Past Exhibitions
Return Eternal Return
by Marcelo Fontana
Opening: Thursday, June 20th 6-10pm
Marcelo Fontana, a Brazilian artist based in Portland, creates a discussion around the rise of far-right governments and their xenophobic policies on immigration, relating them to Nietzsche’s concept of Eternal Return. The show is composed of two installations and a performance. It is an invitation to reflect on our own actions, as well as a request for clarity for our inner-self. This is Marcelo's first solo show in Portland.
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TIME>SPACE>PLACE
an invitational group exhibition and community arts happening curated by Jason Triefenbach for 1122 gallery and Standard Practice Co:Creative in partnership with Portland Art and Learning Studios
Friday, May 17th 6-10pm
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Curator Statement
TIME > SPACE > PLACE is the first manifestation of Standard Practice Co:Creative, a soon- to- be- incorporated community arts nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing creative potentials through engaged discourse and collaborative action.
Equal parts social sculpture*, group exhibition, and subjective research platform, TIME > SPACE > PLACE emerges from Triefenbach’s ongoing series of interviews with Portland area artists and arts organizations. Through these conversations, the theme of Place- geographical and historical; social and emotional- became a unifying thread.
As the inaugural Artist- in- Residence at Portland Art & Learning Studios; a 10,000 sqft studio for artists experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities, Triefenbach created two outdoor sculptures inspired by his conversations with Portland locals on race, economic disenfranchisement, and historical erasure: “RUINS 1, 2, and 3” stands as an embittered monument to the legacy of white supremacist land grabs and continuing destabilization of so- called minority communities (in both of which Triefenbach acknowledges his complicity as a beneficiary of white male privilege). “Flowerbeds of the Future” casts a wary eye toward Utopian idealism, referencing science fiction and vernacular landscape design to imagine either an abundant future- or the low hum of human twilight.
In the interior of the 1122 gallery space and extending into the driveway, Triefenbach curated a colorful, energetic group exhibition of artists he has met through Standard Practice interviews as well as several artists working at the P.A.L.S. studio. Expressions of place, identity, fear, and desire come together in a variety of styles and media, from line drawings and watercolors to sculpture, self- published editions, video art, and a virtual reality interface.
And a third component to TIME > SPACE > PLACE will exist beyond public view: an upcoming discussion and brainstorming session among the artists will dissect the strengths and limitations of Portland’s creative landscape, with an eye toward Community, Collaboration, and Coalition- building.
At this intersection of voices, we hope to weave a new story.
Dough by Stacy Elaine Dacheux +
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Pivot-> A Badass HERstory Portland Show
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Reverie Room
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The Sponges
Rachel Jones
Opening Reception: Friday, October 12th 6-10pm
Closing Reception: Friday, November 2nd 6-10pm
The Sponges are a set of charcoal drawings, dark and intensely sensitive beings created to take on some of the burden, hardship and sadness we all endure. This exhibit will invite participants to interact with each sponge in an experiential way.
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Rachel Jones is a Portland, Oregon based artist. She holds a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since graduating in 2007, Rachel has been working in a variety of media. Her work is largely made up of portrait style pieces, with a special focus on the materials being used.
Inner Weather
Claiborne Colombo
September 14th-October 5th, 2018
Opening: Friday, September 14th 6-10pm
Inspired by maps and the natural world that surrounds her in the Pacific Northwest, Claiborne Colombo translates her experiences around place into deconstructed landscapes using a range of techniques and expressions -- intricate lines, guttural marks, bold colors and organic forms.
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Working on both canvas and paper, she uses transparent layers of acrylic, graphite, charcoal, and pastels which she applies with both spontaneity and precision. The layers intersect and combine to reveal the stratification of her process without compromising the raw nature of each material.
Claiborne uses colors that flow, vibrate and bounce off one another. They act as a compass, helping the eye navigate through the layered terrain. In play with the swaths of color are more detailed marks. Her marks capture movement, subtle shifts, and drastic divides. Throughout her work, lines and shapes are repeated and transformed, flowing across the expanse. Some of her marks are planned, but at times, her hands work faster than her mind with each mark informing the next, creating an organic and meditative flow.
Altogether, these elements form a dynamic language that guides the narrative of each abstracted map, building a journey full of fluctuations, pauses, crossroads and moments of discovery.
The Feeling Remains Even After the Glitter Fades
Jess Curran
June 1st- 29th, 2018
Opening: Friday, June 1st 6-10pm
Everything is connected by energy. Jess Curran explores this through the process of painting. After placing a layer of paint down, it is left for many hours. The way the new layers interact with the previous ones indicates a sense of vulnerability. Nothing is permanent. The overlapping layers express how we all leave marks on each other’s lives.
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The Inside is the Outside
May 4th- 31st, 2018
Carin Rodenborn + Abbie Miller
Opening: Friday, May 4th 6-10pm with a performance by The Whirlies
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 5th 12-1pm
Abbie Miller and Carin Rodenborn have been engaged in a rolling conversation about the relevance of abstraction and the seduction of materiality for over a decade. Their shared interest in spatial relationships and process, and how empirical experience is informed by the ongoing correspondence between the two, has opened up a reimagining of abstraction for each artist in the studio. This is the first time they will be sharing their work in exhibition, side by side -- a visual and material layer of the their conversation.
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