Past Shows / Events
Octo pieces (4.7.18)
The art in this show came about in not quite the usual way. Collaboration is the name of this game, and as a result, each piece has more than one author.
What happens when you cede creative control and ownership to a group you are also a part of? It's sometimes challenging, sometimes effortless. Artistic statements are made and erased, visual comments coalesce as if by magic, other pieces go through a dozen identities before finding their own special hum. Through this, the artists ride a tender balance between ego and surrender, between boldness and listening.
Participating in this experiment:
Bill Ivey
Wendy Rhode
Vincent Paul Martinez, Jr.
Yamin Li
G. Matt Nicholson
Leah Smith
Paul Baker
and Amanda Jones
What happens when you cede creative control and ownership to a group you are also a part of? It's sometimes challenging, sometimes effortless. Artistic statements are made and erased, visual comments coalesce as if by magic, other pieces go through a dozen identities before finding their own special hum. Through this, the artists ride a tender balance between ego and surrender, between boldness and listening.
Participating in this experiment:
Bill Ivey
Wendy Rhode
Vincent Paul Martinez, Jr.
Yamin Li
G. Matt Nicholson
Leah Smith
Paul Baker
and Amanda Jones
YOU CAN BE HERE (3.24.18)
"Scavengers and Tinkerers Unite!
Collection Rert invites you to rummage through our maze of fun junk and delve into your yard-art-creating fantasies...
Use that burst of energy you'll get when you score a new thingamajig and channel it into designing something unique for our yard or gallery.
Spontaneous and fresh like an emu at a fashion show, it's a fundraiser-yard sale-workshop with potential for laughter and making new memories."
Collection Rert invites you to rummage through our maze of fun junk and delve into your yard-art-creating fantasies...
Use that burst of energy you'll get when you score a new thingamajig and channel it into designing something unique for our yard or gallery.
Spontaneous and fresh like an emu at a fashion show, it's a fundraiser-yard sale-workshop with potential for laughter and making new memories."
MORTALITY IN PLAIN SIGHT (2.17.18)
The first CR show of 2018 was a mixed media installation by Jessica Nixon, presenting viewers with opportunities to reflect on the omnipresent specter of death and the ways in which we both honor and avoid the memories of those lost.
Noticing roadside memorials around the city, Jessica was inspired to recreate her own versions of and reactions to these touching, hand-made monuments and to present them in the intimate setting of Collection Rert for the community to engage with. The work included several meditative paintings, arrangements of artificial flowers, a recreated "Ghost Bike", and a symbolic memorial to loss that was open to audience participation and contribution.
The opening night featured an ambient soundtrack provided by Daze of Heaven and a live music set by Vile Wine (experimental guitar + electronics duo).
Read this review by Eggtooth.
Noticing roadside memorials around the city, Jessica was inspired to recreate her own versions of and reactions to these touching, hand-made monuments and to present them in the intimate setting of Collection Rert for the community to engage with. The work included several meditative paintings, arrangements of artificial flowers, a recreated "Ghost Bike", and a symbolic memorial to loss that was open to audience participation and contribution.
The opening night featured an ambient soundtrack provided by Daze of Heaven and a live music set by Vile Wine (experimental guitar + electronics duo).
Read this review by Eggtooth.
GLANDS OF FISTMITS (12.9.17)
For her first solo show, Bridgette Reed assembled an environment of perverse/cuddly whimsy and crude yet attractive catharsis. Characters from a rabbity alternate universe inhabited the room in the forms of modified mutant dolls and portraits in oil. The cave theme recurred as a preferred setting, with a one-guest-at-a-time cozy replica provided for introverted interaction with some of the characters, such as a tattooed doll, a snake with a woman's face, and a furry eye-less creature with an extra arm located where genitalia are normally found.
For fulfillment of feelings more extroverted, a tiny interactive volcano diorama was present, complete with the requisite chemical ingredients to induce fizzy overflow. Echoes of that messy purge could be seen in the artist's barfing self-portrait, as well as in the two expletive-laced portraits of a certain commander-in-chief, which were symbolically placed just outside of the entrance to the show, perhaps a cue for "It's time to visit another reality now!"
For fulfillment of feelings more extroverted, a tiny interactive volcano diorama was present, complete with the requisite chemical ingredients to induce fizzy overflow. Echoes of that messy purge could be seen in the artist's barfing self-portrait, as well as in the two expletive-laced portraits of a certain commander-in-chief, which were symbolically placed just outside of the entrance to the show, perhaps a cue for "It's time to visit another reality now!"
CELEBRATING LEFTOVERS (11.25.17)
A group show of affordable art for the holidays/end-of-year clearing, this was also our tenth show and did indeed have a celebratory feel. Fifteen artists were represented through 48 pieces in paint, photography, collage, drawing, crochet, ceramic, mixed media and interactive installation.
