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A Texas Art Gallery Is Taking Over an Old Orchard Hardware
Hopscotch, Portland opens this summer in 23,000 square feet with bites from Top Chef’s Sara Hauman and an international cast of installation artists.
WHEN DESCRIBING their San Antonio, Texas, art gallery to friends and relatives, Hopscotch founders Hunter Inman and Nicole Jensen usually resort to videos. Descriptors like “art installation” and “immersive experience” have grown so ubiquitous they’re practically devoid of meaning. Not to mention “technology based.” The work they show, like New York artist Basia Goszczynska’s Rainbow Cave, which repurposes waste plastics to depict something akin to an ethereal ice cave, and Los Angeles artist Todd Moyer’s interactive Graffiti Laser are really better experienced than discussed.
When Hopscotch’s second outpost opens in the former Orchard Hardware space in Southeast Portland’s Goat Blocks this June, it won’t be the next OMSI; nor can it really be compared with the Portland Art Museum.
The 23,000-square-foot space is currently being sectioned into 13 individual, expansive galleries that will orbit around a central bar and lounge, offering small bites from Top Chef alum Sara Hauman. Each room will host distinct experiences: one the size of a small airplane hangar will be plastered with six murals produced in partnership with the Portland Street Art Alliance. Another, intriguingly, will house something called “the Quantum Trampoline.”
From the time you walk through the sliding glass doors, which are the only remnant of the former tenant, the idea is to “keep that fourth wall—whatever you want to call it—out,” says Inman. But for all its escapist allure and teases of sensory deprivation, Hopscotch is also “not an escape room.”
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...continues at Portland Monthly.
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