Artists Take on the World

Opens Friday!

Welcome to My World

An exciting list of artists were invited to consider an unusual, three-dimensional object as canvas—a vintage world globe. This invitational exhibition was conceived and co-curated by new-to-Portland artist, Robert Tomlinson and 23 Sandy Gallery. The artists were asked to transform their globe using the expressive power of cartography to create a compelling new work of art.

Two of the artists transformed their globes into kinetic, electrified, sculptural objects that focus on the interior of the globe instead of the exterior. Anna and Leo Daedalus collaborated with Samuel Miller to create a you’ve-got-to-see-it-to-believe-it globe that features a second globe nested inside a larger globe that is viewed through magnified door peepholes. Peer inside at a moving interior featuring 300 found photos and postcard images from the latitude locations of the peephole itself. Susan Collard’s globe is also electrified. Viewed through equatorial slots, a spaceship-like sculptural interior “hints at an otherworldly passage: Aeneas or Orpheus journeying to the land of the dead, perhaps, but also that classic science fiction moment where characters discover their lives are bounded by a manufactured world.”

Welcome to My World will be on display through December 31. In the meantime, view a full online catalog of these magnificent globes here.

Image credits, left to right: © Allison Bruns, Kerry Davis, Dave Meeker


First Friday is This Week!
Friday, December 2, 5-8:00 p.m.

Please join us for a First Friday reception to celebrate the opening of Welcome to My World. We hope you can make it for what is sure to be a lively way to kick off the party season.