RE-FRAMING THE EVERYDAY
Roy Sanchez and Tim Janchar
August 13-September 4, 2022
Two people never share an identical experience. Even our memory reinterprets the past. The joint exhibit featuring Astoria-based artists Tim Janchar and Roy Sanchez at Astoria Visual Arts from August 13 through September 4, explores how we reframe images and events of our own personal histories. Art documents points of daily life, capturing and anchoring them in time, each malleable to the viewer’s interpretation. Whether it is a myopic view cropping or stepping back to take a landscape gaze—how we frame the events of our lives will be how we define our identity.
Tim Janchar’s collage paintings takes quotidian personal imagery and removes it from the nostalgic and re-interprets it personally and contemporarily reframing his own history. Janchar received an MFA in visual studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is an artist and writer living in Astoria.
Roy Sanchez explores the question of framing memories and feelings using his series of 100 portraits drawn on post-it notes as evidence. Artists document their perspectives and experiences, but they are imperfect and biased ways of remembering. Do we choose which memories we keep? Do we embellish and choose to forget those people or thoughts or feelings that do fit into the stories we tell others and ourselves? Many of the post-it portraits were completed during Sanchez's residency at Astoria Visual Arts in 2022. A book of Sanchez's art will be available for purchase at the opening.
AVA Gallery Hours:
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays
12 - 4 pm
2nd Saturday Artwalk 12-8 pm
Please enjoy the exhibits while observing any necessary COVID protocols and being respectful of other viewers.
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Previously in the AVA Gallery
2022
August: Our Their Story: Damion Triplett
July: Artists of Astoria: Astoria Open Studio Artists
June: Happy to be Proud: Lee and Fritha
May: 8th Annual Miss Bea Exhibition
April: Secrets of the Slow Dimension
March: ntsayka ilii - our place The Resiliency of the Chinook People
February: Innocence, In a Sense: A group exhibition of nudes
January: the mess and the minutiae: Kristen Nekovar, aka blis (AVA a-i-r exhibition)
2021
December: Handmade Holidays - artist pop-ups
November: Simone Fischer: Offal
October: Members Create: Annual Exhibition by AVA Members
September: John Mueller: Manifest Origins
August: Factor and Molnar present the shimmer
July: Astoria Artists - works by artists participating in the 2021 AOST
June: “Staunchie Nubs” - Deanna Antony (AVA a-i-r exhibition)
April: “Vast Connections: Earth and Art” - Juried Show in honor of Earth Day
March: “Apokalypsis: An Uncovering” - Toddd Molinari & Francis Dot
February: “When Crab was King” - in partnership with the Kodiak Maritime Museum with Photography by Ralph Pryor
January: “Willamette Line” - Stephen Slappe
2020
December: "Outside In” - Work by Unhoused Residents of Clatsop County
November: "Preserved: Healing Stories of Plants & Ancestors" - Iris Sullivan Daire
October: "October Surprise" - Morrison Pierce
September: "Ad Nauseum" - Garland Kirkpatrick
August: "Goddesses and Assemblages" - Jill Mulholland
July: "Artists of Astoria" - Astoria Open Studios Virtual Tour
June: "Clatsop County High School Art Students" juried exhibit
April & May: "Ground Level" AVA Gallery Docent Artists
February: "Creatures of the Deep: Gyotaku” - Duncan Berry; "Ecological Rehabilitation Through Art" - Shelby Silver
January: "Northwestern Songs of the Americas" - Tim Janchar
2019
December: "Two Point Perspective” - Denise Monaghan and John Willis
November: "The Edge” - Marie Powell, Betsy Nelson, Kirsten Horning, Kristin Shauck, Penny Treat, Anna Lee Larimore
October: "Emerging" - Current and former AVA resident artists
September: "Fugitive" - Jesse Jones, Jessica Schleif, Dawn Stetzel
August: Ruth Lantz, Jill Mulholland, Shelby Silver
July: Astoria Open Studios Tour artists
June: “Degrees of Abstraction” - Renee Rowe and Audrey Long
May: The Print Portfolio Project Show
April: “For Love of Illusion” - Clatsop County High School Art Show
March: “Icelandic Threads” - Anne Greenwood Rioseco
February: “Find Happiness in a Warm Tea Bowl: Ceramics Invitational
January: Teresa Robinett