doppler PDX

REVERB

2011-01-06T00:29:00.000-08:00

REVERB
By Zach Trow

Opening Reception January 6th 5:30-9:00
Gallery Hours
Saturday January 8 1-4
And by Appointment

Artist Statement
Through studying globalized popular culture, and taking on the roles of maker, collector, and mixer, I have developed a sculptural language based on the spectacle of performance and the amateur. My sculptures take on many different forms through a process of deconstructing and reassembling until they are abstracted into a state of absurdity. I am also interested in how this action of deconstructing and reconstructing presents how the amateur uses mimicry to build an understanding of material and objects.
In the installation Reverb, three sculptures are presented within an imaginary sonic staging using the visual language of minimalism, post-minimalism and performance. With the sonic elements falling short of epic and in an eternal mono state, the viewer is left to question the balance between the heard and seen.

BioZach Trow graduated from the University of Oregon with a BFA in Sculpture in 2009. He currently lives in Portland and works out of a studio space at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center.

anonymous 2

2011-01-02T14:11:00.000-08:00

anonymous 2

by Stephanie Marionone
@ DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Everett Station Lofts
Portland, Oregon 97209

December 1 - 31, 2010 and by appointment

anonymous 2 will be on display in the windows of Doppler PDX for the month of December.

Chapter 1: In which Strange finds a tool and adopts a new aesthetic along the way.

2011-01-02T13:58:00.000-08:00

Chapter 1:
In which Strange finds a tool and adopts a new aesthetic along the way.
by Maggie Sasso

@ DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Everett Station Lofts
Portland, Oregon 97209

November 4 - 13, 2010 and by appointment

Opening Reception: November 4th 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays (November 6th & 13th) 1-4 pm

Doppler PDX presents Maggie Sasso’s installation titled Chapter 1: In which Strange finds a tool and adopts a new aesthetic along the way. In her previous work, Sasso has explored ideas about material culture, museum as institution, artist as anthropologist, and narrative through object making. For her newest work she allows these themes to informed her material choices, while also allowing a new fantastical nature to generate the installation’s narrative based on Sasso’s alter ego, ‘Strange.’

Strange can “see the world with a sense of wonder, just as a child does” and thus begins to collect objects and create draws which illustrate her journey. The result is a new (or rather a very old) aesthetic based on sea charts, repetitive patterns and antique tools.

BIOGRAPHY

Maggie Sasso is currently an Adjunct Lecturer / Visiting Artist for the woodworking department at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She received her BFA from Murray State University (2006) and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (2010). She was the first Student Representative on the Board of Trustees for the Furniture Society in 2004. Sasso recently finished designing and building an installation for the new Madison Children’s Museum (with collaborator Kara Ginther).

For more information visit
www.dopplerpdx.com
or
www.maggiesasso.com

See For Yourself: Experiential Prototypes

2010-10-07T12:57:00.000-07:00

See For Yourself: Experiential Prototypes
by Phil Harris
@ DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Everett Station Lofts
Portland, Oregon 97209
October 7-16, 2010 and by appointment
Opening Reception October 7th 5:30-9:00 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays (October 9th & 16th) 1-4 pm

A visual artist for over than thirty years, Phil Harris has for most of that time considered himself a photographer with a strong interest in the process of visual, bodily and emotional perception. However, over the last few years, Harris has slowed down his photographic practice and questioned what he needed to say in that medium. Through his recent work, See For Yourself: Experiential Prototypes, Harris discovered that what he needs to say at this point required learning another expressive language. This new language invents itself out of the accumulation of small grains of intuition, understanding and uncertainty in the face of present-day life as a human being. See For Yourself: Experiential Prototypes is in every sense a group of prototypes: they lack polish. They are intended to draw attention away from themselves as objects, and toward their function, which is the direct experience of perception itself. Thus, the pieces can’t fulfill their promise unless they’re physically engaged by the audience allowing the separation between the seer and the seen to waver, perhaps becoming momentarily irrelevant. What do you see? How do you understand it? How do you share your experience? BIOGRAPHY Phil Harris is a Portland-based artist and photographer. His photographic work was published a retrospective monograph in 2000 and is housed in many collections, public and private, in the US and Europe.
See For Yourself: Experiential Prototypes is the first exhibition of a new direction in Harris’ work. He teaches in and chairs the General Studies Department at Oregon College of Art & Craft. For more information visit:www.dopplerpdx.com

