Tonight opens the next chapter in several overlapping stories. TJ Norris’ INFINITUS is both the next in the Couture series of exhibitions at New American Art Union and the third installation in Norris’ Tribryd series. It is also the first solo show in two years from an artist who has been an active and visionary […]
Zeitgeist
“Tram,” Katherine Bovee
We’ve been thinking a lot about history, particularly art history, how it is that we now what we now about the people, the work, and events we know about. It’s so interesting to look at not the artists but the selectors: gallerists, curators, collectors, influencers, writers. He painted it, she talked about […]
Heavy Industries
10, 9, 8, 7, …if you know what’s good for you, you will go tonight to PSU to hear/meet the duo behind YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES’ cuttingly smart, text-based net art pieces for this week’s installment of the PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series at 7:30 PM at PSU 5th Avenue Cinema (510 SW Hall […]
Self Projections at Milepost 5
We mourn the loss of Portland Art Center’s Light & Sound Gallery, one of few (the only?) spaces dedicated to video/sound installation in Portland. So we’re looking forward to tonight’s opening of Self Projections at Milepost 5 with what promises to be a good dose of video, film, sound and installation work. Granted it’s our nominee for most fleeting exhibition of 2008…
Where Spark, Fire
Let’s talk. Do we have to enumerate for you the ten-thousand reasons that you—artist, gallerist, critic, performer, collector—should be at Art Spark this Thursday? Bracing conversation, reconnecting with wayward compatriots, access/introductions to gatekeepers and/or smashing talent, news of opportunities. AND, Art Spark guest host last time ’round, Commissioner Sam Adams, reminded the assembled that we […]
Buckman’s One-Two Punch
The Buckman Bash at the Jupiter Hotel tonight with performances by James Mercer (Shins), Stephen Malkmus (Jicks), and Andrew Dickson and an auction of art by some of Portland’s best and the Buckman Art Show & Sell (today and tomorrow with art, fashion, jewelry and more) are two killer events supporting the kind of elementary school you wish had been around when you were a tyke
Brittany Powell & Jill Bliss in Califoregon
You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! You got your peanut butter in my chocolate!
Artist Brittany Powell is a native Oregonian while Jill Bliss is a native Californian. In a two-great-tastes-that-taste-great-together moment, Powell and Bliss, who now call Portland home, collaborate on a project they call Califoregon. An exhibition at Office PDX (2204 NE […]
ReBar Lecture
PICA and ORLO are welcoming San Francisco’s arts group ReBar for a lecture and Q & A tomorrow night, Thursday, March 27 at 6:30 PM at AIA Portland (403 NW 11th). Admission is free at the door. Reserved seating tickets available online at www.orlo.org.
ReBar probably got the most notice for projects like Park[ing] Day where […]
