Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/11/2018
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
White Gallery
1825 SW Broadway St, Suite 289 --Portland
Pleasure Communism | Vera Rubin
On display: January 8 – 31, 2018
Reception: Thursday, January 11, 6–8 PM (artist talk @ 5 PM)
Pleasure Communism is an installation that explores new visions of love and connection in and out of a dying world. Part visual art, sculpture, and polemic, Pleasure Communism seeks to place itself at the table in conversations surrounding the violence of liberal individuality, the radical nature of the underground, the revolutionary potential of the collective consciousness, and the imagining of a liberating cyborg future. Pleasure Communism has been informed by the love and lessons learned from seedy backrooms of nightclubs, the pits of chronic trauma and despair, inside trance states, outside in the desert. Step inside, the pain is over.
Vera Rubin is an visual artist and musician residing in Portland, OR. Their weekly radio show “Shadow Cruising” focuses on dark, experimental, avant-garde and techno music. They have worked with artists such as Hercules and Love Affair, Silent Servant, White Visitation, and Light Asylum. Their visual art has been featured across the country in various nightclubs and underground galleries. They are a self-taught artist, autodidact, and anarchist. Listen more at soundcloud.com/verarubin.
The Littman + White Galleries are student-run exhibition spaces at Portland State University. Our mission is to provide the tools for a critical experience of visual culture through direct exposure to a comprehensive program of contemporary art for students and community members. We envision the Littman and White Galleries as centers for cultural enrichment where an indispensable art experience is accessible to all perspectives and levels of education.