JOIN US FIRST FRIDAY - April show is featuring paintings by Chris Haberman, and continuing watercolor works by John W. Anderson.
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| Chris Haberman - "Family Portrait" |
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| Chris Haberman "History of Burnside" |
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| Chris Haberman "Richmond Fontaine" |
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| Chris Haberman "Aviation - Seattle World's Fair" |
Chris Haberman is a working painter, writer, muralist,
curator and musician, native to Portland, Oregon. Aside from painting, he has
published poetry, journalism and fiction; being awarded the Tom Doulis Fiction
award, the Wilma Morrison award for excellence in journalism from Portland
State University and is a lifetime member to the Academy of American Poets.
All of Chris Haberman’s artwork is created recycled
objects, found material from the streets and alleyways of his hometown. A
discarded cabinet door or table top quickly becomes the backdrop for an
integrated puzzle-poem of figures and text, focusing on subjects like people,
politics, the region, pop-culture, media, music, film and literature.
Portland Mayor Sam Adams said in 2009 that “Chris is
the hardest working artist in Portland.” Chris’ first curatorship was a show
for Adams in City Hall of Portland, Oregon, (Portland Pride, 2007). He has also shown art in hundreds of venues,
including “Oregon Art Annual” and is a frequent contributor to local artwalks,
school fairs and open studio tours. In
July 2012, Chris recorded selling over 10,000 original works since 2001; and he
was a feature artist for Oregon Art Beat on Oregon Public Broadcasting and awarded
“Portland Artist of the Year” for Barfly Magazine. In Jan, 2011, he and fellow artist Jennifer
Mercede won a national artist contest in Las Vegas, competing with artists’
from 10 other cities.
Besides making art, Chris is also a teacher and a
fervent freelance curator and arts advocate, coordinating hundreds of Portland
art exhibits with regional artists since 2001, founding first a non-profit (Portland
City Art, 2009) and then Chris Haberman Presents and The People’s
Art of Portland in Pioneer Place Mall (with fellow artist/curator/buddy,
Jason Brown, The Goodfoot) both in 2010, to help local artists show
their works.
In 2011, he illustrated a book with Oregon television
icon, K.C. Cowan detailing a humorous selection of Catholic Saints. In the same year he also completed a 219 wood
panel album reproduction for an office mural for record label Kill Rock
Stars, and a 100 piece show of about the History of Oregon for
Portland State University. In 2012/2013 he
completed a 140 foot mural about “The History of Hawthorne Blvd.” for 50th
SE Hawthorne on the Eagles Fraternal Lodge funded by a grant from Regional Arts
and Culture Council; and currently is the Art Consultant/Curator/Art Department
Staff for TV show Portlandia (Seasons 3, 4 and 5). In 2014, he helped present the 15th
annual Oregon Art Beat exhibition of 350 artists with Oregon Public
Broadcasting, and appeared as a working artist on Ovation channel’s reality
show, “One Man’s Trash.”
