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Interview with Inigo Manglano-Ovalle part II
Part
I of PORT's interview with Inigo Manglano-Ovalle discussed his his shows
Gravity Is a Force to be Reckoned With at Mass MOCA and Happiness
is a state of inertia
at Max Protetch Gallery, in continuation here the conversation digs deeper
into the artist's sources and process.
Gravity Is a Force to be Reckoned With, MASS MoCA
Alex: Switching gears: How does Sergei
Eisenstein's movie Glass House relate to Gravity
Is a Force to be Reckoned With at Mass MOCA?
Inigo: In the beginning I was interested in uncompleted projects. These
uncompleted projects were also located historically in a similar sort of period
- these were projects by individuals in a period of modernity. So I was interested
in Eisenstein's Glass House because that was the title of what would be his
first film in the US. Which was to be based on We (the novel by Zamyatin)... (more)
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on March 17, 2010 at 6:46
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Sayre Gomez + Portland2010 Part II
Sayre Gomez
Fourteen30 presents Self-Expression by LA-based artist Sayre Gomez. Writer John Motley, in his continued collaboration with the gallery (writing essays for each exhibition): "[Gomez] works in many media, shrugging off the trappings of style, to insistently reiterate a
single idea in countless ways, and assert the fragmented nature of identity in the process. As a result, the work in Self-Expression is diverse enough to scan as a group show."
Opening reception • 6-9pm • March 19
Fourteen30 • 1430 SE 3rd • 503.236.1430
The next round of Portland2010 openings is happening this weekend. Catch work by Holly Andres, Corey Arnold, Pat Boas, John Brodie, David Eckard, Damien Gilley, Jenene Nagy, and the Oregon Painting Society at the Templeton Building, and Stephen Slappe at the Leftbank.
Portland2010 Biennial • Openings Part II • March 20
Templeton Building • 230 E Burnside @ SE 3rd • 6-10pm
Leftbank • 240 N Broadway • 6-9pm
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on March 17, 2010 at 6:00
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Art Spark: Disjecta
Crystal Schenk, "Have and Have Not," currently on view at Disjecta for the Portland2010 Biennial
March's Art Spark is happening at Disjecta. They're celebrating the Portland2010 Biennial and offering attendees a chance to win a show at Disjecta (for individual artists or curated group shows). Submit a one-page synopsis of your proposal along with images before 5pm on Thursday and be ready to present your project to the Art Spark crowd if chosen.
Art chat • 5-7pm • March 18
Art Spark @ Disjecta • 8371 N Interstate • 503.286.9449
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on March 16, 2010 at 11:33
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opportunities
Local landmark Pittock Mansion is seeking submissions for their upcoming juried exhibition, Uncertain Times: Contemporary Art Views on the Fate of the Newspaper: "Newspapers today face an uncertain future, as television and the Internet erode print media’s traditional customer base. This exhibit interprets the challenges that newspapers face today through paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and multimedia art." The submission deadline is May 15, and you can get more details and a registration form on their website.
(More! Open call for PSU's Littman & White galleries, environmentally conscious art for the renewable energy round-up, and wearable art for Anka.)
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on March 15, 2010 at 9:56
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The darkness will hold, for now
I have been thinking about motivations for criticism lately. Art criticism is more than a simple popularity contest aimed at amusing or endearing oneself (or your employer) to the art scene or an exercise in lazy caricatures that ignore the details and context at hand for snark's sake (that has a place as social theater but isn't criticism). Instead, it's about context and sharing a process of perceptual evaluation. What's more it seemed like it was time to explore a group of current shows with a mutual thread around the darkness of Winter and Portland's predilection for niorish
arcana:
Matthew Green's Nibog at Fourteen30 (photo Jeff Jahn)
Dark:
A Show to Winter at Fourteen30 appropriately ends tomorrow (a week before
the Spring Equinox). Typical of the Blood Family Rainbow's curatorial collaborations
it has a dark, gothic, even occult focus. It's a good show with the first room
being significantly stronger than the others. This is partially because 3 of
the 4 best pieces (By Matthew Green, Sven Stuckenschmidt and Molly Vidor) are
in the first room... (more)
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on March 12, 2010 at 17:09
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Between Science and Garbage
Bob Ostertag and Pierre Hébert
Artist and filmmaker Bob Ostertag is lecturing tomorrow at PAM in conjunction with Disquieted. "Ostertag explores the common ground and points of friction among music, creativity, politics, culture, and technology. In [his] lecture, "Between Science and Garbage," Ostertag will explore the notion that today's cutting-edge technology is tomorrow's garbage. The title of his lecture is drawn from a performance and film of the same name, which Ostertag created with his partner in Living Cinema, Pierre Hébert."
Artist lecture • 2-3pm • March 13
Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park • 503.226.2811
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on March 12, 2010 at 10:07
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Suggested reading
The Judd
Conference now has its
own blog and Arcy has laid out a very
helpful reading list with links. Remember to register early, the cost goes
up after March 22nd and space is limited. If you are an installation artist,
designer or architect this event will be of capital interest.
Todd Eberle is doing some fine
blogging and always great photos on Marina Abramovic's latest.
Nicolai Ouroussoff's fascinating article
on Claude Parent is definitely worth a read, contextualizing the architect
who has influenced younger designers like Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas. Call
him the father of the current strain of counterintuitive (yet good) architecture.
Tyler Green contemplates the ethical
legacy of curator Edward Fry in the Gugg's new Contemplating the Void exhibition.
The WWeek reviews the Blakely
Dadsen show at Chambers.
