I spoke with Anna + Ryan over coffee in a cavernous academic building about their most recent exhibition, A Series of Rectangles, on view at PDX Contemporary Art through November 30, 2013.
Read moreAs an artist (under the name Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen) we’ve been co-creating art and life projects for the past eleven years. Our work is diverse in shape and scope, often functioning in response to the texts we read and to the experience of reading itself, whether on a page, sign,...Read more
Please join the artists Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen for a lecture about their work, and more specifically, the new book they just completed called A Limited Anthology of Edits. It will take place on Friday June 25th at noon in the New Video Gallery at Portland State University. The talk is a part of the completion of the artists' MFA degree and is happening in conjunction with their MFA thesis exhibition, which is currently on view. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read moreAnna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, whose show "The Classroom" is on display at PDX in July, are exhibiting this month both here in Portland as well as in Miami, FL. The Portland show is a group exhibit as a culmination to the PSU Masters of Fine Art program. In Miami, "How to Read a Book" explores classic literature and fiction and the relation to contemporary art.
Read moreRichard Speer reviews "Maybe it Takes a Loud Noise" CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read more"Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, along with their two-year-old son Calder, are a family art team who create works with a cool analytic aesthetic in a multitude of media, including photo-based indexes, textual mixed tapes, associative lectures, and mass mailings... "
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Read moreAnna Gray+Ryan Paulsen and Storm Tharp at Southern Oregon University's Schneider Museum of Art January 19th – March 17th 2018 ...
Read moreCongratulations to Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen - one of the seven finalists for the 2011 Brink Award.
The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington is delighted to announce the short list of candidates for The Brink, an award for emerging artists in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. The 2011 finalists are Grant Barnhart (Seattle, WA), Debra Baxter (Seattle, WA), Dawn Cerny (Seattle, WA), Andrew Dadson (Vancouver, BC), Tannaz Farsi (Eugene, OR), Allison Hrabluik (Vancouver, BC), and artist team Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen (Portland, OR).
This new award is now in its second biennial cycle, following 2009’s winner, Isabelle Pauwels (Vancouver, BC.) The selection committee will conduct studio visits with the eight artists in late March and early April.
In partnership with long-time Henry Art Gallery benefactors and Seattle art supporters John and Shari Behnke, the Henry confers this biennial prize of $12,500 to one of these artists, all of whom are at the beginning stages of a promising professional career. The recipient will also be given a solo exhibition at the Henry, and a work of his or her art will be acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. The winner of The Brink will be announced Friday, April 22, 2011, at 7PM.
Read moreArnold Kemp and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are exhibiting at Disjecta as part of Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art
Read morePDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to announce Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s public art commission, How Can We Assemble Ourselves? at the Karl Miller Center at Portland State University.
Read moreSeptember 8th - October 30th, 2011
Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen present "Don't Worry We'll Fix It" for PICA's annual Time-Based Art Festival. This show will be on view throughout the festival, as a part of the "On Sight" program.
How is it that 115 billion human life stories are distilled into one approximate “history”? Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen indirectly approach that question through the establishment of a production office that specializes in redaction and restorative text-work.
The Fix It office will employ a variety of divergent archival and historiographic methods in order to examine the ways that the institution of history is continuously built up and broken down through texts.
The office will both produce the publication September, a daily art historical broadside specially made for TBA:11, and be an active space where the artists will work onsite to correct, revise, and compile errata from previous editions of the paper amidst a new body of their related object-work.
Opening Reception : Thursday, Sept. 8, 8-10 pm
Gallery Hours:
Sept 9-Sept. 18 -- 12-6:30 everyday
Sept 22-Oct 30 -- 12-6:30 Thu-Fri, 12-4 Sat-Sun
We're excited to co-host a series of Saturday morning reading discussions in the gallery June 9th, 16th, and 23rd from 11:30-1pm. Discussions are open to the public.
Join us at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART:
Saturday, June 9th, 11:30am-1pm with Emily Squires
Saturday, June 16th, 11:30am-1pm with Rachel Hines
and Saturday, June 23rd, 11:30am-1pm with Ariana Jacob
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The first in a set of four exhibitions, "Structures and Feelings" brings together works by Portland-based Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen and Mexican artist Adriana Lara...
Read moreInspired by Werner Herzog’s book “Of Walking In Ice,” Sixteen artists explore themes of ice
and travel – through film, sound, installation, painting, photography, sculpture and writing.
For more information about the exhibit and the White Box, visit http://bit.ly/d0mOLr.
ªAnna Gray + Ryan Paulsen
Color in "Of Walking in Ice", by Werner Herzog, 2009
archival inkjet)
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Opening November 3rd at PNCA and November 4th at Newspace, Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are featured in two part group show...
Read moreArtist duo Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen are one of 30 artists selected for Tacoma Art Museum's 10th Northwest Biennial. They were selected by TAM Curator Rock Hushka and independent curator and art critic Renato Rodrigues da Silva from Vancouver, BC.
Read more"Teen Paranormal Romance" on view March 9 to April 13 . . .
