Post by svenman on Feb 2, 2009 12:10:06 GMT -8
Fontanelle Gallery presents Big Beautiful Color, an exhibition featuring interactive installation, painting, and sculpture by Portland artist Mark Warren Jacques.
Mark Warren Jacques lives within a web of art makers, musicians, skateboarders, and backyard revolutionaries. This close-knit community thrives on representing a sort of whimsy that harnesses the energy of idealism and is rooted in earthy spirituality. Lest you conclude that he lives in a world of naïvete, Jacques will surprise you with his gusto to love, question, and commit himself to the realities of hard work, ambition, and responsibility to his community.
For his exhibition Big Beautiful Color, Jacques will construct an interactive large-scale teepee of cast-off slatboard set atop a colorful platform and against a backdrop of multi-hued streamers. Visitors to the exhibition will be invited to enter the teepee where atmospheric psych jams, recorded by his housemate Blake Anthony Ray Miller, will filter from tape deck to a vintage Alamo amplifier. Within these walls, there is a smooth transition between the bustle of the downtown streets and a more transcendent space where one can leave their cares behind and enter a world of inspired meditation.
In addition to the installation, fourteen new paintings and sculptures will fill the gallery space. Imagery includes prismatic symbols of nature, metaphysical acculturation, and a celebration of the spiritual universe that connects all of us – from our local collectives to a global community.
At the opening, there will be a peaceful protest enacted by distributing picket signs, hand printed locally by Keeganmeegan Press, each carrying slogans mixing Jacques’ own artistic and political ideals.
Mark Warren Jacques studied art at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH. He is a member of the Together Gallery collective in Portland’s Alberta Arts District and has upcoming solo exhibitions at Rare Device in San Francisco and Little Bird Gallery in Los Angeles.
Big Beautiful Color will be on view at Fontanelle Gallery, 205 SW Pine Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue) February 5-28, 2009. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 12-6pm and by appointment.
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