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 […]
Brittany Powell & Jill Bliss in Califoregon
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
Brian Ulrich’s “Thrift” At Quality Pictures
“In 2001 citizens were encouraged to take to the malls to boost the U.S. economy through shopping, thereby equating consumerism with patriotism. The Copia project, a direct response to that […]
Trish Grantham In A Box: Paper Milk
Just in time for gift giving, is the new Paper Milk. The Paper Milk website says they’re “specializing in small edition artist projects,” (v. good) and first out of the box (and in the box) is a set of Trish Grantham cardss. Sweet paintings by this Portland-based artist printed on recyled cards with soy ink […]
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
