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  • 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
    • Voices from Home
    • 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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S/PLI/T   
Chloe Cooper & Tessa Heck
soft/en

 August 17- September 18, 2017
*Opening Reception:
Thursday Aug 17, 4-8p
CEI ARTWORKS, Corvallis, OR
Gallery hours: 9-5 Monday-Friday

 
Mon, July 24, 2017- In partnership with CEI ARTWORKS, S/PLI/T Projects is proud to present soft/en, an exhibition of new works from Portland-based artists Chloe Cooper and Tessa Heck. Working in different mediums, both artists reference the body through abstract form, gestural movement, and figurative identities, complicating traditional narratives of femininity.
 Chloe Cooper’s mostly abstract 2D knit sculptures contain fleshy elements that question the boundary between body and non-body. Cooper enjoys the meditative and physical movement of using a knitting machine. While knitting, the body moves in a rhythmic repetitive motion, responding to the push and pull of the machine. Her works reflect this motion, the physical body, and its surrounding environment.
 
Tessa Heck’s paintings and drawings reflect upon the awkward experience of having a female body. She uses unique methods and a complex color palette to traverse spectrums between discomfort/humor, real/abstract, and controlled/accidental in her figurative works. Her portraits, often relating to the self, comment on self-deprecation, absurdity of the body, and finding humor in the grotesque.
 
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Chloe Cooper was born and raised in Chicago, IL. She grew up knitting and sewing small objects and dolls, always keeping her hands busy with new projects. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Textiles, focusing on knitting and material exploration. In 2015 she was part of the MIT Open Style lab fellowship, and currently lives and works as a material designer in Portland, OR.
 
Tessa Heck is a recent Visual Studies graduate at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR and is originally from NW Montana. Heck received her BFA in Painting/Drawing in Tacoma, WA at Pacific Lutheran University and has worked in London, UK as a gallery assistant. Common topics in her work are humor, absurdity of the human body, sexuality and eroticism. She has shown at Disjecta,The Museum of Contemporary Craft, and Hap Gallery among others. Heck is also a co-founder of Killjoy, an alternative gallery, in SE Portland.

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