Jennifer Armbrust, photo by Anthony GeorgisJennifer Armbrust is as bullish on Portland as an arts center and as savvy a gallerist as a young Elizabeth Leach. Armbrust’s motel gallery is a few blocks closer to the river than…

The next splash that Jeff Kovel’s Skylab will make in Portland will not be a nightclub, restaurant or a commercial space. It will be a statement house in a quiet location…the architectural equivalent of a tree falling in…

Hazel Cox of fix gallery let us know that this Friday will be the opening of a show of new work by Dan Ness. At the opening, from 7-10 PM, Ness will, according to Hazel, play every Mott…
Who’s Jeff Jahn? Need you ask about the shock-haired, speaking-his-mind arts instigator and critic? He’s been writing his Critical-I column for NW Drizzle for ages, but this year saw the beginning of PORT, an arts blog with muscle he…
Eva Lake in a Rudi Gernreich dress circa 1980
Eva Lake’s new gallery with Wid Chambers, Chambers, opened with a bang recently in the old SW Elizabeth Leach space. The first show juxtaposed a seasoned collagist with a young…