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  • Join Blackfish

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    Eric Rue at Blackfish

    Blackfish Gallery, one of the oldest existing cooperative galleries in the U.S., is seeking new artists to join the membership. Interested artists should live in the Portland area and be prepared to submit 20 images, a letter of intent, artist statement, anhttp://www.portlandart.net/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=1840&blog_id=1#d resume. The [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:29am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Blackfish & the Anderson Ranch

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    Eric Rue at Blackfish

    Blackfish Gallery, one of the oldest existing cooperative galleries in the U.S., is seeking new artists to join the membership. Interested artists should live in the Portland area and be prepared to submit 20 images, a letter of intent, artist statement, anresume. The application [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:29am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • on Wednesday

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    Brian Gillis

    PCC Cascade Gallery presents ...on Wednesday, an installation by Brian Gillis. Using juxtaposed images, objects, and spaces, Gillis' work is "socially relevant, audience activated, and engaged... summoning stories that elicit rich metaphors and social exchanges in an effort to arouse awareness, introspection, and valuation." There will' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:30am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • West Coast Turnaround

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    Crystal Schenk & Shelby Davis

    MP5 presents West Coast Turnaround, a sculptural installation by artists-in-residence Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis. This short term installation (November 22-29) features a life-sized tractor-trailer semi, made out of 2x4s and drywall, parked in a 4th floor artist loft. "The two artists see" [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:23am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • new at MoCC

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    Left: Lauren Kalman from Elusive Matter, Right: Andy Paiko & Ethan Rose from Transference

    Two new exhibitions open today at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose have installed Transference in the downstairs gallery. The pair collaborated to create a kinetic-sound installation reinterpreting the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:05pm EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • WPA art

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    This month's installment of the Art & Conversation series at PAM features local author and museum docent Ginny Allen leading a discussion on Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored art in the collection and other federal art projects around Portland. Meet in the Fields Ballroom in the Mark Building.

    Art chat • [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:31am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • launch art (opportunities)

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    Launch Pad is seeking submissions for Light Sensitive Material, their first-ever *juried* group show in celebration of the gallery's fourth anniversary. "The show focuses on what appears to be a dying media in this modern computer driven age where many of our most cherished memories are recorded ethereally as a" [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:05am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • work so sweet

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    Wendy Kveck, "Sweet Devouration"

    PCC Sylvania presents Sweet Devouration, new paintings and a sculpture by Wendy Kveck. The artist writes: "In recent work, food has evolved into content and material, a layered symbol that simultaneously informs abstractions and directs or embellishes my figurative narratives. These examine representations of" [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:28am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • PAM Annual Book Sale

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    Portland Art Museum, Mark Building

    PAM's annual book sale is happening this weekend: "Discover great book bargains at the [2-day] Crumpacker Family Library's annual sale, featuring thousands of donated new and used art books at a fraction of the full retail price."

    Book Sale • 9am-3pm • November 14 [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:37am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • alt.space(s)

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    Sarah Meadows

    Sarah Meadows' Time Ends Now opens tomorrow at Nationale. In her first exhibition of landscape photography, Meadows "elaborates on her fascination with nature and the elastic properties of film images, dispensing entirely with narrative and human gesture and presenting instead a concentrated study of wilderness encountered."

    Opening' [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:39am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • calling all souls

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    detail of Antione Catala's Psychedelic Soul at the Cooley Gallery

    In conjunction with The Language of the Nude at Reed's Cooley Gallery, as well as their related Psychedelic Soul exhibition at TBA:09, Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder and PICA Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:16am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • more speaking

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    Xu Bing, "Ghosts Pounding the Wall"

    In the first of two CDN lectures this week, renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing will speak tomorrow on 30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art. "Ranging from monumental installations to handcrafted books, Xu's artistic practice is a playful and political exploration of the" [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:28pm EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • show your work @ disjecta

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    "Vestibule," Disjecta's visual arts space, is putting out an open call for proposals from emerging artists: "The Curatorial Committee reviews proposals from artists and organizations, choosing programs for their artistic strength and cultural and/or social relevance. Applications are accepted year round." For submission guidelines and further information, visit their [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:07am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • update: pmmnls

