Royal Creek is in Art that Matters to the Planet
https://rtpi.org/exhibitions/art-that-matters-to-the-planet-wild-america/
Freeman Falls is in FRESH ART 2024!
FRESH ART 2024 is now open in the Marin Society of Artists Virtual Gallery at: https://shows14.wixsite.com/mysite/fresh-art-2024 - and it looks fabulous! The YouTube version is available as well at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kigOSqueH7M
The exhibition will remain in the Virtual Gallery for two months – and after that the YouTube video version will remain available, probably forever.
A reception is scheduled for Sunday, December 22 at 5pm Pacific Time – on ZOOM. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89012361520?pwd=LgOolQRCWQcb48gBBax0Ej1bExRAo1.1
Freeman Falls painting is accepted into the Coos Art Museum Biennial 2024 exhibition. Opening Friday reception Oct. 11, 5pm-7pm. Exhibition runs 10.11.2024 - 12.29.2024. Coos Art Museum, 235 Anderson Ave., Coos Bay, OR 97420. www.COOSARTMUSEUM.ORG
This painting is from the Sacred Earth Holy Water series of the Gentle Revolution collection. The central panel was initially painted on location in a Wilderness Area of the Olympic National Forest, with other details completed in the studio.
Several years later, the site was unrecognizable due to changes from winter storms. The surrounding panel is an abstract expression about the energy of these changes from movements of water, snow, and wind. It honors the unstable beauty found in nature.
Freeman Falls, 2024, Acrylic painting on wood panel with oil alkyd & acrylic painting on shaped wood panel, 23k gilding
Remedios Rapoport presents: Sacred Earth Holy Water at The Grover Gallery in Port Townsend, WA, in July. Featuring paintings from the Olympic Forest and other selections from her Gentle Revolution body of work. With a great love of our Earth, she creates art to stimulate our eyes and minds with ideas for change that will create a healthier world.
July 4 – July 28, 2024. Closing reception July 27, 6-8pm. The Grover Gallery | 236 Taylor Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 thegrovergallery.com
The Venus of Duckabush – Mother Earth’s Ancient Art, began as a “plein-air” painting where the Venus rock was seen in the river within the wilderness of the Olympic National Forests. The painting is a view of a real place showing the artwork of nature. Freeman Falls and Royal Creek, also from the Olympic National Forest, will both join The Venus of Duckabush for the closing reception and last day of show.
The Venus of Duckabush – Mother Earth’s Ancient Art, began as a “plein-air” painting where the Venus rock was seen in the river within the wilderness of the Olympic National Forests. The painting is a view of a real place showing the artwork of nature.
Freeman Falls, began as a “plein-air” painting from the Cushman area of the Olympic Forest Wilderness, finished in the studio. The abstract painting on the outer edges expresses the dark and destructive forces of winter that maintains the beauty found in the summer.
Now is the Time to make Democracy Real/Now is the Time to make Justice a Reality is accepted into ACCESS: An Ordinary Notion at Arc Gallery and Studios, SF. “Joyfully advocating social/political changes with actions to vote or sign petitions, to get informed and involved with lifestyle changes may seem insignificant. Yet these drops of actions collect into powerful movements for protecting systems of Social Justice and Democracy from destructive Global Corporate interests. My love of letterforms and dimensional effects of Filete Porteño attract viewers’ eyes and minds with ideas from my Gentle Revolution Manifesto. Having access to public venues for dialog are essential.” Remedios Rapoport
Arc Gallery & Studios 246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 www.arc-sf.com, ArcGallerySF@gmail.com
https://www.ncwca.org/access-press-release.html
Arc Gallery is open 1-6 PM on Wednesdays & Thursdays and 12-3 PM on Saturdays. Online Gallery & Info: www.ncwca.org
In-person Panel Discussion with Molly Gonzales (Alice Paul Institute) and Deborah L. Hughes (Susan B. Anthony House and Museum): Saturday, June 15, 2024, 3-5 PM, Arc Gallery. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/426417220206676/
In-person Opening Reception: Saturday, June 15, 2024, 7-9 PM, Arc Gallery Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1163000965123559/
Online Artist Talk: Thursday, June 20, 7-8 PM. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/369253699488293/
In-person Curatorial Tour: Sunday, June 23, 1:30-3:30 PM, Arc Gallery. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/980430577055034/
Music & Poetry Event: Sunday, July 7, 3-5 PM, Arc Gallery. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/449794357698058/
1st Annual Postcard Show – opening Saturday 12.9.23 closing 1.6.24 at Brassworks Gallery, 3022 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR.
