League of Awesome Women Designers – ruf·fle
July 13 – August 24, 2013
 
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 13 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
 
ruf·fle
is an exhibition by a group of women from varied backgrounds across the art and design spectrum that have practices based in Portland, Oregon. This exhibition presents inventive and critical inquiry through a variety of creative platforms.
 
The word ruffle was chosen as a cohesive variable, facilitating a united exploration. The collection of works highlight the array a single subject can take on when opened up to collaborative thought and analysis. Presenting this will showcase diversity and the value of cross-disciplinary insight.
 
L.A.W.D. (League of Awesome Women Designers)
is a collection of women in Oregon from varied creative backgrounds, all interested in sharing their thoughts and work among a group of peers. This is a forum to meet and discuss ideas, practice, process and inspiration.

Known for his large format, hyperreal images of spaces and objects within his home, Isaac Layman’s exciting new body of work includes not only photography but chosen objects. These works honor the idea of loss and hint through multiple perspectives to the possibility of the afterlife. Layman’s work has appeared in Lifelike, at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) second nature: abstract photography then and now, at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA), and Paradise, a solo show at the Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA). Layman’s works are included in numerous private and public collections, including the Frye Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse (Miami, FL), the Monsen Collection of Photography (Seattle, WA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX), the Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach, FL), the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), the Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN).  Among the artist’s awards and honors are the Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum and this year’s Contemporary Northwest Art Award from the Portland Art Museum.