Here's the list of Presidents, along with information about the artist that has chosen to represent them. Unless the artist does not have email, or has specifically requested that it not be included, there is also a link to their email address.
| George Washington |
Carson Ellis
Carson is a relatively new arrival to Portland, having moved here a year ago from San Francisco. She was born in October of 1975 in British Columbia, raised in New York State, and college educated in Missoula, Montana and Provincial France. In 1998, she earned a bachelor's degree in painting from the University of Montana. Since graduation, Carson has spent a lot of time painting but her first love is really the thankless art of Xerox-copied show flyers, followed closely by storybook illustration. |
| John Adams |
Crystal Tompkins
Crystal is a graphic designer who is currently employed by Watson + Associates. She graduated from Oregon State University in 2000 with a BFA in Graphic Design. Outside of work, she paints and participates in other miscellaneous craftiness. Most importantly, she hates monkeys. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
Heather Q
Heather has shown with Red 76, as well as a solo show at the Cricket Cafe. She and Jef Drawbaugh (see Abe Lincoln) own realm 8, a store specializing in locally made and designed clothing and accessories. Heather has many skills but she can't weld. |
| James Madison |
Jack Noodle
Jack is the Chef of Oven-Fresh Homemade Graphics. |
| James Monroe |
JD Davis
JD is a painter, filmmaker, collage artist, silkscreener, graffiti theorist, dj "crunk supreme", employee, son, friend, shy, 6'2", college graduate, produce clerk, boyfriend, shit-talker, money-maker, hustler, bike-rider, website owner, thumb wrestler, zine-maker, super8 shooter and a buttrocker. He also enjoys long walks at sunset and drinking wine from out of the box. |
| John Q Adams |
Colette Watts
Colette has just finished th MFA program at Portland State University for painting/mixed media. Her thesis show opened on May 16th at Portland State University's Gallery 299 in Neuberger Hall. The show will run through May 23rd. |
| Andrew Jackson |
Ian Lynam
Ian was born five hours too far north to manifest the emcee dreams he would later fantasize about. Samples of his work can be viewed at deafleopard.com. |
| Andrew Jackson |
Kenna Conklin
While still a young grasshopper in the world of art, Kenna has mastered the wicked stylings of "whatever-art-method-is-the-cheapest". She began her training in this dark form as a bored college student with too many paper clips, glue sticks and a lot of unused notebook paper. Since then, she has grown into such techniques as dumpster-diving wood, reusing newspaper wrapped around things ordered from foreign lands and borrowing paint from friends. "It's beautiful 'cause it's free." |
| Martin Van Buren |
Ryan Pierce
Ryan is a dirty man. He is sorry for being a bad person, but he really cannot help it. Sometimes when he is eating a piece of toast while reading a library book he will drop crumbs upon the pages, and they will nestle down towards the spine. Does he try to wipe them out? Does he try to blow upon the book's gutter to gently dislodge the granules? No. No, he does not. The collective weight of the Multnomah Library is increasing with each piece of toast that Ryan eats. To atone for his sins, Ryan regularly attends "step" aerobic workouts. |
| William H Harrison |
Sam Gould
Sam is the founder and curator of the Red 76 Art Collective. He has most recently exhibited his photographs at Visage, in Portland's Pearl District, and has had previous month-long shows at Realm 8 and Belmont Stumptown. |
| John Tyler |
Christopher Buckingham
Christopher performs calculations, analyzes information, and manages lists in spreadsheets. He can also be found occasionally painting, drawing, taking pictures, scribbling in notebooks, diddling with music, drinking coffee, walking aimlessly around Portland, and staring at people. But he doesn't get paid for any of that. The next thing he will spend his sleep time on is an art project about his mother's coffee cup collection. |
| James Polk | Vicki Wilson |
| Zachary Taylor |
Alex Miel
As well as being an upstanding citizen and prominent member of the GOP party, Alex's work can also be seen in Backfire Magazine and Too Much Coffee Man Magazine. |
| Millard Filmore |
Scott Rautmann
Scott Rautmann: loves sausage and beer. |
