Li'l Orphan Art: A Showcase of Found Objects

If you haven't seen it, you missed it, because this blog post is late (sorry!), but in October we had a fine little showing of found art.  Those lovely and ugly things you can't resist at thrift stores, flea markets, and estate sales.  We gathered things from our friends and put them all together in a tribute to the sincerity of orphaned art.

Big thanks to our contributors:
Chelsea Appel
Kristen Bilous
The Emerson House
Kendra Hadlock
Lettie Jane Rennekamp
Ilan Schraer
Swoops
Kevin Witmer
Benjamin Parrish & Amber Smythe


The show was curated by our resident owl sous-chef, Percival May.

(these chickens have real feathers attached!)

(all the way from Denmark)

"Night Portraits" by John Ryan Brubaker

Mr. Brubaker installed fantastically giant prints of black & white photos on the windows of the Emerson Space Case. 

Here's what it looks like during the day....

                                                                            but it really shines at night!

This show will run until May 23rd!  Catch it at night while it's shining bright.

"Squares" Photo Show at Emerson Space Case

 

  

Jennifer Jansons' Holga medium-format photographs (above) transport you into a softer world.  The Holga camera has a plastic lens with soft focus around the edges.

John Ryan Brubaker completed a project called Polaroid 366, in which he took a Polaroid photo every day for a year.  And not just any year - a year in which there was an extra day.  On display at the space are some selections from his year of  photos.

Brubaker is currently showing work at Albina Community Bank in Portland, as part of a show called The People Behind the Paper, a photo documentary project about the vendors of Street Roots newspaper.  He will also be embarking soon on a journey to Thailand!  I can hardly wait to see the resulting photos.