Free to the public. People are welcome to bring their lunch.
2,000 Miles and Back:
Traversing Changing Landscapes
In her lunchtime talk, Portland-based artist and curator Zemie Barr will share recent photographic work made from 2021 onward. That year, she moved from Portland to Chicago, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and during a particularly devastating fire season for the Pacific Northwest. These events led the artist to create multiple photo based series to process the grief associated with witnessing the effects of climate change in real time. Using found imagery, as well as analog and digital photographs taken while traveling across the country and beyond, the artist balances these feelings of loss with an aesthetic focus on the sublime beauty and magical potential still present in the natural world.
Zemie Barr is an artist and curator based in Portland, Oregon, where she previously served as Exhibitions Director at Blue Sky Gallery and co-founded Wolff Gallery. Zemie uses digital and analog photography to explore themes of memory, loss, and our relationship to the natural world. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL; Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, OR; Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, OR; and in online exhibitions hosted by the Center for Fine Art Photography, ArtDoc Magazine, and F-Stop Magazine. In 2022 she was selected as one of Photolucida’s Top 200 Critical Mass Finalists.
The Lunchtime Talk series is a presentation of the Portland Art Museum’s
Photography Council.