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Hellion Gallery One Year Anniversary Show

It has been an incredible first year for Hellion Gallery. 2011 included monthly shows in Portland, an earthquake relief show in Tokyo, a Portland pop up shop and art show in Tokyo, a comic con event in San Diego, a Blaine Fontana TedX installation at Concordia University and the opening of Hellion Gallery South in San Diego, California.
To celebrate, Hellion is having some of its favorite artists participate in its One Year Anniversary Show. Each artist was given a panel of wood in the shape of the numeral one to create a custom piece for the show. The One Year Anniversary Show will also be the first show in Hellion’s new space. The new, much larger space is one door down from the current space, in the same building.
Opening reception December 1, 2011 at 6pm
Show runs 12/1 until 12/30
Mon-Sat 12-7pm. Hellion Gallery 19nw 5th ave, suite 204. 2nd floor across from Ground Kontrol. Enter on 5th next to upper playground then right up the stairs.

XX Marks the Spot: An all X Chromosome Art Show

Original artwork, prints and posters from 15 female artists, and Portland’s one and only DJ Cooky Parker!
OPENS December 1st, 2011 | 6-9pm
Showing till January 28th, 2012

Artists include:
Jill Bliss
Lisa DeJohn
Olivia E. Fuente
Trish Grantham
Eilish Hynes
Yellena James
Mel Kadel
Bishop Lennon
Melanie Mikecz
Martha Rich
Amy Ruppel
Tammy Stellanova
Vivienne Strauss
Betsy Walton
Heidi Elise Wirz

Fifty24PDX Gallery / Upper Playground

23 Northwest 5th Ave,
Portland, OR 97209

Amy Ruppel & Molly Bosley November art show

Tilde in Sellwood will host a First Friday reception for artists Amy Ruppel and Molly Bosley from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Friday, November 4th, 2011. This month, two artists share our shop to showcase works that offer intimate views into the world around us.
Amy Ruppel’s paintings that make up her “Know Your Oregon Backyard Birds” show aim to inspire Portlanders to become intimate with their feathered friends beyond the occasional sunflower seed feeding or fly by. These paintings are shadowy portraits that isolate birds in quiet moments of reflection.

This Wisconsin native spent much of her childhood enjoying nature in a variety of ways—she drew plants and comics, dug up fossils, and went for endless forest walks among all her forest friends, the birds being her favorite. Amy’s love for nature and science led her to an art and illustration career, and to the Pacific Northwest. She has since worked with Target, Converse, Burton Snowboards and many other cool companies. Amy is currently the illustrator for the new wing of Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she aims to make a wonderful environment for all the young patients residing there.

Molly Bosley’s papercut artwork & diorama’s within mason jars attempt to harmonize media with message by constructing work out of the detritus of American culture, the little things that slip away into junk stores, attics, or trashbins. Her mixed media collages incorporate discarded artifacts that she finds enchanting, voyeuristic, and nostalgic—intimate views of life and life’s memories.
Wandering through the aisles of thrift stores and digging into yard-sale bins provide Molly with the raw materials from which she constructs depictions of memories that never happened. Her own memories span from the stretch of New England from her hometown in Massachusetts to her alma mater in Vermont, where she studied fine art and language, to travels abroad. Molly’s artwork is very obviously handled, touched, dirtied, and stepped on, containing the imprint of the instrument that crafted it. She wants to create art that is arresting, yet familiar, like a memento you find tucked away in between the pages of an old book.

Tilde
7919 SE 13th Avenue
Portland, OR. 97202

Show Ends: 2011-11-30

Driscoll Reid and Amy Ruppel @ LAND gallery

Driscoll Reid and Amy Ruppel present “Wish I Was There”

Opening at Land Gallery on Friday, August 5th at 6pm and running through August 28th, 2011.

Wish I Was There is a collaboration between friends Amy and Driscoll. They have been painting visions of the outdoors while outdoors, creating fantasy lands inspired by geography, sunsets, icebergs and epic creatures.

