Chris Haberman, Jason Brown, Furturle, Uncle Charlie @ Peoples

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Peoples Art of Portland Gallery presents:
"Clubhouse Sanctuary"
New works and installation by Chris Haberman and Jason Brown
Featured poster artists: Furturle and Uncle Charlie
Opens 8/20/ from 5-9pm - shows up until 9/11



In a return to nostalgia and the fun interests of childhood, Haberman and Brown have teamed up for their first feature show in the gallery, creating an environment or “clubhouse”, transforming the former toy-store mall space into a tree house/club house and all the “art” they could pack inside. Exploring the idea of clubhouses, sanctuaries and personal places of comfort, this show explicates the love of pop-culture, folk-art decoration through music, iconography and personal experience.

FEATURED POSTER ARTISTS: Every month we feature a national poster artist or two. This month to fit with the theme, these two artists’ styles, techniques and subjects fit perfect for the clubhouse.
Furturtle and Uncle Charlie

Uncle Charlie
Uncle Charlie was born 1969 in Houston Texas. He produces bright and bold graphic design posters for the music industry. He first applied his love of design during early high school years designing flyers for Dresden 45, a punk band he had with his chums. He has been creating art for music since the mid 80's and he currently designs posters for all kinds of events focusing mostly on music. He also continues to work now as a full time package designer designing packages for the food industry at a small design firm in Houston, Texas.


Furturtle
Travis Bone of Furturtle Show Prints has been drawing things since he was a tiny little boy. This led to drawing things for people as a much larger boy. Today, Travis screen prints drawings for concerts and all kinds of other events. He is also quite possibly the largest boy in the world.


Chris Haberman
Chris Haberman is a working artist and curator native to Portland, Oregon. All of his artwork is created from recycled objects, found material from the streets and alleyways of his hometown. A discarded cabinet door or table top quickly becomes the backdrop for an integrated puzzle-poem of figures and text, focusing on subjects like people, politics, the region, pop-culture, media, music, film and literature. Mayor Sam Adams has said that “Chris is the hardest working artist in Portland.” Chris’ first curatorship was a show for Adams in City Hall of Portland, Oregon, (Portland Pride, 2007).
In July 2009, Chris recorded selling over 6500 original works since 2001. In Jan, 2010, Chris was a feature artist for Oregon Art Beat on Oregon Public Broadcasting and was awarded “Portland Artist of the Year” for Barfly Magazine and he won a national artist contest in Las Vegas, competing with artists’ from10 other cities. Besides making art, Chris is also a fervent freelance curator and arts advocate, coordinating hundreds of Portland art exhibits with regional artists since 2001, founding first a non-profit (Portland City Art, 2009) and then Chris Haberman Presents and The People’s Art of Portland (with fellow artist/curator Jason Brown) both in 2010, to help local artists show their works.


Jason Brown
Painting is my vessel of communication. Art becomes a social and personal dialectic for me aimed at resolving inner and public conflict while simultaneously celebrating humanity. Through irony, humor, bold and subtle imagery I convey my vision on to others. I place my characters in settings where the rooftops of society have been cut off, and their idiosyncrasies become their vulnerabilities. By utilizing perspective I place my characters into a realm that seems comfortable and inviting, but contains certain disjointed qualities. My characters explode out of their setting while remaining stoic, as though they are unaffected by their environment. (A petty thief that steals the tip of a waitress left on the bar by a previous patron - the meat market patrons with their robust, sex crazed egos manipulating the masses with their decedent carnage). Some have suggested that my work has a masculine perspective, but I certainly do not represent or embody the masculine viewpoint. Ultimately, I paint individuals transfixed by their struggle, at times framing the daily lives of "Martyred Saints", "Super humans" that have routines and transgressions just as anyone else. (The musician who forgets he is mortal for a brief second and the lightning bolt of god touches his forehead, knighting this saint a forbearer of humanity - the husband who goes into a strip bar for directions, and is coincidentally spotted by his wife.) I am intrigued by the situational moments that could be explained, but the individual finds himself trapped by the circumstances. Through observation and perspective I make an earnest attempt at painting the honesty of humanity.


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Curated/Owned by:
Chris Haberman – email: chrishabermanart@gmail.com
Jason Brown– email: jbrown@poboyart.com

Managed by:
Heidi Elise Wirz email: ovenfirestudio@gmail.com

For Artists. Run by artists.
Peoples Art of Portland Gallery
700 SW Fifth (3rd floor) People's is Suite 4005
Settlement Galleries
Pioneer Square Mall, downtown Portland
open Thurs-Sun 12-6pm

upcoming events

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built club houses all day. . alot a fun. . few pix of one of um. . .still got a more to do to it. . but startin' to look like somethin. . .
opens this sat. .

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opens this sat. .
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show was a lota fun. .

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last weekend to see show up. .
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horrible pix. . but collab with Chris Haberman, Dan Stiles, EMEK, GUYBURWELL, and myself

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show comes down after today
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[JamesScott]

These all flower samples needed to be printed! it should be through online printing services providing company. The rate of this online printing company is very cheap.