The living room. The room alive.
There was a time the room we call the living room was called the parlor, used for guests and occasions while most of the living was done elsewhere in the house. And of course there was the era of the family room when most of the living was done there […]
The Living Room at Museum of Contemporary Craft
galleryHomeland New Home New Show Tonight!
We may quibble with the title of the inaugural exhibition at galleryHomeland’s new space in the Ford Building (2502 SE 11th) , but we still highly recommend stopping in this evening, Friday, December 14th for the launch of the show from 6-9 PM
A NW Thang (that’s the name of the exhibition) is a group exhibition […]
Snapshots: About Last Night
snapshots from Portland’s First Thursday in December 2007
See Tonight: Linn Olofsdotter at Grassy Knoll
Portland-based artist Linn Olofsdotter’s work appears in an international roster of publications like Bon Magazine (Sweden), Simples Magazine (Brazil), Plaza Magazine (Sweden +), and she’s done illustration work for clients like La Perla, Absolut, Samsung, and MTV. But her first solo exhibition in the United States, nonsensical, opens tonight at one of Portland’s newest galleries, […]
First Thursday at PAC: Panels and Memory
Back in the old days, a strong powerful memory was one of the greatest virtues, representing the internalization of a universe of external knowledge. Seneca the Elder could repeat 2,000 names in the order they’d been given to him. The Roman Simplicius could recite Virgil by heart backward. We’re swiftly replacing our internal memory with external memory, in this case a vast sea of little yellow superstructures supporting experience. Memory Machines’ parable of the 3×3 outsourcing of memory posits both an ode to something lost and something found.
Railton On A Roll
Portland-based artist Erik Railton completes a mural at Life + Limb on the eve of a solo show of his work at Local35
Richter Scale
Eva Lake is our favorite multipronged PDX art attack: smart art writer, former gallerist, art radio personality (Art Star in PDX and now Art World
Let Her Press
“Double Happiness” by Lindsay Laricks of HammerPress
As only OFFICE PDX (2204 NE Alberta) could do it, LET HER PRESS celebrates the women of letterpress with an exhibition of work by 10 female US letterpress artists. But that’s not all; for this show, they’ve each created exclusive, limited edition 11 x 17 prints priced perfectly for […]
