ALT ART SPACE
Appendix Project Space
south alley between 26th and 27th on NE Alberta
Little Field
north alley between 28th and 29th off NE Alberta
Disjecta
8371 N Interstate
Gallery HOMELAND
2505 SE 11th
Worksound
820 SE Alder
UNIVERSITY GALLERY + MUSEUM
The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
BP John Administration Building, 17600 Pacific Highway, Lake Oswego
The Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space
1241 NW Johnson
Manuel Izquierdo Gallery
825 NW 13th
Cooley Gallery at Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock
Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis
Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park
PORTLAND GALLERIES
Fourteen30 Contemporary
1430 SE 3rd
Half/Dozen
625 NW Everett St. #111
Rocksbox
6540 N Interstate
Tractor
328 NW Broadway
IGLOO
625 NW Everett #102
Elizabeth Leach
417 NW 9th
Nationale
2730 E Burnside
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny
PDX Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders
Pulliam Gallery
929 NW Flanders
POSTED: December 7th, 2009 | AUTHOR: admin | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: alt art space, museum, portland, portland art, portland galleries, portland gallery | 2 Comments »
It’s the beginning of the end at Pied-à-terre (904 SE 20th, Apartment 5) the Eastside gallery/project space open only from 12 – 3 PM on Saturdays.
London-based artist Alice Channer’s I Cannot Tell The Difference Between One Thing And Another is Pied-à-terre’s final show in Portland open through August 20.
From the press release:
Recent solo exhibitions include Worn-work, The Approach, London (2009), I have been unable to borrow the template of Big Ben, Punctuation Program, Limoncello, London (2009), and That Make Up Some Things, Associates Gallery, London (2007). Recent group exhibitions include Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, curated by Richard Wentworth (2009), The Quiet Revolution, Hayward Gallery touring show (2009), Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain, London (2008), M25 Around London, CCA Andtrax, Mallorca (2008), and Dogtooth and Tessellate, The Approach, London (2008).
POSTED: July 25th, 2009 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, exhibition, gallery, pied a terre, portland art, visual art | No Comments »
Every month ArtSpark introduces you to a piece of Portland’s cultural mosaic (arts group, organization, institution, project) and to each other. It’s a great place to catch up with colleagues, peers, friends, lovers. It’s always 5-7 PM and at 6, the presenter gets a couple of minutes of our undivided attention. This Thursday, June 18, I highly recommend showing up at Rontoms (600 E Burnside) as the special guests are the members of the Nowhere arts collective: Matt McCalmont, Brennan Conaway and Charissa Niles. They recently had a show at Disjecta with some of the work they created during their residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation (here’s a review), and you may remember their traveling Nowhere gallery (a white trailer) some years back.
POSTED: June 17th, 2009 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art spark, arts collective, nowhere, portland art, racc | No Comments »
Recently I had the occasion to pay a visit to Paul Sutinen at Marylhurst University. After we talked he showed me where “Sculpture in the Form of a Building” and “Among the Pin Oaks” were installed behind the Mayer Art Building. We talked about the greyed patina the wood of “Sculpture” had taken on and how some of the boards were warping away from the structure. It’s perhaps even more beautiful now than it was when the wood was golden and new.
Via research I’m doing on another topic, I’d recently seen a photo of an early installation Sutinen had done in the unfinished basement of the Anne Hughes Gallery in 1976 consisting of rough wooden stakes driven into the dirt floor. It’s ominous and melancholy in equal measure as well as being formally beautiful in spite of its arte povera-ishness. Sutinen has a long relationship with wood, not as a source of content, but as a material means to an end…it’s reasonably inexpensive vs. say, stone. But its true as well that tree and house—respectively source and terminus (for much wood)—have been addressed/employed repeatedly in his siteworks and installations.
I asked Paul about the simple house form that has recurred in his work, because it doesn’t seem that the house form for Paul is expected to say anything about houseness. (See also, his “Sculpture in the Form of a Small Building in the Distance” at Nine Gallery in 2008 reviewed on PORT). “Sculpture has to take a form,” he said. And where does one go after the minimalist box? Paul said it occurred to him that his work uses found forms, that the saltbox house is just one of these found forms.
