From the Plant Messengers

Featuring work by Anne Mavor

June 30 - July 30

In From the Plant Messengers, Anne will bring the Cully neighborhood her botanical contact printing on vintage and reused fabric to create abstracted forms. This earth friendly and biodegradable work exists as wall pieces and installations normally in normal scale and will transition into new forms in the mini gallery scale.

NE Roselawn between Cully & 62nd
Portland, Oregon

Anne Mavor Artist Statement

I make art to understand the world around me and to heal myself, following the feminist art maxim, the personal is political. My installations, performances, and wall pieces arise from personal vulnerability and historical inquiry to contradict oppressive systems. Using my life as source material, I have explored and countered sexism, disability, racism, amongst many other subjects.

For my latest series, Plant Messengers, I use botanical contact printing on vintage and reused fabric to create abstracted forms. This earth friendly and biodegradable work exists as wall pieces and installations that reflect my deepening relationship with the land and process of mending ancestral disconnection. Botanical contact printing as I practice it, is a ritual that starts with listening to the plants. Since all the marks, shapes, and pigments come directly from fresh leaves, stems, and flowers, this collaboration requires me to align my practice with the life cycles of the plants. In response, the prints that come to me reflect the lavish beauty and complexity that grows all around us. I regard plants with awe and gratitude as viewers come to do, too.

Artist Opening Reception

July 11, 2025

6pm to 8pm

Artist Bio

  • Anne Mavor

    Anne Mavor (b. 1952, Annapolis, Maryland, USA) is a visual artist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her multidisciplinary work illuminates social and personal issues through painting, printmaking, book arts, sculpture, installation, and performance. Anne has a BA in art from Kirkland College and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Originally from Massachusetts, in 1976 she moved to Los Angeles to join the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman’s Building where she developed solo and collaborative performances.

    Anne received grants from the John Anson Kittredge Fund, The Puffin Foundation, The Regional Arts and Culture Commission and a writing residency from The Mesa Refuge. Her work has been exhibited at Archer Gallery at Clark College (Vancouver, WA), Walters Cultural Art Center, (Hillsboro, OR), Huntington Beach Art Center, (Huntington Beach, CA), Alexander Gallery at Clackamas Community College, Lower Columbia College (Longview, WA), Highfield Hall (Falmouth, MA), Newport Visual Art Center (Newport, OR) and many other venues in Oregon, Washington, and Massachusetts.

    Since 2021 she has been developing sustainable wall pieces and installations using botanical contact printing on fabric. The outdoor project, Wandering Herbarium, was featured in the Terra Incognita land art exhibit at The Verdancy Project. Her work is included in Portland’s Portable Works Collection and in private collections. Anne is the author of Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds: 21 Artists who are Mothers Tell their Stories.

    Anne Mavor (b. 1952, Annapolis, Maryland, USA) is a visual artist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. Her multidisciplinary work illuminates social and personal issues through painting, printmaking, book arts, sculpture, installation, and performance. Anne has a BA in art from Kirkland College and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Originally from Massachusetts, in 1976 she moved to Los Angeles to join the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman’s Building where she developed solo and collaborative performances.

    Anne received grants from the John Anson Kittredge Fund, The Puffin Foundation, The Regional Arts and Culture Commission and a writing residency from The Mesa Refuge. Her work has been exhibited at Archer Gallery at Clark College (Vancouver, WA), Walters Cultural Art Center, (Hillsboro, OR), Huntington Beach Art Center, (Huntington Beach, CA), Alexander Gallery at Clackamas Community College, Lower Columbia College (Longview, WA), Highfield Hall (Falmouth, MA), Newport Visual Art Center (Newport, OR) and many other venues in Oregon, Washington, and Massachusetts.

    Since 2021 she has been developing sustainable wall pieces and installations using botanical contact printing on fabric. The outdoor project, Wandering Herbarium, was featured in the Terra Incognita land art exhibit at The Verdancy Project. Her work is included in Portland’s Portable Works Collection and in private collections. Anne is the author of Strong Hearts, Inspired Minds: 21 Artists who are Mothers Tell their Stories.