Past Exhibitions
Walking Mountains
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Into Gentle Ruin
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The We In Wellness
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but, how does one eat an elephant?
Sam Noel
Opening: Thursday, February 27th 6-10pm
but, how does one eat an elephant? looks at the ways we treat and scrutinize our bodies from excessive beautification/covering up/hiding under layers to nitpicking our form in the mirror. By exploring themes of body image, beauty, the fat female form, and adolescence the artist is hoping to one day get closer to being comfortable in her own skin. but, how does one eat an elephant? is a follow up to Noel’s last show the elephant in the room.
Sam Noel is a fibers artist living and working in Portland, OR. Originally from Texas, she received her BFA at the University of North Texas and her MFA at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2019. She has been in numerous juried group shows in Texas, Oregon, and Florida and is a published writer. Her work acts as a glimpse into the life of a fat, female artist in today’s society. She explores themes of body image, fat culture, nature, adolescence, female form, and poetry. She is inspired by the act of noticing and asking questions.
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Body Is
Amanda Triplett
Opening: Friday, November 15th 6-10pm
My body is…
Oozing, soft, supple, fibrous, and organic, this textile installation explores the struggle of having a body, being a body, and wearing a body in a world. The work asks how we reconcile our fleshy masses with the culturally-designated and expected bodily narratives. By turning the body inside out from fiber to flesh, the work facilitates a conversation between our socially contracted second skins (clothing) and the emotionality of our insides.
Making art in the space where fine art and craftwork intersect, Amanda Triplett manipulates, layers and embroiders salvaged fibers into abstractions of human biology. Stemming from an interest in humanity’s collective bodily narratives, she creates sculptural and installation works that explore embodiment of emotion, beliefs and culture. Guided by the textures, history and movement of discarded fabric, she manipulates, layers and embroiders the fiber into new biological formations. The work reflects the expectations and assumptions that come with inhabiting our own bodies and identities.
For this exhibition, Amanda will be performing Exuviation. In this performance, the artist enters the space and inhabits the installation, altering the piece through a molting process of cutting and slow-stitch sewing.
Amanda makes sculptural fiber, installation and intermedia works from salvaged textiles. After studying art and art history at Sarah Lawrence College, she graduated in 2004. She has shown in the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest including Kaleid Gallery in San Jose, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, COCA in Seattle, Art House Gallery in Berkeley, Ford Gallery, Multnomah Art Gallery and Milepost 5. Amanda has been a Portland Open Studios artist from 2017-2019. In fall of 2019, she created a tactile, sculptural nest for an inclusive, multi-sensory group exhibit at Paragon Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Amanda was a 2016 Glean artist-in-resident, where she was given access to the Portland dump to glean waste materials to make sculpture and installation. She lives with her two kids and husband in Portland, Oregon.
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The Sponges 2019
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Rahab's Sisters' The Portrait Circle Project
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About Rahab’s Sisters
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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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