GRIP, GRASP, GROPE, AND FONDLE
Lucas Murgida
Autzen Gallery
2nd Floor PSU Neuberger Hall, Room 205, 724 SW Harrison
SF artist Murgida makes work through (and addressing) his work … conducting “research” while employed as cabinetmaking, restaurant work, locksmithing, and now yoga instruction. Artist talk/performance at opening.
Wrecking Crüe
IGLOO
625 NW Everett #102
Titled cute, this is a group show of work by Jordan Tull, Josh Smith, Salvatore Reda, Joshua Pavlacky, and Jeff Jahn (like the j-alliteration…should Salvatore change his first name?). Bullet points from the quite poetic statement:
- constructed space
- structural invention
- half-made/half-undone
- hypershapes
- blueprints and Outer Space
- rendering philosophical material from impulsive architecture
3X_PWN_TRANZ
Future Death Toll
Tractor
328 NW Broadway
sometimes when you pick up the pwn, you don’t know who is on the other line.
sometimes when you pick up the pwn, you do all the talking.
sometimes when you pick up the pwn, the pwn does all the talking for you.
I’m into the idea of “evidence of a past or future mission to transmit” as well as the machines of communication.
Grassland Alphabet
Seth Nehil
In House Gallery
625 NE Everett St. #106
“…calligraphic exercises – letter-forms constructed from waves and clusters of marks. I imagined a field of wheat attempting to form itself into words, a mute landscape swelling in the wind, blades of grass arranging and aligning themselves.”
Constrain to Vertical
Brenda Mallory
DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Fabric wall pieces inspired by stacks of UPS “end-of-day” barcodes + Agnes Martin.
Also
Clouds
Lucinda Parker
Laura Russo
805 NW 21st
O.G. Ab-Ex powerhouse and longtime arts educator Parker with a show of new paintings. Parker gives a talk Saturday, March 27, at 11 AM.
Letters from Switzerland
Melody Owen
Elizabeth Leach
417 NW 9th
“For Letters from Switzerland, using the tools and media of the Swiss-originated Dadaists, Owen created a precise and strange group of collages, examining feelings of dislocation and disconnection. Featuring bisected animals spilling flowers from their guts, and hotels sprouting roots that can’t find purchase, these works allude to the deracinated experience of the contemporary traveler.”
Marker
Marie Watt
PDX Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders
Show of new work by Watt including “Trunk,” this incredible, sinuous cedar sculpture.
Laurie Danial
Froelick Gallery
714 NW Davis
Abstract paintings by Danial that feature tracings, structures, transparencies, the built and the organic.
POSTED: March 4th, 2010 | AUTHOR: admin | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, autzen, brenda mallory, doppler pdx, elizabeth leach gallery, first thursday, froelick gallery, future death toll, igloo, jeff jahn, jordan tull, josh pavlacky, josh smith, laurie danial, lucas murgida, lucinda parker, marie watt, melody owen, pdx contemporary art, portland, salvatore reda, seth nehil, tractor | 1 Comment »
There’s been an uptick in performance as a visual art strategy in Portland recently along with some healthy chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter/peanut-butter-in-my-chocolate overlap between performance and visual art spaces. During December is Action Art at Rocksbox Fine Art, among the handful of visual artists who did performance pieces were Sean Joseph Patrick Carney doing “Joaquin Phoenix’s Donner Dance Party” and Michael Reinsch composing a poem of found fragments of speech by using the remote control to change channels on a television in the gallery. Arts collectives Weird Fiction and Oregon Painting Society embrace performance as well as installation (OPS installations employing elements that invite performance…plant synthesizers!). Bethany Ides’ “Approximate L” project was a complex, interlocking series of performances and visual art collaborations culminating in an installation at Worksound. Stephanie Simek’s “Brea(d)th” live international video piece at the Odds and Ends (Karl Lind)-curated Alembic knocked my socks off. The Alembic series at Performance Works Northwest blends performance, dance, music, and visual art while the Half/Dozen + Projects series at Half/Dozen brings performance into the gallery space: it was great seeing so many visual artists at Lucy Yim’s “merriment and a fleet of hooves” at Half/Dozen. And more collaboration between worlds of performance, dance, and visual art can only be to the good. See: Rauschenberg + Cunningham + Cage.