WATER BODIES (11.11.17)
Check out this review by Eggtooth!
We embody oceans within ourselves. It’s true! Get up, squeeze on a pair of shoes, and go find the edge of your waking consciousness. Gradually, you will reach softer, crumbly ground; your feet start to sink downward. You’re plodding through sand on a seashore lapped by water (memory). The sun-flecked surface of the ocean is light blue. But don’t go for a swim yet.
First, walk along the beach. Studded in the sand are shells. They look like ears but are molds of continuous movement, all kinds of forces—waves, wind, the endless need for protection, even the gravitational pull of the Moon. Glistening seaweed drapes the contours of ghost tides. Up ahead something undefinable takes shape as you draw near. Yuck, what is it? You’re unclear whether it’s inanimate or some beached creature. Though, you ought to know. It washed up from deep inside your mind.
Time to go for a swim. But you are not in the right shape: you need to become a mer-person. It sounds like a fantasy but this is your truer form. You can transform your lower half into a long tail covered in shimmering scales. That’s one way, but no need to be so stuck on somatatopy. You’ve forgotten you have neurons in your arms and fingers, smart tentacles that they are. Submerge into the water and plumb greater depths. The hue turns aquamarine, then blue blue, deep, dark, Persian, Egyptian, phthalo, Prussian, midnight, and on until only black. It’s terrifying and exciting to think what you will encounter.
Water Bodies presents recent oil paintings and animations by Sheila Scoville. Feminine, biomorphic, oceanic, mnemonic, these immersive pictures mimic the sensory overload of visiting the ocean. They also conjure a hallucination fed by creation myths and evolutionary science and poke fun at female personifications of the sea and things nautical. To accompany the paintings, Sheila’s husband and musical collaborator Aaron Russell provided a sound installation and performed a live set of original guitar-based compositions for the opening.
[Text by the artist.]
We embody oceans within ourselves. It’s true! Get up, squeeze on a pair of shoes, and go find the edge of your waking consciousness. Gradually, you will reach softer, crumbly ground; your feet start to sink downward. You’re plodding through sand on a seashore lapped by water (memory). The sun-flecked surface of the ocean is light blue. But don’t go for a swim yet.
First, walk along the beach. Studded in the sand are shells. They look like ears but are molds of continuous movement, all kinds of forces—waves, wind, the endless need for protection, even the gravitational pull of the Moon. Glistening seaweed drapes the contours of ghost tides. Up ahead something undefinable takes shape as you draw near. Yuck, what is it? You’re unclear whether it’s inanimate or some beached creature. Though, you ought to know. It washed up from deep inside your mind.
Time to go for a swim. But you are not in the right shape: you need to become a mer-person. It sounds like a fantasy but this is your truer form. You can transform your lower half into a long tail covered in shimmering scales. That’s one way, but no need to be so stuck on somatatopy. You’ve forgotten you have neurons in your arms and fingers, smart tentacles that they are. Submerge into the water and plumb greater depths. The hue turns aquamarine, then blue blue, deep, dark, Persian, Egyptian, phthalo, Prussian, midnight, and on until only black. It’s terrifying and exciting to think what you will encounter.
Water Bodies presents recent oil paintings and animations by Sheila Scoville. Feminine, biomorphic, oceanic, mnemonic, these immersive pictures mimic the sensory overload of visiting the ocean. They also conjure a hallucination fed by creation myths and evolutionary science and poke fun at female personifications of the sea and things nautical. To accompany the paintings, Sheila’s husband and musical collaborator Aaron Russell provided a sound installation and performed a live set of original guitar-based compositions for the opening.
[Text by the artist.]
OUI ART (10.21.17)
For the last five years, an ever-changing group of people have come together to make music under the name Ouiness.
Some members of the current incarnation also make visual art. The gallery show included visual art created by the band as a whole in addition to individual members.
At the opening event gallery-goers experienced a live performance by Ouiness, a performance piece (Power Point Presentation) by several members of Ouiness, and live add-on painting opportunities.
Jeff Dahlgren (Eggtooth) wrote a piece about his experience of the show, readable on his blog. Thanks, Jeff!
Some members of the current incarnation also make visual art. The gallery show included visual art created by the band as a whole in addition to individual members.
At the opening event gallery-goers experienced a live performance by Ouiness, a performance piece (Power Point Presentation) by several members of Ouiness, and live add-on painting opportunities.
Jeff Dahlgren (Eggtooth) wrote a piece about his experience of the show, readable on his blog. Thanks, Jeff!
STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY (9.23.17)
Fans of Kevin Pope usually associate him with one or more of his many musical projects around town. Not everyone is aware that when he's not rocking out or recording eerie soundtracks, he keeps busy drawing, collaging, exploiting Xerox machines, and photographing his TV.
As our good friend sneaks up on a round-number milestone, we seize this chance to take stock of and fully savor the unique flavors of his visual art side. Mysterious, untrustworthy and charming characters populate scenes in spaces unknown, like on the first page of a science fiction story you want to keep reading, while patterns undulate and hypnotize.
As our good friend sneaks up on a round-number milestone, we seize this chance to take stock of and fully savor the unique flavors of his visual art side. Mysterious, untrustworthy and charming characters populate scenes in spaces unknown, like on the first page of a science fiction story you want to keep reading, while patterns undulate and hypnotize.
SHOW US YOUR LEFT BRAIN (8.19.17)
What happens when you ask artists to try their hands at science? This open call show asks all curious minds to hark back to their high school or earlier days when everyone had to choose a subject and dedicate some unstructured free time pursuing the answer to some question by way of The Scientific Method.
Experimentation, research, and concept demonstration are key words this summer.
Experimentation, research, and concept demonstration are key words this summer.
IDENTITY PORTRAITS (7.29.17)
Art by Eggtooth
From the artist:
The future of art and music. It's both & More. We live in an age of extreme plurality. Digital natives & other thoughts about punk/avant garde come up through means of unsolvable eye candy puzzles. The pieces in this show are inspired by Andy Kaufman.
From the artist:
The future of art and music. It's both & More. We live in an age of extreme plurality. Digital natives & other thoughts about punk/avant garde come up through means of unsolvable eye candy puzzles. The pieces in this show are inspired by Andy Kaufman.
TINY FUEGO (7.1.17)
Art by Raquel Bell
Will you lose your center of gravity, or find yourself exploring new universes? Is that dune made of sand or flesh? Cozy up carefully to the tender warmth. Lean in / zone out to eavesdrop on the buzzing activity. The art of Raquel Bell (watercolor and ink on paper, plus a collection of tiny ceramic totems) has enough secrets for everyone.
Will you lose your center of gravity, or find yourself exploring new universes? Is that dune made of sand or flesh? Cozy up carefully to the tender warmth. Lean in / zone out to eavesdrop on the buzzing activity. The art of Raquel Bell (watercolor and ink on paper, plus a collection of tiny ceramic totems) has enough secrets for everyone.
1 MAN, 100 CUPS (6.17.17)
Art by Trevor Lewis Rieck.
From the artist:
The din created through tedium may only be transcended by expressions which thwart all known systematic traps within what one usually refers to as 'this reality.' Each cup represents the actions necessary to stave off the stolid cycles and enter the eye of the hurricane.
Absurd, lighthearted, dark, flippantly observant and sometimes offensive - without these cups serving as reminders and gateways the only reason to go to work would be to... work- we can't have that.
From the artist:
The din created through tedium may only be transcended by expressions which thwart all known systematic traps within what one usually refers to as 'this reality.' Each cup represents the actions necessary to stave off the stolid cycles and enter the eye of the hurricane.
Absurd, lighthearted, dark, flippantly observant and sometimes offensive - without these cups serving as reminders and gateways the only reason to go to work would be to... work- we can't have that.
FEMICULINE (5.27.17)
What makes a work of art feminine, masculine, androgynous, or none of the above?
Curated by Vincent Martinez, Jr. this show featured work by Sheila Scoville, Raphael Umscheid, Kevin Pope, Briar Bonifacio, Natalie Kleinecke, Wendy Rhode, Chad Hopper, Amanda Jones, Kevin Hauser, Erica Speegle, and Vincent Martinez, Jr.
Curated by Vincent Martinez, Jr. this show featured work by Sheila Scoville, Raphael Umscheid, Kevin Pope, Briar Bonifacio, Natalie Kleinecke, Wendy Rhode, Chad Hopper, Amanda Jones, Kevin Hauser, Erica Speegle, and Vincent Martinez, Jr.
NEW HISTORY (5.13.17)
Collection Rert's grand (re)opening
Twenty eight artists contributed, interpreting the idea of New History.
Twenty eight artists contributed, interpreting the idea of New History.
HOLIDAY KABOOM!!! (4.15.17)
-Preview of the gallery space
-Celebration of all holidays simultaneously + hybrid holidays
-Commemorating 20 years of Palfloat
-Crafting decorations and creating spontaneous installation art with friends
-Documentation of the fun by Anna Maul posted on event page!
-Celebration of all holidays simultaneously + hybrid holidays
-Commemorating 20 years of Palfloat
-Crafting decorations and creating spontaneous installation art with friends
-Documentation of the fun by Anna Maul posted on event page!
Day After Sights:
