Kiko Bordeos
and Alexis Gallo
On View
April 3rd-May 26th
Opening
Reception
Friday April 3rd
5-8pm
Part of First Friday SE Artwalk
1327 SE Division ST
Portland OR 97202
Inside RISO Studio Arts PDX
Gallery is open Sat & Sun 12-6
or by apt
Keepsakes
On View
April 3rd-May 26th
Keepsakes is a collection of work by Kiko Bordeos and Alexis Gallo that
capture and preserve moments in time. Through the use of grids and vibrant
colors the canvas acts as a record and container for experiences and emotions, making the intangible, tangible. These process based arrangements allow for play and spontaneity that create a dialogue of past and present self that is
reflective, energetic, and immediate.
RSA Projects Gallery
(Inside RISO STUDIO ARTS)
1327 SE Division St, Portland OR 97202
*part of First Friday’s SE Artwalk
About the artists:
Alexis Gallo
Alexis Gallo is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist. She typically works with acrylic paint, sometimes letting the paint dry in sheets so it can be cut and applied to canvas in an experimental collage-like approach. Her color palettes are often inspired by nature and her work explores themes of longing, transformation and reflection.
https://alexisgallo.com/
https://www.instagram.com/glexisallo/
Kiko Bordeos
Kiko’s paintings layer grids and patterns of hard-edge color that draw formal inspiration from design, urban infrastructure, and the visual palette of city life. Frenetic, abstract juxtapositions ultimately find balance in a controlled chaos that can be equated to extractions of a street scene, or a street scene compressed. Urban influences are distilled into visual circuit boards of paint whose bold colorways reference Kiko’s native Philippines and its continued influence on his practice in Brooklyn, New York. Manila’s vibrant memory is matched by the influences of painters like Carmen Herrera, Jonathan Lasker, and Nicholas Krushenick, thereby locating Kiko’s work in a lineage of abstraction that is explicitly driven by the charged potential and deployment of color as a geometric spirit.
https://kikobordeos.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kikobordeos/