ART OPENINGS & PEOPLE's NEWS
"SPAWN CAMPING THE PSIONIC SWAMP": The Art of John Howard
In His Own Words, Artist John Howard
I don't really know how to talk about myself as an artist very well. I feel like I make art in a secret laboratory down long narrow stairs in a cave somewhere. It's very serious, even the funny parts. And I carve and carve, digging out something they could never understand, but that we know. We know it like running through the fields at night full speed and then diving into the thick grass and rolling and rolling into a slump of arms and legs howling.
And there is nothing on earth that is more real and nothing more inexplicable. It has nothing to do with trying to teach anyone anything. But look what we have found! Look how things fit together in different ways! Look how it's different than what everybody thinks. Look it's magical! I hope you don't mind I say we instead of me. I feel like we are part of a gang or movement or generation that is somehow in tune to something beyond the usual. I have always felt like this. So you and me, we just keep kicking a#@, ripping down the normal and make magic out of the scraps. Thanks for coming with :)
Most all the work here is screen printed. My main focus is drawing directly, ink on paper, where I can let ideas flow and allow for concepts to emerge from the process. Then these are combined and cultivated into compositions that often include the very first drawings created, long before the final concept was yet evident. I then create color separations so that the art can be successfully screen printed, most often in signed/numbered editions of one to three hundred.
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ALSO FEATURING NEW WORKS BY:
Mona Superhero is a utility tape artist based in Portland, Oregon. "Her work is reminiscent of sixties style silk-screened pop art that is comprised entire of tape and cared with the precise strokes of an X-acto blade.” -Willamette Week
Jonathon Hill-Jacquard... lives in Portland and utilizes his time constructing an assortment of work, currently composed of wood and vinyl appliqué. Executed with non-traditional materials, his work documents his environment, experiences, and the people, places and things he has encountered over the years using symbolic imagery and text.
Joyce R. Campbell is a mixed media sculptor currently creating work at her studio in Portland, Oregon. Her work reflects this diversity and the results are widely varied but always whimsical in nature. Her pieces often contain materials that have spent their lives as one object that she transforms into another.
Reception: Saturday,
April 21st. 5-9pm, 2012 | Show
runs April 21st – May 13th. 2012
Location: PEOPLES
ART OF PORTLAND- Pioneer Place
Mall, 3rd floor (across sky bridge
from cinema).
"SPOTS OF TIME" Linda Womack, Fred Swan & Nate Duval
Featuring the work of Linda Womack and Fred Swan
Portland based Linda Womack, is a nationally recognized artist, teacher and published author (Embracing Encaustic: Learning To Paint with Beeswax). In 2010, she was the curator for Luminous Layers: Exploring Contemporary Encaustic, a wide ranging exhibit in Oregon featuring 65 artists and more than 160 pieces of art. Womack is a tireless advocate for the arts, a working artist and a flagship for encaustic artists in the Pacific Northwest. She is joined in this show by one of her students, Fred Swan. Swan is a lifetime artist, being represented for many years by Quintana Galleries. His signature watercolors depicting Western scenes were recently replaced with a new art direction in his life. After a near-death experience in 2010, Fred returned to art making as a form of rehabilitation. His “new” art was a transformation from the watercolor realism into an abstract form in encaustic, examining geological forms and nature. The duo has examined the phrase “Spots of Time” to reflect their combined works for this show. The term is coined from the poet Wordsworth’s The Prelude: “There are in our existence/spots of time,/that with distinct pre-eminence retain/a renovating virtue.” In essence, Spots of Time, truly does reflect both the medium of encaustic (wax hardened from a fluid state) to purist ideas of abstract beauty “frozen” in time.
Poster Artist of the Month: Nate Duvall
Peoples Art Gallery features a nationally recognized poster artist each month. This month’s artist is Nate Duvall. He lives in Longmeadow, MA. Nate is 29 years old, designs, illustrates and handprints posters for rock show across the country. He lives by the mantra, "make a lot of stuff and see what sticks" Nate’s work will be on display in the gallery March 10th-April 15th, 2012.
