Time to say goodbye to William Damiano’s creatures. What a good time we had.
Very exciting: Rikki Rothenberg’s exhibition opens Wednesday. Reception First Friday.
First photograph © Kathleen Keogh.
In order of appearance: Patricia Poodle Stats, Patricia Poodle Costumes 1, Fox Family Movie Project, Fox Family Football, Fox Family 1,000,000, Fox Family Sgt Peppers.
All work 2012, ink and watercolors on paper, dimensions variable. Please email info@nationale.us for a price list and visit our website for more images.
William Damiano’s solo exhibition closes this Sunday May 27th, 6 p.m.
Congratulations to Heather Sielaff of Olo for being featured on Cool Hunting. We’re looking forwards to adding a couple old favorites to our small selection in the coming weeks…
Currently in stock by OLO: Nationale 6/7, Jmaes, Leisure Nomad, and the rose/cedarwood argan oil hair tonic ($34-45).
SMOKING HORSE PRINT:
Signed/numbered, limited edition 11.5” x 17” prints, $10, printed at Container Corps
“About five years ago I was walking down Burnside near Old Town and spotted a beat-up playing card on the ground. Staring at me faceup was the Joker, which I thought was kinda funny. But it was the image on the flip side that blew me away—a black and white portrait of a horse framed in bright red. Twenty minutes later I was drinking a cup of coffee at the Half & Half, my favorite hangout back then. I had the coveted window seat. Don’t know if it was the warm magic hour sunlight or the coffee was especially good that day, but I was inspired to take out my pencil and eraser and doctor the card as you see here.”
CERAMIC BUCK HEAD:
Made by Gretchen Vaudt, $12
“When I was a little kid, I joined the Manikiki Nation Y-Indian Guides, along with my little brother and pop. We’d meet once a month with other tribal members to make crafts, play games, tell stories and eat pepperoni pizza. I remember going camping once—canoeing, too—and learning how to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together. As part of my membership, I got a patch (which my mom sewed onto my suede fringe vest), a colorful headband, and a new name—Running Deer. I was proud of my name because I thought it sounded fast and cool. I even burned it into a piece of wood with my wood burning kit I got for Christmas that year. I’ve liked all things deer ever since, especially these ceramic pieces made by Portland artist Gretchen Vaudt. Her Native American name, by the way, is Hanging Possum—bestowed by the Boys & Girls Club of St. Cloud, Minnesota when she was 10.”
BUCKMAN BOW & ARROW SET:
Made by Brendan Budge, $45
“I met my friend Brendan about 10 years ago, not long after he had emigrated from Appalachia, his motherland. In his Buckman neighborhood apartment, the one that towers over Sassy’s, he dreams up—and then makes entirely by hand—the coolest shit. Take his bow and arrow sets, for example. He delivered these to me on a drizzly afternoon while we were standing in line ordering burritos at Robo Taco. After we filled our bellies, I asked him to step outside and demonstrate the flyness of his latest creation. He moved to the edge of the curb, waited for a few cars to pass, then shot an arrow clear across Morrison Ave. Brendan makes his bow and arrow sets out of hickory, birch, cherry and walnut. Note that he caps each arrow with a rubber thingy, so you don’t hurt yourself.”
All images/text © Norm Sajovie (MIR04)
We’ve been waiting a while for Delaney Allen’s book to be re-printed after the first edition sold out, and it’s now done. Publication studio did an amazing job (yay for their new printer). Love the new, soft gray cover.
Between Here and There by Delaney Allen: A semi-autobiographical account of the final year of a long distance relationship. Combining photographic imagery and personal emails, the book depicts love in all its powerful and tragic nature. Selected by Bruno Ceschel to be on the 2010 “best of” book list in Photo-Eye Magazine. Introduction by Sydney S. Kim.
$25
102 pp.
8.25” x 9.35”
Come get your free, limited edition, and generally awesome Brad Adkins poster, we have a few in. It’s an announcement for a show Adkins is curating next month at Ditch Project in Springfield, OR. Awesome line-up + you have nothing to lose.
Forgot to post a big thank you to Tom Greenwood (of Jackie-O) for performing here a couple weeks ago and sharing his experience from his recent time in Paris. It was such a special night. Vanessa Renwick was here and also talked about her experience in Paris, Norm was here, Jessi and Ilyas were here, Rikki was here. Hell, even Brad Adkins showed up!
Before going back to LA, Tom left us a few limited edition recordings of his “Live in Tokyo” with Tetuzi Akiyama CDs, $10 (ed. 25). Come get one. It’s quiet and perfect.
WOOLLY MAMMOTH COMES TO DINNER | DANCE PERFORMANCE
Friday June 8th, 2012
7pm
$3 | Free for our members
Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner is an aesthetically-inclined, trans-pop-culture, dance-therapy performance group formed in Portland, OR in 2006 by Katie Arrants, Kathleen Keogh, and Rikki Rothenberg. Together hey have performed in venues ranging from burned-out buildings to black box theaters to downtown alleyways. Traversing between hilarious absurdity and a dark intensity, they bring audiences to the precipice of tantalizing confusion.
“Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner have been refining a kind of awkward-sexy that is starting to be amazing. They are mining the discomfort of attraction-repulsion schemes, working with a turn-on simultaneously negated. I like that Woolly has the courage to be ugly with their body positions, voices and makeup. It’s high fashion. It’s somebody’s obsession – the power of humiliation and boldness. It’s a come-hither confrontation. The twinge of uneasy moments are not just exploited but extended and explored. (…) Woolly has been building a language of such moments.” —Seth Nehil for PICA.
This will be the group’s fifth performance at Nationale and the second one featuring all three founding members (Katie Arrants lives and works in Seattle, WA).
Image © Allison Halter
ALLIE HANKINS | DANCE PERFORMANCE
Saturday June 23rd, 2012
7pm
$3 | Free for our members
Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth unfolds against a backdrop of gold-bathed muscle and lurid color. Sourcing pivotal moments from Vaslav Nijinsky’s life and dance history, Allie Hankins constructs an amalgamation of herself and several of Nijinsky’s most poignant roles. Steering imitation into the realm of transformation and self-discovery, she confronts isolation, desire, and movement’s capacity to engender lust, repugnance, confusion and elation.
Allie Hankins currently performs as a member of the Seattle-based performance group Salt Horse, and was the movement designer for Implied Violence’s The Dorothy K.—with which she toured to New York’s New Island Festival and Austria’s Donau Festival.
Image © Tim Summers
