The Game

Last night I went to a super awesome exhibition by Anna Fidler. Its a funny story.

I was thinking about what to do on a Saturday night when I got a text from a friend that asked if I wanted to bar tend at an art show at up and coming art space Disjecta.
I immediately respond yes and then proceeded to ask a few friends to come meet me at the show. Well not having the important OLCC permit , I ended up being a docent. That was all fine and dandy but I realized that I was going to watch a Blazers game that night. I was disappointed because I knew that the game was early because they were playing the Charlotte Bobcats. But I knew that I was going to get into the game and then have to change gears and try to hold it together in Art gallery land. So I went home a little crestfallen and decided to at the very least check out the show that I was going to be working. I checked my email only to find:

Disjecta Presents
The Game
An Exhibition by Anna Fidler

November 14 - December 20th 2009
Opening Saturday, November 14 / 6-10 pm
Gallery Hours: Fri-Sun 12-5 pm and by appointment

Amped up for an exciting Blazers' season? See them in a whole new light-as objets d'art-at Disjecta on November 14th! Plus, shoot hoops with artist Anna Fidler in the gallery. Blazers vs. Bobcats on the big screen.

The Game, a new series of vibrant basketball scenes inspired by the Portland Trail Blazers, highlights artist Anna Fidler at her creative peak. Driven by her passion for basketball, she has assembled large-scale, labor-intensive works rendered in glittery mica-enriched acrylic washes and deftly applied pastels, colored pencils and airbrush.

More information at disjecta.org

The Vestibule @ Disjecta presents...
Monarch
New Paintings by David Stein

David Stein's Monarch is an exploration of the surrealist technique decalcomania juxtaposed with the Rorschach inkblot test. Stein's work, while not as epic as Henry Darger, delves into the realm of fantasy in compelling detail.



Please join us for both openings on Saturday, November 14 from 6-10 pm. Disjecta's studio artists will also have their studio doors open for a peek behind the scenes, making for a very lively evening of high volume artistic flux.



To my appeasement the art show was the basketball game and it worked out great. Awesome people, rad art and I got to watch the basketball game! What a success story. I love Portland.




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PaperGirl PDX 2009

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This is some of my art going into the world. Making people happy and spreading out art to people to otherwise may not have beautification in their lives.

AAAAAAA MORE....MORE

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Dance videos with masks on

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So Much Love to the Internet 2.0

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Empire Squared Card show

This is what I did last year for the Empire Squared Card show. I am going to do something entirely different. Whoa!
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Importance of Being a hipster in America

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Spooky Little Girl Like You

Master Blaster

I Have a new house and a new studio. I am excited to have a new space to make art. I has worked out pretty good still making the sticker mandala. Here are some pictures of the one in front of Todd's House and at the coffee shop Tiny's near my new house.

It's address is 1141 se harrison st Apt.# 4 Portland Or 97214.

I am participating in a Papergirl peice The art is showing at Second Nature Clothes. This shop is ran by two of Portland's up and coming sustainable fashion scene Emily Katz and Heather Treadway. The opening is tomorrow night First Friday Oct 2. come check some stuff out.

Hottest Newest

I have been practicing with Todd and this is our new new... The White Teeth. Check out these nasty new tracks. Jungle fever. Live Bold.


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PSYCHEDELAJAWEA come back show!

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We just played a sweet big house show in the South East of Portland as our top secret come back show. We played with my old room mates from Oakland. They are in a band called Sun Hop Fat, an Ethiopian Afrobeat psychedelic rock band and they are smoking hot. I mean I don't really see people dancing at shows and everybody was going getting down it was a blast. This is they link check em out.

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COME YOU ALL AND CHECK OUT THIS SWEET AWESOME EVENT TOMORROW NIGHT AT GUAPO
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ஹே பயே Off

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TIME TO DIE

HELLA SHIT AND FUCKIN......






