“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
Self Projections at Milepost 5
We mourn the loss of Portland Art Center’s Light & Sound Gallery, one of few (the only?) spaces dedicated to video/sound installation in Portland. So we’re looking forward to tonight’s opening of Self Projections at Milepost 5 with what promises to be a good dose of video, film, sound and installation work. Granted it’s our nominee for most fleeting exhibition of 2008…
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 […]
Fresh Impressions at Oregon College of Art & Craft
Blue, Inge Bruggeman. via the artist’s website texturaprinting.com
Much has been made about the letterpress revival in the world of applied art and design. A new exhibition at Hoffman Gallery at Oregon College of Art & Craft (8245 SW Barnes Road) looks at letterpress in the context […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Light and Sands
It’s rich, luminous color that makes us consider why art has been so fixated on paint on canvas (painting is dead, not dead, dying, lives) as a means of addressing color when light is so compelling.
