Neighborhood Gallery Grant
This last Spring we collectively raised $500, which was crowd-sourced using Indiegogo to redistribute in the form of a single grant to offer to an individual interested in developing their own exhibition project. Surplus Space decided to match the $500 using our recent Precipice Fund award to create an additional grant and Hap Gallery very generously matched the $500 funds to create a third grant. So, we are assisting in the creation of three new resident-based spaces.
Grantees received $500, 25 hours of Surplus Space’s Team’s labor, and any additional consultation you might like from the Surplus. Additional consulting could be helping with the development of a press list, consulting/assisting with build out, arranging studio visits, or any other needs a project might have in regards to the development a new resident-base exhibition space. We would love to meet-up soon to check out the space you want to utilize and find out how Surplus Space can be of assistance.
As Portland becomes more and more gentrified, the availability of artist-run spaces has been greatly reduced. Focusing on resident-based exhibition projects is a way to respond to our city’s rapidly changing landscape. Alternative curatorial projects give artists the opportunity to explore a way of exhibiting outside the marketplace, allowing for a nimbleness often unseen in more commercial spaces.
The selection panel was made up of Hap Gallery’s Judy Jacobsen, composition’s Kayleigh Nelson, and False Front’s Jason Doizé.
Each grantee receives:
$500
A how-to handbook for opening an exhibition space
25 hrs of Surplus Space's Team's labor
Any additional consultation, if desired, from the Surplus Space Team
Eligibility:
Each project must exist in a lived-in environment
A project could utilize any part of a home either inside or outside.
Grantees received $500, 25 hours of Surplus Space’s Team’s labor, and any additional consultation you might like from the Surplus. Additional consulting could be helping with the development of a press list, consulting/assisting with build out, arranging studio visits, or any other needs a project might have in regards to the development a new resident-base exhibition space. We would love to meet-up soon to check out the space you want to utilize and find out how Surplus Space can be of assistance.
As Portland becomes more and more gentrified, the availability of artist-run spaces has been greatly reduced. Focusing on resident-based exhibition projects is a way to respond to our city’s rapidly changing landscape. Alternative curatorial projects give artists the opportunity to explore a way of exhibiting outside the marketplace, allowing for a nimbleness often unseen in more commercial spaces.
The selection panel was made up of Hap Gallery’s Judy Jacobsen, composition’s Kayleigh Nelson, and False Front’s Jason Doizé.
Each grantee receives:
$500
A how-to handbook for opening an exhibition space
25 hrs of Surplus Space's Team's labor
Any additional consultation, if desired, from the Surplus Space Team
Eligibility:
Each project must exist in a lived-in environment
A project could utilize any part of a home either inside or outside.
Awarded Projects:
Quotient
Quotient is excited to engage with the layers of site-specific information, including the intimate domesticity of presenting work within the lived environment. The changing neighborhood is rich with potential; drawing people into the home both subverts their assumptions about viewing work and can challenge the entitlement that underlies much of the traditional art market/gallery system.
The geology of the area, of course, predates all of the western European interlopers, and subtly informs the structure of the house: the floors slant as the structure settles with the movement of soil and water that follows the course toward the river.
Quotient is located on SE 26th Ave between Division and Clinton.
Quotient is located on SE 26th Ave between Division and Clinton.
Director
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Christine TothChristine 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 |
Conduit
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Conduit is a proposition by Jade Novarino and Eli Coplan. "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.link |
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"A gallery is a home for art works. From this configuring, the home now gallery, the private now public, becomes a space for gathering which is not unlike holidays, parties, events." |
"There is a sense in which the work’s very existence is eventful, its introduction to the space of the home an enriching of inside from without. For us this is a particularly special relation: not only curating works but curating one’s home and living with the work." |
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Eli CoplanEli Coplan is an artist whose practice is formed across physical and networked spaces, investigating digital modes of production with an eye toward history and materiality.
elicoplan.com |
Jade NovarinoJade Novarino is an artist and poet, interested in the small, the quiet, and their visibilities.
goodsilence.com |
Tethered Cord
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Tethered Cord 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. Tethered Cord is located in close-in SE at 15th and Taggart between Division and Clinton. rabbitholegallery.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.
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