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    Laurel Nakadate, "Exorcism in January"

    PICA, PSU, Reed, et al present Laurel Nakadate for next week's PMMNLS. Nakadate is a photographer, video artist and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, The Yerba Buena, The Getty Museum, and The Reina Sofia. In 2009, her first feature film, [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:38pm EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • flotsam, jetsam, bontei

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    Steven Beatty and Laurel Kurtz

    Clark College's Archer Gallery presents Flotsam & Jetsam and Jetties & Gyres by Steven Beatty and Laurel Kurtz. "Referencing earthworks from the 70's as well as the mass quantities of plastics trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, the artists create a space filled" [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:02am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Weekend Picks November 2009

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    Jim Lommasson, from "Oaks Park Pentimento"

    In 1982, photographer Jim Lommasson documented the "strange and beautiful" paintings that decorated the center column of the historic carousel at Oaks Amusement Park. The original carousel images were painted by German and Italian immigrants around 1912 and contained an exotic assortment [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:59pm EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • talking

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    Carson Ellis, "The Junkyard"

    PAM's artist talk series continues this week with illustrator Carson Ellis, who has created art for local rock band The Decemberists and books such as The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and The Beautiful' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:38am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Thursday Picks November 2009

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    Rachel Davis, "Glass Cloud"

    Rachel Davis presents Family Tree at Chambers@916. The series of watercolors on paper combine architectural and botanical forms, "taking their visual language from Chinese vernacular architecture and the life cycles of a garden in a continuous loop of growth and decay. By combining the" [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:25pm EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • learning, seeing, hearing

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    Attributed to Danele da Volterra, after Michelangelo's "Last Judgment", 16th century

    Crocker Art Museum Curator William Braezeale will lecture tomorrow evening on Four Centuries of the Human Body: Old Master Drawings From the Crocker Art Museum, which is currently on view at Reed's Cooley Gallery. Gallery viewing [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:32am EST
    by Megan Driscoll

  • lectures

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    Ryan Pierce, "Comet"

    PORTstar Ryan Pierce is speaking tomorrow in conjunction with his show Written From Exile at Elizabeth Leach.

    Artist lecture • 11am • October 31
    Elizabeth Leach Gallery • 417 NW 9th • 503.224.0521



    Vicki Halper

    Independent curator and writer Vicki Halper returns to the Museum [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • ornaments and patterns

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    The fourth lecture in UO's School of Architecture and Allied Arts ongoing Machine in the Garden series is happening tomorrow. George Gessert will present Ornamental Plant Breeding for the 21st Century. Gessert is a writer and author on art and genetics whose book, Green Light: Toward an [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Last Thursday Picks October 2009

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    Appendix presents Benjamin Young's installation Material Affair. "In collaboration with collected materials, Young sculpturally explores the tension, process, and ecology of synthesized form."

    Opening reception • 6-11pm • October 29
    Appendix Project Space • South alley b/w 26th and 27th on NE Alberta St. • appendixspace@gmail.com


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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:11am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • China Architecture Now

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    Architecture by Yung Ho Chang

    Architect Yung Ho Chang is lecturing this week at PAM in conjunction with the ongoing China Design Now exhibition. In China Architecture Now Chang will discuss "how the rapid changes in contemporary China's economy, mobility and consumerism are profoundly affecting architectural practice" [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 1:47pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • artists needed

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    The Trim/Vojdani Gallery at p:ear, "a nonprofit program that builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth... through education, art and recreation," is seeking artists for their regional juried exhibition. This year's holiday season show is called "12 Days of P:ear" and will feature up to 12 artists. Submissions are [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:52am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • the masters

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    Raphael, "La Donna Velata or La Velata (The Woman with the Veil)," c.1516

    PAM presents Raphael's Woman With a Veil, on view October 24 - January 3, 2010. On loan from the Medici collection, the museum will be showing "one of the most important paintings of the Renaissance" [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 2:26pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Blue PLAY

