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Artists Take on the World

29 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell
Opens Friday!
Welcome to My World

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An exciting list of artists were invited to consider an unusual, three-dimensional object as canvas—a vintage world globe. This invitational exhibition was conceived and co-curated by new-to-Portland artist, Robert Tomlinson and 23 Sandy Gallery. The artists were asked to transform their globe using the expressive power of cartography to create a compelling new work of art.
Two of the artists transformed their globes into kinetic, electrified, sculptural objects that focus on the interior of the globe instead of the exterior. Anna and Leo Daedalus collaborated with Samuel Miller to create a you’ve-got-to-see-it-to-believe-it globe that features a second globe nested inside a larger globe that is viewed through magnified door peepholes. Peer inside at a moving interior featuring 300 found photos and postcard images from the latitude locations of the peephole itself. Susan Collard’s globe is also electrified. Viewed through equatorial slots, a spaceship-like sculptural interior “hints at an otherworldly passage: Aeneas or Orpheus journeying to the land of the dead, perhaps, but also that classic science fiction moment where characters discover their lives are bounded by a manufactured world.”

Welcome to My World will be on display through December 31. In the meantime, view a full online catalog of these magnificent globes here.

Image credits, left to right: © Allison Bruns, Kerry Davis, Dave Meeker

First Friday is This Week!
Friday, December 2, 5-8:00 p.m.

Please join us for a First Friday reception to celebrate the opening of Welcome to My World. We hope you can make it for what is sure to be a lively way to kick off the party season.

Special Event: Object Poems Curator on Site

23 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell
Homage
(Helmut Löhr 1955–2010)
by Harriet Bart
David Abel
Saturday, November 26
Noon – 6:00 pm

A great chance to learn about Object Poems directly from the curator. David Abel will be in the gallery all day to share the stories behind the art. David says that “there have been a number of exhibitions and publications devoted to the work of authors as artists: paintings, drawings, sculptures, created independently of the writings for which they are primarily known.

David and several artists featured in the show will be in attendance on Saturday: Mark Owens & Maria José Gonzalez Arredondo, Jim Clinefelter, Drew Kunz, Anna & Leo Daedalus, Kaia Sand, James Yeary

Object Poems brings together striking and varied works
by more than thirty contemporary artist-poets and poet-artists:

  • poems in three dimensions
  • interactive poems
  • found poems
  • sculptural and utilitarian poems
  • conceptual poems
  • poems that depart in myriad ways from the familiar form of the printed page
Drew Kunz Alison Knowles Joseph Keppler Nico Vassilakis Harriet Bart, Michael Basinski Bill Berkson Jen Bervin Kristin Prevallet Clemente Padin James Yeary Alec Finlay Steve McCaffery Eric Magrane Jim Clinefelter Norma Cole J. A. Lee Anna & Leo Daedalus Marilyn R. Rosenberg Geof Huth MaryAnn Hayden Alan Halsey Buzz Spector Kyle Schlesinger Kaia Sand Curtis Steiner Mark Owens & Maria José Gonzalez Arredondo David Abel Andrew Topel K. S. Ernst
Find a full online catalog for Object Poems here.

Gratitude

19 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell

After the Fire

Give and Take
A new book in inventory
by Lynne Olson. A great reminder
of the never-ending cycles of our lives.

Ever go through one of those crazy busy periods in your life when you feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day? When you feel like you just can’t catch your breath or get on top of the avalanche that is facing you daily? Well, I’ve just finished up one of those periods and while the to-do list is still eight miles wide, at least the fires are all out…for now anyway. 
The coming holiday made me realize how lucky I am to have a great support system here at the gallery and that is time to say thank you.

My most sincere debt of gratitude goes to my husband, Steve Russell, for his continued help every single day. He is always willing to help with the gallery, whether it moving walls and installing shelves or critiquing and proofreading marketing materials. And, when the going gets crazy and I get crabby he always handles my madness remarkably well. Just yesterday, he offered to sit the gallery for the rest of the afternoon so that I could go upstairs and catch up. It’s amazing he puts up with me and I’m so thankful he does.

Erin Derge also deserves a hearty thank you. Erin is here in the gallery every Thursday, sitting the front desk, helping to hang shows and whatever else needs to be done. She has taken on a huge WordPress project and is doing some remarkable things. You would never know this but she found a way to make the Uncommon Threads online catalog, done in WordPress, look virtually identical to my full web site. The things she has taught me are invaluable and I’m so happy to have her cheerful, smart self here every single week.
Erin’s husband Marshall is also on my gratitude list. Marshall has become our de facto tech guru who always manages to pull off a miracle when disaster strikes. Like last Thursday: I somehow managed to delete the entire Uncommon Threads catalog and thought I would have to spend the whole weekend recreating it from scratch. Amazingly, Marshall fixed a config file in just no time at all and had us up and running in minutes.
Mary Bennett is soon to be accruing many points as well. Mary, who has become a good friend since her solo show last May, will be sitting the gallery on Fridays for the near future. Happily, I get to work off some of those points by helping her with her new MacBook and iPhone. As Marshall can attest I know just enough about computers to be dangerous, but I’m so happy to be passing on the tiny bit of Macintosh knowledge that I’ve acquired since my first Apple SE30 in 1989.
Alicia Bailey is also much appreciated. You might not know this, but Alicia co-taught the very first artist books workshop that I took in 1997. Then she opened Abecedarian Gallery a year after I opened 23 Sandy. Amazingly, her first gallery location was in my old studio space in Denver. Alicia and I chat frequently to trade business ideas, advice and emotional support. Whenever a sticky situation comes up with business side of things I’m so happy to have her willing ear to sort things through. It’s amazing how much her experience helps.
And, I cannot forget past volunteers Deborah Watkins and Linda Kiley. Just yesterday someone asked for Deborah in the gallery and remarked how much they missed her graceful presence. Happily, I still get to see Linda now and then as she is volunteering now with the Art Source Portland publication that I work on. Her laughter and terrific writing skills are much missed. (And, if you are an artist or arts organization needing help with marketing or PR, give me a jingle and I’ll connect you with Linda.)
Last, but not least, I am thankful for all of the very talented artists who trust me enough to let me show their amazing, thoughtful, gorgeous, important artwork. It is a true honor to be working with you all.
So, there you go. Wow. I feel blessed to have such a terrific network. Thank you all for your friendship and help.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Laura

