The Betty Feves Art Gallery at Blue Mountain Community College will present Light Moves in Radiant Bodies, an exhibition by multimedia visual artist and new BMCC Art Instructor Nika Blasser.
The community is invited to attend a reception on Thursday, Jan. 18, from 4:30–6:30 p.m. An artist talk will occur at approximately 5 p.m., and light refreshments will be provided. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibit runs until March 14.
Blasser’s art installation focuses on the interaction of light and material. Video works highlight the contrast between organic and hyper-synthetic surfaces, with a haunting silver-clad figure set against rural landscapes. This character recurs in a series of photographs, some of which use slow exposures for other-worldly night scenes. Around the gallery, detailed charcoal drawings, cyanotypes, and paintings each offer translations of light and shadow through their own unique media. This meditative contemporary display – which encompasses drawing, painting, video, sound, and photography – invites literal and figurative reflection.
Blasser is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work spans a wide variety of materials and defies easy categorization. Her art explores the ephemeral existence of humans in the world, capturing moments of poetic magic created by the forces of nature.
She has lived in Pendleton since 2015 and is highly involved in the arts and education communities in Eastern Oregon. She was the Marketing Director at Crow’s Shadow for over five years, a Multimedia Specialist for IMESD, and has taught workshops at the Pendleton Center for the Arts, along with previous part-time teaching for BMCC. She is a member of the city of Pendleton Arts Committee, a board member of the Oregon East Symphony, and last summer, was a chaperone to Japan for the Pendleton Cultural Foundation’s Minamisōma sister city student exchange, among other volunteer work. You can find out more at https://nikablasser.com.
In September 2023, she was hired as the full-time art faculty member at BMCC.