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    MP5 presents Blue. Curator TJ Norris invited Matthew Haggett, Todd Johnson, and Victor Maldonado to interpret the open theme of "blue" in the lofts. Highlights include Spherelab: Blue, a site-specific installation using adhesive-backed-vinyl applied directly to walls and other surfaces by Haggett, Blue Velvet, a group show [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:55pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • processions

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    Processions

    The coordinators of Alberta' Appendix Project Space present Processions: an Elaborative Cartography at PSU's Recess Gallery (dept. of architecture). The work is a collaborative installation by Maggie Casey, Zachary Davis, Joshua Pavlacky and Benjamin Young: "Navigating the topology of the individual, the group, and emergent form,'" [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 11:24am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • pnca/ocac lectures

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    Zahid Sardar

    Zahid Sardar, author and designer of New Garden Design and San Francisco Modern, is lecturing this week for PNCA & OCAC's MFA in Applied Craft & Design program. Sardar has written and lectured for many years on architecture, interiors, garden design, craft, and design.

    Scholar lecture • [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:51am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • pecha kucha & art on alberta

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    MFA in Applied Craft & Design students hard at work, from their blog

    If you're curious about PNCA & OCAC's new MFA in Applied Craft and Design, here's your chance to get to know the students and their ideas. In conjunction with the ongoing Call +' [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:56am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • lecture, panel, participation

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    Tom Cramer's opening

    Tom Cramer is lecturing this weekend at Laura Russo in conjunction with his ongoing exhibition of new work.

    Artist lecture • 11am • October 17
    Laura Russo Gallery • 805 NW 21st • 503.226.2754



    Professor and Composer Ye Xiaogang

    In China Design Now-related news:' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:43am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • another round of opportunities

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    Beginning with an announcement: In 2010, Disjecta will mount its first biennial survey of Portland contemporary art. Work will be exhibited at Disjecta and the IFCC in spring 2010, and the program is being organized and curated by Linfield director Cris Moss. Studio visits will happen before artist selections are [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:29am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • art escape

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    Portland Mural Defense is facilitating Art Spark this month. They'll explore the importance and history of murals in Portland, and muralist Robin Dunitz will be present.

    Art chat • 5-7pm • October 15
    Art Spark @ Zaytoons • 2236 NE Alberta



    Gretchen Hogue

    Ongoing at Ditch Projects: Gretchen' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:07pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • on film

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    Deep Leap Microcinema presents Sign Languages tonight. The films in tonight's screening explore "notions of language, semiotics, translation and communication," featuring work by Stephanie Barber, Les Leveque, Oliver Laric, Ben Russell, Catarina Simoes, James Whipple, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, Frank Zadlo, Aleksandra Domanovic, Nathaniel Stern, Diane Borsato, Erik [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:48am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • China Design NOW

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    China Design Now exhibition entrance (photo Jeff Jahn)

    Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probably heard that PAM is about to launch China Design Now, a traveling exhibition (from London's Victoria & Albert Museum) on contemporary Chinese design. The show "explores the recent explosion of critically'" [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:24am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • 2nd Friday

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    Carl Diehl

    Another gallery celebrating the PNCA centennial this month is Worksound with Memory/Frequency. They'll be featuring sculpture, sound, video, and photography by Carl Diehl, Tracey Cockrell, and Lennie Pitkin, all faculty at PNCA.

    Opening reception • 7-11pm • October 9
    Worksound • 820 SE Alder • mojomodou@gmail.com


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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:14am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • white stag/box

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    UO Portland is opening a new gallery space at their downtown White Stag building. The "White Box's" inaugural exhibition will be Inspiration China (an informal tie-in to PAM's upcoming China Design Now): "For Inspiration China, the students created individual art pieces--in various forms of technology and media--that'" [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 10:03am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • PSU & PCC

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    Dorothea Lange, c.1939

    PSU's Littman Gallery is exhibiting Dorothea Lange in 1939, a collection of FSA photographs presented by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. During the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) hired photographers like Lange to "portray the suffering of rural Americans in terms understandable to'" [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 10:13am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • LOTS of lectures

