Exhibitions

August Gallery Exhibition
Jul
30
to Aug 29

August Gallery Exhibition

Featuring works by Jamin Tinsel, J.D. Perkin, and Mike Vos.

J.D Perkin is a Portland oregon native and has been exhibiting for 30 years along the west coast from San Francisco to Seattle.

He received a B.S. from Portland State with a focus on anthropology. He has completed a number of public art projects in the Portland area and has been represented by the Russo Lee Gallery in Portland Oregon since 1999.

He has visited and camped along the North Oregon Coast well over 100 times as an adult, and his family has had close ties to Manzanita and Tierra del Mar.

Mike Vos is a photographer, visual artist and musician from Portland, OR.

Vos has been awarded artist residencies at esteemed institutions such as MASS MoCA, The Akureyri Art Museum in Akureyri, Iceland, Bær Arts Center in Hofsós, Iceland, Cobertizo in Mexico, Vermont Studio Center, Caldera Arts and The Sitka Center for Art & Ecology.

In 2024 Vos released his debut monograph ‘Somewhere in Another Place’ through Buckman Publishing. In 2025 he was awarded a photography fellowship with the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology and helped develop a teaching program for rural youth across Oregon state.

Jamin London Tinsel is a studio artist and high school art educator based in Portland, Oregon.

Jamin London Tinsel’s Artist Bio:

Jamin London Tinsel is a studio artist and high school art educator based in Portland, Oregon. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art Education with an emphasis in Sculpture from Colorado State University in 1999 and received an MFA in Ceramics from University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2007.

Jamin was the recipient of the 2025 Oregon Art Educator of the Year Award and is an active member of the Oregon Art Educators Association. She has participated in numerous artist residencies, including Oxbow Center for the Arts in Michigan, Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, TICA Summer Institute at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana, Clay Kingdom in Berlin, Germany and an upcoming residency at Sou'wester Lodge in Seaview, Washington.

Her work has been exhibited at Maryhill Museum of Art and Southern Oregon University, as well as in galleries throughout Portland, Philadelphia, New York, and Berlin. Most recently, she presented a solo exhibition in 2025 at North View Gallery at PCC Sylvania in Portland, Oregon.

Jamin London Tinsel’s Artist Statement:

At this point in my life, I’m thinking about the house as a metaphor for self. Like a person, a house accumulates evidence of experience: signs of care, neglect, aspiration, failure, comfort, and change. It shelters what is private and reveals aspects of who we are. I am interested in the tension between the interior life within us and the version of ourselves that becomes visible through spaces we inhabit.

My understanding of home was shaped by growing up between two very different households. As a child, I noticed the small details. My mother's towels were often worn and musty, while my father's were fluffy and carefully folded. Those towels became an early symbol of adulthood and the kind of life I imagined for myself. As an adult, I find myself reflecting on how my own home functions as a portrait of self. What do its imperfections reveal? What assumptions do others make when they encounter the evidence of family life: dirty dishes, unfolded laundry, or well-worn objects?

These questions have become central to my studio practice. Having worked in clay for decades, I continue to discover its history in the domestic sphere. I make art with it, but I also eat off of it. In this body of work, I use clay to construct forms associated with home—tables, towels, ladders, bubbles, nests, and fragments of architecture. These objects tell the story of the house, the self. They reveal the view from the inside.

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