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On January 17, 2024 Mark Moore Fine Art presents an online exhibition of my paintings “Still Life with Wild Man”
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Poet’s Communion, 2021, 48 by 72 inches, oil on unstretched canvas
For anyone interested in taking the drawing and storytelling workshop Nostos: the Long Way Home at Building Five in 2024 (details below) we’ve changed the dates from the original announcement. For the month of January, the workshop will be $1600, that’s $300 off of the full price. This workshop will be a rich and deep exploration of storytelling, drawing and visual narrative. We give the story of the Odyssey lots of time to open up, expand and allow you to enter into it. Ultimately you will tell your own story about home; whether that is as a native, an immigrant or a refugee. Join me in 2024 to inaugurate this workshop. Go here to register.
The Odyssey is one of the most iconic of Western stories. We look at what the story has to say about leaving home, coming home, and being a migrant in the world. What does that longing in our stories say about our own longing? Who is a migrant, a refugee, or a native? Our stories root us to the ground and allow us to travel over great distances. How do we define home? Can we find stories in the ground beneath our feet that welcomes newcomers and honors the ancestors?
Over the course of the five sessions we dive deep into the story of the Odyssey through oral storytelling and book discussions.
This course connects one’s innate creative spark with deep-time storytelling and straightforward drawing exercises. Oral storytelling, themed readings, and image making exercises are braided together into each session. This course is for teachers, writers, cartoonists, artists, or anyone interested in unlocking their visual storyteller. This is not about technical prowess, but storytelling and expression. The drawing exercises do not require drawing skill or previous training. Participants come away having created their own story based in image and text; gaining tools for telling stories with pictures and thinking in mythic time.
Each weekend begins with a Friday night lecture.
Saturday is a full day of storytelling, drawing exercises and workshops.
Sunday is work time and presentations.
Building Five, NW Marine Artworks,
2516 NW 29th Ave., Portland, OR 97210
APRIL 12-14, 2024:
Leaving Home
The journey begins. War comes to Ithaca. What causes us to leave home in the first place. Odysseus goes off to war. Telemachus grows up with the weight of an absent father, Penelope takes on leadership and grows into her role. It is springtime. Are we setting out with excitement and possibility? With a heavy heart? With regret? We consider the traveler, the wanderer and the tourist. After each storytelling session you draw. We go from quick intuitive drawing exercises to longer more reflective pieces.
JUNE 28-30, 2024:
Out at Sea
Now that the initial excitement of setting off has settled into the day to day, how do we move through the days? Telemachus tries to be a man, Penelope fends off the suitors, Odysseus heads home and is thwarted. What does it feel like to be a refugee and cast from home? More quick exercises, we build on images from the previous session.
APRIL 12-14, 2024:
Leaving Home
The journey begins. War comes to Ithaca. What causes us to leave home in the first place. Odysseus goes off to war. Telemachus grows up with the weight of an absent father, Penelope takes on leadership and grows into her role. It is springtime. Are we setting out with excitement and possibility? With a heavy heart? With regret? We consider the traveler, the wanderer and the tourist. After each storytelling session you draw. We go from quick intuitive drawing exercises to longer more reflective pieces.
SEPT. 7-8, 2024:
Dreams of home fires
We’re right in the middle. Everyone tries to hold the line and survive. Immigrants and natives consider what home means. New materials, longer exercises after the storytelling sessions.
NOV. 2-3, 2024:
The Land of the Dead
Odysseus consults the dead. Underworld musings, ancestors from the other side of the veil come to have a word. One long project after the telling.
DEC. 13-14, 2024:
Homecomings
Odysseus comes home as a nobody. Penelope starts to waver and Telemachus gets a hint from Athena. Not all homecomings are happy. Who are you when you return after a journey? One final work session and a mini-exhibition.
I am honored to be represented by Mark Moore Fine Art. The featured exhibition The Traveler and the Housewife is up at Artsy from August 30 to November 5. The suite of prints was created in 2013 and published as a newsprint broadsheet. They have been editions at last with the help of the excellent Mullowney Printing Companying.com/contract-printing in Portland. The edition of 10 is available as a full suite or individual artist proofs are available.
I will weave together the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the history of the Building Five site to explore storytelling, place and image making. I will also introduce upcoming programming for Building Five. This is the first of the Ground Beneath Us Lecture Series.
9/23/23
4PM , $8 Suggested Donation
Building Five
2516 NW 29th Ave.
Portland, OR
www.buildingfive.org
I am so honored to be chosen to be the next Creative Director of Building Five. The key to Building Five's mission is to provide opportunities for the exhibition of large-scale, site-specific installations and extend opportunities for growth or expansion of artists' careers and practice. Artists participating in either an exhibition or residency receive stipends and additional resources to complete their projects.
The program was started in 2019 with co-founders Dana Lynn Louis and Ken Unkeles. Through Covid and the instability of the past three years they have been able to mount an impressive program. I am looking forward to building a robust and diverse program.
After cancellation due to covid in December 2021, Meet Me in a Year and a Day will premiere at Building Five at NW Marine Artworks. Meet Me in a Year and a Day is a shadow puppet retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Everything is looking good and coming together. Hope to see you there!