Oh Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that my amazing Friend Todd made this for me.
Whats up to Meeka and Bearded Dude in the background. This was shot on a porch before we went to go see an amazing art show my friend Sean curated at guapo comics. Its up for the rest of the month.

AWESOMENESS WILL ENSUE

I am going to be showing visual art !!!!!!!!(omfg) at this rad little space called Guapo Comics in the South East.
The opening will be a lot of fun. Please come bring the kids and dogs and appliances and everybody else thats into that kinda stuff. I am excited to be getting back into with visual stuff. its real meditative and brings me back to my roots. Alright enjoy your day.

P.s. this will be my fifth art show this month...wow ...right?

The Next big thang

This is my dear friend Rachel Milligan who recently moved to Boston , Mass. She is curating this show at this bike shop where this show is. Good Luck over on the Left coast. Kinda fun to be showing all over.




Here's the mail art piece I send that was mistaken for the real piece I wanted to have entered into the show. But its pretty good anyway...

WISH YOU WERE HERE

I am in a mail art show this week opening for first thursday at the tender loving empire

I love this gallery and like that they are involved in both the music and the art scenes. Well done guys.

I was going to have a much sweeter collaboration piece in the show but some people that I was working with didn't come through.TOO BAD.

PDX FILM FEST THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!

COME CHECK THIS SHIT OUT





This is getting better and better...

Check out what the other guys are doing:

PSYCHEDELAJAWEA.blogspot.com

This is the side project PSYCHEDELAJWEA's first step into the arts world
with a project in THE PDX EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009.

WE are really excited and really want you to check it .

MAY 6th 2009 9 pm @ 2505 SE 11th Ave

THis is a real cool project that someone put together.

I did one of these cubes but as mail art works I think if got "lost" in the mail.


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LET IT SNOW LET SNOW LET IT SNOW!!!!!!!!!

Well things have been crazy since the arctic blast 09.

I have moved to my own place
as well as my focus musically to
the newest K Sims/ Luke Forsyth project, PSYCHEDELAJAWEA.


We are gearing up for a South West tour and are self-releasing a split with Ellipse Elkshow, who will be joining us for the California leg of the tour. Enough info for now. Check that blog and keep fighting the good fight.

Luke

EMPIRE SQUARED 5th ANNUAL CARD SHOW

EXOTIC BIRDS*BADLANDS @ DUNES

COME CHECK OUT SOME SWEET TUNES.

This is my idea of channel surfing

My Family is staying in a house in the se of portland.

we are taking turns flipping the channels.

I found this static image and was captured.

I then found David Cook, known from his dude ranch fame, at Stumptown coffee on Belmont

and was invited to participate in an art event he is putting together.


It is a family orient art show to involve and share the art that is being made by David and his group of friends to his family and community. The show takes place in Ashland, Or. For more information check out

www.iloveyouhereiswhatimade.com



This is my submission:

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IS LUKE FORSYTH DEAD?

BrKFSTGOONIES

SUMMERISFUN
LOTSAFRNDS
GDTMES
SWT RVERFUNFRESHNESS
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CM ON
GT ovr it...

FREEDOM MOON TRIBE

this has nothing to do with the blog or Freedom moon tribe....
Were working on the details for the HeckaWeen show..

Film Night

Freedom Moon Tribe (unveiled)

A teaser for a full length space opera was held recently. Going under the project name of Freedom Moon Tribe, an experimental music project of mine played at the Portland Dude Ranch. I suggest you check them out herefor more information.

The Show was awesome (best yet) and the people are very fun and they had comfy couches in their backyard theater.

The film screenings are selected weekly by the members of the ranch and are mostly art films, experimental or underground cinema of one kind or another.

This Weeks screening is Pom Poko, another Miyazaki masterpiece about magic transforming racoons.

Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel. 8pm, Dude Ranch.

