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Erika Kohr at motel gallery

Erika Kohr. “Milk and Honey.”

I once asked a local artist whose work I love and who happens to be a “very stylish girl”* about the intersection of art and fashion. She replied, “There is none.”

Wrong. Portland’s Anti-Domestic is a case in point. Art that happens to be shown on a body.

Second point of intersection is use of cloth and clothing forms in art. Erika Kohr’s blown glass sculptures often employ doll-sized translucent clothing forms as narrative elements, implying the bodies that might fill them and their stories.

Portland-based Kohr shows all over the country. Her show at motel gallery (with SF artist Suzanne Husky) entitled Pollinate will feature a whole new body of work.

Bonus note: motel gallery owner Jennifer Armbrust is partner in the brilliant new online art review at PORT with Katherine Bovee and Jeff “Mr. Ubiquitous” Jahn.

There is a reception Thursday eve beginning at 6:30 PM. motel gallery is located at 19 NW 5th (on NW Couch, between 5th & 6th) in Portland.

*Breakfast at Tiffany’s

updated Tuesday July 05 2005 14:38

POSTED: July 5th, 2005 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »

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Can I Get Some Hot Sauce On That?

These 18k gold and vintage glass bead earrings are the perfect palate for an urban summer earring, light but not lite. They’re part of Monica Corbin’s line at Hot Sauce Brown.

Local connection? NY-based Hot Sauce Brown’s website, launched last month, was designed by Northeast Portland’s Needmore Designs which is to say Kandace Nuckolls and Raymond Brigleb who have done sites for Masu Sushi and artist Trish Grantham as well.

POSTED: July 3rd, 2005 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »

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