Untitled 1990 (Portland Rose Festival)

Title: Untitled 1990 (Portland Rose Festival)
LC Subject: Photography Outdoor photography Amusement parks photography (discipline) gelatin silver prints art photography black-and-white photography Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) (R) concept scheme
Creator: Gilson, Barbara, 1956-
Description: A large, black-and-white photograph of people riding a carnival ride. Barbara Gilson; untitled; 1990; gelatin silver; 3x3 ft; ohsu movable (1991) Barbara Gilson received a BA in French Literature and in Film Studies from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She has studied photography at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, where she coordinated the film program. During the tenure of her MFA Program in Photography at Arizona State University, she was a graduate research assistant to Mark Klett for the Photography Collaborative Facility, Visual Arts Research Institute. She also organized Editions and Additions: International Bookworks at Northlight Gallery. Awarded a Graduate Student Research Development Program Grant, Barbara and two colleagues have been involved in a collaborative project with the Navajo to document their sacred land and sites in northwestern New Mexico. The Arizona Commission on the Arts awarded this project, Hajiinei Dine'tah, a Visual Arts Travelling Exhibitions Grant. In addition to being selected as a recipient of the Contemporary Forum Artist's Material Fund, Phoenix Art Museum; a finalist in the Ferguson Grant Award, Friends of Photography; and awarded First place in the Tucson Weekly Annual Fiction and Photography Competition, Barbara has shown her work nationally in one person and in group exhibitions, and is represented in many public and private collections. She has also been a co-director of Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, and is an Artist-in-Education in the greater Portland area. The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
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Location: Oregon Health and Science University Hospital >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: (main campus) 3181 S. W. Sam Jackson Road, Portland Oregon
Award Date: 1990
Identifier: 1991_ohsu_movable-col_10_b01
Accession Number: 1991_ohsu_movable-col_10_b01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Gilson, Barbara, 1956-
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 3 x 3 feet
Material: Photography silver gelatin print
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1991 Oregon Health Sciences University, University Hospital South Expansion Movable Collection. Portland Oregon 1991_ohsu_movable-col
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: In 1991, the University hospital was undergoing an expansion of its C-Wing; simultaneously three new neighborhood health clinics were nearing completion in Portland. Public art purchases for these projects were made possible by Oregon's Percent for Art program. <br>In 1996, "University Hospital" was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital. <br>For a map of OHSU's Marquam Campus, see http://www.ohsu.edu/about/campusmap.pdf
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: I make my photographs with a "Diana" toy camera. Its uncorrected plastic lens; one shutter speed; a choice of three apertures, and an adjustable focus, 4-6 ft, 6-12 ft, and 12 ft - infinity make the Diana not only technically simple, but also allow for spontaneity and an unmeditated response. Diana photographs, vignetted glowing images pull you into their radiating centers, into a collective sense of memory, ritual, and dream. In printing my photographs 3 feet x 3 feet, I accentuate the physical structure of the photographic grain. At this degree of enlargment, the image is splintered into a myriad of sharp dots which seem to be forming the image as well as dissolving it. (Gilson, 1991)