Prints for PICA 06
the fourth annual sale of prints made in a single all-day marathon by a hundred of Portland’s most interesting artists
This Saturday, December 9, 100 Portland artists (give or take) engage in a printmaking marathon at Studio 333 (333 NE Hancock @MLK) to benefit the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, which is to say PICA, the folks who bring you the annual Time-Based Art Festival that animates the city with performance by international, national, and regional artists. From 5-9 PM, the Studio opens to the public and the prints are put on sale–prices range from $100-250.
What makes this particularly interesting (besides good work at good prices) is the incredible list of participating artists ranging from the accessible to the challenging, established to young guns. There are so many of them, they’ll have to get up at farmer’s dawn (or get-the-luau-pig-in-the-ground time) to get the work done. We’ll have our eyes on what Nat Andreini (Sincerely, John Head) comes up with (he’s a printer by day), Bonnie Paisley, PICA’s own Kristan Kennedy, Philippe Blanc and Katherine Bovee, and faves like David Eckard and Scott Wayne Indiana.
Among the zillion artists making prints that day, we’ll also be looking for Stephen Hayes, Paul Arensmeyer, Christopher Buckingham, Ellen George, Sean Healy, Harvest Henderson, Rae Mahaffey, Mark Mahaffey, Mack McFarland, Storm Tharp, and Josh Berger.