Passages: Visual Stories of Liminal Places
April 11th - June 22nd in the Parrish Gallery
Free Public Artist Reception: April 21st, 5 - 7pm
If you are interested in purchasing art from any exhibits, please email Galleries@ChehalemCulturalCenter.org or call 503-487-6883
Passages: Visual Stories of Liminal Places is a small group show featuring Alexis Day, Tyler Goodwin, and Paul Trapp. Through fiber art, mixed-media photography, painting, and printmaking, viewers will traverse into visual contradictions, distorted realities, and fractal spaces.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Alexis Day
Alexis Day’s creative practice is a form of introspection, cultural interrogation, and material play. Utilizing a background in psychology and anthropology, she is interested in the human mind, and how cultural norms and expectations impact its functioning. Working with a variety of mediums including paint, photographs, fabric, thread, and drawing media, Day creates tactile and materially complex artworks that explore these themes. The resulting pieces are distorted reflections, and dream-like interpretations, of the contemporary world that the artist experiences.
Day is originally from Bandon, Oregon, and is based in Newberg, Oregon. She is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon and has had two solo exhibitions with them, Faceted: Time and Expectations, in 2021and Cascades: Synapse and Satin, in 2020. She earned an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2019, a Bachelor of Science in Art Practices from Portland State University in 2017, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Oregon in 2010. She had a solo exhibition Schemata: Dissonance and Distortion at the Forsberg Art Gallery in Longview, Washington, in 2021, and Dismantled, at the Lodge Gallery in Portland, Oregon in 2019. Day was included in the Forefront Symposium at Cynthia Reeves Gallery, in North Adams Massachusetts in 2020, and has participated in several artist residencies including The Studios at Mass MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 2020 and again in 2022, The Studios of Key West, in Key West, Florida, in 2021, and Caldera, in Sisters, Oregon, in 2018.
Tyler Goodwin
My art practice is distilled into the sharing of my own and others’ experiences in and connection to wilderness and our navigation through it. I explore the uses of line and organic imagery through unconventional cartography and explore its connection to wayfinding. My work balances between the recognizable and unfamiliar that pushes to the edge of representation. I investigate the visual rhythm of natural materials and utilize them either as tools or subjects. A mostly grayscale palette and the obscuring/combining imagery speaks to my own memory and the act of recollection. Through my work I convey the importance of appreciating wilderness and the feeling of wonder that is experienced through its exploration.
Paul Trapp
Paul Trapp is best known for his painting of interior and exterior places. Mainly working in acrylic, he depicts distorted domestic spaces with doors and windows that open up to sea and landscapes.
Being influenced by the Cubists and the San Francisco Bay Area painters, his work has moments of visual distortion that contradict our typical perception of reality. He does this to show that the mundane and ordinary are not what they appear to be, because our experience of them can be unique, magical, and filled with wonder.
Paul earned his MFA in painting from Illinois State University in 2011. He currently resides in Tacoma, Washington with his wife, son, and animals.