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Friday 01.29.10

Kuchar @ PSU

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George Kuchar

In conjunction with PMMNLS, PSU presents The Films of George Kuchar selected by George Kuchar at the New Video Gallery. A "legend of independent filmmaking," Kuchar began making B-style mini-epics in the 1950s and later turned to video in the 1980s, creating a massive collection of video diaries. "In Kuchar's video universe, nothing is safe from the camera expanding his oeuvre to exploiting his morbid interests and notorious insecurities with his token razor-sharp sense of humor in classics like The Mongreloid and The Weather Diaries.--Kuchar's friendships, lusts, anxieties, fears, and bodily functions are all addressed onscreen, often accompanied by his outrageously funny commentary. And yet below the witty surface lie profound and moving meditations on human existence."

You can view his selections at the New Video Gallery and from the street, dusk til dawn, February 1-26, 2010. Kuchar will also be lecturing this Monday for PMMNLS, and the NW Film Center is hosting "An evening with George Kuchar" on Tuesday.

Video exhibition opening reception • 4-6pm • February 1
New Video Gallery • Lobby PSU Art Building • 2000 SW 5th Ave
Artist lecture • 7:30pm • February 1
PMMNLS @ PSU • Shattuck Hall Annex • 1914 SW Park Rm 198
Special screening • 7pm • February 2
NW Film Center • Whitsell Auditorium • 1219 SW Park

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 29, 2010 at 9:46 | Comments (0)

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Thursday 01.28.10

artist opportunities

The Hearst Corporation is seeking submissions for their 2011 8x10 Photography Biennial Competition, open to all U.S. and international freelance, amateur and professional photographers and students, aged 18 to 35 years of age. Submissions are due by May 31. Portland photographer Brad Carlile was one of eight winners in the 2009 Biennial. Learn more about the Hearst Biennial and read Brad's advice here.

(More! Public school supplies benefit, IN HOUSE gallery, and Portland Open Studios.)

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 28, 2010 at 11:27 | Comments (1)

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Destroy your art

British artist Michael Landy has created a project where artists can destroy their unwanted art called, "Art Bin." Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin have already contributed. It reminds me that Picasso once famously stated, "All acts of creation are acts of destruction."

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 28, 2010 at 11:09 | Comments (2)

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Wednesday 01.27.10

zoomtopia

Carole Zoom's Portland art space dream has become a reality with Zoomtopia: "Affordable pricing and lease-to-own terms enable artists and nonprofits to find a stable home while building social and financial equity." The building features six large studio spaces, a dance rehearsal studio, common amenities, ADA accessibility and, perhaps most importantly, a great location - the corner of SE 8th & Belmont. Join them for their opening celebration tomorrow evening, kicked off by a building dedication by mayor Sam Adams and featuring a rockin' after party.

New artist space celebration • 6pm • January 28
Zoomtopia • 810 SE Belmont

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 27, 2010 at 10:49 | Comments (0)

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Cy Twombly at PAM

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Cy Twombly's Untitled (from his recent Blossoming series)

Lately, I have been concerned because the Miller-Meigs series space at the Portland Art Museum has not been programmed with one of its typically excellent solo shows... but all that has changed. On February 6th Cy Twombly will fill the space with two massive paintings and one of his sculptures. Twombly is one of the world's greatest living painters and curator Bruce Guenther has once again outdone himself bringing these recent works here.

February 6 - May 16 2010
Portland Art Museum
4th floor, Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Art

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 27, 2010 at 9:55 | Comments (0)

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Tuesday 01.26.10

linking graphics

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Terry Winters, "Bond," 2004

The Cooley Gallery presents Linking Graphics, Prints 2000-2010 by Terry Winters, a world-renowned painter and printmaker whose work investigates biological, artificial, and information-based structures. Linking Graphics is the first comprehensive exhibition of Winters' recent etchings, lithographs, and other unique prints held in the United States. The exhibition focuses on the artist's serial projects, literary collaborations, and large-scale experiments. Winters will lecture on his work at Reed College in February, after which there will be a reception in the gallery.

