Malia Jensen
| Malia Jensen | |
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| [1] Malia Jensen works on a salt sculpture for her Nearer Nature series in rural and wild Oregon, 2019 Photo provided | |
| Born | Hawaii |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Sculpture, installation, video |
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Malia Jensen is an American sculptor working in various media, including clay, ceramics, and salt, who incorporates video and installation in her work. She is represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and Cristin Tierney in New York.[1]
In Sculpture (magazine), writer Rachel Losenfield Lafo describes Jensen's work as combining a "keen sense of observation of the natural world with a complex sense of humor." The magazine goes on to describe the work as "Earthy, sensual, uncanny, ambiguous, and provocative," exploring mortality, perseverance, constructed beliefs, and cultural myths associated with the American West as well as concerns about the fragility of the ecosystem."[1]
Early life and geographical influence[edit]
Malia Jensen was born in Hawaii and moved to Minnesota in the American Midwest.[1]Her grandparents were working-class Minnesota and her grandfather owned a big farm. Jensen's family moved to the Willamette Valley in Oregon when she was four years old.
In Willemina, Oregon a small timber town on the southern edge of Yamhill County, her parents bought 50 acres. Her father was a potter and her mother taught grade school. In the Nugget Newspaper, Jensen told writer Tiffany Lee Brown that the family lived "a ’70s back-to-the-land craftsperson life. We had a big garden.” She was 12 years old when her parents divorced, and her mother moved Jensen and her brother to Portland, Oregon. Jensen described her country life in Willemina as the Eden that she lost. Place and a yearning for rural and wild landscapes informs much of her recent work. Jensen has lived in Portland much of her adult life, with ample time in New York City as a working artist. She received her BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). [2]
Nearer Nature[edit]
Jensen recently received a Creative Heights grant from the Oregon Community Foundation in support of Nearer Nature, a project consisting of various temporary sculptural elements and installations created and produced around the state of Oregon.[1]
One recent work in the series, "Nearer Nature: Worth Your Salt" found Jensen carving sculptures out of high-density agricultural salt licks. She placed these in rural and natural spaces throughout the state, with surveillance cameras to capture video of the animals who gathered to lick the sculptures over time. Video installations of the results were placed in unusual locations such as feed stores, bars, schools, and wellness centers in various Oregon locations.[2]
Jensen's work on "Nearer Nature" led her to explore ways that urban and rural Oregonians have much in common, and to examine prejudices, assumptions, and beliefs that various American cultures hold in contemporary life and politics. “I think that we actually have a lot more in common than we’re allowed to recognize,” Jensen told the Nugget newspaper. “When everything is stripped away, we share basic needs.”[3]
Solo Exhibitions[edit]
- 2018 Yields, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Out West (Back East), Cristin Tierney, New York, NY
- 2016 Ground Effects, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Object Lessons, Case Works Installation, Reed College Library, Portland, OR
- 2015 Homey, Weiden & Kennedy, Portland, OR
- 2012 Stuff and Things, Cristin Tierney, New York, NY
- 2011 Salty, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2010 Shelved, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2009 Knee High to a Worm, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
- 2008 Conjunctions, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006 Nature Studies, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2003 not there, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
- 2002 SLIPS, Jamison Square, Portland OR , RACC/In Situ Portland
- Animalia, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
- 2001 Portraits, PDX, Portland, OR
- 2000 Animalia, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
- 1997 Wintering In, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts & Craft, Portland, OR
- Office Aides, Metropolitan Arts Commission, Portland Building, Portland, OR
- 1994 Safe Nature, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1993 Sleepwalking, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1992 Trophies, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions[edit]
- 2019 Schemers, Scammers & Subverters Symposium, Portland, OR, organized by Ralph Pugay and
Roz Crews
- 2016 Animality, curated by Jens Hoffman, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, England
Body Building, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Cascadia Seduction Zone, Choreographed work for BodyVox dance company, Portland, OR
- Exploring Reality, curated by Shane McAdams and Scott Malbaurn, Schneider Museum of Art,
Ashland, OR
- 2015 PICA:Celebrating 20 Years, Reflecting on the First Decade, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland,OR
- 2014 Unveiled, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- 2013 Fruits of Captiva, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York, NY
- 2012 Redux: Cristin Tierney, New York, NY
- 2011 Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years, The Hoffman Gallery, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
- The Shape of the Problem, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
- By The Sea, Cristin Tierney, New York, NY
- Printed by Master Printers, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
- 2010 The Grenfell Press: Thirty Years of Collaboration, Knoedler Project Space, New York, NY
- The Secret Language of Animals, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
- 2007 Portland? Fuck Portland!, Rocksbox, Portland, OR
- 2006 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia
- 2005 Landmark, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
- 2004 Animal Instincts, Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
- Gender in Conflict, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
- 2003 Crafty (Core Sample), Curated by Jonathan Raymond, Portland, Or
- The Hunt (Core sample), Curated by Micheal Brophy and Vanessa Renwick, Portland, OR
- The Best Coast, Curated by Jeff Jahn, Portland, OR
- Recent Acquisitions, Altoids Collection, The New Museum, New York, NY
- PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
- Formed to Function, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
- Alumni Show, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
- 2000 Imagined Landscapes, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
- Curators Choice, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
- 1999 The Inquisitive Object, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR
- Beauty of the Beast, Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill, WA
- PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
- 1998 Here and Now, Tidbit Gallery, curated by Randy Gragg, Portland, OR
- Oregon Biennial, curated by Katherine Kanjo, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
- Curator's Choice, curated by Kristie Edmunds, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
- The Garden Show, curated by Victoria Beal, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
- Postcards From the Interior, curated by Bob Hanson, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Portland, OR
- 1995 Widman/Jensen, Renshaw Galley, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
- The Dress as Form and Symbol, Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1994 Art in the Arboretum, installation, Hoyt Arboretum, Portland, OR
- Oregon; Common Ground, Marylhurst College Art Gym and the ORLO Foundation, Portland, OR
- Open Book, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
- 1993 Crosscut, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
- 1991 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Residencies, Awards and Fellowships[edit]
- 2019 Creative Heights Grant: Nearer Nature, Oregon Community Foundation
- 2016 Ucross Foundation Residency, Ucross, WY
- 2013 Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL
- 2009 Pile, Portland Public Art Collection, Portland, OR
- 2003 Public Art Commission, Fire Station #27, Portland, OR
- 2002 The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito CA
- Bonnie Bronson Fellowship, Reed College, Portland, OR
- SLIPS, Commission, Jamison Square, Portland OR , RACC/ Portland, OR
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Rosenfield Lafo, Rachel. "Observant by Nature: A Conversation with Malia Jensen". Sculpture (July/August 2019): 68–75.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tiffany Lee Brown (10 Dec 2019). "Salty artwork suggests beauty and connection". The Nugget Newspaper. p. 8. Retrieved 31 Dec 2019.
- ↑ Tiffany Lee Brown (10 Dec 2019). "Urban and rural Oregonians share basic needs". The Nugget Newspaper. p. 9. Retrieved 31 Dec 2019.
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