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on March 11, 2010 at 11:20
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Portland2010 Biennial
Portland's latest stab at a Biennial begins this weekend. Curated by Cris Moss and running from March to May 2010, exhibitions will be held at Disjecta, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, the Marylhurst Art Gym, Rocksbox, the Templeton Building, the Leftbank, the Alicia Blue Gallery, and Alpern Gallery. You can already see shows at Elizabeth Leach and the Art Gym by Melody Owen (both), and the following is opening this weekend:
Ditch Projects
Are You Ready for the Country? brings Ditch Projects to Rocksbox. "Finding inspiration in the apocalypse of vacancy that marks urban failure, Are You Ready for the Country identifies and celebrates the urban center's sudden and full submission to the rural margin. Refusing the iconography of idealized naturalism, the members of Ditch Projects opt, instead, to frame rurality as the physical lack of constant urbanity."
Opening reception • 6-10pm • March 13
ROcksbox Fine Art • 6540 N Interstate • 503.516.4777
Bruce Conkle and Marne Lucas
Six shows will be opening this Saturday at Disjecta (the hub of the Biennial): Bruce Conkle & Marne Lucas' Warlord Sun King, David Corbett's New Work, Sean Healy's Muscle Car Memory/Carcinoma, Tahni Holt's Culture Machine (in progress), Crystal Schenk's Recent Work, and Crystal Schenk & Shelby Davis' West Coast Turnaround. While you're there, pop over to the Vestibule to see Evertt Beidler's Cured of Second Chances (not part of the Biennial).
Opening reception • 6-10pm • March 13
Disjecta • 8371 N Interstate • 503.286.9449
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on March 11, 2010 at 9:28
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yellow luck
MP5 presents Avantika Bawa's yesterday. Yellow. Bawa writes: "My altered and seemingly 'perfect' construction aims to transform the objects beyond their perceived banality into a dynamic phenomenon that reinvents the mundane. Ordinary, discarded material is used to construct a landscape, where the common place is glorified. Here, the flawed is perfected and the familiar obscured, rendering an emergent and difficult communication to be examined and relearned." The exhibition is on view from March 12 - April 30, 2010.
Opening reception • 6-9pm • March 12
MP53 • 900 NE 81st Avenue • Gallery space of lofts building
Shaun Jarvis
Alpern Gallery presents Shaun Jarvis' Hard Luck. The photographs are part of a decade-long ongoing project photographing the artist's associates in available light without post-production.
Opening reception • 6-9pm • March 12
Alpern Gallery • 2552 NW Vaughn • 503.477.7721
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on March 10, 2010 at 15:04
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Interview with Bill Gilbert
Bill Gilbert
Bill Gilbert has been the Lannan Foundation Chair in the Land Arts of the American
West program at The University of New Mexico since 2000 and is the author of
Land
Arts of the American West. He took time to answer a few of PORT's questions
on the eve of his talk for The Museum of Contemporary Craft this
coming Wednesday at PNCA:
Alex: Michael Heizer has indicated he'd like to fix Double Negative because
it has deteriorated, isn't that the Land art equivalent of George Lucas redoing
Star Wars? How do you feel about artists tinkering with their early earth art?
Bill: Heizer has gone back and forth on this one. I really appreciate his ability
to be inconsistent and answer depending on how he’s feeling or who his
audience might be at any given time in the over the forty years it has been
since the piece was completed. We artists all have complicated relationships
with our work. So, I understand the... (more)
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on March 09, 2010 at 7:01
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talks
Whiting Tennis, "Bitter Lake Compound," 2007
PAM's artist talk series continues this week with Matthew Stadler, a novelist who also writes about art and architecture for various publications, including Frieze, Artforum, Volume, Fillip, and Domus. Stadler will discuss Mark Tobey's Western Town, 1944, and Whiting Tennis' Bitter Lake Compound, 2007. The group will meet in the Hoffman Lobby, walk around the museum, and return to the lobby for happy hour after.
Art lecture • 6-8pm • March 11
Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park • 503.226.2811
Daniel Joseph Martinez
PNCA presents a lecture by Daniel Joseph Martinez via the MFA in Visual Studies program: "A strategic provocateur with a keen intelligence and a wicked sense of humor, Martinez deploys the full range of available media in his practice, having used at various times (and in various combinations) text, image, sculpture, video, and performance to construct his uniquely tough-minded brand of aesthetic inquiry."
Artist lecture • 6:30-8pm • March 11
MoCC in partnership with PNCA • 724 NW Davis • The Lab
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on March 09, 2010 at 6:10
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Land Art
David Shaner, "Garden Slab," 1964
The Museum of Contemporary Craft presents Land Art: David Shaner. The exhibition explores the relationship between craft and the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s through the work of a "potter's potter." Land Art includes works from the artist's estate and the museum's collection, as well as photos and personal notes taken by the artist, which "reveal a concurrent, domestically-scaled yet quietly sensual relationship between art and the landscape of the American West."
Exhibition • March 10 - August 7, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Craft • 724 NW Davis • 503.223.2654
On the first day of the exhibition, William Gilbert will present a concurrent Craft Perspectives lecture via PNCA/MoCC on "Land Arts of the American West." Gilbert "will discuss shifts in contemporary understanding of the genre of Land Art, tracing connections from his own study of ceramics in Montana with Rudy Autio to the innovative 'Land Arts of the American West' program he co-founded with Chris Taylor."
Artist lecture • 6:30 - 8pm • March 10
PNCA • 1241 NW Johnson • 503.226.4391
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