2010-08-03T09:57:00.000-07:00

NEW THINGS + DRAWINGS

by Travis Townsend

@ DOPPLER PDX

625 NW Everett Street #109

Everett Station Lofts

Portland, Oregon 97209

August 5-14, 2010 and by appointment

Opening Reception: August 5^th 5:30-9:00pm

Gallery Hours: Saturdays (August 7^th & 14^h) 1-4pm

Doppler PDX presents Travis Townsend’s show: NEW THINGS + DRAWINGS. There is something refreshing and invigorating for an artist to break-away from their typical creating process and reworking of final pieces. With Townsend’s show he takes on and exhibits the results of his two week residency at Oregon College of Art and Craft. For Townsend the two week period was a chance to put aside his lengthy process of making, looking, thinking, reworking months later, and then exhibiting year (or more) later.

NEW THINGS + DRAWINGS are works created with using a mixture of plywood, reclaimed building materials, art student wood scraps, and other hardware store materials. Townsend’s works are idiosyncratic sculptures that play off the forms and function of tools, toys, and military equipment and include Townsend’s usual cast of characters (tanks, dead birds, flower bombs, and targets). While Townsend built, altered, and adapted his pieces, he also embraced the unplanned and oddly familiar into nearly useful-looking sculptures that are imbued with human characteristics and gestures.

BIOGRAPHY

Travis Townsend studied at Kutztown University (BS 1996) and Virginia Commonwealth University (MFA 2000), has recently presented solo exhibitions at the Southwest School of Art and Craft (San Antonio), Weston Gallery (Cincinnati), Georgetown College (KY), and the New Arts Program (PA), and been included in group exhibitions at the University of Hawaii, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (IL), Kendall College (MI); Spaces Gallery (Cleveland); Lehigh University (PA); and Zone: Chelsea (New York). Images of his artwork have been published in The Penland Book of Woodworking, New American Paintings, and the Manifest National Drawing Annual. His awards include an Emerging Artist Grant from the American Craft Council, a Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, three grants from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, and a National Young Sculptors Award from Miami University. He lives in Lexington, KY, teaches drawing, design, and concepts at Eastern Kentucky University. Travis recently curated an exhibition titled Generously Odd for the Lexington Art League.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please visit: www.dopplerpdx.com.

PASSAGE

2010-07-03T11:42:00.000-07:00

To view a video of Passage by Ben Stagl Please Click the Link.

http://www.vimeo.com/13237041

PASSAGE

Ben Stagl

@ DOPPLER PDX

625 NW Everett Street #109

Everett Station Lofts

Portland, Oregon 97209

July 1-10 2010 and by appointment
Opening Reception: July 1st 5:30-9:00pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays (July 3&10) 1-4pm

PASSAGE references the constructed world to contemplate themes of barriers and transcendence, treating known edifices in our city as sculpture. Images of Portland’s urban landscape are combined with other recognizable man made structures using light, reflection and shadow-play to bridge the gap between the virtual and the physical object.

The digitally animated models are derived from pre-existing structures downloaded from Google Earth. They are then distorted, unfolded and mashed-up to retain only impressions of their source materials. The resulting propositional objects are rendered as animations and used as loose diagrams to inform both the creation of the physical sculptures as well as light based distortions of the tangible works.

This process constantly moves between digital and formed iterations; the concept transitions first from the real world to the digital representation of the real world, then back into a tactile expression of the object.
Structures in the built world inherently possess a history of drawing and design in addition to social and political functions established prior to their physical presence. My process of distortion and reinvention extracts and explores those histories, many of which reference original cast iron facades and architectural accents of Old Town Portland.

