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An exhibition including painting, ceramics, sculpture and jewelry features two Portland Open Studios artists in a First Addition townhome in Lake Oswego.
Artist reception is Friday, December 11 from 4-7pm at 535 B Avenue in Lake Oswego. The open house and art exhibit dates are December 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 20.
The Manor of Art Show features 10 days, 20 bands and 100 artists at Milepost 5 located at 900 N.E. 81st Avenue in Portland. You can see work by two 2009 Portland Studios Tour artists, George Perrou and Mark Randall. For more information about the show check out the website www.milepostfive.com
“Chop-Chop-Wood-Bird” by Mark Randall
Mark Randall
SOLO Show
Closes this Sunday, August 3rd, 2009
Albina Press
5012 SE Hawthorne
A summer exhibit at the Olympic Mills Gallery from July 13-August 30 focuses on the issues of labor, reinvention and the rich creative opportunities that have emerged in our country during economic hard times.
Visiting this show curated by Lora R. Fisher, you’ll see work by three of this year’s Portland Open Studios artists—Christopher B. Mooney’s beautiful, photo-realist paintings depicting ship captains, dock workers and other hard laborers; Allen Schmertzler’s provocative and satirical watercolors and pen and ink illustrations; and Susan Gallacher-Turner’s mixed media sculptural boxes depicting three women from Niger, India and Japan.
For more information about the show visit PortlandCityArt.org .
Art & Labor and The Labor of Art
The Olympic Mills Gallery
107 S.E. Washington Street
Monday-Friday 8am-6pm
July 13-August 30, 2009
Monday-Friday 8am-6pm
Below, from top to bottom, Susan Gallacher-Tuner’s mixed media boxes, Allen Schmertzler and his work, and Christopher Mooney and his painting.
Clothing Chronicles: Biography in Very Mixed Media
Recent mixed media pieces by Bonnie Meltzer
Beet Gallery
NW 18 and Lovejoy
Portland, Oregon
Now through June 27, 2009
Last day informal artist’s talk Saturday, June 27 at 3:00pm
Below, Packed Clothes, by Bonnie Meltzer.
In this new body of work, Bonnie Meltzer ponders our connections to clothes in a series of mixed media constructions. Wood cut-outs embellished with found objects, crocheted wire and text are in the shape of garments — a brownie uniform, a prom dress, a band uniform. Another part of this series about clothes takes a new form for the artist: actual articles of clothing — ties, underwear, uniforms, ballet shoes — become part of paintings on canvas. Although some of the pieces use way more paint than she normally does and that eight of the works are on canvas they are still sculptural. The clothing, often rumpled, and found objects add a sculptural quality.
Our memories are jogged by old garments. Conversely, thoughts of the past often lead us to think about what people wore. Personal stories are told with clothes but they are entwined with the era in which we live. In our mind’s eye clothing becomes a visual shorthand to a particular era evoking all the stories — the personal and the values, virtues, customs and even politics of that time period.
Garments came from her own collection but they were offered from friends and family as well. Other Portland Open Studios artists found, lent and gave her clothes to use for this project. Conversations with them brought ideas and other perspectives. She asked Portland Open Studios artist Sabina Haque, “What did you bring from Pakistan when you moved here?” “Everything”, which is evident if you see Sabina’s paintings filled with portraits in traditional dress. In Packed Clothes Meltzer thought about bringing clothes with you when you emigrate and the buying of exotic garments on a trip. Each is filled with emotional baggage.
On the last day of the exhibition she will give a gallery talk. She will weave the stories that inspired these particular works into tales of costume history. And there will be a chance for you to tell your clothes stories.
Read more about this exhibit online at Boom magazine.
For more information about Beet Gallery, see http://www.beetgallery.com.
To learn more about Bonnie Meltzer and her work, see her website at http://www.bonniemeltzer.com.
Allen Schmertzler, Susan Gallacher-Turner, Kurumi Ishikawa Conley, and Mark Randall are among the 22 featured artists in the Kingstad Gallery’s newest show, Subject|Object: Hunting, Gathering &Telling Tales.
Below, Susan Gallacher-Turner with her award winning entry.
The show’s theme speaks to the process of collecting objects, creating order/pattern then creating a story. The diverse show features work from national, regional and local artists in a wide variety of mixed media.
Allen Schmertzler’s powerful political paintings in watercolor and ink won an Honorable Mention. Also honored, Susan Gallacher-Turner’s sculptural mixed media pieces feature copper repousse’ doors, clay figures and original stories. Kurumi Ishikawa Conley’s beautifully colored transparent glass sculptures shimmer in the light. And Mark Randall’s large mixed media work portrays vintage circus performers in almost life size proportions.