Read moreIt was 1967 when Bob Dylan appeared in his video for Subterranean Homesick Blues, using cards to illustrate a series of sardonic refrains about modern life.
Fast-forward to 2012 and married artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen are channeling the singer’s spirit in their 100 Posterworks photography projects.
A series of wry messages are held up as they deadpan into the camera, creating black and white images that are at first deceptively simple but often bear deeper scrutiny.
Take for example the baby crawling away from a pair we assume to be its parents holding a sign saying ‘GO! GO! GO!’.
Your first reaction may be to smile, then wonder if the image is saying something about the burdens of expectation children can be born with, whether from overbearing parents or a fast-paced capitalist society that urges them to grow up quickly.
For their part the couple say they are aiming to create a “playful, inquisitive, critique” of society and personal attitudes, and say reaction to the photos have been “mostly pretty warm”.
“It started as a mail project; we were sending out the posters to a long list of curators, friends, writers, editors, artists, and institutions and the posters worked in that format,” explains Ryan.
“What was really interesting was the suggestions we would get from others about what type of signs we should hold. Once it got picked up by blogs there was a mixed reception of course - some fair critiques and some amazingly antagonistic dribble.”" -Sam Parker, The Huffington Post UK
Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/10/100-posterworks-slogan-art_n_...
Read morePICA presents Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen in an ON SIGHT Salon at Washington High School as part of TBA:11. An informal lecture by the artists will touch upon their collaborative practice and their interest in alternate and revisionist histories. The talk will take place within the duo's 'Fix It' office where they worked at editing, redacting and manipulating September, an art historical broadside made specifically for TBA.
http://www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=772
Read moreAnna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are exhibiting work at Congress Yard Projects.
"Congress Yard Projects’ first exhibition of 2021, hard & SOFT will submit the artworks to continuous display outside, throughout the wet dragging days of late winter. This turns our previous format on its head from the summer series of weekend long exhibitions where artworks susceptible to the elements are moved inside nightly. Rather, hard & SOFT will run for 1344 hours, from late January til Spring Equinox, showcasing works that stand resolute under the weight of the grey dripping sky, alongside works that embrace weathering transformation and decay. On view will be a range of works from the most obstinately impervious, to those that might melt, fade, or rot away in reaction to the elements, as well as some that depend upon the impacts of duration and exposure for their full potential. At times, the exhibition will be only open to viewers when it is raining, and others just available after dark, to make the most of the existing perceptual conditions."
hard & SOFT
Exhibition Jan 24 – March 21, 2021
Opening Sunday January 24 11-5pm
For more information visit: https://congressyardprojects.wordpress.com/
or on Oregon Live: https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2021/01/art-shows-a-bit-more-in...
Saturdays at 11am at PDX Contemporary Art:
Saturday, July 10th: Anne Marie Oliver
Saturday, July 17th: Sean Regan
Saturday, July 24th: Helen Reed
Saturday, July 31st: Barry Sanders
In conjunction with their exhibition "The Classroom" - a body of work which examines the politics and aesthetics of education - Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen and PDX Contemporary Art will host a series of short lectures on Saturday mornings during the month of July. Four local educators will use the objects of The Classroom to present on a variety of topics including fan-culture, pedagogy, language, philosophy and literacy.
Lecture Schedule (Saturdays at 11 am at PDX Contemporary Art, 925 NW Flanders Street): CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read moreTuesday November 1st, 5 pm
Lewis & Clark College - Miller Center for the Humanities, room 205
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 92
Portland, OR 97219
Free and open to the public
Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen will relate their idea-based practice to notions of twin-dom.
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February 11th - May 2nd, 2020
Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson are exhibiting in a two person show with Anna Von Mertens at the Archer Gallery at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.
Please join the artists for the opening reception on Thursday, February 13th from 11:00am - 1:00pm and for a short talk about the exhibition beginning at 12:15 pm.
Archer Gallery
Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver, WA 98663
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Friday and Saturday - 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Directions:
The Archer Gallery is located in the Penguin Union Building (PUB) attached to Gaiser Hall on the Clark College campus in Vancouver, Washington.
Pull into the Parking Lot south of Gaiser Hall. Park in any of the unmarked spaces. F/S spaces are reserved M–F until 5:30. Enter at the SW corner of Lower PUB.
Look for "Archer Gallery" lettering on the outer doors of the building. The gallery is just inside the door.
Read morePlease join us Saturday, October 22, at 10:30 am for a conversation with Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen on the occasion of their exhibition sandwiches for every meal.
sandwiches for every meal is a gathering of works inspired by searching for moments of quiet attention where we might notice the architecture of rural road signs, fall asleep while reading, accept the feeling of speechlessness, dismantle our old textbooks, watch a rocky shore or the changing qualities of the moon. Where we might explore the possibilities of silence, fish all day, remember what it's like to be part of a crowd or make layered forms of sustenance from simple means.
Please RSVP for the conversation at info@pdxcontemporaryart.com.
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