Maquette Reeverts
Allegorically fun, acrylic and oil paintings, Reeverts' work is a play on photographic 'accidents'. Soft focus, unintended 'decapitations', and bokeh, or soft focus achieved though the use of a camera lens, are created with pigment and a brush. By not overworking the canvas the emphasis is on the human hand of a painting rather than the smooth machine production of a photographic print. |
Anya Jackson
Instagram: @anyajackson4742 Anya Jackson graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration and now calls Portland home. She started studying ceramics 20 years ago first with wheel throwing, but was quickly captivated by the hand-building process and surface design. One technique she uses is sgraffito. Using the surface of the clay as a canvas, Anya lightly free-hands the design onto a dry layer of under glaze. Using an assortment of miniature carving tools, she carves away the design to expose the color of the clay beneath. This technique results in a high-contrast image on the clay's surface. The piece is then fired to bisque. After the first firing process, she applies more glaze, and fires the piece a second time to cone 6. |
3rd Version
Art by Ben Patterson www.3rdversion.bigcartel.com Ben Patterson was born in the quaint suburbs of Mesa Arizona. He is currently residing & working as a full time artist somewhere near or about Portland, Oregon. He is a mover (he literally moves around a lot), a self proclaimed social anthropologist and a pretty damn good carpenter. Ambiguous backdrops manifest animals, insects, and birdhouse-like structures littered with graffiti and symbolism in Ben Patterson's artwork. The vague simplistic settings reflect an eluding uncertainty and emphasize the dissolving environmental condition. Patterson's modest subjects embrace the natural world alongside urban aesthetics, ultimately succumbing to their allures yet harmonizing these diverse elements. Patterson's unique imaginative representations are packed with confidence and attitude while touching upon certain pop culture references and humor. Even though most of Patterson's artworks flaunt change, their true identity is not lost or forgotten. Fine. My work is about environmentalism, defiance, and imagination... Ok, ok, and a wee bit of sarcasm, just a bit, like a tid bit but more. ;) |
|
Kim Nickens
www.papercutkim.com Instagram: @kim_nickens A paper quilling artist, Kim meticulously creates her one-of-a-kind pieces using paper, glue, and a rolling tool. She is inspired by nature and sees it in almost every aspect of her work. Kim’s work has evolved into a more abstract look and feel. Though she enjoys traditional quilling, she finds the most joy in creating her own interpretation of the art form. |
Ty Beckmann
[email protected] What fascinates me the most about glass fusion is to see a material like glass, that is usually very rigid, go through a transformation where it changes shape, its level of translucency, and to some degree color as well. It’s always a surprise when one opens the kiln for the first time after a piece of art has been fused or slumped. I try to incorporate those little inconsistencies into my art, since they are an integral part of the glass itself. Guided by friends, I am mostly self-taught. I grew up in Switzerland and lived in New York City and San Francisco before making the Portland area my new home. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. I’d like to hear from you. |
Brian Echerer
www.velogioielli.com Instagram: @velogioielli When Brian Echerer started bending and twisting bike spoke bracelets, he had no idea it would lead to a career in art. He discovered that the parts of bicycle chain were the perfect medium to work with. Using materials from Campagnolo, Shimano other high end or exotic bicycle chains in his work, Echerer is able to create unique, sustainable and quality sculptures. |
June Martin
www.mothandtwig.com Instagram: @mothandtwig A month long trip to Barcelona Spain inspired me to shift my focus to the world of mosaic arts after having worked in design and production in the fashion industry for many years. Working with a variety of materials such as ceramic tile sourced from Morocco, locally produced stained glass, and various types of glass from Italy, allows me to imbue intense color and texture into my pieces. I am inspired by the imperfections that are inherent in many of the materials I use. I feel that meticulous workmanship combined with the imperfection of the materials makes for intriguing and beautiful pieces. |
Mandy Allen www.mandyallenart.com Instagram: @allenmetalarts In jewelry, as in life, Mandy Allen believes balance is key. Her work is playful yet elegant, distinctive yet wearable, well-crafted yet affordable. She loves creating colorful anodized aluminum and silver jewelry that helps celebrate the day, simply by wearing it. Mandy's process involves anodizing aluminum; a three step process that allows her to custom dye the metal in a wide range of luminous colors. It also strengthens and protects the surface to protect against tarnishing. |
