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Opinion Links
Architecture Daily considers the reaction to the curtain wall for Jean
Nouvel's now iconic Vision Machine in Chelsea. I think it's brilliant to
design an exterior first and foremost from the ideas that form the interior.
It will hold up very well, like the Marina Place apartments in Chicago.
Tyler Green asks who you would like to see make
a new public art piece in your city? We have Kenny Scharf and a pretty crappy
Judy Pfaff here in Portland... who would you like? The tops of my list are Anish
Kapoor, Robert Irwin and an outdoor Jennifer Steinkamp video projection.
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Posted by Jeff Jahn
on September 02, 2010 at 10:07
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First Thursday Picks September 2010
Danny Treacy, "Them #17"
Bluesky is turning 35! To inaugurate their 35th-anniversary celebration, they're exhibiting Wisconsin Tavern League by Carl Corey and Them by 2009 Man Photography Prize-winning Danny Treacy. Wisconsin Tavern League is Corey's effort to document Wisconsin taverns as culturally important communal gathering places. For Them, "London-based artist Danny Treacy searches his surroundings for discarded clothing to construct suggestive, haunting costumes. Treacy then dresses himself in what he creates and, by making striking life-sized self-portraits, he becomes 'Them.'"
Opening reception • 6-9pm • September 2
Blue Sky Gallery • 122 NW 8th • 503.225.0210
(More: Justine Kurland at Elizabeth Leach, Adam Sorensen at PDX Contemporary, Eva Speer at Charles Hartman, Damien Gilley at PNCA, Arcy Douglass at Chambers@916, Brooklyn artists at Froelick.)
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 31, 2010 at 12:11
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like smoke and holy water
Kartz Ucci
Linfield presents Kartz Ucci's like smoke and holy water, "a site-specific response to the architectural grandeur of the natural light that fills the Linfield Gallery...Through the singular use of highly reflective mirrored surfaces and the absence of video and sound - like smoke and holy water as text/image and as object/sculpture is an attempt to isolate and elevate the viewer's psycho-physiological response to the architectural space of the Linfield Gallery." The show will run through October 9, 2010.
Opening reception • 6-8pm • September 1
Linfield Gallery • 900 SE Baker St., McMinnville, OR
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 30, 2010 at 17:31
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Kertesz and Waselchuk exhibitions
Though this August has been littered with weakish summer group shows two excellent
solo photography exhibitions next door to one another should not be missed, it is
their last weekend. At Charles Hartman Fine Art there is a fantastic museum level
exhibition spanning the entire career of master
photographer Andre Kertesz. Next door at Blue Sky Gallery it is the sobering
prison hospice care documentation of Lori Waselchuk.
Andre Kertesz Washington Square, Winter (1966)
At Charles Hartman the roughly chronological display covers classic Kertesz
images like Lovers (1915) taken in Budapest to the iconic Mondrain's Glasses
and Pipe (1926) from his Paris years to the fantastic Washington Square, Winter
(1966) Taken in New York City.
Kertesz is a master of geometric composition as Mondrian's Glasses and Pipe
demonstrates with its asymmetrical table corner forming a tense pyramid on which
the ascetic circles of the bowl, pipe and glasses rest in a seemingly offhand
repose. Those three elements form... (more)
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Posted by Jeff Jahn
on August 27, 2010 at 9:17
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The Radiant Child
The NW Film Center is screening "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child," a 2010 Basquiat documentary directed by Tamra Davis. "Combining never-before-seen interview footage with commentary from friends and contemporary art world luminaries, Davis offers a compelling introduction to a singularly driven creative personality, an artist who could paint masterpieces in an hour (earning him Andy Warhol's extreme jealousy) and find endless inspiration in the oversaturated culture from which he emerged."
Film screenings • 7pm • August 27 & 28
NW Film Center @ PAM • 1219 SW Park • Whitsell Auditorium
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 26, 2010 at 14:51
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Collateral Matters, please & thank you
Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt
Starting tomorrow, the Museum of Contemporary Craft presents Collateral Matters, selections by Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt. "MoCC invited graphic designers Kate Bingaman-Burt and Clifton Burt to craft a response to the museum's collection. Naturally drawn to museum ephemera - invitations, posters, receipts and correspondence - the designers create an installation that uses printed materials from the archive to examine how institutional identity is constructed. The exhibition is part of an ongoing series of curatorial strategies that engage contemporary ways of looking at the collection."