These artists and the work of former Portland Studio Tour artists, Becca Bernstein and Lisa Strout are on exhibit until May 30th at
Kingstad Gallery
15450 S.W. Millikan Way
Beaverton, Oregon
Monday through Thursday 9am to 5pm
Friday and Saturday 5:30pm to midnight
Sunday from 10am to 2pm
A special workshop entitled Telling Tales: a mixed media workshop with Susan Gallacher-Turner, will be offered on May 21st from 4-6pm. The public is invited to in this free, hands-on workshop. Bring your favorite non-toxic art supplies and have some fun. Then join the closing reception on Third Thursday, May 21st from 6-9pm.
Below, Allen Schmertzler and his award winning entry Promises.
To see more of Susan Gallacher-Turner’s work, please visit her website at http://www.susangt.com/; to see more of Allen Schmertzler’s work, visit his website at http://www.allenschmertzler-artist.com/.
In a related story…
Allen Schmertzler’s painting Dance With Your Jailor (acrylic on canvas, see below) won Best of Show at the Kingstad Gallery juried exhibition Art/Peace, Peace/Art which closed on April 5th. But, you have another opportunity to see it, along with two other paintings by Allen at:
Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, Artist’s Vision Exhibit
2461 Summit Dr
Lake Oswego, Oregon
June 26th – June 28th, 2009
By Susan Gallacher-Turner
Above, Concourse E at PDX.
As you walk through Portland International Airport, be sure to check out the artOJECTS showcase in Concourse E, you’ll find the sculpture work of two Portland Open Studios artists, Bonnie Meltzer and Carole Murphy.
These two sculptors are featured along with 13 other artists from the Pacific Northwest Sculpture Guild as part of the artOBJECTS program coordinated by The Regional Arts & Culture Council. This program, with rotating exhibits every six months, features small scale three-dimensional artwork in a 40 foot long, floor to ceiling glass case showcasing the diversity of the local and regional art scene.
So next time you’re at PDX, take a side trip to Concourse E and check out the sculpture work of these Portland Open Studio Artists. The exhibit runs through June 2009.
Below, sculptures by Carole Murphy (top) & Bonnie Meltzer.
Beet Gallery presents Sara Swink’s newest ceramic works in Progeny:
Beet Gallery
1720 NW Lovejoy, Portland
(503) 224-5000
March 5–31, 2009
First Thursday Recption: March 5, 5–9 pm
To see more of Sara’s recent work, please see her blog at http://claycircle.wordpress.com/; her website is at http://claycircle.com. For more information about the exhibit, please see http://www.beetgallery.com/.
AND…
Lucia Douglas Gallery presents Ten Inches by Ten Inches Square, a group show with several Portland Open Studios artists (Kelly Neidig, Theresa Andreas-O’Leary, and Jennifer Mercede):
Lucia Douglas Gallery
1415 13th Street
Bellingham, Washington
March 7-28, 2009
Artist Reception: Saturday March 7, 5-7 pm
For more information, please see Lucia Douglas Gallery website.
Below, Nest, by Sara Swink.
Congratulations! Bonnie, Christine, Donna, Doug, Kari, Kati, Sunny, Susan and Tien (left to right, starting from top):
Nine 2008 Portland Open Studios Tour Artists
Featured at the 2009 Beaverton Arts Commission
27th Annual Visual Arts Showcase
From a field of over 600 entries, 9 Portland Open Studios Tour Artists had work chosen for the Beaverton Arts Commission’s 27th Annual Visual Arts Showcase. Opening night on Saturday, February 7th was packed with people viewing the art, sampling chocolate covered strawberries and voting on their favorite pieces for the People’s Choice Award.
Kati Bendig, 1st place winner in the watercolor division, was honored for her painting, “The Old Man”. Juror, Susan McKinnon, commented Bendig’s painting was a “Beautiful handling of the medium. Loose, yet controlled with expression…watercolor at its best.”
Also chosen in the watercolor/painting division were Christine Helton, Donna Sanson, Sunny Smith, and Tien-chu Loh and Kari Dunham. Doug Richardson was chosen for his photograph, “Louvre Lights”. And sculpture division featured the work of Bonnie Meltzer, “Viola as Young Musician” and Susan Gallacher-Turner’s, “Winter/Imbolc”.
