“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
Dimestore Alchemy Revisited: Ethan Rose at Tilt
He shares Joseph Cornell’s practice of, what the poet Charles Simic termed, “Dimestore Alchemy”: that restless drive that solders connections between seemingly dissimilar, random odds and ends, renewing and transform materials, sounds, images and experiences—igniting cast-off, forgotten things with a combustible beauty and mystery.
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.
Snapshots: About Last Night
snapshots from Portland’s First Thursday in December 2007
