January at Blue Sky
January Exhibitions and Programs at Blue Sky
Blue Sky is pleased to announce January 2024 Exhibitions and Programs. Please join us on Jan 4 from 5 - 8 PM for First Thursday Opening!
Ebenezer Galluzzo
As a Home Changes
Image © Ebenezer Galluzzo
Jan 4 - 27, 2024
First Thursday Opening: Jan 4, 5 - 8 PM
In-Person Artist Talk: Sat, Jan 27, 3 PM
As a Home Changes by Ebenezer Galluzzo explores expectations about beauty, gender, and otherness that have shaped what he sees when he looks in the mirror, often loaded with a feeling of not being enough. Galluzzo uses self-portraiture to learn a new way to view himself as a trans man based in celebration, acceptance, and internal truth. Using still imagery, collage and video, his work aims to create a conversation regarding transition that goes beyond a single destination, and reflect an ongoing, multifaceted experience that is a vital part of our human ecology. It explores the landscape, masculine and feminine gender norms, and the mirrors that we construct to view ourselves, both literal and imaginary.
David Paul Bayles
Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future
Image © David Paul Bayles
Jan 4 - 27, 2023
First Thursday Opening: Jan 4, 5 - 8 PM
In-Person Conversation: Sat, Jan 27, 1:30 PM
Shortly after the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire burned 173,000 acres along the McKenzie River in the Oregon Cascades, photographer David Paul Bayles and scientist Fred Swanson started to observe and photograph the forest’s response to the fire. Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future is a project aligned with the long-term research at the nearby HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, where some inquiries are planned to last 200 years. With increasing urgency, we face the need to reimagine our relationship with forests and fire in deeper, more useful and strategic ways. Forests have a lot to teach us about how to live together in complex and diverse communities.