For this installation, the shell of the shed becomes a chrysalis, a call and response of structure and illumination, and an embrace of the simultaneous desires for intimacy and expansiveness. You are invited to a nest of the cosmos, within. As a living work, transformation will occur through the duration of the show.

This cumulative installation that will be open during our public gallery hours Friday, 4-6 and Saturday 12-3 (at 229 N. Gilbert St). This installation period beginning Friday, Sept 20th will be punctuated by surprise happenings at day and night throughout the month of October.

The way light inhabits a space; how consciousness illuminates a body; the way memory lives outside linear structures of time; how a sense of the present expands and folds back again. 

In this work, I return to an earlier series entitled ‘homing’. Through translucent materials, veils, layers, screens, light and space, I explore the complex nature of inhabitation - what it means to be embodied, how this embodiment exists in relation to the world, and the unruly delineations between a self and beyond. Although inhabitation implies container and contained, interior and exterior, host and hosted, the two are inextricably intertwined. The boundary is fluid, reciprocal, porous - a mutually creative relation. The constant flow of change occurring along the threshold engenders an ongoing effort toward self-location - homing. Held within are notions of navigation and return, and the emotional weight contained in the desire for home. 

ARTIST BIO:

Heather Parrish’s artistic inquiry uses printmaking, experimental photography, and installation with video projection to explore notions of perception and belonging across fluid boundaries. Her heightened sensitivity to ‘self and surrounding’ arises from a culturally nomadic childhood growing up as an American in Southeast Asia. She focuses on the boundary between ‘interior’ and ‘exterior’ as a porous and dynamic site of complex negotiations. Collaboration is also a sustaining part of her practice including work with scientists, filmmakers, poets, activists, bodies of water, microbes and bees. Parrish received an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin. She worked as a fine art collaborating printer at Flatbed Press in Austin, Texas, and has exhibited work in the United States and internationally. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA.

Arrested by codependent relationships, Eric Conrad’s oversized figures are mixed-up into absurd and precarious scenarios where they teeter on the verge of emotional collapse. Scraps of clothing, plastic flowers, and bits of detritus become precious artifacts to Eric, whose textile-based sculptures and sculptural drawings will be on display in the exhibition space at PS1.

Presented with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Iowa City Downtown District.

Amplified Rainbow II is our second group art show from Artists at SUI! We’re an art studio located in Iowa City made up of artists with varying disabilities. The artists in our studio made artworks ranging from paintings, to sculptures, to fiber art. We serve adult artists who do not have access to regular creative opportunities. We follow our artists’ creative visions and assist them by providing supplies, adaptive tools, feedback, or workshops. Our mission is to promote radical inclusion through art, and we work to empower artists with disabilities to be visible and equal contributors in Iowa’s creative communities.

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opening reception: Thurs. Aug. 29, 5-7pm

gallery hours:
Fri. Aug. 30, 11a-1p
Sat. Aug. 31, 11a-1p
Mon. Sept. 2, 11a-1p
Tues. Sept. 3, 6-8p
Thurs. Sept. 5, 6-8p
Fri. Sept. 6, 11a-1p
Sat. Sept. 7, 11a-1p

Jamie Weinfurter presents ‘building castles in the air,’ her first solo exhibition outside of academia. The artist invites all to join her in remaking the gallery space and celebrating the everyday. Based on her life experience of receiving a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the spring of 2019, Weinfurter creates site-specific installations and sculptural reconstructions of domestic objects that discuss the impermanence of memory based on her own memory loss, the irreverence for everyday commodities to instead honor “the little things’, and queer homemaking and arts accessibility in safe spaces that exist unbounded by American social structures of value. 

