Mauve Fog from Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun
PPSTMM is quite happy to announce its inaugural public moment with an exhibition and performance from Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun. Friday January 12th, from 6:00 – 8:00pm, with the performance starting around 6:30pm.
The exhibition of two and three dimensional works are brought together under the title Mauve Fog. The foggy future of 2024 asks us to eschew the sentimental forecasting in favor of a glassy eye gaze into the question: “what’s next?”
As a means of accessing the marbles in his mind, Kriksciun has taken to rummaging in his memories for clues and cues, finding drawings that are un-singed from the candlelit sepia, and yet do share in an overall achromatic vibe.
Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun’s lifelong creative pursuits of skating, drawing, music, and hanging out have led to an enigmatic style filled with colorful gestures, formal puns, and sly observation on his own presence in the world. Colorful, reverent, and cagy, the images seek recognition, empathy, and a smile. These doings have landed him in a few spots, such as Stockholm, Sweden and Tokyo, Japan, as well as his current home in Portland, Oregon. His works have been featured in Portland venus such as Lowell, Nationale, Free Spirit News, Car Hole, Half & Half, Holocene, and many others, as well as Printed Matter, NYC, Big Medium, Austin, TX and can be found in his publications: Fragile Jazz, Pretty Ugly, and Ngôi Dánh Hoang.
PS!
In the same building, on the same night, Jan 12, our neighbor’s Black Whole Press will also host an open house.
About PPSTMM:
PPSTMM [pronounced pastime] is committed to art-as-verb. Begun in 2022 solely as a place of meeting, making, storing, thinking, escaping; the skylit room at 323 NW Wygant is now going public. Come human with others in this place and witness how that changes the contents of the room. Partake in action orientated correlations of body and mind, intellect and instinct; fusing aesthetic captivation with catalyzation. Party Poetry, if you will.