“Sculpture in the Form of a Building” was built at the time of the mid-career retrospective Terri Hopkins did of Sutinen’s work at Marylhurst’s Art Gym, Incidents and Ideas in 2000 (for which there is a great catalog). I was surprised and dismayed to hear that he is considering taking it down next year. “That would be ten years,” he says.
So may I urge you, on one of these bright days, to take a field trip down to Marylhurst and make your picnic on the lawn behind the Mayer Art Building. You’ll also see, if you look hard enough under the trees close to the building, his sitework, “Among the Pin Oaks,” two intersecting concrete block paths laid from trunk base to trunk base of four oak trees. Both worth the trip.
POSTED: June 9th, 2009 | AUTHOR: charlotte | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: installation, marylhurst university, paul sutinen, portland art, portland artist, visual art | No Comments »
image via Andrea Zittel’s A-Z an institute of investigative living
It is perhaps enough that PMMNLS brings international, national, and regional artists to PSU to talk about their work every Monday night of the school year. But even better, the talks are open to all and completely free. Three cheers for the educational institutions doing public programming for the community! With PNCA hosting its IDEA STUDIO lecture series (as well as local initiatives like PDXplore), University of Oregon’s architecture and design programming in its freshy new White Stag building, AND the programming Stephanie Snyder has been doing at Reed College’s Cooley Gallery, we are a lucky culture-loving public indeed.
A pretty brilliant partnership among arts and educational institutions (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Reed College, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Lewis & Clark College, and PSU’s Department of International Studies) The Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series (PMMNLS) brings top-notch visual arts lectures to the heart of downtown (just off the streetcar line!).
Portland State University Shattuck Hall Annex (1914 SW Park Ave) at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus almost every Monday night from October 13 – May 18 at 7:30 PM.
And here, from the press release via PICA, the schedule:
OCTOBER13 : Andrea Zittel
Internationally acclaimed Andrea Zittel develops hand-crafted furniture, homes and vehicles for contemporary consumers, in response to human rhythms and the creative need of people to match their surroundings to the changing appearance of life. Recently Zittel’s institute, known as A-Z Enterprise, has been acting as host to The High Desert Test Sites, a series of experimental art sites located along a stretch of desert communities in Southern California, which will provide alternative space for experimental works by both emerging and established artists in connection with the California Biennial in November, 2008.
20 : Buster Simpson
Buster Simpson is widely known as an environmental artist, making outdoor sculpture and public art that involve its environment as well as its viewers. Simpson has worked on major infrastructure projects, site master planning, signature sculptures, museum installations, and community projects. Some of these include a light rail bridge collaborative over the Salt River in Phoenix and art master plans for urban centers and watersheds that integrate community, ecology, and art.
27 : Matt McCormick
Matt McCormick is a 34-year-old artist and filmmaker, residing in Portland, OR, whose work blurs the lines between documentary and experimental filmmaking. McCormick has made several award winning short films in recent years, including contributions to the Sundance, San Fancisco, Ann Arbor, and New York Underground film festivals. Some films of note include Towlines, American Nutria, and The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal. McCormick is the founder of the video label Peripheral Produce and the Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival. He also records music under the name “Very Stereo.”
The rest of the year’s lineup is as follows:
NOVEMBER
03 : Darren O’Donnell
10 : Courtney Fink
17 : Stephanie Smith
24 : Matthew Higgs
DECEMBER
01 : Hamza Walker
JANUARY 2009
05 : Lucky Dragons
12 : Daniel Bozhkov
26 : Michael Brophy
FEBRUARY 2009
02 : Edgar Arceneaux
09 : Julie Ault
16 : Mark Beasley
23 : Althea Thauberger
MARCH 2009
02 : Modou Dieng
09 : J.Morgan Puett
30 : MK Guth
APRIL 2009
06 : Michael Rakowitz
13 : Larry Sultan
20 : Neighborhood Public Radio
27 : Doug Blandy
MAY 2009
04 : Mark Dion
11 : Frances Stark
18 : Mierle Laderman Ukeles
POSTED: October 7th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, portland art, visual art | No Comments »