In this exhibition, Weinfurter addresses preconceived associations ingrained in household objects as uncanny reconstructions that resemble the original item but take on new function and purpose, similar to her recovery after the TBI. RISO printed wallpaper of distorted architectural forms establish new space, transparent memories are projected as ephemeral reimaginings, and cast metal, assembled wood, and stiffened fabric redesign the domestic interior of the gallery to question and be accountable for our actions in current society to accommodate for the intangible future. The existing queer narrative that has always subtly prevailed in American culture of unspoken dress codes, queer signaling, and identity through performativity take shape as personal signals and reframed spaces in this exhibition to build an open and more accepting space. These steps lead to the potentiality of equitable and inclusive environments, and viewers are encouraged to dream, to welcome with open arms, and to build castles in the sky.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Jamie Weinfurter is a working 3D artist and instructor based in Iowa City, IA that is researching queer homemaking, consumer culture, environmental sustainability, and arts accessibility in site-specific collections of non-archival installations. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with an emphasis in 3D in 2018. She has since participated in numerous juried national exhibitions and group shows in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, California, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Canada. She has had solo exhibitions at the University of Stevens Point and the University of Iowa, as well as a two-person exhibition in Minnesota in 2020. She has created site-specific, outdoor sculptures at Josephine Sculpture Park in Frankfort, KY; Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry, IN; Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, MN, Stevens Point Sculpture Park, in Stevens Point, WI; and Salem Art Works, in Salem, NY. She also installed temporary public sculptures in Lafayette, CO; Deerfield, IL; Norfolk, NE; and Rochester, Bemidji, Delano, Park Rapids, Hutchinson, Hopkins, and Eagan Minnesota. 

Jamie was a K-12 substitute elementary school teacher from 2019-2020 before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. She has since completed an artist fellowship at NE SCULPTURE | Gallery Factory which progressed into a Program Assistant position in 2021. Jamie has been an Artist-in-Residence with the Keep Lincoln & Lancaster County Beautiful program in Lincoln, NE in the summer of 2022 and a Session I Foundry Studio Artist at Salem Art Works in the summer of 2023. Jamie began her graduate candidacy at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA in 2021 where she became the Exhibition & Event Technician for the School of Art & Art History and a member of the Graduate Engagement Corps. She is an instructor of record for the Elements of Sculpture and Undergraduate Sculpture I courses from 2021-2024, teaching metalworking, woodworking, and plaster/wax casting techniques. Jamie has received an MA degree from the University of Iowa in the spring of 2023 in Sculpture & Intermedia, with a secondary in Ceramics, and has received her MFA in Sculpture & Intermedia with a secondary emphasis in Printmaking in May of 2024. Jamie will be teaching mold-making and metal casting workshops at Salem Art Works in June and July of 2024.

Follow Jamie on Instagram: @jaybyrdart

This month we are pleased to offer two reading rooms containing exhibition catalogs and archival ephemera from a long running art collective in Japan called Imadate Art Field with visiting artist Yoriyasu Masuda, alongside the UICB zine scholar’s curated grouping of zines, contemporary DIY publishing projects and work by PS1’s 2023-24 DIY publishing residents Esperanza Chairez and KOLXOZ.  We’ve programmed these neighboring rooms in the gallery to offer time and space for browsing, visiting with artists and zine makers, and of course, reading!

Please join us for an opening celebration and visit with artists and curators in person : Saturday April 20, 6-8pm

Both exhibitions are supported in part by the Iowa Arts Council, which exists within the Iowa Economic Development Authority, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Paper and People:
Imadate Art Field, 1979-Present

Imadate Art Field, a non-profit arts organization, has programmed contemporary paper art exhibitions in Echizen, Japan since the 1970s. Echizen is home to a traditional papermaking region with over 1,500 years of history, and this community has long supported the efforts of Imadate Art Field in bringing papermaking into contemporary art.

Masuda Yoriyasu, director and co-founder of the organization, has come to Iowa City at the invitation of UI Center for the Book papermaking instructor and Iowa City artist Nicholas Cladis, who lived and worked in Echizen for many years and formerly served on the exhibitions committee for Imadate Art Field. Together, they have installed a reading room of past exhibition catalogs and ephemera. Join us and dive deep into the decades-long history of this organization. At this exhibition, you will be able to view, handle, and read Imadate Art Field materials dating from the 1970s to the present.

