News
April 2024
My new video work “Elk woke here once (aware of the world already)”. will be shown at the 2024 Oregon Artists’ biennial at Oregon Contemporary! The reception is May 4, 2024.
APRIL 2024
Outer Voice: Kinds of Time
Outer Voice, the time based artists alliance I founded in 2023 is having an exhibition and performance events at Oregon Contemporary! Details here.
September 2023
My video work, I also knew this. is being screened at Common Area Maintenance in Seattle, WA, and at Microscope Gallery in New York, NY. Both are part of the work being included in Good Symptom Video Anthology, 3rd Thing Press, Seattle WA, Curated by Rana San, Chelsea Werner Jatzke, and M Freeman
September 2023
Outer Voice wesbite launched www.outervoicepdx.com
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JULY 2023
Outer Voice
I’m starting a stipended time-based art alliance based in studio #4 at the Oregon Contemporary complex in the Kenton neighborhood of Portland, OR.
Open call for Outer Voice Due Aug 22, 2023
sarahrushford.com/outervoice
JUNE 2023
Current exhibition: June- Sept 2023
I won't tell Irene, who is very good to me.
Audio installation, 2023
On exhibit May through September 2023
Tiny Thumb Gallery
PNCA Soleim Library
511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209
open to the public by appointment
MAY 2023
I earned an MFA!
In May 2023 I completed an MFA from PNCA/Willamette University in Visual Studies!
See documentation of my thesis exhibition What is the word for the day after tomorrow here, and here.
MARCH 2023
I’m thrilled about my upcoming solo show!
What is the word for the day after tomorrow.
a solo exhibition by Sarah Rushford.
March 19 - April 9, 2023
In her video work, What is the word for the day after tomorrow. the narrated text is Rushford’s lyric essay about caretaking, perception, knowing the self, and knowing others. The piece depicts twenty-two distinct women concentrating on voicing what they hear through a wireless headphone. Elements of each of the participant's individuality are revealed through their contribution to this game of listening-while-speaking. Brief moments of candidness break the work's illusion, revealing its construction. Audio passages are followed by video segments with an alternating pattern forming the rhythm of the work. Objects corollary to the intricate text are placed throughout Rubus Discolor Project.
This lyrical piece embraces and defies the assumed roles of writer, reader, listener, and speaker.
*A writing workshop lead by the artist will take place on Sunday, April 2nd at 5pm.*
Rubus Discolor Project
1738 N. Colfax St.
Portland, OR 97217
rubusdiscolorproject@gmail.com
On view: March 19 - April 9, 2023
Open Sundays:
Sun, March 19 - 2 - 4pm
Sun, March 26 - 2 - 4pm
Sun, April 2 - 2 - 4pm with the writing workshop @ 5pm
Sun, April 9 - 2 - 4pm
Also open by appointment.
Older news….
I’m now in my 2nd year of Visual Studies at PNCA! PNCA Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies @pncamfavisualstudies
Summer 2022, I recorded a lot of footage for my project in production “You know you know how”. See some in the time based media page.
UnDo Collab, Feral Domesticity Exhibition, March 27, 2022 Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
Time In-Between: Temporal Matters, Essay, an audio work, Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, PNCA, Portland, OR
Time In-Between: Temporal Matters, Essay, an audio work, Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, PNCA, Portland, OR
In Sept 2021 I transferred to the Visual Studies Department at PNCA Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies to complete my MFA. @pncamfavisualstudies
I’ll be a resident at Union Docs in Brooklyn as part of the winter 2021 CoLAB Feral Domesticity with Sheilah and Dani Restack!
In September 2020 I became an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at Pacific Northwest College of Art on Instagram at pnca_mfa_creativewriting
Along These Lines, Alberta Abbey, Portland OR, curated by Ilsa Payne and Justin Duyao
I have work in the 2020 Disjecta winter holiday sale
On The tip of my tongue
Carnation Contemporary
Dear Friends,
My text project Jayne telephones will be included in the group exhibition On the Tip of My Tongue at Carnation Contemporary in Portland OR, Dec 7-22, 2019. In addition to the artists book being included in the exhibition, a group of readers (including willing audience participants!) will read the text aloud on Dec 7 at 5:40 pm, before the opening reception. You are invited to attend or read in this simple reading performance. It would be a wonderful thing to see you there! Please do contact me asap if you would like to participate in the reading.
