Someplace Else
January 1 – 31, 2004
When i was a child my family moved from klamath Falls, in Southern Oregon, to Portland. Occasionally we would return south to visit relatives. At that time there was no interstate 5 and we would take Highway 99 to Ashland, then east to Klamath Falls. (i can still hear my mother making a joke about the town’s name as we passed through Drain.) These pictures were made in, or close to, towns on old 90 Highway 99. They are a product of the last 10 years, but they also remember the past.
Craig Hickman is a co-founder of Blue Sky and currently serves as professor in the Digital Arts Program at the University of Oregon. He is also the creator of Kid Pix, a computer drawing program for children. Hickman earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Washington, Seattle. Hickman exhibited Portland Creative Community 1.0 at White Box in 2013, which included an extensive selection of reprinted black and white images documenting the local art scene from the 1960s onward.