The Affair Continues

It took a few days to get around to this exciting news, that Jeff Jahn scoops everyone on the list of galleries participating in this year’s Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel:  here at PORT. It’s not even on the Affair website yet.

That PICA ever let Stuart Horodner go is a crime. That he’s leaving town (to take a position as director of the gallery at the Atlanta College of Art) is our deep loss, but the Affair will be his greatest enduring gift to Portland art, continuing as a collaboration between Horodner and Laurel Gitlen (recently with Savage Art Resources).

If you were out of town or out of commission last year and missed the art event of the year, bringing together the A-list galleries from Portland and some interesting imports for a couple of days of art gluttony in the perfect setting of the Jupiter. Plus, the Doug Fir is open this year. Perhaps we will buy you a drink.

Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel. September 30 through October 2.

updated Thursday July 21 2005 14:34

C-Note

Milly, Fall 05.

One has to wonder if there isn’t a pun involved here: that the fashion show featuring lines from Nordstrom’s via C department has a cool $100 price of admission.

Nordstrom and Portland Monthly are putting on a pleasantly alliterated fashion show and sale—Runway to Rooftop—to benefit PICA.

Because it’s in the Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works-designed Wieden+Kennedy atrium (the Seaplane fashion show there was a high-water mark), because we’re rooting for both the Portland Monthly and PICA* we will have to recommend that those with a Ben Franklin to spare invest it in the cause, particularly because it comes with the frosting on top called fashion…oh, and cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and desserts.

After the atrium fashion show, featuring designers including Blumarine, Cacharel, Catherine Malandrino, Chaiken, Milly and Valentino Red, the rooftop lounge will be converted into a one-night-only boutique. All of the runway samples will be available for pre-order as well as work by unnamed “emerging” designers. So if you’re an early adopter, you can get an order in before the goods ever hit the stores.

* Good news and bad news at PICA. Bad news: apparently unsuccessful search for fresh-blood executive director—managing director, Victoria Frey will fill the slot vacated by Kristy Edmunds—assuaged by good news: successful appointment of Mark Russell of New York’s PS 122 as guest artistic director, curating TBAs 06 and 07, but bad news: he’s commuting from New York.

Runway to Rooftop, Saturday, July 30 beginning at 7:30 PM at Wieden+Kennedy, 224 NW 13th Avenue. $100 per person. For reservations contact Jennifer Jacobs at PICA.

updated Wednesday July 20 2005 23:08

Best of

We had read Brian Libby’s piece in Metropolis about Randy Higgins’ (Environmental Design Office) fabulous exterior treatment of the PNCA–a graphic paint job based on an encoded Rimbaud poem (the kind of conceptual underpinnings we truly appreciate)–but didn’t know about his Portland Architecture weblog until we met him at a recent backyard barbecue (thanks to NWFC’s Thomas Phillipson).

Libby, who writes mainly about film and architecture, and only occasionally about films on architecture, has recently been asked (by another journalist) to identify the best of Portland architecture. From buildings by Belluschi to Brad (Cloepfil of Allied Works) you’ll find his picks and can offer your own here.

Portland Architecture.

Dynamically Sitting

Justin Oswald’s Gallery 500 is hosting a sneak preview of “Dynamic Sitting Machines” designed by Ryan Glasgow that are on their way to the World Market Center Furniture Trade Showcase in Las Vegas later this month.

Beautiful and intricate (the bed of the Hammock Lounge is constructed from knotted rope), these lounges and chairs are indeed dymamic, in the sense that two are adjustable and one is bouncy. Actually, the minimalist steel Springy Chair comes in stiff or bouncy versions. The Oswald Lounge—Okume plywood, leather and stainless—was designed as one might imagine for Mr. Oswald.

Chairs and refreshments from 6-9 PM on Friday, July 15. Gallery 500 is located at 420 SW Washington, Suite 500
Gallery 500.

Ryan Glasgow

updated Thursday July 14 2005 19:26

Give It To Me Two Times

Paul Fujita

Can we talk about your second Thursday? Yes, we’re all conditioned at this point to talk First, but there are happenings happening that merit your notice on the deuce.

If you didn’t get your art-fill last Th, drop by the new Chambers Gallery at the old Liz Leach space in SW to see the first show of Artstar Eva Lake’s new venture juxtaposing the work of octongenarian collagist Eunice Parsons with Zeitgeist Gallery co-founder and skate/graff artist, Paul Fujita’s paint-obscured books and broken skate deck assemblages.

Then head east to Local.35 for a show of Jonny Luczycki’s new paintings, DJ BERN and the option to browse new summer lines including Modern Amusement clothing and sunglasses, Jfold wallets, Brown Sound, Hecklewood, Anzevino & Florence, RVCA, 1921 denim, Odyn denim, Drifter from 7 to 10PM. Drinks.

Chambers Gallery 207 SW Pine #102. 5:30-8:30 PM

Local.35 3556 SE Hawthorne 7 – 10 PM