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Julianna Swaney: art reception Friday night!
We hope you can join us this Friday, April 6th from 6-9pm for the opening reception for the newest artwork of Julianna Swaney of Portland, OR. This show features her original pencil and watercolor pieces centered around themes of guides, guardians and caretakers. All artwork is available for purchase both in our shop and our online website. The show runs through May 31st.
Julianna Swaney was born in Michigan and grew up playing outside in the woods with her dogs and cats, going on family vacations to historical sites and bird watching, and visiting antique stores, all of which continue to be an influence on her work. Because books were always very important in her house, she developed an early fondness for fairytales and magic that could be found in the real world via nature and history. Motivated to create, Swaney received her BFA from Maine College of Art in 2005, and since then has shown her work in galleries around the country. Her illustrations appear in several magazines, including Martha Stewart Weddings, Uppercase, and Tin House, as well as in a recent book. This inspired Portland, Oregon transplant continues to make a living from her artwork.
Fairytales and folktales let people like Swaney understand a universe that could be confusing and frightening, but is also beautiful and mysterious. As a child, she believed that everything—animals, trees, rocks—had a voice, and that if we just listen closely, these beings can serve as sage guides. Swaney lets us access her guides through her artwork, connecting us to a human element that is essential to our understanding of the non-human world. In her paintings, facts intermingle with traces of lingering echoes of childhood memories, of folklore, and of fairy tales.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
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PREVIEW: Julianna Swaney art show
The walls of our shop changes in a mere week to feature the artwork of Julianna Swaney. Hope you can join us for her opening reception Friday, April 6th from 6-9:00pm. Her work will be on our walls until May 31st. This show features pencil drawings and watercolors that connect with the themes of guides, guardians, and caretakers. Viewers will be delighted by scenes of people nurturing plants, girls being protected by huge dogs, and a few tricksters who may or may not be helpful to children lost in the woods. These images represent further exploration of the artist’s interest in plants and animals, the folklore we’ve created around them, and our deep connection to them.
★ Please join us to meet the Portland based artist, Julianna Swaney, at her Artist’s Reception on Friday, April 6th from 6-9pm. The artwork is for purchase through May 31st, and available on our website too!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Tasi Design Jewelry Trunk Show
20% off all Tasi Jewelry
Saturday + Sunday, March 17th + 18th
Meet the designer – Saturday, March 17th 1:00pm to 4:00pm
One of our favorite Portland jewelry designers is behind this line of one-of-a-kind pieces, incorporating a healthy combination of high quality natural stones (never dyed!), oxidized sterling silver, vintage components, or ancient trade beads. And, new this year, she’s created a line of brass and stone jewelry that many are already coveting. We know you’ll covet these beautiful pieces, too.
All purchases of Tasi Design jewelry during this trunk show will enter you in a drawing to win the Tasi Design necklace pictured above, made of antiqued brass necklace with lapis, tiger eye, and wondrous labradorite. This is one gorgeous necklace. Don’t you agree?
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Curves + Lines Show: Katie Kulper
Time for a closer look at the artwork Katie Kulper has created for Curves + Lines, our currently running visual art show. Katie is a Portland, Oregon based artist/designer. Her multi-dimensional paper sculptures are a study of the beauty found within seasons of sadness.
Katie has hand-dyed the paper, cutting each piece into the shape of a drop, and from these shapes formed texturally-patterned paper sculptures. The shadow box frames were also constructed from Katie’s hands out of fir with small walnut inlays at each corner.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
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PREVIEW: Curves + Lines: A Papercraft Show
February kicks off our first art show of the year. “Curves + Lines” features three individual artists using paper as their medium of artistic expression. The show opens with an artist reception from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Friday, February 3rd. The show will be on our walls until March 31st.
