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		<title>Umami</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Umami</link>

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		<description>Umami is a collection of wall-mounted sculptures I created for the Craft in America Study Center's three part series titled Good Enough to Eat: the Fusion of Food and Craft.  I was invited to participate in the "Food as a Subject for Craft" series, which was at their Los Angeles gallery in spring 2013.  

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		<excerpt>Umami is a collection of wall-mounted sculptures I created for the Craft in America Study Center's three part series titled Good Enough to Eat: the Fusion of Food...</excerpt>

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		<title>Cumulate at OSU</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Cumulate-at-OSU</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:09:06 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>A permanent public project based on my 2002 installation cumulate. Twelve clouds 'float' around the ground floor of the Student Success Center at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.  This was commissioned with 1% for Art funds, facilitated by the Oregon Arts Commission.

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		<excerpt>A permanent public project based on my 2002 installation cumulate. Twelve clouds 'float' around the ground floor of the Student Success Center at Oregon State...</excerpt>

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		<title>Weather Patterns</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Weather-Patterns-1</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:53:19 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>An ongoing series of freestanding sculptures. I think of these pieces as an exploration of how architecture and weather interact. The largest piece was created for the 2013 auction at Oregon College of Art and Craft, and the others for the annual Sitka Center Invitational.

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		<excerpt>An ongoing series of freestanding sculptures. I think of these pieces as an exploration of how architecture and weather interact. The largest piece was created for...</excerpt>

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		<title>epiphytes</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/epiphytes</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:33:17 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>This piece is the first in a series of studies of epiphytes. It fits between the chin and the shoulder. This piece was incorporated into a dance performance for the 2011 Exhibition in Motion at the Bellevue Arts Museum. This event is  part of the Society for North American Goldsmiths conference. &#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer01_905.jpg" width="905" height="1251" width_o="1388" height_o="1920" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer01_o.jpg" data-mid="5643249"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer02_905.jpg" width="905" height="1362" width_o="1275" height_o="1920" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer02_o.jpg" data-mid="5643250"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer03_905.jpg" width="905" height="1198" width_o="1450" height_o="1920" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer03_o.jpg" data-mid="5643253"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer04_905.jpg" width="905" height="1362" width_o="1275" height_o="1920" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hpfeifer04_o.jpg" data-mid="5643255"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hand-green_905.jpg" width="905" height="913" width_o="2048" height_o="2066" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hand-green_o.jpg" data-mid="24440449"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hand-blue_905.jpg" width="905" height="639" width_o="2048" height_o="1448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1171096/hand-blue_o.jpg" data-mid="24440443"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>This piece is the first in a series of studies of epiphytes. It fits between the chin and the shoulder. This piece was incorporated into a dance performance for the...</excerpt>

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		<title>Kharshouf</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Kharshouf</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:11:54 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>BFA Thesis Exhibition, Oregon College of Art and Craft,  May 1999
Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR

statement

When meeting new people, we make assumptions about what they are like based on what is readily available:  their clothing, hairstyle, mannerisms, scent or speech.  But it is only when we start to unravel their stories and learn about their life experiences that we start to understand more about personality.  I am fascinated with the idea that I carry hundreds of formative experiences within my body–experiences that can be recalled through a variety of ways as I grow older, calling my cognitive, physical, or sensory memory into action.  I believe that personality is a complex collection of experiences, which are stored in the body as if it were a vessel.

This installation of over 500 individual sculptures, is a self-portrait of what I think I would look like if I were seen as the hundreds of individual experiences I have had that played a significant role in the formation of my personality.  Headphones hang to the rear of the installation space, playing a continuous loop of local composer Heather Perkins’ fourteen minute composition, commissioned especially for this installation.  In the same way that I use found materials and objects to create my pieces, Heather uses original music and “sampled” and altered found sounds to create her music.  I felt that the act of a single person wearing headphones while looking at such a large body of work mimics the one-on-one time it takes to really get to know another person.

I titled this installation “Kharshouf,” for the original Arabic word meaning “artichoke.” I like this curious word, both silly and pleasing to my tongue.  I feel that the artichoke is the perfect metaphor for my thesis, and for the way it feels to come to understand someone’s personality in general. There are multiple sensations involved when eating an artichoke.  Its scent is warm and dense, and it has a taste that is both pleasant and bitter.  It is a primal, sensual experience to pull off each hard, spiky petal, one by one, using teeth and lips to scrape off the soft meat at the base.  The leaves become more succulent as you pluck deeper, revealing the youngest, tiniest ones, paper thin and limp, still bearing that one sharp tooth at the tip.  Just beneath is the hairy “choke” that tickles your throat if eaten.  And when you remove that one last line of defense to reveal the tender, meaty heart, it is an intimate and deeply satisfying experience.

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I have continued to make this work over the past decade. These pieces are available at Velvet da Vinci Gallery and the Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.

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		<excerpt>BFA Thesis Exhibition, Oregon College of Art and Craft,  May 1999 Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR  statement  When meeting new...</excerpt>

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		<title>Love Tooth</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Love-Tooth</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:06:57 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>2000
exhibited in the NW Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum 2001

The gray areas of an issue have always interested me–the places where you cannot easily see “wrong” or “right,” but the myriad of factors in between that you must weigh and consider before making a final decision.  My work in the past few years has been an exploration of these kinds of complexites that makes life so rich.

“Love Tooth” is a piece I refer to as a “sculptural bouquet,” which is a format I have been exploring in the past year. I see these as an exercise in portraiture, looking back to my original installation and presentation of these sculptures, titled Kharshouf, which was a self-portrait. The bouquets take their forms from a bouquet of flowers, where there are multiples of several different units that make up the entire composition.