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    Anne Wilson

    Chicago-based artist Anne Wilson will be lecturing twice this week in Portland. Wilson is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a renowned craft artist who coined the term "sloppy craft." First, she'll present Liminal Networks at Reed College: "Employing familiar,'" [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 11:41am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • film & local culture

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    Still from Janie Geiser's "Magnetic Sleep"

    Cinema Project & Pacific University are screening Magnetic Sleep by Janie Geiser. The film is a nine-part serial about a woman hypnotist, Marceline, and her journey across an ever-changing landscape. This textual/cinematic project "channels" early experimental filmmakers such as Man Ray and [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 11:22am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Friday Picks October 2009

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    Kimi Kolba

    Pushdot presents Linger by Kimi Kolba. Kolba's photography focuses on the contemporary night landscape, asking the viewer to allow themselves time to adjust to the images the way their eyes take time to adjust to the darkness of night. She explores "the new, the northwest urban'" [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:30am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Kartz Ucci & PMMNLS

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    Kartz Ucci, "an opera for one"

    TILT Export presents installation artists Kartz Ucci at the PCC Rock Creek Helzer Gallery. In an opera for one, Ucci hired soprano Deanna Pauletto to sing a capella Pablo Neruda's book of poetry, "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair." The [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:21am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Thursday Picks October 2009

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    Vanessa Renwick, still from "Britton, South Dakota"

    In October, Blue Sky will be screening Vanessa Renwick's Britton, South Dakota. The short film features found 16mm footage of children standing in front of a Strand movie theater shot by local theater manager Ivan Besse. Renwick writes: "The children'" [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Camouflagiennial

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    British artist Mary George presents Camouflage Party at Rocksbox: "So I think, what if... what if I went outside my little cave studio to find the world blown away like in an episode of the Twilight Zone? I'd have to survive on the contents of my studio'" [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Black Moon Rising

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    Donald Morgan

    Donald Morgan's Black Moon Rising is currently showing at Ditch Projects: "Employing imagery based in the forest, such as tangled undergrowth, spider webs and the architecture of fire look-outs, the pieces in Dark Moon Rising take advantage of the interstices between the two and three dimensional." [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Last Thursday Picks September 2009

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    Gary Wiseman and Meredith Andrews present Inside, Outside, Upside Down, a one-night Last Thursday installation at Appendix. The artists write: "...The difference between fantasy and reality seems infra-thin. I like the idea of time and space folding. I want to go home. Nine dimensions seem so ambiguous" [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Lectures

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    Ward Shelley, "Stability," installation view

    The first lecture for PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies will be given this week by Brooklyn artist Ward Shelley, who "specializes in large-scale projects that freely mix sculpture and performance."

    Artist lecture • 6:30pm • September 24
    The Lab at the Museum [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 10:21am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Cinema

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    Still from "MY CHINA NOW"

    In conjunction with the upcoming China Design Now exhibition (lots more on that later), the NW Film Center presents Lens on China, a film series that "explores the perspectives of Chinese and western filmmakers whose works reflect on the broad currents of contemporary" [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:30am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • CoCA Seattle Annual

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    Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art is seeking submissions for their 2009 Annual juried exhibition. Inviting work from artists in any medium from any origin, "the exhibit will showcase the ways in which contemporary artists, regardless of their location, share similar aesthetic concerns and conceptual approaches in a world of increasingly" [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 9:08am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • A Night at the Museum

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    PAM presents Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum: "Stay up late and watch the galleries come alive with participatory art created for the evening by PSU's Art and Social Practice Program, led by artist Harrell Fletcher and Jen Delos Reyes." Events include live bands in [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 11:20am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Art Spark: Art on Alberta

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    This month's Art Spark is hosted by Art on Alberta at Vendetta: "Fancy yourself a surrealist artist? Intrigued by all things Dada? Eager to explore the real roots of punk? Got an affinity for community and collaboration? Art on Alberta will engage Art Spark groupies" [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • The City Onscreen

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    Brian Libby, still from "Creamery Birds"

    Brian Libby presents The City Onscreen, a collection of short films featuring Portland architecture and design. In addition to four films by Libby, the screening includes work by Matt McCormick, Rob Tyler, Karl Lind, and Andrew Curtis, as well as a 1955 [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Record Record

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    Pat Boas, "breathing," from "What Our Homes Can Tell Us"

    The Marylhurst Art Gym presents Pat Boas - Record Record. The exhibition features four series that "comment in very quiet ways on the text and images in The New York Times," as well as a new series of [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 10:42am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Illuminated Recollections

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    Laura Corinne Hayes, "Illuminated Recollections" (installed)

    Laura Corinne Hayes presents Illuminated Recollections at the Alpern Gallery.