Jayne telephones is a list of the approximately six-hundred most common women’s names (derived from the 1990 US census) paired with the six-hundred most commonly used verbs. The pairings are listed in order of their ranking beginning with first most common. The list begins with "Mary is" and ends with the "Christi devotes”. The list is bound in a newsprint book that resembles a catalog or telephone book and is passed among a group of participants who read aloud as a performance.
Also my video and audio work is included in the Project Then, What if? at Five Points Gallery in Torrington CT, November 1- 30, 2019. In addition to the gallery exhibition there is a panel discussion and screening event (which was a great success and happened last weekend) and the project can also be viewed online. Sadly I won't be able to attend these events but I hope you can! See details below.
Also I've just uploaded new photographs of my current work see www.sarahrushford.com
All my best, Sarah Rushford
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On the Tip of My Tongue
Curated by Katherine Spinella and Kristin Hough
December 7 – December 22, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 7th, 2019 6–9:00pm
Event: Saturday, Dec 7th at 5:40–6:00pm A group reading of Jayne Telephones,
a text project by Sarah Rushford.
Open Hours: Fri-Sun 12-5pm See the Facebook Event
Carnation Contemporary
Carnation Contemporary
8371 N Interstate Ave
Portland, OR 97217
On the Tip of My Tongue explores the space that resides between thought and speech, intent and action, self and other, land and nation. The work in this exhibition mines topics such as the educational-industrial complex, the undocumented experience of resilience and resistance, and the uneasiness of occupying a motionless body while being hurled through the air in flight. Katherine Spinella (Portland, OR) and Kristin Hough (Los Angeles, CA) curated together multimedia works from 34 artists throughout the United States that use performance, symbols, instructions, transcriptions, lists, sequencing, and the materiality of a single phrase in order to comment on and connect to language. This exhibition reminds us that language impacts our bodies as a set of unfixed relationships, and that our unconscious, whether personal or collective, recalls images first.
Co-curated by Katherine Spinella and Kristin Hough
Artists:
ChaeWon Moon, Brandon Barr, Theodore William Arnold, Alyson Provax, Hasler Gomez, Sarah Rushford, Amanda Beekhuizen, Paul Shortt, Rachel Livedalen, Jonathan Bagby, Karen Larson-Voltz, Agnese Cebere, Amy Burek, Anthony Warnick, Erinn Kathryn, Rachel Deane, Chantal Zakari, Kevin Smith, Collin Richard, Ron Linn, Colin Kippen, Zach Clark, Angela Willetts, Noah Breuer, Julia Bradshaw, Flatpack Publications & Hiba Ali, Luke Buser, Darryl Lauster, Kelly Clark, Mary Marsh, Nathan Pietryknowski, Lorna Stevens, Brandi Kruse, James Gouldthrope
( Sarah Rushford - Jayne telephones is a list of the approximately six-hundred most common women’s names (derived from the 1990 US census) paired with the six-hundred most commonly used verbs. The pairings are listed in order of their ranking beginning with first most common. The list begins with "Mary is" and ends with the "Christi devotes”. The list is bound in a newsprint book that resembles a catalog or telephone book and is passed among a group of participants who read aloud as a performance. )
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Then, What If?
November 1- 30, 2019
Presented by NewMediaNewMusicNewEngland
Program Curated by Gene Gort and Ken Steen
Opening Reception: November 1, 2019, 6-8:30 pm
Artists' Panel Discussion: Friday, November 15th, 6:30 p.m.
Moderated by Power Boothe
Special Video Screening Event, Q+A: Saturday, November 9, 6:30 p.m.
Moderated by Gene Gort and Ken Steen
Artists Gene Gort and Ken Steen curated sixty video clips and sixty sound compositions that are sixty seconds in duration each and paired them randomly using a Cageian model of indeterminacy with 3600 potential variations.
Five Points Gallery
33 Main St
Torrington, CT
Then, What If? can also be viewed online
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Recent Exhibition
Provender, December 1-23, 2018
Georgina Lewis
Sarah Rushford
Curated by Martha Daghlian
Grapefruits Art Space (now closed)
