ART THAT MAKES SPACE FOR THE DIVINE FEMME & LIVED HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Bellies, pillows, and panels.
Abstract paintings and drawings with gouache and assorted illustration tools.
2016-present
Belly (Mother), from Triple Moon Goddess collection (2017)
Inky (2017)
Ballpoint (2017)
Pinky/ie (2017)
Seeping (2017)
Ink & Caffeine Pillow #3 (2016)
Passage (2017)
Water & Caffeine panel #3 (2016)
Billow (2017)
Butter Melt (2017)
Tongue (2017)
Milky (2017)
Power (2017)
Slump (2017)
I embroider messages, images, and symbols within geometric shapes as a way to center my daily thoughts, fears, pain, joy, and devotions. Operating as small, focused spells and rituals, they support the wearer and aid constructive dialogue.
This is an archive of my collectible embroidered brooches and ornaments, 2016-present.
Select pieces currently available here in my Embroidery Store, some available at Wolff Gallery in Portland, OR.
Yes, 2019, brooch (2018)
i don’t care if you like it, brooch (2018)
Partly Sunny, brooch (2018)
resisting bitch face, brooch (2018)
bleed, brooch (2018)
feminist, brooch (2016)
Yes, brooch (2018)
No, brooch (2018)
it’s okay to be angry, brooch (2018)
did the artist get paid? brooch (2018) - white on black
did the artist get paid? brooch (2018) - black on white
BELIEVE WOMEN, brooch (2018)
scrap pendant 2, brooch (2018)
scrap pendant 3, brooch (2018)
scrap pendant 1, brooch (2018)
goddess / new moon, ornament (2018)
goddess / full moon, ornament (2018)
goddess / waning moon, ornament (2018)
earth / north, element ornament (2018)
air / east, element ornament (2018)
fire / south, element ornament (2018)
water / west, element ornament (2018)
spirit / source, element ornament (2018)
Be Kind / rewind, ornament (2018)
Laser boob tassels, brooch (2017)
Installed for Furthermore at the Bison Building (2017).
Installed in group show, Can You Handle Me?, at Killjoy Collective (2018).
SKELETON WOMAN (2017)
Listen to the words not ____ (2017)
Listen to the words not ____ (detail, 2017)
it's an onion (2017)
it's an onion (detail, 2017)
it's an onion (detail, 2017)
Embrace Me: So Big You Can't Get Around It (2010)
From original installation in solo exhibition, We Heart Love, at Project Lodge Gallery in Madison, WI (2010).
Participant: the artist
From original installation in solo exhibition, We Heart Love, at Project Lodge Gallery in Madison, WI (2010).
Embrace Me: So Big You Can't Get Around It (ver. 2, 2011)
From a 2018 solo exhibition, Intimate Spaces, at Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, OR.
Participant: Linda Hutchins
From a 2018 solo exhibition, Intimate Spaces, at Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, OR.
Participant: Rachel Mulder
From a 2018 group exhibition, Can Touch This, at Paragon Arts Gallery, in Portland, OR. Exhibition curated by Dominic Amorin as a part of arts programming for Public Annex.
BRIDGE FOR BLANKETS WAS A PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION AND PART OF THE 2013 PDX BRIDGE FESTIVAL. INSTALLATION ON THE BROADWAY BRIDGE MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM MULTNOMAH COUNTY. MATERIAL COSTS WERE PARTIALLY CROWD-FUNDED. ALL KNIT WOOL PANELS WERE CLEANED, SEPARATED INTO BLANKETS, AND DONATED TO PORTLAND-METRO AREA NON-PROFITS.
INSTALLED FROM AUGUST - SEPTEMBER, 2013.
SE PANEL, 1 OF 4 PANELS INSTALLED ON THE BROADWAY BRIDGE AS PART OF THE AUGUST 2013 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE BROADWAY BRIDGE ERECTION IN 1913. EACH PANEL WAS 18’ X 21’ IN DIMENSION.
THE 4 18’ X 21’ KNIT PANELS WERE MADE FROM THE COMBINED EFFORT OF OVER 200 PDX AREA VOLUNTEER KNITTERS. TEAM LEADERS COORDINATED PICK UP, DROP OFF, AND FURTHER CONSTRUCTION OF EACH BANNER.
BRIDGE FOR BLANKETS USED A SUPERWASH WOOL THAT WAS SOLD AT A GENEROUS DISCOUNT TO THE PROJECT BY CASCADE YARNS.
THE ARTIST AND PROJECT COORDINATOR, TYLER MACKIE, TAKING A BREAK ON A COMPLETED KNIT PANEL.
COMMUKNITCATION WAS A LOCAL YARN BOMBING GROUP THAT MADE STEALTH KNIT INSTALLATIONS IN N AND NE PORTLAND AROUND 2012. THIS SMALL KNIT SLEEVE TAG ON A SW RAILING OF THE PEDESTRIAN-BIKE DECK OF THE BROADWAY BRIDGE WAS THE INITIAL SPARK OF INSPIRATION FOR MACKIE’S BRIDGE FOR BLANKETS 2013 COMMUNITY-BASED INSTALLATION.
SOME FUNDRAISING AND KNITTING DATES FOR VOLUNTEERS WERE HOSTED BY MIGRATION BREWING IN NE PORTLAND. THANK YOU!
A HANDFUL OF THE BRIDGE FOR BLANKETS VOLUNTEERS GATHERED IN MID-SUMMER, 2013 TO STITCH TOGETHER THE KNIT 1’ SQUARES INTO COLOR BLOCKS, AND THEN BRIDGE PANELS.
