU". Yaleunion.org. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
- ↑ Motley, John (April 29, 2011). "In Portland, YU contemporary art center aims to continue what Portland Center for the Visual Arts started in the 1970s". The Oregonian. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ↑ Row, D.K. (November 6, 2010). "YU: Ambition and mystery surround a new post-millennial arts center". The Oregonian. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ↑ Gragg, Randy. "Review: Lucy Skaer at Yale Union (YU)". Portland Monthly. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ↑ Motley, John. "Marianne Wex". Artforum. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ↑ "George Kuchar". Yale Union. Retrieved 1 February 2014.