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The Goodfoot will have an art opening this Thurs Aug. 25 from 5-12pm, this months artists are andyvanoverberghe, Brenda Dunn, Erin Nations & Tony Morgan. The show will be up until sept 26th. Future Beat DJ's will be spinnin' music threw the night.
andyvanoverberghe (an-dee van o-ver-berg)
Drawing is my own personal meditation. It is a documentation of my own personal therapy and evolutionary catalogue of growth and adaptation. The act of drawing is meditation. The entirety of my being is a study and practice of spiritual and philosophical ideals. My art is a reflection of these studies. It is a collection of different elements working toward the same purpose even if contrasting. The balance of contrasting patterns. The harmony between two extremes. The beauty of gray. My work is created in a space void of thought and emotion yet it’s sole curse is to forever evoke exactly that. This paradox will forever be unfathomably beautiful. The act is absent of thought though the pieces themselves mirror greater spiritual and philosophical truths and metaphors. Disciplines, studies, inspirations, and interests from a wide variety of philosophies, spiritualities, myths, religions, artisans, and fantasies balance in harmony with the anatomical figure. Each element is a representation of several ideas. Like cogs on gears all lines work together to form patterns. Visual patterns mimic patterns of nature and of thought. Free flowing ideas with regard to strict disciplines, all while allowing loose line work. Each element often times has several meanings and directions interconnected within the drawing. The images are simple forms of highly complex ideas and patterns. Like atoms forming matter, lines forming patterns, patterns forming texture, texture creating recognition. Each piece tells a story. Every story has a truth. Every truth has life. Every life has breath. Giving life to things which have not life. Giving life to inanimate objects. With formal education in Animation from The Columbus College of Art and Design, and a focus in Stop-Motion Animation, Writing, and the Anatomical Figure, I try to create worlds to give a glimpse into fantasy perspectives. Traditional stories focus primarily on depth of story and character development. With drawing [and animation] I put primary focus on texture, movement, and music. Music plays a key role in the process, allowing it at times to meditatively dictate direction. Movement mimics life and breath. Texture is an engine of subconscious relations. Elements surrounding me are breathed in and fused with a preexisting state of mind, like several smaller beams of energy converging to create a singular solid beam. If you will elaborate with your own imagination. Like reading a book, fill in your blanks and get lost in my stories. I am but a guide. Live the story. Breathe in the story. I know what my work means to me and for me. For every mark is deliberate. It is my meditation. What it means for you and to you is for you alone. I’m not saying create your own meanings for my work, but rather interpret openly and find in it what it says to you, even if uncomfortable. Because in the end, its dust on paper, whose strategic and sometimes tragic placement inspire and influence emotion, whether positive or negative, in the viewer. Any recognition of object, pattern, and form is a result of the viewer’s own psychological and spiritual connections to the combination of different visual elements.
Brenda Dunn is a illustrator based out of Portland, OR. Her specialty is pinup illustration. Brenda also freelances in Fashion Illustration & personal pinups. All of her work is drawn with ink and colored pencil. The textile designs and wallpapers in the background of her work that show up from time to time are all designed digitally working with her floral illustrations, etc... Brenda is very inspired by the Vintage glamour, fashion, Jessica Rabbit, art neaveu, comic book art, tropical plants, flowers, & beautiful women.
Erin Nations was born in the summer of '82, in St. Louis, Missouri. At the age of eight, she acquired an interest in art, primarily in cartoons and illustration. Today, her influences include a combination of design, hand drawn typography, alternative comics, and underground contemporary art and illustration. Her work, which has been described as cute and charming, often depicts youthful characters and simple and stylized imagery.
She studied design at Southern Oregon University, where she received a BA in 2006. Shortly after graduation, she helped create Sank Studio, a design cooperative based in the Northwest. She now resides in Portland, where she has been showing her work locally for the last three years.
Tony Morgan is a painter, print maker, metalworker and sculptor. His artwork has been featured on everything from album covers and show posters to murals and custom motorcycles. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels The Chicken Leg Bone Boy and ParanoiaCritical 33, illustrator of the short story collection Throwing Bones (written by Anthony Alvarado), and a regular illustrator and cover artist for a number of independent comics. His work is often about contrast, exploring opposing themes of death and rebirth, purity and deception, physicality and raw emotion. Born and raised in Alaska, he lives, works, and shows regularly in Portland, OR
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Check Sunday Sept 4th for a full catalog of the show
andyvanoverberghe, Brenda Dunn, Erin Nations & Tony Morgan art opening at Goodfoot Gallery
current show is there now
The Goodfoot
2845 SE Stark
503-239-9292
Portland, OR 97214
andyvanoverberghe, Brenda Dunn, Erin Nations & Tony Morgan art opening at Goodfoot Gallery
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08-24-2011, 03:33 PM #1
andyvanoverberghe, Brenda Dunn, Erin Nations & Tony Morgan @ Goodfoot
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08-25-2011, 11:23 AM #2
opens tonight
few for the show
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08-29-2011, 09:40 PM #3
everythings online to view and purchase ..
andyvanoverberghe, Brenda Dunn, Erin Nations & Tony Morgan art opening at Goodfoot Gallery
few from the show
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