Artist

Karen Glaser and Nicole Jean Hill will present artist talks on Saturday, June 7th, at 3pm. The lecture is free of charge and open to the public. Blue Sky is open at its new location in the DeSoto Building, on the east side of the North Park Blocks between Davis and Couch, from noon to 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday. For further information call (503) 225-0210.

Through the use of large format color portraits of the home within the home of a variety of pets, Nicole Jean Hill’s Home Turf explores how humans organize their relationships to the nonhuman and form a sense of kinship with other species. While the subjugation of the natural world often seems to have irreversibly isolated the human from the nonhuman, Hill’s wry images present hybrids of nature and culture and examine the ambiguous hierarchies between imposition and tenderness.