Curator Leo Michelson and gallery owner Charles Froelick called me up last year with an intriguing idea. They were pairing up 17 painters with 17 photographers, asking them to create a portrait of one another. The resulting show is titled
Two of a Kind.I was paired with local painter Shanon Playford, whose beautiful, often whimsical, portraits and paintings I immediately liked. We spent several months working together to create portraits of one another.For my portrait of Shanon, I spent two sessions with her, creating unique 8x10 and 4x5 collodion tintypes--a cumbersome, toxic, but extremely beautiful old photographic process with stunning results.
Please join me for the First Thursday opening at the
Froelick Gallery in Portland's Pearl District, June 3rd, 5-8:00pm.The show runs from June 1 to July 17. The Froelick Gallery is located in the DeSoto Building, at 714 NW Davis. Regular gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30am to 5:30pm.