Also, check out Arcy's 2007 interview with Winters on the very subject of his prints.

Exhibition • January 26 - March 7, 2010
Cooley Gallery • 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd • Main Floor Reed Library
Artist lecture • 7pm • February 24
Reed College • Vollum Lecture Hall


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Po Shun Leong

Artist, former architect, sculptor, and furniture maker Po Shun Leong is speaking at PNCA this week via their MFA in Applied Craft & Design program.

Artist lecture • 6:30-8pm • January 28
PNCA's Applied Craft and Design Studios • 421 NE 10th Ave

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 26, 2010 at 8:50 | Comments (0)

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Monday 01.25.10

Roth, Nagy and Fenker alt-space explorations

This January three Portland alt-spaces explore the ways simple materials and space can articulate and complicate each other.

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Molly Roth at Gallery Homeland

At Gallery Homeland Molly Roth's, "A story about Some People Changing" is a not to be missed show (it ends on January 31st). Roth has a fascinating way of drowning sentimentality in nearly abstract multi-vectored semiotics of language via the application of satin bows. For example, her "Everything must have an end except my love for you (Niagara)" at first glance has the look of legible script but it's a kind of mirror image pantomime of a signature... (more)

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 25, 2010 at 17:06 | Comments (4)

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Getty Sketchbooks

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The Getty Villa

The White Box at UO's White Stag building is hosting The Getty Sketchbooks. The exhibition presents reproductions of 200 sketches and drawings that were produced by the six architectural firms that were invited to compete for the commission of the Getty Villa project in 1993. The sketchbooks show the vision that went into the development of this famously beautiful extension of LA's Getty Museum. The show will have an opening reception on First Thursday followed by a lecture entitled "The Death of the Esquisse" by curator Roger Sherwood.

Opening reception • 5-7pm • February 4
Curator lecture • 7-8pm • February 4
White Box • 24 NW 1st Ave

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 25, 2010 at 9:03 | Comments (0)

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Friday 01.22.10

social action: resistance, surveillance

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Anthea Black, "Looking for love in all the wrong places postering project - EN COMBINANT NOS FORCES NOUSE REIGNERONS SUR L'UNIVERS!" 2008

The Museum of Contemporary Craft presents Gestures of Resistance, guest curated by Judith Leemann and Shannon Stratton. The exhibition "examines work by contemporary artists who focus on craft actions and create works that use craft to agitate for change." Rather than present a static group of objects, the exhibition will "unfold" during its time at the museum through a series of seven artist residencies, open conversations and a study center. Featured artists include Sara Black and John Preus (January 26-February 6), Anthea Black (February 19-March 10), Carole Lung, AKA Frau Fiber (March 18-27), Mung Lar Lam (April 1-3), Cat Mazza (May 18-22), Ehren Tool (June 1-12), and Theaster Gates (June 18-19). Visit the exhibition page for descriptions of each project. The show will be kicked off with a craft conversion with the curators on opening day.

Exhibition • January 26 - June 26, 2010
Curatorial conversation • 6:30pm • January 26
Museum of Contemporary Craft • 724 NW Davis • 503.223.2654

(More: Hasan Elahi for PMMNLS and winter at Ditch Projects.)

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 22, 2010 at 8:38 | Comments (0)

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Thursday 01.21.10

Prelude

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Kate Fenker

MP53 presents Prelude, a sculptural installation by Kate Fenker. Prelude is the first installment in a series of works where "geometric and organic forms begin to meld with found objects and each other." The exhibition will run from January 23 - February 26, 2010.

Opening reception • 6-9pm • January 23
Milepost 5 • 900 NE 81st Ave • Lobby gallery space of lofts building

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 21, 2010 at 11:26 | Comments (0)

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Wednesday 01.20.10

Tidal

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Jenene Nagy

Jenene Nagy's Tidal opens this weekend at Disjecta. The exhibition continues Nagy's "definitive meld of painting, sculpture and installation into an explorative physiological environment. Bold color, intentionally disjointed surfaces, organic shape and visible architecture highlight an immense structure that hearkens Gaudi's spatial absurdities." The show will run from January 22 - February 28, 2010.

