STEPHANIE CHEFAS PROJECTS

EXHIBITION CATALOG

A SUMMER GROUP EXHIBIT BY

Kelly Allen | Meegan Barnes | Laura Berger | Heather Day

Monica Kim Garza | Kate Klingbeil | Nathan Mckee | Kelly Ording

As a visual ode to the carefree and sultry days of summer,

Stephanie Chefas Projects is turning up the heat in August with a
group exhibit entitled HEATWAVE. The show will
present works from eight artists who each convey a distinct voice
and a brilliant adoration for sun, surf, and skin.
Through the power of artistic expression, HEATWAVE celebrates a
season that personifies escapism and outside culture. The
sensation of sand between your toes, an idyllic romp in the green
grass, a sweaty late night rendezvous--all this and more drips with
newfound perspective via ceramic booty sculptures, vibrant
paintings, paper cutouts and textiles.
The opening reception for HEATWAVE will be held at Stephanie
Chefas Projects on Friday, August 12th from 6-9pm. Stephanie
Chefas Projects is located in Portland, Oregon at 305 SE 3rd
Avenue on the second floor of the Urban Row building. The
exhibition will be on view through September 3rd, 2016 and is free
and open to the public.

KELLY ALLEN

Kelly Allen is interested in creating work that portrays the unity of life on earth.
Allens work is primarily fueled by the desire to build a bridge between our
ancestral connection to the natural world and contemporary society. Acting
from our current side of that bridge, she seeks to create a renewed respect
and appreciation for the fantastic flora and fauna that shares the earth with us.
Allen is a native of Michigan and an alumna of Humboldt State University. She
earned her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Humboldt State,
graduating summa cum laude in 2003. She later went on to a residency at the
Ox-Bow School of Art. In 2008 Allen earned an MFA with and emphasis in
drawing from the Kendall college of Art and Design.

KELLY ALLEN
Ejszaka (night)
Cotton, acrylic, wood, plastisol
~ 28 inches
$650

MEEGAN BARNES

Meegan Barnes is a Los Angeles based, multi disciplinary artist and sculptor.
Her work, which usually features a voluptuous derriere, is cheeky, irreverent
and empowering. Its feminine and feminist, its got grit, its got glamour. Her
sculptures are tooted in the tradition of craft with nods to ancient artifacts and
folklore, spiritual symbolism, warrior women and pop culture.

Originally form the Bay Area, Barnes lived in New York as an illustrator for the
fashion, beauty, and music industries before she went to Brazil and sculpted
her first derriere. Butts are sensual, symmetrical, and also represent a duality
thats a big part of my own personality.


MEEGAN BARNES
Dripping in Gold Booty
ceramic stoneware, glazes and 22 kt gold luster
12 x 10 x 8.5 inches
$2,000 (set)
Please contact info@stephaniechefas.com for individual pricing on pieces

MEEGAN BARNES
Versace Booty
ceramic stoneware, glazes and 22 kt gold luster
13 x 12 x 9 inches
$2,000 (set)
Please contact info@stephaniechefas.com for individual pricing on pieces

LAURA BERGER

Laura Berger is an artist based in Chicago, working primarily in acrylic and

gouache. Her work focusing on exploring the connections to ourselves and
each other, and the idea of finding novelty and adventure in everyday life.

Rituals, symbols, nature, dreams, travel, the quest for self-development inspire
Berger, along with how we piece it all together to create personal meaning
and a sense of belonging to the greater whole.

LAURA BERGER
Warmer Together
acrylic and acrylic gouache on cradled wood panel
20 x 16 inches
$800

LAURA BERGER
Our Waves
acrylic and acrylic gouache on cradled wood panel
20 x 16 inches
$800

HEATHER DAY

Heather Day is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Day
grew up in Hawaii and along the east coast of the United States, finally moving
to San Francisco after graduating from Maryland Institute College of Art with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and art history. Her background in
travel and culture encouraged her to see more of the world, where she
discovered a connection to nature - her main source of inspiration. Days art is
a form of visual storytelling interested in conveying moments of interactions.
She works primarily with paint and non-traditional materials, and is known for
her murals. The philosophy that everything is a product of an experience
frames each work, conveying stories of movement and ideas of color through
seams, lines, and layers.

