REVERB

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.