| Franklin Pierce |
Julie Nuthals
Julie has gone to school for art long enough that ITT Tech now pays her to spill her brains to their students several days a week. Besides talking about art, she also creates it, mainly oil paintings of abstract landscapes. Julie shows at ONDA Gallery in Portland, and will also be taking part in The Mother of All Art Hops celebration on NE Alberta on Saturday, May 11th, where she will have a shrine to mothers displayed in the Alberta Station Ballroom. |
| James Buchanan |
Chris Doyle
Chris is a graphic artist and printmaker. He enjoys tirimisu and all things sweet. He hopes to run for the Presidency after Armageddon. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
Jef! Drawbaugh
Jef! tried to grow an Abe Lincoln beard, but failed miserably. He recently shaved. |
| Andrew Johnson |
Through an error in the organization of the Presidents Show, Andrew Johnson was not represented by an artist. |
| Ulysses S Grant |
Paige Saez and Matthew Arnold
Paige was born in Miami, Florida, at age zero. She emigrated to upstate New York at eleven, and voluntarily committed herself to Alfred University at seventeen. She stole a degree in painting at twenty, and pilgrimaged to Portland, Oregon, at twenty-one, then voluntarily committed herself to Portland State University at twenty-three for a graduate degree in architecture. She is currently continuing in life a long pursuit to learn as much as possible about bacteriology, virology and horror movies. Her future plans involve world domination through religion based on the adverse affects of mob theory and the spectacle. |
| Rutherford B Hayes |
Megan Gnekow
Megan is currently finishing her Bachelor's Degree in Art, with an emphasis on painting and printmaking, at Portland State University. Her most recent exhibition was a group of polaroid prints in "Climate Control", a group show at Eagerwally Gallery and Art Labs in February, 2002. |
| James A Garfield |
Martin Ontiveros
Martin didn't even know there was such a thing as President or anything like that until Reagan took office, and then only because his parents loathed the ol' Gipper and took any opportunity to badmouth him. When he isn't drawing kid's books or painting robots, monsters and other dumb stuff, Martin reflects upon his decision to vote Nader last year, and wonders if indeed he is to blame for the fact that we have a complete and utter moron "running" this country. |
| Chester A Arthur |
Laura Baldwin
Laura is a transplant from Minneapolis, Minnesota by way of Olympia, Washington, New Orleans, Louisianna, and Boston, Massachussetts. By the by, she has participated in painting, drawing, sculpture and installation projects ranging in size from small to big. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon with her goldfish, cat, dog and fiance. |
| Grover Cleveland |
Hillary Strobel
Hillary grew up in Los Angeles, and went to college in San Francisco. She's currently working on an entire set of dishes that are glazed with exotic insects that she sketched while at a "bugs and beer" party at Extremo the Clown's house. Other than that, she's currently looking for a real job. She cares for basketball a great deal and reads many books by old greek people and french existentialists. |
| Benjamin Harrison |
Tim Root
When Tim's not working at a coffee shop, he is usually playing with his dog Miss Lenny. When he's not doing either he is usually napping or reading some western or murder mystery. He likes sitting in the grass with no socks on... or shoes. |
| Grover Cleveland |
E*Rock
E*Rock runs Audio Dregs Recordings and publishes Thumb zine. |
| William McKinley |
Amos Latteier
Amos builds machines and gives lectures. He is currently giving slide lectures on scientific and cultural topics including models, monsters, and homing pigeons. Recently he built a chain saw-powered walking machine, a 500 lb potato battery, and several hover crafts. For money he writes computer programs and computer books. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
Ahren Lutz
Ahren Lutz |
| William H Taft |
Sean Clair
"Sean is a very good kid. He likes to party harty. You can tell he likes to rock and pig out! He likes Duran Duran, and the Police. He is funny and can draw funny and good, he should be an artist. But he can be weird at times. But I like him, we're friends." - Christopher Moylan, 4th grade, 1985. |
| Woodrow Wilson |
Charlotte LaVictoire
