Past Exhibitions
Ha Austin
EXHIBITION DATES
September 2024
Ha Austin initially set aside her artistic ambitions to pursue a career in science and healthcare. While teaching at a community college, she wandered into a ceramics classroom and was instantly captivated by the freedom to explore her creativity. Since that transformative moment, her work has evolved from earthenware pots to functional stoneware and decorative porcelain. After moving to Oregon in 2009, she focused on crystalline glazes in a high-fire electric kiln and Sgraffito techniques in a high-fire gas kiln.
Working with porcelain clay, Ha creates forms both on and off the wheel, mixing her glazes by hand. The precision required for crystalline glazes, combined with the unpredictability of the firing process, appeals to her scientific background. To balance the intricate nature of crystalline glazing, she also uses the Sgraffito technique to craft whimsical designs on her functional, everyday pottery, which she calls “Art for the Table.”
Kasey Wanford
EXHIBITION DATES
October 2024
Artist Bio:
I'm Kasey Wanford, and I am a self-taught artist*. I live in the Portland, Oregon area with my husband, two sons, and an irritable but cute dog. I paint in an expressive abstract style focusing on color relationships and form. My mediums of choice are primarily acrylic and watercolor, and I also have a robust digital art journaling practice. I've always been artsy, but I started painting seriously in 2017 when my children became old enough to raise themselves.**
When you look at my artwork, my hope is that you'll see not just the design but also the feeling the work evokes. Because what is life without feeling? And what is art even about if it is not about life?
For me, painting is an expression of deep thought and emotion. My abstract work can be viewed as my inner self, a spirit yearning to connect and grow.
*Not really self-taught because I've had some fabulous teachers, but that's what you say when you're an artist who didn't attend a fancy art institution. I went to college in Utah and got a B.A. in Political Science. That degree hasn't helped my art career at all.
**That's a joke. We're letting technology raise them.
Leslie Peterson Sapp
EXHIBITION DATES
September 2024
Leslie Peterson is a mixed media narrative painter who explores the passage of time through her art.
Rather than simply depicting scenes and objects from the past, she seeks to reveal their enduring significance and relevance in contemporary life. Her art tells a story; through the arrangement of figures and the composition of each image, she creates scenes that evoke a response in the viewer. This interaction invites the audience to become active participants in the narrative, engaging with the story within each piece.
Yune Wild
EXHIBITION DATES
August 2024
Felicia Murray
EXHIBITION DATES
October - November 2023
June Glasson
EXHIBITION DATES
June - September 2022
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer that lives in Millbrook, NY. She was born in Oyster Bay, NY in 1979 and received her B.A./B.F.A. from Cornell University in 2002. She is the recipient of the 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship and the 2015 Wyoming Arts Council Biennial Fellowship. She is represented by Kenise Barnes on the East Coast and Visions West Contemporary in the Rocky Mountain West. Her paintings have been exhibited at the The National Portrait Gallery in London, Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole, The Nicolaysen Museum in Casper, Nature Morte Gallery in Berlin and various New York and US galleries. They have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New American Paintings, The Paris Review, Guernica Magazine, People Magazine, Domino, Asymptote Magazine, SAND Journal, Diner Journal and the Film My Idiot Brother and numerous book covers. She is also the co-founder of the Wyoming Art Party, a Wyoming based artist-run organization whose mission is to organize community art projects and shows that connect individuals, scattered throughout Wyoming, who work in different regions, disciplines, and from different backgrounds, with the aim of celebrating work that truly represents art in Wyoming as it is, rather than as it is thought to be.
Jeremy Okai Davis
EXHIBITION DATES
February - April 2022
Jeremy Okai Davis (b. Charlotte, NC) received a BFA in painting from the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, NC. Davis relocated to Portland, OR in 2007 where he has continued his studio practice in addition to working as a graphic designer and illustrator. His work has been shown nationally at the Studio Museum of Harlem (New York, NY), THIS Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Wa Na Wari (Seattle, WA) and The Rotating Art Program at Portland International Airport (Portland, OR). Davis's work resides in the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center at Oregon State University and the University of Oregon's permanent collection. Elizabeth Leach Gallery began representing Jeremy Okai Davis in 2019.
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Owen Premore
EXHIBITION DATES
August 2021 - January 2022
Owen Premore, is Co-founder and Director of Art in Oregon, curator, technician, and artist working in fibers, kinetics, interactive elements, and occasional printmaking. Premore earned his BA from the University of Oregon with an emphasis on drawing, painting, and printmaking, and an MFA in Spatial Art with a focus in interactive installation from San Jose State University. Following graduate school, he worked for the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry for twelve years where he managed traveling exhibits throughout the United States. In 2019, he established Premore Services LLC, his museum and gallery technical support business. Premore is also the Directing Curator of the Art About Agriculture Program at Oregon State University.
Premore’s artwork uses humor and relational familiarities to engage the viewer in conversations touching on political, social, environmental, and humanitarian topics. His textile sculptures often explore over indulgence, the larger impact of such behaviors, and propagating self-reflection using detailed recre- ations of familiar objects that aim to spark olfactory and gustatory memory. Premore’s textile-based installations are responses to place, setting, and attempt to reclaim humanness from pervasive stressors of the moment. His kinetic sculptures contain secondhand equipment and objects for new, experiential purposes that suggest usefulness, but instead liberates the viewer from practical work.
Kim Anderson
EXHIBITION DATES
February - April 2021
Currently based in regional Victoria, Australia, Kim Anderson completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Ballarat in 2003, and in 2007 was awarded a scholarship to study a Master of Fine Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland. She has since undertaken a number of residencies including an Australia Council Studio Residency at the British School at Rome, Australia House in Echigo-Tsumari, Japan, DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, and at Hill End and the Bundanon Trust in NSW. Most recently, in 2019 she was awarded the Jon Schueler Scholarship, a three-month residency on the Isle of Skye in Scotland supported by the Jon Schueler Charitable Trust and the Scottish Arts Council.
In 2010 Kim received an Australia Council ArtStart Grant, and she has created and curated projects supported by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, the City of Melbourne, and Regional Arts Victoria. She has had solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Mildura, Bendigo, Bathurst, Ballarat, Hobart and Japan along with numerous group exhibitions, and been a finalist in awards including the National Works on Paper, the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Paul Guest Award, the Rick Amor Drawing Prize, and the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize. Kim is represented by Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne, and Penny Contemporary in Hobart.
Barry Johnson
EXHIBITION DATES
November 2020 - January 2021
According to Johnson:
It's fascinating how IMM-ACU-LATE works. We're all much more closely alike than we are different. We all share emotions and require the same necessities to thrive. Hit, we all hurt, we all hunger, and all want to feel wanted. Community bonds and strengthens us. The loss of a loved one leaves each of us feeling lost and broken. Love is the greatest and makes us do things that we could never have imagined. We all want to be... something.
If this is true, how could something as small a nucleotide bring about over 500 years of division? An assault against love and community. A collective effort to withhold forward movement. A perpetual denial to address pain and suffrage. How can you not see what happened and continues to happen right in front of your eyes, your parent's eyes, or their parents and further? Don't ever open your mouth for a moment to question the precedence of my life compared to everyone else's.
You see, if you can't see the merit of my life through the same view as you would your family, friends, and community, you can't see me at all.