Portland-based sculptor and installation artist Owen Premore was born and raised in the Willamette Valley. Son of an architect, grandson of an engineer, and great grandson of a crochet and textiles artisan, Premore attempts to merge these creative influences that have naturally guided his approach to art making. He uses mostly reclaimed, salvaged, and found […]

Artist Kim Lakin received a BFA from Colorado State University and both MA and MS from the University of Oregon. Studying painting, art history, and historic architecture provides the foundation for her work in textiles. Lakin enjoys working with the fiber medium for its tactile and sculptural qualities. She describes it as the line between […]

Sarah Wolf Newlands arranges familiar things like clothing, curtains and socks into formal compositions.  An assistant professor in the University Studies department at Portland State University, she holds an MFA in painting from PSU and a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design.  Her work has been featured in The Oregonian, Willamette […]

A wearable art sculptor, Jennifer LaMastra believes that the process of collecting, altering and wearing nontraditional materials is a practice of paying attention.  She has been an active participant in Portland’s Junk to Funk fashion shows since 2006. Her work has been featured in The Oregonian, The Bee and in the Burning Man online magazine […]

Greg Hanson is a mixed-media assemblage artist who likes to document his work online with in-process photos and short videos on a YouTube channel that has over 800 subscribers.  He has had two solo exhibitions and his work can be seen at Cannibals Gallery in Portland and Cog and Pearl Gallery in New York City.

Sculptor Chandra Glaeseman’s work examines the marks that we make.  She is interested in the formal juxtaposition as it intersects the arbitrary designs that we make out of necessity.  She holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Maine College of Art.  Since 2007 she has been interested in the garbage factor.  She […]

Andrew Auble enjoys mixing modern and archaic forms from a diverse range of source materials.  He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BA from Southern Illinois University.  Since 2008, he has had frequent local and national exhibitions and done artist residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the […]

The assorted fragments in my work are worn with age. So much so that the subjects we witness are from a lifetime ago. Not my lifetime, but someone else’s.  Time has elapsed.  The subjects are expired.  They are past the state in which we see them, certainly past the moment at which the source image […]

My objects are the result of my unwavering fascination with forming and fusing metals coupled with my deep appreciation for nature, our relationship with it and the daily practice of distilling ideas through craft.  Metalworking is a craft where the recycling of remnants is not a novel idea, metal is regularly recycled in to new […]

My work is a combination of ideas about space and ways of adapting to it.  I primarily use materials that are acquired for free or little cost.  The Life+Boat exhibit I had in 2009 was created primarily out of cardboard collected from store dumpsters. A solo exhibition I had at Powell’s Books in 2007 consisted […]