Susan Harlan: Invisible Territories

First Friday Reception: June 6^th, 6-9pm

Portland artist Susan Harlan presents her series Invisible Territories: “I collect specimens from nature and preserve them in glass containers/slides. The glass specimens represent a unique way of perceiving and viewing landscape. This series I am exhibiting at Pushdot studio is an ongoing investigation of fragments from nature. This series is about the pleasure of beholding Nature, the wonder at understanding Nature and an inquiry into the reality and meaning of images, which form the bases of our interaction with Nature and thus our essence. I am keeping an eye on the invisible.”

The work is digitally printed on to fused enamel glass panels.

Harlan is the Chair of Painting at Portland State University and has been a Professor of Fine Art at PSU since 2001. Harlan’s show is happening in conjunction with the Glass Art Society’s 38^th Annual Conference: Forming Frontiers, in Portland June 19^th through June 21^st, 2008. Forming Frontiers not only addresses the distance the glass art world has come, but also the necessary and continuing expansion into new directions and unknown areas.

Pushdot will have an additional Artist Reception, Friday, June 20^th, 2008, so attendees of the Glass Art Society Conference, http://www.glassart.org/, can celebrate Harlan’s work. The artist will be in attendance.