Elemental
Crush via Georgia Blue Gallery
328 G Street
Anchorage, AK. 99501
Opening Reception,Dec. 3rd, 5-7pm
On View,Dec. 3rd-Jan.4th
There are objects that become important or stand out to us either through their function, their meaning, through humor, or their appearance. We reach for them daily, repetitively and some rise above others as more useful or specific to Alaskan life. A hat that is actually warm, the right pair of socks, or a garden spade that is the signal of spring. This body of work examines Alaska related objects that represent our contemporary relationship to nature.Extra Tough: Women of the North
Anchorage Museum
625 C Street
Anchorage, AK. 99501
On view Nov. 6, 2020 - Sept. 6, 2021Alaska and the Circumpolar North have been shaped for centuries by Indigenous women’s creativity, labor and love. With colonization and the arrival of Western cultures, the North became seen as a masculine testing ground, a place to be explored, exploited and developed. Artists, mothers, scientists and makers included in this exhibition confront and dismantle this myth, testifying to the vital role that both Indigenous and newcomer women have held, and continue to hold, in Northern communities.
SURFACE PLACE
The Clemente, Abrazo Interno Gallery
Opening Reception, September 3, 2015 6-9 p.m.
Exhibition, Aug. 21-Aug. 25The Clemente, Abrazo Interno Gallery
107 Suffolk Street New York, NY 10002 (btw Rivington & Delancey)
Gallery Hours, 3:30-7:00 p.m.Surface Place brings together seven artists interested in the abstraction of place. Material and visual elements from the streets of L.A., a Chicago urban garden, and the Alaskan wilderness are distilled, flattened, and reorganized. Place is constructed using the metaphors of painting; painting as illusion, painting as window on to the world, painting as a mirror of identity. From a variety of approaches to the process of abstraction these artists make strange places from familiar materials and elements.
Participating Artists: Manuel Lopez, Jan Christopher-Berkson, Gabrielle Garland, Betany Porter, Shonna Pryor, Tully Satre, Daniel Schmid
Curator: Ross Jordan
ALL ALASKA JURIED
Anchorage Museum
Lecture: All Alaska Juried Friday, November 7, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
On View Nov. 7-Feb. 1, 2015Anchorage Museum
625 C Street Anchorage, AK. 99501On the opening night of All Alaska Juried, juror Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson from the Portland Art Museum discusses her selections.
For more than 30 years, All Alaska Juried has recognized the unique contributions Alaska artists are making to the world of contemporary art. The exhibition also encourages Alaska artists to create new work and showcases the finest art being produced in the state.
In 2014, this highly competitive exhibition organized by the Anchorage Museum drew nearly 600 submissions by 167 Alaska artists. Portland Art Museum curator Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson selected 40 artworks by 28 different artists for the exhibition. Her selections for All Alaska Juried focus on artwork that reflects a powerful sense of place.
Laing-Malcolmson awarded the $1,000 Juror’s Choice Award to Anchorage artist Cody Swanson for two multimedia works incorporating oil, pastel and ink onto gelatin silver prints. The $500 merit awards were given to James Behlke, Anchorage; Kate Boyan, Homer; Amy Meissner, Anchorage; Betany Porter, Anchorage; and Michael Walsh, Homer.
After the exhibition closes in Anchorage, it will travel to other galleries around the state, including the Bear Gallery in Fairbanks. Tour dates are pending.
Laing-Malcolmson is the Portland Art Museum's Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art. She is a former president of Oregon College of Craft & Art.
The All Alaska Juried Exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts; National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; Anchorage Museum Association; and Municipality of Anchorage.
Related EventsGENERAL OBJECTS
Ballroom Projects
Opening Reception, October 18, 7:00-10:00 pm
Exhibition, October 18-November 8, 2014Gallery Hours by appointment
Ballroom Projects
3012 S Archer Ave #3, Chicago, ILBallroom Projects is proud to present GENERAL OBJECTS a group show curated by Danny Floyd.
Participating Artists:
Joseph Grigely
Kyle Nilan
Jeff Prokash
Betany Porter
Elliott Mickleburgh
Jameson Doody
Arièle Dionne-Krosnick & Didier MorelliGENERAL OBJECTS concerns how the familiarity of image archetypes helps construct the narrative of daily life. The works in this exhibition channel recognizable objects through the often mysterious process material rearticulation, creating both space for serious contemplation and humorous formal puns. They also engage with an art historical ebb and flow of reductionist aesthetics, which in this case aim simultaneously towards a clarity of representation and an openness toward viewer interpretation. While reliant of the legacies of “Specific Objects,” Minimalism, and its antecedents, the artists deploy images and objects for the vary reason of referring to concepts and stories outside of the work itself.
MUG UP
International Gallery of Contemporary Art
Opening Reception, June 1 5:30-7:30pm
Exhibition, Aug 1-Aug 32International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 425 D, Anchorage, AK
Hours T-Su, noon to 4pmPaintings about studying for cabin adventures and life in Alaska; a feeling both welcoming and isolating.
