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Some Openings

Tomorrow is Thursday, First, and you know what that means: art openings. Recommend:

The Classroom
Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen
PDX Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders

Interested in “how we learn” and transmit knowledge, Gray and Paulsen have created a “new body of work that deals with the politics and aesthetics of education” for this anticipated show. Rigorous thinkers, Gray and Paulsen pursue their ideas in making smart, clean, beautiful objects and prints.

In conjunction with the show, the artists and PDX Contemporary Art will host a series of short lectures on Saturday mornings at 11 AM on fan-culture, pedagogy, language, philosophy and literacy: July 10, Anne Marie Oliver; July 17, Sean Regan; July 24, Helen Reed; and July 31, Barry Sanders.

Waiting for the Prize
Michael Reinsch
PDX Contemporary Window Project
925 NW Flanders (but window is on 9th)

“I have created an abstract Pinata sculpture as a document of the aftermath of a blind and dizzy swing. An abundant void implies the participation of an audience that the viewer was not part of through an object that absurdly provokes memory of a situation that never existed.”

Purple Mountain Majesty
Calvin Ross Carl
Half/Dozen Gallery
625 NW Everett, #111

Carl addresses the world of work, embodying a worker’s contemporary anxieties by, among other things, using only enamel paint in government mandated colors designating hazards in the workplace: “yellow and black is a physical hazard, blue and white is a water hazard, yellow and magenta is a radioactive hazard, etc.”

“With common construction materials, brand names, and the handmade, my work seeks to establish a uniform cultural value between labor, leisure, and domesticity.”

New Wall Sculptures
Mel Katz
Laura Russo Gallery
805 NW 21st

Veteran artist Mel Katz translates his drawings into sculptural objects that address concepts of two and three dimensional space. This show features wall sculptures made of machine cut, anodized aluminum. Katz will give a talk, Saturday, July 24, at 11 AM.

..I’ll also check out:

Soundings
Nathan Dinihanian
Tractor
328 NW Broadway #114

Interactive audio installation, “developing work that resides between product with purpose and object with meaning, Nathan aims to explore phenomenon-based social opportunities. In this case, through the use of the personal audio device.” If Dinihanian’s recent installation with Molly Cooney-Mesker at Appendix is an indication, this will be good.

Resting Stones
Jerry Wingren

Echo Pool
Ethan Jackson
Chambers @916
916 NW Flanders

I’m in the mood for “resting” stones in Swedish black granite, and will be interested to see Jackson’s interactive video installation “that reflects viewers’ movements and the sounds they make.”

Gather and Wait
Cris Bruch
Elizabeth Leach
417 NW 9th

New sculptures and drawings from this Seattle artist.

Cloudbusting

Nika Blasser
Beppu Wiarda Gallery
319 NW 9th

“I am interested in pushing the plasticity of paint, deconstructing surfaces and atmospheric manipulations. I pursue meditative, obsessive, mark making and forcing ‘organic’ forms out of paint.”

Obscured
Ním Wunnan
Stumptown Coffee Roasters
128 SW 3rd

“Large-scale ink paintings on Mylar and smaller format paintings on backing paper explore journalistic images of extraordinary events, objects, and experiences.”

POSTED: June 30th, 2010 | AUTHOR: admin | FILED UNDER: art | No Comments »

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