Helen's Costume is a contemporary art gallery in Portland, OR, in a modified domestic setting. We pair local artists with artists out of state (and hopefully soon out of the US). The title Bumpy Road was suggested by our frequent collaborator, Costume International founder, Petra Poffenberger, who also contributed this poem by the same name for our press release.
Magic Mountain parking
Nougat lectern
veiny influence
streams
This show feature new paintings by Rainen Knecht who's solo show, R U My Mother? runs concurrently with Bumpy Road at Fourteen30. . Elizabeth Herring makes her Portland debut with photos of European storefronts printed as plexiglass objects and one of her "cappuccino coffee influencer" sculptures. You can read about Herring's solo show, Ojai City Gift, up now at the Basic Premise here. For this show, our first of 2021, we break with our tradition of showing only artists who have never shown together (or even met) by showing new paintings and drawings by Scott Hewicker and D-L Alvarez. These artist's paths have crossed numerous times since the mid 90's when they both showed at the legendary gallery, Kiki, in San Francisco. You can read about D-L and Scott here.
D-L Alvarez (they/them) was born in Stockton, California, and has lived in many ports: Denver, New York, Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Oakland, and Portland. They are represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York, Galeria Casado Santapau in Madrid, and have shown internationally including the Berkeley Art Museum, the Durban Art Center in South Africa, the New York MoMA and Kiki in San Francisco.
Elizabeth Herring (she/her) was born in Los Angeles, California and lives in Ojai, California. She has shown at DJ’s Dog House, Cashmere Radio and PLU41 in Berlin as well as The Basic Premise in Ojai.
Scott Hewicker (he/him) was born in San Pedro, California, and lives in San Francisco. Scott has shown at the ICA in Philadelphia, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen Denmark, the Oakland Museum, California, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gallery 16, Delaplane, scene/escena, and Kiki in Sanfrancisco.
Rainen Knecht (she/her) was born in Tacoma, Washington, and lives in Portland. She is represented by Fourteen30 in Portland. She has shown at Situations in New York,New York, PMOMA in Portland, FIsher Parish, Brooklyn, NY, and Stems Gallery in Brussels, Belgium.
