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Leading multimedia artist's work at Cascade Art Gallery

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A new exhibit at the Cascade Art Gallery will feature a digital installation by leading video artist Cliff Evans.

The show, “Empyrean,” will be on display from March 5through April 8 at the gallery. Cliff Evans is a multimedia artist whose work focuses primarily on popular and Internet culture using photomontage animation. An opening reception is set from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 5. The Cascade Art Gallery is in Room 102, Terrell Hall, Cascade Campus (705 N. Killingsworth St.) and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Evans’ multi-channel installations and video objects have been shown at the Chelsea Art Museum, Luxe Gallery and Location One in New York as well as various museums and galleries across the country and Beijing, China. He was honored with the Artforum’s Top 10 Artist Films for 2006 as picked by Barbara London (curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City); earned a traveling scholarship from The Medici Society Limited, London, England; and won a nomination for the Princess Grace Award from the Princess Grace Foundation in New York.

Evans, a native Australian who lives in New York, has a master’s degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass., and a bachelor’s degree in film and video from the University of Texas.

For more information, please contact gallery director Jacqueline Ehlis at (503) 978-5326 or cascade.gallery@pcc.edu.

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