Julie Everhart, founder of Studio Olivine, is a letterpress artist living in Portland, Oregon who enjoys keeping her hands inky. She’s been drawing since she was old enough to hold a pen and continues to evolve and change her processes every day. Julie prints on wood, linen, and paper, using earth friendly methods and materials whenever possible. For her first collection of letterpress art prints, Julie focuses on the beauty of the ever-evolving process of life. Change is the theme, complete with bends and turns and additions of elements that have shaped the artist and her art into something new, complex, and beautiful. Pieces in this show are printed and pressed on handmade recycled paper, one color at a time with soy inks, and mounted onto bamboo.
Katie Kulper is an Oregonian (born and raised), and Portland based artist/designer. She created multi-dimension paper sculptures for the current show with the notion that in seasons of sadness and brokenness, there is beauty to be found. Similar to a long season of rain and clouds, new growth and clear skies are the result. Katie notes that she’s experienced her fair share of rainy seasons, and each piece in the show represents one of the places where she’s shed and shared tears. The intensely emotional process in her creative thinking and artistic execution offer a beautiful result.
Residing in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, Marnie Karger draws inspiration from the geography and history of the land around her as she reveres a sincere sense of place and home. Her unique artworks are created by carefully cutting and layering chromatically colored paper to represent depth maps of popular lakes, rivers, and coastlines. Each piece for the show is a handmade effort, reflecting attention to and appreciation of the beauty, mystery, and complexity of the contours beneath the surface of the water.
★ Please join us to meet the Portland based artists, Julie and Katie, at the Artist’s Reception on Friday, February 3rd from 6-9pm. The artwork is for purchase through March 31st, and available on our website too!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Decemberville Sale at Tilde!
It’s the annual winter holiday sale extravaganza for the neighborhood in which we dwell. And which we love so much.
This is Tilde’s main holiday sale: now is your chance to grab all your holiday presents at 20% OFF almost* EVERYTHING in our shop. The sale is from 4-8pm only this Saturday, December 3rd. *Not included are sale items already marked down 50% (!) and our featured visual art show.
All our neighbors are in on the gig too: fuel up at Blue Kangaroo Coffee Roasters to speed down the street, stop in at Sock Dreams, Stars Antiques Malls, Fuchsia, Ste. Maine, Coco & Toulouse, Camp Hollyhock. . . and a bazillion more (our neighborhood is truly awesome) – everyone is offering a sale or special from 4-8pm this Saturday, December 3rd.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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The Teeny Tiny Shiny Show: Part Two
Another peek at the artwork for our December show – The Teeny Tiny Shiny Show! We’d love to see you at our reception for the six artists this very Friday, December 3rd from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. All the original art work for this show is 4” x 4” in size, ready to purchase, and gems for your home (or your personal favorite person). Check out the work of APAK, Jenna Robertson and Kate Bingaman Burt (our previous post gave a glimpse of pieces from Vivienne Strauss, Nicole Linde & Michele Maule.)
Aaron Piland and Ayumi Kajikawa Piland are the fantastical magical duo known as APAK. For the Tilde show APAK will be showing paintings on wood panels with gouache. This husband and wife team are known in particular for creating rich and colorful gouache/acrylic paintings on wood featuring the utopian lives and adventures of curious little beings living in lush fantastic environments surrounded by friendly little animals.
Wisconsin native, Kate Bingaman-Burt makes work about consumption. For this show each piece is based off of an object that Kate found in a Portland free box. This time of year yields for some soggy finds and leads to quickly dissolvable goods. She is interested in memorializing the manufactured item at the point of either disposal or discovery. What are you giving away on your corners? What are you finding on your corners? Let her know. She wants to draw these items.
Jenna Robertson is a textile artist living in Portland, Oregon who discovered fabric art accidentally while thrift shopping here. Utilizing all found materials, mainly wool, Jenna creates machine and hand sewn collages which are both allegorical and abstract.
★ Please join us to meet many of these artists at the Artist’s Reception on Friday, December 3rd from 6-9pm. The artwork is for purchase through the end of the month, and available on our website too!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Each piece is based off of an object that Kate found in a Portland free box. This time of year yields for some soggy finds and leads to quickly dissolvable goods. She is interested in memorializing the manufactured item at the point of either disposal or discovery. What are you giving away on your corners? What are you finding on your corners? Let her know. She wants to draw these items.
