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Lovelake Art Gallery
1720 NW Lovejoy #107
Portland, Oregon 97209
Contact: Eva Lake, 503.939.2255
Mixing poetry with art dates back to the Futurists;
I am familar with that whole concept.
I did some myself with this collage I have enclosed.
S e l f P o r t r a i t
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Artist's Statement
For over 25 years I've made photomontages and most of them have been some
sort of propaganda. Originally I was inspired by the Dadaists and Futurists
and other artists who used art and words to persuade the viewer. As time
went on I became convinced that the ultimate persuasion was an interior one,
up to individuals and not mass movements. This stance is not particularly
popular in either the art world or Indie political movements, but I'm
sticking to it.
It might be more of a private propaganda, and that's not just for my ideas,
but also to provide just a space for experience. The space without the
hard-sell, but the experience. To sell itself has become a suspicious
activity to me. If I am selling anything it is an exploration of sorts,
defined by the viewer as much as myself.
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A Girl
Ring II
Window
because
Good morning!!!....
Way back in 1980, I heard of an Anarchist Symposium happening at Lewis and Clark college. I was in punk bands and did posters and loved Dada. Some of my "peers" said don't go to that Symposium, it'not real anarchism!... But I decided to do things for it...presented a slide lecture on anarchism in art...and our band played too. It was here that I met Pietro and we became friends. I moved to SF and then to NYC, but I was always in contact with Pietro.
I never knew why I was an Inist. When he got me involved with that, I was living in NYC and I think he had some work of mine, from older days, and he would just include it in those shows. To him, perhaps an Inist is an independant? And I've always been that. So to put us all in a group was always a little funny to me, but I don't complain!
On the radio he talked about art and anarchism and his really incredible past.
As to my own collages, none of it is done in a computer. It is all found imagery via old magazines and the regular cut and paste method. Then I scan the ones which can fit on a scanner, but many do not, or are cut off a bit, edited you might say. Most of the ones you see are bigger in the flesh. The computer can reduce everything to dots way too quickly (in my opinion). It's not that I think computers can't make art, but it sort of like using a microwave as opposed to a wood burning oven. Guess which one tastes better? Hehe.
I also paint quite a bit.
Every Sunday I have different artist come on the radio and talk about their work, or people related to art somehow.
I send you now a couple more collages. And once again, thanks for everything.
Eva
 WAR IS N OT
SURVIVALIST
I've been painting for a long time too. I want to make the canvas live, to be it's own living, breathing creature. These 2 are 48 inches square and were all done by hand. They took me allllll summer. They are much more irregular in person.
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pool
Rebuild
Collage by Eva Lake
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