Them | Danny TreacyShows Run: September 2 – October 3, 2010
London-based artist Danny Treacy searches his surroundings for discarded clothing to create suggestive, haunting costumes. Treacy then dresses himself in what he fabricates and, by making striking life-sized self-portraits, he becomes “Them.”
The “suits” he constructs are born out of the discovery of what’s been left behind by others, and ultimately allow Treacy to become something uncertain: evocative figures which seemingly transgress race, gender, and even reality.
“Somewhere in the process of collecting the clothing, of de-construction, re-creating, stitching, wearing and standing in the clothing, each stage done by myself, I feel that in the final image I disappear, not revealing anything of myself, the antithesis of self-portraiture.”
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Hours: 12-5, Tues – Sun, First Thursday 6-9 pm
Wisconsin Tavern League | Carl CoreyShows Run: September 2 – October 3, 2010
Over a period of 18 months, artist Carl Corey produced a series of color photographs of Wisconsin taverns in various locales across the state. “Wisconsin Tavern League” is Corey’s effort to document such sites as culturally important communal gathering places. His images are not just portraits of the people who own and frequent these establishments, but also of the taverns themselves, each one personalized with taxidermy specimens, hand-painted scenic murals, and the requisite pool tables and neon beer signs.
Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
Hours: 12-5, Tues – Sun, First Thursday 6-9 pm
Either Side | Norton YoungShows Run: September 2 – October 2, 2010
Nisus Gallery is pleased to present Norton Young in “Either Side”. Mr. Young is a self identified fence-post-modernist and non-objective in his descriptions. “Either Side” is where you may fall (or jump) on. He wants the experience to seem familiar and to resonate on various levels. Mr. Young expresses that his “work does not overtly stand for something else – not a tree, mountain, cloud, window, vase, or portrait. It is not my intention to represent a “naturally” or even artificially inspired reality even though the work may feel like a scene in nature or a gathering of objects.”
Challenging the viewer is the intent. For Mr. Young the most compelling art has power beyond its physical presence. Its impact goes on even after we stop looking. It endures because it is profound, because it is worthy, because its meanings are not always obvious.
Nisus Gallery
328 NW Broadway (at Flanders) #117, Portland, OR
Hours: 11-4, Sat or by appointment
New Westerns | Adam SorensonShows Run: August 31 – October 2, 2010
Landscape painting affords me a wealth of tradition and influence, and provides a platform that seems familiar and recognizable. 19th century romanticism, Japanese woodblock prints, and Abstract expressionism all factor into my works vocabulary. I work primarily in a reactive sense. A certain rock may lead to another, which in turn may lead to a specific tree. The scenes I end up composing, function as both utopian and eerily post-apocalyptic. Both of which can be seen metaphorically as social concerns in contemporary life. By inviting the viewer in visually, I ask them to recall where we have been, explore where we are now, and confront where we may be headed.
PDX Contemporary
925 NW Flanders, Portland, OR 97209
Hours: 11-6, Tues – Sat
Trans-IT-ion | Group ExhibitionShows Run: September 2 – September 22, 2010“Trans-IT-ion” is a group show curate by Jason Brown as a theoretical discourse expressing the shift of metaphysical post modern art formats and theory, to a much more personal however, universal expression of contemporary issues. “Trans-IT-ion has artist ranging from regional Portland artist to Poland, Boston, Louisiana, New York, and Pittsburgh. With such a wide demographic of young artist through out the United State and abroad it is clear that there is a pull away from the dogma’s of post modern issues, to the growing social, economic, environmental, and political upheaval and the anxiety which we face.
Artists included: Kirsten Lowe-Rebel, Steven Hadley, Alisha McCurdy, Mark Perry, Krystal L. Booth, Ryan Roth, Courtney Cullen, Nathan Lewis, Paul LeRoy Gehres, Kyle Milne , Bogna Kowalska, Megan Scheminske and Derek Faust.
Tribute Gallery
625 NW Everett #102, Portland, OR
Hours: 11-3, Sat or by appointment
Decoy | Damien GilleyManuel Izquierdo Sculpture Gallery
1241 NW Johnson St, Portland, OR
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