My newest little show opens in Portland, Oregon at Grass Hut Market which lives inside Floating World Comics at the Lloyd Center Mall. I’ll have an entirely new batch of monstrous ceramics for you to ogle. If you come to the opening on Thursday, February 6th from 5pm-7pm, I’ll even be on hand to wax poetically about all of the random stuff that inspires me.
The past few months have seen me very busy creating some new comic art zines, full of detailed drawings and unique construction. A Daughter’s House features lush illustrations, meditative dialogue, and a mini book. From My Sketchbooks is a straightforward concept of comics and illustrations gleaned from a few year’s of sketchbooks featuring lots of fold-out pages. And Summer Camp is a little mini zine with hand-cut pages, the drawings are portraits of strange fancy women and the dialogue is overheard fragments from a middle school zine class I taught. All of these zines are available in my shop.
I’m so excited to announce that I’ve received a RACC Arts3C Grant so that I might attend the ICON12 illustration conference this summer in Minneapolis, MN! I’m so grateful to RACC for making this possible for me. Conferences are such an important way for artists to network, build connections, and find new sources of inspiration and I couldn’t have made this happen without this funding.
Changing the Narrative: Epilogue (A group exhibition)
ILY2 Too Gallery at Lloyd Center Mall
(Suite G113 - NE side of the mall)
April 13 - May 11
Regular Hours: Thursdays & Fridays 4-7pm; Saturdays & Sundays 11am-3pm.
4/27 artist tabling event with Street Roots and IPRC 4pm-7pm
5/11 closing event 4pm-7pm
Free and open to the public.
My newest exhibition features a large selection of ceramic creatures, wall plates, and a few recent drawings on view through April 2024 at Imperfecta Gallery in Oregon City.
While creating the work for this show, I felt particularly focused on the character development of the creatures and women in my pieces. Playing around with stance, eye glances, and hand placement to see how they could interact with one another when placed in different arrangements. Or, in the case of the wall plates, how their different word bubbles could change once the context of their display arrangement was established.
A few pieces from the exhibit:
