Perceptual Control

Perceptual Control is the culmination of a three-month group
residency at Worksound gallery.
A group exhibition exploring transcendence and perception.

Amy Bernstein

Nathanael Thayer Moss
Emily Nachison
Kyle Raquipiso
Jamie Marie Waelchli

Please join us for the Opening Reception: May 4, 2012
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Worksound
820 SE Alder Street
Portland, Oregon 97214
www.worksoundpdx.com
www.worksound5.tumblr.com

Worksound Residency Program
Five artists, curators, and writers were invited to engage in the gallery as a lab for studio practice, critical thinking, collaboration and curation. These three months of ongoing conversations and studio practices in the gallery space will culminate in an ongoing exhibition beginning May 4th, 2012.
For more information visit:
www.worksound5.tumblr.com

Amy Bernstein.
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Amy Bernstein is an artist and writer. She writes regularly for PORT, an online publication dedicated to art in the Portland area, and was a Warhol grant recipient in 2010.
http://www.portlandart.net/authors.php?author=162

Nathanael Thayer Moss.
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Nathanael Thayer Moss is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working in Portland, Oregon. His current work explores transcendental ideas of perfection and simplicism through esoteric design and the obsessive repetition of geometric abstraction as an illusion of control.
www.nathanaelthayermoss.com

Emily Nachison.
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Emily Nachison's artwork explores landscape and the human perception of nature. Drawing from anthropology, geology, and the decorative arts, her sculptures and installations are a hybrid of synthetic and natural accumulation. Mythology and New- Age idealism become starting points for an investigation into the cultural creation of landscape. Nachison's working process mimics organic growth and geological sediment, resulting in experiential installations using a variety of materials including fabric, glass, and wood.
www.emilynachison.com

Kyle Raquipiso.
BFA Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Kyle is an artist currently living and working in Portland, Oregon.
http://kraquipiso.tumblr.com/

Jamie Marie Waelchli.
MFA, Digital Media, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
BFA, Drawing and Graphics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Jamie Marie Waelchli's practice involves an intermedia fusion of temporal experience, personal expression and self disclosure. I examine vulnerability, identity and aloneness through an ongoing search for collective understanding and transcendence. Writer for Redefine Magazine, www.redefinemag.com, Portland.
www.vehicleofescape.com