Commissioned by Converge 45 for its 2023 citywide exhibition entitled Social Forms: Art As Global Citizenship, Malia Jensen’s work will be installed outdoors at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts Plaza, located adjacent an urban wetland in downtown Beaverton, and on view from August 14th through November 14th.
Standing over ten feet tall, Endless Pigeons is comprised of eight oversized pigeons rising one atop the other from a cast concrete plinth inspired by the ubiquitous “Jersey Barrier.” This new work is Jensen’s long-dreamed-of full-scale realization of a bronze maquette created over a decade ago while living in New York City. Jensen’s tower of perching birds joyfully questions who (or what) adorns public plinths and serves as a timely reflection of our current national reckoning.
