The light above Attic Gallery co-owner Maria Gonser’s desk is out, but she doesn’t have time to worry about that right now — not when her already-lengthy project list just got a lot longer.
In early October, the Camas gallery’s next-door neighbor, Chinese restaurant Happy Island, will close its doors after nearly two decades in business at its prime Northeast Cedar Street location, between Northeast Fourth and Fifth avenues in the heart of downtown Camas.
On Nov. 1, the space falls into the hands of Gonser, her husband, Tommer, and mother, Diann Faville, and gives Attic Gallery a chance to grow.
Gonser said all three are happy about the future gallery expansion, but no one is as excited as Faville, who started the gallery out of her Southwest Portland attic in 1973, and moved to Camas in December 2015.
“She is chomping at the bit,” Gonser said, of her mother’s enthusiasm over the new gallery space. “I mean, we all are. It has so many possibilities.”