805 NW 21st Avenue
Portland,
OR 97209United States
Contact Name:
Katrina Woltze
Hours:
Tuesday - Friday: 11-5:30 and Saturday: 11-5
First Thursday Receptions:
First Thursday 5:00–8:00 pm
One of the most beautiful showcases for art in the region, The Laura Russo Gallery represents some of the best and most recognized artists of the Pacific Northwest. Established in 1986, the gallery holds regular monthly exhibitions that encompass both established and emerging contemporary artists, as well as the estates of some of the best recognized regional artists of the mid-20th Century. In the gallery you will find work in all media, including painting, sculpture and works on paper.
The staff enjoys working with clients and visitors in all aspects of art acquisition and exploration, and provides regular opportunities to meet the artists, through artist talks and monthly exhibit receptions. The gallery is located in its original location on Northwest 21st Avenue at Johnson Street, and has convenient parking located off of Johnson.
Anne Siems
Recent Paintings
Seattle artist, Anne Siems paints ethereal figures in celestial places with careful detail and refinement. Her dream-like depictions allude to childhood memories, wonderment, and 19th century ideas in scientific study, psychoanalysis and photographic portraiture. Elements, as if from a cabinet of curiosity, surround the figure: birds in cages, flowers, trees, trinkets, and lace. This exhibition entitled, Creatures, continues her development of an allusive narrative, placing poised figures in personal and secluded tableaus. The figures evoke lost memories with an old world aesthetic. They are delicately rendered and composed, caught in that photographic moment of motionlessness. Harmonious in color, her works enchant us in their dreamy and poetic reverie.
Jan Reaves
Recent Paintings and Works on Paper
Eugene painter, Jan Reaves explores the essence of elements found in everyday life using a distinctly abstract language. Working with a vocabulary of gestural line and shapes, she connects with an idea or an object, and through process, and exploring structure and composition, she adds a depth and clarity to the knowledge of her subject matter. Reaves says, “painting (forms) becomes a tool for thought and feeling…the painting needs to move from this highly personal place of “beginning” to a more expansive connection to the world around me.” Her initial forms are derived from architecture, the figure, domestic objects, and relational concepts, and honed down to the essentials. The elements begin to have multiple meanings, and as they are gradually built up, develop a presence and power. Open-ended, Reaves’ outcomes have no easy interpretations, leading the viewer ultimately to the work’s richly enigmatic and haunting qualities.
Recent Paintings
Painter Jack Portland combines elements of surrealism and expressionism with a patterned and abstract vocabulary. He incorporates images ranging from landscape to still life to a synopsis of personal forms. Since 1993, he has divided his time between Portland and Italy, which has dramatically influenced his work. In the past, his imagery primarily featured abstract forms, some architectural, some organic, that used repetition and pattern to create a dream-like, fantasy world. Here his color palette and imagery softens, the compositions are looser, and elements and line overlap. Landscape vignettes enigmatically merge with abstract shapes and patterns. His paintings allude to place while capturing the sensuous nature and imaginative beauty of the world around him.
Representing the following Artists:
Jay Backstrand, Marlene Bauer, Frank Boyden, Michael Brophy, Sean Cain, Francis Celentano, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Eric Franklin, Chris Gander, Cie Goulet, Gregory Grenon, Roll Hardy, Jackie Johnson, Fay Jones, Mary Josephson, Jun Kaneko, Mel Katz, Connie Kiener, Michihiro Kosuge, Joan Livingstone, Rae Mahaffey, Alden Mason, Stephen McClelland, Betty Merken, David Curt Morris, Whitney Nye, Kim Osgood, Geoffrey Pagen, Henk Pander, Lucinda Parker, JD Perkin, Jack Portland, Jan Reaves, David Schwarz, Margaret Shirley, Anne Siems, Eric Stotik, Margot Voorhies Thompson, Gina Wilson, Sherrie Wolf
Representing the Following Artist Estates:
Louis Bunce, Kenneth Callahan, Robert Colescott, Michael Dailey, William Givler, Sally Haley, Frederick Heidel, Manuel Izquierdo, Carl Morris, Hilda Morris, A.C. Runquist, Arthur Runquist, Michele Russo
