A wearable art sculptor, Jennifer LaMastra believes that the process of collecting, altering and wearing nontraditional materials is a practice of paying attention. She has been an active participant in Portland’s Junk to Funk fashion shows since 2006. Her work has been featured in The Oregonian, The Bee and in the Burning Man online magazine […]
Greg Hanson is a mixed-media assemblage artist who likes to document his work online with in-process photos and short videos on a YouTube channel that has over 800 subscribers. He has had two solo exhibitions and his work can be seen at Cannibals Gallery in Portland and Cog and Pearl Gallery in New York City.
Sculptor Chandra Glaeseman’s work examines the marks that we make. She is interested in the formal juxtaposition as it intersects the arbitrary designs that we make out of necessity. She holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Maine College of Art. Since 2007 she has been interested in the garbage factor. She […]
Andrew Auble enjoys mixing modern and archaic forms from a diverse range of source materials. He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Southern Illinois University. Since 2008, he has had frequent local and national exhibitions and done artist residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the […]
The assorted fragments in my work are worn with age. So much so that the subjects we witness are from a lifetime ago. Not my lifetime, but someone else’s. Time has elapsed. The subjects are expired. They are past the state in which we see them, certainly past the moment at which the source image […]
My objects are the result of my unwavering fascination with forming and fusing metals coupled with my deep appreciation for nature, our relationship with it and the daily practice of distilling ideas through craft. Metalworking is a craft where the recycling of remnants is not a novel idea, metal is regularly recycled in to new […]
My work is a combination of ideas about space and ways of adapting to it. I primarily use materials that are acquired for free or little cost. The Life+Boat exhibit I had in 2009 was created primarily out of cardboard collected from store dumpsters. A solo exhibition I had at Powell’s Books in 2007 consisted […]
With glass I witness the blur(ing) of life and art. What began as an exploration of materials has morphed into an overwhelming and emotional experience. The landfill has given me the opportunity to observe the indispensable become dispensable. The remnants of whole lives being discarded really challenges ones sense of infallibility. Re-imagined in a dark […]
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Ben Dye worked for 25 years in the commercial diving industry. In 2006, he decided to dedicate his skills to creating art. Since then, Dye has participated in numerous festivals, fairs and gallery shows. He has been awarded public art commissions in Lake Oswego, Oregon (2010), Milwaukie, Oregon (2010), two in […]
Originally from Iowa, Dawn Stetzel lived in North Carolina for 11 years, and has a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, College of Visual and Performing Arts. Among her artist residencies she received an invitational residency in China and was awarded a two-month residency in Brazil. After a residency […]