Lowell pairs artists Shino Takeda and Mohamed Omar for show Rain Sun Flower.
The aesthetic language of Japanese ceramics is deep and wide. I think it would take a lifetime to begin to understand. Growing up, artist Takeda http://shinotakeda.com/home was dipped in it by collector parents. Now in Brooklyn, she brings her response by juxtaposing color in organic patterns on small handbuilts.
I am not sure if Portlander Mohamed Omar was part of Project Grow. But his story is related.
Project Grow was created by artist Natasha Wheat. I would say it was partially inspired by the philosophy of R D Laing.
It was Portland's most beautiful Social Practice artwork. I put Project Grow in the branch of 'socially conscious social practice art.' I would like to see more.
Art is a language of individuals, always evolving and branching. We give bundles of branches names by convenience and habit. One branch is outsider art. It has a longer history in Europe; in the US it came into the gallery system as a reaction of the excesses of 1980s New York.
Project Grow ran alongside Oakland's Creative Growth and similar. Today Portland has Elbow Room, North Pole Studio, PHAME, cotravelers J Pepin, and more projects that never went to art school.
Omar brings paintings from his work at Elbow Room https://www.elbowroompdx.org/. He is a musician too, with tapes available at the gallery.
Add, Hospitality House in SF has an overlapping community of artists. Portland participates with similar projects P:ear and Dana Lynn Louis' Gather:Make:Shelter.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 3PM-5 Free
Shrine 13 is a Portland creative releasing project in film, print, and with events. It is Jessica Daugherty and Brad Hamers. One project is archiving the life work of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer, life partner artists in New York.
They show some tonight in program The Galatea Effect, Or How to Live Forever: The Films, and Love, of Beryl Sokoloff and Crista Grauer. It is eloquently explained on their link.
It's https://www.boathousemicrocinema.com/apr-26-2026/ at the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM movie 8 Free