Charlotte LaVictoire, age 22, currently spends most of her time working an unfulfilling retail job and attending school so that she might not spend the rest of her life working an unfulfilling retail job. She spends her few extra hours making collages and tiny dioramas from found objects and clippings. Her influences include but are not limited to: Herbert Bayer, Laslo Moholy-Nagy, Maya Deren, Man Ray, Haruki Murakami, and azmo. |
| Warren G Harding |
Christine Grykien
Christine has shown in group shows in New York City, Philadelphia and on the left coast in the Renegade Art Movement of Seattle. Her most recent public exhibition has been with the Dearborn Arts Group at the MarLac building in Seattle on the night of March 16. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Zefrey Throwell |
| Herbert Hoover |
Adam Neumann
Adam is a freelance illustrator and designer who recently moved to Portland from New York City, where he worked in animation and in film post production. |
| Franklin D Roosevelt |
Amie Beckwith
Amie is a professional artist, who waitresses in her spare time. She also enjoys wrestling with Uriah Herr (George Washington), but married Scott
Rautmann (Millard Fillmore) yesterday. |
| Harry Truman |
Peter Stratton
Peter goes to school at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and, like Truman, he too has muffins for breakfast... |
| Dwight D Eisenhower |
Bryan Suereth
Bryan is the Director of the Disjecta Gallery, which is hosting the Presidents Show. |
| John F Kennedy |
Fritz Osbourne
A veteran of Microsoft and victim of a dot-gone, Fritz spent much of last year being laid off. After a confrontation with ego, he finally began to relax and came to some new, confusing realizations about his life's interests. Artistic inspiration and a connection with Slack introduced him to this President's show, which is his debut. |
| Lyndon B Johnson |
Mike Fleming
When Mike is not writing checks for the people of University of Washington, he's usually drawing or painting. He's been in a few shows, but "nothing big." He's running a corporation out of his basement. He says,"I chose LBJ for two reasons; first, he's the only president to have 'BJ' in his name; second, he was well-known for two things, one great and the other not so good: equal rights and the Vietnam war. One was won, one was lost." |
| Richard Nixon |
Bonefish Sam
Bonefish Sam is Idaho's most famous experimental musician. In addition to creating fabulous, wonky, noises. Bonefish is an accomplished painter, graphic designer, and the editor of Bosch's Occasional Journal. |
| Gerald Ford |
Bwana Spoons
Bwana loves a golden sunset and basset hounds. |
| Jimmy Carter |
Khris Soden
Khris is a cartoonist and illustrator based out of Portland, Oregon. He has shown in various Red 76 exhibitions, and has had his work appear in various magazines, such as Bosch's Occasional Journal, Faster Than Sheep, and The Boise (Idaho) Weekly. He is currently working on the second issue of his comic book, pravda. |
| Ronald Reagan |
Angela Muldoon
Angela is puttering through art school like an El Camino with the engine of a golf cart. She makes teapots and thrown cylinders and finds inspiration in the prospect of a speedy graduation. |
| George Bush |
Brad Adkins
Brad is an interdisciplinary artist and curator/director for the Charm Bracelet. He prefers the green that they use for hospital scrubs and occasionally he makes art objects for other people's shows. Most recently he contributed his baby book(photo album) for a show in San Francisco. An art collector named Beau Takahara bought it. He hasn't met her yet, but is curious about what she plans to do with it. |
| William J. Clinton |
Gairdt Lundeen
Gairdt graduated from Oregon State University in 2001 with a BFA in Printmaking and Painting. He has had shows at the Fuji Gallery in Florence, Italy, at Portland State University's Littman and White Galleries and at La Sells Stewart Center in Corvallis. Gairdt's works are intrapersonal and meant to be interpreted individually. It is important that a dialogue is struck up with the viewer. Although the pieces that Gairdt creates are put together piecemeal from his own life and has their own direct personal connnection to him, it is paramount that a viewer interpret their own story from the viewing. |
| George W. Bush |
Uriah Herr
Uriah does it all, and his favorite fruit is a guava ripe off the tree. |
| Almost President Al Gore | Beau Von Hinklywinkle |