January 29th - March 13th 2016
Artist Reception: January 29th 6-9pm
Artist Talk: March 13th 12-1pm
Gallery Hours: Saturday, Sunday 12pm-5pm and by private appointment

Melanie Flood Projects presents Disambiguation, Please, an exhibition by Seattle based artist Robert Rhee. This is his first solo exhibition in Portland. 

Delving deeply into Rhee's long term project The Occupations of Uninhabited Space-gourds formed by welded steel structures and chance-this exhibition explores their relationship to a photographic series of sculptural interventions that have been developing in parallel. In both bodies of work chance operations and material juxtapositions create a tension between blending and differentiation, synthesis and deconstruction.

Disambiguation, Please is the second in an ongoing artist series Thinking through Photography, an exploration of artists working with photography today. The series will include a comprehensive survey of contemporary photographic practices through programming that highlights experimental and diverse approaches to image making. Facilitated by exhibitions, artist talks, studio visits, interviews, and suggested readings which aim to expand the language surrounding photography, while also unveiling progressive work by local artists in the Pacific Northwest & beyond.

Robert Rhee is a Seattle based artist and writer, and a professor at Cornish College of the Arts. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including White Columns in NY, the Hunterdon Art Museum, the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul, the Changwon 2010 Biennale, and the Ferdinand Van Dieten Gallery in the Netherlands. He has served as the Arts Editor for the Columbia Journal and is Contributing Editor for the journal Heck. He has forthcoming essays in Art in America, Arcade, La Norda Especial, and recently had two solo exhibitions in Fall 2015.