What do submission fees pay for?

12 Nov 2011 / 2 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell

 
The Business of Art

The Assignment
December 2009

Here at 23 Sandy Gallery we host two national juried book artsshow each year. These shows charge an entry fee or submission fee thathelps administer and promote the call for entries, intake of submissions,curation of show, and general administration, marketing and management of theshow. These fees are used for many purposes, including the following:

  • Running the submission process, which includes paying aprogrammer or forms provider to program the form, accept and host the onlineform submissions and maintain the submissions database. 
  • Advertising the call for entries on art deadlines web sites andpublications that require a fee. 
  • Printing and mailing a printed, full-color catalog to our topcollecting museum and library customers as a way of promoting the show. This isa major expense as our catalogs are very expensive to print and mail. We mailanywhere from 30-50 copies to libraries and museum curators.
  • Purchasing a “purchase prize” book that is donated toa library. With our most recent show this book was given to a randomly selectedlibrary amongst those who voted for our “librarian’s choiceaward.”
  • If there is a guest juror involved we pay them for their time,or give them some type of thank you gift, or purchase a book from the show to donate totheir library.
  • Postcard printing and mailing. 
  • Insurance to cover the works in while they are in the gallery incase of loss, theft or damage.
And, don’t forget about the overhead expenses of running thegallery. Entry fees help pay for things like rent, lights, heat, web sitehosting, advertising and the other basic expenses of running a business. Oh,and maybe some day, they will even help fund a salary for your friendly gallerydirector.

Congratulations Susan, Heidi & Fritz!

09 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell
Susan Collard
Honors Abound for Three Very Talented 23 Sandy Artists

Three of our favorite artists have recently won accolades that deserve to be spotlighted.

Susan Collard is featured in this month’s issue of Oregon Home magazine with a full page with three color photos and a story about her always intriguing artist book constructions. Being an architect herself, Susan’s work is a perfect fit for this local magazine. See an online version the article here. Also, stop by the gallery anytime to see Susan’s work in inventory.

Heidi Kirkpatrick
Heidi Kirkpatrick was one of the Top 50 winners of this year’s Critical Mass, an annual photography competition sponsored by Portland’s own Photolucida that involves multiple rounds of voting by 200 distinguished curators, gallerists and other photography world luminaries. The field starts with over 650 photographers and competition is fierce. Heidi is one of our regular artists here at 23 Sandy. She has a permanent display in the back room featuring her lovely blocks, tins, books and more, all layered with her gorgeous photographs and often other printed matter such as Gray’s Anatomy book pages. Heidi’s new work will be up on her gallery web page soon but in the meantime you can check out her work an the other top 50 winners here.

Fritz Liedtke
New to 23 Sandy Gallery and new to the book arts world is local photographer Fritz Liedtke also won a coveted spot on the Critical Mass Top 50. Just last week we added a new unique artist book to our glass book case in the back room. He is working on a series of altered books, the copy we have here titled Lands and Peoples I: DaVinci, features one of his photogravures of a freckled women set inside the carved out text block. I don’t have a photo of this work yet, but as soon as I do I’ll set up his web catalog and let you know. In the meantime, you can see Fritz’s work this month at Blue Sky Gallery here in Portland. His Astra Velum series (the aforementioned freckled women) is on display and is just gorgeous.

Congratulations again and keep up the good work!


Opening Weekend Events for Object Poems

02 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments / in Blog Postings/by LauraRussell
Opens Friday!
Object Poems: Curated by David Abel
Object Poems brings together striking and varied works by contemporary artist-poets and poet-artists: poems in three dimensions; interactive poems; found poems; sculptural and utilitarian poems; conceptual poems; poems that depart in myriad ways from the familiar form of the printed page. The exhibition features more than thirty artists from across the United States, as well as Canada, England, Scotland, and Uruguay, including seven artists from Oregon.
Preview a full online catalog for Object Poems here.

 
First Friday is This Week!
Friday, November 4, 5-8:00 p.m.

Please join us for a First Friday reception for Object Poems. Stop by for a glass of wine, a bit of nosh and some great art!

 

Object Poems Poetry Reading & Performance
Saturday, November 5, 2011
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. 

Participants in the Object Poems exhibition will read and perform their work, both on and off the page. Readers will include Geof Huth, Joseph Keppler, Nico Vassilakis, Mark Owens, David Abel, Leo Daedalus, and James Yeary. This event is free, open to the public, and RSVPs are not necessary.

See you soon!
Image credits
Top Image, left to right: © Niko Vassilakis, Harriet Bart, Michael Basinski
Middle image: © Andrew Topel
Bottom Image: © David Abel

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