Friday 12.8.23 preview purchases available on website. https://brassworksgallery.com/
Rapoport has 2 very tiny new pieces in a Postcard Show at Brassworks Gallery in Portland. Fulfilling a challenge for making art again to participate in this international/local group show.
A fun show to see with all the tiny art as postcards in this very large and diverse group of local and global artists!
Healing Heartbreak Blue & Healing Heartbreak Pink by Remedios Rapoport. Postcard design is hand drawn with ink pen and Prismacolor pencil.
HEALING HEARTBREAK with Love and Compassion from Community Connection, can help heal the pain of HEARTBREAK. Painful Isolation from a loved one, or from life you loved that is gone, can be soothed and healed with Community Connection to others where moments of Love and Compassion can be found.
For seven years, PAGE Space, or PNCA Alumni Gallery and Exhibition Space, has been dedicated to showcasing alum work. It is a hub for the alumni community to connect with each other as well as with students, faculty, and staff. UNLIMITED continues to be a spotlight in our alum programming, and this year we are fortunate to offer the salon gallery in person and online. We are proud to feature PNCA alums from the past 50 years in our exhibition.
PAGE Space is currently curated and managed by Alum Board Member Lauren Stumpf (MFA VS ’16).
Location: PNCA, 511 NW Broadway Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm
Virtual Gallery: https://pnca.willamette.edu/gallery
Save our World from Toxic Mankind, 2023, 35 x 18 x 1 inch, digital print. “A print created from drawings and graphics found during archiving my work. Together they show an ongoing concern within my work for the well being of our planet and the need for human behavior to change.” Remedios Rapoport
In Person Location: PNCA Atrium, Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design, 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209 Virtual Location: PNCA Gallery, https://pnca.willamette.edu/gallery
It is an honor to unveil my new piece “The Venus of Duckabush – Mother Earth’s Ancient Art” within this exhibition. The interior panel is a painting of a special place in the Olympic Mountains Wilderness and is part of new work in a series "Sacred Earth Holy Water".
UNLIMITED continues to be a spotlight of PNCA's alumni programming and this year they offer a hybrid format with exhibitions in person and online featuring more than 40 artists from around the country.
It is hoped that you will take this moment to celebrate the creativity and artistry of fellow PNCA alums, enjoying a return to campus and time together in community.
The 10th Encuentro de Fileteadores presented by the Asociación del Fileteadores is showing virtually from Buenos Aires, Argentina from September 14 to September 26. The exhibition will feature my newly painted word portrait piece titled “Gracias a Luis Zorz”, honoring this master who passed away a few years ago.
Honorable Qualities is showing at Vancouver City Hall in Washington state until the end of January. The building is currently not open to the public, so please visit this link for images with a story about the travels of Honorable Qualities. https://www.cityofvancouver.us/community/page/art-remedios-rapoport-helena-durpe-thompson-karly-villasenor The link will also share works by Heléna Dupre and Karly Villasenor, selected by curator Jess Graff for this show of three artists.
UNLIMITED 2020 Alumni Salon Show
Oct 1, 2020 - Oct 31, 2020 UNLIMITED 2020 Alumni Salon Show
Opens October 1
With works by more than 80 alumni artists from across the decades and mediums, you won’t want to miss UNLIMITED 2020, the 4th annual PNCA alumni salon show, opening online, in the PNCA gallery, Thursday, October 1st.
