TINCTURE
Works by Anne Greenwood
at OUTER SPACE GALLERY
3726 NE 7th, Portland, Oregon 97212
By Appointment through October 15
Gallery Preview: Friday, September 14, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM with music by Iowa to follow
save the date!
natural dye workshop on Sunday October 14, 1-4pm
Outer Space Gallery is pleased to present Tincture, an installation with projected visuals, textiles, and printed work by Portland-based artist Anne Greenwood. For the exhibition, Greenwood has furnished the space with hand-dyed fabrics and made an edition of hand-stitched books entitled ‘Vestiges’ that include folded, sewn, dyed, and printed crinoline
pieces accompanied by text. The textile work is hand-dyed wool, cotton and silks stitched with horsehair and silk thread made while she was in residence at the Icelandic Textile Center (Textílsetur Íslands) in Blönduós, Iceland. The projected visuals are a video journal of seaweed, water, and wind collected while in Iceland. Combining her interests in art and science, Greenwood explores the shared geological landforms of Iceland and Oregon and investigates the natural and magical features of these two landscapes: mountain, elemental, weathering, volcanic, fluvial and coastal; layering past and present, permanent and ephemeral, the installation is a tincture of the artist’s ancestral memory.
Greenwood’s artwork focuses on history and connection: transforming personal and historical information, materials and textile items into sculptural images, objects and books examining the confluence of nature, materials, and magic, as well as the animism of place. Tincture is her first solo installation.
Materials:
Willow and white poplar wood, black poplar essential oil, walnut ink, acrylic paint; repurposed fibers: horse hair, wool, cotton, linen, silk; new fibers: Tussah wild silk,
crinoline; natural dyes: Osage orange, fustic, indigo, logwood, cochineal, weld.
Techniques:
video (6.36 minutes w/audio), fabric manipulation, natural dying, applique, knotting, machine and hand-stitching, ink and brush lettering, letterpress printing.
Anne Greenwood is a textiles and community engagement artist. Born on the high plains of rural North Dakota, Anne spent her childhood roaming the hills, along the rivers and in the starry night sky. She has lived in Portland for the past twenty-seven years where she has worked as a gardener and artist. She has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, was awarded residencies at Caldera and Playa in Oregon and has taught in schools and in workshops with all ages of students. In 2018 she traveled to Iceland for a residency at the Icelandic Textiles Center and spent a week hiking with Signal Fire in the Oregon Cascades for a residency called Carbon: Writing in the Pulse. In November Anne will be in residency at Pine Meadow Ranch near Sisters, Oregon to finalize a new project called Out of the Blue: a limited edition deck of cards inspired by Icelandic folk magic.
Thanks to:
Mauricio Rioseco, Dwayne Hedstrom, Genevieve Moore, Tom Greenwood, Hannah Mickunas, Berlin Wagar-Kim, Vanessa Renwick, Melinda Kowalska, Elsbeth Villa, Tyrone Gooden, Diane Jacobs, Lucia Rioseco & Lola Raymond.
Special acknowledgement to the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation.
Works by Anne Greenwood
at OUTER SPACE GALLERY
3726 NE 7th, Portland, Oregon 97212
By Appointment through October 15
Gallery Preview: Friday, September 14, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM with music by Iowa to follow
save the date!
natural dye workshop on Sunday October 14, 1-4pm
Outer Space Gallery is pleased to present Tincture, an installation with projected visuals, textiles, and printed work by Portland-based artist Anne Greenwood. For the exhibition, Greenwood has furnished the space with hand-dyed fabrics and made an edition of hand-stitched books entitled ‘Vestiges’ that include folded, sewn, dyed, and printed crinoline
pieces accompanied by text. The textile work is hand-dyed wool, cotton and silks stitched with horsehair and silk thread made while she was in residence at the Icelandic Textile Center (Textílsetur Íslands) in Blönduós, Iceland. The projected visuals are a video journal of seaweed, water, and wind collected while in Iceland. Combining her interests in art and science, Greenwood explores the shared geological landforms of Iceland and Oregon and investigates the natural and magical features of these two landscapes: mountain, elemental, weathering, volcanic, fluvial and coastal; layering past and present, permanent and ephemeral, the installation is a tincture of the artist’s ancestral memory.
Greenwood’s artwork focuses on history and connection: transforming personal and historical information, materials and textile items into sculptural images, objects and books examining the confluence of nature, materials, and magic, as well as the animism of place. Tincture is her first solo installation.
Materials:
Willow and white poplar wood, black poplar essential oil, walnut ink, acrylic paint; repurposed fibers: horse hair, wool, cotton, linen, silk; new fibers: Tussah wild silk,
crinoline; natural dyes: Osage orange, fustic, indigo, logwood, cochineal, weld.
Techniques:
video (6.36 minutes w/audio), fabric manipulation, natural dying, applique, knotting, machine and hand-stitching, ink and brush lettering, letterpress printing.
Anne Greenwood is a textiles and community engagement artist. Born on the high plains of rural North Dakota, Anne spent her childhood roaming the hills, along the rivers and in the starry night sky. She has lived in Portland for the past twenty-seven years where she has worked as a gardener and artist. She has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, was awarded residencies at Caldera and Playa in Oregon and has taught in schools and in workshops with all ages of students. In 2018 she traveled to Iceland for a residency at the Icelandic Textiles Center and spent a week hiking with Signal Fire in the Oregon Cascades for a residency called Carbon: Writing in the Pulse. In November Anne will be in residency at Pine Meadow Ranch near Sisters, Oregon to finalize a new project called Out of the Blue: a limited edition deck of cards inspired by Icelandic folk magic.
Thanks to:
Mauricio Rioseco, Dwayne Hedstrom, Genevieve Moore, Tom Greenwood, Hannah Mickunas, Berlin Wagar-Kim, Vanessa Renwick, Melinda Kowalska, Elsbeth Villa, Tyrone Gooden, Diane Jacobs, Lucia Rioseco & Lola Raymond.
Special acknowledgement to the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation.
Outer Space Gallery was formerly the “black box” of Surplus Space Portland, Outer Space is an artist run installation space and project gallery dedicated to collaboration, education, and autonomy.
Organized by Berlin Wagar-Kim.
Organized by Berlin Wagar-Kim.