    Artist reception • 6-9pm • September 11
    Alpern Gallery • 2522 NW Vaughn • 503.347.7689 [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:57am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Sell Out

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    Micah Malone

    Micah Malone sells out this weekend at Worksound. In Sell Out, Malone asserts that "the desire to make a living from one's artistic practice can be as emotional, conceptual, poetic and honest as any other reason for making art." The exhibition revolves around a sculpture and [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:39am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Broadcast

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    Gregory Green, WCBS Radio Caroline: The Voice of the New Free State of Caroline, 89.3, 1995-2007

    In their first collaboration with TBA, Lewis & Clark's Hoffman Gallery presents Broadcast, guest curated by Irene Hofmann, Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. The exhibition "explores the ways" [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 10:00am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • October Country

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    Donal Mosher, from "October Country"

    Disjecta presents Donal Mosher's October Country, "an investigation of the artist's life and family through photography, film, and narrative writing... considering the nature of human interaction, experience and the measures we take to find a place for ourselves within contemporary society."

    Opening reception • [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:16am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Friday Picks September 2009

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    Fourteen30 presents LA-based artist Bobbi Woods. She "culls from the glut of ready-made images crowding our collective consciousness, resulting in 2-D and video works that simultaneously bait and beguile."

    Opening reception • 6-9pm • September 4
    Fourteen 30 Contemporary • 1430 SE 3rd • 503.236.1430




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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Bean Gilsdorf @ Linfield

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    Bean Gilsdorf, "Assembly, line, image, system," installation view

    Bean Gilsdorf's Assembly, line, image, system opens this week at Linfield. Using life-size prints from ten different automobiles, Gilsdorf constructs a large-scale installation from fabric, paint, dye, bleach, and thread that sweeps along the circumference and runs beyond the enclosure [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:43am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Thursday Picks September 2009

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    MK Guth, Terrain Change

    MK Guth presents Terrain Change, an installation of new work at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. "Featuring chandelier clouds and umbrellas made of sweaters and hats, video and photography, loggers and mermaids, Terrain Change poses the question: Who do you become when your environment disappears?" [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:10am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • first MFA Applied Craft & Design lecture

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    Jersey Devil, Red Cross House, Islamorado, Florida

    OCAC & PNCA present the first lecture for their joint MFA in Applied Craft & Design program. Steve Badanes is a founding member of Jersey Devil, a design/build practice specializing in innovative and energy-efficient structures. Badanes, known for the both [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 12:20pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • TBA:09 Picks

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    Antoine Catala, still from "TV"

    Here's PORT's short list of TBA:09 picks. We're primarily a visual arts (not performing arts) publication, so consider this a by-no-means-complete list of visual arts highlights.

    •Psychedelic Soul, a collaboration between Kristan Kennedy and Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder. In conjunction with' [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 2:26pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Grande Ronde

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    Rose McCormick

    The final installment in NAAU's Couture series opens this weekend. Rose McCormick's Grande Ronde is an "art environment." She writes: "The achievement of this work is in it's conception, the finished show a fossil of the experience of discovery. It may be that viewing it" [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 10:43am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • loud silence

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    Calling video artists: Savannah, GA-based gallery aquaspace is seeking video submissions for a very loud silence, a series of short silent films. a very loud silence will be presented on October 2 as part of Le Flash, a one-night art event in Castleberry Hill, Atlanta, GA. Pieces can be [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:09pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Last Thursday Alleys

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    Appendix will be showing Finder Keeper, an installation by Zachary Davis "concerned with seekers and unexplored landscapes."