Please join us for the first Friday Unlimited Artist Talk, Oct. 2 at noon featuring several participating alumni artists. Session zoom link here Or visit: pnca.edu/unlimited for info to talks and gallery.
The Gentle Revolution Presents: The Pre-Vinylettes’ Suffragette Centennial Exhibition will run from September 26 through October 25, 2020 at Ford Gallery in Portland, Oregon. In this second iteration of the world’s first sign painting exhibition to feature women only, Remedios Rapoport invites the Pre-Vinylettes to Portland, with the messages of her Gentle Revolution Mobile as a guiding force.
The Pre-Vinylettes’ Suffragette Centennial showcases the work of 130 international women sign painters and serves as both a celebration and a critique of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, with themes focusing on political topics, women’s empowerment, and positive change for a healthier world. In the spirit of critical and intersectional feminism, this exhibition features hand painted signs that honor, critique, analyze, and/or reimagine how far women and nonmen have come in the last century and how far we have yet to go.
On-line viewing and catalog at: previnylettes.com
Ford Gallery viewing by appointment: fordgallerypdx.com
Exhibition details and gallery: Previnylettes Suffragette Centennial
This is an online salon exhibition with the Asociacion de Fileteadores in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am honored to be accepted as a member of this association that preserves the art of Filete Portño with a growing group of Filete artista. I too have been working to preserve and promote the art of Filete within my art and with writing published magazine articles.
The online event time has pasted, but I think some of the links will still take you into sites for seeing more about these wonderful Fileteadores and their beautiful art.
Aquí les mandamos los flyers de difusión con toda la programación para que la puedan compartir por sus redes personales.
Todas las actividades del Encuentro serán a través de zoom y se transmitirán en vivo por nuestro canal de Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8IMkHcrhnTEsihGj3t3eug y por nuestra página de Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Fileteadores
El día de la inauguración, aquellos expositores que así lo deseen, podrán acceder a la reunión de zoom (habrá una capacidad máxima de 100 personas y se admitirán por orden de llegada) Unirse a la reunión Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84518073841?pwd=aFN6eVBMOHFpWi9OOTdPRjlOVUE4UT09 ID de reunión: 845 1807 3841 Código de acceso: encuentro De todos modos la Inauguración será transmitida por Youtube y por Facebook. Desde todas las vías podrán enviar sus saludos y comentarios.
Desde ya agradecemos mucho su participación. ¡Los y las esperamos este sábado!
My painting Acro-Thinking, was selected for the Word exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery from a pool of over 700 works!
Adapting to these times, the physical gallery show will happen even if that means a soft opening and visits by appointment.
Along with the physical gallery show there will be a 360 Degree Virtual Technology gallery tour, as well as the exhibition going live on Artsy. This has been highly successful during their last few openings with more work sold than in prior in person only shows! Exhibition Runs: Saturday, August 1st, 6pm - Saturday, August 15th at 7pm.
ShockBoxx Gallery 3D tour: http://bit.ly/sbxxword www.shockboxxproject.com
ShockBoxx Gallery 636 Cypress Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Reception: January 10, 7 - 9pm
The year 2020 marks 100 years of Women’s Right to Vote in the United States. The American suffragette story, while ultimately successful, is not without failures and criticism. Now, 100 years later, we are experiencing a marked awareness of and spread towards social equality and related issues across genders, ethnicity, beliefs and preferences. Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) is a strong example of women creatives coming together to share and provide opportunities for female identified artists working with ecological and social justice content. In this regard we are holding our Feat to the Fire. That is, we are employing art as a means to fulfill the promise of having our voices count.
