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Fresh Impressions at Oregon College of Art & Craft

Blue, Inge Bruggeman
Blue, Inge Bruggeman. via the artist’s website texturaprinting.com

Much has been made about the letterpress revival in the world of applied art and design. A new exhibition at Hoffman Gallery at Oregon College of Art & Craft (8245 SW Barnes Road) looks at letterpress in the context of contemporary art both in the ways that it informs innovative work and the ways it is to be distinguished from “other mediums such as silkscreen, lithography, or digital printing.”

Fresh Impressions: Letterpress Printing in Contemporary Art, curated by acclaimed artists like Inge Bruggeman and Heather Watkins (on faculty at OCAC and Lewis & Clark respectively) is a group show featuring work by more than a dozen artists. It opens tonight Thursday, February 28 with a reception from 4-7 PM and runs through March 20.

POSTED: February 26th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: , , | No Comments »

Loggernaut

Something I Expected To Be Different

What’s on Wednesday? The Loggernaut Reading Series at Mississippi Studios  (3939 N. Mississippi) produced by two of the most beautiful Smart Girls in Portland Erin Ergenbright (who co-wrote the Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook) and Heather Larimer (writer, Eux Autres drummer, fashion columnist for the Portland Tribune). This time around, they’re presenting poet Joshua Beckman and fictioneers Arthur Bradford and Pauls Toutonghi in a reading they’re calling “Trying” at 7:30 PM Wednesday, February 27. Trying harder? Trying our patience? We’ll see. We do know this: when Beckman (Shade, Things Are Happening, Something I Expected to Be Different) blew through PDX a million years ago with Matthew Rohrer for Nice Hat. Thanks. (they traded lines on-the-fly) we sat up in our chairs. $5 donation.

POSTED: February 26th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: , | No Comments »