HEATHER DAY
Stacks at Home #1
soft pastel, acrylic and spray paint on paper
30 x 22 inches
$750

HEATHER DAY
Objects in Your Pocket #1
soft pastel, graphite, acrylic and spray paint on paper
30 x 22 inches
$750

MONICA KIM GARZA

Monica Kim Garza creates work that celebrates the female form. Painting
and sculpting women (primarily in the nude), Garza places her dark
skinned full bodied models in contemporary situations: on motorbikes,
surfboards and sitting in bed looking at their cellphones. Inspired by her
own daily experiences chasing boys and daydreaming, Monicas lush
figurative paintings evoke a playful sensuality that mirrors the artists
own life. Using bold and vibrant sketches the half Korean, half MexicanAmerican artist draws further influence from hip-hop culture and strong
female artists such as Frida Kahlo and Selena.

MONICA KIM GARZA

Cake Con Leche
acrylic on canvas paper
18 x 24 inches
$600

MONICA KIM GARZA

Juice and the Squeeze
acrylic and tempura on canvas paper
18 x 24 inches
$650

KATE KLINGBEIL

My work is about the awkward moment, the time in between feeling

comfortable and melting in embarrassment. These fleeting ideas floating in my
boiling blood, laid out in creamy texture and sweeping lines are a tangible
translation of life, as it exists inside. There is a satisfying serenity involved in
visually mapping emotions. Painting is a way to organize these thoughts, to
deconstruct confusing emotions, to process life, to slow down and make
sensations tangible. Feelings change, and I am attached to the idea of the noncommittal painting. I paint in sections, small pieces that are meticulously cut
and arranged to form complete thoughts. I have the power to move and
arrange images as I see fit. Using multiple techniques, I organize picture to
explain an intuition, where each process provides me with its own separate
satisfaction. Each piece is a choreographed dance, an emotion laid out in ink,
suspended in animation, balancing on pinheads. These paintings are records
in time, and are carefully curated questions to myself. Each one acts as a puzzle
of feelings in times of sedation, seduction, elation, anxiety and obsession.

KATE KLINGBEIL
Lush As the Underside of August
acrylic, paperclay and gouache on wood panel
9 x 12 inches
$750

KATE KLINGBEIL
Making the Barren Fruitful Again
acrylic and gouache on wood panel
18 x 24 inches
$1,100

NATHAN MCKEE

Nathan McKee is an artist and illustrator who lives and works in Portland,
Oregon. McKees illustrations and paper cutouts utilize simple lines and flat
color, and are inspired by comics, sports, music and other elements of popular
culture. His works have been included in exhibitions in Portland, Chicago, New
York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Boston, and Switzerland. McKee runs the
websites fakeyourowndeath.com and makentakem.com. Additionally, McKee
has created the fanzines Hang Time and Blazerzine that espouses Blazers.
McKee has studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

NATHAN MCKEE
The Eddie
archival paper cut
17 x 20 inches (framed)
$500

NATHAN MCKEE
Party Wave
archival paper cut
17 x 20 inches (framed)
$500

KELLY ORDING

Kelly Ording creates artwork that blends organic and geometric shapes with
exact lines, pairing intuitive and mathematical mark-making. In doing so, she
attempts to create and find beauty in simple things. Her pieces are as much
about their creation process as the resulting imagery.
Ording is a graduate of San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to fine art, she
creates large-scale public works and murals for locations such as Clarion Alley,
Pelaga Park Recreation Center, Genentech, Facebook, and Kala Art Institute.
This summer, she will complete a large-scale paving project at Unity Plaza, in
conjunction with the San Francisco Department of Public Works and the San
Francisco Arts Commission.

KELLY ORDING
Paloma
acrylic on dyed canvas
18 x 18 inches
$1,600

KELLY ORDING
Rockaway
acrylic on dyed canvas
18 x 18 inches
$1,600

A SUMMER GROUP EXHIBIT BY

Kelly Allen | Meegan Barnes | Laura Berger | Heather Day
Monica Kim Garza | Kate Klingbeil | Nathan Mckee | Kelly Ording

To purchase artworks or for more information please contact:

info@stephaniechefas.com
503.719.6945
www.stephaniechefas.com