design: Philip Iosca
ultra loves smart conversation with a visual culture bent almost as much as we love the namesake of this new arts salon. Hail Gertrude, a new salon devoted to visual culture, put on by Organism, Portland’s newest arts presenting institution with big ambition and promised international scope. Organism director, Jeff Jahn calls the salon, “an adult form of show-and-tell,” for artists, designers, architects, etc. and those interested in their experiments.
The debut Gertrude was a month ago, the second, with video work by Mac Mcfarland, is Tuesday, October 24, 7 PM at Vendetta (4306 N Williams). Chat about the state of the arts, get a sneak preview of Organism’s inaugural show in November. Jahn (who perversely enjoys instigating a “who?” guessing game) promises “roadkill, Al Jazeera in a Beusysian spiritual melange,” from an unnamed artist recently featured in Frieze. Clue: Jahn says, “Work is being shipped from Britain.” New Deal Vodka and Vendetta provide support for the evening.
“The change in that is that red weakens an hour. The change has come. There is no search. But there is, there is that hope and that interpretation and sometime, surely any is unwelcome, sometime there is breath and there will be a sinecure and charming very charming is that clean and cleansing. Certainly glittering is handsome and convincing. ”
Gertrude Stein, from Tender Buttons (1914)
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