Jenene Nagy will show work in the exhibition 'See Through Walls' at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia in March of 2014.
Read moreI’m standing in an empty lot. Two curators are with me, but they don’t want me to use their names. “Pretty FBI, eh?” . . .
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
A group show on reinvention curated by Kate Bonansinga. April 22 through August 14, 2016 ...
Read moreSiren has been selected as an entrepreneur in residence at the New Museum's NEW INC program in New York City for the 2016-2017 season...
Read moreThese works were made in waiting rooms of one kind or another. Densely hand-stitched abstract forms centered on raw linen, they are shaped by a desire to develop a new visual language and to forge a new working methodology—peripatetic, roving, claiming its own time and space.
By drawing...Read more
PDX is excited to feature drawings by Wes Mills and Jeffry Mitchell in our booth at the art fair DRAWING NOW.
March 28-31
Le Carreau du Temple.
4 rus Eugène Spuller
75003, Paris
Victoria Haven is an artist-in-residence at the Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, Florida. Congratulations, Victoria!
About the Residency: The Rauschenberg Residency is inspired by Rauschenberg's early years at Black Mountain College where an artistic community brought out elements central to his art, collaboration, and exploration. The residency advances new work, extends practices into new mediums, and serves as a research and development lab for performance-based projects. It fosters the ideal that artistic practice advances mutual understanding and engenders a focus on the conservation of a sensitive and pristine environment and integration with the local surroundings. Events designed to connect the local and regional community with the artists in residence may include an open studio of works in progress, outreaches by residents, and on-site activities/tours held in partnership with schools and arts and environmental organizations.
The harmonious juxtaposition of natural landscape, modern and adaptable studios, and idyllic housing provides a perfect backdrop for the artistic process. The spirit of Robert Rauschenberg is everywhere.
Read moreIllustrating the breadth of what a drawing can be, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART presents artwork by six gallery artists each employing different mediums and approaches to making drawings.
We had reserved these artworks to exhibit at the prestigious art fair Drawing Now Paris. We will return to...Read more
Justin L'Amie, Nancy Lorenz, and Jeffry Mitchell in Conversation
On the occasion of Justin L'Amie's exhibition "Shadow, Hold Your Breath" at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, we invited Justin L'Amie to speak with artists Nancy Lorenz and Jeffry Mitchell.
LINK TO THE VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/479391488
Read morePDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present the paintings of Portland-based artist Tristan “TK” Irving in the PDX Window Project for the month of February 2021.
Drawing inspiration from a range of sources and time periods, from Rembrandt to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Irving’s work integrates abstraction and modernist sensibilities to create portraits which are bold, graphic, and colorful. Each portrait, oftentimes depicting famous artists or public figures, acts to honor and commemorate. Those he’s painted include Frederick Douglass, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Frida Kahlo, Maya Angelou, Madam C.J. Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Stacey Abrams, among others. Irving is best known for his portraits of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, which have been carried at protests and marches for racial justice this summer.
As part of the PDX Window Project, Irving will be offering 20” x 16” commissioned portraits for $500 each. If clients wish to commission a piece, they can email info@pdxcontemporaryart.com for more details. The artist will work from a photograph of the client’s choosing.
The PDX Window Project is viewable from the sidewalk 24 hours, 7 days a week, on the corner of NW 9th and Flanders. The window itself is on 9th avenue.
Irving's work in the PDX Window Project was featured in The Skanner: https://www.theskanner.com/news/newsbriefs/30956-pdx-window-project-feat...
Read moreHeather Watkins will have artist talks at the Cooley Gallery on occasion of her exhibition Dark Moves, as well as at Portland State University in conjunction with Blindspots and Throughlines in the Broadway Gallery at Portland State University.
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Dark Moves Artists Fabiola Menchelli +Heather Watkins in conversation
Saturday, May 6, 11:30 am, Reed chapel
The Cooley opens at 10:30 am before the event
Join Menchelli and Watkins with curator Stephanie Snyder as they discuss their individual and collective practices. Reed chapel, Eliot hall
Refreshments served!
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Heather Watkins: Blindspots and Throughlines Artist Talk
THURSDAY, MAY 11 | 6:00 PM
RSVP : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heather-watkins-blindspots-and-throughlines...
Since the beginning of Fall 2022, Heather Watkins has participated in a year-long residency at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, working with faculty and students in two Freshman Inquiry learning communities. Through workshops, guest lectures, studio visits, and other creative pedagogies, Watkins collaborated with students to create new avenues for understanding and experiencing Watkins’ two public artworks, located on the PSU campus: Score (2014), Lincoln Performance Hall; and Soundings: Opening, Fathoming, Grounding, Searching, Returning (2020), Vanport Building. In this artist talk, Watkins will deliver an overview of this initiative in community-engaged learning that has allowed her to reanimate previous artworks with special attention to artistic process and modes of interpretation. She will also talk about her role in the inaugural curricular exhibition Beautiful Questions, which is currently on view in the Broadway Gallery in Lincoln Hall. Finally, Watkins will discuss the development of a publication (which she received a RACC Arts3C grant to produce) that will encapsulate and archive this exciting and multifaceted project.
Lecture will be held in Lincoln Hall, RM 225. This program is free and open to the public. ASL interpreting will be provided.*
Read moreJoin artists Heather Watkins and Katherine Shaughnessy for a conversation with author Sarah Sentilles about their practices, processes, and the ways that making art has helped each navigate experiences of illness. The talk is part of the exhibition Bodies of Work: Art & Healing on view at the Sun Valley museum of Art through March 23, 2024.
This is a free event with limited space, please register here: https://svmoa.org/exhibitions/2024/bodies-of-work?mc_cid=83a204aee2&mc_e...
Heather Watkins & Katherine Shaughnessy in Conversation with Author Sarah Sentilles.
Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Sun Valley Museum of Art
191 5th St E,
Ketchum, ID 83340
United States
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 moreThis Sunday evening, PDX artist duo Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen will release their new book "A Classroom Reader" at Publications Studio. Please join us for the book launch JANUARY 9, 2011, 6:30 - 9:30 PM @ PUBLICATION STUDIO, 717 SW ANKENY STREET, PORTLAND, OR 97205.
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"A Desert in the Ocean: The View from Cill Rialaig"
Lesley Heller Workspace
54 Orchard Street
New York, NY
June 30th - August 19th, 2011
Opening reception: June 30th, 6 to 8 pm
http://lesleyheller.com/artists/desert_in_the_ocean/index.html
"E.O. Hoppé: Studio, Society, and Street Photography, 1909–1945" February 17 through May 10, 2015 /// Symposium on E.O. Hoppé, portraiture, modernist literature, the cultural politics of dance, and the birth of fashion photography. /// Saturday, February 28, 11:00 am–3:00 p.m. Psychology room 105 /// Speakers: Maria DiBattista, Professor of English, Princeton University; Storm Tharp, artist; Kohle Yohannan, cultural historian and curator; and Rishona Zimring, Professor of English, Lewis & Clark College...
Read moreColor 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