    Opening reception • 6-11pm • August 27
    Appendix Project Space • South alley b/w 26th & 27th on NE Alberta • appendixspace@gmail.com




    The Appendix folks are also helping [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 12:50pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Craft Conversation #2

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    Karl Burkheimer

    MoCC's Craft Conversations series continues this week. Part of the ongoing Call + Response exhibition, these conversations give artists and art historians a chance to dialogue publicly about their craft. The second conversation features Matt Johnston, assistant professor, department of art, Lewis & Clark, and [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 11:15am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • word and image

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    Shusaku Arakawa, Untitled, from the portfolio No! Says the Signified, 1973

    Word and Image/Word as Image opens this weekend at PAM. "Featuring works by artists from Albrecht Dürer to Ed Ruscha, this exhibition examines the relationship between word and image in prints over the course of more than" [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 10:29am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • the idiosyncratic element

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    Avalon Kalin

    Avalon Kalin presents The Idiosyncratic Element is the Precursor to Change at PSU's Autzen Gallery. "For over a year, Kalin has been working with local cafe proprietor Jonathan Legare as the artist-in-residence of his southeast cafe and community resource center, LEGARE'S. The title of Kalin's exhibition'" [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 10:24am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • STOCK fashion

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    Katy Asher, Amber Bell and Ariana Jacob are seeking proposals for their August STOCK dinner grant. The concept: Each month, STOCK invites people from the community to an inexpensive dinner at the gallery. The proceeds from the dinner all go directly into the STOCK artist grant, and [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 11:19am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • MP5: Manor of Art & The Grid

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    MP5's ambitious group exhibition, performance, and music series Manor of Art opens this weekend. Following in the tradition of Portland group experiences like the Modern Zoo, Manor of Art presents over 100 artists transforming the yet-to-be-renovated rooms of MP5's Studios building. The event lasts for 10 [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:35pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • it happens

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    "Anti-sociologist" Patrick Rock is spending 6 days living in a bunker under Ditch Projects, using the time to "obsessively and painstakingly construct a physical manifesto of Oregonian identity designed to turn the viewer into salt at a single glance." The experiment will culminate in a "neo-pagan anti-potluck" [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Brickthrough

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    Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun

    Nationale presents Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun's Brickthrough, a showcase of recent cut-outs that examine negatives & positives. Kriksciun "explores how this relates to our surrounding environment and affects our internal selves: what do we see/ what do we get out of it/ how can we make" [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • PAM artist talk series: Jeffry Mitchell

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    Jeffry Mitchell, "Sphinx," 2008, selected to receive one of PAM's Contemporary Northwest Art Awards

    PAM's monthly artist talk series will be led this week by Jeffry Mitchell. He'll lecture about a work from the collection that "delights, puzzles, or inspires him." Meet in the Hoffman lobby before' [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 10:38am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • tons of opportunities

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    Dana Fenwick, from the Plastic Quilt project

    "Leave No Plastic Behind" is seeking submissions for the National Plastic Quilt Project. "Environmental advocates, as part of Leave No Plastic Behind (LNPB), are quilting together a message that favors alternatives to single-use plastic. Since 80% of this plastic travels to" [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Friday Picks August 2009

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    From "Incompletely"

    Gallery Homeland presents Incompletely, a group exhibition curated by Calvin Ross Carl. Calvin Ross Carl, Derek Franklin, Ashley Sloan, Josh Smith, Bailey Winters and Gary Wiseman "explore themes of incompleteness and insufficiency through formal, conceptual and emotional means."

    Opening reception • 6-9pm • August 7
    Gallery Homeland [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • NW Tracking: Artist Spotlight

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    Michele Russo, "Untitled (blue and gray abstract)," 2002

    The final installment in the NW Film Center's summer artist spotlight series is tomorrow. Three short films exploring local artists will be shown: Jon Stewart's A Painter's Vision: Michele Russo, Wendy Wells Jackson's Louis Bunce, Portland Painter, and Sarah Swanberg's' [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 11:04am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Thursday Picks August 2009

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    Garry Winogrand, "Centennial Ball, Metropolitan Museum of New York, 1969" c.1975

