Interactive ‘Stalk’ on Display in Alexander Gallery

Friday, October 30, 2009

Artist Alexandra Opie’s interactive video display “Stalk” is on display in the Alexander Gallery at Clackamas Community College. The installation will be on display through Friday, Dec. 4.

In the video installation “Stalk,” viewers have the experience of stalking themselves. They encounter a forest-like space of video: fragmented projections on many small hanging screens. As they move between the layers of projected video, viewers encounter their own presence captured by live-feed infrared lenses that are added to the images around them. This work explores the experience of surprising oneself.

Opie is an artist who works in video, installation and photography. She received a bachelor’s degree from Southern Oregon University in 1997 and a master of fine arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2001. Her artwork has been shown in museum and experimental spaces in Boston, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York. Opie teaches video art and photography at Willamette University.

The Alexander Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and during special events in the Niemeyer Center. For more information, call Kelly White at 503-657-6958, ext. 2386.