Joseph Gallivan interviews Jo Hamilton

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Tue, 02/17/2015 - 11:30am to 12:00pm
Joseph Gallivan interviews Jo Hamilton
On Tuesday, February 2015 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews the artist Jo Hamilton about her show "Whom" which runs at the Laura Russo Gallery until Feb 28.
Hamilton trained as a painter in her hometown of Glasgow, UK but her latest show uses crotchet to make wall-mounted portraits ranging from police mugshots to other artists to her mother with a black eye. Hamilton will talk about some of the characters she has worked with, the way the medium unsettles expectations, and where to get the best acrylic yarn.    
 
From the press release:
Jo Hamilton’s crocheted portraiture is a fascinating combination of traditional technique with contemporary subject matter. A native of Scotland, Hamilton earned a degree in painting and drawing from the Glasgow School of Art. After moving to Portland, she translated her artistic vision into the medium of crochet, which she had first learned as a child from her grandmother. Her subjects range broadly, with an enduring interest in portraiture, ranging from people she knows, to commission subjects, mugshot images, larger than life nudes, and recently, 3-dimensional mannequin-like whimsically masked heads. Each piece is compelling and poignant, informed by the vivid color and complex detail of her process and the rich tradition and contemporary approach to the crochet technique that informs them. 

Born in Scotland in 1972, Jo Hamilton has lived in Oregon since 1996. She received her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 1993. She has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and nationally, including a major 2014 show at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. She is the recipient of grants from Portland’s Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission, was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting television’s Oregon ArtBeat, and her work has been written about in publications nationally and internationally 
 
Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune, where he is currently the Business Reporter. He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com
josephgallivan@gmail.com
 
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