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Zemie Barr, 2,000 Miles and Back: Traversing Changing Landscapes at Portland Art Museum
April 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
FreeZemie Barr, 2,000 Miles and Back: Traversing Changing Landscapes at Portland Art Museum
Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s Lunchtime Talk Series
April 16, 2025
Wednesday, Noon to 1pm
Portland Art Museum
Trustee Room, 4th Floor in the Mark Building
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR 97205
www.portlandartmuseum.org / 503 226 2811
Cost: Free and open to the public
In her lunchtime talk, Portland-based artist and curator Zemie Barr will share recent photographic work made from 2021 onward. That year, she moved from Portland to Chicago, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and during a particularly devastating fire season for the Pacific Northwest. These events led the artist to create multiple photo-based series to process the grief associated with witnessing the effects of climate change in real time. Using found imagery, as well as analog and digital photographs taken while traveling across the country and beyond, the artist balances these feelings of loss with an aesthetic focus on the sublime beauty and magical potential still present in the natural world.
Zemie Barr is an artist and curator based in Portland, Oregon, where she previously served as Exhibitions Director at Blue Sky Gallery and co-founded Wolff Gallery. Zemie uses digital and analog photography to explore themes of memory, loss, and our relationship to the natural world. Most recently, her work has been exhibited at Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL; Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, OR; Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, OR; and in online exhibitions hosted by the Center for Fine Art Photography, ArtDoc Magazine, and F-Stop Magazine. In 2022 she was selected as one of Photolucida’s Top 200 Critical Mass Finalists.
About the Photography Council
The Portland Art Museum Photography Council offers its members unique opportunities to learn more about the history of photography with Julia Dolan, Ph.D., the Museum’s Minor White Curator of Photography. Council membership dues support the acquisition of photographs for the permanent collection. The members’ annual print share meeting, private tours with Dr. Dolan, and special invitations to lectures by renowned photographers are just some of the benefits of Council membership.
The Portland Art Museum Photography Council’s Lunchtime Talk series, conceived in 2009 by Past Council President Jim Leisy as a means of introducing the Portland photography community to the wealth of talent and creative energy in our region, has become one of the Council’s most popular public events. Since its inception, the LTS has offered over one hundred and thirty monthly presentations by regional and visiting photographers/artists that are free and open to everyone interested in photographic arts and process.