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October feature artist preview: Jill Bliss
As we move into fall, the artwork of Jill Bliss will grace our walls for her mixed media show titled Arbors and Avians. Fanciful renditions of common Pacific Northwest birds colorfully explore and celebrate. The artist’s visual vocabulary is expanded, too, as she incorporates collage and paint in these works alongside her usual precise ink lines.
We hope you can join us for a reception to meet Jill on Friday, October 7th from 6:00-9:00pm. Her artwork will be on wall until October 31st.
A veritable Jill-of-all-trades, Jill Bliss and her artwork defy easy categorization. She is an imaginative illustrator and capable and conscientious designer who works with eco-friendly materials and local businesses. She draws, paints, creates murals, and executes custom art and design commissions. And, her signature style is recognizable in fine retail establishments across town.
Jill’s creative output finds its inspiration in the intricate details of the natural world that include artistic representation of plants, trees, animals, tide pools and forests, as well as in urban architectural forms. Her deceptively simple, nature-inspired style stems from growing up in a do-it-yourself household surrounded by nature in Northern California, refined further via art school stints on both coasts, New York and San Francisco. Jill now calls Portland home, and Portland is happy to have her!
★ 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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Pigeon Toe Ceramics
Design lovers in the crowd may have long been wondering “Why the heck isn’t Pigeon Toe Ceramics at Tilde?!” (Peppered, perhaps, with some vibrant language, for added emphasis.) Well, we’ve been wondering the same thing, as we are big time fans (i.e., HUGE) of this simply modern line of ceramics. Some more inelegant expletives are directly solely at yours truly as our ‘to do’ list had Pigeon Toe perched at the top for far too long. We’ve finally gotten it together and are bringing in some classic pieces from this local power house. Whew!
Is this ceramic line clean, simple, functional, and beautiful? Check. Lisa, the designer/creator states “Our designs are naturally imperfect, casually irreverent, and playfully charming. Each piece is treasured. Beautiful. Authentically hand-crafted. Each object emanates enduring value. The result? Heirlooms that are hardly old-fashioned. Objects that appear discovered, rather than acquired. Objects with a vision, a purpose. A heritage. Objects with a story.”
Perfect for Tilde? Check! Perfect gift for a dear one, or perhaps for your own home decor? Check again.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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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July feature artist preview: Cathy McMurray
Our July art reception for the Portland artist Cathy McMurray will be Friday, July 1st from 6-9pm. The show runs through Sunday, July 31st.
Pieces presented in the July show are mixed media works spanning multiple art disciplines including drawing, painting, photography, and embroidery. The artist is conscious about using materials that are “easy on the environment” so viewers will see wood panels that are locally made and sourced, paper created from sugar cane by-product, and recycled cotton fibers among other conscientious art supply choices.
Cathy McMurray launched her art career in the fall of 2009. Prior to this, she taught high school art for ten years in the public school system and operated an arts focused shop in Portland. She studied art at Willamette University with an emphasis on printmaking, and holds a masterʼs degree in arts education.
This native Portland artist is inspired by the surrounding beautiful scenery, with the great mountains and open sea representing unchanging elements as constant forces in her life and work. Although many of her works are inspired by recent travels throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond, Cathy captures nature scenes that almost transcend time. We think you’ll enjoy these views, too!
★ 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
Jennifer Mercede art reception tonight!
All is in place for Jennifer Mercede’s art reception tonight from 6-9:00pm and truly looks super spectacular! Jennifer has created a collection of new work just for this show that is sure to make lovers of mixed media extremely happy.
Our short, secret, art sale was such a big hit last month, that at the last minute, Jennifer has decided to offer select discounts on many of her original pieces of artwork during this evening’s art reception only! Spread the word! How much? A 20% discount during tonight’s 6-9:00pm reception. Just like last month, at 9:01pm the discount vanishes . . . so get it while you can!
★ Please join us for Jennifer Mercede’s Artist Reception on Friday, June 3rd from 6-9pm.
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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