VOLUNTEERS GATHERED AT HOME OF SE/NE/NW VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR, SHARON MACKIE.
A HANDFUL OF THE BRIDGE FOR BLANKETS VOLUNTEERS GATHERED IN MID-SUMMER, 2013 TO STITCH TOGETHER THE KNIT 1’ SQUARES INTO COLOR BLOCKS, AND THEN BRIDGE PANELS.
VOLUNTEERS GATHERED AT HOME OF SE/NE/NW VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR, SHARON MACKIE.
MUCH OF THE REMAINING WORK TO REINFORCE EACH 18’ X 21’ KNIT PANEL WAS DONE IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT IN MACKIE’S HOME WITH A HANDFUL OF FIERCELY DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS.
SW PANEL PHOTO TAKEN BY ERIK CARLSON.
SW PANEL PHOTO TAKEN FROM WESTSIDE WATERFRONT BY MICHELE LEE BERNSTEIN, PROJECT VOLUNTEER.
TWO BRIDGE PANELS TAKEN FROM A PASSERBY ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE BROADWAY BRIDGE PEDESTRIAN-BIKE RAMP.
PHOTO OF BROADWAY BRIDGE AND STEEL BRIDGE TAKEN FROM FREMONT BRIDGE DURING THE PROVIDENCE BRIDGE PEDAL IN MID-AUGUST 2013. THIS EVENT IS THE ONLY TIME IN THE YEAR THAT BICYCLES ARE ALLOWED ON THIS BRIDGE; IF YOU SQUINT, YOU CAN SEE THE FAINT SILHOUETTE OF THE BRIDGE FOR BLANKET BANNERS GLOWING IN THE SUNLIGHT.
PHOTO TAKEN BY BRIDGE FOR BLANKETS SW VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR, MELISSA ANN HEINEN.
ONE OF THE PANELS DURING INSTALLATION, BILLOWING IN THE STRONG SUMMER BREEZE THAT THE BRIDGES EXPERIENCE OVER THE WILLAMETTE RIVER.
ALL GRATITUDE TO THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE ENGINEERS FOR BRAVING THE HEIGHTS, WIND, AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ATTACHING THE PANELS TO THEIR CABLE SECUREMENTS.
MACKIE COORDINATING INSTALLATION LOGISTICS FOR THE FINAL PANEL TO A MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE ENGINEER.
ALL GRATITUDE TO THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE ENGINEERS FOR BRAVING THE HEIGHTS, WIND, AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ATTACHING THE PANELS TO THEIR CABLE SECUREMENTS.
TONY LESTER, A RECENTLY RETIRED ENGINEER FOR THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE SHOP, CAME UP WITH THE BRIDGE INSTALLATION SCHEMATICS AND WAS A CONSTANT SUPPORTER OF BRIDGE FOR BLANKETS FROM START TO FINISH. HERE HE IS SECURING THE LAST LOWER CORNER OF THE SE PANEL IN 2013.
ALL GRATITUDE TO THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE ENGINEERS FOR BRAVING THE HEIGHTS, WIND, AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ATTACHING THE PANELS TO THEIR CABLE SECUREMENTS.
PHOTO TAKEN BY CHARLIE VAWTER.
SOME DISTANT PERSPECTIVE ON THE FIRST PANEL INSTALLED.
ALL GRATITUDE TO THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE ENGINEERS FOR BRAVING THE HEIGHTS, WIND, AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ATTACHING THE PANELS TO THEIR CABLE SECUREMENTS.
PHOTO TAKEN BY CHARLIE VAWTER.
A RARE OCCASION WHEN AN ART INSTALLATION CAN CLOSE DOWN A BRIDGE FOR A WHOLE DAY.
ALL GRATITUDE TO THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE ENGINEERS FOR BRAVING THE HEIGHTS, WIND, AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ATTACHING THE PANELS TO THEIR CABLE SECUREMENTS.
PHOTO TAKEN BY CHARLIE VAWTER.
AND THEN THE PUBLIC ART LIFE OF THE PROJECT CAME TO AN END IN SEPTEMBER OF 2013.
ALL GRATITUDE TO THE MULTNOMAH COUNTY BRIDGE ENGINEERS FOR BRAVING THE HEIGHTS, WIND, AND RESPONSIBILITY OF ATTACHING THE PANELS TO THEIR CABLE SECUREMENTS; AND THEN RETURNING A MONTH LATER TO DEINSTALL ALL 4 PANELS.
DONATION ROUND 1 OF 12 6’ X 6’ BLANKETS WENT TO SNO CAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES.
DONATION ROUND 2 OF 12 6’ X 6’ BLANKETS CLACKAMAS WOMEN’S SERVICES.
DONATION ROUND 3 OF 12 3’ X 6’ BLANKETS WENT TO RANDALL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AT LEGACY EMANUEL.
DONATION ROUND 4 OF 12 6’ X 6’ BLANKETS WENT TO HUMAN SOLUTIONS AT PARKROSE UCC.
Pillowcase, Charlie - 2015
Pillowcase, Charlie - detail
Pillowcase, Charlie - detail
Pillowcase, Tyler - 2015
Pillowcase, Tyler - detail
Pillowcase, Tyler - detail
Pillowcase, Tyler - detail
Bed Board - 2015
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Bed Board - detail
Embroidered portraits on pillows.
Drawn Together - 2014
Joanne - 2014
Christopher - 2014
Kate - 2014
I developed this series for my Storefront Residency in the Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Gallery Store in Fall 2014.
Some of the work installed for view during my Storefront Residency in the Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Gallery Store in Fall 2014.
Cameron - 2014
Kinoko - 2014
Charlie - 2014
Rachel - 2014
