"Where Grasses Grow Over Me”
An Abstract Art Collection by Christopher St. John
PORTLAND, Oregon – Gallery @ the Jupiter Hotel is proud to announce its latest collaboration with local artist Christopher St. John entitled “Where Grasses Grow Over Me”, on display October 4th through November 29th, 2016. The installation is a featured collection highlighting the artist’s return to his initial calling: abstract art. The First Friday Eastside artwalk artist opening reception will be held on Friday, October 7th, 2016, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Christopher St. John lives and works in Portland, Oregon. His work touches on the impact of place on the shape of our lives, the vocabulary of form, the figure, and the joy of impermanence. For many years, St. John’s figurative work chronicled the self-destructive urges that seem to be consuming citizens as a nation. “I worked to craft a figurative gestalt that I felt revealed the essence of that despair, that nervous frenzy, that queer dislocation that pervades everything in this country; a country which has been at war since 2001,” explained St. John.