Eva Lake in a Rudi Gernreich dress circa 1980
Eva Lake’s new gallery with Wid Chambers, Chambers, opened with a bang recently in the old SW Elizabeth Leach space. The first show juxtaposed a seasoned collagist with a young gun who makes assemblage of broken skateboard decks. A painter, Eva (who formerly ran Lovelake gallery) hosts the ArtStar radio show, writes a fab online diary and other art crit. Her fave fashion era? “The 60s. I love the optimism and freshness. And the short lengths, the innovation. And the color. And the makeup….” Eva Lake has done all of the cool stuff you wish you’d done or still hope to do. We hope you run into her at a Chambers opening or another art event so you can enjoy her as much as we do.
Qualities you most admire in design: Mackintosh, Hoffman and their progeny
Qualities you most despise in design: too much fluff
Reading: Chronicles by Bob Dylan, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon and John James Audubon, The Making of an American by Richard Rhodes
Listening to: Hall and Oates, Stevie Wonder, The BeeGees, Duke Ellington
Dream project: to live as an artist
Favorite virtue: organized
Favorite vice: better art through drugs
Tragic flaw: paranoid schizophrenic
Secret superhero power: like Edmund Dantes, I can see in the dark
That which keeps your afterburners firing: ideas keep me awake. And sometimes the things you say.
What you’d like to be when you grow up: a big time philanthropist
Portland’s best kept secret: Portlanders can’t keep them
Portland heroes (sung or un-): Randy Moe
Interesting on the horizon (PDX): I never know
WHAT TO DO NOW?