Co:laboratory

ART \art\ n.
1: skill acquired by experience or study
2: one of the humanities
3: the use of skill and imagination in the production of things of beauty
4: the use of knowledge and skill in making or doing things

VIG•IL \vij-uhl\ n.
1: a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, esp. to keep watch or [...]

January 2010, Los Angeles, CA
David Heskin / Aloria Weaver / Noah Dann / Nikki Moon
To start the new year on an epic pace, DreamCo descended upon the amazing new Temple of Visions Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. This gigantic gallery dedicated to the emergence of visionary art has hosted many of today’s cutting edge [...]

March 2010, Ukiah CA
Eric Nez / David Heskin / Aloria Weaver / Noah Dann / William Phelan
Opening a portal for a new visionary art gallery in northern California, a 4-dimensional cube, or tesseract subtly became the ocean from which 2 islands emerged. Upon realization of a divine connectivity between all beings, the twin islands grew [...]

September 2009, Yosemite
Aloria Weaver / Eric Nez / David Heskin / Nikki Moon
Noah Dann / Kai / Keala Young

Gallery and 30-hour collaborative 4×12ft painting.
Gallery structures created in collaboration with Ryan Hamilton of Crafters Collective.
Tension fabric roof created by Greg and Mar Ricketts of Guildworks.

August 2009, Oregon
Aloria Weaver / David Heskin / Eric Nez / Nikki Moon

Gallery and 40-hour collaborative 4×12ft painting triptych at the 2nd annual Beloved Sacred Art & Music Festival. For the second year, DreamCo provided the main art installation of the event, including art on center stage and in multiple distinct locations throughout the 1500 [...]

New Year 2009, Portland OR
Eric Nez / Aloria Weaver / David Heskin

Gallery and 18-hour collaborative painting to ring in the new year 2009.
Bamboo altar created in collaboration with Ryan Hamilton of Crafters Collective.

August 2008, Oregon
David Heskin / Aloria Weaver / Eric Nez / Noah Dann
Dreaming Co:nexus presented Art Temple, a sacred presentation of large paintings, each one as a unique altarpiece. Featuring the rotating glass geometry of Norm Dibble as the chandelier, the dome transported its visitors to an altogether different dimension.
Our 18 foot Earthrise scroll was [...]

May 2007, Portland OR
Eric Nez / Noah Dann / Aloria Weaver / David Heskin
In May of 2007, imbedded within the main venue of Portland’s 7th annual Village Building Convergence, Dreaming Co:nexus created Earthrise, an 8 x 18 foot scroll, seen here hanging from Burnside Bridge. Since 2007, Earthrise has been exhibited at a multitude of [...]

May 2006, Portland OR
David Heskin / Aloria Weaver / Eric Nez / Jerod Knapp
In 8 days, four artists brought this 20 x 60 foot wall to life as a part of Portland City Repair’s 6th annual Village Building Convergence, or VBC6. Perhaps the first of the large scale Art Vigils, and the first DreamCo mural, [...]