Posts Tagged ‘ Alberta ’

Charcoal Drawings of Birds and Insects by April Coppini

April Coppini is an artist based in Portland, Oregon, who primarily works in charcoal on paper. Her high contrast, beautifully composed style is among the most distinctive and recognizable in the city. April has new work on display regularly in a range of different spaces. The enormous drawing of a rooster which is on permanent display in Lincoln (N. Williams) is a great example of her work although her subject matter has grown to incorporate an impressive variety of beings beyond the bantam.

The series on display at antler focuses on birds and insects.

We will be serving wine and baked goods courtesy of Black Sheep Bakery.

April Coppini
Antler
1722 NE Alberta St.
Portland, Oregon 97211
OPENS April 26, 2012 | 6-9pm

Show Ends: 2012-05-30

Reasons to Live – Paintings by Jason Graham

Jason Graham is a tattoo artist at Sea Tramp Tattoo Company in Portland, OR.
He enjoys sleeping, x-files, and being a well adjusted human being.

Antler is a tiny gallery in Portland, Oregon

In nature an antler is the perfect blend of form and function, used simultaneously for display and task. As a reflection of this we showcase both the highest caliber contemporary art and innovative handmade craft from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

This space is our way of preserving the creative nature of the Alberta Arts District.

Antler
1722 NE Alberta St.
Portland, Oregon 97211
OPENS Feb 23, 2012 | 6-9pm

Show Ends: 2012-03-28

Atrocity Exhibition

An art show on Alberta that you can actually go to without having to deal with fire dancing burners on stilts.
New paintings and several mural additions that connect to the big mural I did there last year.
As usual Monkeytek is gonna be there playing music that only he and I like.

Klutch
at Cruzroom
2338 NE Alberta St.
Portland, OR.
Opens September 22, 2011
6:00 pm – 02:00 am

Show Ends: 2011-10-24

Okie Dokie – New work by Klutch

Okie Dokie – New Works by Klutch
Opens Last Thursday, 5:00pm at Screaming Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Join us for the opening! Artist Klutch will be in attendance music furnished by DJ Tommy Tank
March 31 thru April 24, 2011

Leftover Shaman

First Klutch show EVER at Alberta Last Thursday. Plus a new 30′ mural painted during the last month.
Music by Monkeytek, opens at 4pm – late
Artwork up till October 25, 2010

Cruzroom
2338 NE Alberta Street
Portland, OR

I Dream Animal — July 29 – August 21, 2010

Opening Reception: Saturday July 31st 5 – 8PM
Extended hours for last Thursday July 29th 4 – 9PM

Alicia Blue Gallery
1468 NE Alberta St. | Portland, OR 97211

Alicia Blue Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, “I Dream Animal”, featuring Los Angeles artists: Christine Nguyen, Karen Florek and Caryn Baumgartner. These three artists’ works represent a deep reflection into the world of imagination and dream. Their work shares a common sensibility that feels akin to a floating dream state- familiar, as much as fleeting.

Caryn Baumgartner’s oil on canvases are richly painted with colors that, if imagined, were mined from terrestrial mineral and oxide veins- powdered and instinctively processed. Crowning the surface with heavy distress, these paintings become gentle phantoms. Her expertise as a painter is seen in her large works, where her simple approach to her canvas keeps an unspoiled feeling. In both “Stag” and “Fawn”, she abstracts the figure and leaves just an outline of the animal surrounded in rich color, a ghostly reminder of the perfection of nature.

Christine Nguyen’s experimental use of photography comes alive in her large-scale installations. One feels like they have passed into another world- deep in the nadir of ocean, discovering schools of undersea neons with a mineral-like frequency. Alternately traveling to outer space with crystalline frost growing outside your view and minimally scattered fragile hexagon colonies. The black backgrounds with nearly celestial light leaks are highlighted with brightly colored creatures and constellations stemming from her imagination. Her imagery draws on elegant science and imagination-provoking wonder.

Karen Florek’s series of lith prints are explorations of the internal world of the body. Her hand altered images made in the darkroom are mysterious. X-ray photon blacks and whites with glass like elements add to the scientific beauty of an almost unclassifiable, yet organic skeletal subject. The process of creating a lith print involves time and dedication; there is nothing instant about it. The visual outcome is unique with a grainy surface retaining dark shadows and soft delicate highlights. Different colors and hues can be achieved by chemical reaction as the developer begins to oxidize and age, which adds to the unpredictable effect.

Le Hong Thai and Nguyen Van Cuong at Alicia Blue Gallery in NE Portland

Le Hong Thai and Nguyen Van Cuong
Where are they now? — May 15 – June 19, 2010

Opening Reception Saturday May 15th 6 – 8PM

ALICIA BLUE GALLERY
1468 NE Alberta St., Portland, OR 97211
503-505-9060

“Where are they now?” opens this weekend at Alicia Blue Gallery in
Portland, Oregon. This exhibition of works on paper by Le Hong Thai and
Nguyen Van Cuong, is an intimate journey into the minds of two of Vietnam’s
best young contemporary artists. Both artists, living and working in Hanoi,
create works on paper that comment on the forces of modernization and
westernization that have been at work in Vietnam for the past 20 years.

Nguyen Van Cuong often paints with ink and watercolor on handmade mulberry
(“Do”) paper. The content of his work is audacious, like spoken word that tells it like
it is. Even today he is just one of a few Vietnamese artists whose work openly and
clearly cuts through the veneer of modern Vietnam to reveal its contradictions. His
work raises questions about Vietnamese society that allow us a deeper and more
complex perspective from which to inform ourselves about a country and people
whose history has long remained enigmatic.

Le Hong Thai’s work is also a commentary on the world we live in, but his visual
style is more likened to poetry. In the series of works on newsprint in “Where Are
They Now” Thai weaves a dream like narrative with recurring figures and imagery
that come in and out of focus and fade across the pages, encouraging the viewer
to literally ask “where are they now?”

Cuong and Thai have exhibited widely in Europe, Japan, SE Asia and Australia, as
well as in California. This is the first time their works are being exhibited in
Portland. Both artists are invited to come to Portland in 2011 as artists in
residence while they have a second exhibition at Alicia Blue Gallery.
Please join us on Saturday, May 15, 2010, from 6-8 PM for an opening
reception and meet curator Beth Gates and gallery owner Alicia Johnson.

Le Hong Thai, acrylic and ink on newsprint (detail), Nguyen Van Cuong, watercolor and ink on Mulberry paper (detail)