Color is a show about how five different artists approach color in their own way. Each one is employing color non-objectively - prioritizing the idea of expression over the need to be specifically descriptive. In this way we can quite plainly see the variations in each artist’s process. We can...Read more
Inspired by the Andy Warhol work Love is a Pink Cake. The PDX show will be one of charm and wit embracing a slight pop sensibility folded into the individual artist’s personal expression and sense of humor. Each of the four artists have a high level of technical ability, knowledge of art history...Read more
Susie J. Lee is a finalist for the 2017 Seattle Mayor's Arts Awards ...
Read moreJames Lavadour's painting selected for the "Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now" Catalog, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Read moreMarie Watt's work is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 'Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019.' Skywalker/Skyscraper (Axis Mundi) was made in Brooklyn, New York, and references the Iroquois iron workers who were known as 'Skywalkers', and built many of the skyscrapers in the city.
This exhibition remains on view through January 2021.
Congratulations, Marie!
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/making-knowing#exhibition-artists
Listen to Marie talk about her work in the show here:
https://whitney.org/audio-guides/2276?language=english&type=general&nigh...
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART presents the work of women artists who have managed to make art, and build successful careers, while being attentive mothers. This is not an easy task, particularly today.
It takes strong belief in the value of their art, a strong will to produce it, and a strong...Read more
Gus Van Sant is an honoree for the 2021 Cinema Unbound Awards!
“The Cinema Unbound Awards is an annual celebration presented by the Northwest Film Center, honoring boundary-breaking multimedia storytellers working at the intersection of art and cinema. We honor artists and nonconformists who are not content to be contained but instead expand the notion of what’s possible. The Cinema Unbound honorees defy expectations and refuse to embrace labels using their creative vision to inspire and push us to look at what is beyond the norm.
The Cinema Unbound Awards represents the Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center’s embrace of artistic exploration and commitment to equity and inclusion. Though born out of the tradition of film, the Cinema Unbound Awards expands the reach of cinema as an art form to challenge for whom, by whom, and how stories can be told.
The 2021 Cinema Unbound Awards honorees are Steve McQueen, Garrett Bradley, Gus Van Sant, Mollye Asher, and Alex Bulkley: boundary-breaking multimedia storytellers working at the intersection of art and cinema. The awards will be presented on March 4, 2021, kicking off the 44th Annual Portland International Film Festival running from March 5 to March 14, 2021.”
-Cinema Unbound
This year’s Cinema Unbound Awards will invite viewers to join through both a Drive-In experience as well as a virtual experience. More information about the honorees and on how to attend can be found here: https://cinemaunbound.org/event-directory/cinema-unbound-awards
Congratulations, Gus!
Read moreJenene Nagy is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California, for the month of June.
Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.
Additionally, there will be a live, virtual studio visit on the Iris Project's Instagram LiveTV on June 26th from 2-5pm. To tune in visit their Instagram @irisprojectresidency
For more information visit: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/nagy-smith
To tune in for the studio visit on Instagram LiveTV: @irisprojectresidency
Congratulations, Jenene!
Read moreSeveral Layers of Beauty
This exhibition brings together new paintings by James Lavadour with a few older photographs made by Terry Toedtemeier, who died in 2008. Together, the two bodies of work speak eloquently to the talents of both artists and to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest:...Read more
Reception: March 16, 2024 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Please RSVP to info@pdxcontemporaryart.com
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present Work After Work, an exhibition featuring work by current and past gallery staff. Many employees working...Read more
Conceived and curated by Ingrid Dinter. September 23 - October 30th. Opening Thursday Sept. 23rd, 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
Read moreSeptember 8th - October 30th, 2011
Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen present "Don't Worry We'll Fix It" for PICA's annual Time-Based Art Festival. This show will be on view throughout the festival, as a part of the "On Sight" program.
How is it that 115 billion human life stories are distilled into one approximate “history”? Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen indirectly approach that question through the establishment of a production office that specializes in redaction and restorative text-work.
