June 3: First Thursday @ Anka Gallery | Ilibrium Curated by Anna Solcaniova King
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ilibrium
Curated by Anna Solcaniova King
First Thursday Opening
June 3rd 2010, 6-10pm
Show closing June 25th.
Anka Gallery
325 NW 6th Ave
Portland, Or 97209
Show is closing June 25th
ankagallery.com
Striking a balance between the fragments of limitless possibility and the reality that resides just outside our perception.
Paintings and Drawings by:
Scott Parry
Paintings by:
Edward King
Innovative Wall Glass Sculptures by:
Lawrence Morrell
Furniture Design by:
Jason Andrew Hernandez
Jewelry by:
Andy Lifschutz
Kinetic Mobiles by:
David Gustafson
Scott Parry
Scott studied at PSU. His current work examines Limitless Potential and the possibilities it implies as an extrinsic motivator within our personal and macro world. Using imagery from the 1960's a period thought to hold Limitless Potential he highlights the ability and inability it has as a rule changer for society. Linking emergence theory to the drawings and paintings that play with our inability to escape the hidden order of communities and separation from natural world. Scott Parry lives in Portland.
Edward King
“I begin by looking at images from history, mythology, personal photographs and newspapers, then integrating them into my personal lexicon. I use painting to tell broken stories, like a book missing its ending or a question gone unanswered, exploiting and changing the meaning of the images along the way. I am influenced by poetics, politics, hope & hopelessness, by absurdity, ethics, the violence of nature & the sublime beauty of light at sunrise and set. The fluid open-ended quality of fragmented language, visual, written or spoken, has always interested me. A fragment spurs a wide range of associative connections. The fragment draws one in, accessing it by imagining its place in the whole. The paintings are born out of the process of coming to terms with these personal and social issues and remain a continuing thread for connected investigations.” Edward currently lives and works in Portland. He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2004. Edward King is represented by Mark Woolley Gallery.
Lawrence Morrell
Lawrence Morrell's art works are inspired from science and nature and the subtle, minute textures that surround us but are invisible to the naked eye. Throughout Morrell's professional life, he has created images and textures in glass using innovative techniques to create sculptures that are inspired by scientific research.
Morrell initially studied fine art at the University of Oregon before moving to New York city for 15 years. He collaborated with architects and other artists to create the NY Vietnam War Memorial, a 40 foot long illuminated etched glass wall in lower Manhattan near Wall st. Morrell was interviewed on Public Television in the McNeil/Lehrer News hour about the experience. He also collaborated on a two storey high sculpture for facade of The Millennium Hotel near Times Square in Manhattan as well as creating sculptures for Sak's 5th avenue and Cartier's in New York and California. In 1994, Morrell returned to his home town of Portland, Oregon and has continued to devote his life to his art. He has created commissioned works including sculptures for The Port of Portland and the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. He has exhibited in shows across the country including SOFA Chicago with the Jane Sauer Gallery from Santa Fe, NM and The Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland Oregon.
Jason Andrew Hernandez
Jason is a 2 year graduate of the world renowned College of the Redwoods fine woodworking program. Studying under the master craftsman James Krenov, refined his talent for furniture design. Jason incorporates CAD drafting and 3-D rendering into design process. Jason Andrew Design is a award wining custom furniture design studio located in Portland, combining contemporary design with superior craftsmanship.
Andy Lifschutz
Jewelry Designer Andy Lifschutz combines traditional metalsmithing techniques with elements such as reclaimed metal, scrap leather, and items of antiquity. The jewelry creates an appeal not solely focused on aesthetic value, but based heavily upon the spirit of powerful organic forms. From multi-functional adornments to fashionable and thought provoking ornamentation, Andy creates pieces that symbolize the force that is the natural world while speaking of a balance between old and new. Andy's exploration into metalwork began in Brooklyn with renowned designer Kristin Hanson, where his natural inclination for design and bursting expression finally found its discipline. While having gained further experience in Portland, Oregon with Gunnar Adamovics, it was under the tutelage of William (“Billy”) Thomas King at the Sterling Quest School of Jewelry Design and Creation (San Miguel De Allende, Mexico) that Andy made his greatest strides in metallurgy, graduating in 2008. From his youth, Andy has approached history with imagination, romanticism, and caring, owing to the colorful and incredible stories of his own family. His tireless search for unique and meaningful items with which to make art is as much a characteristic of his work as the pieces themselves. It is this appreciation and awareness of the histories of his materials that enhance their efficacy as personal pieces of art.
Special thanks to our sponsors:
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