October 24: Art Auction Created From Recovered River Debris From Clackamas River Clean Up
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Local Arists MAKING WAVES FOR SUSTAINABLITY
Art Auction Created From Recovered River Debris From Clackamas River Clean Up
15 Portland Artists dedicate a month to creating art from the 5,000 lbs of debris extracted from the Clackamas River. The exhibition is being called The RIPPLE Effect, an initiative supporting individuals, embarking upon sustainable artistic endeavors in order to inspire creative re-use within the community. The Artwork will be auctioned off at a celebratory event kicking off in the Pearl on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at Rooftop Studios, proceeds go to supporting local artists and We Love Clean Rivers, the emerging non-profit who has spent the past 7 years cleaning the Clackamas River.
What: RIPPLE
When: Saturday, October 24th
Time: 4P-9P
6P Presentation (including informational video)
8P Auction Close
Where: Rooftop Studios (NW 13th & Burnside)
RIPPLE assembles a dynamic team of diverse artists to work with the recovered river debris with the hopes of inspiring a community to make sustainable lifestyle choices and encourage creative re-use. The goal is to inspire a community to think outside of the blue recycling bin and become an active recycler.
RIPPLE began in 2008 by working with We Love Clean Rivers, a Portland based non-profit that dedicates a weekend every year to cleaning up the Clackamas river. WLCR has been cleaning the Clackamas for the past 7 years now and has collected over 30,000 lbs of trash over the years.
This event started from a single idea. One person came together with a few friends and thought it would be a great idea to clean out the Clackamas. That one idea became a 7 year adventure, evolving to a 300 person team of volunteers. Now these volunteers routinely retrieve over 5,000 lbs of trash, and sort it for proper recyclables. And this immense effort inspires a community of artists to take a turn in the ripples of a great sustainable cause.
The following is the 2009 Artist line up featuring Portland top artists, Ryan Birkland, Chris Haberman, Gary Hirsch and Taylor Stevenson:
Adam Crispin
adamcrispin.com
Adam Crispin has been doing oil paintings for 17 years. Graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1997, and has since been developing his painting process in a variety of locations. Originally from Kansas, moved to Portland in 2005, joined the Rooftop Studios Collective in ‘08. While his paintings are abstract, they are grounded in the language of landscape and architecture.
Alex Clark
"Don't Panic..
I can see for miles and miles,
osmotic, volcanic, retinal, information,
the gracious gift of rock formation…
I grow like trees
and communicate mostly
in well-timed ellipses…"
Allison McClay
allisonmcclay.com
I am a Portland native with a degree in illustration from California College of the Arts. Since moving back here a couple years ago, I have been hanging paintings around town pretty regularly, and working with an author on a graphic novel.
Andrew M. Young
www.splintmedia.com
www.andrewmyoung.com
www.minutemorning.com
www.maliciousglee.com
Andrew is an avid artist who enjoys as many mediums as humanly possible. He is an avid photographer, illustrator, painter, puppet maker, woodworker, clothing designer, and baker. Andrew always likes to keep busy and is often found trying new techniques and expanding his skills. He started his first business when he was 3yrs old selling crunch berries at the side of the road with his sister and has worked in too many fields to keep track of. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Multimedia Design in 2006 but has been working professionally in the design industry for over 13 years.
Currently he owns and operates: Splint Media, a web, graphic, and media production company. Minute Morning, a Music, Art, and Youth Culture magazine, Malicious Glee, a custom clothing company, and a various other projects.
Chris Haberman
www.myspace.com/habermanart
Darcy Drury
www.darcyleeart.com
Darcy Lee Drury lives and creates in Portland Oregon. Her work is a colorful take on the world around her. It is riddled with deep imagination, clean lines, and a continuous flow of energy. Her style is constantly changing as she finds new and exciting sources of inspiration.
Erica Melville
www.ericamelville.com
Painting has been an inherent part of my life since I was very young. My paintings are a reflection of my life and environment and vice versa. The process of painting is what the painting becomes to be about. I employ different elemental tensions to inform the process; the juxtaposition between the natural and urban, the beauty in the neglected or trashed space, the unexpected harmony of color. I believe I can create a complex, challenging painting from the simplest of ideas or moments.
