“chestnuts roasting on your nose…”
photo: Kenneth Aaron (kdaphoto.com)”>
Here’s how we’re going to begin our month-long revelries. PICA’s picked the perfect spot for their Holiday Cabaret in Wilf’s Piano Bar and Lounge (800 NW 6th), adjacent to the beautiful Union Station. It’s normally a cozy spot evoking another era at which one might have a highball or at this time of year a Tom & Jerry. On December 4, Wilf’s will find its ambient energy level turned up a notch or three as PICA fills the evening with holiday musical favorites presented by emcee (and TBA:06 alum) Holcombe Waller, JamieLee Christiana, Hand 2 Mouth Theatre, and many more.
This benefit for PICA’s artistic programming starts with a patron reception from 6-9 PM ($75) with drinks and hors d’oeuvres and opens up from 9-midnight for um…karaoke…and other performances $5 general/$3 member.
At the TBA Festival noontime chat with Mark Russell, he speculated on what he could do with grander budget for the festival. We’d like to see PICA get the funding they need to make the festival as extravagant as they can imagine it to be. TBA is one of Portland’s cultural treasures.
POSTED: November 29th, 2006 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, event | No Comments »
Jayme Hansen. photo: Marne Lucas from “Sitting City”
Marne Lucas latest project, “Sitting City: Portland Artist Portraits,” is her PDX-centric answer to Andy Warhol’s screentests, but in a far more cinematic vein, ironically, than Warhol’s essentially still (“don’t even blink”) 3-minute motion picture portraits. This makes the result more fun for us and surely the process more fun for Lucas. Photographer, multidisciplinary artist, and subversive provacateur, here Lucas turns her lens on a small, eclectic slice of Portland art-makers including M.K. Guth (Red Shoe Delivery Service, etc.), performance artist/musician Jayme Hansen (Fleshtone), filmmaker Chel White, writer and artist Harvest Henderson, plus three Panders, Bruce Conkle, Trish Grantham, and pop-installation artist Chandra Bocci.
Jayme Hansen. photo: Marne Lucas from “Sitting City”
The exhibition of color photographs from the project opens this Friday, December 1 with a reception from 6-9:30 PM at Mark Woolley’s Woolley at Wonder (128 NE Russell). Lucas says, “The portraits were conceptualized with a very intuitive approach to my instinct about the artist�s personality, whether I was well-acquainted with them or not. The balance between art direction and personality in the images was a gift….” So Paul Green is depicted as a figure out of one of his own paintings while M.K. Guth’s portrait finds her in a modification of a childhood memory…ice fishing, but at a hockey rink. Go see.
POSTED: November 29th, 2006 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, event | No Comments »