A Sometimes Gallery Moves To SE Division, Opens New Show, BOW
May 19, 2024 — A Sometimes Gallery has moved from North Portland to Southeast Portland, at 3601 SE Division. The gallery, founded by artist Amy Rowan is also celebrating its third year of operations.
Much like the original mixed-use space, the new gallery occupies the former fulfillment center for Carter & Rose. Artist and Carter & Rose owner Anna VonRosentiel has dedicated and donated the space for gallery shows and parties. The space is also adjacent to popular Mexican food cart Chayo.
Amy Rowan: “I’m so excited about the possibilities that this new location presents to be in the heart of the vibrant SE Division Street area. The gallery’s mission is to bring art to more people, and build community and I can’t think of a better place to do that than here alongside Carter & Rose.”
Anna VonRosenstiel: ”Amy is a longtime friend and collaborator, I am excited to bring her curatorial skills to my little corner of the world.”
The gallery will celebrate its new location and its third anniversary with “BOW” an exploration of the many forms of bows in clay, paper, and fabric. The show includes the work of Anna VonRosentiel, Amy Rowan and Alex Stone.
VonRosentiel will be showing a new body of work — an extension of her popular ceramic artwork. Rowan will be exploring the role of bows in our personal stories through photographs, cyanotypes and gold. Stone will be showing deconstructed/reconstructed bow forms — soft sculptures she’s created using found textiles.
The opening party for BOW will be on Saturday, June 1st from 5-8pm.
Soulbase Magazine Features A Sometimes Gallery
Lifestyle, art and home magazine Soulbase, “a platform for humans to share their creative work and prolific achievements,” features A Sometimes Gallery in their Creativity issue in an article titled “A Celebratory Pop-Up Art Show and Shop.” Check out Soulbase on Instagram.
Left: Gallery Founder Amy Rowan at the group show SUMMER; Right: SONG featuring Anis Mojgani. Photography by Gurusurya Khalsa
Portland Monthly’s Coverage Of COLOR/TIME
Thank you Portland Monthly and Matthew Trueherz for writing about Jessica Poundstone’s show COLOR/TIME show at the gallery. Writes Trueherz:
“With exacting and simplified cubed designs, the paintings collected in COLOR/TIME, Poundstone’s first solo show of paintings with the gallery, force contemplation. Her process hinges on compositions that “click” with intuition, via misleadingly simple juxtapositions and complex color palettes. This confusion—of something so blatantly stripped to its most basic form, yet demanding prolonged attention—has the effect of slowing time by presenting less.”
COLOR/TIME is on view from January 27-February 24, 2024.
COLOR/TIME, Portland Artist Jessica Poundstone’s First Solo Show of Paintings, Opens At A Sometimes Gallery
For Press Inquiries Or Images:
Amy Rowan, asometimesgallery@gmail.com
Jessica Poundstone, jessica@jessicapoundstone.com
UPDATED DATES
Show on view January 27-February 24, 2024
Opening Party: Saturday, January 27, 5-8 pm, featuring cocktails, music and coloring worksheets
Portland, Ore. — January 3, 2023 — A Sometimes Gallery is pleased to announce COLOR/TIME, an exhibition of paintings by Portland artist Jessica Poundstone. This will be Poundstone’s first solo show of paintings, and her second show with A Sometimes Gallery.
In this body of work on canvas, formal geometric structures mix with whimsical, intuitive color palettes, creating physical spaces for contemplation. The pieces encourage multiple meditative viewings, and serve as icons — containers, touchstones, totems — for the meaning, memories and meditations we bring to them.
A Sometimes Gallery will also be releasing a poster for the show, available exclusively through the gallery.
From her artist statement: “With apologies in advance for a rhyming list of three...I have found that making and looking at these paintings has helped me slow (shifting to a different experience of time), know (accessing my intuition through form and color choices and relationships) and grow (taking in the meditative, positive vibes that happen when a piece clicks together). I hope collectors will share in some (or all!) of these experiences as they bring the pieces into their spaces.”