Exhibition • August 26, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Museum of Contemporary Craft • 724 NW Davis • 503.223.2654
Half/Dozen +Projects presents please and thank you, "a performative exploration of hum drum." This one night only performance (happening twice in one night) features movement by Bonnie Green, Danielle Ross, and Robert Tyree, and installation by Bonnie Green.
Performances • 7pm & 9pm • August 27
Half/Dozen • 625 NW Everett #111 • 503.512.9079
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 25, 2010 at 18:27
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heads up! last minute call for submissions
Blue Sky is calling for submission for its Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers program. This is an excellent opportunity for photographers from Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia, and the deadline is August 27 (this Friday). Read more about the Drawers and submission guidelines on their website / blog.
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 24, 2010 at 21:44
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Last Thursday Picks August 2010
At the Alberta alley spaces: Appendix presents Laura Hughes, In the Space of an Instant. The installation "articulates and enhances fleeting instances of light through applications of phosphorescent and iridescent paint. The work is an exploration of how light, space, time, and architectural form shape one another to produce the visible by amplifying the imprint of the peripheral to the forefront of our perception."
Opening reception • 8:30pm • August 26
Appendix Project Space • South alleyway b/w 26th & 27th off Alberta
Little Field presents new work by Midori Hirosi, "stemming from her interest in combining geometric and loose facets. Her interest comes from an investigation into the dichotomy of the Apollonian and Dionysian idea culled from reading The Birth of Tragedy. She has a predilection for order and chaos and for this series of sculptures, tries to achieve the genera principle using wood, foam and paint to convey a form of balance between structure and disorder."
Opening reception • 7pm • August 26
Little Field • North alleyway b/w 28th & 29th off Alberta
Rebecca Shelly
False Front presents Rebecca Shelly's The Seed Olympics. "Through the use of stop motion animation, Rebecca Shelly documents the growth of starter plants with an exploratory theme of Olympic games under the theory, 'survival of the fittest.'"
Opening reception • 6pm • August 26
False Front Studio • 4518 NE 32nd • 503.781.4609
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 24, 2010 at 10:36
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Phun with Phonemes
RECESS presents Phun with Phonemes©, an exhibition exploring text and communication. "Through investigating memory and writing, text as spectacle, logo confusion, and conversational attention spans, Phun with Phonemes© will be a platform for engaging with language in new and exciting formats." Performances at the reception start at 7:30pm.
Opening reception • 6pm • August 25
RECESS • 4315 SE Division (ground level of Artistery)
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 23, 2010 at 13:51
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Drake Deknatel's Small Paintings at Elizabeth Leach
Drake Deknatel at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
As a relative newcomer to the greater Northwest art community, I am often at a
loss when discussions arise regarding all but the most prominent of local artists.
The upside of this situation is that it is still possible for me to be surprised... (more)
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Posted by Patrick Collier
on August 21, 2010 at 15:07
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PAM artist talks
On the second Thursday of every month, the Portland Art Museum "offers visitors the unique opportunity to explore the Museum's permanent collection through the inspired lens of notable Portland artists, writers, and curators." The talks are great, but we haven't posted the last several since they've been selling out way ahead of time. So I thought I'd share the list of upcoming talks in 2010 for those who want to jump on the ticket bandwagon early:
•September 9: Stephanie Snyder (SOLD OUT)
•October 14: Ethan Rose
•November 11: Matt McCormick
•December 9: Chas Bowie
Read more about the artist talk series on PAM's website.
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 20, 2010 at 10:04
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Art Spark: TBA:10
This month's Art Spark features the "inside scoop" on TBA:10 with PICA at Mississippi Studio's new BarBar patio and a sneak preview performance by Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner.
Art chat • 5-7pm • August 19
Art Spark @ BarBar • 3939 N Mississippi
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Posted by Megan Driscoll
on August 18, 2010 at 7:36
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