Wanting to break away from their every day design and illustration lives, this collaborative painting effort, done mostly outside at a picnic table, has been a heartening undertaking and exploration of their skills as artist/painter.

They have called upon the passion of Bob Ross, and all those happy little trees, to create this collection of works, just for you.

Driscoll is from Vermont. But he’s partial to the Pacific Northwest now. He likes to travel. He is a picses.

Amy was born and raised in the wilds of rural Wisconsin, where she developed a love for all things growing green, and all things furry and scurrying. She moved to the Pacific Northwest 18 years ago, following the lure of even greater geographical features. Today she is an accomplished illustrator and painter, working diligently and daily right here in her Portland studio.

Wish I Was There runs from August 5 – 28th at Land Gallery.

HIGH FIVE!

Thursday, August 4th, 2011 We’re throwing a party to celebrate our fifth year and say a big thank you to Portland. Sam Flores is releasing a limited edition giclee print, “Portland Deer Girl,” and signing them that night.

Ryan Bubnis, Bradley Delay, Meredith Dittmar, Bishop Lennon, and Amy Ruppel will be in attendance.

Cold beers from Red Hook will help you wash down the wild game burgers from Over the Top Burger.

There’s a big after party down the block at The Fix at The Someday Lounge, where we will be giving stuff away, dancing, and generally making merry.

What more could you ask for? It’s gonna be a good night.

Show Ends: September 29th, 2011

Grass Hut & Hungry Eyeball present Balls Out Thee third

We did the first balls out show……. it was a blast. I was blown away to see some many top shelf artists in one room, and in the pacific northwest no less.
2+ years went by and we did balls out number 2. Blown away again. some new artists, some returning artists. My eyeballs are shooting rainbows into my head. Most people think it’s only been a year since the first one. Time flies when yer having fun.
One year later and now it’s annual for real. Balls Out thee third. 40+ artists from around the globe prepare to shatter your brain with killer paintings. All crammed into tiny ol’ Grass Hut.
My drive behind everything Grass Hut is to bring people together and show you stellar works of art. A chance for anybody in the pacific northwest to get close and personal with art we love.
Come celebrate rad art with us!
Bwana Spoons 2011.

Balls Out Thee Third.
Opening Reception July 7th from 6-9pm.
Show runs July 7th- 31st
Grass Hut Art Market
20 NW 5th ave #101
Portland Oregon 97209
open 11-7 seven days a week.

Uh… check out this roster.
Grass Hut & Hungry Eyeball present:

aj fosik
amy ruppel
apak
becky dreistadt
bigfoot
brent wick
bwana spoons
celeste zolezzi
chanmen
cody lusby
cupco
dalek
david wien
erik railton
farel dalrymple
filth
jess fogell
jon malta
josh herbolsheimer
katope
keith greiman
kiyoshi nakazawa
kristin cammermeyer
lisa dejohn
lori d.
maija fiebig
martin ontiveros
oliver hibert
ryan bubnis
ryan berkley
scrappers
shawn wolfe
spencer hibert
souther salazar
theo ellsworth
thomas campbell
tim biskup
tripper dungan
will mcCurtin
yasmina dedijer-small
yellena james

Is the floor wet?
Do you need to wash your pants now?

Sloth ‘n’ Moth at Grass Hut

Sloth ‘n’ Moth
the birth of a brand new sofubi

artists include:
Amy Ruppel (Happy Birthday), Nicole Linde, Masako miki, Tim Root, Bwana Spoons, Ayumi Piland from APAK, Cupco, and the Gargamel gang.

OPENS May 5th, 2011 | 6pm – 9pm
it’s jesse the new Grass Hut shipper’s 21st birthday, too. come eat some cake!

Up for the month of May
open 7 days 11am – 7pm
located inside Floating World Comics
downtown Portland
5th + Couch

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Sloth N Moth