Art Opening: Edith Mirante
Jun
9
4:00 PM16:00

Art Opening: Edith Mirante

Blue Vehicles (with Apparitions)

Edith Mirante

Painted in the Plague Years 2020-24. Portland, Idaho, Mexico, television. These pictures are glimpses through claw marks in the fabric of reality when everyday life became infected, charred, fungal. A car might be an escape vehicle or a wreck. An apparition might be a ghost or a manifestation or something you lost forever. Cue the mad fiddler. Call in the crows.

Edith Mirante’s art career has ranged across continents with shows in San Francisco (the legendary Jehu Wong Gallery), Bangkok, New York. Andy Ricker’s Whiskey Soda Lounge featured her Thailand motorcycle paintings. Her work is not like anybody else’s but lately she gets inspiration from Charles Burchfield, Arthur Dove & Mark Bradford. She is also an author and the founder of Project Maje, an information project about Burma (Myanmar.) Part of any sales will be donated to Burma’s Civil Disobedience Movement.

http://edith-mirante.weebly.com/

Twitter: @EdithMirante

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Nov
4
6:00 PM18:00

Art Opening

Decomposure

Anna Daedalus and Kerry Davis

Decomposure documents the interrelated processes of growth and decay. The photographs and canvases in the series record the strange and beautiful patterns that manifest in the natural process of decomposition. Contextualized by forested settings and embellished with added color, these uneasy compositions speak to perceived aesthetic and biological value.

Anna Daedalus and Kerry Davis are a married artist team whose multidisciplinary individual and collective work spans photography, installation, assemblage and book arts. Their five major projects have focused on themes of interdependence, environmental crisis and resilience, the Anthropocene epoch, and geologic time. Their work often employs alternative photographic techniques to foreground physical, tactile experience and the ideas of presence and immediacy.

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Delete Background

Jon Gottshall

These images are a consideration of how we assign value in our landscape, in this specific case, in the Columbia Slough.

Value, in this case, is defined as what is accounted for in financial terms, “improvements” that add utility to property. Undeveloped, the land itself often has little value. As a host environment, its value is minimized, especially in the case of wetlands. The services wetlands offer, in the form of flood control, water purification and prolific habitat, rarely makes it to the spreadsheets.

In these images, the slough and the land surrounding it is background to the buildings and infrastructure that holds a calculated value.

The Columbia Slough is just one example the narrative that nature and the economy are separate domains. Globally, we are experiencing the consequences of that narrative.

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Art Exhibit
Jun
10
to Jul 7

Art Exhibit

EMILY PRATT

Atmospheric Transit: This series uses mixed-medium collage to explore otherworldly skyscapes and atmospheric entry. Each work investigates noise, movement and celestial travel through orbiting layers of debris between earth and sky. Throughout her creative practice, she has collected weathered materials and combined them into abstract compositions that study the beauty of decay and other subjects.

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Art Exhibit
Apr
8
to May 13

Art Exhibit

First Portland Exhibit of Nationally Recognized Artist Robert Donley

Hills on Fire: The Northwest Paintings

Chicago-based, award-winning artist Robert Donley will showcase his work in Portland, Oregon in Hills on Fire: The Northwest Paintings. Curated by Jamie Wilson, the director of AGENDA. The work will be on display through May 13. Called the “Chicago imagist Tolstoy” by Judith Wilson in the Village Voice, Donley’s paintings center on broad social and political statements.

Image: Lost in the Wilderness acrylic on canvas by Robert Donley, one of four large scale originals to be included in Hills on Fire, The Northwest Paintings hosted by Luke’s Frame Shop, curated by AGENDA

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Feb
21
5:30 PM17:30

Mardi Gras parade Kids' Costume Contest

Please join us for our annual Mardi Gras Parade Kids’ Costume Contest! Please bring your kids (and yourself!) in costume to celebrate the heritage and history of the colorful Mardi Gras festival. The parade glides past the frame shop at 7pm down N. Albina avenue through Mississippi Ave. This is a family friendly event which precedes watching the parade outside at 7pm.

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Jan
28
6:00 PM18:00

Artist's Reception

Please join us to celebrate the work of local artist Granville Goff, as he shares his new work entitled “they breathe soft fire.” The collection of mixed media assemblages are a wonderful addition to our space. The exhibit runs through February 18, 2023. Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 10am-6pm.

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