Dialectically Placed | Alexandra Opie

Dialectically Placed is a room, within a room, within a room. At its periphery are four screen-walls forming an outer area, which encloses a cylinder that can be occupied by the viewer. Both can be entered and circumambulated. These volumes share a gossamer surface, on which panoramic images are projected, shifting and fading. The projected images of indoor settings and exterior landscape spaces depict a compound, a spiritual community in Oregon, which was my childhood home. Viewers enter the work, enter the projected image, can in a ghostly way, inhabit the spaces depicted.

Alexandra Opie is a new media artist who works in video, installation and photography. She received a BA in painting from Southern Oregon University in 1997 and an MFA in interdisciplinary studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2001. Her artwork has been shown in museum and experimental spaces in Boston, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and New York. Ms. Opie lives in Aurora, Oregon, and teaches digital art and photography at Willamette University.