SEA / PDX Studio Group Meet-up

I'm part of a really great studio group here in Seattle. We meet monthly to give/get feedback on our work. It started a few years ago by local artist Susanna Bluhm as way to get to know other artists and revisit the artistic dialog/critique she had been missing since grad school. 

A while back, a studio group (organized by Matt Cosby) in Portland contacted us to and said they'd like to meet-up, so that's what we did this past Saturday. It was really fun and interesting. We talked about the differences between Portland and Seattle. I'm constantly surprised by how little the two communities interact. 

I went through the Portland artist sites and pulled these images.

Ring Pop, 2008, by Matt Cosby

Oil on panel, polyurethane & aluminum

19 7/8 x 18 1/2 inches

Weather Study 2, Sudan, 2010, by Sally Finch

Acrylic ink on paper, Image area 13.5" x 13.5"

laundry day, by GraceWeston

staged photograph

Mareket I, by Karen Silve

68" x 58", Acrylic on Canvas

Verdant Tumbledown, 2010, by Laurie Danial

oil on panel, 24x24 inches

Subduction 1, by KellyNiedig

30” x 36", oil on canvas

Trophy, 2010, by BrendaMallory

Cloth, wax, welded steel, 20" x 20" x 13"

We Live In The Night Ocean Wondering

What Are These Lights II, 2011, by Tamara English

Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

Tesseract by Lawrence Morrell

Happy in her new life, 2010, by Gabriel Liston

Pigment, acrylic, book, 5.25" x 4.25" x .5"

Twitter Art (@tw1tt3rart) / Matthew Haggett

Bear Cub, 2011, by Rachel Denny

polyurethane foam, wool, thread, wood

19" x 15" x16"

Hayden Island Railroad Bridge, February, by Lli Wilburn

ink, dye and graphite on board, 4.25” x 6.5”

archival digital print, 2010 – 2011, by TJ Norris

from the series Past/Tense, unique edition 2 AP

Superfluity by EugeniaPardue

Acrylic on Panel, 48"x48