Opening reception • 6-10pm • January 22
Disjecta • 8371 N Interstate • 503.286.9449

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 20, 2010 at 18:34 | Comments (0)

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Tuesday 01.19.10

Cochrane & Middendorf + Gray & Paulsen at The Art Gym

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Beloved Mother (from The Dregs)

Like no other people except the ancient Egyptians, Americans are obsessed with the accumulation of stuff. The mantra of ownership of property (via enlightenment philosopher John Locke) practically defines our consumerist national character. Philosophically, Locke considered property both material and more abstract to be a natural right, a kind of talisman imbued with the value of labors undertaken and exchanged to acquire them. America was the first country to apply these rules evenly across all social strata.

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a pile of burnt newsprint from "The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things"

Still, the Egyptians differed from Americans in one telling respect; property and death were entwined in a hermetic dance of preparations, while Americans do everything in their power to avoid addressing death… often using stuff as a distraction from the inevitable. Alas, no pack rat has enough stuff to keep death from getting in the door. Still many try.

Exploring similar memes two well curated shows at the Art Gym; Brandy Cochrane and Paul Middendorf's, "The Dregs" and Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen's, "The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things," do an interesting job of prompting philosophical discussions around the stuff that people own... (more)

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 19, 2010 at 2:56 | Comments (0)

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What is a trade?

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Donald Fels & collaborators, "Pineapple," 2005

Lewis & Clark's Hoffman Gallery presents What is a trade?, an exhibition exploring the historic and contemporary effects of globalization. Painter Donald Fels was inspired by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's 1498 voyage to Malabar, India, in search of a direct sea route for the spice trade. Working with the Signboard Painters of South India, Fels has created 16 large-scale paintings that explore the historic and modern-day legacy of that expedition more than 500 years later. The exhibition will run from January 21 - March 14, 2010.

Artist lecture • 4pm • January 21
Opening reception • 5-7pm • January 21
Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark • 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road • 503.768.7687


Happening TODAY at the UO White Stage building: Architect Donald MacDonald, FAIA will give a talk on movement and its influence upon the design of bridges and buildings - a very relevant Portland topic.

Architecture lecture • 3:30pm • January 19
UO White Stag • 70 NW Couch • White Stag Event Room

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 19, 2010 at 1:13 | Comments (0)

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Monday 01.18.10

Farewell Fontanelle


Joshua Orion Kermiet and Midori Hirose

Sadly, Fontanelle, one of Portland's most beloved semi-alternative spaces, is closing. They've gotten a lot of love here at PORT in the brief year and a half they've been open:

The Joshua Orion Kermiet and Midori Hirosi show was reviewed this summer, and then won Best Group Show of 2009 in our readers' poll.
The exhibition Queer Gaze got noted this fall.
The Oregon Painting Society at Fontanelle was reviewed a year ago.
Not to mention all the calendar notes and picks lists. Thanks Leslie & Jess for some great programming and a wonderful use of that space, which has formerly housed Elizabeth Leach and Chambers. (So who's next?)

Fontanelle will be hosting a closing party this weekend featuring DJ Party Martyr and the sale of the Fontanelle: Year One book. It'll also be your last chance to see Julianna Bright's Our Songs of Experience (you can also contact the gallery to make an appointment to see it this week).

Farewell party • 7-9pm • January 22
Fontanelle • 205 SW Pine • 503.274.7668

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 18, 2010 at 9:58 | Comments (1)

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Friday 01.15.10

calls for artists & art professors

NE Portland altspace False Front is seeking proposals for solo shows for the 2010 season, starting in March. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, and requirements and where-tos can be found here.


Clark College is seeking applicants for adjunct instructors for inclusion in a pool of qualified candidates who have the demonstrated ability to teach beginning drawing and/or two-dimensional design. An MFA and college-level teaching experience are preferred. Screening begins March 8th. The position isn't up on their job site yet, so contact Carson Legree or the art department for more information.

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 15, 2010 at 16:50 | Comments (0)

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Friday links

PORT will have several reviews and our exhaustive 2009 roundup next week.