View more of Ben Stagl's work @ http://www.benstagl.com/

Email Doppler PDX for any questions and appointments at dopplerpdx@gmail.com

A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CITIES BURNING BELOW - THE SECOND COLONY

2010-05-27T06:38:00.000-07:00

A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CITIES BURNING BELOW – THE SECOND COLONY

Brennan Conaway

@ DOPPLER PDX

625 NW Everett Street #109

Everett Station Lofts

Portland, Oregon 97209

June 3-12, 2010 and by appointment
Opening Reception: June 3rd 5:30-9:00pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays (June 5th & 12th) 1-4pm

Doppler PDX presents Brennan Conaway’s show: A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE CITIES BURNING BELOW – THE SECOND COLONY. Conaway continues his installation-based investigations of post-apocalyptic survival colonies and his exploration of unusual site habitation which he began last year with IN JOYFUL ANTICIPATION OF CATASTROPHIC RUIN – THE FIRST COLONY, a village built in the PDX Contemporary Art’s Window Space.

In THE SECOND COLONY, Conaway creates an architectural sculpture of a free-floating airship. He references the mid-1800s practice of the first aeronauts who used balloons to fly and leave the world behind (if only momentarily). These early aerial investigators fueled the public’s imagination with fantastic ideas about the possibilities of balloon-flight (visions of flying hotels, soaring ships, and villages aloft).

Conaway’s THE SECOND COLONY represents the grand hopes of what could be built in the sky – a communal house which he imagines floating above cities that are burning out. It's an alternative to the feverish consumption of things burning through out our society and a place where we can regain our sense of wonder.

BIOGRAPHY:

Brennan Conaway is an artist based in Portland, OR. He has a BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft and a BA from San Francisco State University.

Conaway has exhibited at PDX Gallery, Disjecta, ON Gallery, Milepost5, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland Building, Walters Cultural Arts Center, and Hoffman Gallery. Reviews of his work have appeared in Artweek, The Oregonian, and Portland Monthly. Conaway is also a founding member, curator and designer of the Nowhere Gallery - a nomadic art gallery that has been featured in the Willamette Week and the Oregonian. He can be contacted at http://brennanconaway.com/.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please visit: www.dopplerpdx.com.

Cover

2010-05-02T12:03:00.000-07:00

Cover
by Holly A. Senn

Artist Reception: First Thursday, May 6, 5:30-9pm
Meet the Artist: First Saturday, May 8, 1-4 pm

Hours: Saturdays 1-4pm or By Appointment.

Outside Doppler PDX the Everett Street landscape is almost completely covered by hardscape, save for a few trees that, in turn, provide cover. The environment reminds me that covers conceal and cloak as well as embrace and include. In response, I’ve created a landscape inside that juxtaposes the exterior visible elements of binding and protection with more elusive interior elements such as memory, discovery, and escape.

I create sculptures and installations in which I explore the life cycle of ideas—the organic, non-linear process in which thoughts have a genesis and then are disseminated, adopted or refuted, forgotten or referenced. My art investigations are inextricably intertwined with my work as a virtual reference librarian at Pacific Lutheran University where, while surrounded by books, I interact with patrons who prefer digital resources. Environments are important to my process; I take inspiration from both my ongoing examination of botanical forms and the location surrounding exhibition spaces. As I cut, rip, realign and glue, I reflect on each new generations’ collective erasure of some element of the past and its casting of new ideas into the future. My work is as ephemeral and fleeting as ideas committed to paper.

-Holly A. Senn

See more of Holly's work @ www.ryksenn.com

Doppler PDX
625 NW Everett St. #109
Portland, OR 97209
Everett Station Lofts

Higher Ground

2010-03-28T14:04:00.001-07:00

Exhibition By Karl Burkheimer

DOPPLER PDX 625 NW Everett Street #109Everett Station LoftsPortland, Oregon 97209

April 1-10th 2010 and by appointment Opening Reception April 1st 5:30-9:00pm Gallery hours Saturdays 1-4pm

Higher Ground, an exhibition by Karl Burkheimer, investigates his interest in the space, real or perceived, between the object of contemplation and the object of utility. Using the gallery as his architectural reference, Burkheimer created objects within the space as points of exchange with the public. For Burkheimer the creative endeavor lies in the making—the act and art of transforming materials into form and meaning. The parts and pieces as well as the materials and processes that embody his work convey a language of labor and skill, referencing precedent and reveling intent. Through this language Burkheimer instills purpose into the work, while striving to transcend utility and commodity. He regards his work as essentially the residue of his process.

