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Urgency

“Urgency”

A large-scale sculptural installation by Portland-based artist Mike Rathbun

Entering Mike Rathbun’s Urgency is like stumbling down a rabbit hole. This bizarre world recalls the magical darkness of the Brothers Grimm and the wondrous imagination of Maurice Sendek’s Where the Wild Things Are. Rathbun’s powerful installation evokes both unease and wonder. On one hand, the space compels exploration, but it also is filled with a sense of foreboding. As visitors in this strange environment, we are swallowed up by its monumental scale and dwarfed by a menacing forest of thorns that appear to burst out of the gallery’s ceiling. With only a narrow passageway around the perimeter, the installation overwhelms the space, making it difficult to maneuver. Even still, our scale in relationship to it is confounding: are we the size of insects in a field or have the thorny trunks taken over this world?

The artist would like to thank the following individuals whose hearts and hands were instrumental in the production of this work: Zoe Clark, Caitlin Ducey, Rick Holden, Lewis Feuer, Kelly Kuykendall, Riley Meinershagen, Kathryn Miller, Molly Montagna, Sandra Moll, Meagan Nuss, Kim, Melissa & Ameilia Rathbun, Steve Rathbun, Sonia Stolfo, and Kyle Thompson.

Urgency is generously supported in part by an Applied Materials Excellence in the Arts Grant, a program of the Arts Council of Silicon Valley.

San Jose Institute of Contemporary, San Jose, Ca.

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Untitled

Date: July 2002
Material: poplar/pine
Dimensions: 6’x16’x16′
Location: Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

Special Thanks to:
Huntington Beach Art Center, The City of Huntington Beach, Dean DeCoker, Darlene DiAngelo, Wignall Museum Gallery, Virginia Eaton, Rebecca Trawick, Adam Belt, Rodger Tilton, Erina Higa,Stella Stauffer, Eric B. Cabunoc, Daniel Lumbreras, Dorian Cobian.

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N34°06.211’ W117°42.712’

Date: October 2000
Material: Poplar
Dimensions: 14’ x 38’ x 38’
Location:

Press About the Piece:

Redemption and the Art of Michael Rathbun by Cynde Randall

Special Thanks to:
Special thanks to The Elizabeth Foundation without whose generous support this would not have been possible.

I gratefully acknowledge the following for the gift of their hearts and hands. They made this work possible:

Eric B. Cabunoc
Aaron Hansen
Eric Ott
Stella Stauffer
Adam Belt
Daniel Lumbreras
Jason Kessel
Dean DeCocker
Ginger Eaton


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Cart

Date: 8/00
Material: pine/fir
Dimensions: 22’x10’x30’
Location: Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga,CA

Special Thanks to:
I would like to thank the following people for without whos help this work could not have been accomplished.

Eric Cabunoc
Dorian Cobian
Erina Higa
Jason Kessel
Daniel Lumbreras
Stella Stauffer
Virginia Eaton and the staff of The Wignall Museum

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N34°08.65’ W117°34.359’

Date: 6/00
Material: poplar/fir/pine
Dimensions: 19’x38’x48’
Location: 

Special Thanks to:
I would like to thank the following people for without whos help this work could not have been accomplished.

Eric Cabunoc
Dorian Cobian
Erina Higa
Eric Ott
Jason Kessel
Renee Kieffer
Daniel Lumbreras
Robert Samuel
Stella Stauffer
Michael Thunberg
Lori Tyra
Virginia Eaton and the staff of The Wignall Museum

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N35°15.021’ W117°30.120’

Date: 9/99
Material: poplar
Dimensions: 22’x28’x32’
Location: Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA

Press About the Piece:

Sweeping Beauty
Sunday, October 3, 1999, The Press Enterprise, Los Angles CA.

Special Thanks to:
I would like to thank

Eva Kirsch and the Staff of the Robert V. Fullerton Museum
Bob Rathbun
Richard Rathbun
Matt Rathbun
Betty Rathbun
Virginia Eaton
Paul (The Mayor) Eaton
Eric Cabunoc

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