Carson Abbert www.carsonabbert.com Instagram: @carsonabbert References to time, love, growth, and nature in my paintings are pronounced. They are not so much an image of a specific place and time, but a feeling of one–or in some paintings, many. They are sometimes luminous, sometimes hot, and sometimes cool with an electric energy. For me, painting abstractly is the best way to represent those elusive things. I’m an artist of the painting process: building layers, listening to color harmonies, employing pattern to move the eye. I gravitate to a style that is vibrant in color and often graphic in style. An intuitive process guides my work. One that I believe can invigorate the spirit of those who wish to really live a life with full intention and a wealth of joy. |
|
Michelle L Purvis
www.michellelpurvis.com Instagram: @michellepurvis A mixed media and watercolor artist, Purvis has been involved in the Portland area art scene since 2005. In her recent work, she strives to depict the natural world with fluidity, and allows her love of traveling to play central role in her paintings. She finds that being a spectator to the artistic community, and being part of that same audience helps her to find inspirations, and make connections to her own work. Purvis also firmly believes that making art is about finding true solidarity with oneself. |
Veronica Guzman
www.mayaceramics.com Instagram: @mayaceramicspaintings Veronica Guzman started Maya Ceramics while living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Inspired by the vibrancy of the city gave her the motivation to start creating a series of ceramic pieces that were inspired by nature and her surroundings . Her ceramics are created to be naturally imperfect, casually irreverent and playfully delightful. |
Joshua P Barker
[email protected] Inspired by street art and mixed media, Barker aims to comment on the political spectrum with varieties of texture and graffiti techniques. His work is bold, vibrant and often times created in large format. Barker describes himself as an artist who "paints stuff, sometimes on canvas." Barker prefers not to explain what his pieces are about "because people will relate to the images in their own way." His art is meant to be viewed that way although some of his work is simply created in order to inspire a feeling or a mood while other works are created to inspire wonder through meaning or a direct message of intent. Ultimately though, what Barker's art means is purely up to the viewer. Barker believes this is what art is meant to be; arbitrary in nature yet close to its keepers to inspire beautiful and strange thoughts. |
Brian Dombrowsky www.MonkeyArtStar.com Instagram: @bddombrowsky My goal is to create work that is visually appealing and accessible on many levels. My style is derived from an interest in children’s books; primers, comics, and stories; all the simple visual devices we use as a culture to educate and socialize ourselves. The images in their pages always left me feeling like I should be learning something, even if I didn’t comprehend the words. Like those books, I want this work to hold the feeling the shadow of a story is there, whether or not my perspective is readily identifiable. |
David Castle
www.davidcastleart.com Instagram: @davidcastleart Facebook: David Castle Award-winning artist David Castle paints abstractions infused with unexpectedly rich and vivid colors. His art is inspired by the variety of mountain and urban terrain he has explored throughout his extensive travels in North America and his years of living, working and traveling throughout Europe during his former career as a computer scientist. David draws from his exposure to the colors and shapes of these very different places as he combines paper, brush, oil and water, color, air, surface tension and gravity to create each painting. |
Gary Grossman
Website: Gary Grossman Photography Instagram: @garygrossman Flickr: Gary Grossman Gary Grossman almost always has a camera in hand when traveling around town or the backroads of the Pacific Northwest. Through photography he seeks to document his experiences, to capture and share with others the beauty and diversity of the world. Among his favorite captures are the natural landscapes and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest. Gary is drawn to a range of scenes, from rushing rivers backed by autumn colors to the dramatic Pacific shore at dawn, from wildflowers on a mountain slope to a flock of Tundra Swan, close ups of tulips or a macro of Pacific Tree Frogs. |
Ray Andresson
Instagram: @sunrayriverbeam Email: [email protected] There’s no elaborate story behind why I started making art. I was always that kid that got into trouble for drawing in class! From an early age, my parents took me to art galleries wherever we travelled, and I began to view being an artist as a legitimate career path. Since graduating college with a Bachelor’s in Sociology, I relocated to Portland in 2016 with a desire to live in a more progressive place. Outside of selling my art, I’ve worked at non-profits, warehouses, restaurants, and even a licensed cannabis farm. Alberta Street Gallery is my first gallery representation. For my work, I use acid free pens, colored pencils and acrylic paint on paper. My biggest artistic influences are Wassily Kandinsky and the abstract expressionist movement. I usually don’t know what my work is going to look like before it’s finished. I draw first and think of titles later. |
Tom Hynes
www.fairviewforge.com Instagram: @fairviewforge The final contours of my forged steel vessels and sculptures are determined by the natural responses of metal to intense heat and pressure. I create a starting form using a range of forging, fabrication, and machining techniques. The piece is then subjected to some combination of heat, compression, twisting, and inflation to realize the final form. In addition some pieces have a smooth glass layer of enamel baked on for a colorful contrast to the natural black oxide of the forged steel. |