Exhibition juror, Jan Rindfleisch has focused on community building as an artist, educator, curator and author. From 1978 to 1985, she taught art and art history at De Anza College, and in 1979 began a 32 year journey as executive director/curator of The Euphrat Museum of Art in Cupertino, California. She is the author of Roots and Offshoots: Silicon Valley’s Arts Community, 2017; and co-author of Creative Power: The Art and Activism of Ruth Tunstall Grant, 2019. Both books are published by Ginger Press. Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) is a 501c3 non-profit founded in 1996 by Jo Hanson, Susan Leibovitz Steinman and Estelle Akamine with these goals in mind: To provide information regarding the ecoart and social justice art fields to artists, curators, writers, art and public art administrators, educators in art and ecology, cross-disciplinary professionals and others; To facilitate international networking among artists working with ecological and social justice issues; To further the fields of, and the understanding of environmental and social justice art. weadartists.org
Remedios Rapoport's Tax the Rich Poster Distribution Installation will give 100 free Tax the Rich/End War/LiveLove posters, printed from an original pencil drawing wrapped with a smaller Gentle Revolution Manifesto poster, to veiwers.
A continuous thread throughout my life, since childhood, has been the goal to mobilize acts of positive change. By tailoring my art career to gain skills for promoting messages with beautifully crafted work, it now adds my voice to the ecological and social justice work of so many other activist and visionaries. In 2006, I wrote The Gentle Revolution Manifesto to articulate the values I strive to support within my varied works of paintings, painted sculptures or installations. Beyond engaging viewers with lush visual experiences, my work aims to stimulate the viewers’ minds and catalyze social change through positive ideology. The Gentle Revolution Poster Distribution Installation evolved as a means to present my original art as posters. Allowing people to take them and share them with others as a contemporary version of the historical handbills created for social change in the past. With a love of letterforms and 40 years of sign painting, my work has created a new genre referred to as Word Portraits. I am honored to participate in this exhibition that creates connection from the Suffragettes of 100 years ago to the social justice work of today. Through my art, my voice as an activist is present.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS Celia Anderson, Kenai, Alaska Salma Arastu, Berkeley, California Kathryn Bagwell, Dallas, Texas Jenny Balisle, Richmond, California Barbara Boissevain, Palo Alto, California Heidi Brueckner, Oakland, California Belinda Chlouber, San Mateo, California Alice Dubiel, Seattle, Washington Rebecca Finley, The Woodlands, Texas Elizabeth Kenneday, Reno, Nevada Deborah Kennedy, San José, California Kari Kollars, Safford, Arizona Linda MacDonald, Willits, California Robin Mullery, Palo Alto, California Renée Owen, Sebastopol, California Bonnie Peterson, Houghton, Michigan Shelby Poor, Canoga Park, California Remedios Rapoport, Portland, Oregon Robin Repp, Huntington Beach, California Maryam Safanasab, El Cerrito, California Lorna Stevens, San Francisco, California Jensen Twite, Tea, South Dakota Tammy West, Austin, Texas Xue Jiao Yu, Chicago, Illinois
UNLIMITED 2019, the 3rd Annual PNCA Alumni Salon Exhibition, October 3rd - 25th, 2019, at PLACE Gallery. Located at 735 NW 18th Ave, Portland, OR 97209.
The exhibition features pieces from over 70 PNCA alumni artists that have been a part of the Pacific Northwest College of Art over the past 60 years.
Remedios Rapoport participates with a new piece featuring a print of a pencil drawing, created from a poster popular since first made for a protest march against the war in Iraq. Here she places it in a field of pink colors with typography braces that house her signature filete porteño dimensional elements.
https://multcolib.org/events/party-purpose-50-years-oregon-country-fair/104590
The Collins Gallery, located inside the Multnomah County Library in downtown Portland, Oregon, is celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the Oregon Country Fair.
A poster I created in 1993 for the History Booth at the Oregon Country Fair is featured in this show. Intended as a color your own poster, it is an illustration I created from the "Fair Magic…Making Dreams into Reality" painting. That painting features well-known performers and colorful people of the circus parade from photos shot in 1983. See the painting at LCHM, in Eugene; June 8,2019 - June 6,2020.
