Larry Cwik – 40 Year Retrospective, The Visitor, Walking 1000 Miles through Mexico

September 16 – October 22, 2022

Reception (with a poetry reading by Walt Curtis, premiere of a short film, and a book signing):
Saturday September 17, 2022, 1 – 3 pm

Multnomah Arts Center
7688 SW Capitol Highway
Portland, Oregon  97219
503 823 ARTS
Monday – Thursday 9 AM – 930 PM, Friday – Saturday 9 am – 5 pm
www.multnomahartscenter.org

Portland artist and photographer Larry Cwik presents a 40 year retrospective of work from his project The Visitor, Walking 1000 Miles through Mexico, beginning on September 16, 2022 at the Center Gallery of the Multnomah Arts Center, Portland.

This will be Cwik’s first solo exhibit in six years. The works are large-scale color prints from Cwik’s longest project, in which he has visited all regions of Mexico to photograph, allowing his unconscious to dictate where and when he photographs in a city. Cwik has visited a different Mexican city each year to photograph, spending a cumulative total of six months in Mexico, walking more than 1000 miles in the process.

The opening reception will be on Saturday, September 17, 2022 from 1 – 3 pm, with refreshments, the premier of a new short film by Cwik, a book signing, and a poetry reading by Portland poet Walt Curtis. Curtis has read his work with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, and William Stafford, taught at Portland Community College, and published widely, including in Atlantic Monthly. Curtis’ novella Mala Noche was the subject of film-maker Gus Van Sant’s feature film. Curtis, co-founder of the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, has received the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award and hosted a poetry program for more than 45 years on KBOO FM.

Cwik’s work has been shown widely for almost 40 years and is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Regional Arts and Culture Commission, and Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and been published in journals and magazines in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Beijing, New York, Portland, and Seattle. Cwik’s book Images from the Eighties was published by Blue Sky Books in 2016. His films are represented by the Film-Maker’s Cooperative, New York.

Opening reception and the exhibit are both free and open to the public. Funding for the project includes support from both the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation.

www.larrycwik.com