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Jodie Cavalier: Belief
May 30 - November 20, 2019
This exhibition was curated by the Student Curatorial Committee.
Belief is an exhibition of works by Jodie Cavalier in collaboration with the KSMoCA Student Curatorial Committee, Ana, Diana, Isaiah, Rocky, and Roz Crews. The works are part of a larger project on using traditional Mexican healing rituals as a form of storytelling and passing oral histories. The works in the this exhibition focus on the broom or brush as a medium to aid in removing fears, aliments, and negative energy from a person by lightly brushing the surface of their body.
Jodie Cavalier is a project based artist working with residuals of daily life, objects, food, and language. She earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She has participated in residencies at; the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah in 2014, Wassaic in 2016, and AZ West Wagon Encampment in 2017. Her work has been exhibited at the Schneider Museum (Ashland), the deYoung Museum (San Francisco), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), CoCA (Seattle), EXO Project Space (Chicago), Städelschule (Frankfurt), among others. She currently has collaborative work on display with Zaira Salgado Gallardo at Portland Children's Museum with The Living School of Art in Portland, OR
Read Jodie Cavalier’s interview with the Student Curatorial Committee here>>
Notes from The Student Curatorial Committee
The Student Curatorial Committee is a group of students from MLK Jr School who conduct research about local and non-local artists to inform their work as curators of KSMoCA's MLK Jr Gallery. As part of this research, they meet with curators, gallerists, and educators to discuss curatorial topics, study books about contemporary artists, and conduct studio visits with local artists. In 2018, this group established a student-run gallery within the museum to display work by their peers in addition to work by local artists in Portland, OR. For this exhibition, the committee reviewed the work of selected local artists and selected and invited Cavalier to exhibit her work for this exhibition cycle.
