Portland State Magazine Fall 2014

FALL 2014 PORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 AS YOU MOVE in front of a hologram created by Portland artist James Minden ’77, it twists and turns, expanding toward you as it simultaneously appears to retract. It’s a medium that Minden has literally taken to new artistic heights. He calls his holograms light drawings, but others have called them sculp- tures. “Somehow the piece is greater than the sum of its material parts,” he says. For most of his career, Minden has concentrated on painting, drawing and printmaking. In 2011 he began to exhibit his light drawings, which are now his main focus. His work can be seen in a group exhibit, Mind to Hand, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland through Jan. 4. Photo courtesy of Laura Lucanidae. Light drawing FROM THE DARKNESS OF WAR, an artist emerges from his broken soldier shell in The Wax Bullet War: Chronicles of a Soldier and Artist . The memoir by Sean Davis ’09 tells his story of being moved by patriotism to serve in Iraq after Sept. 11, 2001, the pain he experienced on his return home, and how he overcame those challenges through painting. PSU’s Ooligan Press published Davis’s book—a decision, he says, that preserved its personal feel. The teaching press is staffed by PSU master’s students, and looks for stories unique to the Pacific Northwest.  Telling a soldier’s story New Works YOU ARE THE NEEDLE AND I AM THE THREAD By Pam Anderson ’76, MA ’91, WestBow Press, 2014 EDGAR ALLAN POE: THE FEVER CALLED LIVING By Paul Collins (English faculty), New Harvest, 2014 YAWNING AT TIGERS: YOU CAN’T TAME GOD, SO STOP TRYING By Drew Dyck ’04, Harper Collins Christian Publishing, 2014 THE IMPROVISOR’S PATH: EXPLORING THE BASSIST’S PATH TO MASTERY By Damian Erskine (music adjunct faculty), CreateSpace, 2014 THE BULLY OF ORDER By Brian Hart ’05, HarperCollins Publishers, 2014 REUNION By Ken Lizzi ’92, Twilight Times Books, 2014 RIVER CITY By Denny “Doc” Macomber ’84, Floating World Press, 2014 THE QUIRKY LANDLORD By Clancy Rohring (Mary Ann Luhrs Jayne MA ’72), CreateSpace, 2014 THE HEIR OF KHORED By Deborah J. Ross MS ’73, DAW, 2014 THE LAST EXOTIC PETTING ZOO: A BOOK OF POEMS By Jessica Tyner ’05, MS ’07, Tayen Lane Publishing, 2014 SHADES OF VIRTUE By Jack Whitsel ’00, Twilight Times Books, 2014 F A N F A R E