Goodfoot + Launch Pad Gallery
Posted on January 19, 2008Filed Under Art
New work at the Goodfoot
Check it out… My first featured show at the Goodfoot. All new work!
Thursday January 31, 2008 from 5:30 - 11:00pm
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark , Portland , OR 97214
(503) 329-9292 (map) (website)
About the Artists
Taken from the press release
Michael Fields is a self-taught artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work is mixed media, juxtaposing fine-line detail, layers of color, and collage. Highly technical creatures come to life while small solar systems orbit indefinite backgrounds, all hinting at a much larger picture. Field’s work is born not of planned composition, but inner dialog, challenging the viewer to decipher intricate messages buried with both form and structure.
David Whelan has been working in Portland for the past ten years, exhibiting his art on a mobile picture gallery on a vintage tricycle for most of that time. He regularly show’s at Saturday (Skidmore) Market as well as first and last Thursday. He will continue the market/street vending through the end of 2008, at which time he plans to take a hiatus to explore other ventures and mediums. David is influenced by the subconscious, dreams, myths, old fairy tales, ghosts, and various states in between. The images reveal themselves as he allows the medium he is working with to exist in tandem with each other, balance between expression and restraint. David oftentimes uses charcoal (burnt wood) upon panels of found wood, taking inspiration from the forms within the grain. He is most inspired when working with stream of consciousness and developing a narrative as he discovers more and more within the piece to bring out and elucidate.
Drew Anderson is an artist, inventor and idea person. Drew’s creative depository is known as Millions of Hundred Dollar Ideas www.MoHDI.com where for the past year and a half many of his ideas are shared with the world. Drew’s pen and ink work is continually evolving and translates to the direct visualization of his creative process. This series combines abstract logic and alchemy to help create a unique and inspirational experience for each viewer of the work.
The Love Show
I have created a piece for this show that opens the night after my show at the Goodfoot. You should stop by as it is always a killer party!
Launch Pad Gallery
534 SE Oak Street, Portland, OR 97214
(971) 227-0072 (map) (website)
About the Show
(copied from launchpadgallery.org)
For better or for worse, as we head into the depths of winter it is time once again to contemplate and reflect upon the most fickle and truly integral of emotions, Love.
In our third annual salon-style open-call group show about love taking place this February we aim to create a visual dialog about love in it’s many incarnations and interpretations, be it self love, sorrow, lust, confusion, hope, bitterness, gentleness, deception, romance, imagination, jealousy, true love, young love, love lost, parental, filial, adversarial love, the surrounding abundance of love or love as the unknown….
The show coincides with Valentine’s day to offer a psychic counterweight to a visual/advertising world completely consumed with heterosexual coupling, pink hearts, diamonds and chocolate; Now don’t get me wrong, at Launch Pad, we love chocolate and pink hearts and diamonds as much as the next person, but still, that’s not all that there is to love. Besides, it’s a great excuse to get together and share something with each other.
Last years Love show had over 100 people in it working in painting, drawing, photography, collage, printmaking, sculpture, poetry, video, song, text, textile and the like. This year, we have 118 people signed up, the only limitation being that work must be 2ft x 2ft or smaller- so far, the images we’ve seen are awesome, and it only gets better from here.
Featuring:
Maniacal world dance tracks by DJ GLOBAL RUCKUS, a special love-themed set by TRY MY CABBAGE of the PAN ZEN Konspiracy Nettwyrk
and live music by the love-filled LARRY YESAs well poetry, dance, hugs, video and other loving acts that you will have to be there to appreciate, so mark your calendar today and invite your friends and family!
Shrunken Head - Launch
Posted on January 11, 2008Filed Under Web
Just completed a new web page for Shrunken Head Massage.
Web Design and Development: Michael Fields
Original Logo Design: Alise Munson
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