First Thursday with Arielle Zamora

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1
6 - 9 PM


Arielle Zamora is an artist who focuses in oil painting and printmaking. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where she received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2013. She is intensely drawn to relationships between line, form, and color, and she draws inspiration from architecture to help assign structure, repetition, and function to the two dimensional plane. Her work exhibits fine lines and marks carved into joint compound, and she enjoys exploring the unique qualities of her chosen materials as well as giving in to mistakes and the natural slip of the hand.

In her printmaking practice, she repeats monolithic shapes that call to mind the simple figure, and which are given aperture and environment in a 2D realm by using line to build a space, or home, for the forms. These monolithic forms, rocky and often visceral, are an homage to the large craggy rocks that wade like hooded figures just off the Oregon Coast line. They also draw up ideas of the basic human form, amorphized and stripped down to the simple space they inhabit.

www.ariellezamora.com

 

Designer Spotlight: North Vancouver

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Our clients in Vancouver, WA were ready for the finishes touches for their home. They needed a modern, complete look for the open floor plan living area; to convert their casual home office to a cozy den; and, most importantly, new lighting to set the mood at any time of day.

 

EWF Modern designers  incorporated the client’s existing favorites, including an Italian white leather sofa purchased here, a deep blue bespoke rug, and a Scandinavian hardwood sideboard and cabinet. Some rearranging of their existing artwork made room for two new pieces - an original abstract by a local artist, and a felted, graphic piece that added texture and warmth. 

The project wrapped up in Spring 2019 and we are thrilled with the results! The lighting concept created drama during the day and intimate, accent lighting in the evening. The designers matched the weight and scale of their existing pieces with oversized, European inspired pendant lights and a mid-century flush mount in the entryway. Additional layering of accessories and texture created a polished, sophisticated space that still maintains a playful feel with color and depth. 

 
 

First Thursday with Painter Mia Farrington

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THURSDAY, JUNE 6
6 - 9 PM

Join us for a reception with painter Mia Farrington, celebrating a selection of new pieces on view!

Farrington’s paintings are about relationships and perception - how colors influence each other. Like many perceptions in life, from far away they edges look flawless, yet when experienced up close, reveal all the intimate imperfections.

 

First Thursday Pop-Up: Clay Factor Ceramics

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THURSDAY, MAY 2
6 - 9 PM

Join us for wine and new work from Clay Factor Ceramics, a Portland-based ceramic studio creating handmade porcelain wares for the home, retail and hospitality industry.

Studio founder Minu Oh is known for her modern approach to traditional ceramic inlay and marbling technique. Working specifically with porcelain, she borrows from the medium’s unique qualities of translucency, purity and fine density to guide and evolve her work.

She will be debuting new additions to the Eureka collection (as well as the classics) for First Thursday!

See you there!