Polly Apfelbaum, Color Stations Portland (detail) photo Jeff Jahn

This Weekend, Lumber Room opens Polly Apfelbaum's Color Stations Portland. Apfelbaum is internationally noted as a colorist who starts with a few simple rules, which then are improvised upon as installation to create a structured aesthetic zone. It is very Epicurian in the true philosophical sense and rehabilitates some of the less desirable aspects of Greenberg's Formalism. Overall, the way she develops structure sets her improvisational approach apart, something any top Jazz musician also has to develop.

Color Stations Portland | March 16 - April 27, 2014
Opening Reception: March 16, 12 - 2PM
Lumber Room
419 NW 9th



Calvin Ross Carl

Calvin Ross Carl is a Portland based painter who has been developing at a steady rate for the past few years and has deserved an unfettered solo show for quite some time. Well, Ditch projects is making it happen by presenting CRC's A Beggar on Horseback.

It should be an interesting moment to ponder the tectonic collisions of domestic and civic found patterns (hazard signs, table clothes etc) and painterly texture that CRC has been mining lately. There will also be a group show of drawings called LOOKS ON PAPER. Both should constitute a worthwhile trip to Eugene/Springfield.

A Beggar on Horseback | March 15-29
Opening Reception: March 15 6-9PM
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12:00 to 4:00PM
Ditch Projects
303 S. 5th Avenue #165
Springfield OR