People
A.C.M. Lorish
Andrew C.M. Lorish was born in Eugene, Oregon. He studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Pacific Northwest College of Art where, in 2013, he received his MFA in Visual Studies. Selected exhibitions include Albatross Gallery in Portland, False Front in Portland, North Bank Gallery in Vancouver, Liberty Arts Center in Yreka, California, Sullivan Gallery and Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, Rockerill in Charleroi Belgium, and dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany. He is a founding member of the art collective Danger Punch. His work references the body, invented impractical machines, improvisational music, futuristic architecture, ritualistic masks, alien glyphs, unseen primitive ruins, coded scripts and the repetitious syncopated rhythm of gestural mark making. He currently lives and works in the high desert of Central Oregon.
Kiel Fletcher
Kiel Fletcher, is an Oregon based, new media and video artist. His work has been shown at the Tate Britain and Disjecta Contemporary Arts and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. His work is also included in the collection at Yale University Library. He is a founding member of the interdisciplinary artist collective, Danger Punch.
Fletcher received an MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BFA in sculpture and digital media from the University of Colorado. He was awarded a technology, arts and media certificate from the University of Colorado. Fletcher recently completed a Rainmaker Artist residency at Yale Union Laundry in Portland.
Jenna Goldsmith
Jenna Goldsmith is a poet and Senior Instructor of Writing at Oregon State University Cascades. Her great loves include Chicago-style deep dish pizza, Twister, and the musical stylings of the early aughts. And denim!
Tim Janchar
Prior to completing his MFA in visual studies at PNCA in 2013, Tim Janchar obtained a medical degree from Georgetown University. He has practiced emergency medicine in Los Angeles, Seattle, and currently Portland as well as in Astoria at Columbia Memorial Hospital. Tim finds the skills that benefit the artist can be applied to working in an ER, and vice versa. He says, "It’s all about reacting to what you have in front of you and interacting and communicating on a personal level." In addition to his personal art practice, from 2004-07 Tim managed the Hovercraft Gallery in old town Portland which morphed into Hovercraft Records – a vinyl label for NW and international punk and garage music. From 2007-13 Tim and Modou Dieng founded Worksound, a gallery and performance space in SE Portland. Tim is part of the art collective Danger Punch which focuses on interactive and reactive art installations and publications.