Till then NY1 has a nice article and great video on MK Guth's latest show in New York City.

Sometime guest PORT contributor Bean Gilsdorf has an interview with Storm Tharp on Daily Serving.

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 15, 2010 at 13:11 | Comments (0)

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Thursday 01.14.10

Vantage

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Left: Avantika Bawa, Right: Stephen Slappe

Clark College's Archer Gallery presents Vantage, "an exhibition of artwork exploring perspective - visually, contextually, and perceptually. Featuring regional and national contemporary artists working in sculpture, video, computer animation, sound, photography, and installation, Vantage invites viewers into uncommon worlds, where meaning is reconstructed and reality subverted." Featured artists include Avantika Bawa, Victoria Haven, Isaac Layman, Golan Levin, Greg Pond, and Stephen Slappe. The show will be up through February 6, 2010, featuring an artist talk in early February with Isaac Layman.

Artist reception • 5-7pm • January 16
Artist talk • 7pm • February 3
Archer Gallery @ Clark College • 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, FAC 101, Vancouver, WA • 360.992.2246

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 14, 2010 at 8:49 | Comments (0)

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Wednesday 01.13.10

Clad

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Eliza Fernand

Nationale presents Clad by Eliza Fernand, who writes: "Memories are triggered by familiar sights, noises, and smells. Upon recognizing a material from your past, a history of associations plays in your head. By converting old clothing and bedding into a fabric collage, I can play with an arrangement of memories."

Opening reception • 6-8pm • January 15
Nationale • 2730 E Burnside • nationale.portland@gmail.com

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 13, 2010 at 9:38 | Comments (0)

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Tuesday 01.12.10

Stephen Hayes @ PAM

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Stephen Hayes, "Caldera"

Painter and printmaker Stephen Hayes is on deck this week for PAM's ongoing artist lecture series. Hayes will lead a walking discussion of a couple of his favorite works from the collection. The lecture meets in the Hoffman lobby and returns there at the end for "happy hour."

Artist lecture • 6-8pm • January 14
Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park • 503.226.2811

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 12, 2010 at 17:55 | Comments (0)

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More Deitching

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Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA's new Director

In case you've missed it, you definitely need to read Tyler Green's 3 part interview with Jeffrey Deitch, MOCA's new director. Tyler does a good job of renewing my faith in "journalism" here and Deitch certainly sounds like your typical museum director so I'm not certain why some people find the choice so strange. Look, if JD lets Jeff Koons start to curate I'll certainly do my best to fricassee him but till then I ain't gonna go all Yosemite Sam... like some are till he actually does something. Tyler asks the right questions, Deitch gave the right answers... a totally predictable art world moment where everyone does as they should.

Christopher Knight's article today also shows a higher level of skepticism. It's a good reminder that Deitch has to earn his way in LA... that's actually a good thing for Deitch since LACMA's Govan came with such a great reputation, which has been somewhat tarnished in his time in LA. LA isn't like anywhere else and Deitch really needs to build a stronger foundation for the institution.

I did find Roberta Smith's article weird though... with its focus not so much that LA is gaining a new director it's that New York is losing one of its best dealers??? sheeesh... (more)

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 12, 2010 at 11:43 | Comments (0)

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Monday 01.11.10

@ PCC & PSU

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Heidi Schwegler

PCC Cascade presents Heidi Schwegler's Slipping Underwater, in which Schwegler acknowledges Sartre's concept of self deception: "I must know the truth very exactly in order to conceal it more carefully." Her installation is comprised of sculptural objects, digital images, and video. "Placed together they become external manifestations of a moment of anguish." The exhibition will run through February 18, 2010.

Artist talk • 2-3pm • January 13
Opening reception • 5-8pm • January 14
PCC Cascade • 705 N Killingsworth • TH 102


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Christopher Price

PSU's White Gallery presents Rembering Russia, an exhibition of photography by Christopher Price. Featuring the town of Vladimir and surrounding areas, the "people, buildings and scenes shown here belong to both the past and present, and are intended to show how modern life constructs itself around relics." The show will run through January 27, 2010.

