image: senseofplace Lab's "Median as Commemorative Space, 2015."
Surplus Space was an exhibition project occupying a small house in northeast Portland in partnership with a longtime homeowner from August 2013 - November 2015 co-founded by Gabe Flores and Tabitha Nikolai.
Checkout Past Shows
"Brave Women Run in Our Families" performance event opening part of One Flaming Arrow: Inter-Tribal Art, Music, and Film Festival, Curated by Demian DinéYazhi’, Kaila Farrell-Smith, Carlee Smith, June 2015
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"Amass," Lauren Seiffert & Tim Stigliano, Curated by Tabitha Nikolai, September/October 2014
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"- w a r e," Curated by Will Elder as part of For An Exchange Program, August 2015
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"Swing Shift," performers in photo keyon gaskin and Simone Wood, Curated by Tori Abernathy, August/September 2014
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Surplus Space BEFORE
Surplus Space's Resident Contractor, Jerry Gilmer, working on the house. September 2013
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Side yard, September 2013
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White box, September 2013
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Kitchen/Bathroom September 2013
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Neighborhood Gallery Grant:
Spring of 2014, Surplus crowd-sourced $500 to create a grant for an individual interested in developing their own residentially- based exhibition project. We decided to match the $500 using our 2014/2015 Precipice Fund award to create an additional grant. Hap Gallery very generously matched the $500 funds, allowing for a third.
Awardees:
Conduit
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For now, we're a space without a home, or maybe a home without a place. Our programming is tuned to our form, privileging artistic and curatorial projects that sit between presence and dispersion. Conduit is currently curating Chin's Push, a webcam residency. conduit.link |
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Rabbit Hole Gallery is a 10 month Neighborhood Gallery project running from September 2015 to June 2016. Our focus is on generating opportunities for emerging contemporary artists and curators to exhibit work in a non-traditional gallery setting where they can design installations that respond to the space. tetheredcord.tumblr.com |
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Marie Conner is a Portland based sculptor and mixed media artist with a BA in Liberal Arts, Sculpture and Writing from Portland State University. Her work has exhibited throughout Oregon and she has worked in local theater doing set and costume design. Along with her participation curating the alternative art and music event PDX Synesthesia during the summer of 2014, she has gained immeasurable experience as the Director of Littman and White student run professional contemporary art galleries at Portland State University.
marieconner.com |
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The home was built in 1884, a year after Portland connected to the national railroad network, and three years before the first bridge (the Morrison) was built across the Willamette River. Located on SE 26th Avenue between Clinton and Division Streets, the structure was among the first developments in the city, and is witness to the most recent wave of building and construction in the neighborhood. As such, it is uniquely situated in both location and time to connect the art community and the neighborhood community, as an intervention on a neighborhood that is becoming unrecognizable. indivisiblepdx.tumblr.com |
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Christine Toth holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing from Ohio University. She holds workshops in her studio and elsewhere. Is a member of the College Art Association and the Women's Caucus for the Arts. christinetoth-artstudio.com |
Surplus Space was co-founded by Gabe Flores and Tabitha Nikolai.
Surplus Space was funded in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts and Calligram Foundation/Allie Furlotti via Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Precipice Fund.