    Charles Hartman presents Faces: Vintage and Contemporary Photographic Portraits. Combining 19th and 20th century photographic masterworks and contemporary images, the exhibition explores "the fundamental tension in photography between point of view and composition." Artists include Ansel Adams, [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 10:00am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • psu mfa theses

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    Bethany Hays

    Bethany Hays presents I Am a Containerful of Memories at PSU's Autzen Gallery: "These domestic landscapes present a record of human activity and speak to the importance of everyday routine... The viewer is asked to consider the fictional nature of memory, which like the bronzing of" [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 10:42am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • career opportunity grants

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    The deadline for the Oregon Arts Commission's Career Opportunity Grants for artists is coming up. The grants "provide financial support to enable Oregon artists to take advantage of unique opportunities to enhance their careers through the development of arts, business or professional skills... Grant amounts may range from $300 to" [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 10:14am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Amy Stein talk/signing

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    Amy Stein, "Struggle"

    Amy Stein is giving an artist talk and book signing this weekend in conjunction with her Domesticated show at Blue Sky (PORT review here).

    Lecture & book signing • 3pm • August 1
    Blue Sky Gallery • 122 NW 8th • 503.225.0210 [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Need It/Got It

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    Michelle Ramin

    FalseFront presents Michelle Ramin's Need It/Got It. The project explores the contemporary phenomenon of collecting and trading friends: "As social networking sites expand daily, this interactive exhibit physically invites visitors to find their 'best friends,' place them on the show postcard and trade the cards during" [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 10:28am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Geofront

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    Celebrating their one-year anniversary, Appendix presents Geofront, a multi-site project featuring 15 artists working in light, sound, soil, structure and movement. Maps to the six installation sites are available at Appendix.

    Opening reception • 6-10pm • July 30
    Appendix Project Space • South alley b/w 26th & 27th [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 10:22am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Skinvisible

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    Robert Rauschenberg, "Patrician Barnacle," 1981, exhibited in "Marking Portland"

    As part of the ongoing Marking Portland exhibition, PAM is having a tattoo expo this weekend. "Skinvisible" is a "one-day celebration of the art of tattoo through fashion, music, performance, multimedia, and tributes to Portland's most accomplished tattoo" [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 12:54pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Robert Slifkin + Studio Gorm

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    Studio Gorm

    The first of the Museum of Contemporary Craft's Call + Response conversations is happening this weekend. Product design team Studio Gorm (University of Oregon) and art history professor Robert Slifkin (Reed College) will discuss their interactions leading up to the exhibition and Slifkin's new essay, [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 11:57am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Robert Slifkin + Studio Gorm

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    Studio Gorm

    The first of the Museum of Contemporary Craft's Call + Response conversations is happening this weekend. Product design team Studio Gorm (University of Oregon) and art history professor Robert Slifkin (Reed College) will discuss their interactions leading up to the exhibition and Slifkin's new essay, [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • first PNCA MFA show

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    Disjecta presents Egocentric, an exhibition by PNCA's first group of MFA students (class of 2010): "We struggle in solidarity, yet create work which reflects our distinct voices. Superseding expectations at every juncture, we are your art destiny."

    Opening reception • 6-10pm • July 23
    Disjecta • 8371 N [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 1:37pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Alice Channer @ Pied-a-Terre

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    Alice Channer

    Pied-à-terre presents Alice Channer's I Cannot Tell The Difference Between One Thing And Another. Open Saturdays 12-3pm.

    Opening reception • 6-8pm • July 23
    Pied-à-terre • 904 SE 20th Ave Apartment 5 • info@pied-terre.com [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 11:27am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • more white stag talks

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    Lots going on at the U of O's White Stag Block this week. On Wednesday they're featuring Building a Collaborative City, a panel discussion about working across disciplinary boundaries to "make Portland great." Panelists include artist, dancer, and organizer Linda K. Johnson; designer, architect and developer Kevin' [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 10:31am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Joseph Park @ PAM

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    Joseph Park, "still life #2," oil on panel

    The Portland Art Museum's next APEX installation opens tomorrow. It features recent work by Joseph Park: "Inspired by film noir and animation in his early work, Seattle-based artist Joseph Park's recent paintings comprise a complex visual structure built upon reflections" [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2009, 10:58am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • psychedelic lumberjack

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    Ongoing at the Portland building: Nickolus Meisel presents Lumberjack Azeltine Valentine, a mixed media installation.