Music by Mark Orton
Character and set designs by Aidan Saunders and Geoff Coupland
Narrated by Ramiz Monsef
Written and Directed by Daniel Duford
When:
June 21, 2022, 9PM
Where:
Building Five
NW Marine Artworks
2516 NW 29th Ave.
Portland, OR
On December 30, 2021 I will do a workshopped performance of Meet Me in a Year and a Day a shadow puppet performance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at Building Five at NW Marine Artworks. Music by Mark Orton, images by Zeel Esquire and Aidan Saunders of The Golden Thread Project and printed matter and text by Tracy Schlapp of Cumbersome Multiples.
Meet Me in a Year and a Day
A Shadow Puppet telling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
12/30/2021, 6PM
Building Five
NW Marine Artworks
2516 NW 29th Ave.
Portland, OR
Come out to NW Marine Artworks on Sunday December 5 from 11-4. 60+ artists will be showing and selling work. I’m in my new space #325 across the hall from my original studio in the building. I’ll have watercolors, paintings, ceramics and letterpress work by Tracy Schlapp of Cumbersome Multiples.
2516 NW 29th Ave.
Portland, OR
Pre-order is available for Reasons to Be Cheerful Annual 2. It includes The Bread Lecture my essay about trying to make a performance during the pandemic.
I am thrilled to announce that I received a 2021 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant! I have a residency at Building 5 at the NW Marine Artworks in December. I am creating a Winter Solstice shadow puppet performance based on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. More details to follow. I thank OAC for their continued support of artists throughout the state.
Last year when everything shut down I was scheduled to do a version of The Bread Lecture at JSMA@ PSU. When I attempted to do a video version, I realized that it went against the whole point of the lecture. My essay based on The Bread Lecture and the shortcomings of virtual experience was just published on the blog Reasons to Be Cheerful. Thanks Daisy, Nic and Mark Shayler for publishing the piece!
It’s been a wild ride this year and we are entering the darkest, hardest part of the year with a vital election one week away. However there is some movement forward from the studio. We just got the beautiful 60 page catalog for the JSMA@PSU show. With a design by Tracy Schlapp of Cumbersome Multiples and essays by Cyrus Cassells and Linda Tesner it beautifully captures the breadth of the series. The catalog is available here in the website store. It is also available until December at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU.
The exhibition at PSU reopened October 15th with limited access for the PSU community. The second part of John Brown’s Vision on the Scaffold opens at the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland on October 29th. The second part of this body of work includes the 30 page visual poem “John Brown’s First Vision” and portraits of black artists who meditated on the meaning and legacy of John Brown such as W.E.B. DuBois, Jacob Lawrence and Robert Hayden. This new work was made in the wake of a year of social and environmental upheaval.
Tune in for my gallery talk on Thursday November 5 at 12:30.
Schneider Museum of Art
555 Indiana Street
Ashland, OR 97520
Modified hours: Tuesday & Wednesday, 10 am – 4 pm • Thursday, 10 am – 7 pm
Check out the virtual museum tour and gallery talk at JSMA@ PSU.
So excited for the opening of John Brown’s Vision on the Scaffold at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU on First Thursday March 5th. This will be the second exhibition at the new museum.There will be 25 new works in the exhibition. It’s such an honor to help inaugurate the space. The exhibition closes May 15, 2020.
Where:
JSMA@PSU
1855 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
When:
Thursday March 5th, 2020 6-8PM
If you’re around Santa Ana in Orange County next weekend please join me in my conversation with poet Camille Dungy at Orange County Museum of Art. I chose works from the permanent collection for the exhibition An Earth Song, A Body Song: Figures with Landscape from the Permanent Collection. Camille and I will discuss the works on view in the exhibition. The show considers the landscape as inhabited, worked, and experienced through the viewpoints of marginalized people. We will discuss the shifting of artistic perspective and the consequences of an inclusive, multi-voiced approach to the living world.
Where and when:
Jan 11, 3:00 PM
Orange County Museum of Art, 1661 W Sunflower Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92704, USA
Here’s a nice mention of my exhibition Underworld Stories told in Tree Time at Orange County Museum of Art in the LA Times. Thanks Richard Chang!
Come out to NW Marine Artworks on Sunday December 8th, 2019 from 11AM -4PM. I’m participating in the second annual open studio. I’ll have new paintings on view from John Brown’s Vision on the Scaffold. These new paintings will be included in my two 2020 museum shows at JSMA@PSU and the Schneider Museum of Art. Also, drawings, paintings, watercolors for sale.
Tracy Schlapp and I from Cumbersome Multiples will have a new series of handprinted letterpress JMSA@PSU depicting 12 significant women of 2019. Subscription forms for Tracy’s Fresh Ink letterpress subscription will be available. They’re the perfect gifts for those you want to give handmade art to all year long. I’m in studio #310. It’s been a productive year. Come on out to see what’s been going on.
Where: NW Marine Artworks, 2516 NW 29th, Portland, OR
When: Sunday December 8th, 2019, 11AM-4PM.
On Thursday August 22nd I’ll join curator Sandra Percival at OJMCHE to talk about Less Means More a show of British potter Hans Coper’s work from several prominent collections. It is one of the largest West Coast surveys of his work. I recently published a review at Oregon Arts Watch. The event is Thursday August 22nd from 4-5. Free with museum admission. 724 NW Davis Street, Portland, OR 97209
I’m looking forward to this exhibition at OCMA. Opening is September 21. The exhibition will include work from the Resistance is Necessary series in collaboration with Tracy Schlapp.