In addition, 7 other previous Portland Open Studios Tour Artists were juried into the show including Berle Bledsoe, Pamela Green, Allen Greene, Gretha Lindwood, Pattie Palmer-Baker, Linda Terhark and Liz Walker.
The Annual Visual Arts Showcase has featured the work of local artists since 1984. You can visit the showcase and see the work by Portland Open Studios artists and many others through February 21st at the Beaverton City Library during library hours. The event is free.
Beaverton City Library
12375 SW 5th Ave, Beaverton
Meeting rooms A & B
Sundays 1 to 5 p.m.
Mondays through Thursdays 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By Susan Gallacher-Turner
Above, installation view of Intersect/Parallel at Walters Cultural Arts Center. Seen are artist’s books by Robert Hanmer, paintings by Roslyn Lindquist, and sculptures by Laura Freeman.
When I think of computers and engineers, I think math and science. But that’s not what Shu-Ju Wang sees, at all. Shu-Ju holds a degree in computer science and worked as a design engineer for over a decade before becoming a full-time working artist. So when she looks at fellow engineers, she sees a group of talented artists, “I consider many of the engineers that I’ve worked with to be true artists in their fields – they are creative problem solvers. And many of them also create visual art of one kind or another.”
Shu-Ju designed television test equipment at Tektronix and chip design tools at Integrated Measurement Systems. It was during this time that she saw the wealth of visual artists among her fellow engineers. Wang understands the value of the arts in this technical field, “I think that having a visual arts background was very helpful when I was doing graphical user interface work. Also, if you have someone on a team who’s able to organize or see the problem/solution a little differently, that’s always a good thing. And, of course, being comfortable with computers is very handy and important nowadays even for visual artists.”
It seemed a natural connection, then, for Wang to bring together five computer engineers/scientists and their art this month in a group exhibit entitled, “Intersect/Parallel at the Walters Cultural Arts Center. The center located in Hillsboro, Oregon seemed just the right spot for the show according to Shu-Ju, “Since the Walters Cultural Arts Center is situated in Hillsboro, the center of the Oregon high tech industry, I thought it would be appropriate to do a show there.”
Featured in this show is photography by Mike Nakamura, book arts by Robert Hanmer, paintings by Roslyn Lindquist, sculpture by Laura Freeman and book arts and paintings by Shu-Ju Wang. You can see the show during gallery hours Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm, Friday 9am-6pm and Saturday 10am-4pm at the Walters Cultural Arts Center 527 East Main Street, Hillsboro, Oregon until January 28, 2009.
You can also read about Shu-Ju’s bookarts project with the elderly on the Oregonian’s Visual Arts blog.
Below, another installation view. Seen are photograph by Mike Nakamura and “pillow books” by Shu-Ju Wang.
I Love This Town!
Recent etchings and plein air paintings by Shawn Demarest
Portland City Hall
1221 SW 4th Avenue, Room 230
December 2 – 30th
Below, Hot Day on SE 7th, by Shawn Demarest
Portland Open Studios artist, and frequent contributor to this blog, Susan Gallacher-Turner will be showing her sculptures in two exhibits:
Mask Show
Metalurges Gallery
3601 S.E. Division Street, Portland
September 27 through October 31, 2008
Opening Reception: September 26, 5:30 pm
Group exhibit and fundraiser for Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge
Onda Gallery
220 SW A Street Suite 104, Lake Oswego
October 3 through 27, 2008
Opening Reception: October 3, 6-9pm
Below, Reflection from the Repousse Series, by Susan Gallacher-Turner.
Portland Open Studios artist Lisa Parsons won Honorable Mention for her photograph of the lion on the facade of the Temple Beth Israel in NW Portland in the Angels in the Architecture exhibit. Detais:
Angels in the Architecture
Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Ave
September 5 – December 31, 2008
Opening Reception Friday, September 5, 6-9pm
Gallery hours Wednesday – Saturday 10:00am. to 4:30pm
Below, the award winning photograph by Lisa Parsons.
To see more of Lisa’s work, please go to her web site at http://lkparsons.com.
To learn more about the Architecture Heritage Center, visit their web site at http://www.visitahc.org.
Susan Gallacher-Turner, Todd Griffith, Madeline Janovec, Bonnie Meltzer, Joni Mitchell, Carole Murphy, Teresa Sulllivan, and Ming Wei have something in common—they are all exhibiting their work this month, August 2008. Details:
Jewelry and Sculptures
PosterGarden
630 N.W. 14th Avenue, Portland Oregon
See works by Susan Gallacher-Turner, Madeline Janovec, Joni Mitchell, Carole Murphy, and Teresa Sulllivan.