Pancake Clubhouse @ WorkSound

The Pancake Clubhouse @ WorkSound!
We are all in the PNCA and PSU Social Practice show. Cyrus put together a plein-air painting group called the Monday Painters and Sarah is decorating the bathroom in true Sarah style. The rest of the Clubhouse have paintings in the Monday Painter's portion of the show. There were some very talented artists that came out to paint with us.
Come check out the opening this Friday 6-9pm.

Newest Work In Progress

Hey Look What i just made....or rather, making...
Fun? Right?....Well i think the colors are pretty cool anyway...

Rererato TV coming soon...

We ( Me and cyrus)( yeah, I know cyrus' name is on it.But I was there, too. I swear.) got to be part of a beautiful birthday ceremony for
the Rererato art space in the NE ran by the amazing Adam and Stephanie.
The footage is going to be compiled and put onto the interweb. We brought christmas
back in a big way and it was a blast. I will put stills from the show up soon...
For more information check out here.

Great Group Show Still Up @ Pancake Clubhouse

Hey we are taking down this excellent group show in a week so you still
have time to come out and check out the eclectic talents here at the
pancake clubhouse.

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Here is a little something something I finished for
my sweetheart's birthday.

Hella into stuff

Supporting the local art community!!!!!!!!
Big Ups PSU!!!!!!!!!!

Check me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way Big time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chaos Cafe Art Opening

I am asked to participate in this art show the day before. I stayed up very late night.
and produced the lovely piece in the middle. I am back into the painting game and loving it. The Victorian on the left is 111 Archer Avenue very happy to be included this historic landmark. I was really excited the way this wall turned out.
More to come. KIT.

The Lastest Thing From the Drawing Board

this is a Memorial piece for a close friend. Sibil was a very close friend of mine that used to live in Oakland with me at the alabastor mansion hotel and lounge historical society. The piece will be featured in an art show at the albany bulb this coming weekend June 21st. This one day art show is dedicated to Waffles and Creatures and is being curated By Whitney Gardener....I'll post the flyer when I get it.....

Sweet Shows Coming up>>>>>>>>

My Friend Sean Christensen AKA Awesome But True
http://www.seanchristensen.blogspot.com/ put together this show and
was way cool to let me. The piece I put in is the most recent collaboration between
My self and the very talented Lauren Rose Kinney. It is from our fourth coming
The Churches of Eastern Europe series.

The Show will be rad please come. I think its going to be a blast.

Kinetic Madness!!!!!!!!!

Most Recently the Experimental Team Hope Folk Art Ensemble Experiment Has been involved
in creating a dragon. Patches, The Dragon Wagon to be exact. We build this little guy in Arcata, Ca for the 40th Kinetic Sculpture Race. We were allowed to officially join the race to circle the plaza three times participate in the Brakes/Vehicle check. The Team was thrilled. They only let one person pilot the vehicle
(no support or pitcrew.)
So here is a picture of yours truly taking off down 8th street as an officially kick off to the Race. ( we made it twelve blocks in total, all the way back to the Creamery building where patches was built.)

Heckaville.

My friends John Root(Loose Control) was spinning a great collection of records and Spencer Doran (cloaks) and Ryan Carlisle played a set of sample-y, cut up glitchy-experimental music.Thank you guys for providing the music.





Please join us tonight for our very first, first friday!

Tonight we will be featuring Luke Forsyth's Portland debut solo show, "Heckaville: Pictures from home." This site-specific, installation work is a loose psychological self-portrait, that he calls "a mind map giving physical streets to a dream scape shadow world." The people are friendly and accept him as one of their own. It is a beautiful city you should come enjoy it for yourself.

The show will also feature collaborations from the Experimental Team "Hope" Folk Art Ensemble Experiment of which Luke is a founding member.

It's going to be a grand time. We're pulling out all the stops!

