Join me for the First Time I open up my studio in my new space at NW Marine Artworks (address below) on July 8, 10:00am - 4:00pm. There will be both recent and early work on the walls as well originals and prints - something at all sizes and price points for art to enrich your life’s experience! It will be part of a larger event that continues on Sunday from 10-4 pm for 70 other artists and is loads of fun. There will be excellent food, live music, and the chance to meet and talk with artists in their favorite environments - their studios. I hope to see you there!

First up as tools for human communication and expression, you would think that lines are simple to use, talk, or make art about. Yet the work for “Drawing the Line” is anything but simple, posing responses to questions about the inexhaustible nature of lines. What makes a line? What are its possibilities? Is it symbolic, metaphorical, installed, drawn, painted, realistic, or abstract?

In this new art installation, Clark examines what it means to be a white, middle-class woman who is an artist, wife, and mother. Using cast plaster, tissue paper mache, and cheesecloth, the artist combines Greek pillars, a vintage baptismal dress, an antique Victorian teapot, and a lamp to creates metaphors to explore notions of race, class, culture, gender, family, and vocation.

The exhibit will include a virtual opening at the gallery on January 7 at 6:00 p.m. See the events calendar for supporting events throughout the month.

There will also be an interview, tba. I will keep you posted!

In building the installation, “Longing,” I became swept up by the poverty, fear, and longing for a safe place to be as Mary and Joseph fled to escape political persecution in Palestine to resettle in Egypt when Jesus was born. Their struggles to find a place to raise him without fear is a sacred connection to the issues of our day and the deep sense of homelessness and loss as friends, family, community, and country are left behind.

ArtReach Gallery

First Congregational Church of Christ

1126 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205.

Opening: as noted above

Regular Hours: Tues-Friday, 10 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Sun. 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

or by appointment with curator Sheldon Hurst, drsheldonhurst@gmail.com

Discussion Groups (open to the public)

Dr. Sheldon Hurst, Curator and Facilitator

Myra Clark, artist

Sunday, December 1 9:00a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Right to Create

Sunday, December 7 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Right to Be

Sunday, December 15 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Right to Life Together

Sunday, December 22 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. The Right of Finding Place

ArtReach Gallery

Gallery Hours: Tues.–Fri. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sun. 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Or by appointment with curator, drsheldonhurst@gmail.com

First Congregational UCC

1126 SW Park Ave.

Portland, OR

Clark’s upcoming exhibit “Pilgrimage” examines dementia, spirituality and family as seen through the lens of stories recounted by Clark’s mother as she she moves through the stages of dementia herself. Using traditional and ancient Byzantine iconographic methods, as well as those of contemporary painting, found and made objects, Clark has created a trio of installations that transpose her mother’s framework of sorrow and loss in her life into art pieces that reflect the compression of time and the journey that is individual, yet at the same time universal.

Exhibit and all events are at Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th, Portland, OR

Preview and Artist Reception:

Wednesday, July 31st, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00

Opening

Thursday, August 1rst, 6:00 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Artist Talk

Saturday, August 17th, 11:00 a.m.

Clark speaks about the transposition of her mother’s stories of memory, grief and loss into the trio of installations Clark has created. She will also demonstrate how handmade gesso is used to make the painting surface for the icon and painting in the show, as well as how to combine pigment and handmade gesso for the paint used.

July 8 - September 9

Trinity Cathedral

Juried group show

Opening and artist panel, July 8th

My installation piece, "Mary's Tangle," will be part of this exhibit. 

OPENING, GALLERY 114, MEMBER SHOW

July 7, First Thursday, 6p.m. - 9p.m. (Gallery opens at 3:00 p.m.)

I will be showing my new ink on paper work, "Tangle" and "Stutter"

Gallery 114

Regular hours: Thursday-Sunday noon - 6 p.m. and by appointment

1100 NW Glisan, Portland, OR. 97209

Phone: 503-243-3356

gallery114pdx.com

Opening Reception

June 30, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Verum Ultimum Gallery

My piece, "Pussy Got Pissed," was selected for inclusion in this national juried call for art and is being used as the cover for the gallery catalog for the show. 

Verum Ultimum Gallery

3014 NE Ainsworth, Portland, Oregon

Open Saturday from 10AM -5PM or Sunday from 12-5 and by appointment

Jennifer Cutshall, Owner

503 - 493 - 4278

fineartvu@gmail.com

Location: Gallery 114 • 1100 NW Glisan, Portland, OR. 97209 • 503-243-3356 http://www.gallery114pdx.com/  Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm or by app't

Thursday, February 1, 6-9 p.m.

Opening Reception
Thursday, February 1, 6-9 p.m.

February 3, Saturday, 4-5 p.m.

Featuring a short screening of clips from her award winning documentary “Finding Bosnia,” Ivana Horvat explores how different her childhood would have been had she and her family not left war-torn Sarajevo. This interactive presentation will prompt consideration of war and identity as it explores the questions it raises about the notion of sanctuary.

February 11, Sunday, 1-2 p.m. 

Variations on themes of sanctuary and revelation in poetry and prose: Readings by writers Liz Harlan-Ferlo, Brian Manning, Jane Salisbury, Deborah Schauffler, Robin Schauffler, and Peter Young. 

February 22, Thursday, 4-6 p.m. 

An informal meet and greet with artists Myra Clark and Lauren Carrera. Refreshments served.