    Exhibition • July 10 - August 7, 2009
    Portland Building • 1120 SW 5th




    The University of Oregon presents Free Culture: Creating Copyright and Copyrighting Creation, a "psychedelic learning environment." Attorney [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 12:03pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • nwfc / in the studio

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    George Johanson, with "Great Port City"

    The Northwest Film Center presents In the Studio, a series of three short films produced by PCC documenting three former PNCA professors, all "established Northwest masters." The films feature Eunice Parsons, Harry Widman, and George Johanson.

    Film screening • 7pm • July 16
    [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 10:43am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • RACC 2010 grants

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    The Regional Arts and Culture Council is seeking grant proposals for artistic projects and cultural events scheduled for calendar year 2010. "Intent to apply" forms can be filled out online and are due by August 5. More info on the RACC website. [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 11:23am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • vardian vision

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    The Northwest Film Center is showing a retrospective of the films of art historian, photojournalist, and filmmaker Agnès Varda, who writes: "In my films, I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see." The' [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 9:03am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • boundary crossings @ pnca

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    Photo of "Wildlife" by Karolina Sobecka, 2007 by Frank Pichel

    PNCA presents Boundary Crossings: An Institute in Contemporary Animated Arts from July 13 - 24, 2009. "With the advent of digital technologies, the appearance of hybrid moving images has emerged as the norm, affecting boundaries between live action," [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 1:32pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • Second Weekend Picks July 2009

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    Terry Toedtemeier

    Worksound is hosting Portraits, curated by Mark Woolley. The show is dedicated to the life and work of Terry Toedtemeier, a gifted photographer who for over 20 years lovingly built the photographic collection at the Portland Art Museum. Work by Toedtemeier was selected in consultation [...]
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    Posted: July 08, 2009, 1:04pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • body art

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    Nomad Museum of Body Adornment

    Presumably in conjunction with Marking Portland, PAM's next installment of the artist talk series features Blake Perlingieri, local piercing artist and owner of the Nomad Museum of Body Art. As usual, the artist will lead a discussion on a work of [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:23am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • miracles

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    Cyrus Smith

    Cyrus Smith presents In Search of the Miraculous at PSU's Autzen Gallery. The show "is in pursuit of the epic moment in art and culture. Cyrus hopes that you will be able to make it to his exhibition, but if not, he suggests you watch the" [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 10:12am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Weekend Picks July 2009

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    Ty Ennis

    NAAU presents the next installation in the Couture series: Ty Ennis' You'll Love It Here: The Lilac City Track Murders '96-'98, a multimedia installation of drawing, photography, and sculpture. Ennis' "preparation for this exhibit has involved one of the most thorough examinations to date of Spokane's" [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:57am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • First Thursday Picks July 2009

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    Michael Brophy, "Start"

    Michael Brophy presents Silence, an exhibition of recent paintings at Laura Russo.

    Opening reception • 5-8pm • July 2
    Laura Russo Gallery • 805 NW 21st • 503.226.2754



    Amy Stein

    Blue Sky is exhibiting Amy Stein's Domesticated, "a series of photographs based on real stories'" [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 10:02am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • in a dream of free space

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    From Jeremiah Zagar's "In a Dream"

    This weekend, the Northwest Film Center presents the first of their summer artist spotlights. They're screening In a Dream, a film directed by Jeremiah Zagar about his father, artist Isaiah Zagar. They'll be showing it twice on Saturday and once on [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:52am EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

  • calling: photographers and local artists

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    Newspace is seeking submissions for their first juried members exhibition, showing in September 2009. Current Newspace members working in any photographic theme or process can submit work until July 17. More details can be found here.


    Updated: Becca Bernstein is seeking submissions for her new project, the Emerson Art [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 12:12pm EDT
    by Megan Driscoll

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