1. mug up
Cram: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam".
2. mug up
To get coffee. The caffeine equivalent of "smoke 'em if you got 'em"
We'll be driving straight through, so now's your last chance to mug up.
3. Mug-Up
The term "Mug Up" was used in coastal communities by the mid-1800s to describe any snack or coffee break throughout the day or evening.
“Mug ups" were an important part of life for fishermen. They would gather and have a hearty meal and warm up whenever they could take a break. Today, this nautical expression still describes a gathering of people for a drink and meal
Today, Mug-up is used by Scouts Canada to describe an evening snack (after dinner, but before Campfire). It is usually soup or hot chocolate and something to munch on (grilled cheese, etc).
We'll meet for a mug-up with the boys when we reach harbour.Until Then,
Alcatraz Chicago's Final Show: Until Then,
Saturday, April 26, 7:00 pmAlcatraz Chicago
1000 N Halsted, Chicago, ILPlease join us for our final show at Alcatraz Chicago! In celebration of two years of operations coming to a close, we will be featuring 40 artists from across the US in the form of a catalogue. Each artist was asked to submit a work that could fit and be shipped in a USPS small flat rate box. In return we offer a "publication" that can be transported from the gallery to the viewer's home -- existing beyond the lease of a basement gallery on Goose Island.
ARTIST INCLUDE:
Ariel Baldwin, Ang Bidak, Olivia Blanchard, Luke Carlson, Jonathan, Chacon, Jess Charlesworth & Tim Parsons, Katie Chung, Olivia Coran, Francisco Cordero-Oceguera, Connor Creagan & Zach Huber, Dana DeGiulio, Sarah Doll, Morgan Elder, Kevin Goodrich, Daniel Granitto, Nick Grasso, Emily Haasch, Malcolm Hecht, Mika Horibuchi, Charles, Kelman, Isabella Kendrick, Morgan Manduley, Tim Mann, Joe Mault, Jasmine Marin, Ryan Nault, Daniel Nickerson, Jing Ouyang, Betany Porter, Collin Pressler, Dan Price, Ben Regozin, Dan Rizzo, Patrick Sarmiento, Jack Schneider, Emma Schwartz, Ellis von Sternberg, Simone Sullivan, Lauren Taylor, Charlie Walsh, Emily Young, Valentina ZamfirescuBarrow
Opening Reception, April 6, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Exhibition, April 6-April 28, 2012International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D Street, Anchorage, AK
Hours T- SU, noon to 4:00 pmPaintings of anecdote and abstraction in Alaska's northernmost city.
Crash
Opening Reception Friday, February 4, 2011, 5:00pm
February 4-February 28Hours M-TH 11:30am-11:30pm F-S 11:30am-1:00pm
Crush
343 W. 6th Street Anchorage, AKHours M-TH 11:30am-11:30pm F-S 11:30am-1:00pm
New paintings by Betany Porter.
Scape
December 10-January 12th, 2010
Opening Reception, Dec. 10, 2010, 5:00-11:00pm
Nicole Villenueve Gallery, 410 S Michigan Ave., Ste 629, Chicago IL.
Gallery Hours are Monday thru Friday 1-5pm and by appointmentThrough a combination of forms, ten artists explore the contemporary aspects of landscape, and their unique relationship to the subject as content.
Spill Exhibition
August 28-October 24, 2010, Tues-Sat 11-6
Opening Reception, Thursday, September 2nd 2010, 4:30-7:00pm
Betty Rymer Galleries, 280 Columbus Drive, Chicago IL.SPILL is an opportunity to examine the current interest in painting at SAIC.The show will address the expanding definition of "abstraction" in painting on many different levels. The show will focus on the materiality of paint and its many methods of delivery, as well as relating abstraction to history, concepts, metaphor, representation, and new forms of non-objective painting. Most importantly, this exhibition will examine how a diversity of type/kinds of painting are linked together by each individual painter's own personal and particular way of working with abstraction.
BFA Exhibition
March 27 – April 9, 2009
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S State Street, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL.
Hours: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm, Tuesday - SaturdayUndone Exhibition
January 31-February 14, 2009
Disjecta Gallery, 8371 N Interstate, Portland, OR.
Gallery hours are Thu-Sun, 12-5pmKarl Burkheimer and Jenene Nagy have organized a group show of work by post-bac students at the Oregon College of Art & Craft. Undone showcases projects in wood, ceramics, metals, photography and drawing and painting by a group of artists who have come to OCAC to "further their artistic practice in an art and craft environment," in a "re-investigation of art and learning." Featured artists include Soraya Sayani, Molly Purnell, Jacie Friedkin, Matt Wicks, Kimo Nelson, Pat Krishnamurthy, Johanna Keefe, Suzanne Lussier, Betany Porter, and Stephanie Brachmann.