Adam Crispin
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
"ohne panik..
I can see for miles and miles,
osmotic, volcanic, retinal, information,
the gracious gift of rock formation...
osmotic, volcanic, retinal, information,
the gracious gift of rock formation...
I grow like trees
and communicate mostly
in well-timed ellipses..."
and communicate mostly
in well-timed ellipses..."
Allison McClay
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
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
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
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 know for his Portland public art work “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
jagolden23@yahoo.com
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
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 works on the stage design for this years Junk To Funk.
Kimo Nelson
www.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
laurynmoore@hotmail.com
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.
A tour of the minds' imagination.
The worm beneath the flourishing Yarrow plant.
Creation made by passion.
Make life.
Make beauty.
Ryan Birkland
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
Sarahehawks@hotmail.com
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
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.
