PAXA: PDX Art : February 2012

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Friday, February 17, 2012

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

PDX Art: "Only strangeness in sight" photography by Richard Schemmerer

"Only strangeness in sight" photography by Richard Schemmerer

everything has a story a background on which it plays itself out for us to be studied. What do we see when we see and how does it impact us are the essential questions this series of photo introspections is asking us to contemplate

Monday, February 13, 2012

PDX Art Contemporary : Spectrum of understanding photography by Richard Schemmerer

01
"behind every veil of innocence lives a martyred child"

01
"and then I gave myself
rolling down a hill
gave myself away
to the next bow of color
to let life play me"

02
"twin peaks peaking"

and I turned around and I looked up and I saw and I felt and I blink just for a moment and then I was back and had already let go and the clouds had dispersed like a bunch of thugs and left me standing there and I turned around and I looked up and I saw and I felt that reality had switched and the old had been replaced with a world of two suns or so it seemed and I blinked just for a moment and then I was back

and I turned around and I looked up and I saw and I felt and I blink just for a moment and then I was back and had already let go and the clouds had dispersed like a bunch of thugs and left me standing there

and I turned around and I looked up and I saw and I felt that reality had switched and the old had been replaced with a world of two suns or so it seemed and I blinked just for a moment and then I was back and the clouds had returned like a bunch of crows going in for the kill and ignored me standing there and I turned to the left and saw that reality had returned to its good old self and that boredom had taken over where anxiety had left off and the old world had no sun and no moon and no ending

and ignored me standing there and I turned to the left and saw that reality had returned to its good old self and that boredom had taken over where anxiety had left off and the old world had no sun and no moon and no ending and I looked up and there was a sign and it was blurry but it answered all my questions

03
"where ever I go a leave a burn mark from where the old has fled from my fire of love"

04
"Untamed I go up in flames"

05
"welcome to culture canibalism"

06
"spotless;
spotless I go on; go on as the part that has not yet found out that it had been had"

07

Perma de frost

I want to paint not with language
but paint so deeply so it will be frozen
to be brain altering soul widening
for the times to come when
Jersey Shore has gone and
the damage will be undone
by words that have not been uttered
but will be by the children of
the next future a future
around the corner of yesterday
to never be uttered again and
the painters will be still there
with their Es-scapes captured
in oil and acrylic in love & pain
in hard times and easy times
times of indulgence and despair
their is no way around this
like a pre historic wholly mammoth
not yet dug out from the past
the yet unscathed Perma frost
be defrosted from our line of thought
to be remembered once more
before we forget again how to be
Stuart of life's treasure which
have been captured for eternity
by our painters brushes

Spectrum of understanding photography copyright by Richard Schemmerer

Saturday, February 11, 2012

PDX Art: The Settlement Portland

PDX Art: The Settlement Portland

the Settlement is four galleries all devoted to cutting edge art

more info at

http://placepdx.tumblr.com/

PLA

PDX Art: Peoples Art of Portland

if Peoples Art would be in LA it would be hit but it is in Portland which means it's still an underground hot spot

go check it out at Pioneer Place Mall

and get your fill of low brow to new brow
or just art that raises your brows and your heart beat