photo by Samantha Stidham

What is Recovery Panes?

Recovery Panes is a multi-phase community project involving those who have been impacted by addiction. Participants created a small encaustic painting representative of their personal experience, strength and hope. The complex elements of encaustic wax uniquely allowed a symbolic and cathartic exploration of their experiences. Participants also shared a short, written response to the process which is paired with their art in an accompanying catalogue



All individual paintings are joined to form a larger work, framed and presented to resemble large windows with each painting representing a single windowpane. The art is interactive- the individual panels are mounted on magnets, allowing the viewers to rearrange the paintings, symbolizing our need to change our perspective and move towards de-stigmatizing addiction.

Both the Recovery Panes and the accompanying catalogue will be shown at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts through March of 2012.

A reception will be held on Thursday, February 2nd, 5pm-9pm, to celebrate both Recovery Panes and 'Come to Your Senses', a showcase of encaustic paintings by local artists

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Portland City Arts is on board

Well it looks like I will be partnering with Portland City Arts..  I love those guys.  I have done lots of shows with them in the last year and am really excited to have them work with the Recovery Panes Project too.

It looks like they will show the finished works at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center this fall and throw a kick ass reception.  They always put on a great party.  On a personal note, I will be doing some personal shows with them as well in the next year.  Check out my website www.kellywilliamsart.com for more details as they become available.

I am looking forward to seeing how the audience participates with the art work. I am still working out the kinks in the framing being magnetized,  so people can rearrange the art, but I trust it will happen.

This is going to be so cool.  I keep imagining those slider puzzles, but every arrangement IS the picture.
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