Gallery Nucleus is excited to welcome Lily Seika Jones to showcase her latest artwork and celebrate the release of her first art book, Thicket: The Art of Lily Seika Jones. Come by opening night to meet Lily, and to get your copy of Thicket signed.
Even though this series is laid out like an art exhibit, I like to think of each of these works as the page of a book, beckoning you to lean in, take a sip of tea, and let your imagination wander.
In a culture that often puts emphasis on getting all things bigger or in large amounts beholds a surprising truth that an emotion or physiological reaction can come from something so tiny.
In the hopes of contributing to a worthy cause, Gallery Nucleus and 21 wonderful artists will come together to create a charity art show in order to raise money to donate to Oceana, a wonderful organization that strives to conserve our oceans natural biodiversity and to enact change in environmental policy worldwide to protect our oceans.
Each piece will be a tribute to marine life in all its amazing diversity and splendor, to remind us all how important the world's oceans and marine life are to the planet. A portion of each sale will be donated to Oceana.
Nucleus Portland’s annual exhibition is titled Salut, a friendly expression used amongst companions before having a drink. Original artwork on coaster format will be on display in the gallery. This year the opening will be virtual.
I love stumbling upon things that seem meant to remain hidden. When I was young I saved a small vole from my cats and released it back into nature - and I like to think he went on to have many more little adventures. There’s something really... encouraging in seeing these small, seemingly defenceless characters venturing out into a world bigger than they realize, which is why I find myself always drawn back to illustrating them. I think you can find all sorts of hidden stories in the smallest spaces. The pieces in this show are my attempts to illustrate that, and offer a glimpse of what magic still remains in the nooks and crannies of the world.
I like to think each of these paintings exists in that space between waking and sleeping, and that inspiration from the visible and invisible world have managed to seep in.
Warnick, an avid ornithophile, has had a long-standing love affair with winged creatures, both large and small. In hyper realistic acrylic and watercolor renderings, she portrays Northern cardinals, Carolina wrens, Eastern Meadowlark, and many more of the feathered variety, each of them painted with painstaking beauty and precision, evocative of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. Meanwhile, Jones’s work may be similarly imbued with a resonant fascination with birds, but she takes such reverence to a much more fantastical, enchanting, magical place. In her watercolors, a white wolf rests beneath an otherworldly tree, masks hanging from its branches, falcons swarm together to create a single mass of bodies and limbs, a boggy forest throbs with a sense of simmering sorcery and chance.
I feel like our passage from childhood to adulthood moves so swiftly from enchantment to disenchantment, and once we've grown up we spend the rest of our lives trying to be re-enchanted through story - whether by film, art, or music. This collection of works is my own attempt at re-enchantment and returning to a place of childlike wonder by creating spaces imbued with magical elements and artifacts, that then unfold into new narratives for the viewer to explore. The title, "Songs of Or" is inspired by an ongoing collaboration with my husband, who has beenwriting music for each of my narratives from the perspective of an otherworldly boatman named Or - and serves as a subtle nod to our oral past and the role music has played in passing along and immortalizing mythology and folklore.
Nahcotta is incredibly excited to present a group show celebrating and representing the animal world, titled Animalia. Honoring and depicting the animal world, this group show features the work of Dani Ives, Jamie Winn, Alex Warnick, Kelly Vivanco, Lily Seika Jones, Kim Ferreira, Lindsay Stripling, Drew Mosley, Alex Louisa, Michelle Morin, Diana Sudyka and Chris Austin.
Antler Gallery’s annual group show ‘BRINK’ featuring extinct and endangered species. 20% of sales from the shows are donated to the Audubon Society of Portland.
Talon Gallery’s annual group show ‘ASCENT’ featuring extinct and endangered bird species. 20% of sales from the shows are donated to the Audubon Society of Portland.
Our Enormous Tiny Art show, now in its 11th year, is a year-round exhibition both online and in our gallery, wholeheartedly devoted to showcasing wonderful, irresistible, and entirely original tiny art. Hundreds of individual pieces of tiny art, each piece ten by ten inches or smaller and made by artists all over the globe will be available for purchase.
The pieces in this show are my attempts to illustrate how enchanting it was to be in nature as a child, and how the symbols and archetypes I encountered in literature helped give form to the ideas and experiences I had to grapple with growing up. The title of this show, The Muddle, is actually a reference to one of my favourite novels, "A Room with a View" by E.M. Forster. The original excerpt reads, "there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided." Collectively, these works are an ode to "The Muddle", that terrifying realm we fall into in times of uncertainty, and where story becomes a tool for navigation.
