Jennifer Mercede’s primarily abstract paintings consist of free flowing text, bright color fields, and crazy energetic doodling. She is inspired by color combinations, children’s art, old school hip hop flavor, graffiti and abstract expressionism. Her process is spontaneous and expressive. She uses a playful, distinctive color palette that compliments her obsessive, frenetic line work and the imagery of her pieces. This is doodling taken to a high form. To quote Mercede, “I paint fast. I doodle. I paint stream of consciously; there are no mistakes for me in painting, one stroke leads to another. In my art, there is a reoccurring focus on the process. The process of making art.

”Pictured left: "realized"

Chris Haberman’s paintings are filled with a multitude of images, jumbled together with words, objects and figures that reflect the complexity of modern life. The images created are “folk-art” in nature, a spontaneous laying on of bright colors and art materials reflecting people, politics, the region, pop-culture, media, music, film and literature. Haberman’s work is created on found objects, given or “found” on the streets and alleyways of Portland. Construction of his art is stream-of-consciousness based, a juxtaposition of forms and subject, human figures forming from abstract color fields. The final product is a deconstructed maze of primal figures, surrounded by urban settings and narrative text.

Pictured Right: "Pleez Stay"