ABOUT JESSICA POUNDSTONE
Jessica Poundstone is an abstract artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work combines color, structure, and softness to create spaces for contemplation, comfort and connection. “I believe that beauty is inherently hopeful. It celebrates the best of what humans can be and do, and helps us maintain our mysterious-yet-super-vital connection to the realm of the deeply true.” Poundstone’s art has been featured by Louis Vuitton, SFMOMA, and Architectural Digest. Learn more at www.jessicapoundstone.com
ABOUT A SOMETIMES GALLERY
Curated and operated by Amy Rowan in a found space within (and donated by) artist Lisa Congdon, the gallery offers affordable art while building a strong community for and around artists. Previous shows include Anis Mojgani, Kate Bingaman-Burt, and Jason Sturgill.Learn more at www.asometimesgallery.com
Anis Mojgani, Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Has First Solo Art Exhibition at A Sometimes Gallery
For Press Inquiries Or Images: Amy Rowan, asometimesgallery@gmail.com
Show Runs June 24 — August 12, 2023
Opening Party & Poetry Reading: Saturday, June 24, 5-8p with reading at 7pm
A Sometimes Gallery is located at 687 N Tillamook St Suite C, Portland, OR 97227
Portland, Ore. — June 21, 2023 — A Sometimes Gallery is pleased to announce SONG, an exhibition of art by Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Anis Mojgani. This will be Mojgani’s first solo exhibition of his visual art.
Best known for his poetry, Mojgani has a BFA in Sequential Art from Savannah College of Art & Design, giving him a deep understanding and experience with blending imagery and narrative.
The works on view in SONG exemplify Mojgani’s investigations into the overlooked. Using found papers, Mojgani uses quick scissor cuts to create shapes which are carefully stacked into abstract collages. The show illuminates the artist’s exploration of economy in lines, akin to the economy of words in poetry. SONG invites you to witness the metamorphosis of simple shapes into a rich narrative.
On the occasion of the exhibition, A Sometimes Gallery is also releasing a limited-run offset lithograph broadside, “Yes Is A Poem,”
A limited-edition run of commemorative poster stamps featuring art from the show will also be available. Poster stamps have decorative rather than monetary value, and have been a favorite of collectors since the 1890s. SONG commemorative stamps were produced by the Portland Stamp Company with their antique pinhole perforator on gummed label stock.
Both are available in person at the gallery or online at https://asometimesgallery.com/song
About Anis Mojgani
Anis Mojgani is serving his second term as Oregon’s Poet Laureate. Mojgani is a two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and an International World Cup Poetry Slam winner. Born in New Orleans to Black and Iranian parents, Mojgani moved to Oregon in 2004. He is the author of five books of poetry including his latest, "In the Pockets of Small Gods." Learn more about Anis Mojgani at www.thepianofarm.com
About A Sometimes Gallery
Run by Amy Rowan in a found space within the studio of (and donated by) internationally-acclaimed artist Lisa Congdon, Rowan’s mission is to offer affordable art while building a strong community of and around artists. SONG is A Sometimes Gallery’s twelfth show. Previous artists shown include Lisa Congdon, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Jason Sturgill, Anna Joyce, and Holly Stalder. Learn more at www.asometimesgallery.com
Willamette Week Names A Sometimes Gallery “A Trending Gallery To Check Out”
A Sometimes Gallery Featured in Portland’s Legendary Weekly Newspaper, Willamette Week
Thanks to Willamette Week writer Jay Horton for naming us one of the trending galleries to check out in Portland! Read the full article here, and come see what all the excitement is about soon!
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From Willamette Week’s Spring Arts Guide Issue:
Text: A Sometimes Gallery: Opened two years ago by Amy Rowan out of the corner of Lisa Congdon’s studio-office—hence the project’s name—A Sometimes Gallery was always intended as a means of galvanizing a creative community ravaged by the pandemic. Perhaps best known for themed group shows like Paper or Sometimes I Think It’s a Painting, its commitment to inclusivity extends to smaller-scale exhibitions like Jessica Poundstone and Rose Lazar’s Superbloom, where the artists hosted intermittent drop-in workshops. 687 N Tillamook St., Suite C, asometimesgallery.com. By appointment only, save for opening and closing parties.