Form.a
Form.a is an art press fair focused on artists-run spaces in Portland, OR. Organized by Marcelo Fontana & Katherine Spinella as Carnation, Well Well, Wave, in collaboration with Stelo x Oregon Contemporary.
July 1, 2023
Participating Organizations: After/Time Collective, Blackfish Gallery, Carnation Contemporary, Chris Lael Larson, Drawing Club, 1122 Gallery & Bunny Press, IPRC, Julia Sodre, Kate Barbaria & Brendan Albano, Mad Aura Press (MAP), Monograph Bookwerks, Nat Turner Project, nůn studios, One Grand Gallery, Outlet, Paisley Studios, PNCA Graduate Low Res Creative Writing and Print Media, PSU Art & Social Practice + KSMoCA, Rubis Discolor Project, Small Talk Collective, SOIL, Stelo, The Buckmxn Journal, Walk-in PDX, Wave Contemporary, Well Well Projects, Whatnow Press
What’s So Funny?
Juried by Katherine Spinella, Jeremy Le Grand, John Whitten, Jessie Weitzel Le Grand
April 3-25, 2021
Zachary Betts, Maura Campbell-Balkits, Ben Galaday, Basal Ganglia, Karen Woodward Garcia, Cole Goodwin, Olivia Harwood, Samantha Herman, Padyn Humble, Dulce Lamarca, Ron Lambert, Erin Langley, Haley Lauw, Jiaqi Li, Nathaniel Praska, Haylie Roche, Forest Salazar, Kevin Smith
Everything. Or nothing. It can be hard to tell. Either way, we’re looking for a laugh. Just to break the silence. Or calm our anxious nerves. Let’s laugh until we cry at the Lynchian absurdity of the world around us. With quirky characters and shameless forms, bodily functions, wordplay, gritty materiality and subtle shifts in perspective, the works in this group show explore the nuances of humor and aim to hit that funny bone. This is an exhibition focused around comedy. And now more than ever, couldn’t we all use a laugh? - Jeremy Le Grand
On the Tip of My Tongue
Co-curated by Katherine Spinella and Kristin Hough
December 7 - 22, 2019
Alyson Provax, ChaeWon Moon, Hasler Gomez, Paul Shortt, Sarah Rushford, Brandon Barr, Theodore William Arnold, Amanda Beekhuizen, Rachel Livedalen, Jonathan Bagby, Karen Larson-Voltz, Agnese Cebere, Amy Burek, Anthony Warnick, Erinn Kathryn, Rachel Deane, Chantal Zakari, Kevin Smith, Collin Richard, Ron Linn, Colin Kippen, Zach Clark, Angela Willetts, Noah Breuer, Julia Bradshaw, Flatpack Publications & Hiba Ali, Luke Buser, Darryl Lauster, Kelly Clark, Mary V. Marsh, Nathan Pietryknowski, Lorna Stevens, Brandi Kruse, James Gouldthrope
Saturday, Dec 7th at 5:40–6:00pm. A group reading of Jayne Telephones, a text project by Sarah Rushford.
On the Tip of My Tongue explores the space that resides between thought and speech, intent and action, self and other, land and nation. The work in this exhibition mines topics such as the educational-industrial complex, the undocumented experience of resilience and resistance, and the uneasiness of occupying a motionless body while being hurled through the air in flight. Katherine Spinella (Portland, OR) and Kristin Hough (Los Angeles, CA) curated together multimedia works from 34 artists throughout the United States that use performance, symbols, instructions, transcriptions, lists, sequencing, and the materiality of a single phrase in order to comment on and connect to language. This exhibition reminds us that language impacts our bodies as a set of unfixed relationships, and that our unconscious, whether personal or collective, recalls images first. - Katherine Spinella
