Chelsea Linehan stands out in the 10-artist show Identity Paintings. Her whimsical mixed-media wall sculptures incorporate dollops of white cream, pink sprinkles, feathers, odd objects sprouting from dried gels, and clustered gelcaps. The pieces are saucily, slightly queasily titled: Clitoral Pink Slime Mold and Clitoral Creme Slime Mold. We have no idea what the artwork has to do with the clitoris, mold, or slime, and we’re pretty sure we don’t want to know. (Okay, maybe we do.) Elsewhere in the show, Devon Maldonado’s self-portraits jostle with an appealing integration of realism, surrealism, and materiality. Gold paint and glitter lend the works a graffiti-inflected sumptuousness, which the artist charmingly and rather aptly describes as “Basquiat Baroque-ism.”
Where: Worksound
Phone: myspace.com/worksoundpdx
Address: 820 SE Alder St.
Where: Worksound
Phone: myspace.com/worksoundpdx
Address: 820 SE Alder St.
A Different Kind of Normal: Stories of Asperger�s Syndrome