Opening reception • 5-7pm • January 14
PSU White Gallery • 1825 SW Broadway • Smith Building 2nd Floor

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 11, 2010 at 14:11 | Comments (0)

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Rumors confirmed: MOCA names Deitch

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In case you haven't heard, Jeffrey Deitch was named the new Director of MOCA today and I think Jerry Saltz had the best summation of the news. Some will find it odd that a former art dealer will cross the imaginary line between the dealer and director worlds but frankly I think this is a very isolated incident (there just aren't many Jeffrey Deitches out there). MOCA already has the best programming of any major contemporary/modern art museum but what it needs is better support.

Deitch got the job because (on paper) he can deliver... maybe even redirect a tiny bit of Hollywood's money away from the development of extremely stupid films towards one of LA's most important cultural contributions. This "support" has been LA's biggest cultural problem and recruiting a serious, very intelligent ultra-insider like Deitch will only work if his fund raising efforts to "make it rain" in LA are successful (just a little).
*Update: Tyler Green just published some his responses to the responses... all valid points of course. This wait and see approach is... (more)

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 11, 2010 at 11:58 | Comments (0)

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Friday 01.08.10

The Dregs

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Brandy Cochrane and Paul Middendorf

The Marylhurst Art Gym presents The Dregs by Brandy Cochrane and Paul Middendorf. For the exhibition, the pair took the remains of an estate sale to create an homage to and portrait of a family that has passed into history: "The story of a life can be composed from these dregs, pieced together from objects un-sellable, unwanted, unexpected – and bound for the trash heap."


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Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, "Integrating a Burning House"

Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen are exhibiting The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things in the Art Gym's Gallery 2. Their apartment was lost to a fire in 2008, and in this exhibition they explore the experiences in the months that followed and their pending return to a new dwelling at their old address. Both exhibitions will run through February 11, 2010.

Opening receptions • 3-5pm • January 10
Artist talks • 12pm • February 4
Marylhurst Art Gym • 17600 Pacific Highway Marylhurst, OR • BP John Administration Building

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 08, 2010 at 9:14 | Comments (0)

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Thursday 01.07.10

Second Friday Picks January 2010

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Blue Mitchell

Newspace presents New Work by Blue Mitchell, who "burns his negatives, distorting natural landscapes into painterly, surreal scenes. The images are applied as acrylic lifts to birch panels, and then varnished. Mitchell aims to move beyond a simply two-dimensional perspective with his photographs, in an attempt to more accurately express his true experience of the landscapes he photographs."


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Corey Davis

Landscapes, Materialized by Corey Davis is also at Newspace this month. The exhibition features "beautifully abstract, minimalistic images of coffee grounds in the bottom of Japanese teacups... The landscape-like images invoke calming, meditative spaces."

Opening receptions • 7-10pm • January 8
Newspace Center for Photography • 1632 SE 10th • 503.963.1935


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Liz Obert, installation view of Mapping Marnay-sur-Seine

The Alpern Gallery presents Liz Obert's Mapping Marnay-sur-Seine. From the artist: "The piece relates a sense of place to the viewer by looking solely at the details or micro-images of this village... We learn about our world by taking it apart whether it’s by dissecting an animal, collecting archeological artifacts or analyzing a poem."

Opening reception • 6-9pm • January 8
Alpern Gallery • 2552 NW Vaughn • 503.477.7721

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 07, 2010 at 15:52 | Comments (0)

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Wednesday 01.06.10

a productive start to 2010

UO's White Box gallery in the White Stag building is seeking project proposals for the 2010-2011 season: "Artists, architects, designers, curators and organizations are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to original exhibitions, curated for the White Box spaces, exploring contemporary inquiry from unique perspectives, and demonstrating a relationship to a global art and design conversation, Portland's community and the academic mission of the University." The deadline for submissions is January 15. For more info and to apply, contact whitebox@uoregon.edu.

(More: McKenzie River Trust anniversary show, new art salon at Branx, and art+recession at SSCC.)

