In 2005, Nathan McKee launched collaborative magazine project, Fake Your Own Death, initially to introduce his artist friends to one another. The second issue is finished and now you can meet McKee friends, too, including Jessie Rose Vala, Rita Badalamenti, Josh Sachs, Liz Harris, NRob Doran, Tim Root, Tamar Monhait, and Fremont Slim. Their work [...]
First Thursday July
What’s interesting in Portland galleries this month?
Midori Hirose and Joshua Orion Kermiet do an installation (sculpture, collage, and works on paper) at Fontanelle Gallery (205 SW Pine).
Oracle 2, Victoria Haven, 2009, Silver gelatin print, 13″ x 13″ (20.5″ x 20″ framed)
I am looking forward to seeing Victoria Haven’s work at PDX Contemporary Across the Hall’s [...]
Erik Whittemore
Erik Whittemore, Revitalization Effort, 2009, kilncast glass, 7″ x 8″ x 4.5″
From the group show currently winding down at Bullseye Gallery, Erik Whittemore’s work stands out. Glass can be showy with a seeming hierarchy of technique over aesthetic over idea, which is why it often doesn’t send me. There have been, though, a number of [...]
Second Chance at Art for the Millions
Hey, isn’t it at little late for this? The date on Ian Lynam’s excellent poster for Art for the Millions: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA is past, but you get a second chance. Last Sunday’s tour filled before Marc Moscato of the Dill Pickle Club put up a single poster for the tour. Who [...]
Review: Ben Stagl’s Unfolded at Gallery HOMELAND
To dig into Ben Stagl’s tour-de-force solo show, the best place to start is at its center. Unfolded, like all exhibitions at Gallery HOMELAND, flows through an angular lobby that twists through the Ford Building (SE 11th & Division).
In the heart of the building, in the main space on the north wall, is a piece [...]
Bookish is a Compliment
Bookish is a Compliment is the current exhibition of work by Portland-based artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s at PDX Contemporary Art Across the Hall. In this shared space, it’s interesting to note that a piece that is of scale—”Dear Author”—tilts the gravity of the space toward their work.
Along the left wall, there are [...]
Summer Show at Fourteen30
Nothing says summer like a good group show (except maybe margaritas and Dr. Scholl’s sandals). And I have to love a gallerist (Jeanine Jablonski) who quotes Camus—“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”—while deploying Cheech and Chong in the show poster.
Tonight Fourteen30 Contemporary (1430 SE [...]