Karl Burkheimer is an artist based in Portland, OR and an Associate Professor and Department Head at Oregon College of Art and Craft. He has an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He has been a guest instructor at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Burkheimer has exhibited nationally and internationally in exhibitions such as Generously Odd: Crafts Now, Lexington Art League, KY; Transformation 7 Contemporary Works in Wood, Society of Contemporary Craft, PA; Call and Response, Contemporary Craft Museum, OR. Burkheimer has also exhibited in and co-curated Open House Opening, Portland, OR. He can be reached at kburkheimer@ocac.edu.

Please feel free to Email us with any questions or to schedule an appointment to view the work
dopplerpdx@gmail.com

Constrain to Vertical

2010-03-03T19:58:00.000-08:00

Constrain to Vertical is a show by Brenda Mallory where she creates works inspired by stacks of UPS “end-of-day” barcodes. Mallory used a sewing machine to sew sequential lines (or pintucks) in fabric wall pieces. Drawing from the minimalist paintings of Agnes Martin, Mallory utilizes vertical line on the fabric. As she confined herself to work within strict linear parameters, Mallory work moves outside of her norm of organic form. Constrain to Vertical is an exciting new direction for Mallory and her work.

March

Show Dates

4th (First Thursday) 5:30-9:00

6th & 13th 1:00-4:00

To view more of Brenda Mallory's work please visit http://www.brendamallory.com/

HAlf by Avantika Bawa

2010-02-03T22:21:00.000-08:00

HAlf
Perfect Partials by Avantika Bawa

@ DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Everett Station Lofts
Portland, Oregon 97209

Opening Reception February 4th 5:30-9:00
February 4-13th 2010
Gallery hours Saturdays 1-4

HAlf investigates the history of ready-mades and tactility of drawings that are perfected for display, but then denied this perfection when presented in a state that is physically half of their original. These works explore the wholeness of objects, the act of completing and the desire for a finish, by obstruction and halting these very states, gestures or desires.
In these works Bawa consciously puts the act of drawing into the service of sculptural design so that handmade gestures intimately connect to architectural supports. This emerges due, in part, to her relationship to the legacy of Minimalism and its emphasis upon reductive form, modularity and literal scale. Her approach explores the balance (or imbalances) between wholeness and fragmentation, gravity and suspension, or containment and dispersal. The works initially allude to logic and function, but in essence defy both.In HAlf, functional objects become flexible three-dimensional structures while also serving as source material for the drawings. Cutting the works down in two perfect halves, and presenting only one of the halves draws attention to the formal elegance and quirkiness that often exits in the residue of that which is perfectly destroyed. Additionally, the presence of absence is now brought to the forefront and a visual poetry is attempted through this controlled destruction.

To view more of Avantika's work please visit http://www.avantikabawa.com/

2010 Doppler PDX Artists

2010-01-10T10:43:00.000-08:00

happenings for 2010 @ doppler PDX

february::: Avantika Bawa and Stuart Keeler

http://www.avantikabawa.com/ http://www.keeler-machnic.com/

march::: Brenda Mallory

http://www.brendamallory.com/

april::: Karl Burkheimer

http://contemporarycrafts.org/call/pairings/burkheimer.html

may::: Holly Senn

http://www.ryksenn.com/

june::: Brennan Conaway

http://brennanconaway.com/

july::: Ben Stagl

http://www.benstagl.com/

Check Ya Next Year!

2009-12-18T14:21:00.000-08:00

Hello all! We had a spectacular 2009 and we want to thank everyone who participated and made it all possible! We will be closed January while we gear up for an incredible! (no really it's incredible) line up for 2010. Keep on the look out for our "polished" calender coming soon! Remember we are always open to proposals, email us at dopplerpdx@gmail.com and we will send you a proposal form. Thanks and Happy New Year!

