Abstract
Toadstools is a group exhibition curated by Steven Brown at Helen’s Costume, Portland, Oregon (26 October – 1 December 2024). Participating artists include DL Alvarez, Erica Eyres, Noah Greene, Midori Hirose, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Lena Lutz, Elmeater Morton, Ralph Pugay, Stephanie Simek, Jackie Stewart, Shelley Turley, Leif Anderson.
Erica Eyres exhibits an oil painting on linen, titled Brunette. Her methodology involves the collection of source imagery from cosmetology and dermatology books that feature extreme close-up photographs women’s faces and the backs of anonymous women’s heads. Eyres selects, scans, closely-crops and edits these photographs, and paints them using realist techniques. The resulting painting instigatse an extreme sense of closeness to the subject, who remains anonymous, and presents a moment from an incomplete narrative that becomes psychologically charged.
The exhibition brings together a group of artists who have previously been included in the gallery programme and explores themes around mysticism and the figure of the toadstool
Erica Eyres exhibits an oil painting on linen, titled Brunette. Her methodology involves the collection of source imagery from cosmetology and dermatology books that feature extreme close-up photographs women’s faces and the backs of anonymous women’s heads. Eyres selects, scans, closely-crops and edits these photographs, and paints them using realist techniques. The resulting painting instigatse an extreme sense of closeness to the subject, who remains anonymous, and presents a moment from an incomplete narrative that becomes psychologically charged.
The exhibition brings together a group of artists who have previously been included in the gallery programme and explores themes around mysticism and the figure of the toadstool
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Helen's Costume |
| Publication status | Published - 26 Oct 2024 |