This All Happened More or Less
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This All Happened More or Less is a 2014 outdoor public art installation by Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis, located along Southeast Division Street in Portland, Oregon, United States.
Description and history
File:This All Happened More or Less, plaque, PDX, 2016.jpg
This All Happened More or Less is a sculpture installation, and the first public art commission, by local artists Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis. The work consists of eight small bronze statues, or "characters", on large dolomite boulders quarried in the Pacific Northwest, "strategically" placed along Southeast Division Street, between 11th and 36th Avenues. The stones are sited adjacent to bioswales and near businesses. Schenk and Davis based the statues on the activities they observed on Southeast Division, and hoped pedestrians would "take their time to stroll along the street and discover all of the sculptures".{{cite web|title=Portland artists create installations for Division Streetscape|url=http://www.racc.org/about/portland-artists-create-installations-division-streetscape|publisher=Regional Arts & Culture Council|access-date=June 23, 2015|date=October 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316144220/https://racc.org/about/portland-artists-create-installations-division-streetscape|archive-date=March 16, 2015}} The artists have said, "We are merely suggesting stories and we want people to draw their own conclusions, to fill in all of the details, and to follow their imaginations." According to the Regional Arts & Culture Council, which administers the installation,{{cite news|title=Three Portland projects named among the nation's best public art|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2015/06/portland_public_art_best_in.html#incart_2box|access-date=June 23, 2015|work=The Oregonian|date=June 16, 2015}} the work "can draw a viewer in close enough to imagine a story behind each of the figures that vary from active, such as a kid on a skateboard, to inactive, such as waiting for a bus or sitting quietly with a pet dog."
This All Happened More or Less was installed with other streetscape improvements along Southeast Division and funded by the city's 2% for Art program. The installation was commemorated at Openfest on October 24, 2014.
Reception
In 2015, the work was one of three 2014 public art projects in the city, and 31 in the United States, recognized by Americans for the Arts as among the best in the country.{{cite web|title=Portland artworks gain national recognition|url=http://www.portlandonline.com/fish/index.cfm?a=534513&|publisher=City of Portland, Oregon|access-date=June 24, 2015|date=June 16, 2015}}
See also
{{Portal|Oregon|Visual arts}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/networks-and-councils/public-art-network/public-art-year-in-review-database/this-all-happened-more-or-less This All Happened More or Less] at Americans for the Arts
- [https://publicartarchive.org/art/This-All-Happened-More-or-Less/6c25e614 This All Happened More or Less] at the Public Art Archive
- [http://racc.org/public-art/search/?page=details&skip=2&sort_pref=sort_title&results_per_page=9&search_title=&search_artist=Schenk&search_keyword=&search_other=&search_collection=&search_discipline=&search=Search This All Happened More or Less] at the Regional Arts & Culture Council
- [https://www.pdx.edu/news/mfa-grads’-art-installation-sets-division-stone MFA grads' art installation sets Division in stone] by Ruby King (November 13, 2014), PSU Vanguard (Portland State University)
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Category:2014 establishments in Oregon
Category:Bronze sculptures in Portland, Oregon
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Category:Outdoor sculptures in Southeast Portland, Oregon
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