717 Cookman Ave.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
07712
732.869.0606

Parlor Gallery presents a unique vision in New Jersey’s art community and features innovative work by some of the best emerging and established artists. Their main gallery features an ecclectic mix of genres with a focus on mixed media, abstract, outsider, erotic, graffiti and pop-influenced work. For more information, please contact info@parlourgallery.com.

p:ear student group show
September 1st – November 2nd 2011
OPENS: Thursday, September 1st 2011 / 7pm - 9pm
Berbati Restaurant 19 SW Ankeny, Portland, OR

Nobody Likes an Honest Girl by Katie McGee

p:ear works with homeless, parentless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm personal worth and create meaningful and healthier lives. Through these tools, young people learn to see themselves beyond homelessness and to grow into a healthy adulthood. Located on the corner of NW 6th and Flanders, p:ear offers volunteer-led workshops, nutritious food and safety for Portland’s most vulnerable young people.
This show features work by three p:ear students: William Madden, Wells Wait and Katie McGee.
Get involved! p:ear’s next volunteer training is Saturday, September 17th. For more information, please visit http://www.info@pearmentor.org.

ABOUT OUR ARTISTS
William Madden was born somewhere between El Paso Texas and Tucson Arizona on a gusty night when the white sands of the new Mexican plains rose up to enshroud the desert in mysterious pallor. As an infant, Madden was traded for pornography and tobacco to an infertile shaman and his beautiful wife. Destined for adventure and intrigue, William’s adopted parents imparted upon the boy the importance of magic and style. He uses these qualities to paint magnificent mindscapes and other terrifying realities.
Katie McGee is originally from Carnation, Washington. Working with p:ear has provided her with not only studio space and supplies but also with a gallery to display and sell her work. Katie’s drawings and paintings explore the imaginary worlds most of us decline to share with others. They are visual depictions of dreams, fairy tales and secrets. Combining modern colors and painting styles with the whimsical fluidity of surrealism, McGee skates the fine line between reality and the subconscious.

Wells Wait does not start with a central idea or theme. His work is driven by process. One dot, spot or stroke at a time, one minute or day at a time, Tuesday doesn’t always lead into Wednesday, and Thursday might come from the past.
Wait has been involved with p:ear since 2004.

NEW BROW is a new defining term (from Europe of course) to define art of the “outsider” or “low brow” nature, for the next generation. These terms, outsider and low brow, are a bit demeaning in juxtaposition to the gallery world, and the “fine art” made in these areas today, especially in Portland, in comic realms, poster art, tattooing, paintings, and fine art, are very much a skilled effort, or a NEW BROW approach to art, versus the Old World definition of “Outsider” - art made by the insane. Although, still within the realm of “edgy”, this form of pop-art defines our world, and these are some of Portland’s best, and definitely my favorites of our city.” -

—Chris Haberman, curator

Fresh off her latest showing in San Francisco, CA, Portland utility tape artist Mona Superhero comes home with “Slow Movin’ Dreams” - celebrating her first solo show in Portland in five years.
In Slow Movin’ Dreams, Mona Superhero travels through both space and time to re-imagine her own Texas upbringing as a bleak sci-fi rock opera with the underlying threads of violence and isolation that underpin small town youth culture. Cowgirls, snakes, guns, leering horses; suspended symbols mash up like raw snapshots right from dreams.

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There Must be Something More to Know

Sin Atone

Feints, Gestures, Styles of Dress and Showy Behavior

I’ve Seen It Happen

She Would Not Have Them Think Otherwise

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This is going to be an amazing show. Mike Kabler and I have been eager to show together for some time now. I will be in San Francisco for the June 5th opening. Glamarama is located at 304 Valencia Street. Hope to see you there!

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