Interested in showing at Utrecht?
The Utrecht Gallery may well be the most exlusive gallery in town! It’s not that we try to be, it’s just that there is so much demand to hang a piece on our wall. One of the perc’s of working at Utrecht is that, as an employee, you are entitled to have a show. So we fill nearly half of our year with employee work. We have a couple student shows each year, one usually curated by the Oregon College of Art and Craft. For our very few remaining individual shows, we tend to try and show the work of graduating art students from PNCA, PSU or from area programs. This is a reward for their generous support of us during their academic careers. We are trying to have more large scale group shows, like our current exhibition Crone: Wise Women of the Northwest. Our next, all inclusive, show will be our July Plein Air exhibition.
Last year we had over 20 artists painting outdoors in the park blocks and hung a salon style landscape show.
Then in November we will be holding our second Political Art Show. This year is sure to be even more popular than our last show. Start your piece now!
March 6th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Can anyone participate in the Plein Air painting? Where and when will that take place this year?
March 7th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Yes! The show is open to any Utrecht customer who would like to display a landscape painting executed outdoors in the tradition of plein air painting. If you’d like to join us for our outdoor group painting event come and talk to us and we’ll keep you posted on the dates.
April 10th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Hello, I was wondering about getting some of your Utrecht Plein Air Umbrellas in your store. With the number of plein air painters in this area, not to mention your event, I think they’d be quite popular.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Quin,
we currently have a couple of our large, plein air umbrellas in stock. We’ll increase our inventory as we get closer to the summer months and we usually have several on hand through the season. Thanks for the reminder!
May 17th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I asked about showing my artwork one day when I was in your store.
I was told the Utrecht Gallery is ONLY FOR WOMEN ARTIST!!!!! And under no conditions will the Utrecht Management allow any work done by MEN!
I have quit buying supplies at at Utrecht since it is only for WOMEN artist ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Painting!
May 18th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Tim’s comment above is incorrect. I believe he was responding to our show by women of “that certain age” titled Crone. Almost as soon as the show went up we had a couple men inquire if we were going to have a show of artwork by male artists over 50 and I told them that, no, we had no plans to do a show by male artists over 50. The reason for that was because we have a significant group of women artists who have come to painting late in life, after raising families, or having careers, and they seemed to be a particularly passionate, focused group of artists who had an interesting story to tell, and the men of that same age group - at least those who do shop in our store - seem to have a completely different background and history. While I am sure that many of those men do interesting, compelling work, they do not seem to have the same collective spirit as the women we encountered, and as such, do not present as much interest for a group show.
It is always difficult to try and appease all the diverse parties who are interested in showing on our wall, and as we do only 12 shows a year, and as we give employees a priority for showing, there are very few opportunities to show individual works. To be more democratic, we have tried to add more group shows - we have a plein air group show coming up in July, and a political themed group show in November, and I can assure you that many manly men will be showing during those months, and it is very unlikely that we will reject any work that meets the stated criteria of those shows.
In our defense, we have also shown plenty of work by men in the past two years, including solo shows by Kelly McCarty, Kentree Spiers, Michael Endo, Dan Giacometti, and Christopher Bibby, to name a few.
There can be little debate that women have been given the short end of the stick when it comes to gallery shows and representation over the course of history. If we have made a tiny effort to reverse this discrimination, then we have done so unapologetically. We have also made a concerted effort to include as many diverse individuals as our small wall will allow. While I am sure that our curatorial efforts are not appreciated by everyone, I am proud of the work we have shown, and I believe it has been representative of a wider range of individuals than you will see in any commercial gallery in our fair city.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
thank you for supporting and encouraging regional plein air painting!
June 28th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
thanks for supporting and encouraging regional plein air painting!
June 30th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I am interested in the plein air exhibit for July. Could you fill in some of the details. I have been painting around Portland for the last year, so I have inventory. And if I’m in town for Bastille Day, I will joyfully join in the plein air convergence.
But my primary interest at the moment is getting into the July Plein air exhbit.
thanks, June