Tuesday night at 9 PM at Valentines (232 SW Ankeny), Through The Lens gathers artists (primarily choreographers and musicians) working around the concept of found performance. Choreographer Danielle Ross, who put the evening together, is interested in the idea of found performance, both in the sense of the artist creating work from the found, and the audience “finding” or participating in performance (she calls it “found opportunity for viewership” which sounds to me like performance in unexpected places). The evening will play with found interaction, found dialogue, found noise/sound. It’s a strong lineup mostly featuring performers coming from contemporary dance with the exception of arts group Future Death Toll. See you there.
Danielle Ross with Jean Paul Jenkins (and performers Keyon Gaskin, Leah Wilmoth, Lillian Rossetti, and Robert Tyree)
Linda Austin
Paige McKinney (and performers Esther LaPointe, Beth Loy, Bonni Stover, Taylor Young)
Tahni Holt with Thomas Thorson
Future Death Toll
Little Friction Dance
Suniti Dernovsek
POSTED: February 8th, 2010 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: beth loy, bonni stover, dance, danielle ross, esther lapointe, future death toll, jean paul jenkins, keyon gaskin, leah wilmoth, lillian rossetti, linda austin, little friction dance, music, paige mckinney, performance, portland, robert tyree, suniti dernovsek, tahni holt, taylor young, thomas thorson, valentine's | No Comments »
How are Portland-based choreographers Tahni Holt and Linda Austin raising money to support the creation of new work in 2010? They’re doing a dinner series with two guest performers, artists, or writers in conversation with each other and guests at each monthly dinner.
Austin and Holt say the series was inspired by, “Our love for communal eating, a desire for more discourse that touches upon performance as an art among other arts, and a curiosity about other people’s processes: what and how and why they make what they make and do what they do.”
And if you come on May 22, you can eat and talk with me. I’m honored to be in such company.
Feb 27 Angelle Hebert (tEEth)+ Angela Fair
March 20 Linda Austin+ Kristan Kennedy
April 24 Tahni Holt+ Ethan Rose
May 22 Cydney Wilkes + Lisa Radon
June 26 David Eckard + Linda K. Johnson
July 24 Tiffany Lee Brown + Joshua Berger (Plazm)
Each dinner has room for 20 guests. You can email hello@tahniholt.com for reservations. Every dinner is at a different, secret, location that will be given upon reservations. $30-$100 (sliding scale) for one dinner / $100-$200 for four dinners.
From the press release:
Linda and Tahni are both active members in the performance community in Portland whose performing lives have intertwined in interesting ways in the past several years. As individuals they both have received numerous regional grants and awards. Most recently Linda’s work has been seen in New York, PICA’s TBA Festival, and at Performance Works Northwest. Over the past summer Tahni performed in Vienna, Austria and in Seattle, WA. In the summer of 2004 Linda and Tahni were two of ten selected to participate in Regional Dance Development Initiative (National Dance Project/NEFA) in Seattle. In 2005 they fundraised together in order to travel to Scotland for Deborah Hay’s Solo Commissioning Project. They performed back to back solo adaptations of Hay’s Room at PICA’s TBA( 2006), at Reed College Art week (2007) and in the Fusebox Festival (2007) in Austin, TX. They continue to find ways to support each other’s work and have a deep appreciation for the other’s creations.
POSTED: February 7th, 2010 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: dance | TAGS: angela fair, angelle hebert, artist, cydney wilkes, dance, david eckard, ethan rose, joshua berger, kristan kennedy, linda austin, linda k. johnson, lisa radon, pica, plazm, portland, tahni holt, tiffany lee brown | No Comments »
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 »
What’s more natural than a partnering between Portland’s on-a-roll arts school, PNCA, and pioneering Portland green developer Gerding Edlen (responsible for the Gerding Theater at the Armory in more ways that one as you can tell from the name)? PNCA and Gerding Edlin are partnering on the brand new Hybrid Gallery: A Roving Project Space (SW 12th and Washington) in GE’s latest project designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects (and ZGF’s new home).
I’m into the idea of arts spaces in every building, in every lobby. Bring it on.
The space opens this First Thursday with a party at 5 PM (beer+food+music) but more importantly an exhibition called “movies”, a collection of short experimental videos by PNCA students Jacob Winfield, Ryan Tesar Freeman, Kevin Tinnell, Morgan Alexandra Ritter, Joey Lusterman, Chris Bodven, Bryan Colombo, Adrienne Huckabone, Israel Lund, Sarah Burke, Julia Perry, Brennan Broome, and Jim Hill.
Image via wmig.aiaseattle.org
POSTED: August 4th, 2009 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: gallery, gerding edlen, hybrid gallery, pnca, portland | No Comments »