Queer Gaze

Today, Tuesday, November 17th, from 11:30am - noon PST, I will join the illustrious Eva Lake on KBOO's ART FOCUS program. We will be discussing the exhibition itself, touching on the history of feminist art and queer culture, as well as a more in depth discussion of several of the pieces in the show. You can tune in, here in Portland on 90.7fm or stream it live online http://www.kboo.org/.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 18th, from noon - 1:00pm PST, Lorenzo Triburgo, Megan Holmes, and I will join Chris Haberman for a live broadcast webTV interview on PDX ART SCENE. We will be talking about Fontanelle and Queer Gaze. Lorenzo and Megan will each have a chance to talk about their works in the show. http://www.pdxartscene.com/index.php/artscene-tv/art-talk

Lastly, please join us this Thursday, November 19th, from 8pm - 10pm at Fontanelle for another look at Queer Gaze. We're hosting a party, with live musical performances by Play/Start and Boy Joy.

The exhibition will be on view for a couple more weeks. If you are not here in Portland, fear not, for a virtual peek at the exhibition is available on our website: http://www.fontanellegallery.com/showscurrent.html

Original Plumbing!

We just received our first shipment of Original Plumbing, Trans Male Quarterly, the Bedroom Issue! It's available for $8. Send us an email at mail@fontanellegallery.com if you are interested in acquiring one of your very own!



Also, we just received a batch of new prints from the gloriously amazing Rachell Sumpter! She is a delight and we are so happy to have her newest small prints in The Parlour Shop at Fontanelle!

Art of Touring : Night of Performances

Fontanelle will continue to celebrate the Art of Touring exhibition by hosting an evening of readings and performances by Sara Jaffe (Erase Errata), Rebecca Gates, Tara Jane Oneil, and Julianna Bright (The Golden Bears) this Saturday, August 22, beginning at 6pm. We look forward to an evening of dreaming, music making, and tales of touring!

Animorphic wonder!

Animorphic worlds colliding! Alexis Gideon performs at Fontanelle on August 26th, 7:30pm. Animation, psych jams, folk tales, liophants, maybe even some rapping, you know, the basics.

Lesbian Art Show on KBOO

Lesbian Art Show on KBOO 90.7fm from Fontanelle Gallery on Vimeo.

Lesbian Art Show in Willamette Week

Take a look at the great write up by Richard Speer in this week's Willamette Week about the June exhibition at Fontanelle, Lesbian Art Show. 

We are having a party next Thursday, June 25th from 7-10pm to close out the exhibition, featuring live musical performances from Her Jazz Noise Collective (Vancouver BC) and Judy (PDX). Should be an excellent evening and we hope you'll join us! 

Nature documentaries with live soundtrack, tonight!!!!

Tonight Fontanelle will be hosting a very special closing event for If I Weren't Here, They would Be.  At 8:30pm we will be screening an old nature documentary with a live musical soundtrack performance by Moor Loups!

The event is free.

There will be cheap beer.

There will be beautiful art.

And if you have not yet had a chance to explore Shawn Creeden's 

notorious cave and to admire his wonderful drawings and embroideries, you have no excuse not to do so tonight!

If I Weren't Here, They Would Be

Installation in progress... 

Come and join us this Thursday [May 7th] 7-9pm for Shawn Creeden's Opening reception. It will be awesome!

Press release & preview images

http://www.fontanellegallery.com/IfIWerentHereTheyWouldBe.html

Tara Jane Oneil Album Release Party

Please join us at Fontanelle Gallery as we host the K Records release of Tara Jane Oneil’s fifth studio solo album, A Ways Away.
Special musical guests collaborators from A Ways Away will join her that evening for performances [Mirah, Explode into colors, Castanets and Sad horse are rumored to be stirring up some music magic with TJO tonight at fontanelle... ].

Along with the debut of new songs, there will be screening of music videos created by Zak Margolis and Megan Holmes.

Thursday, April 30th 7-10 pm

Fontanelle Gallery
205 SW Pine St. [Bt. 2nd & 3rd]
Portland OR 97204

The event is free and open to the public!

Shawn Creeden preview prints available

New special limited edition super affordable Shawn Creeden prints available .
Print were made espciallly for Creeden's upcoming May solo exhibition If I Weren't Here, They Would Be

Check them out, they are beautiful!

Bobcat and Chukar

$35

Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis)
$20

Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri)

$35

For more details, please visit Fontanelle's online Parlour Shop

Show & Tell Night

Bring your treasures and show 'em off.

In honor of the current exhibition at Fontanelle, A Hunter's Return To The Good Country, we invite you to bring in an object from your favorite collection to share with the group. We'll take turns talking about our treasures. Bring your favorite rock, influential book, action figure, postcard, etc. etc. etc. We know you guys have some pretty weird hobbies so come on down, nerd out, get to know people a little better, and enjoy some cookies.

April 23rd 2009,  7pm - 8pm,  Fontanelle Gallery 205 SW. Pine Street 

Artist Talk

Come and join us tonight [Wednesday, March 25th] at Fontanelle!

Ryan Jacob Smith will give an artist talk and release a very limited edition zine created especially for Long Live The Ephemeral.

Talk starts at 7 pm

It's a Hippy Shit party!

Friday March 20th 7-9pm!!!!