Join Masuda Yoriyasu on Saturday, April 20, from 4-6pm, at PS1 North Side (229 N. Gilbert St.) for an introductory, contemporary lamp-making workshop using papers made by Cladis here in Iowa. The workshop is FREE, but space is limited to eight participants: RSVP by April 13. (Feel free to also bring your own paper!)

Artists and Organizer Bios: 
Masuda Yoriyasu was born in 1956 in Japan. In 1979, he co-founded the Imadate Contemporary Paper Arts Exhibition (now called Imadate Art Field). In addition to a prolific exhibition history in Japan, Masuda spent many years living in Spain as part of a research and development team for public, sculptural wind-power turbines. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer at Fukui Prefectural University, where he teaches fine arts in the context of the Echizen region’s craft culture. Masuda engages his local community in a myriad of ways, ranging from hosting and teaching public workshop sessions to acquiring antique, disused structures, which are then renewed and turned into exhibition spaces.

Nicholas Cladis is head of the papermaking area at the UI Center for the Book. Cladis is a maker and researcher of handmade paper, as well as an exhibiting artist and educator. Prior to moving to Iowa City, he maintained a studio practice in Echizen, Japan. Since his arrival to Iowa, Cladis has programmed numerous exchange events between Echizen and Iowa; he returns to Echizen every summer. He has received the Fukui Prefecture Ambassadorship Award from the Fukui prefectural government, several local and international fellowships, and support from the Iowa Arts Council.

Cladis and Masuda met ten years ago, in 2014, and have been close friends ever since.

DIY publishing in and through Iowa

This exhibition gathers together zines and other DIY publications with a “tie to Iowa” gathered and selected by Kalmia Strong in collaboration with a group of zine scholars from the University of Iowa Center for the Book through an open call and drawing from PS1’s own zine library. Including poetry, art, comics, manifestos, instructions, and activism, the collection is necessarily incomplete and subjective, but begins to uncover histories, networks, communities, and fascinations manifested through self-driven print publication. 

Visitors are also invited to help us fill in gaps by contributing other publications or histories of DIY publishing in and through Iowa. 

Organizer Bios: 

Kalmia Strong

Trained as a book artist and librarian, Kalmia Strong is dedicated to understanding and supporting self-organized community spaces, extra-institutional knowledge-sharing, and publication practices as cultural resistance. Her creative, teaching, and curatorial work is typically collaborative and has unfolded in diverse spaces: graduate seminars, youth workshops, libraries, DIY venues, book fairs, cornfields, and defunct museums -- in the Midwest as well as in Canada and Moldova. She works as Program Director at Public Space One and is also adjunct faculty at the UI Center for the Book. Most of her current projects outside of PS1 manifest under the banner of lowercase library, which is both a collection and a structure for activity.

UICB Zine Scholars
13 artists, musicians, researchers, and educators currently enrolled in the University of Iowa Center for the Book Topics in Material Analysis course.

Poojana Prasanna, Alex Bezahler, Chayna Truex, Harper Folsom, Abigail Kellis, Allison Stickley, ev Leto, Charlie Pott, Margaret Yapp, A. Darryl Moton, Jessie Kraemer, Alice Eberhart, and Mira Pappin

Welcome to the eclectic "Alternate Realty" by artist Dana Telsrow, nestled at 229 N. Gilbert St. This uniquely curated space invites you to step into a world where the quirks of home buying are examined through Telsrow's distorted portraits of local realtors. Challenge your perspective as familiar faces transform into captivating and enigmatic narratives, providing a playful commentary on the absurdity of using personal images to sell homes. Immerse yourself in the heart of Iowa City, where this unconventional experience not only redefines the traditional housing market but also encourages you to reconsider the role of personal branding in real estate. Mark your calendar for the open house on Jan 21, from noon to 2 pm, and be ready to delve into the intriguing, weird world of "Alternate Realty." Meet the faces of your new future.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

After careers in marketing for higher-education and audio-visual post-production, Dana Telsrow founded Alternate Realty in 2022 as a way of serving residents of the greater Iowa City area. Alternate Realty maintains an unparalleled roster of agents that are eager, willing, and ready to open the doors to your new future.