Where do you find the pulse of Portland? If you ask artsy types, they’re apt to direct you to Disjecta’s ambitious biennial exhibition, Portland2014 . . .
Read moreBush Barn Art Center in Salem, Oregon presents, "Contemporary Abstraction" a group show exploring different approaches to contemporary, abstract art through the work of three Northwestern artists...
Read moreOregon receives gift of art for its birthday
Painting by Pendleton man is the latest addition to the Capitol collection of works
"About Face" - Arnold Kemp at the Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas. October 24-December 4. Included in the exhibition are works by Philip Guston, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Rashid Johnson, Mary Reid Kelley, Arnold J. Kemp, Amy Pleasant, and Carrie Mae Weems....
Read moreEllen George and Jerry Mayer collaborate in "Splace," an artwork composed of a full wall-sized sheet of light gray paper pinned to the wall by thousands of black and variously shaped pins. The artwork is a product of the artists' collaborative and creative process that focuses on the interplay of intention, spontaneous decision-making and chance. Splace was prepared for in the artists' studio, then created on site at Nine Gallery over a period of several days. JULY 7 - JULY 31, 2011 AT THE NINE GALLERY (INSIDE BLUE SKY GALLERY) 122 NW 8th AVE.
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Artists represented by PDX "are among the best, brightest and most interesting that Portland has to offer" wrote D. K. Row, art critic for The Oregonian.Read more
'box breathing' is a suite of works that honor the mysterious abundant in the everyday. Hovering, painted squares map and veil the surface of the paper, as nuanced differences are enhanced through repetition. Desire resides in the search; building upon the previous, giving shape to the breath....Read more
"Reader on a Black Background": Sarah Meigs was curious to understand more fully "The Decorator" ( 2010.ink, gouache, colored pencil, charcoal and gold leaf on paper 57.5" x 85") which she purchase for his most recent PDX exhibition. Meigs invited Tharp to curate an exhibition for which Tharp selected works from her collection including "The Decorator" and write a corresponding essay. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read morestill—moving brings together a series of intricately-stitched textiles and a text-based video projection. This constellation of artworks charts a period of suspended time and stalled movement, shaped by a changing relationship to distance and to spaciousness and to living with the unknown....Read more
My artwork is influenced by the transient nature of both living and inanimate things. The work may illustrate unseen processes in our bodies or the atmosphere or attempt to capture an image or remember these living and inanimate things as they are changing or fading away. The materials I use...Read more
"Watkins' show is dominated by a series of poured ink works on paper … sumptuous pools of ink, which fork into thick bands and slinky rivulets … reveal[ing] her openness to chance, her willingness to permit the ink a voice in the collaboration. In that sense, Watkins' project take its cues from John Cage's methodical use of chance in creating his artworks, as well as the poured canvases of second-wave Abstract Expressionist painters such as Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis."
- John Motly, The Oregonian
Read moreSan Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) announces the appointment of Arnold Kemp as Distinguished Artist-in-Residence for the 2016 Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art program...
Read moreAnna Gray+Ryan Paulsen and Storm Tharp at Southern Oregon University's Schneider Museum of Art January 19th – March 17th 2018 ...
Read moreThroughout my artistic career I have honed my technical skills and sensitivity to materials, and I am currently exploring the way various materials affect the conceptual intent and impact of each piece. These pieces combine paper with paper and paper with sculpted ceramic components. The source...Read more
Included in group show "Water"Megan Murphy’s drawings are studies of water, place, and the West. Each piece is printed with a photograph of Silver Creek’s water and layered with transfer lettering. The text reflects on the environmental problems happening in the water. A list of the chemicals, golf courses, household water usage, and warming global temperatures are interwoven with the stories, history, and irony that Silver Creek represents. CLICK ON IMAGE FR MORE INFORMATION
Read moreThe show makes a strong argument for photojournalism’s interacting with art. In the context of Nina Berman’s photo series depicting a soldier disfigured by a suicide bomber in Iraq and Stephanie Sinclair’s gruesome shots of Afghan women who have self-immolated as a form of protest, the stained, splotchy faces in Storm Tharp’s washy gouache portraits begin to evoke abrasions or burns. The theme of bodily disfigurement is continued elsewhere in the juxtaposition of Thomas Houseago’s hulking, seemingly hacked-at sculpture of a crouching figure with David Adamo’s installation comprising an ax, its wooden handle cracked and eroded, stuck into the wall and surrounded by whittled-down canes. Adamo’s ax appears to have done a number on Houseago’s statue, while the canes evoke missing limbs.
Not that "2010" doesn’t make missteps. I wanted to like the Bruce High Quality Foundation’s installation: a hearse, headlights ablaze, playing on its windshield clips from various TV shows and movies to a soundtrack ranging from "A Whiter Shade of Pale" to the "Star-Spangled Banner" and including a voice-over recounting an aborted love affair with the U.S. ("We fucked America to make America disappear"). But the work comes off as juvenile, bathetic, too tongue-in-cheeky by half. One marvels that light fare can be so heavy-handed; Josephine Meckseper displays a far more nuanced take on capitalism’s ills in her brooding video meditation on Minnesota’s sprawling Mall of America. And although Lorraine O’Grady’s sepia-tinged photographs of Michael Jackson and Charles Baudelaire convey something ineffable about the romantic nature of celebrity and America’s worship of it, their pairing with the Bruces’ piece feels ponderous. Still, O’Grady’s photos beat out by miles Daniel McDonald’s kitschy sculpture in the museum’s lobby of Jackson with Uncle Sam being rowed across the river Styx by Charon, which has all the subtly of Beetlejuice-era Tim Burton.CLICK FOR FULL REVIEW
Jessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971) lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Hutchins’s expressive and intuitive studio practice produces dynamic sculptural installations, collages, paintings, and large-scale ceramics, all hybrid juxtapositions of the handmade. As evidence of the artist’s dialogue...Read more
Heather Watkins speaks about her work in conjunction with the new exhibition at Reed's Feldenheimer Gallery, Gradual Instant
Read moreMarie Watt was featured in Cowboys & Indians Magazine.
"Her project today is a snapshot of what she’s best known for: using humble everyday objects as touchstones, blankets in particular. Since she first rummaged through the city’s thrift stores in 2003, scavenging for wool blankets, anything around $5 apiece to make the totemlike tower sculptures of stacked blankets, she has relied on reclaimed objects as a primary medium for her artwork. Beyond that, her process is largely collaborative. That may mean working with a printmaker, like she’s doing today, or gathering blankets and their individual histories from friends and strangers, and weaving that element into her pieces, too."
To read the full article visit: https://www.cowboysindians.com/2021/05/art-gallery-marie-watt/
Read more"Conscilience", 2017
Digital/Programmed/Sensors
This piece was built using programmed and traditional art making methods and employs infrared sensing in order to allow for interaction. The piece reveals digital sculptures that were built “by hand” in a virtual reality environment...Read more
Kristen Miller is nothing less than a mixed-media poet . . .
Read moreThe late curator and photographer Terry Toedtemeier is widely remembered for his impish charm and off-the-wall humor. With few exceptions, however, his silver gelatin landscapes of the Pacific Northwest are resolutely "on-the-wall" artworks -- aesthetically restrained and dry to the touch.
Read moreThe traveling case is an opportunity to see D.E. May’s artistic vision and celebrate his legacy.
Dan May spent his entire life in Salem, Oregon traveling beyond just a few times ever. He drew inspiration close to home, from the sight of log trucks, tree's rings, workmen’s tools, farm...Read more