Reception: Saturday,
March 10th open 5 - 9pm.
Location: PEOPLES
ART OF PORTLAND- Pioneer Place
Mall, 3rd floor (across sky bridge
from cinema).
"THE LOVE OF PORTLAND"
150 + artists create pieces of art based off their LOVE and vision of PORTLAND, OREGON.
Portland is a city to love. How can you not love Portland? I am a Native Portlander, and I am very proud of growing up here…I’ve left a few times briefly, but I always come back. I feel that Portland defines me. Jason is from Idaho, but has lived in Portland for over a decade – it is his home and we are very much die hard Portlanders (like many of you). To us, art is a huge part of what defines Portland. We have been talking about doing this show for over a year: a show just about Portland, about art about Portland and about Portland art. We have both worked on the LOVE show in past years. This is not the same show. We feel this show is just as important – but even more local and centered on a subject we live and breathe every day – the wonderful city of Portland, Oregon. (curators Chris Haberman and Jason Brown).
Also featured in the ORANGE POSTER PODS: Powerslide Design Co. (The Graphic Arts of Mike Klay)
“Having done posters for theatre productions in school and having an overwhelming passion for music, it was inevitable that one day the fusion of design and music would become a reality. Using the outdoors and the Pacific Northwest as a backdrop for inspiration, Klay’s spacious, vector-drawn poster designs manage to stay gritty and human with textures and rough patterns,” writes Corianton Hale, Art Director, The Stranger Newspaper. Mike also manages to print all of his own work and has made posters for Seattle venues such as The Showbox, Neumos, Chop Suey, The Crocodile Café, Graceland, The Gorge and The Premier.
Reception: Saturday,
February 18th open 5 - 9pm.
Refreshments provided by Ninkasi
and Burnside Brewing.
Location: PEOPLES
ART OF PORTLAND- Pioneer Place
Mall, 3rd floor (across sky bridge
from cinema).
Show
runs January 18 –March
4, 2012
Portland Art Open Forum
(discussion/ party) at gallery: March 3rd, 4-6pm"People of Peoples"
People
of Peoples Gallery show
Since opening in November 2010, Peoples Art of Portland Gallery has shown over 1000 local and national artists. The Gallery itself was a vacant toy store when the Peoples crew took over, using the remaining architectural structure as a backdrop for art instead of toys. Being inside of an actual mall, this gallery is a welcome place amongst high- end retailers and consistent retail fare. The gallery has always operated as a place for artists, run by artists, volunteers and a duo- curatorial team of artists Chris Haberman and Jason Brown, with manager (and artist) Heidi Elise-Wirz.
For our 15th consecutive exhibition, we wanted to celebrate this notion, in essence to celebrate the volunteer artists and staff that make this gallery what it is. This show exemplifies our connection to the community and how the gallery works: artists showing artists, working together.
Artsits: Ali Schlicting, Anna Magruder, Brin Levinson, Chris Haberman, Chuck Blooom, Dan Pillers, Heidi Elise Wirz, Jen Berry, Jesse Reno, Joel Barber, Kendra Binney, Kyle Gossman, Larry Christensen, Matt Schlosky, Melissa Dow, Sam Arneson, Roger, Wellie Glenn
Poster Artists: EMEK, GUYBURWELL, Gary Houston
Reception: Saturday,
January 21st from 5pm - 9pm
FREE! All ages.
Location: PEOPLES
ART OF PORTLAND- Pioneer Place
Mall, 3rd floor (across sky bridge
from cinema).
Show
runs January 21 – February
21
"The BIG 200"
You are cordially
invited to our 4th Annual Big
200 event (formerly The Big 100,
but we doubled the amount of artists
this year). 2500 works, all $40/piece.
