Settlement

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The Settlement is a collection of four galleries on the top floor of Pioneer Place Mall in downtown Portland. Each gallery (PEOPLE, PLACE, STORE, and TRADE) maintains a unique curatorial identity, working together to provide a view into the contemporary, cultural landscape of Portland and the Northwest region. The four former storefronts, comprise 10,000 square feet of space. Settlement programing includes exhibitions, performance, and a wide range of literary, musical, and creatively oriented community engagements.

PEOPLES - PEOPLES' featured artist of the month is Gary Houston. He makes hand pulled screen printed posters and prints for various bands and events. He works in scratch-board illustration, inked drawings and hand cut films. He works locally as a graphic designer from his PDX based production studio.

PEOPLES has over 40 local artists on display. Curated by Chris Haberman and Jason Brown, with assistance and management by Alex Cummings. Peoples is the Retail space of the SETTLEMENT

PLACE - Continuing to build on its mission of presenting process-oriented installation work, PLACE offers Terror and Ego. An exhibition featuring the work of Joshua Berger, TJ Norris, Dustin Zemel, Emily Nachison, Rhoda London, Juleen Johnson, and Vanessa Calvert.

STORE - Nico Sea & Zachary explore how two artists can create poetry through healthy competition and collaboration. It is an exercise in folding what they have learned from their Fine Arts training into their influences and artistic practices.
STORE is the SETTLEMENT's academic based gallery where we work directly with institutions and emerging artists. The gallery is directed by Zachary Sea.

TRADE - The most fluid of the galleries focuses on local institutions that fill a creative and experimental niche. TRADE's initial activation will be by the curatorial collaboration of Nim Wunnan of Research Club, Wynde Dyer of Golden Rule, Max Ogden, and Tori Abernathy of Recess Gallery through January 2011. Elizabeth Lamb is the curatorial consultant for the project.