Art Galleries

Carol Christ | “Black Lives Must Matter”

This media file is attached to: 1st Annual One College Virtual Art Student Exhibition

Black ink was used for lettering. The words read, you can't say all lives matter until black lives matter. Numerous skin tones fill in the letters and spaces with color.

Carol Christ, "Black Lives Must Matter", 2020, calligraphy and watercolor on watercolor paper, 8.5" x 11"

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This was a class project where we were writing on waving lines and filling in all the spaces with colors that wouldn't repeat next to each other. This was created in the early days of the protests in downtown Portland.

A quote from William Gibson reading "When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart" is written in a blocky style on multiple lines filling the page from top to bottom. Lines of text alternate between white letters on a colored background, and colored letters on a white background. The words "coming apart" are tilted and staggered to suggest movement. The color ranges from red orange at the top of the page, to red violet at the bottom.

Kate Coningford | “Coming Apart”

Flowers, planets, clouds and ladybugs in the foreground as well as middleground. Girl with magical book. A fishing pole is coming out of the book as a cat jumps " Connected to the pole is a beta-fish that weaves its fin into the girl's hair. A frog jumps out from the middleground and the negative space is full of stars.

Sarah Lopez | “Children’s Stories”