TEDxPortland’s second annual event has just wrapped up, and WHAT a year!!! THANK YOU to our ever-inspiring and passionate list of speakers, the performers who left us awe-struck… the sponsors who enabled it to happen, and each and every one of the 45 volunteers who pulled it all together.
We will be back again next year… and would love to hear from you before then! Help us make next year even GREATER.
Thank you!
TEDxPortland
Jason G. Sturgil
READ BETWEEN THE SIGNS (2012)
Jason Sturgill is a culture worker with a background in advertising, design and various curatorial practices. Having worked for Wieden+Kennedy, Dark Horse Comics, Laika, and Nike along with running his own online art gallery has heavily influenced his art practice which centers around the intersection of art and local business. Sturgill is currently participating in the MFA program in Art and Social Practice as well as teaching graphic design at Portland State University.
http://jasonsturgill.com/
Artwork made in partnership with Lee’s Better Letters, Moso Graphics, Schonman Sign, Sign Wizards and Em Space.
Complete creative control was given to four local sign shops to interpret the theme “Uncharted Territory” in an attempt at transparency in artistic production and to highlight local business.
- Lee Littlewood of Lee’s Better Letters: acrylic paint on board
- Collin Votrobeck of Moso Graphics: computer cut/scored wood veneer, ink, adhesive vinyl, graphite
- Benn Schonman of Schonman Sign: enamel paint on plastic - “rebirth of a letter”
- Lori Gilbert of Sign Wizards: edge print on vinyl on acrylic - exploration of empathy in the
judicial system
-Rory Sparks of Em Space: letterpress - footnotes
Conceived and executed by Jason G. Sturgill
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Robb Harskamp
77 Burnside (2012)
Acrylic on Metal
“The steel door was battered and the building leaked, but the vision that was inside 77 Burnside Street was something that would change Portland’s business scene forever. Going back to that original battered steel door seemed like an authentic representation of what TEDxPORTLAND is all about.”
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Ryan Bubnis
Keep Doodlin’ & Dreamin’ (2012)
Limited Edition Giclee Print
Ryan Bubnis’ work has been described as “modern folk.” Through his paintings, installations, design and mural work, he comments on themes relating to the human condition.
Bubnis’ work has been featured in publications such as Vapors, Juxtapoz and IdN magazines. Some of his clients include Kidrobot, Nike, 20th Century Fox, Singha and Gertrude Inc. He resides in Portland, Oregon and is currently an instructor at P.N.CA.
http://www.ryanbubnis.com/
“Keep Doodlin’ & Dreamin’ is about discovery. One of my favorite parts of the art-making process is the brainstorming and ideation stage. It’s free, loose and liberating. You weed through all the bad ideas to get to the good ones. It reminds me of the times when I spent countless hours in class drawing on binder paper when I should have been taking math notes.”
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Todd Lown
TIMBER, GREEN, GOLD, FELL (2012)
Enamel on Wood
Todd Lown was born in Seattle, Washington, later attending the University of Washington he earned a BFA in Printmaking. Todd has created works for skateboards, public art murals, and hand-painted signs. He has shown original art in Dusseldorf, Antwerp, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Over the past few years he has been working on paintings that are narrative vignettes composed of type, anthropomorphized type, form, pattern and color.
http://www.toddlown.blogspot.com/
www.siamesebirds.com
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Jesse Brown
Home Turf (2012)
Enamel on wood
Jesse Brown is a multidisciplinary Artist / Designer and Co-Creative Director of the brand Sausage Skateboards based in Seattle, Washington.
His work has been exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Barcelona, Tokyo, Berlin, London and Paris.
He is known for working in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, design,
sculpture, limited edition artist books, installation, video and textile works.
http://papervspencil.com/
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Klutch
Cascadiascope (2012)
Acrylic and Aerosol on Wood
Klutch has been creating visual mischief for over three decades. From his work with the early 1980’s hardcore punk scene and the legendary Skull Skates, to painting backgrounds for Vogue ads, his work has appeared around the world on t-shirts, skateboards, city walls, magazines, and galleries. In 2005 the suite he created at San Francisco’s Hotel Des Arts was featured in Time magazine’s annual “Best Of” issue. Since then he has accomplished very little.
Contact: klutch@me.com
http://www.cacakook.com/
Cascadiascope is a talisman composed of symbolic representations of the forces that combine to make the Northwest such a magical place for so many people and creatures.
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Eugene Serebrennikov
MAKE YOUR OWN PATH (2012)
birch wood
Hailing from New York, New York, Eugene Serebrennikov recently migrated to the left coast (for greener pastures and rainier skies). Before designing at Nike’s graphic studio, he got his start designing album covers and gig posters for bands such as Rage Against the Machine, Phish, and Citizen Cope.
http://HYP-INC.com/
“The concept behind my art piece is simple: make your own path. The greatest uncharted territory is within our own minds.”
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Aithan Shapira, PhD
Impressions: Two Balloons Remain (2012)
5 Cement Panels
Shapira’s work challenges contemporaries to celebrate today’s cubist problem - the urgent need to know all you are not seeing, be simultaneously inside and outside, in history and the present. A first generation American, Shapira is a rising artist exhibited among international museums and private collections. He lived and drew with Aboriginal Australians over three years, lectured at Harvard, The Royal College of Art, University of Sydney, and received the Daler-Rowney Prize for Drawing and Blanche E. Colman Award for Painting.
http://aithanshapira.com/
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Adam Garcia
Movement/Moment
Printed booklet. Edition of 30
Adam R Garcia is a director, designer and illustrator at the Portland-based multidisciplinary studio, The Pressure. A native of Minneapolis, his work spans aesthetic in the fields of design, identities, illustration, events, gallery exhibits and packaging. His conceptual and process-driven approach creates emotive results, with a focus on collaboration, community and exploration.
http://thepressure.org/
“Movement/Moment” is a collaborative publication created with a group of 15 graphic design students from Portland State University. The book was created as a playful artifact of one day’s thinking during a workshop held at PSU, dealing with the theme, “Design for the Future.” A manifesto for making was generated and each of the students created a spread, which was included in the magazine. Leaving it unbound meant that every spread could become a potential poster.
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