This is the story of two awesome friends who get together and make art, and talk about the future.. They call it Art Club, and they dream of one day having an art show together. Five years go by, and Bobbie Sue Schindler announces she’s moving to Houston for a Master’s in Philosophy. And so they decide to finally have their duo art show together, with friends, live music by Strategy, and treats for all!
Over time, their work has had a common thread and themes, FRIENDS & ICONS. From Schindler’s dramatic renderings of Paul Newman or hand-felted Uhura from Star Trek, to Reyes‘ finely carved 12” x 12” linoleum cuts of Aaliyah, Madonna, or Patti Smith- this show is a celebration of friendship, icons & the future.
This fundraiser will help to cover Schindler’s moving costs to Houston, including U-Haul, motels and food along the way. This art show is also a celebration of Reyes’ plan on applying to MFA programs; he’s currently thriving in PSU’s Art Department with focuses on Printmaking and Time Arts. Reyes plans to tour and share his art this Summer, as well as rent studio space this Summer so he can continue printmaking.
There will be live music by STRATEGY, as well as refreshments and fun times in general. Please join us Saturday, June 30th, 6-8pm, at the amazing Floating World Comics in downtown Portland (400 NW Couch St).
Who: Art by Bobbie Sue Schindler & Manny Reyes
What: “Friends & Icons” Art Show w/ live music by Strategy!
Where: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St
When: Saturday, June 30th, 6-8PM.
Why: Fundraiser for Higher Education
Bio information:
BOBBIE SUE SCHINDLER was born, and mostly raised, in Santa Cruz, California, but escaped to lovely pacific northwest, Seattle, in 1999. In 2006, after a brief detour to San Francisco for 6 months, and a stop to live in a trailer on the side of her moms’ house, she arrived in Portland. Now, some years past, she has graduated from PSU as a Ronald E. McNair scholar (2011) with a Bachelor of Science (magna cum laude ) in philosophy. She has recently been accepted to the Masters program for Philosophy at University of Houston with a TA position, but just needs a little help getting there. Hopefully, if all goes well, she hopes to go somewhere fancy, like Yale, but teach at a community college. She spends most of her free time doing some mixture of the following: making art, hanging out with friends, watching sci-fi, and being cozy with her cats. She currently is working on personal illustrations for friends, and enjoying all of Portland while she can.
MANNY REYES was born and raised in inner-city Las Vegas, his parents moved from Mexico as teens and much of his youth was spent on his abuelo’s lush farm in Mexico. Reyes moved to NYC in 1997 to study Art and Film at Hunter College, but soon fell in love with Portland, and move there in 2000. Reyes’ has exhibited at Cinema 21, and in group shows NYC, Las Vegas and at The Lab in SF. For ten years Reyes has performed performance art using only boom boxes and his voice. He also plays in the local electronic band Atole and organizes Portland’s All-Ages dance music festival SuperFest! with his good friend Eric Mast. Reyes recently went back to school, graduating High Honors at PCC Cascade. He’s also working towards a BFA in Printmaking at PSU with plans to study Sexuality and Gender with an MFA at an urban university such as UCLA. His current one-of-a-kind prints are bright, spontaneous and colorful watercolor monotypes that express Reyes’ feelings, emotions and love for abstract-expressionism. He will also be exhibiting linoleum prints of his Icons Darth Vader, Grace Jones, Beth Ditto and more.
Multi-instrumentalist and programmer PAUL DICKOW has been making music as Strategy since 1999. From a musical family, as a youth he was exposed to everything from academic computer music to the synth pop and rap filling the airwaves at the time. A longtime participant in Portland’s strange underground music community, (where it’s not atypical for people to be participating in 3 or more projects which bear little resemblance to one another) he went on to play in a number of groups, most notably as drummer for agit-art-punk outfit Emergency and as keyboardist in Fontanelle. Currently, he is a member of Nudge and several other collaborative projects.