Corner Gallery at the Camas Public Library
The Second Story Gallery wants to expand opportunities for artists and community members to display work and has added an additional space in the Library called Corner Gallery. It is a display wall located near the Library's DVD section on the first floor of the Library. This area will host the occasional small exhibits throughout the year.
If you are interested in exhibiting at the Corner Gallery email the Gallery at secondstorygallery@cityofcamas.us
Exhibits at Corner Gallery
November - December 2024 - Deborah Chava Singer
Time.Light.Motion Artist Statement: If I'd been born sooner or later, had major life events happened at another time, how different would my life, would I, be? If only the timing had been changed, the whole motion of my life could be too. I have a sleep disorder that puts my natural waking hours onto an odd schedule. It makes me a night owl when the patterns of light and dark make the world look a little different from the way it does during the day. When I took a photo class in college and learned that long-exposures meant I could capture light, I fell in love with the magic of it. One night, feeling frustrated with the way my disability had changed my life, at the power it had taken from me, I returned to that magic in force and this photography series was born. At times my world has felt strange, confining, my camera was one way to open it up, to make it bigger, to give myself room when I needed it. In this series that all comes together, with my cameras and the light and dark around me I can capture the baffling forces of motion and time itself. This photo series is very personal. Born from my disability and my sleep disorder, pieces of me and my life that put me out of step with other people, the series has grown with me as I have grown stronger in my embrace of myself. I know I likely wouldn’t have this series, not the way it is, without those parts of me.
Past Exhibits at Corner Gallery
October 2024 - Jose Trejo Maya
Artist Statement: Artist Statement I am a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the lowlands (i.e. Mexico) from a time and place that no longer exists. At present my poetry has been reified as it has been published in the UK, US, India, Spain, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Venezuela. I have been exhibited in different venues with a work that’s titled: Transparencies in Time: Cuahpohualli embedded in ethnopoetic language poetry:. I seek to expand on this work into a comprehensive exhibit in a gallery and/or installation in 3D public art sculptures (i.e. three simultaneous monumental works that expand into multiple levels of perception and/or dimensions). In this the sculptures came from dreams, it’s a refraction of our ancestors so you see a mirror in yourself. I was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, where I spent my childhood in the small neighboring rural pueblo of Tarimoró and wherefrom my family immigrated in 1988. My inspiration(s) include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, and James Welch. I have a work in progress of a short-story series where I interpolate the sunstone calendar (i.e. the primary source of the Cauhpohualli Computo del tiempo azteca y su correlacion actual Anahuacayotl de Tlaxcalancingo, Puebla). To bring to life a micro-fiction project titled San Miguel de Tarimoro ca. 1546. It’s a micro-fiction work of short stories that delve into the immaterial aspects of time. It will be digitized into video with simultaneous audio in video-book view narration. Namely, it’s a bridge from poetry to narrative storytelling. The work is a catalog of the 365 days in the Tonalpohualli or count of days in hologram. My work is rooted in Mesoamerican lore and a pre-Columbian notion of time that’s extant in the poetics and as such it’s the foundation and bedrock. While in ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule River Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy
September 2024: Gorge Refuge Stewards - Youth Photo Contest Winners
The Corner Gallery displayed the winners of the 2024 Youth Photo Contest, which is hosted annually by the Gorge Refuge Stewards. Learn more about the contest HERE.
Credit: Shalaka Deshpande
June 2024: Bailey Lim
Artist Statement: Art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. The art on display showcases my journey for the past 7 years. I love to draw, paint, and mold in many different mediums. The 1st set of framed pieces were taught to me in my initial art class taken in elementary school. During the pandemic, I was inspired by Anime. Recently, my art has been inspired by the natural world around me. Creating art is my way to spread happiness and joy to others. I hope that when you see my art, it will bring a smile to your face and help you feel more connected to the world around you. - Bailey Lim
April - May 2024: Vanessa Griffitts
March 2024: Xander Acain - Photography
Xander Acain is student at Hayes Freedom High School.
January - February 2024: Zoe Anderson - Senior Photography Project
The inaugural exhibit for the Corner Gallery was photographs of Camas locations by local high school student Zoe Anderson for her senior project.
