MARNE LUCAS
BORN- Honolulu, HawaiiSELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 'Eco Baroque' installation. Collaboration with Bruce Conkle, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University.
2008-09 PSU Smith Center 'Public Art Residency' Collaboration with Bruce Conkle. Funded by the Oregon Arts Commission.
2007 'Portland Artist Portraits' Aalto Lounge, Portland OR, and Astoria Coffeehouse, Astoria OR.
2006 'Portland Artist Portraits' Mark Woolley at Wonder, Portland, OR photographic portrait series.
2005 'Amusement' Homestar, Portland OR, travel photographs, pin-up lounge
2004 'Full Metal Window' Standard Arts Window, Portland OR, unique vinyl photographic self portraits on plex mirrors
2003 'Oregon's Natural Resources' Aalto Lounge Portland OR, Photography
2002 'Recent Color Photographs' Aalto Lounge Portland OR, Travel Photography
2001 Reed College Portland, OR 'Women's Week' Selected Photographs
2001 'Manwich' Good Vibrations, San Francisco CA, Pin Up Photographs of men
2001 'Velour Girls: Skirts and Skin' Good Vibrations Berkeley, CA Photographs
2001 Medusa Tattoo & Gallery Portland, OR 'Manwich' Photographs
2000 'Velour Girls: Skirts and Skin' Mark Woolley Gallery Portland, OR Color Photos
1999 'Portraits, Projects' AMOS Portland, OR Recent Photographs
1997 'Self Portraits in Reflective Surfaces' Umbra Penumbra Portland, OR Color Photos
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 'Juried Exhibition' New Space Gallery, Portland Oregon. Curated by TJ Norris
2008 Wild, Wild, West, Gallery Homeland, curated by Todd Johnson
2008 Limelight, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, curated by Jeff Jahn
2007 'RE: Dudes Night Out' Linfield Gallery, Linfield College, curated by Cris Moss
2006 'Signs of Life' The Contemporary Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA. curated by Stuart Horodner
2006 'In Clover' curated by Scott Wayne Indiana, Blinglab sculpture
2006 'Saturation' Portland Modern. Curators: Kristan Kennedy and Mathew Stadler, catalogue & exhibition
2006 'Beastiary'Juried group show, Froelick Gallery. 'Elk, Motel Shower' photograph
2005 'Fresh Trouble' curated by Jeff Jahn, 'East Coast, West Coast' lightbox & photo transparency
2005 'Lifeboat-Hamptons' Manifest Artistry, Scope-Hamptons, NY. Sculpture
2005 'First Person' Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR 'MLSP Ponygirl', B&W photograph,
2005 'At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care' CUNY Art Gallery, NYC. Co-curator 'Danzine Retrospective'
Organized by the Whitney Museum 2004-05 Fellows
2005 'One Foot After Another-Photography', Mark Woolley Gallery, Color Photographs
2004 'Lifeboat-Miami' Manifest Artistry, Scope-Miami, Fl. Sculpture
2004 'SinTax' Belinki & DuPrey, Portland OR, unique vinyl self portraits on plex mirrors
2004 Transient Decor' Affair @ The Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR 'Comemmorative Photograph and Bed Installation
2004 '5D' Hall Gallery Portland OR, 'Blow Hole' Self Portrait Dyptich
2004 'State of Affairs'Savage Art Resources, Portland Or, ML SP (1996-2004) Self Portrait Series
2004 Art For Life, Cascade Aids Project Benefit Auction, Photograph
2004 'The 52 Show' The Art Nucleus, Portland, OR Color Photograph, '4 of Spades'
2004 'Girls Gone Wild', Basil Hallward Gallery, Portland, OR B&W Self Portrait
2004 'Inagural Show', The Erotic Museum, Los Angeles, CA Color Photographs, video
2003 'One Foot After Another', Mark Woolley Gallery, Color Photographs
2003 'Three Way' Medusa Gallery, Portland, OR Carl Annalla, Susanne Shifflett, Marne Lucas
2002 Basil Hallward Gallery Portland, OR '16X20' Polaroids
2002 PEAR Gallery Portland, OR 'Photography Show', Recent Photographs
2002 'Art For Life', Cascade Aids Project Benefit Auction, Photograph
2001 'Guns In The Hands Of Artists' IFCC Portland, OR Photographs
2001 'Art For Life' Cascade Aids Project Benefit Auction, Photograph
2001 'Erotica' Ona Gallery, Portland, OR Color photographs
2001 'Domesticity' Donut Shop, Portland, OR Installation: Video, Sculpture, Slideshow
2001 'Leggs' Medusa Tattoo & Gallery, Color Photographs
2000 '16X20' Basil Hallward Gallery Portland, OregonPolaroids
2000 'Ped Agree' Medusa Tattoo Portland Oregon photographs
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2008 Key Collaborator- RACC Project Grant, for 'Eco Baroque' collaborative installation with Bruce Conkle (grant recipient.)
2006 T.B.A Festival PICA 'The Untold Misadventures of Lewis & Clark'. Blinglab puppet show written & produced by Marne Lucas & Bruce Conkle. September 14 -16.