From Derek and Stephanie @ Doppler PDX

Dec. 5th and Dec. 12th

2009-12-04T17:57:00.000-08:00

We are open from 1-4 over the next two Saturdays! Come peruse the works of Cricket Quills, Allie B, and Elyse Gambino or check them out @

Cricket Quills @ http://www.etsy.com/shop/cricketquills

Allie B @ http://www.etsy.com/shop/alliebonline

Elyse Gambino @ http://www.elysegambino.com/home.html

Boutique For A Week

2009-11-15T10:40:00.000-08:00

Dec. 3rd will be our first ever "Boutique" style show. In the past we have shown Product Design Prototypes (see NAMUH DESIGNS) but never "sell able". This is yet another experiment by Doppler PDX to give our Artists a chance for some feedback and this month maybe some sales? We will be posting the artists/craftspeople we will be showing soon! Please stop by the Everett Station Lofts this upcoming First Thursday and visit Doppler PDX!

For this special event we will be open:

First Thursday Dec. 3 5:30-9

Following Sat. Dec. 5 1-4

Tentatively Dec. 12 1-4

November "ineffective armor"

2009-11-01T01:29:00.000-07:00

October's show "Anonymous"

2009-11-01T01:11:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from October's show "Anonymous" by our no longer anonymous artist, Doppler's own Stephanie Marinone.

October

2009-09-22T18:48:00.000-07:00

October will be a month filled with mystery at doppler pdx. Our artist for October has requested to remain "anonymous". To break down the artist/ego "they" have decided to create in such a way that gender, sexuality, and status need not apply. Who are they, wish I knew... we just give people keys to create these shows... I recommend checking this month out!

Namuh Design

2009-09-22T17:13:00.000-07:00

This past September we tried something a little different... What happens when thoughtfully designed products are placed in a "gallery" setting. Well... great lighting and innovative design! Namuh Design, an emerging Design Company, consisting of three members bent on creating some really fresh designs the filled the gallery with chandlers and candelabras! For more info please check out http://www.namuhdesign.com/. Thanks guys!

Keenan Havens "Moving, Still"

2009-09-22T17:09:00.000-07:00

www.keenanhavens.com Thank you Keenan for a wonderful show!

Moving, Still

2009-08-03T09:29:00.000-07:00

Here are some updates on Keenan Havens in progress mural. Enjoy

MOVING, STILL Coming August 6th.

2009-07-27T10:04:00.000-07:00

We are very excited about our next show "MOVING, STILL" by Keenan Havens coming August 6th! You can view some of Keenan's work on his website http://www.keenanhavens.com/. Keenan will be doing a series of wall drawings using only sharpie paint pens and markers. Knowing that the time consuming process his work undergoes Keenan is trying to create a dialog between viewer and artist while he works. On first Thursday and the 2 following Saturdays Keenan will be continuing his intensely detailed work for the public to watch. Look for updated posts and images of what the work looks like as it evolves. We can't wait to see what pops up next!

Our First Show

2009-07-27T09:33:00.001-07:00

Thank you all for supporting our first show "just some experiments" at doppler pdx! We had a fantastic turnout and we really enjoyed talking with everyone! Our first show was an experimental print exchange between Stephanie Marinone and Derek Faust (co-owners of doppler pdx). We each made a wood cut (printing plate) and proceeded to print a series of 12 each. We then traded 6 of those prints to conduct a series of experiments with them.

The rules where simple:

Create pieces by the following

-Manipulate your own print

-hybridize 50/50 of each others print

-put a print in "motion"

Check out our pictures from the show! Thanks again for the wonderful turnout!

doppler pdx is opening soon

2009-06-15T14:54:00.000-07:00

We are new gallery opening at:

The Everett Station Lofts

625 NW Everett St. #109

Portland, OR 97209

Our first show opens July 2, 2009!

Mission Statement

doppler pdx is a working studio and gallery run by two artists who are interested in promoting dialogue around experimentations and processes that artists undertake while creating their work.

We offer gallery wall space for artists to display stages of their work from models and drawings to partial and finished pieces which initiate conversations between artists and the public during First Thursday. In addition, we provide a project window for artists to create installations within a limited space that is accessible for a month to the public.