August 19 – December 31, 2011: "Counting Coup" - at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Counting Coup is a form of prestige, pride and power. “Counting coup” is an expression originating from Plains Indian tactics of intimidation, and an act of bravery that accounts for survival originating from personal victories in non-violent battle exploits. The evidence of confrontation, interaction, and risk encountered through incessant forms of colonization are recorded as experiences and achievements etched in memory, heart and spirit. Counting Coup will include works by artists from the United States, Canada and Australia and range in media; sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, photography, installation, film and video, and poetry.
Artists include Courtney Leonard, Shelley Niro, Teri Greeves, Duane Slick, Alfred Young Man, Marty Gradolf, Carl Beam, Marie Watt, Maria Hupfield, Alex Jacobs, Vern Ah Kee, Tom Jones, Jesus Barraza, Ryan Red Corn, Jim Denomie, Greg Staats, Jason Garcia and Nigit’stil Norbert w/ Paul Wilcken.
Read moreSat. Nov 8, 6:30 p.m. Whitsell Auditorium
Sat Nov 15, 6 p.m. Whitsell Auditorium
Portland Art Museum
GREY ROOM (also on view at PDX Contemporary Art during Tharp's exhibition)
Like the poem of the same name by Wallace Stevens, GREY ROOM examines the fluttering heart and worrisome mind of a sitter in pleasant surroundings. (11 min)
Read moreWhen I was working at Powell’s, a new employee came up to me and asked me my name and what I was into.
I told her, “Fucking and nature.”
I must not have enunciated clearly, as she responded, “Fucking AND nature?” or “Fucking IN nature?”
I said, “It’s all good, either way...Read more
I have been learning to focus on my breathing in the past 2 1/2 years. When I am caught in a state of tension or a moment of difficulty I pay careful attention to my inhaling and exhaling. I visualize my breathing to slow myself down, to endure the moment both physically and emotionally. It is...Read more
San 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 moreD.E May’s work mines the inherent beauty of architectural drawing and diagrammatic project proposals...
Read morehttp://suddenly.org/?p=1025
January 24 - April 12, 2009
suddenly comprises a set of exhibitions curated by Stephanie Snyder, director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, with an annotated reader edited by author Matthew Stadler, and a series of public events that attempt to re-imagine cityscapes with contemporary art, literature, and the conversations they spark. For more extensive project information, including event listings, audio recordings, and to order project publications, visit: www.suddenly.org.
In her new body of work, Victoria Haven turns her exploration of landscape towards the specific. Emphasizing her connections and rootedness in the Pacific Northwest, the work will manifest in three different forms: a show at PDX Contemporary Art, a show at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle and a...Read more
"Tharp's fluid and loopy portraits in gouache and ink, which were featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, are gone, replaced by portraits and object studies, several in oils, that emphasize more earth-bound depictions of his subjects. This shift plays to his strengths, making "Tiger," which contains some truly exceptional compositions, the most effortless and natural body of work Tharp has shown in Portland." ...
Read moreJenene Nagy’s Mass at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is an open invitation to challenge what we experience in our relationship with the physical world...
Read moreThe Seattle Art Fair Was So Successful, the City Literally Applauded ...
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 moreIf an image can be didactic without a title, and Michael David's often are, removing the imagery, as David does in his current encaustic paintings seen at Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, Arizona), focuses your attention first on optics. But check the title of the show's central work, "The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes," and the cinematic quality of the blood red sun of a tondo, and see if that doesn't take you in some surprising directions. If the landscape's presence is indirect in his body of work, it couldn't be more explicit to both the form and content in Vanessa Renwick's current project at PDX Contemporary (Portland), "as easy as falling off a log." Given the Pacific Northwest locale, shades of Ken Kesey's Stamper family, the show conveys how immersion in the environment pushes us to anthropomorphize it. A send-up image like "flat as a board (knot)," translating a bit of tree bark and pine needles into a frontal nude, helps puncture, without contradiction, the environmental polemic.
Read moreArt of any genre's greatest strength and weakness is its ability to nearly become something, without actually being forced to commit to fully becoming that thing. Think of it as a butterfly just as it breaks free of the chrysalis... not a moment before or after. It is a delicate moment between entropy and becoming something new through accretion and artists like Richard Tuttle and Jackson Pollock are masters of it.
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Read moreJeffry Mitchell in, rough patches and glitter, a two person exhibition at the Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Sept. 28-Nov. 30, 2017 ...
Read moreby Patrick Collier
In 1957 the State of Oregon outlawed the use of splash dams on Oregon waterways. Splash dams were built on rivers and creeks as a way to back up water in a sufficient volume to propel logged trees downstream. The flood caused by the sudden gush of water, plus the massive number of logs, scoured the waterways down to the bedrock, thereby making those streams inhospitable to the spawning salmon that required gravel beds (redds) to lay and fertilize eggs. Only after a series of lawsuits by anglers and environmentalists was the practice terminated nationwide.
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/11/vanessa_renwick_2.html
Read moreForbes lists Marie Watt and James Lavadour as artists to watch ...
Read moreProgram 1: "The Oregon Department of Kickass" at UnionDocs
Sunday, April 10 at 7:30pm $9 suggested donation.
http://www.uniondocs.org/vanessa-renwick-the-oregon-department-of-kick-ass/
Program 2: "Mix Me A Walk" at Anthology Film Archives (a Flaherty NYC event)
Monday April 11th at 7:30 PM Tickets $9 / $6 for Anthology members.
http://www.flahertyseminar.org/?sb=3&mb=1
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Read moreGus Van Sant and 10 Counter Cultural Sights of Portland
"PDX Contemporary Art is another arty fav of Van Sant. The space is run by his friend Jane Beebe who used to live down the street from him on Glisan, and showcases some of the best contemporary art in PDX."
Ellen George featured in "Descendent Threads" at the Portland Chinatown Museum October 4 - November 10, 2018 ...
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