OUTPOST1000
  • Exhibits 1
    • Doughnut Power . Robert Don
    • S/PLI/T Projects with Tessa Heck, Chloe Cooper
    • Clay Lohmann (2)
    • Julia Bradshaw
    • Subarna Talukder Bose
    • GOT IT MADE
    • Dana Reason . UNhearD (2000-
    • WE LIVE HERE the artists of Benton Plaza
    • Her Mind Moves Upon Silences
    • preundermeaning
    • THIS IS MUTANT POP!
    • Patrick Collier
    • Jonathan Ware
    • Anna Fidler + Tropical Contemporary
    • IN YOUR HOUSE... A DOOR with Zachary Gough
    • Hester Coucke with Mandy Hampton
  • 2
    • Johnny Beaver/Andrew Fisher
    • Aisha Rose McCoy
    • Roxanna Hendricks
    • The David Angel
    • GlosureAndContinuity
    • +/-
    • Brianna Miller & Dale Scott at Prisms Gallery
    • Silas Jones
    • Corvallis Word Factory
    • Storming The Academy
    • Jonathan D. Parks
    • Steve Pavey
    • Rachel Warkentin
    • Rachel Mulder
    • REEDYMON
    • Francisco Morales
    • Jamie Walsh
    • 10 in 10
  • 3
    • Photographs by Natalie Krick
    • Kaitlyn Wittig Mengüç
    • G-Litter
    • Caroline Moses
    • Lily Hudnell-Almas
    • Looking West: Exploring with the Corvallis Tree Being (With Kaitlyn Wittig Menguc)
    • Justin Lodge Vivid Conjuring
    • I Understand Where You're Coming From
    • Cara Tomlinson
    • Daniel Watkins and Milla Oliveira
    • Larry Hurst
    • CEI ArtWorks @ Bison bison
    • Eliza Murphy
    • Workbooks . Phillip March Jones
    • etc.
    • Shawn Creeden
  • 4
    • Kathryn Cellerini Moore
    • Muriel Condon
    • Michael Boonstra
    • The Adventures of the Worlds Royal Family's as they separate from the world we live in
    • Andrew Myers.Drawing Constructions
    • Cynthia Lahti
    • AUTOSPACE
    • I Did This to Myself
    • Portland Art and Learning
    • Patrick Hackleman (CEI)
    • Rachel Grant/Paul McGurl
    • We Take the Long Way
    • Tropical Contemporary: A disappointing weather report
    • Anne Magratten
    • inVISIBLE 2015-2016 (evoking fairiew training center) >
      • inVISIBLE (Spring 2015)
      • Sam's interviews (disability culture) Story.Corps.Me
      • inVISIBLE
  • 5
    • Perry Johnson & Terry Johnson
    • Bruce Conkle
    • Jonathan Bucci
    • 3 Floods . R.J. Baynum Jr.
    • Jill R Baker
    • COLLAGE MONSTER
    • Michael Reinsch
  • artists
    • Kurt Fisk
    • Patrick Hackleman
    • Kris Askew
    • Dale Leroy Scott
    • Ruth Van Order
    • Matt Conklin
    • Matt Conklin's World of Wonders
    • Rick Kleinowski
    • Amy Turner
    • Susan Woods
    • Jeremy Cheney
    • Linda Bach
    • Mike Fairchild
    • Marieke Mirsch
  • Living Studios
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KRIS ASKEW
60's Rock
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Opening Reception: Thursday September 3, 5-7 pm
at Prisms Gallery (PCL)
189 Liberty St. NE Salem, OR
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Opening Reception: Thurs. Sept. 3rd, 5-7pm
Bring your favorite 60's rock album to spin!
Thanks to: Prisms (PCL), ArtWorks (CEI), OUTPOST1000

Kris Askew does not dwell on the past, though judging from the overwhelming numbers of his drawings, paintings and comic sequences which use 60’s and 70’s pop culture as their source, you could be forgiven for thinking so. 
“These are things that were here before me and also when I was growing up, what I like is that I am here now but I can remember” says Kris.

An amazing aspect of Kris’s preoccupation with 60’s culture is his interest in once widely known personalities now obscured by time and his concern with reproducing minute details of the decade. In one drawing, Paul Kantner and Marty Balin of the seminal San Francisco psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane are seen as a dapper duo standing hand in hand, both sporting up to the minute late 60’s fashion chic. In this drawing his attention to detail, bejeweled headbands, paisley and tied died shirts, a maxi coat, fringed buckskin vest and batik bellbottoms and moccasin boots serve as a tribute to the color laden multicultural style of the era.

Paul Kantner and Marty Balin are not the only ones who benefit from Kris’s restaging’s. Sly Stone, Peter Frampton, Nicholette Larson and Dennis Doherty of the Momma’s and the Papa’s are but a few of those immortalized by Kris’s pencil. Kris also creates tributes to television and movie stars of the day. In an homage to television’s The Mod Squad, the series 3 stars are portrayed but while Peggy Lipton’s hand lettered name is recorded beneath her in garish pink and yellow, her two co-stars (Clarence Williams 3rd and Michael Cole, for the record) remain nameless.

Underlying all of this is an artist who is gifted with an ability to draw beautifully crafted, witty, lurid and outright funny representations of lives lived in an era which continues to resonate and inspire.

Professional Summary:
2018 Storming the Academy, Oregon State University (group exhibit)
​2018 Salon: Corvallis Arts Center (group exhibit)
2016 Rock N Roll Art Works Hall Of Fame, Happy Trails Records, Corvallis, Or (solo exhibit)
2015 "60's Rock" Prisms Gallery, Salem OR (solo exhibit)
2015 "Funny" Majestic Theater, Corvallis OR (group exhibit)​​
2015 "Paradise" (Ugly Art Room), Poptart, Corvallis OR (group exhibit)

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