Sylvania

Artwork Damien Gilley: Data Systems Plaza
Damien Gilley’s Data Systems Plaza appropriates and transforms the gallery into a temporary showroom exhibiting sculptural experiences from a fictitious company. Drawing influence from science fiction and technology developments of the early digital era, the works reference an industry that posits advanced, speculative, and futuristic products and phenomena. Posted April 3, 2012
Artwork Arcy Douglass: Ten Thousand Things
Arcy Douglass's Ten Thousand Things uses the repetition of a simple formal vocabulary to reflect the complex structure of natural systems. Resembling the depth and expanse of the starlit sky or the gridded streetlights of an urban metropolis, Ten Thousand Things presents a field of lit points perpetually emerging into and escaping from our vision. Posted February 23, 2012
Artwork The Organic Architecture of Books
Four Portland area artists explore the book format including its narrative and sculptural potential. Sarah Horowitz, Diane Jacobs, Angela Katona-Batchelor and Barbara Tetenbaum each approach the book medium through specific conceptual frameworks, which begin both in nature and within the artificial constructs of the book itself. Posted November 10, 2011
Artwork James Kirk: Face Forward Watercolors
James Kirk presents a salon style collection of monumental portraits and figurative paintings. The exhibition, comprising ninety-nine painted panels, features artworks generated primarily over the last year. Now eighty seven, the artist maintains a rigorous studio practice and is known as one of the region's most prolific and gifted figurative painters. Posted September 29, 2011
Artwork Evertt A. Beidler: Moves Management
The exhibition featured two kinetic works and a short experimental film titled, “Moves Manager". Posted March 31, 2011
Artwork Cara Tomlinson Occupied: small paintings, works on paper, and objects
Cara Tomlinson's work has been shown nationally in solo and group shows. These recent paintings and works on paper are concerned with the process of construction: how houses, paintings and bodies are made. Posted February 17, 2011
Artwork Baba Wague Diakite: Balancing Moon and Earth
A collection of the artist's original book illustrations, ceramic sculpture, masks, and bogolanfini (mudcloth) tableaux will be on exhibit. Wague's work has been exhibited throughout the US including the Craft and Folk Art Museum of Los Angeles and the New York Public Library. Posted January 11, 2011
Artwork Portraits of Portland’s Visual Arts Community
Veteran Portland photographer Aaron Johanson will be exhibiting an extended portrait collection of this region's art community. Posted November 18, 2010
Artwork The Lens Show
Northview Gallery is pleased to present its October Exhibition, The Lens Show. Based on the material and conceptual possibilities of the lens, the show emerged from the collaborative discussions of a loose-knit group of Northwest stone carvers. Posted October 4, 2010
Artwork PCC Sylvania Art Faculty and Staff Exhibit
Sylvania Art faculty and staff exhibit their own work from May 27 to September 24, 2010. Posted May 1, 2010