I have spent the majority of my life, and thus my painting experiences, in the Northeast in various urban and rural environments. I've found inspiration in such disparate places as the pristine waters of Georgian Bay, Canada, to the dirty streets of New York City. I received BA degrees in Economics and Studio Art from Brandeis University, and an MFA in painting from Rutgers University. I moved to Portland a year ago in search of a new niche in which to create.
Gary Hirsch
www.doodlehouse.com
www.oyf.com
http://twitter.com/garyhirsch
www.facebook.com/garyhirsch
Gary Hirsch, is an artist/illustrator/improviser/facilitator interested in humor, narrative and co-creative process. He is best known for his Portland public artwork "Upstream Downtown" (those18 colorful fish that hang from the S.W. 3rd & Morrison parking structure in downtown Portland). His public works can also be seen in Dallas Texas and Melbourne Australia. Gary has exhibited pieces in galleries and museums throughout the country including The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and Augen Gallery here in Portland. His first solo show after a 3 year hiatus is called "YOU NAME IT" where he invites the audience to name all of the paintings in the exhibition. The show opens on Dec. 2nd, 2009 at Galley Paradiso in The Pearl.
Janel Golden
Janel Golden is a multidisciplinary artist using whatever medium fits her concept best. Her works of art inspire a sense of curiosity and inquiry. Her latest creations offer participants a meditative or reflective moment for themselves through interaction. Janel's work often includes hand bound books and tiny sculptures made of sculpey, toothpicks, wire, and wood glue. Through her art making practices she gets down to earth and experiences a sense of clarity for her purpose in life and the connectivity of all things.
Jenn Reilly
jennreilly.com
A native of the east coast, Jenn has spent the past year and a half pursuing her skills as an artrepreneur, combining painting with creative business adventures. Always working furiously, conquering walls, cleaning rivers or rummaging neighborhood cleanups to generate artistic creations. Jenn has spent the past two years dedicating her artistic focus to sustainable practices, exploring clay based paints, soy resins or crystal urethanes. Now she curates The RIPPLE Effect and is working on this year's Junk To Funk.
Kimo Nelson
kimonelson.com
Kimo is an artist who splits his time between Portland, OR and the Colorado Plateau in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. His current body of work draws inspiration from the desert landscape and is informed by his time spent as a river guide on the Colorado River through Grand Canyon. Kimo studied painting at Lewis & Clark College and received a Post — Baccalaureate certificate in drawing and painting from the Oregon College of Art and Craft.
Lauryn Rachel
The adventure in a dream.
A tour of the minds' imagination.
The worm beneath the flourishing Yarrow plant.
Creation made by passion.
Make life.
Make beauty.
Ryan Birkland
Stumptownart.com
Ryan Birkland is a painter living in Portland, Oregon. He has been painting and selling his work in Portland for the last ten years. His primary medium is reverse painting on old recycled windows.
Sarah Hawks
Born and raised in Spokane, Washington, I grew up witnessing art and art education first hand through my mother's practices. Always loving school and the pursuit of knowledge, I attended Whitworth University to become an art teacher.
Currently I teach middle school art and live in Portland, Oregon. Balancing teaching and art making can prove to be a challenge, but I commit myself to reusing materials creatively and experiencing the therapeutic process.
In my collage works and paintings, my primary goal is to intertwine recycled imagery, found objects, and painting/drawing media into a unified whole. My work reflects the aspirations of environmental reuse and sound composition.
Taylor Cass
www.redsemillaroja.org,
redsemilla@riseup.net
Taylor Cass Stevenson is an artist and designer whose work is didactic and experimental. Since developing www.redsemillaroja.org, an international, web-based network for socially conscious artists, her medium has evolved from the drawing and writing of educational graphic stories for grassroots organizations to creating functional craft and design works with reused materials. Influenced by world graffiti and South American craft, she enjoys sharing techniques and surprising people. The sale of her artwork goes toward the production of international events like Live Debris, which work to promote tolerance through the collaborative exchange of reuse traditions.
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For more information or to schedule interviews with any of the artistists contact Jenn Reilly, event coordinator for RIPPLE at jennreilly@ripplepdx.org
RIPPLE
www.ripplePDX.org
We Love Clean Rivers
www.welovecleanrivers.org
