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Tina Beebe | Lost and Found + Nell Warren | Ephemeros


  • PDX CONTEMPORARY ART 1825 Northwest Vaughn Street, Suite B Portland, OR, 97209 United States (map)

PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present Lost and Found, an exhibition of new paintings by Tina Beebe.

Lost & Found explores aspects of memory and the way that lost memories and forgotten experiences can suddenly come to life through the process of painting.

“The course of making a painting is full of surprises, wrong turns, blind alleys, and U-turns and the best of it can get lost. Sometimes scraping reveals something new and promising, the hidden painting underneath is found again. Just as often the work is easily buried again and again and only after many new starts it becomes something entirely different and new from what was expected yet resolved. Found.”

Fascination with color has driven the educational and professional life of Tina Beebe. She received her MFA from Yale and while there she studied color theory with Joseph Albers. After graduation Beebe worked internationally as a graphic designer specializing in color on architectural projects, including the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. She also worked professionally as a landscape designer. Beebe’s love and knowledge of gardening, of flowers and color led her to painting.


PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present Ephemeros, an exhibition of new paintings by Nell Warren.

Romantically beautiful and sublimely moving, the exhibition features eight landscape paintings. Nell Warren is deeply influenced by her surrounding landscape and childhood growing up in the Columbia River Gorge. The sheer scale of her world and the natural forces that take part in the eternal shaping of it are a consistent source of inspiration. Warren’s practice focuses on mark making—the origins of an individual mark, the relationships that are set forth as it comes into being, and the energy that develops between marks as they multiply. Using printmaking tools and techniques Warren creates a surprising and original visual language that describes hauntingly familiar and magical places invested with the symbolism and mythologies of the Northwest.

“Ephemeros is a collection of paintings that pays homage to that moment when you get enchanted with a view, fleeting or captured in time, and it brings home a wordless truth about what it means to be here, be alive and be so ephemeral in the vast and unknowable scheme of things. They are placeholder icons for a thousand mountain glimpses, fairytale clouds and beloved rivers. They are my way of trying to capture the totality of how you feel when you experience that wondrous alignment of elements.”

Warren lives and works in Washougal, WA. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000. Her work has been included in several solo and group exhibitions at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART (Portland, OR), Cumberland Gallery (Nashville, TN), Pendleton Center of the Arts (Pendleton, OR), The Lumber Room (Portland, OR), Design Within Reach (Portland, OR), and Woods Gerry Gallery (Providence, RI). Warren is represented by PDX CONTEMPORARY ART in Portland, OR.

Her works are in collections, both public and private, including those of Paige Powell, Nell Newman, Ernest Swigert, Wendy Burden, Dorothy Lemelson, James and Susan Winkler, Travers Hill Polak, The Nines Hotel (Portland, OR), Oregon Health and Science University (Portland, OR), and the Meyer Memorial Trust (Portland, OR). Mentions, reviews, and features of Warren’s work have been included in Art Ltd., Portland Contemporary Art Examiner, Art Scatter, and Portland Mercury.

Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm

Earlier Event: April 1
Still Life, by Sung Eun Park
Later Event: April 5
Emma van Halsema, VIGNETTES