Katrina Zarate
www.petiteastudios.com Instagram: @KatrinaZarate Facebook: Katrina Zarate Artist [email protected] Katrina Zarate is a North Portland based artist. Working in Oil, Acrylic, and Copic mediums her work focuses on community. Recently she completed a project where she painted the winter residents of Creede Colorado. Currently her work is centered around Portland communities and attempts to highlight the many local talent in the city. Katrina began her career after suffering from Retinal Detachment which resulted in a multitude of surgeries and changes to her vision. The experience showed her many different types of sight and resulted in her deep respect for the visual arts. |
Izabella Rain
Etsy.com/shop/bellamindcreations Instagram: @Izabella.rain.art Izabella Rain is a self-taught painter and illustrator whose works explore aspects such as, the occult, spirituality, mythology, animal symbolism, and environmentalism. Her mediums include but are not limited to, pen & ink, watercolor, and gouache. Her surrealistic works are free flowing and intuitively created. Izabella, born in the art-filled Santa Fe, New Mexico, started drawing and painting as soon as she was old enough to pick up art supplies. As a child, she was always exploring, creating, throwing tantrums and drawing on the walls. Visual expression has always been her main passion and an integral part of her life. Currently residing in Portland, Oregon, her creativity endlessly channels the limitless exploration of the imagination. She believes greatly in the freedom to express one’s self through artistic means, and strives to do this daily. |
Kim Tepe
[email protected] Instagram: @kimtepe74 Kim takes inspiration from the natural world, layering textiles to mimic the colors and textures in the landscape; Velvets becomes moss, wools become tree bark, and crisp satins becomes ice. She sees complex in the ordinary and riches in the overlooked. |
Lizbeth Nino
www.lizethnino.com Instagram: @lizethnino_art Lizeth Nino is a magical realist artist, illustrator and animator. She was born in Texas and raised in the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras. Her work explores the liminal spaces between life and death, innocence and initiation, unity and longing. In her world, houses grow roots, flowers burst forth from skulls and tears water lush gardens. Lizeth is inspired by the flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest as well as the rich colors of the Mexican Folk Art tradition. After receiving her BA in art from Texas State University, she traveled widely and developed an intuitive visual language that recurs in her work. A nomad by nature, Lizeth’s current work centers on the meanings of home, exemplified in her "grow where you are planted" series. She lives in a tiny house in Portland, Oregon with her husband, daughter and cactus babies. |
April Alden
etsy.com/shop/prillamade Instagram: @prillamade I am inspired by things overlooked and discarded. I use found objects along with traditional art mediums and elements of design. Exploration, meditation, balance, pattern, and nature are all key elements in my work. I am striving to bring things commonplace to us all, into a new view. Being raised by an artist and a carpenter helped to nurture my creative talents and exposed me to a wonderful world of makers. I joined the Portland art community in 2002 shortly after earning my BFA in sculpture. My work is often fueled by the challenge of reuse exploration. The curios of the natural world are of great inspiration, archetypal symbols have always been my muse. I like to incorporate the act of collecting as a way of measuring time, assigning meaning to these imprints of matter. My leather jewelry line is inspired by the geometric shapes used as building blocks in traditional quilting and sewing patterns. The leather is a tactile reminder of nature and the cycle of life. |
Dan Bernard
https://www.bnwphotoart.com Instagram: @danbernardphotographer An aspiring fine art photographer since 1982, I work primarily in black and white. This medium allows me to attend to shapes, textures and expressions, while composing images that evoke the exhilaration I feel when seeing through my lens. My eye is drawn to moments on the street where visually provocative moments occur spontaneously. I am also enthralled by the more static beauty of the land, as well as cities and the buildings that inhabit them. As a photographic artist, I perceive the world through the filter of my past experiences. How I compose, record and print each image is a result of my life prior to that decisive moment. |
Kara Mollison
kmollisonjewelry.etsy.com Instagram: @kmollisonjewlery Kara is a self-taught silversmith. Her jewelry is inspired by the American Southwest where she sources the majority of her stones. She loves to use large unique pieces of stone and create contrast with the silver by oxidizing portions to really make the details pop. She creates wearable art with her large statement pieces that blend seamlessly into daily life in the PNW. Most days you will find her working away in her home studio in SE Portland with their rescue bullterrier snuggled up next to the heater. |