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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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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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Jill Bliss art reception Friday night!
We feel we are within a bird sanctuary! Jill Bliss has brought in all her artwork for her October show opening tomorrow night. Her bird collages are super spectacular and truly a mixed media delight. The show is a combination of painting and the re-use of paper from other work she has created blended together atop a colorful piece of wood that is edged with graphic washi tape to wrap it all up! Her handmade fabric leaf and feather garlands surround the bird art and really make our shop feel like a private hideaway.
Hope you can join us tomorrow night, October 7th, from 6-9pm to meet Jill and check out her newest original artwork. The show will be on our walls until October 31st and is available online too!
★ Please join us for Jill Bliss’s Artist Reception on Friday, October 7th from 6-9pm.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Sayuri Sasaki Hemann Art Reception Friday night!
We’ll keep the words short as this is a show where the pictures do the talking. We hope you can join us this Friday from 6-9pm to meet Sayuri Sasaki Hemann and join in with us in the ohhs and ahhhhs – cause this art show entitled ‘Dreaming of Life Undersea” is some kind of amazing. These first pictures are of the window installation she just completed for the show.
These pics show her individual textural wall art – that can also sit on a table. So. . wow.
Sayuri also filled a wall with the most amazing encaustic work: carved, sculpted and painted within wax.
★ Please join us for Sayuri Sasaki Hemann’s Artist Reception on Friday, September 2nd from 6-9pm.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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September feature artist preview: Sayuri Sasaki Hemann
We are very excited for the upcoming art installation & show of Sayuri Sasaki Hemann. The show – Dreaming of Life Undersea – will take over our south window, many of our walls and certainly our spirits as we soon will realize we do not need a beach vacation after all . . . we can just stay in our shop and enjoy the view!
We hope you can join us for a reception to meet Sayuri on Friday, September 2nd from 6:00-9:00pm. Her artwork will be on wall until September 30th.
Dreaming of Life Undersea is a recurring theme for the artist, as she is “mesmerized by the unknown and ever-changing nature of sea life”, a life she often dreams about. For the Tilde show, Sayuri creates an experience of walking into life undersea when viewers enter the shop. This unique “underwater installation” will showcase pieces using hand- and machine-sewn organza and tulle to create a school of jellyfish and other sea creatures. Hanging on Tilde’s walls, viewers will find encaustic paintings on wood and plexiglass, paintings that are windows into the sea creatures’ lives. This installation will provide a colorful environment to spark discourse about the gap between the expected and unexpected.
Sayuri is a multi-disciplinary artist inspired by the way light reflects on the vivid colors found in nature, threads and fibers of her work, and the everchanging underwater life of sea creatures. Her use of medium ranges from painting with encaustics on plexiglass to hand-stitching soft fabric hanging sculptures to felting colorful creatures. In each medium, she enjoys the process of experimentation and reacting to the unexpected, and it is these interests that reflect her approach to life: enjoying the overall adventure and reacting to what comes and goes.
Sayuri Sasaki Hemann has been an artist ever since she remembers. Her childhood experience with her family’s relocation between and within Japan, Australia, and Romania forced her to function back and forth between languages—and also enabled her to find refuge in creating art. After attending college in Portland, Oregon, she continued to study art academically with a focus on drawing. Sayuri relocated again to Osaka, Japan where she joined a TV station art department, working on creating sets and props for three years. Realizing that creating disposable art for TV shows is not her passion, she relocated once again to Portland in March 2008. She now spends her time making art and working for a vintage textile design archive that houses 26,000 pieces of textiles and artwork collected from all over the world.
★ Please join us for Sayuri Sasaki Hemann’s Artist Reception on Friday, September 2nd from 6-9pm.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Lisa Kaser Artist Reception tonight!
We hope you can join us tonight (Fri, August 5th) from 6-9pm, as we host an artist reception for Lisa Kaser. We spent yesterday afternoon hanging up shelves that are now showcasing all of Lisa’s sculptures! All are made of objects found, made and re-purposed. We love them all.
We’ll have have wine and nibbles on hand so hope you can stop by! If not, Lisa’s show will be on walls throughout August and many of her pieces are available on our online site as well.
A goodbye wish as the little creatures leave Lisa’s studio to live on Tilde’s walls.
Love the guy in the crown!
★ Please join us for Lisa Kaser’s Artist Reception on Friday, August 5th from 6-9pm.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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August feature artist preview: Lisa Kaser
We have long been looking forward to this upcoming First Friday reception for the Portland artist Lisa Kaser from 6pm to 9pm on Friday, August 5th.
Kaser is a favorite at Tilde, and in Portland, and this summer show will present her recent small-scale sculptural work in mixed media. “Flyers, thinkers, gazers, peekers, floaters, seekers, and those taking a moment to enjoy the moment” are the starring characters from her newest creations. Each creature is made from found and fabricated materials like oak gauls (balls) and carved wood, restitched and recycled cloth, handmade wool felt, and natural beeswax. Finer elements are used for features on these unique characters such as tiny shells and shell pieces for teeth. All are mounted atop traditional wooden sake cups.
Full-time artist Kaser was born and raised in Portland and continues to enjoy living and working in the Emerald City where the nearly ever-present rain awakens her creative channels. (Rarely is there a moment when her imagination isn’t firing on all cylinders!) She received formal training and a degree in off-loom textiles at University of Oregon in 1984, and continued to expand upon her interests in illustration, painting, and three-dimensional work that capitalize on the use of mixed materials. She is currently engaged in illustrating her second children’s book, The Mice’s Wedding, for the Spanish Publisher OQO Editora.
This sculpture show runs through Tuesday, August 30th. Come meet the artist and the main creatures of her latest fanciful collection!
★ Please join us for Lisa Kaser’s Artist Reception on Friday, August 5th from 6-9pm.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Cathy McMurray July art show
We have loved having Cathy McMurray’s artwork on the walls of Tilde this month. Well. . . actually, we super loved it for a day or two and then all of you bought half of her amazing pieces. Here’s a heads-up that we still have some gorgeous pieces available until August 1st. Grab one before we do!
Plus! Cathy has two beautiful embroidery pieces that she stitched on top of a fabric print of her original artwork. Detailed and quite lovely.
Cathy and I say. . . swing on in for your personal viewing of this sweet art show.
★ Please join us for Cathy McMurray’s Featured Art Show from July 1st to August 1st.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Cathy McMurray art reception tomorrow night!
We hope you can join us tomorrow night (Friday), from 6-9pm, as we host an artist’s reception for Cathy McMurray. We’ve just finished hanging her show and predict her artwork will find homes very quickly! Her work is a gorgeous mix of deep, saturated colors often depicting landscapes that feel cozy and representative of where we are happy to live: Oregon.
We’ll have have wine and nibbles on hand so hope you can stop by! If not, Cathy’s show will be on walls throughout July and many of her pieces are available on our online site as well.
★ Please join us for Cathy McMurray’s Artist Reception on Friday, July 1st from 6-9pm.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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