"Just To Tell You Once Again" - Art Inspired By Michael Jackson (now showing thru August 10)

lovely velvet paintings by Juanita

musical entertainment at the opening event!  (here's Stephanie Brachmann singing "Who Is It?")

James Dean Kindle doing "Muscles" (a Michael Jackson-penned song written for Diana Ross to sing)

Liberian Girl does "Ben"

Thank you Joey Edwards for taking photos at the event!

lithograph by Rita Alves

coming June 30th to Emerson Space Case...

“ J u s t   t o    T e l l   Y o u   O n c e   A g a i n ”

Art inspired by Michael Jackson

a group show at Emerson Space Case



Featuring artwork by:

Rita Alves
Stephanie Brachmann
Eddie Butler
Joey Edwards
Sarah Flores
Kati Green
Laura Hensley
Juanita
Angela Marks
Chrissy Ortez
Karen Radd
& Ilan Schraer

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Please join us for the opening reception

JUNE 30, 2011
7pm – 9pm

with live music by Pendleton's favorite playboy, JAMES DEAN KINDLE,
and special guests Liberian Girl


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Celebrating two years since the birth of Emerson Space Case

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commemorating two years since the death of Michael Jackson.

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The art will continue to be displayed in the space JUNE 30 – AUGUST 10, 2011.  The gallery is viewable at all hours of the day from the sidewalk.


Emerson Space Case is a window art gallery on NE 30th Avenue & Emerson Street in Portland, Oregon.

Call for Art! This time in color!

Check out our colorized flyer!

With only a couple of weeks left before the submission deadline, we're working on getting some musical entertainment for this show's opening, which will be on June 30th.  Also, we've already received two excellent art submissions!  It's going to be marvelous.

Here's the call for art again:


CALL FOR ART


Emerson Space Case is seeking Michael Jackson-inspired art for a group art show, Just to Tell You Once Again:  Art Inspired By Michael Jackson, to celebrate our two-year anniversary!  This show will open June 30, 2011.


All media will be considered!  Send us your art!  Drawings, paintings, sculptures, doodles, poems, whatever it is that you do!


Deadline for submissions is June 17th, 2011


WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?

You may be wondering to yourself, "Why Michael Jackson?  Why now?  What has this got to do with Emerson Space Case?  Where's my sweater vest?"

So here's the story.  We opened our first Emerson Space Case art show on June 25th, 2009.  As we were scrambling to cross all the t's and dot the lower-case j's of that show, on that lovely summer afternoon, we heard the sad and shocking news of the death of Michael Jackson.  He was in our hearts for the remainder of the day as we installed that first show, and we can't help but think that a hint of his spirit somehow lives on in that space forever more.

And that's why we've decided that for our two-year anniversary show, we should commemorate and celebrate him with a group art show.  Can you get on board with that?

CALL FOR ART! Announcing our Two-Year Anniversary Show!

CALL FOR ART


Emerson Space Case is seeking Michael Jackson-inspired art for a group art show, Just to Tell You Once Again:  Art Inspired By Michael Jackson, to celebrate our two-year anniversary!  This show will open in late June.


All media will be considered!  Send us your art!  Drawings, paintings, sculptures, doodles, poems, whatever it is that you do!


Deadline for submissions is June 17th, 2011


WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?

You may be wondering to yourself, "Why Michael Jackson?  Why now?  What has this got to do with Emerson Space Case?  Where's my sweater vest?"

So here's the story.  We opened our first Emerson Space Case art show on June 25th, 2009.  As we were scrambling to cross all the t's and dot the lower-case j's of that show, on that lovely summer afternoon, we heard the sad and shocking news of the death of Michael Jackson.  He was in our hearts for the remainder of the day as we installed that first show, and we can't help but think that a hint of his spirit somehow lives on in that space forever more.

And that's why we've decided that for our two-year anniversary show, we should commemorate and celebrate him with a group art show.  Can you get on board with that?

First Show at Emerson Space Case: "I Wish I Could"

With great excitement in our hearts, we present the first art show at Emerson Space Case, "I Wish I Could," which is a collaborative show between Stephanie Brachmann (that's me) and Ilan Schraer.

Here's the big idea.  We asked a bunch of friends, strangers, and acquaintances to anonymously finish the sentence, "I wish I could..." and drop their responses in this box:

 

After that, Ilan and I carved six linocut blocks of images of human hands, which would be rearranged to be printed in different ways.  Upon each print is written a wish from our box of wishes.  I completed most of the lino printing, and Ilan painstakingly performed the gorgeous cursive handwriting.  We decided on the motif of hands because they represent reaching, touching, doing.

And amidst all of this:  in the moments leading up to the installation of this show yesterday, we found out that Michael Jackson had just died!  So I like to think that somehow this show has something to do with him, as he was alive when we began, and had passed on by the time we were finished.

I really enjoy creating art that involves a sort of interaction with other people, or at least a reaction to people's real input, thoughts, and desires.  I hope I can create more art like this in the future.

Here are pictures of the show, which will be displayed until the end of July: