David Abel is a poet, editor, and educator, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop & Gallery. Three new books appeared in the latter half of 2017: Selected Durations, an artist’s book from the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno, and two chapbooks from Portland publishers, XIV Eclipses (Couch Press), and sequitur her (press-press-pull). With Sam Lohmann, he publishes the Airfoil chapbook series. Since moving to Portland he has published twenty-five issues of the free poetry & art broadside series Envelope and devised more than thirty performance, film, theater, and intermedia projects, both solo and with a wide range of collaborators. In addition to curating regular changing exhibits at Passages, he organized the exhibitions Chax Press: Publishing Poetics for the Pacific NW College of Art and Object Poems for 23 Sandy Gallery. He is a founding member of the Spare Room reading series, now in its sixteenth year, and was an inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art.
In this Artist Talk, Abel speaks about John Outterbridge’s “From Within, from Containment Series”, 1969, and how it relates to his work.
View the piece in our collection online: http://www.portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=78221;type=101
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