6-9PM

the Pancake Clubhouse Historic Township and Activity Destination for the Living Arts (welcomes you)
906 A NE 24th Ave.
(three blocks north of Sandy on 24th)

Luke Forsyth has been creating art since he was a little kid, which he continues to do till this day. Facilitating guerilla art shows since 2003, his focus on collaborative art making and membership in several collective art groups has let Luke enjoy a certain amount of artistic acclaim. His first group effort was with Empire Squared collective of Eureka, Ca, where he helped convert a warehouse into the group's headquarters. Next was the multidisciplinary all star group called the Jets, creating several shows and mural sized works during it's short existence. Most recently Luke's focus has been pulled between The Experimental Team "Hope" Folk Art Ensemble Experiment and evilTeam. Both teams are currently producing performance, video and installation projects. You may have seen their work at the 2007 Portland Experimental Film Fest, AudioCinema Visual Collective, Grass Hut, X-mas on Tour, and Moshi Moshi, as well as a blockbuster show at Acorn Cafe.
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the Pancake Clubhouse Historic Township and Activity Destination for the Living Arts (welcomes you)!
906 A NE 24th Ave.

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The Show will be up for the rest of the month. Our open hours are from 12-5 Friday and Saturday.

most of my good stuff is in the sketchbook

Post card mafia unite!

Art

Planes crashed, hopes fell, jobs started....

and then the job was finished and a new legacy was born.
The rise of Heckaville was eminent and the horizons broadened.
There is hope and it lays in a land called Heckaville.

Button

Newest Examples of Some Mail Art

Buttons! I am into collecting buttons from free boxes and sewing them onto felt and cloth with a multitude of very colorful strings. I am having fun.

Heckaville ( Details)

All Kinds of People and animals live in Heckaville and are very happy all the time. Forever.

I am really into making post cards.

My close friend and frequent collaborator, Lauren Kinney inspired me to start doing mail art and it has kept me quite busy ever since. I will take time to thank her for that.
I love finding things on the ground, in free boxes, or in second hand stores. These pieces of ephemera make its way into my work suggesting a narrative through loose association to the collected group importance placed on these objects. Making art from refuse puts these scraps back into importance and into a realm of elevated creation. Creating from trash is a comment on consumption problems in modern cultures and unconscious overproduction as well as waste management endlessness that has created global warming and will lead to our drowning in our own trash. Sewing onto the images is a way to mention through visual cues the ideas of domestic work ethic and the long since forgotten survival methods that once made up subsistence. The use of color is camouflage to round the edges of my true intentions with day glo, whimsicality and a witty use of text.


I make custom postcards for Birthdays, Holidays, Weddings, Funerals, Anythings.
All out of Recycled, 100% Green materials.
Please contact me if you are interested.

Psychoyellowfish@gmail.com

Ishmael (PDX EXPERIMENTAL FILMFEST 2007)

Ishmael( the backbone of the Experimental Team H.o.p.e. folk art Ensemble Experiment)

Babs=Ishmaeal's Cousin (No Really this time...)

Babs=Ishmaeal's Cousin

The Experimental Team Hope folk Art Ensemble Experiment is the good guys in an epic
struggle between good and evil. This is yet another nice creature on the good side. This is Babs
she is Ishmael's cousin , she was built and shown this summer (August) @ Audiocinema as part of a group show of Portland's finest and up and comings.

The Original Heckaville

The Original.......

Heckaville >>>>>>>Black and Blues>>>>>

Heckaville Take Over
This is currently showing @ the Pancake clubhouse.
Hey I got a good idea, Come check it out.

I am part of a collaberative art team...evilTeam

PDX/DESTROY/KILL/KILL/VOID/EVILTEAM/WILL/EAT/YER/HEART/OUT/VOID/VOID/TV

Ghostcity (outer sections of Heckaville )

This is a piece that I made one time for a show called A Motionless Sea of Ether that I did with the amazing and wonderful, Casey Cripe. It took place at the Accident Gallery in Eureka, California. This piece is entitled GhostCity and is part of the on going Heckaville odyssey.