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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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Tagged crafterall, first friday, Julie Everhart, Katie Kulper, letterpress, Marnie Karger, Paper Craft, paper cutting, pdx art, pdx artist, studio olivine
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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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Tagged apak, art, first friday, jenna robertson, kate bingaman burt, pdx art, pdx artist, Portland art, portland artist
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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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Tagged art, first friday, Michele Maule, Nicole Linde, painting, pdx art, pdx artist, Portland art, portland artist, Vivienne Strauss
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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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Tagged Amy Ruppel, diorama, molly bosley, paintings, paper cutting, pdx art, pdx artist, Portland art, portland artist
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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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Tagged Amy Ruppel, art, first friday, mixed media, molly bosley, painting, paper art, pdx art, pdx artist, Portland art, portland artist
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Cookoorikoo jewelry
These fun, bright, fabric necklaces are just the accessory you need to add a bit of sunshine to your fall outfits. Fun, whimsical, pieces that splash color all around!
Shanalee Hampton may have made her first YoYo when she was a small child but she officially started her biz, Cookoorikoo, in 2006. The special YoYos she now shares with others via jewelry are a circle of fabric sewn and gathered into a rosette. Used in quilt making for hundreds of years, Shanalee has refashioned this traditional craft item with a modern spin for today.
We are thrilled to see this inventive artist setting up shop in Portland. Her pretty necklaces are going fast, stop by the shop today to grab your favorite color combo!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Tagged Cookoorikoo, fabric, jewelry, necklace, pdx artist, portland artist, portland designer
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Gary Hirsch robots
We are stoked that Gary Hirsch, local artist (and nationally reknowned), has placed his very cool robots within the walls of Tilde. Each bot is a hand painted, signed, and numbered, one-of-a-kind objet d’art. Truly!
These bots are programmed for amazing feats of strength – providing you with outrageous compliments, helping you be brave, taking all of the blame, and even cloning yourself so you can accomplish more throughout your busy day.
Why not carry a whimsical, joyful bot around or display thousands on your wall? Gary’s goal is to get as many out into the world as possible, and, we know once you experience these little guys, you’ll want to be part of the cause, too.
So, what’s behind the bots? In 1971, a seven year-old boy growing up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio was having nightmares. Your basic, run-of-the-mill nightmares with giant hands swooping down from the attic, grabbing him out of his bed, to swallow him whole where he would land in a stomach that was really a graveyard populated by zombies. Those kind of nightmares. On these nights, the boy’s dad would crawl out of bed throw on a robe and sit next to the boy with a pen and paper. ‘You want to show me what you’re afraid of?’ he would ask. They would stay up for hours. The boy would draw these creatures and the dad would help him name them. And, they collected hundreds – Swamp Creature, Red Zombie, Giant Hand, to name just a few. After awhile, the nightmares would come a bit less frequently. When asked about this, the boy’s dad said, ‘If you can create them, then you can also erase them.’
Fun fact: Gary’s bots were recently chosen to be placed in the Emmy award bags and we were just told they will be placed within the Golden Globe bags as well!
Tilde • 7919 SE 13th Ave • Portland, OR 97202
T: 503.234.9600 E: info@tildeshop.com
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Tagged doodle house, Gary Hirsch, gifts, painting, pdx art, pdx artist, Portland art, portland artist
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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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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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Tagged birds, Feature Artist, first friday, jill bliss, pdx art, pdx artist, Portland art, portland artist
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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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Tagged art, first friday, pdx art, pdx artist, sayuri sasaki hemann, Visual Art
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