Live Sign Painting Demo by artist Kirsten Bauer at Artspace!
Please join us for a Live Sign Painting Demonstration and a Meet the Artist opportunity with local sign painting luminary, Kirsten Bauer. She will be painting the interior windows of our gallery. This will also be an opportunity to view our exhibition, HER FORMATION, which exhibits the work of nine women artists whose enigmatic artworks offer visions of survival and even imaginative possibility in times of upheaval.
The artists include Marjan Anvari, Kirsten Bauer, Francesca Capone, Sally Jablonsky, Emily Katz, Frankie Krupa-Vahdani, Zhang Mao, Heather Watkins and Amanda Wojick. Each artist makes sense of the complexity of the world through artistic acts of alteration, abstraction, and material transformation. Their bold, often brightly saturated compositions respond to limitations through a wide variety of approaches, whether limitations of their embodied experience, cultural traditions, or autocratic systems of power. The artists’ works are uncompromising in their creative power, defiant, and even playful.
About Kirsten Bauer:
Kirsten Bauer is a multidisciplinary artist and sign-painter based in Portland, OR. With a background in Art History & English, she previously worked for several arts organizations in both educational and curatorial departments. These years of study developed her eye for design, color, understanding of visual forms, and ability to pull from a vast inner library of aesthetic references. Kirsten is a graduate of the Los Angeles Trade-Tech Sign Graphics program, the only formal sign-painting training program still offered in the United States – taught continuously since 1924. These two years of study prioritized letterforms, layout & design, and color. To her, sign painting is the act of beautifying our commercial landscape; a way to organize our world and permeate our everyday lives with handmade acts of artistry.
Details:
Friday, February 28th, 2025 from 12pm-4pm
Meet the artist & Live Sign Painting Demo by artist Kirsten Bauer, within Artspace.
Free & Open to the public.
Artspace is open Tuesday through Friday from 10am to 5pm, and outside of these hours during special events.
Organizer
ACLO is a women-run arts nonprofit organization that works to ensure the arts are an integral part of life in our community now and into the future with the purpose of placement and preservation of public art in Lake Oswego. ACLO also provides access to art exhibitions through the Artspace, which is the only not for profit art gallery in Lake Oswego. ACLO hopes to advance lifelong learning about the arts through educational programs and docent tours.