The original black and white, brush and ink, art board will be presented along with an original silkscreen of the poster printed with purple ink by Horizon Screen Printing. To celebrate the 50th anniversary, reprints of the color your own poster will be given free for viewers to take home.
Reception: June 29, 2019 from 2:30-4:30 A few people will be speaking about the history of the fair, followed by background music.
801 SW 10th Avenue Portland, Oregon
July 12,13,14, 2019 The Oregon Country Fair 50th anniversary event. https://www.oregoncountryfair.org/
Fair Magic…Making Dreams into Reality and Cream of Veneta are part of the exhibit at the Lane County History Museum, in Eugene Oregon, celebrating the 50 year anniversary of the Oregon Country Fair!
The exhibition opening is Saturday June 08, 2019 with extended reception hours from 12-8PM. Opening ceremony will be from 12:30-1:30 followed by entertainment and very entertaining people until 7pm.
The exhibit closes on Saturday June 6, 2020. A full year to stop in, see this show and share it with friends, anytime you are in Eugene.
Saturday June 8, 2019 – Saturday June 6, 2020: Lane County History Museum 740 W 13th Ave Eugene, OR 97402 United States
https://lchm.org/event/50-years-of-the-oregon-country-fair-exhibit-reception/
Cream of Veneta 2009-2019
Acrylic on repurposed ceiling tile, on shaped wood panel with oil alkyd paint, fluorescent paint and holographic glitter on carved edge
45 x 42 x 1.5 inches
Fair Magic Making Dreams into Reality 2005
Acrylic and Oil paints on canvas and wood with alkyd oil paint, VW fender, beading, holographic glitter, and aluminum gilding
60 x 48 x 1.5 inches
Oct. 5 - 29, 2018, "Filete to Word Portraits" will show at Elevated Ice Cream, 627 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA. An opening reception will be on Sat. October 6, 5:30 - 8pm, during the Port Townsend Art Walk. The pieces showing are a combination of original paintings from my collection and archival prints of originals on hand painted panels with hand built frames. This is an opportunity to see some of my best work – not often shown – in one of the best locations to view art and enjoy delicious hand made ice cream! Lots of great art and great places to enjoy in this Victorian seaport town. elevatedicecream.com Fri-Sat 10am-10pm, Sun-Thurs 10am-9pm
Too Much, Too Much is showing within the PNCA Alumni Unlimited exhibition; Sept. 6-26, 2018, reception Sept. 6th, 6-9pm. https://events.pnca.edu/e/2443
"Connecting with real people and art is so healing for us all," Remedios Rapoport. The show closes on Sept. 26, 2018.
Too Much, Too Much
2006 oil alkyd painting on wood panel with 23k gilding
30 x 30 x 1.5 inches
George Harrison’s song, "It’s all Too Much," sings to the overwhelming spiritual feelings of love, yet seems to end reflecting our consumerism and image absorbed culture. Chanting Too Much, Too Much can have opposite meanings from grotesque to fashionably cool or too much of anything. Here it repeats and spins within a yin yang.
Exhibition Juror Margaret Bullock, Curator of Collections and Special Exhibitons at Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, selected Rapoport's Velvet Love for this group show. Velvet Love has shown at the Chicago Art Department, Chicago, September of 2017 and also at the Portland Love Show 2018, Portland, February of 2018.
Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water Street, Port Townsend, celebrates this 20th Annual Juried Art show opening August 2nd, with an awards ceremony and reception on August 3rd at 6:30pm.
Margaret Bullock will give a lecture in the gallery on August 4th at 1:00pm. The exhibition closes on August 6th at 5:30.
Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
Think Big, May 31 - July 1, 2018
A juried exhibition featuring The Gentle Revolution Mobile by Remedios Rapoport
June 2, 5:30-8:00 PM - Opening reception and Art Walk
June 3, 1:00 PM - Art Talk by Juror Michael Paul Miller at NAC, awards will be presented at the Art Talk.
