For our Artist Spotlight series, I subject our rotation artists to a mini inquisition of sorts, and there is one question I always pose which never fails to provoke a passionate response; “What do you do when you make a mistake”. The answers I receive would create their own fascinating blog series, because, in the…
Lehman’s goal is to document his observations of the fusion between the digital realm and the analog world that we are currently existing in. The roles that we take on in our daily tasks as humans seem to change intermittently throughout the day as we go in and out of the internet.We are now…
Ryan Gregory has always enjoyed and been appreciated for his landscape photography, but sometimes directions change as it did with Ryan. It was only a few years ago when, on one of his many rounds of the Portland art gallery circuit, he happened upon one show in particular, which so inspired him that he…
An artist of the Chosen Few If you aren’t familiar with SINCANVAS, then just take yourself for a walk through SE Portland and you soon will be, for in addition to his studio work and gallery showings, he’s also known for his street art. One of his most used hashtags is vandal art and…
Sheryl Abid was born in Reno, NV and currently resides in Salem, OR. She started creating art through self taught experimentation and exploration since an early age and then brought that innate ability to grow and expand through grade school. She continued her education in the arts with a BA in visual communication, which…
“I’m a Marine Corps veteran who utilizes art as therapy for ptsd, depression, and anxiety. I was raised in a very strict religious home and shunned by my family for independent thought. The struggle for identity and acceptance along with the difficulties of past traumatic experiences guide my hand and heavily influence my work.…
“My whole life I never took the time to get to know me. Only when I began creating art did I become acquainted.” -W.S. Cranmore I believe there is a voice in each of us that goes unheard. That voice is our true self. As I create, I clear my head of noise…
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling — this is the activity of art -Tolstoy All of everything and nothing less…
Well he must like us, because David Ezziddine has returned for this round of “Artists on Rotation” and we couldn’t be more thrilled. David’s contributions for this rotation come from his current project; “The Small Hours”, a series of paintings depicting events occurring at a crossroads of realities, where the physical and spiritual realms mingle…
Inspired by the colors, forms and movement of her surroundings, Alison Dougherty channels her love of nature and curiosities for truth in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia and wonder in her work. Her methods are both simple and technical, using just paint or mixed media to execute her projects. An artist since childhood, Alison…