caldera

january artists

joe girandola
joe girandola is a professional artist originally from baltimore, maryland and has exhibited work at the museum of contemporary art geffen contemporary, 1996, los angeles; kunstalle wien, 2000, austria; 1997 kwangju biennial, south korea; 1997 atlanta center for contemporary art (nexus) biennial, georgia. recipient of a pollock-krasner foundation grant for 2003-04, girandola was assistant director for the santa fe art institute (nm) until may, 2004. in addition to the pollock-krasner grant, girandola has been awarded an adolph and esther gottlieb emergency assistance grant change, inc. grant and an artists fellowship, inc. grant. while at caldera, girandola will focus on large scale drawings and performance-based video work.

fever theater
experimentation, training, performance
fever theater is a performance ensemble, working to strengthen the art of theater through three on-going components:
-experimentation in process, form, and technique;
-training to ensure a growing level of skill among contemporary theater artists
-performance of original work that is made through collaboration
fever is based in portland, or and is committed to establishing portland and the pacific northwest as a strong presence in the global performance community.

jacob coleman (co-artistic director) – jacob is a performer, director, teacher and writer who has been working with fever since its inception in 2002. he is currently the organizer of fever training and experimentations, weekly workshops aimed at improving performance skills and discovering new methods of creation. he is interested in emergence as a model for non-hierarchical intelligence and organization.

amber whitehall (co-artistic director) – amber is a performer, director, teacher, writer and yoga instructor who has been working with fever since 2006. she practices finding form and meaning in time and space. she is fascinated by emergence and the way life lives.

kate sanderson (co-artistic director) – kate is a performer, director, teacher, filmmaker, writer and yoga instructor who has been with fever since its founding in 2002. she is currently pursuing an mfa at naropa university in boulder, colorado.

jenny vogel
jenny vogel (born in germany, 1975) lives in new york and works in video, photography and computer arts. vogel’s work explores the world as viewed through new media technology using web-cameras, blogs and google searches as source material. she received her mfa from hunter college (nyc) in 2003. she is a 2005 nyfa fellow in computer arts and is currently an adjunct professor at hunter college. her work has been screened and exhibited in group and solo-shows in numerous locations and galleries: san francisco camerawork, ca; arnolfini, uk; the siberian biennial, russia; the swiss institute, nyc; efa gallery, nyc; kunstwerke, berlin; ps1 contemporary art center, nyc.

lisa wells
lisa wells is a writer living in portland oregon. her prose has appeared in waves, ecotone and 400 words. her first book of poems, cedar rapids was released in 2007 by m.o.n.o. collective and she has poetry forthcoming from black sparrow press.

february artists

philip iosca
philip iosca is an artist and designer based in portland, oregon. iosca is the director of marketing for the portland institute for contemporary art and the founder of iosca industries, an art and design studio. a prolific writer, iosca has self-published five books in the past five years.

iosca graduated from rhode island school of design in 2004, with a major in textile design. after graduating, he worked as an art director for wieden + kennedy 12, an experiment in advertising, before taking a position at ace hotel where he created award-winning interior, identity and product design for the hotel’s portland property.

jessie rose vala
jessie rose vala was born in madison, wisconsin in august, 1977. she attended the california college of arts and received a degree in painting and ceramics in may, 1999. since that time, vala has been developing her drawing and sculpture skills, interconnecting them in various installations and group shows.

vala’s work centers around installations that are decorated with symbolic imagery. repeated natural elements, such as flowers, leaves and branches, serve as a reminder to the beauty and symmetry of nature. at caldera, she will continue to work on drawings and sculptures that tell a story of fragility, violence, sickness and ultimately, growth and regeneration.

cannon bernaldez bazan
bernaldez bazan is a professional photographer from mexico and received her bachelors degree in journalism. bernaldez bazan received the young creators scholarship in both 2001-02 and in 2005-06. she was awarded the fundacion cultural omnilife merit at the first national biennial of visual arts in merida and the acquisition award at the 12th biennial of photographers. her work is in collections in the museum of fine arts, houston, texas and lehigh university, pennsylvania.

