If you are in the Portland area please be sure to check out The Tribute Gallery where a new and exciting show is going to open on January 7th. The show, “Play for Keeps.” is curated by Elizabeth Lamb and Chloe Gallagher. It’s intent is to “explore the often underrated importance of play.” The show was inspired by Dutch historian and cultural theorist John Huizinga who once wrote, “Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.”

The show features Baltimore based Jon MacNair, Indiana’s own Joshua Witten (who’se interview you can find right here on Curbs and Stoops), Los Angeles based artist Patrick Haemmerlein as well as a series of other amazing artists including: Brett Anderson, Huy Ngyen, Garric Simonsen, Angela Dawn, Breanne Rupp, Megan Marie Myers, Brian Costello, Jackie Bos, Karri Dieken, Stephan Ferreira, Mark Colman, Heidi Elise Wirz, Coco Papy, Sally Gilmore, Mark Olwick, Louise Krampien and Cara Tomlinson. All of the featured works are works on paper.

The works featured on this blog are the works of Jon MacNair – the first image will be included in the Play for Keeps show. MacNair was born in Seoul, Korea and attended Maryland Institute College of Art where he earned a fine arts degree in illustration. Now Jon keeps himself busy by doing freelance illustration work and drawing figures crawling through dreamy worlds.

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