Juror: Micheal Paul Miller, Associate Professor of Art, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA
http://northwindarts.org/exhibit/gallery/052018-think-big/
The Gentle Revolution Mobile was reconfigured to fit the size restraints of this show into a space of 50" wide by 114" long. To do so Remedios Rapoport applied for and was granted a two week artist residency at Centrum in Port Townsend.
http://centrum.org/programs/residencies/
Open Studio with Resident Artist
Remedios Rapoport
Saturday, May 26, 2018
12-4 p.m. Bulding #205
Fort Worden State Park
“Finished pieces and those in progress will show the various materials and techniques I use to realize my creative intentions,” Rapoport said of the upcoming open studio. Rapoport has been a longtime resident of Portland, Oregon and is new to showing her work in Port Townsend. Her love of this area and in particular, the Olympic National Forest, has informed her recent body of work which she calls Sacred Earth/Holy Water.
Rapoport’s work evolved into mixed media paintings and sculptures after spending her childhood as a pictorial and sign painter.
“My intention is to attract viewers with visual eye candy, that stimulates minds across cultural and political boundaries, for a healthier world, for all people of the world.” -Remedios Rapoport
She will also have her modular kinetic sculpture, The Gentle Revolution Mobileon view (pictured above). This kinetic sculpture evolved from The Gentle Revolution Manifesto, a concept to promote positive change. The mobile has traveled since 2007 to Portland, Seattle, Boston, and Chicago as part of solo exhibitions and socio/political group shows.
Rapoport’s work is hand drawn, cut and carved. It is then painted and gilded on panels or constructions of wood and aluminum. Each layer is hand rendered, from sketches to patterns, with various materials in a constant process of adjustment. Rapoport learned the trompe l’oeil effect she uses from studies of Argentine Filete Porteño. The flowing abstractions of acanthus leaf scrolls create relationships between shapes with color and tension for emotional communication. By framing images and messages with extreme beauty and gilding, she presents them as sacred objects, giving value to the concepts.
Ford Gallery presents: Return of the Love Show After a 6 year break, the Ford Gallery dusts off The Love Show! A show about love! Not just the sappy Hallmark kind of love, but love in all its many forms: The good, the bad and yes, even the ugly!
OPENING PARTY! February 3rd 2018 6 pm to 11 pm
featuring live music & performances Bar & Pot-luck, Clothing drive for Transition Projects http://www.tprojects.org The Portland Love show seeks to shine some light on the complicated disco ball that is love, dark facets and all. With the greeting card/florist/jewelry/chocolate conspiracy focusing so much attention (and cash) on romance and sex every February, we aim to create a visual dialogue about love in its many incarnations and interpretations, be it self-love, sorrow, lust, confusion, hope, bitterness, gentleness, deception, romance, imagination, jealousy, true love, young love, love lost, parental, filial, adversarial love, the surrounding abundance of love or love as the unknown….
The Pre-Vinylette Society: An International Showcase of Women Sign Painters, has invited me to participate in this month long show featuring over 60 women sign painters from 9 different countries at the Chicago Art Department.
Chicago show link: http://www.previnylitesociety.com/current-upcoming-exhibitions
My Gentle Revolution Mobile Installation will be a large central piece taking advantage of the 20 foot high cieling space of the gallery advocating for people to make healthy change with positive ideas. Two new panels will bring some new Word Portrait messages to the pubilic for this installation. A companion piece will also be on the wall in solidarity with work of the other women sign painters this exhibition celebrates.
I have a GoFundMe site for donations to help with the expenses of my travel and shipping costs to do this installation and celebration in Chicago. Any amount of donation will help a lot as it all adds up. I am greatful for all the folks who support my art as it gives economic aid while supporting my morale for continued work.
GoFundMe link: https://www.gofundme.com/remedios-rapoport-chicago-art-show
Print sales are also a great way to give financial support and share the ideas and images of my work to more people. I have a link on my Print Sales page.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/remediosrapoport?ref=hdr_shop_menu
Much love to you all...Live/Love!