kim russo
originally from philadelphia, kim russo is an artist and art critic based in santa fe, new mexico. she received her mfa in painting from indiana university in 1989.

in her most recent drawings in graphite and watercolor on paper, russo articulates the transitory and delusional aspects of contemporary life with imagery that is tender, humorous, appalling and entertainingly odd. she has exhibited her work throughout the united states and ireland. her most recent solo show, in april 2008, was at the center for contemporary arts in santa fe, new mexico. her work is included in the diane and sandy besser collection, the new mexico museum of art and the paul and lulu hilliard university art museum (university of louisiana).

at caldera, russo will work on large-scale drawings and video, inspired by the oregon landscape and current economic and ecological events.

kate northrop
kate northrop is associate professor of english at the university of wyoming and a contributing editor at the american poetry review. her second collection, things are disappearing here (persea books, 2007) was the finalist for the james laughlin award; her first collection, back through interruption (kent state university press) received the stan and tom wick poetry award and was a finalist for the great lakes new writers award. she has also received the paumanok poetry award, an american academy of poets award and fellowships from the pennsylvania council on the arts. she lives in laramie, wyoming.

march artists

jason randolph
jason randolph is a juggler, magician, installation and performance artist from southwestern virginia. he has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master of fine arts in sculpture from the maryland institute college of art. recently, he spent 10 months in colombia, working with artist collectives and circus schools in bogota, cali and medellin. some highlights from this time include participation in the bogota biennial and collaborative art and circus performances at the museum of modern art and under the tent of circociudad (citycircus) in bogota. this amalgamation of contemporary art and circus will be the focus of his residency at caldera, which will include workshops and performances for children and adults. jason presently lives in charlottesville, virginia, where he teaches at the charlottesville international school.

allison delauer
allison delauer’s work has appeared in five fingers review, mirage #4/period(ical), sfstaton.com, and the throwback and her haiku “burrito con-platanos” appeared on the infamous user-driven website burritophile.com. she lives in san francisco and works as a fundraiser for the arts and environment.

hand 2mouth theatre

danielle kelly
danielle kelly is an artist and writer curious about the weight of history (personal, cultural, national) and the urgency of physical space. centuries of human hate, fear, love, joy-where does it go? through objects, drawings, and performative story-telling the artist attempts to materialize emotional and psychic refuse that we all carry with us, both individually and as a community, be it inherited or self-created, in an attempt to minimize its strength and renew its resource.
based in las vegas, kelly considers her hometown to be the last great american frontier. the artist has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the western united states, and most recently co-curated the exhibition “on being good” with artist wendy kveck. she completed a residency at the vermont studio center in 2007. a freelance arts writer, kelly also serves as operations manager for the las vegas neon museum. kelly received her ba from beloit college and her mfa in studio art from the university of nevada, las vegas in 2007; she has also studied at the university of glasgow and the glasgow school of art. via caldera, kelly will collaborate with portland based dancer noelle stiles on a new performative project.

noelle stiles
noelle stiles is interested in how and where experience is held in the body. this interest provides a framework for extracting the corporeal language that both intimately connects and individuates us. noelle has been working in the field of dance for over 15 years as a performer, choreographer, administrator and teacher. noelle has bfa in dance and recently completed her graduate studies in dance/performance.

our desire to collaborate grew from our similar interest in the body as a dynamic and rich site of social and personal magnification. dance and visual art strongly intersect because the relationship to a form is always first and foremost a bodily one, as the relationship between two bodies is our primary reference for the dynamic. a collaboration between our individual artistic voices and mediums will allow us to deepen our research into these formal concerns and expand our vision. the exact shape of the work is yet unknown but our intent is to find a way to harness hope, as a form of agency, through the experience of the work.