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1327 SE Division ST
Portland OR 97202

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Gallery is open Sat & Sun 12-6 
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ARE WE THERE YET?

Paintings and Risographs by
Robyn A. Frank

October 3rd-November 30th

This exhibition and workshop are part of 2025 AIGA Design Month

 About the exhibition:

A cloying rejection of the present often said in boredom, frustration, or yearning. Maybe underbreath, a hot sigh. The unsaid addendum. …well we should be.

Robyn makes work that deals with a range of emotional and philosophical ideas about life — change, our sense of self, and relationships. When they name a show, they am thinking about titles that feel reflective of the work broadly, are catchy, and hone in on the emotionality of my present. This phrase jumped out at me, feeling exasperated with the comparison and shoulds; exasperated with the flamboyant disregard of human rights; exasperated with the devastation of our planet. “Are we there yet?” I thought, pleading, longing for … b e t t e r. But “are we there yet” is an oversimplification. Because  …Who is “we”? Where is “there”? And “yet” is a small but loud addition that, in three short letters, obscures history and denies context.

This collection includes new works alongside pieces completed in recent years. As a whole, the collection is a place in time along a journey in making. A place to check in with the present. Are we there yet? Yes, yes we are. Robyn’s work is a celebration of change. Thinking about change as the cyclical duality of creation and loss.  This constant process happens with or without our attention.  

We experience ourselves through others, through our context, and through history. Relationships are active and create-able, changeable.

Visually, these ideas are explored through format, shape, and color. Some pieces are diptychs or triptychs, such that the panels are inherently in relationship to one another and exist as a part of a whole. Often, I use repeating or reflecting shapes to represent duality of self — the innate up and down of all things — or to symbolize change across time or context.

Color is used symbolically. Gradients are a literal expression of transformation, of change. The gradient fields connect to observable sky hues during specific times of the day and times of the year; another expression of change as relates to our experience of time. Moreover, color grounds the sense of place of my work in New Mexico.
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Robyn A. Frank (they/ she) is a queer, jewish artist living in Albuquerque.

As a full-time studio artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Robyn makes paintings, prints, and art objects for galleries, retail, and wholesale clients. Her art practice explores relationships, change, and our sense-of-self through a visual language of color and shape

Check out Robyn’s Website
https://robynafrank.com/

Follow Robyn on IG
https://www.instagram.com/robynafrank
 








THE BIMBOFICATION OF SISYPHUS 💋- MADISON MICHIKO INMAN



THE BIMBOFICATION OF SISYPHUS 💋

August 1st-Septmeber 28th

Opening Aug 1, 6-9 PM
(First Friday Artwalk)

RSA Projects Gallery
(Inside RISO STUDIO ARTS)
1327 SE Division



Madison Michiko Inman is an Uchinanchu artist who works to create a visual manifestation of an absurdly sweet and silly inner world created to confront the reality-distorting experiences of both mental illness and work in the sex industry. She indulges in common pleasures — sex, pop, kitsch, humor — and connects them in playful ways that straddle the line between the whimsical and the pragmatic.


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Madison is a Portland based artist, publisher, and RISO printer.

She graduates the PSU Design program at the end of the year and currently runs the small press, michi.press, and a new RISO printing collaboration Color Fantasy.

Follow Madison on IG
https://www.instagram.com/michi.press
RSA PROJECTS 
Grand Opening: Inagural Group Show

On View June 1st- July 27th 2025

Featured Artists:

June Ku
Allyssa Ellis
Connie Yen
Nicholas Moler-Gallardo
Madison Michiko Inman
Madeline Helland
Robyn A. Frank
StarKeep Studio
Allie Ancel/ Pink Door Store
Chelsea Acker / Groovy Loops Megan Chin
Hannah Witner
Erin Fox/ Psychedelic Lens
Daniel Rodriguez Suarez
Charisma Singgih
Hannah Fischer
Kimberly Hahn
Jayes Caitlin


Nicholas Moler-Gallardo
“Joe’s Chair”
Megan Chin
“Slow Growth”

Megan Chin
“Longbranch Collages”
Hannah Witner
“Flower Vase”
Charisma Singgih
“Krupuk“
Madison Michiko Inman
"Tropical Rainbow"
Chelsea Acker
“Groovy Abstract“
Madeline Helland
“Shed Press Shop Dog“
Madison Michiko Inman
"Without My Wings, I Feel So Small"
Madeline Helland
“Pomegranates“







Madeline Helland
“Terrarium“
Jayes Caitlin
“Stripes”
Jayes Caitlin
“Coloring”
Hannah Fischer
“At Play”
Hannah Fischer
“Shape Shifting”
Jayes Caitlin
“RISO Collage”
Hannah Fischer
“State of Wonder”
Robyn A. Frank
“Waves: the more the more 24“
Allie Ancel
“Funfetti“
Allie Ancel
“Over There”
Robyn A. Frank
“Quilt 05”
Allyssa Ellis
“Where Did the Time Go?“
Allyssa Ellis
“Modern Migraine“
Kimberly Hahn
“#ABeautifulThingOfNoImportanceOr 01“



Participate in our inaugural group show!

It's the grand opening of RISO Studio Arts PDX, our newest RISO showroom and studio space connecting artists and educators to RISO printmaking.

Call for Art

RSA Projects is a new curatorial project space located within RISO Studio Arts Portland OR studio and showroom at 1327 SE Division St. 

The projects gallery will feature work by emerging and mid career artists across mediums, with a special interest in bringing more artists to the Portland area and an emphasis in all forms of print. While our gallery programing will not be exclusive to RISO prints, we hope to foster a dialogue with the medium, explored through educational and publishing projects, merch making, design and art.  

Submissions are open to all artists in the USA.

Artists, designers, and publisher both local to and outside of Portland are encouraged to apply.  There is no restriction on size or medium. RISO Studio Arts also features a retail book store and we are looking for titles to stock. Please email us about wholesale opportunities. 

Dates:

Call for entries will close April 25th, 11:59pm.
Accepted artists will be notified by May 3rd
All works must be shipped or delivered to the gallery before May 24th*
Inaugural Group Show opens June 1st


* If you are shipping your work, please include a paid return label from your preferred shipper. You will be provided with a secure shipping address. Do not ship pieces directly to the gallery. 

Sales:

Gallery will retain 40% of each work sold. 
Artwork does not need to be for sale to be exhibited. 
There is no fee to apply :)



Submissions are now closed. 
Thank you to everyone who applied! Join us June 1st from 12-6 for the show!