Artist, musician, labelist, turntablist, animator, producer, E*Rock is everywhere, multitentacled and multitalented. He runs or co-runs three record labels including Audio Dregs, he’s one-third of the multi-media team Wyld-File, and has done videos for Beck (with Wyld-File), Menomena, and Ratatat. Recent E*Rock projects include a series of digital psychedelic videos you can find our more […]
The Artful Liza Rietz
Liza Rietz. photo: Abraham King
ultra chats with one of Portland’s truly directional designers. Rietz’ designs playing with shape in distinctive ways, but as the self-taught designer notes below, when not making art for the runway, her focus is on making elegant, individual pieces that work with the body.
The Archaeology of Cool
Let us suppose that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tools and writing in addition to the useless, beautiful, and poetic things of the world.
–George Kubler (The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things)
January 23 is notable for two things, past […]
ultra Q: Laura Whipple
Pinball Publishing is a web of complementary projects that engage the printed word. With their Tenth & Grant line of artisan paper goods created in collaboration with artists (Carson Ellis, Lisa DeJohn…), custom printing and silkscreening, their Bangback record label, and a small literary press, the six-year-old SE Portland business run by Laura and Austin […]
Portland’s Design Darlings: Church & State
Every city has fresh young talent it somehow claims as its quintessential darlings. For New York City it is Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler. For Los Angeles it could be Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte. For Portland, the young rising darlings have to be Rachel Turk and Nathaniel Crissman of Church […]
ultra Q: Ian Lynam
Ian Lynam’s design work is an integral part of PDX visual culture…even though he’s currently based in Tokyo. You’ll recognize Lynam’s logos for Le Pigeon (and before that Colleen’s), Peripheral Produce, the logotype for Gus Van Sant’s company and next movie, Paranoid Park, and for the PDX Film Fest three years in a row.
Lynam did […]
Defining Moments 2006
It was a drawing on a wall. And it was our favorite art piece, favorite bite of visual culture in Portland in 2006. “Orientation”, a participatory installation by Jen Smith, Amanda Eicher and Chris Nagler, wrapped a simple graphite line drawing replicating a mountainous horizon around the hallway in the motel gallery (19 NW 5th). […]
Inside: Carrie Brewster’s SE Studio
photo: Holly Stalder
An excellent haircut issues forth from a stylist whose scissors work like magic over the hair, somehow forming a crown upon the head that perfectly compliments not only the face, but the personality as well. And the opposite can be, well, slightly tragic. Carrie Brewster has taken her talent as a maverick hair […]
