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Contact: Renee Couture reneemcouture@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n Web: http:\/\/grayspaceproject.com<\/a>\/<\/p>\n GRAY SPACE:\u00a0Oregon Artists Present<\/p>\n A Cube-Shaped Itinerant Art Space<\/p>\n Viewing in the Northbound Cabin Creek Rest Area, 20 miles north of Roseburg (milepost 142), Saturday September 30, 11 am<\/p>\n (September 2017,\u00a0 Cabin Creek Rest Area\/I-5, Oregon) GRAY SPACE is a cube-shaped itinerant art space, welded and wheeled by artists. The artists of the GRAY SPACE group will install their individual work inside the 6\u2019x6\u2019x6\u2019 GRAY SPACE and park it for a day at various locations throughout Oregon. Each artist will create a different art installation. GRAY SPACE intentionally engages an audience without the confines and expectations\u00a0of a gallery or art center.<\/p>\n Its first travel location along the I-5 corridor is the Northbound Cabin Creek Rest Area, just 20 miles north of Roseburg. GRAY SPACE will be deployed Saturday, September 30, 11 am – 3 pm. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n Renee Couture is the second artist to install work in GRAY SPACE module. This work, titled The Highest Fence<\/i>, focuses on ideas of boundaries and borders – how they impact our lives and how we move through the world. She explores this phenomena through layers and layers of large-scale, cut paper fences as a fence is a man-made barrier that encloses, surrounds, confines, separates, protects, and shows ownership. The idea for The Highest Fence<\/i> emerged from a variety of sources including the artist\u2019s own life living in rural southern Oregon\u2019s O&C \u201ccheckerboard land ownership\u201d,\u00a0 proverbs, and recent political commentary on fence\/wall building.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE ARTIST:<\/p>\n Renee Couture works in sculpture, photography, and drawing. After receiving her BA and before receiving her MFA in Visual Art, Renee rambled about the United States and South America working a wide range of jobs from camp counselor to wild land fire fighter to gourmet goat cheese maker, international backpacker to\u00a0bank employee. She has exhibited her work nationally in group exhibitions and as a solo artist. Renee has won two Career Opportunity Grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, and also participated in residency programs at Jentel, Vermont Studio Center, Playa, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Djerassi. She jumped at the opportunity to be participate in GRAY SPACE project out of a drive expand art practice and connect with new audiences. Renee is currently Adjunct Fine Art Faculty at Umpqua Community College.\u00a0Visit Artist\u2019s Website: www.rcoutureart.com<\/a><\/p>\n ABOUT GRAY SPACE PROJECT:<\/p>\n The GRAY SPACE artists are\u00a0Kate Ali,<\/a>\u00a0Lee Imonen<\/a>,\u00a0Michael Boonstra<\/a>,\u00a0Kathleen Caprario<\/a>,\u00a0Sandee McGee<\/a>,\u00a0Andrew Myers<\/a>,\u00a0Leah Wilson<\/a>,\u00a0Renee Couture\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Vicki Amorose<\/a>. This group of Oregon artists gathers around an ideaphoric concept: the traveling installation space, freely accessible to random audiences.\u00a0In its first year, GRAY SPACE will be parked at various locations in Oregon. The artist will be present to talk about their work.\u00a0GRAY SPACE intentionally engages an audience without the confines and expectations\u00a0of a gallery or art center.\u00a0While on site,\u00a0the project activates public space and explores the interplay between\u00a0site, context, art and viewer. GRAY SPACE artists find momentum together and tap the generative resource of each other\u2019s creative drive.<\/p>\n CONTACT:\u00a0Email Renee Couture reneemcouture@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n Featured image:\u00a0image credit: Kate Ali, Gray Space Specs<\/em>Running sneakers<\/a> | Nike<\/a><\/span>