Milepost 5 Artists :: Milepost 5 Artists Online

Writer: graphic novels and comic books Jason Squamata writes novels, graphic and otherwise. He’s been trained and employed as a stage and screen actor (under the name “Orji Walflauer”), a pop songwriter, a podcast novelist, a flesh cartoonist, and a Hypgnostic high priest. But he’s made of pages and bubbles and frames. The comics he writes (for various visionaries to illustrate) are called Hypno Komix. The titles include Teenage Luvkraft! (with Sir Richard Wentworth), Otherman & the Orakuloids (with Owen Hunter), Amerikan Zer0 and Hypnozine (with Andrew Mc Kenzie), and Parliament of Babies (with Damian Zari). Squamata has just … Continue reading →

Ben Bush

Cartoonist Ben Bush is the cartoonist responsible for a zine called Existential Dilemma Comix. He continues to crank out pulse-pounding and hilarity-inducing installments of the hitherto unknown and unpopular series. Statement Currently, my approach to comics is to address personal concerns, struggles, and obsessions through allegory. Existential Dilemma Comix was conceived as a way to look at the human ego and sense of self; how it perpetuates itself through appropriating and co-opting anything and everything in its quest to build identity. Hypocrisy is often subtle and hard to see, especially in the rarefied atmosphere of an established social order … Continue reading →

Curt Brandhorst and Brandhorst Art & Design

Works in transparent media, watercolor, acrylic, oils & colored pencils. Curt Brandhorst grew up traveling across this great country of ours. Calling New York, California, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota & Oregon home at various points in his life. He is entering his 3rd year in the Portland area. He is a member of the phi alpha theta honors fraternity for historians. And was a presenter at the Great Plains Symposium of Collegiate Honors societies. For most of his professional career Curt has worked as a graphic artist. Statement Curt Bandhorst is an award winning artist that has worked professionally in … Continue reading →

Jeff Anderson

Oil on canvas Jeff Anderson was born in 1975, in Honolulu Hawaii. His immediate family moved to the mainland USA in 1976. They settled in the once rural countryside of Beaverton, Oregon. Jeff Anderson earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2006. Jeff continues to focus on painting as a primary means of expression, where he maintains a studio at Milepost 5 in Portland, Oregon. Contact jeff@jeffreyanderson.net Online Jeffreyanderson.net

Katy Jorgensen

Painter Bringing life into a static composition by using layers of color and interlocking forms is how these pieces came about. I allow my subconscious to take over and trust the work will come together. Contact katyj7195@yahoo.com online web.me.com/katyjorgensen

Kimberli Matin

Metal Artist, Painter and Print Artist Kimberli Matin was born and raised in Portland Oregon. After moving to North Carolina in the mid 80‘s she recently returned to her beloved hometown in order to be closer to her family. Kimberli began creating with steel in the early 1990’s and immediately fell in love with the limitless possibilities for creating functional as well as non-functional art pieces out of steel. She went on to design, handcraft, and sell thousands of pieces to more than 80 galleries throughout the US. Her book ‘Ready, Set, Weld!’ by Lark Publishing came out in 2010 … Continue reading →

Michael Albury

Mixed Media Born of Scottish, British, Hindu father from the Bahamas/ Norwegian, Irish mother from Minnesota, most of my family now lives in NYC and lake Tahoe. Self taught artist plus two years MCAD. I have a twin sister who is also an artist and BFA, Parsons school of art. I have had jobs as a graphic artist, t-shirt printer, sign painter, letterpress printer, freelance commercial artist. My mediums are; photography, experimental film and animation, computer graphics (Photoshop, flash, illustrator), painting, illustration, sculpture, and design. My art influences are Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelite, Japanese, and Primitive Art. Contact waboos2000000@yahoo.com