2006 RACC Project Grant, Portland Artist Portrait Series, photographs
2006 Caldera Artist Residency, Blue Lake Site, Jan 2-28, Blinglab performance art/puppet show
2005 Danzine Archives Portland OR, Co-archivist for the history of Danzine
1997-2006 Velour Productions- photography, free lance PR, event production, curation
2005 Blinglab Co Founder of artist collective
2005 V-Gun Co-curator to art space with bi-monthly exhibitions
2004-2005 'Gag Rules,' 'Slide Rules' Community Art & Education Topics: Portland City Hall, by Teresa Dulce, photography & PR
2004 'Walmartisnacht' Blinglab artist collective, labor themed puppet show, shown at ORLO.
2004 2Gyrlz donated art to benefit auction
2004 Art For Life Cascade Aids Project Benefit Auction, donated Catalogue cover photography
2004 Art Star Guest artist on Radio show by Eva Lake, KPSU, Feb. 1, 2004
2003- 2004 Curator to the Aalto Lounge; monthly exhibitions
2002- 9/2003 Danzine Portland OR, Advisory Board Member for Non-Profit Agency
2001 SHOUT NY Magazine, Portrait of film maker James Boulton 'Making Movies Matter'
2001 MENSA, Portland, Oregon Visiting Artist- Lecture, slide presentation
2001 Reed College Portland, OR 'Women's Week' Lecture, slide presentation.
2000 2nd Sex by Sex Worker Film + Video Festival, Portland, Oregon, Co-Curator
2000 Jefferson School of the Performing Arts, Cindy Sherman Project: photography of Ernest Weismehl's students.
1999 San Francisco Sex Worker Film Festival, San Francisco,CA Visiting Artist
1998 The 1st Annual Sex Worker Film + Video Festival, Portland OR, Co-Curator
1998 ICA, London, UK Visting Artist- American Underground Film Series
1998 London Institute, UK, Visiting Artist- Lecture 'American Underground Film'
1998 Cinematheque, Brighton, UK Visiting Artist 'The Operation'
1998 Tidbit Gallery, Portland, Oregon Curator- 'NW Underground Film' series
1997 NW Film & Video Center Portland, OR, Curator, UK Artist Jack Sargeant- 'Cinema Of Transgression' lecture/screening.
1997 Speakeasy Cafe, Seattle Curator, Jack Sargeant 'Rare Beat Films' lecture/screening
1997 Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, Visting Artist/Screening 'The Operation'
1995 'The Operation' infrared erotic short film by Jacob Pander and Marne Lucas. Awarded 'Best Experimental Film', 1995 New York Underground Film Festival.
PUBLICATIONS
2007 'Paradoxical Portland' Art Ltd., by Richard Speer, March 2007, photograph.
2006 'Portraits of Our Artists' The Oregonian , A & E Magazine, by Rachel Neugarten, December 29, 2006
2006 'An Interview with Marne Lucas' PORT (Portland Art.net) by Jessica Bromer, December 27, 2006
2006 'An Artist Focuses on Artists' Willamette Week, by Richard Speer, December 13, 2006
2006 'First Thursday Pulses With Vibrancy' The Oregonian, by Brian Libby, June 1, 2006
2006 'A Femme Fatale Evolves' Willamette Week, by Richard Speer, Culture, January 25, 2006
2005 'David Velasco on Danzine' PORT (Portlandart.net) review of CUNY Danzine Retrospective
2004 'OUT IN OREGON' ARTNET.COM, Photos by Barry Neumann, 'Affair @ The Jupiter Hotel'
2004 'Affair @ The Jupiter Hotel' Critical i, NW Drizzle, by Jeff Jahn, Nov. 2004
2004 'First Thursday' Just Out, review by Lisa Bradshaw August 1, 2004
2004 'State of Affairs', Portland Mercury, review by Chas Bowie, April 22, 2004
2004 'Cheeseburger-dream Patriotism' The Oregonian, review by Harvest Henderson, April 30, 2004
2004 'Yo Bro' Just Out, Interview with Peter Bro & Marne Lucas, by Michael E. Barrett, March 5, 2004
2004 'Excluding Erotic Art' The Oregonian, D.K. Row, A& E, January 23, 2004
2003 'One Review' Willamette Week, review by David Walker, September 4, 2003
2003 'Oregon's Natural Resources' The Oregonian, review by D.K. Row, Sept. 12, 2003
2003 'Marne Storm' Daily PDX.com First Thursday preview, May 1, 2003
2002 'A Modestly Revealing Turn' The Oregonian, review by D.K. Row; June 21, 2002
2001 'Forbidden Realms-Reversing the Photographic Gaze' Art Papers, article by Carl Heyward; May/June
2001 'Manwich' Queer Window, Willamette Week, profile by Byron Beck, March 2001
2000 'Parochial Revolutionary' The Oregonian, review by D.K. Row, A & E, Sept. 22
2000 'Visible Woman' Portland Mercury, article by Monica Drake, Sept 7, 2000.
1999 'Hot Zones-'The Operation',' Suture: The Arts Journal, Vol 1.' interview by Jack Sargeant (Creation Books, UK)
1999 'Sexy Crusader' AVN, interview by Ellen Thompson. September 1999