Gallery 114’s “InkBodySkinPaint+Fire,” with paintings by David Slader and photos by Owen Carey, looks at and below the surfaces of self

A week ago Wednesday evening, the night before the official First Thursday opening at Gallery 114 of the artist-run gallery’s March show, InkBodySkinPaint+Fire, the basement space at Northwest Glisan Street and 11th Avenue was hopping . . .

 

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Oregon Artswatch, March 14, 2019

https://www.orartswatch.org/tattoo-you-art-in-the-flesh/

thank you for joining us!

Over 200 friends and art lovers joined Owen Carey and me for our Preview Reception and First Thursday Opening of InkBodySkinPaint+Fire last week. Thank you. It was a blast.

And a special thank you to Katie Watkins and Samuel Pederson of the performance troupe Risk/Reward who posed as talking, tattooed artist models on First Thursday. The art was not just on the walls. It was also projected by these two exceptional performers who added their fertile imagination and creativity to the evening.

InkBodySkinPaint+Fire continues at Gallery 114 Thursday-Sunday, noon-6:00pm, through March 30.

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InkBodySkinPaint+Fire

OPENING THIS WEEK

David Slader & Owen Carey
Please join Owen Carey and me for
Preview & Artists’ Reception
Wednesday, March 6, at 7:00 p.m.

First Thursday Opening, March 7, 3:00 to 9:00 p.m.

David Slader, paintings and sculpture
Owen Carey, photography
at Gallery 114

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InkBodySkinPaint+Fire: David Slader & Owen Carey

Gallery 114

March 7 — 30, 2019

 

The inked, curved back of a cancer patient.

A painted figure of abstractly patterned and disjointed parts.

A large, leaping man with Shakespearian quotes tattooed on his belly.

All three and a gallery of others express longings, hopes, fears, losses and passions through the decorated human body.

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The Portland exhibit and performance series includes literary readings from Street Roots vendors

David Slader and Owen Carey don’t have a spot of ink between them, but tattoos are the central theme of their co-exhibition at Gallery 114 in the Pearl District later this month, beginning on First Thursday . . .

 

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Street Roots News, March 1, 2019

https://news.streetroots.org/2019/03/01/art-identity-tattoos-movement-prose-gallery-114

InkBodySkinPaint+Fire, an exhibit of works by contemporary artist David Slader and photographer Owen Carey, is featured by Portland, Oregon’s Pearl District in

Explore the Pearl, March 2019