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The Teeny Tiny Shiny Show
We hope you can join us for our December First Friday reception for six artists from 6:00pm to 9:00pm this Friday, December 3rd. Each have created original art work for our The Teeny Tiny Shiny Show that is 4” x 4” in size, ready to purchase, and perfect for the season. Here’s a peek at three of the artist’s work: Vivienne Strauss, Nicole Linde & Michele Maule. We’ll catch up with APAK, Jenna Robertson and Kate Bingaman Burt in our next post!
Vivienne Strauss will show “Women under the Influence”. Meet the ever elegant Coco, that’s Coco Chanel to you.
Nicole Linde is inspired by myths, the supernatural, outer space, fantasy, and dreams. Meet ‘Pup’ smiling sweetly above.
Michele Maule’s primary focus is drawing and painting. Her current paintings are a combination of collage, drawing, painting and beeswax on small wood panels. Her painting above is titled ‘Sauvies’. All us Portlanders know this vista well.
★ Please join us to meet many of these artists at the Artist’s Reception on Friday, December 3rd from 6-9pm. The artwork is for purchase through the end of the month, and available on our website too!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Amy Ruppel art reception Friday night!
We hope you can join us tomorrow night, Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm for the opening reception of our November art show. This month’s show features two artists: Amy Ruppel from Portland and Molly Bosley from Boston. Differents artist, different artwork = all amazing! Amy’s show is of her newest acrylic paintings entitled “Know Your Oregon Backyard Birds“.
Molly is showing her dioramas within mason jars (created from vintage photos) and also a selection of intricate paper cuts that totally draw you into their world. In fact, both forms of her artwork seem to emit a superpower to make you to look closer. . yes, closer still!
★ Please join us to meet Amy Ruppel at the Artist’s Reception on Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm (alas, Molly can’t join us cause we are too far away!). The show of both artist’s work will be on our walls (and for purchase on our website) until November 29th.
We’ll have sushi from Zenbu and great wine from The Portland Bottle Shop to spice the evening up!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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November feature artists preview: Amy Ruppel & Molly Bosley
Here’s a sneak peak of our November art show featuring the work of Amy Ruppel and Molly Bosley. This month, two artists share our shop to showcase works that offer intimate views into the world around us. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, November 4th from 6:00-9:00pm to meet Amy Ruppel.
Amy Ruppel’s paintings that make up her “Know Your Oregon Backyard Birds” show aim to inspire Portlanders to become intimate with their feathered friends beyond the occasional sunflower seed feeding or fly by. These paintings are shadowy portraits that isolate birds in quiet moments of reflection.
This Wisconsin native spent much of her childhood enjoying nature in a variety of ways—she drew plants and comics, dug up fossils, and went for endless forest walks among all her forest friends, the birds being her favorite. Amy’s love for nature and science led her to an art and illustration career, and to the Pacific Northwest. She has since worked with Target, Converse, Burton Snowboards and many other cool companies. Amy is currently the illustrator for the new wing of Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she aims to make a wonderful environment for all the young patients residing there.
Molly Bosley’s papercut artwork & diorama’s within mason jars attempt to harmonize media with message by constructing work out of the detritus of American culture, the little things that slip away into junk stores, attics, or trashbins. Her mixed media collages incorporate discarded artifacts that she finds enchanting, voyeuristic, and nostalgic—intimate views of life and life’s memories.
Wandering through the aisles of thrift stores and digging into yard-sale bins provide Molly with the raw materials from which she constructs depictions of memories that never happened. Her own memories span from the stretch of New England from her hometown in Massachusetts to her alma mater in Vermont, where she studied fine art and language, to travels abroad. Molly’s artwork is very obviously handled, touched, dirtied, and stepped on, containing the imprint of the instrument that crafted it. She wants to create art that is arresting, yet familiar, like a memento you find tucked away in between the pages of an old book.
★ Please join us to meet Amy Ruppel at the Artist’s Reception on Friday, November 4th from 6-9pm. The show of both artist’s work will be on our walls (and for purchase on our website) until November 29th.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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