The Tortuous Veil

We are proud to announce that we now have Jessie Rose Vala's new book in stock! Tortuous Veil includes drawings and installation images from her 2007 exhibition at the late and great Motel Gallery in Portland, OR. In addition, there are beautiful new color drawings direct from Vala's sketchbook! It is a lovely publication that would be a great addition to your library. Check out our website or send us an email for more information.

http://www.fontanellegallery.com/Parlour/JessieRoseVala.html

Long Live The Ephemeral opens tonight!

Tonight we will celebrate the commencement of Ryan Jacob Smith's curatorial debut! Long Live The Ephemeral chronicles a movement of artists who make album art and are involved with the music community. Please join us for DJ Hello Shit's set at 8pm! The opening runs from 6-9pm.

Big Beautiful Color closing party.

We will be celebrating the final days of Mark Warren Jacques illustrious exhibition Big Beautiful Color next Friday evening, February 27th. Please join us in the teepee for psych jams and metaphysical explosions of color. There will also be a musical performance, artist TBD.

Art Focus on KBOO!

Tune in to hear artist Mark Warren Jacques and Fontanelle's Leslie Miller interviewed this Thursday at 10:30am by Eva Lake on KBOO's Art Focus program. That is 90.7fm here in Portland or you can stream it live via their website. We will be discussing Mark's current exhibition at the gallery along with upcoming programming at Fontanelle!


Update! Click HERE to stream or download an audio file of the interview!

MWJ Arrested Motion Interview

'Arrested Motion' conducted a nice interview with Mark Warren Jacques in which he talks about Big Beautiful Color.
Check it out:
http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/02/interviewopening-mark-warren-jacques-fontanelle-gallery

art club.

We are new members of NADA, a wonderful organization for young galleries, curators, enthusiasts, and allies!

It's a privilege and and honor to join our friends for a year of collaboration and inspiration.

February exhibition!

Mark Warren Jacques
BIG BEAUTIFUL COLOR

Opens Thursday, February 5th, 6-9pm
Musical performance by Blake Anthony Ray Miller at 8:30pm in the teepee

Click here for the press release.

Hope to see you there!

Oregon Painting Society on PORT

Did you see the great Oregon Painting Society writeup last week? We are psyched that Jeff Jahn came to visit and did a photoblog of the January OPS redux. You can check it out here or by clicking on the triangle below.

January 6th, 2009 - 2009 Calendars are here!

Nicole J. Georges' Queer Animal Kingdom calendaris as adorable as it is enlightening. Rejoice in the happiness of companionship and love as you flip through the super sweet drawings that fill each page along with reminders for each of your favorite holidays. A true bargain at only $9 each, you might even want to frame the drawings at the end of the year!


Claire Nereim takes a different approach to the calendar year! She presents us with the Seasonal Fruits of California! One ripening fruit for each month of the year! This isn't a traditional calendar with dates that will change from year to year, but instead is a lovely full-color silkscreen print that you will enjoy for years to come! $45 each.

December 21, 2008 - Fontanelle is closed for the holidays!

We have returned to the homeland for friends and family and fun!

Please join us when we reopen in 2009 with an Oregon Painting Society redux and special new performance on January 8th!

December 11, 2008 - NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

Jess is still in Berlin! She just went to the Bongout showroom this evening for the opening of Alles Muss Raus, a rad group show! If you have any special Berlin gems of knowledge, please pass them along!

Online Parlour
The Parlour is online! Get cozy! Support awesome artists and artist-run spaces! Keep the community alive with your love and support!
http://www.fontanellegallery.com/Parlour.html

Oregon Painting Society
Performing at Rotture this Friday, December 12th 9pm!
315 SE 3rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon!
http://www.rotture.com

Prints for PICA
We are delighted for their sixth year printmaking marathon and benefit art sale. PICA has invited a tons of Fontanelle's friends and family to participate in the art making, including Leslie! Oh my! The benefit sale takes place Sat., Dec 13th 6-9pm. Check out PICA's website for more details.
http://www.pica.org/programs/detail.aspx?eventid=456

October 31, 2008 - Daniel Long in the Oregonian

We were psyched to read Brian Libby's great review of Daniel's show in today's Arts and Entertainment section of the Oregonian! I Heard It Through The Grapevine has been such a fun exhibition and we hope that you'll have the chance to come see it before it comes down!

October 2008 - Parlour Shop!

We are hard at work searching the world over to find the creme for our Parlour Shop ! Expect to see inky octopus pillows from Wonder Thunder of Seattle, Knitted animal brooches from Sarah McNeil of Melbourne, spectacular prints from Julia Pott of London, and crazy sexy cooldrawings from Cat Lauigan of Brooklyn in the very near future!

September 2008 - We are officially open! Yay!

The opening Party All I Can Do is Dream was totally awesome!
Friends and lovers and hometown heroes showed up to give us hugs and high fives. We had 200+ people come through, as well as five bouquets flowers, 148 cupcakes, and 15 bottles of champagne. You guys are rad!

August 2008 - The Grand Opening!

We are thrilled to be settling into our brand new digs and to announce the grand opening of Fontanelle Gallery in donwtown Portland Or! You are invited to juin us for cupcakes and champagne to kick off our first exhibition All I Can Do is Dream on Thursday, September 4th from 6-9pm.