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| A painter of silent urban landscapes of Portland, Oregon, as well as
figures, interiors and garden views, Sally Cleveland has worked in both
large and small scale, the latter her preference later in her career
when her goal is to depict scenes devoid of charm and happy activity.
In these works, her approach is journalistic or reporting and
not politically driven. She does "typical industrial vistas;
functional rectangular structures surrounded by muddy lots, asphalt
expanses spotted with pools of standing water in which gray skies are
reflected; squat buildings in spare groves of power poles." (114)
Because these scenes in reality are not small, the miniature size of
her paintings create a "kind of modesty" that draws the eye and the
imagination.
With a full view of the city including mundane scenes of parking lots,
cranes, trucks, building projects and boats on the Willamette River,
Cleveland has a studio in a 12th-floor loft in the Pearl District of
Portland.
Early in her career, growing up in the South, she did figurative pieces
in cartoon-like style with text. She said she tired of being
"clever" and turned to painting that had no agenda. She was born
in Portland, lived in several places in the Northwest, and showed an
early talent for art. She was briefly enrolled at the University
of Oregon with an English literature major, and then in 1981, earned
her degree in fine arts from Pacific College of the Northwest.
She settled in Portland, working both as an artist and art
teacher.
Source:
Virginia Campbell, "Corners of Reality", Southwest Art, September 2006, pp. 112-115
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