Adidas Original Portland
1039 NW Couch Street, Portland Oregon
See artwork by Todd Griffith.
Mid Summer Art Show
Watercolors by Ming Wei
First Congregational United Church of Christ
1126 SW Park Avenue, Portland Oregon
M-F: 9am -2pm
Sun: 9am-1pm
Below, Majestic Green Valley, by Ming Wei.
Going to Extremes
Bonnie Meltzer & Serena Barton
Onda Gallery
2215 NE Alberta, Portland Oregon
Artist Talk on Saturday, August 16 at 3:00 pm
Bonnie Meltzer has a new group of small sculptures at Onda Gallery that opens on July’s Last Thursday and continues through August. This exhibition is a departure for her from her large sculptural wall works to sculpture to be seen from the back as well, but they are a series of flat planes with no intervening wall hiding the backs. She usually uses mostly computer parts but in this exhibition she has found some “new” old materials to use and pull her into directions—globes, boxes and battered books. Many works include wooden figures that are painted, collaged and embellished with found objects and wire. The subject matter ranges from dating, yoga and gardening to global warming.
In the altered book works she uses the books as lumber or a canvas to place other objects and figures. Many of the books are the supports that make the sculpture stand up. However, it is the titles that play the dominant roll, they are the inspirations for the pieces. “A Good Woman” has the most unexpected figure on it, a woman on roller blades and an outlandish outfit and hairdo. After the laughter one must ask, “Does that mean she isn’t a good woman?” “Winning by Negotiation” is the book with that title spread open showing both covers and two, two-faced heads with varying expressions. The glass bead hands shaking above the pages of the book are not yet engaged in a hand shake of agreement. Little details in the works give nuances of meaning that have an underlying seriousness. For example,on one of the fanned out pages of “Winning by Negotiation” is a small power button from some former electronic devise.
Both Bonnie and Serena will talk together on August 16 at 3pm. Come and join the discussion.
Below, an altered book by Bonnie Meltzer.
Thirty-one!
Portland’s Affordable Art Extravaganza…
OM Tradition Arts
14 NE 10th Ave, Portland, OR
Aug. 1st, 2008
3-7pm Preview Show (no sales)
7pm-10pm Sale (cash only)
3pm-9pm Silent Auction (20×20 works)
Hidden Gems Show (come see what’s left) Aug. 3rd, 6-8pm
Three Portland Open Studios artists, Kelly Neidig, Theresa Andreas-O’Leary, and Anna Todaro, are participating in the follow-up show to last year’s overwhelmingly successful Thirty! show in central Portland. Appropriately named, Thirty-one!, this one-night only show will feature thirty-one artists who have created thirty-one paintings in thirty-one days. Each of the 961 paintings will be unveiled and for sale for $31 each, alongside live music, a silent auction and, most likely, another crowd of eager art lovers.
The proceeds from this art extravaganza will be donated to Artists for the Arts.
Please visit http://www.thirtyshows.blogspot.com for complete show information and artists’ profiles.
Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center
Presents
Theresa Andreas-O’Leary & Christine Pendergrass
527 East Main Street
Hillsboro, Oregon 97123
July 1 – 30, 2008
Artist Reception: July 1, 6-8:00PM
Below, Awakening Vineyard, by Theresa Andreas-O’Leary.
To see more of Theresa’s work, see http://www.andreasartstudio.com/.
To learn more about the Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, see http://www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/WCAC/History.aspx.
There’s just one more week in June to see Sara Swink and Shu-Ju Wang at Walters Cultural Arts Center and 23 Sandy Gallery respectively.
Mirth
Figurative Ceramics of Sara Swink
and the paintings of Terence Healy and David Lewis
June 3 – June 25, 2008
Walters Cultural Arts Center
527 East Main Street, Hillsboro
And…
Artist Books of Shu-Ju Wang
June 6 – June 28, 2008
23 Sandy Gallery
623 NE 23rd Avenue, Portland
Below, Feed the Young, by Sara Swink.
Random Cruelty, by Shu-Ju Wang. Clay die by Sara Swink.
To see more of Sara’s work, please see http://claycircle.com/.
To see more of Shu-Ju’s work, please see http://fingerstothebone.com/.
Several Portland Open Studios artists are participating at the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts on June 20 – 23, 2008. Events include:
The Artist’s Vision — A juried exhibit of Northwest artists. Exhibit is on display at the main level of Lakewood Center for the Arts.