This piece is a portrait of an emotion or proclivity. “Love Tooth” is a term which used to be applied to someone who has a tendency to fall in love easily, just as one might have a sweet tooth.&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053617/LoveToothDetail_905.jpeg" width="905" height="1385" width_o="1464" height_o="2241" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053617/LoveToothDetail_o.jpeg" data-mid="5060370"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053617/pfeiferlovetooth.jpg" width="200" height="185" width_o="200" height_o="185" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053617/pfeiferlovetooth_o.jpg" data-mid="5060371"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>2000 exhibited in the NW Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum 2001  The gray areas of an issue have always interested me–the places where you cannot easily see “wrong”...</excerpt>

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		<title>PDX Window Project</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/PDX-Window-Project</link>

		<comments>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/following/hilarypfeifer.com/PDX-Window-Project</comments>

		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:03:37 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>PDX Contemporary Art Gallery, 2001
Portland, Oregon

Having lived in the Pacific Northwest nearly all of my life, spring seems to extend from January through June. As a gardener, a walker, and an allergy sufferer, I get through the first six months of the year by watching what plants are blooming, how the light changes, how the earth slowly moves into summer.

I study plant and pollen forms, thinking about how people, like plants, have varying ways in which they manifest and express their sexuality. Some flaunt their potency, others protect it.

For this installation in particular, I wanted to create a piece about how the months of rain move us into the lush time of the year. This is a bouquet for Portland, bringing optimism for the long season ahead. &#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053609/pdxwindow_905.jpg" width="905" height="1206" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053609/pdxwindow_o.jpg" data-mid="5060334"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053609/pdxdetail_905.jpg" width="905" height="678" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053609/pdxdetail_o.jpg" data-mid="5060336"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>PDX Contemporary Art Gallery, 2001 Portland, Oregon  Having lived in the Pacific Northwest nearly all of my life, spring seems to extend from January through June....</excerpt>

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		<title>Model Room</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Model-Room</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:01:14 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Museum of Contemporary Craft (then Contemporary Crafts Gallery), December 2001- January 2002

A collaboration with F.U.P. of Portland, seller of Eames era production furniture. The “Model Room” series at the Museum of Contemporary Craft showed how one can live with art by pairing artists with furniture retailers in the Portland area.&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053592/cc1.jpg" width="540" height="720" width_o="540" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053592/cc1_o.jpg" data-mid="5060267"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053592/cc5.jpg" width="540" height="755" width_o="540" height_o="755" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053592/cc5_o.jpg" data-mid="5060272"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053592/cc3.jpg" width="537" height="719" width_o="537" height_o="719" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053592/cc3_o.jpg" data-mid="5060277"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>Museum of Contemporary Craft (then Contemporary Crafts Gallery), December 2001- January 2002  A collaboration with F.U.P. of Portland, seller of Eames era...</excerpt>

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		<title>Rule No. 14: Don’t Buy Art to Match your Sofa.</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Rule-No-14-Don-t-Buy-Art-to-Match-your-Sofa</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:51:09 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>mixed media, height: 6′

Play, curated by Jeff Jahn, Portland State University, Littman Gallery, 2002

Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, 2004&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053555/13_sofa.jpg" width="652" height="864" width_o="652" height_o="864" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053555/13_sofa_o.jpg" data-mid="5060079"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053555/detail.gif" width="600" height="400" width_o="600" height_o="400" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053555/detail_o.gif" data-mid="5060097"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>mixed media, height: 6′  Play, curated by Jeff Jahn, Portland State University, Littman Gallery, 2002  Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, 2004</excerpt>

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		<title>Walking Stick (for someone who stays indoors, mostly)</title>
				
		<link>http://www.hilarypfeifer.com/Walking-Stick-for-someone-who-stays-indoors-mostly</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:47:12 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Exhibition in Motion, Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2003

also exhibited in Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, 2004.


The setting I envision Walking Stick for Someone Who Stays Indoors, Mostly is in the corner of an urban-dweller’s apartment. The owner spent enough of their childhood exploring the mountains that they still have a memory of what grows there, but now lives a busy life in the city.  He is so out of touch with nature that he might even believe that this stick grew this way, cut straight from the tree with these strange flowers intact.  Someday, he plans to hike in the forest again, but for now, this stick is his only connection with nature.

I created this stick for the “Exhibition in Motion” for the Society of North American Goldsmiths’ annual conference.  This invitational event showcases several dozen members’ work in a fashion-show-type atmosphere.  It’s one of my favorite parts of the conference–many of the pieces are quite elaborate and stunning, others simple and hilarious.  Since I am one of the few members whose work is not wearable, (let alone metal!), I decided to do a walking stick.  Velvet da Vinci organized this particular conference, and coordinated with the Art Institute’s fashion design department to have them make original outfits to accompany early drawings of the pieces the artists intended to create.  These photographs are of the spectacular outfit made for my walking stick.&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/walkingstick72_905.jpg" width="905" height="1382" width_o="1000" height_o="1528" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/walkingstick72_o.jpg" data-mid="5060019"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/bigstick.jpg" width="372" height="1908" width_o="372" height_o="1908" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/bigstick_o.jpg" data-mid="5060022"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/bigstickclose_905.jpg" width="905" height="1556" width_o="1216" height_o="2091" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/bigstickclose_o.jpg" data-mid="5060026"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/front_back_walkstick.jpg" width="560" height="420" width_o="560" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/front_back_walkstick_o.jpg" data-mid="5109922"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;&#60;img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/P1010030_905.JPG" width="905" height="1206" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/82546/1053546/P1010030_o.JPG" data-mid="5131655"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;</description>
		
		<excerpt>Exhibition in Motion, Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2003  also exhibited in Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, 2004.   The...</excerpt>

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