Invision2 Show + Release Party

This Last Thursday ( July 31st ) at The Goodfoot we will be having a release party for Invision 2 - A Collection of Visual Art from Portland + Beyond. There are a bunch of great artists in the new book and they will all have work on display. Come check it out from 5pm-2am.

Invision
Released: September 6th, 2007
Published by: Another Sky Press
Order: anothersky.org
Featuring the work of: Kendra Binney, Ryan Bodiroga, Paul Fujita, Chris Haberman, Scott Wayne Indiana, Tim Karpinski, Tom Keating, Charlie Alan Kraft, Asley Montague, Dan Ness, Jesse Reno & Keith Rosson.

Invision 2
Released: July 31st, 2008
Published by: Another Sky Press
Preorder: anothersky.org
Featuring the work of: Erik Abel, Ashley Anson, Damon Ayers, Jason Brown, Michael Fields, Justin Gorman, Jason Graham, Michael Edward McGovern, Russel Short, David Stein, Alisha Wessler & Eric Wixon.

DRAW

I have started up a new series of art shows that I will be curating (with friends) in the Portland Metro area. The first show is currently up and on display at The Life in Old Town. They have gallery hours on Fridays from 12-5 PM and Saturday from 1 - 5 PM. If your in the neighborhood during these times, you should stop by and check out the show. If there is no chance that you will be in town and still want to see the pieces - I have uploaded a few to the new DRAW site. The site is still in it’s early stages of development, but it is fully functional as is.

After some strange-ness with my domain registrar, mfields.org is back online.

Actually, “first ever etching” might be more appropriate. I’m working on a collaborative etching with Shawn Demarest. Shawn provided me with a copper plate covered in what is known as hard ground (which is basically a waxy material that is resistant to acid) and a metal-scratchy-thing. I was instructed to remove the waxy stuff with the scratchy thing and produce a design. Here’s what happened (click image for larger):

On the left, you will see the etched plate. On the right (thanks to the miracles of digital imaging) you will see what a clean print of the plate would look like. By clean, I mean “without the aquatint” which is an etching process allowing for the creation of tones, shadows, and solid areas of color. Aquatint will be be handled by Shawn in her studio.

This print will be on display sometime in June, 2008 at Bite Studio in SE Portland. Check back soon for more details.

Thanks Shawn!!!

You can read more about the modern techniques involved in the etching process if interested.

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 YES

As 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!

Just wanted to give a quick shout out to everyone who stopped by the “Thirty” show this past Friday - thanks for dropping by and for all the support! It was great to see all my friends who stopped by and to talk to a bunch of rad people that I met for the first time.

Over the years I have attended hundreds of art openings and have never quite experienced anything like this. There was a line around the block - just to get in!

Special thanks to Flora S. Bowley - this mastermind behind the show.

Stop by Crude Things Gallery this First Thursday and you can pick up a reproduction of my piece “Without knowledge of gods and kings our hands turn to flowers so we can pollinate the world” for half price! $10.00 each…

Crude Things Gallery invites you to stop by and pick up your prescription of new pill pillows made by Dr Medz, take a glimpse into the dream world of Erin Laroue’s collage boxes, and play with all kinds of stuffed painted creatures and plush marionettes by Lana Guerra

Crude Things Gallery
625 NW Everett Street #104
Portland, OR 97209
646.420.4489

“Thirty” is a one night group exhibition of small works that exists only between the hours of 7pm and 11pm on the night of December 7th. Just about everything in the show has something to do with the number 30… 30 artists had 30 days to create 30 pieces which will each sell for $30.00 - Cash and carry.

This one night only event is being held at OM Traditional Arts which is an arms reach from E. Burnside on NE 10th Ave. (map) If you find yourself at the Grass Hut, Moshi Moshi, Redux, Doug Fir or The Chesterfield this first Friday, then you are in close, close proximity.

Participating artists include:

Alisha Wessler, Bobby Jansen, Brent Wear, Carrie Hardison, Celeste Bergin, Chalie Alan Kraft, Chris Haberman, Cvita Mamic, Erika Lee Sears, Flora S. Bowley, Hadley Hutton, Jackie Avery, Jason Brown, Jamee Linton, Jennifer Mercede, J. Boyd aka Dr. Smooth, Julia Skerry, Kevin Noonan, Kimmie Hutchins, Kyndra Watters, Melissa Wenzel, Michael Fields, Michelle Ramin, Rachel Austin, Rebecca J. Becker, Rebecca Shelly, S. Tudyk, Scott Dragoo, Shawn Demarest, Ted Sawyer and Wendy Givens

Hope you can make it out to the show…

Got some prints made up with a little help from my friend Jason over at Po Boy Art (check ‘em out best price for framing in town!). The piece that I had printed is called “Without knowledge of gods and kings our hands turn to flowers so we can pollinate the world” (picture below). This piece was featured in a group exhibition at the Goodfoot “I am, Therefore I Think” circa October 2007.

Specs:
Digitally printed.
17″ × 11″
100lb Glossy card stock.

Yours for $20.00!

Click here if ya want one

Only 12 days left and the pressure’s on…
Why the hell did I agree to do this?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
30 piece in 30y days.
wtf
W - T - F

I mean…
All is cool…
nothing to worry about…
calm blue ocean…
everything is going to be ok…

I got paint on all these little pieces of wood - in other words: they have all been painted and therefore they must all be paintings. whew! In the clear!

Thirty pieces of wood with paint on them… 30 paintings?

A few details

More details

This is me going for arty slanty shot - I don’t think I achieved it but hey…. whatever.

Not finished, but at least they have paint on them…

Pile seems to be getting smaller.

But 8 inch squares are taking over my apartment

Drink and Draw at the Luck Lab.

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