KICKOFF: FutureBeats DJ's and Joel Barber spinnin records 5-9pm. Sir Jonathan Goff to kickoff open ceremonies with a traditional bagpipe performance (2pm). The BIG 200 takes place in ALL Galleries on the 3rd Floor, includes: "Peoples Art of Portland" (PAP), "PLACE" and "Store". ALL art is 8"x8" unframed works on wood. Each is sold for $40/piece. First come, first serve, cash/credit/check and carry. Framing is available during show for an extra $10. FOOD DRIVE: bring packaged/canned FOOD items, this is also a FOOD DRIVE for the holidays, proceeds benefiting the Oregon Food Bank and more!
Reception: Saturday,
December 10th from 2pm - 10pm
FREE! All ages. Alcohol will be
served in certain areas.
Location: SETTLEMENT
GALLERIES- Pioneer Place Mall,
3rd floor (across sky bridge from
cinema). FREE. Hours: Thurs-Sat
- NOON-8pm, Sunday, NOON-5.
Parking: SMART
PARK has 2 garages adjacent the
mall (SW 3rd & Alder) and
(SW 4th- between SW Yamhill & SW
Taylor St.) Smart
Park map>
Show
runs December 10 – January
20
"Artist Statement"
The Peoples
Art of Portland and Place Pdx
host "ARTIST
STATEMENT" is a juried
exhibit that will feature a sampling
of artwork from K-12 art students
from around the state. The show
includes eleven installation works
at PLACE and a corresponding 2D
& 3D exhibit at Peoples Art
of Portland. This four day only
symposium of art by students of
17 Oregon schools will be in two
galleries on the top floor of
the Pioneer Place Mall ( downtown
Portland OR)
Reception: Thursday,
December 1st 5pm - 8pm.
Show runs
December 1st – December
4th.
Location: Pioneer
Place Mall, 3rd floor. FREE. Hours:
Thurs-Sat - NOON-8pm, Sunday,
NOON-5.
More
Info: Oregon
Arts Education Center |
PLACE
SETTLEMENT
GALLERIES ARE 1 YEAR OLD!! HAPPY
BIRTHDAY TO US!
"The Portland Bag Show"
100
artists create art from and/or
on shopping bags as a benefit
for P:EAR – community helping
homeless youth.
Portland based Maggie McOmie,
artist, film star (lead role in
George Lucas’ first film,
THX) and stage actress has collected
shopping bags from Museum stores,
Department Stores, and boutiques,
for many years. The question
she asked was, “What do
you do with hundreds of bags that
came from her travels across the
U.S.? An art show benefit,
that’s what. Maggie
has been working on this re-fashioned
bag show as an idea for many years
and now it’s happening at
Peoples Gallery in November. Bags
are 2d painted/drawn and also
3d - reconstructed into sculpture.
Bags as “art” are
offered in 3 affordable price
structures: $30, $50 and
$70. This is an art show
to benefit P:EAR
Also featured in the ORANGE POSTER
PODS:
Brad
Klausen - Brad Klausen grew
up in southern California and
moved to Seattle in 1999 to begin
a nine-year career as the in-house
graphic designer for the world-famous
rock band Pearl Jam. In july of
2007 he launched Artillery Design,
his one-man design shop where
he continues to make posters for
Pearl jam, Soundgarden, Built
to Spill, Widespread Panic, and
many other bands. Brad will be
showing limited edition prints
an posters at Peoples Gallery. Brad’s
work will be on display throughout
December, 2011.
Reception: Saturday, November
19th. 5-9pm.
Show runs
November 19th – November
28th.
PRESS
CONTACT, co-curator, Bag
Show Originator:
Maggie McOmie – phone: 503.946.8317, email
P:EAR Contact
Marcia Bizon – phone: 503.867.1173 email
The Hot List: #5 Emek
By Kristi Turnquist, The Oregonian article>>
Portland's lucky to be home to some of the most gifted poster artists in the field. Among them is Emek, known for his intricately detailed posters for the likes of Radiohead, and album covers for Pearl Jam and Neil Young. A show featuring Emek's work includes posters, handbills, art prints and more. Opening 5-9 p.m. Saturday; Peoples Art of Portland gallery, Suite 4005, third floor, Pioneer Place mall, 700 S.W. Fifth Ave.; show continues through Nov. 13; article>>