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Archive for month: November, 2010

Join us for The Social Knotwork Project

30 Nov 2010 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell

First Friday
December 3, 2010

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.  

Join us on First Friday, December 3 for a very special event with Helen Hiebert — The Social Knotwork Project. Helen’s current artwork in the gallery involves untying knots and trapping the resulting string drawings between sheets of handmade paper. To encourage community participation, Helen is creating a knot database and you can contribute a knot to the project. Just tie a traditional knot or make up your own knot using string, thread or cord and drop it off at the gallery sometime during the month of November. Then join us on First Friday to watch Helen make paper with the knots contributed. If you sew, fish, tie your shoes, crochet, rock climb, knit, or sail you’ll have a great time at this very special First Friday event. In the meantime check out Helen’s amazing knots here.

Black [and White!] Friday at 23 Sandy

23 Nov 2010 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell
Friday, November 26, 2010
Noon – 6:00 p.m.

Please join us on Black Friday, November 26 for a little bit of post-Thanksgiving inspiration at 23 Sandy Gallery. All day on Friday we are offering 20% off anything black and white in the gallery. Photography, paintings, broadsides, or books—current show or back room goodies. If the art is black and white, it is 20% off. You can preview our Artists in Inventory here. (And, remember, the artist still gets their full share. That 20% is on 23 Sandy!)

And, just in case you are still hungry, we will be serving tea and cookies all day. We are featuring two very special selections of black and white teas courtesy of a lovely new teashop in our neighborhood called The Jasmine Pearl. If you have time, be sure to stop in and relax at their tea bar. Heather and her crew just celebrated their sixth anniversary as a tea maker by opening a new retail shop and tasting room just two blocks from the gallery. It’s a great addition to our fun little neighborhood.  

See you Friday!
(Offer applies only to in-gallery purchases. No phone or online orders, please.)
Above image: Red Gloves by Heidi Kirkpatrick.

Kazanjian on Gizmodo!

20 Nov 2010 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell

Congratulations to 23 Sandy Gallery artist Jim Kazanjian on his post today on Gizmodo. By mid-day he had already received 40,000 hits on his page. Jim is currently creating a new body work for his upcoming 2011 solo show here at the gallery. Can’t wait to see what warped new concoctions he comes up with!

See the Gizmodo story here.

In the meantime stop by to see the works we have in inventory in the gallery. Or, see his online catalog here.

Artist Talk & Poetry Reading – TONIGHT!

15 Nov 2010 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell

Helen Hiebert & Carl Adamshick
Monday, November 15, 2010
7:00 p.m.

Join us for a very special evening with Helen Hiebert and Carl Adamshick. Helen’s String Theory suite is accompanied by a commissioned poem titled Similar Lives by Portland poet and recent Walt Whitman Award winner Adamshick. Come hear about the inspiration behind their collaboration.

Featured Poem in Today’s Oregonian

14 Nov 2010 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell

Did you see Alan Braden’s poem featured in the Poetry column in today’s Oregonian? It’s about the “brute geometry” of horses. This poem is featured in an artist book we carry here at 23 Sandy of the same title, “Details of the Four Chambers to the Horse’s Heart.” A fine book by area letterpress printer Joseph Green using the full text of Braden’s poem.

Excerpt of text reads:

Listen. The last time I saw my father
alive, he spoke of horses, the brute geometry
of a broken team in motion. He tallied
the bushels of oats, gallons of water
down to the drop each task would cost.
How Belgians loved hardwood hames the most.
Give them the timber sled at logging camp
any day, the workable meadows in need
of leveling, tilling, harrowing, new seeding.
We could’ve been in our dark loafing shed,
cooling off between loads of chopping hay,
the way he carried on that last good day.
With proper encouragement, he said,
they would work themselves to death.

Learn more about this book here.

Two Lectures + One Workshop = One Fun Weekend!

13 Nov 2010 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell

Visiting Artist Talk and Demo
with Andie Thrams

Saturday, November 13
4:00 p.m.

California artist Andie Thrams is well known for her gorgeous painted books. She works in the wild, often remote, western forests creating a collection of illuminated field journal pages that chronicle forest experiences with drawing, painting, and writing. Andie will be visiting Portland and we hope you’ll join us to hear more about her work and see her demonstrate the unique techniques that make her books so special. Andie was featured in our recent Book Power show here at 23 Sandy.

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Color Mixing Magic: The Autumn Color Palette
A Workshop with Andie Thrams
Sunday, November 14
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

If you’ve forgotten, never knew, or just want to delve more deeply into the language of color, come and find out how to get the colors you seek down on paper with ease and pleasure. We’ll work both systematically and intuitively, to create a beautiful color wheel and complete other studies. Our experiments will focus on the autumn palette, inspired by fall subjects such as leaves, acorns and fungi. This workshop will deepen your awareness of how colors interact, what colors you are drawn to, and demonstrate how to make use of this powerful knowledge in future projects. $95 including materials. For more info, a supply list and registration please contact Andie directly at (530) 647-6947 or andiethrams@earthlink.net.

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Artist Talk & Poetry Reading with Helen Hiebert and Carl Adamshick
Monday, November 15

7:00 p.m.

Join us for a very special evening with Helen Hiebert and Carl Adamshick. Helen’s String Theory suite is accompanied by a commissioned poem titled Similar Lives by Portland poet and recent Walt Whitman Award winner Carl Adamshick. Come hear these two very talented artists talk about the inspiration behind their collaboration. Preview Helen’s show here.

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