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 06, 2010 at 13:52 | Comments (0)

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Tuesday 01.05.10

First Thursday Picks January 2010

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Christopher Rauschenberg, "Paris Flea Market"

Elizabeth Leach presents Paris Flea Market, a collection of photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg of the Marché aux Puces at Saint Ouen, just outside of Paris. "Well-known for his panoramic, assembled images, Rauschenberg's latest body of work is composed of single images, which capture and crystallize specific moments of wit and beauty... the jumbled stalls and crowded viewing rooms [of Paris Flea Market] reflect the beauty and accidental narratives of surprising, unintentional juxtapositions of objects."

Opening reception • 6-9pm • January 7
Elizabeth Leach Gallery • 417 NW 9th • 503.224.0521

(More: Olaf Otto Becker & Celine Clanet at Blue Sky, Megan Murphy at PDX Contemporary, a group drawing show at Blackfish, PORT staff show at Gallery 114, Play for Keeps at Tribute, ROM'N Times at Autzen, and Alex Hubbard for PSU's video space.)

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 05, 2010 at 15:46 | Comments (0)

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Kenneth Noland 1924-2010

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Kenneth Noland's No 1, 1958 (Clement Greenberg Collection Portland Art Museum)

"A major artist has died. Kenneth Noland was a central figure in the Color Field movement and an artist who inherited the mantle of Josef Albers as America's reigning colorist.

A Greenbergian formalist who made color a physical thing as well as a fleeting optical experience. The Museum is fortunate to have his first Target painting on view and some twenty-five works in its permanent collection." -Bruce Guenther, Chief Curator Portland Art Museum

Also,Roberta Smith writes about the passing of Kenneth Noland at age 85.

Portland has a particular connection to the preeminent color field painter...

(more)

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 05, 2010 at 13:33 | Comments (0)

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Listing lists as redundantly as possible

PORT always takes its time with our official "best of" list and because we kicking off this our 5th year with a staff exhibition in the Pearl District (Re: PORT) we aren't going to break any records.

Here's Tyler Green's best of list for 2009 you can compare it to Christopher Knight's list published last month.

Jerry Saltz has picked his shows of the decade. If I wanted to make a similar list, Robert Irwin's Primaries and Secondaries would top the charts and Matthew Barney wouldn't come close.

My favorite non-Portland shows of 2009 would be: Mike Kelley and Michael Smith at Sculpture Center and Kandinsky at the Guggenheim. If I had seen Francis Bacon at the Met I'm certain that would make the list too. What is notable is show's I wouldn't include... like Martin Kippenberger at MoMA. Fact is, most of my favorite viewing experiences of 2009 were in Marfa and land art scattered throughout the Desert Southwest or a about 3-5 shows in Portland that were easily better than most of the solo shows elsewhere. This isn't favoritism I just feel like some of the shows from Portland in 2009 were that good. I'll have that list done ASAP (hopefully Wednesday).

Posted by Jeff Jahn on January 05, 2010 at 13:02 | Comments (0)

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Monday 01.04.10

art talks

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Visitor Information Center in Portland, OR 1948, designed by John Yeon, image courtesy of the Oregon History Cooperative

The University of Oregon's Winter Architecture Lecture series continues with The Far East in the Architecture of the Pacific Northwest: John Yeon and the Landscape Arts of China and Japan by UO Professor of Architecture Kevin Nute. "The Northwest modernist John Yeon (1910-1994) is perhaps best known as a designer of houses that seem made for their particular natural surroundings. This lecture will examine parallels between techniques used to integrate buildings and landscapes in Yeon's work and the traditional Chinese and Japanese pictorial art he collected for most of his career..."

Architecture lecture • 12pm • January 6
UO White Stag Building • 70 NW Couch • Event Room


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Ben Buswell, "black eye" (detail)

For the next installment in their First Wednesday lecture series, Clark College presents local artist Ben Buswell.

Artist lecture • 7pm • January 6
Clark College • 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA • Penguin Union Building (PUB) 161

Posted by Megan Driscoll on January 04, 2010 at 11:34 | Comments (0)

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