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MARCH 9–16, 2022
MIXED MEDIUM
THE ARTS AROUND
EASTERN OREGON
Explore Nicole Pietrantoni’s show at PCA
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P
ENDLETON — This month,
visitors to the Pendleton
Center for the Arts won’t see
artwork on the walls in the main
gallery space. Instead, they will
encounter brightly printed ac-
cordion pages cascading down
from overhead shelves, strips
of color bouncing off the walls,
and a sea of complex patterns
reflected at their feet.
“Nicole Pietrantoni: The Slow
Current” features works on paper,
artists’ books and installations
that explore the representation of
beauty in times of loss, photogra-
phy’s role in producing memory
and humans’ relationship to the
environment. Her work is on dis-
play in the East Oregonian Gallery
through March 31.
According to a press release,
Pietrantoni’s works are inkjet-
printed, large-scale book instal-
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The exhibit “Nicole Pietrantoni: The Slow Current” is on display at the Pendleton Center for the Arts through March 31.
lations that ask the viewer to
negotiate the tension between
image, text and form. In much
of her work, she paints the back
of each piece with a fluorescent
neon red paint that reflects and
glows against the white walls of
the gallery. For her, this color calls
to mind both the natural, such as
the pinkish-orange light of dawn,
as well as the highly artificial, like
the neon orange of traffic cones
and hazard tape.
Pietrantoni received an MFA
and MA in printmaking from
the University of Iowa and a BS
in human and organizational
development and art history
from Vanderbilt University. She
is currently on a one-year leave
of absence from her position
as an associate professor of art
at Whitman University in Walla
Walla, and is living in Prague,
Czech Republic, with her family.
All the exhibit events are made
possible through the support of
Coldwell Banker Farley Company,
and admission is always free.
More information is available by
calling 541-278-9201 or online at
pendletonarts.org.