W+K Gallery presents ENSEMBLE / VARIABLE - an exhibition of artwork by Storm Tharp in collaboration with Mullowney Printing Company.

In Storm’s work, a pendulum swings between painstaking representational endeavors and lighter, more improvisational pursuits. You can usually find him milling about in either of these opposing camps. However, with the prints he has made with the exemplary crew at Mullowney Printing Company, both of these modes of practice are at play. When these methods interact and saddle up to one another, a whole new language unfolds and a  broader interpretation of aesthetics, narrative and abstraction evolve. In this way, everything is viable and yet simultaneously adrift.  The silos and labels of categorization are challenged and the collection of imagery suggest a continuity at odds with the breakneck speed of our lives.

Thursday, August 3rd // 5pm-9pm  

Thank you: The Ford Family Foundation // Charitable partnership fund // PDX contemporary art