The Fix It office will employ a variety of divergent archival and historiographic methods in order to examine the ways that the institution of history is continuously built up and broken down through texts.
The office will both produce the publication September, a daily art historical broadside specially made for TBA:11, and be an active space where the artists will work onsite to correct, revise, and compile errata from previous editions of the paper amidst a new body of their related object-work.
Opening Reception : Thursday, Sept. 8, 8-10 pm
Gallery Hours:
Sept 9-Sept. 18 -- 12-6:30 everyday
Sept 22-Oct 30 -- 12-6:30 Thu-Fri, 12-4 Sat-Sun
Alongside the epic resurgence of non-traditional figurative and narrative art, the time honored tradition of landscape painting has morphed quietly itself, producing a sub genre of artists who create works of serene yet semi-apocalyptic landscapes, such as Jean-Pierre Roy (HF Vol.18) and Gregory Euclide (HF Vol.17) for example, an emotional tug of war between the longing for the diminishing natural world versus a painful look at what seems destined to be. Portland painter Adam Sorensen falls within this category, with his imaginary worlds of crystalline structures and bright irradiated colors contrasting with smooth, lava flow dark bumps and luminous waterfalls. Oddly cheerful in it's otherworldly- ness, the work invokes the idea of a melted, post-mankind landscape and gives the landscapes their star turn as seemingly sentient personalities of their own. -Kirsten Anderson
Read moreVanessa Renwick returns to the Hollywood Theater for a special screening on April, 28th 7:30 pm ...
Read moreVictoria Haven's "Blue Sun" named one of 2017's best works by Crosscut...
Read more"Having thus poured forth my prayer and given an account of my bitter sufferings, I drowsed and fell asleep on the same sand-couch as before. But scarcely had I closed my eyes before a god-like face emerged from the midst of the sea with lineaments that gods themselves would revere. Then...Read more
Marie Watt's piece "Companion Species (Speech Bubble) 2019" is now a part of the permanent collection at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
The museum has new acquisitions from several contemporary female artists as part of their commitment to developing a more inclusive American art collection.
Congratulations, Marie!
View Marie's piece and more information here:
https://crystalbridges.org/blog/crystal-bridges-museum-of-american-art-a...
Artworks by Justin L'Amie have been featured in issue 004 the magazine Buckman Journal, an Anthology of Portland Writers and Artists. The works accompany a writing by Stevan Allred titled "Goose Queen."
Get a copy of Buckman Journal here: https://www.buckmanjournal.com
Read moreJoin the Portland Art Museum's Native American Art Council for an informal conversation with three art gallery owners Cecily Quintana, Jane Beebe and Charles Froelick. Each has a long history of working with contemporary Indigenous artists.
Read moreGeorgina Reskala is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California for the month of March.
Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.
Congratulations, Georgina!
We are looking forward to her solo show in May 2021!
For more information: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/georgina-reskala-6wsby-kl8p6
Read moreKarpa de Nepantla, a two person exhibition with Georgina Reskala and Beth Davila Waldman, will be opening at Upstart Modern in Sausalito, California on June 2.
“Responding to the concept of psychological borders and borderlands, artists Georgina Reskala and Beth Davila Waldman present a selection of individual works negotiating the open space between two cultural worlds through the lens of issues such as gender, race, and colonialism. Both Reskala and Waldman bring the depth of their personal perspectives as women of color and mixed LatinX origins to their artwork in “Karpa de Nepantla.”
An Artist Talk with SF Moma Assistant Curator of Photography will be by invitation only, with a recording to follow.
Upstart Modern
4000 Bridgeway Ste 100
Sausalito, CA 94965
You belong among the wildflowers
You belong somewhere close to me
Far away from your trouble and worry
You belong somewhere you feel free
You belong somewhere you feel free
- Tom Petty
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present our summer group show, You...Read more
Los Angeles Art Show at the LA Convention Center
www.laartshow.com
Booth I - 245
This Week’s Triptych Artist: D.E. May
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