Jenene Nagy is that rare hybrid who is a force to be reckoned with on all fronts, smart and unerring. She’s an artist whose installations have been among the best Portland has seen at PDX Contemporary Art Window Project, the Portland Modern Window Project, and as part of The Hook Up show at NAAU […]
ultra Q: Kristan Kennedy
2006 was a good year for Kristan Kennedy. Her work was again in the Oregon Biennial at the Portland Art Museum as well as in the Fresh show at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. And Leach, who represents Kennedy, also took her work to Aqua Art in Miami. Meanwhile, as Visual Art Program Director for the […]
ultra Q: E*Rock
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 […]
ultra Q: Jennifer Gately
A breath of fresh air, she swept into town as the new Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art and in a mere six week whirlwind of studio visits and smart networking took a measure of the state of the visual arts in Portland while filtering through 768 submissions to build the 2006 Oregon […]
ultra Q: Laurel Gitlen
Gallerist, curator, and force-to-be-reckoned with, Laurel Gitlen, of Small A Projects and The Affair @ The Jupiter Hotel answers the ultra Q wherein we ask Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions.
At her Small A Projects, Laurel Gitlen–gallerist, curator, and force-to-be-reckoned–consistently puts on interesting shows with work by younger artists (mainly imported, and […]
ultra Q: TJ Norris
Curator, gallerist (the greatly missed, SOUNDVISION), visual artist, arts writer, TJ Norris takes a moment to answer the ultra Q in which we ask Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Opening this Friday at the Guestroom Gallery (Mark Wooley’s annex gallery at the Wonder Ballroom complex at 128 NE Russell) is grey|area curated […]
ultra Q: Jason Sturgill
Besides directing/curating the wurst gallery, his online gallery project, Jason Sturgill has been a busy man in recent years, from working on Bwana Spoons’ beautiful zine, Pencil Fight, and doing design work for Dark Horse to doing creative headhunting for companies like Laika and cultural research or “cool hunting” (!) for Weiden + Kennedy. He […]
ultra Q: Jeff Jahn
artist, critic, PORT co-founder, aesthete and visual arts impresario, Jeff Jahn responds to the ultra Q in which we ask Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Jeff Jahn at Wonder Cafe
Jeff Jahn is what you’d have to call a player in the PDX visual arts scene. Artist and curator behind the temporary […]
