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About the gallery
Basic Space Gallery has found two homes in Portland Oregon. The gallery found its roots in Portland's Old Town/Chinatown neighborhood, where it started by showing local Portland artists, mainly focusing on showing one month solo exhibitions. Some of the artists you can find in the gallery that are represented today, built their first relationships with the gallery in its infancy during 2014-2016. The gallery has shown large exhibitions for Portland Open Studios and a few charity benefits. In the two years the gallery was located in its early home, they showed over 300 artists locally, nationally and internationally.
In 2017, the gallery had an opportunity to relocate in the heart of the Pearl District's art 'mecca' in their current retail space on 9th and Everett. The gallery represents over a dozen artists and continues to work with charities around the city. The gallery showcases media; covering paintings done with oil, cold wax, acrylic, watercolor, gouache; sculptures of ceramic; drawings in pen; handmade jewelry; hand painted silk ties; performance art; installation; etc. The gallery always look at having items available from entry level collectors and renowned art aficionados, as access to artwork should be very every person, because after all, art does heal any wound.
Please see install shots of our first month in the Pearl District below.
By harnessing the physicality of my abstract work and blending it with the fluidity of the figure, I am attempting a complicated, multi-layered investigation of the feminine. In the making of this work, I intentionally marred the surface, mined for deep textures, distorted proportions and exaggerated imperfect lines capturing the complexities of what it means to be human and female. I seek to evoke a sense of power and vulnerability in the stance and expression of these figures while simultaneously creating a less ‘pretty’ or perfect version of the exposed body. This allowed me to explore the complex contradictions and juxtapositions of the roles we are bound to, emotionally and historically as well as in the context of current culture. My intent is to shift the historically male gaze of sexualized objectification to the complex psychological experiences of the female herself. We are all uniquely scarred, broken and disfigured with our stories written in our bodies. Yet it is this in this exposure and vulnerability we embody our power and evolve both individually and as a society.