“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 […]
Zeitgeist
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 […]
Portland Art Spark
One of the reasons we live here is good art made by good artists. But something happens when a city plays good host to good artists: not only do they continue to move here, they stay, make good work, and most interestingly, meet one another and one thing leads to another (that’s another another) and […]
Get Centered
The Center for Land Use Interpretation came up recently as Brennan Conaway and Nowhere co-conspirators/designers are headed to CLUI’s Wendover, Utah site for a residency. (He neglected to mention what kind of work he anticipated doing out there, but his website says “My projects out there will involve .30-30 ammunition, internal combustion engines and […]
In Stitches
detail. Sarah LaBarre
Go see your next art opening in a room full of underwear. No, it’s not an Emin-esque installation or a Venessa Beecroft performance. Tonight, Lille Boutique (1007 E Burnside), the Eastside shop for excellent European and independent-label lingerie, hosts an opening of and exhibition of work by Sarah LaBarre whose modus operandi is […]
Tilt Gallery is TWO
Q & A with Tilt Gallery and Project Space directors Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith on the eve of the two-year anniversary of one of the most consistently interesting galleries in Portland and the wondertwins behind it
Touch It
Julia Barello’s “Flowers of Rhetoric: Paramythia”
Two jewelry shows open January 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Craft (724 NW Davis).
Where jewelry as craft rather than commodity diverged from the wearable into the contemporary art realm of the conceptual, artists have made fascinating work. But a new show at the Museum is as much about the […]