Lake Oswego Visual Arts Chronicle — An invitational exhibit sponsored by the City of Lake Oswego and the Lake Oswego Foundation for the Arts. More than 40 noted regional artists express their own ideas and visions of Lake Oswego and surrounding areas in different media. Exhibit located at the main level of Lakewood Center for the Arts.
Portland Open Studios artists participating are Theresa Andreas-O’Leary, Marcy Baker, Shelley Hershberger, Joni Mitchell, Sara Swink, and Shu-Ju Wang.
Below, Winter Light Poplars, by Theresa Andreas-O’Leary
Song for the Moment, by Marcy Baker.
Upscale Downstream, diptych by Shelley Hershberger.
Gift of Tallapus, by Sara Swink.
The Four Seasons of Nansen Summit, by Shu-Ju Wang.
Follow these links to see more of their work:
Theresa Andreas-O’Leary: http://www.andreasartstudio.com/
Marcy Baker: http://www.marcybaker.com/
Shelley Hershberger: http://web.pdx.edu/~hershber/index.html
Joni Mitchell: http://home.comcast.net/~joni.mitchell/
Sara Swink: http://claycircle.com/
Shu-Ju Wang: http://fingerstothebone.com/
Brenda Boylan at the Office of Commissioner Dan Saltzman
First Thursday June 5th, 2008
5:00 – 7:00pm
1221 SW 4th Ave. Rm 230
Portland, OR 97204
503/823-4151
Brenda will have pastel works from a trip to Lopez Island, WA on display as well as some of her newer pieces.
Below, Watmough Bay, Lopez Island, 9″x12″, pastel, by Brenda Boylan.
See more of Brenda’s work on her website at http://www.brendaboylan.com.
On her blog at http://brendaboylan.blogspot.com/.
And on Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s web page at http://www.portlandonline.com/saltzman/.
By Shu-Ju Wang
Life is Good
Recent Paintings by William Park
Mark Woolley Gallery
817 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, Oregon
April 29 – May 31, 2008
4 + 3, 2008
You know how sometimes there’s a word that’s just right for something, and you know you know the word, yet the word does not come to you? In the days since I interviewed William Park for this article, that was the situation I found myself in.
Then the other day, out of nowhere, it came to me. Baryshnikov. That was the word.
I’m not comparing William Park (a painter and printmaker) to Baryshnikov (the dancer and choreographer). I am not in the position to do so. But there are so many qualities about William Park’s work, the person, and even his studio space, that conjure up the image of a dancer and choreographer for me.
For starters, the movements and gracefulness of his lines. In his current exhibit at Mark Woolley Gallery, you see that in the long curves of the geese’s necks, their egg shaped bodies, the trees the Goldfinches inhabit, the pools of water. These qualities are also ever present in his abstracts, his land and water paintings, his images of agile athletes at play.
Although you see these finished paintings in their final state as two dimensional objects, the creation of them involves the creation of a three dimensional space, a world that he describes as surreal, with multiple images on multiple walls, surrounding him as he works. Within this environment, pieces in progress engage each other in a conversation, with the painter as the conductor and choreographer.
Park physically creates this space within a space by using movable walls in his otherwise cavernous studio—a space possibly large enough to stage Swan Lake! In this space, he paints, prints, teaches, photographs and stores his finished work. And created a movie—an animation of an evolving painting (the animation is the artwork, the painting is the medium). He quite literally, in my mind, danced his way through it.
With canvas and camera set up, and a decision made about his next move, he would take the next couple of hours to execute his plan by alternating between painting and photographing each quarter inch stroke. He moved rhythmically and unwavering from his initial take until the plan was completed. Only then would he stop to take another reading, and whatever his gut reaction was at that moment, he followed through with another few hours of this dance. The result is a spectacular 7 minute movie set to original cello music by Gabe Leavitt.
Between his painting, printmaking, his figurative work, and abstracts, he struggled for a while with the need to find a direction. Or in his own words, ‘to grow up.’ Happily, he has since come to his senses and has decided that he will simply do what he wants to do, go wherever the work takes him.
There are just a few more days to see his exhibit this month at Mark Woolley’s. In the fall, during Portland Open Studios, you will have the opportunity to see the full spectrum of his work, to see the printing presses in action, and best of all, to hear him talk about his own work.
Below, several pieces in progress in a corner in William Park’s studio.
And the printing presses that Park shares with experienced printmakers.
To see more of Park’s work, go to his web site at http://www.williampark.net/.
To read more about his exhibit at Mark Woolley’s, go to http://www.markwoolley.com/.
