Willamette Week arts critic, author, and Beau Brummell and bon vivant, Richard Speer responds to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Qualities you most admire in design:
Elegance, mischief, and the juxtaposition of energy and languidness — all of which are best experienced spatially and kinesthetically, as […]
Qualities you most admire in design:
when you can’t figure out how something was made.
Qualities you most despise in design:
cheaply made things from IKEA or Target, when something looks cool from a distance but upon closer inspection is a piece of $%#!
Reading:
South Sea Stories- Maugham
Listening to:
erik satie
Dream project:
to start a magazine.
Favorite virtue:
patience and empathy
Favorite vice:
shopping on […]
One of Portland’s premier independent designers and co-owner of Seaplane, Kathryn Towers responds to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Qualities you most admire in design:
simple beauty, originality/ creativity and craftsmanship
Qualities you most despise in design:
ugliness, mass produced crap
Reading:
Middlesex, Slammerkin, and the Colette novels
Listening to:
Karen Ann, […]
Jennifer Armbrust, photo by Anthony GeorgisJennifer Armbrust is as bullish on Portland as an arts center and as savvy a gallerist as a young Elizabeth Leach. Armbrust’s motel gallery is a few blocks closer to the river than Leach’s, but she’s every bit as committed to building a stable of artists, nurturing a new crop […]
Eva Lake in a Rudi Gernreich dress circa 1980
Eva Lake’s new gallery with Wid Chambers, Chambers, opened with a bang recently in the old SW Elizabeth Leach space. The first show juxtaposed a seasoned collagist with a young gun who makes assemblage of broken skateboard decks. A painter, Eva (who formerly ran Lovelake gallery) hosts […]
Designer of finely-tailored, modern apparel for men and women, Adam Arnold, responds to the ultra Q in which ultra asks Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Qualities you most admire in design: purpose, surface, ingenuity
Qualities you most despise in design: clutter, thoughtlessness, superficiality
Reading: Reference books
Listening to: Classic Rock, Sessions presents: Secret Love, […]
Visual arts curator, Stuart Horodner, (PICA, PNCA, ACA, Affair!) is the first subject of the ultra Q in which we ask Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions
Though Stuart Horodner—PICA’s last visual arts curator and PNCA lecturer—has moved to Atlanta as Director of the Atlanta College of Art Gallery, he’s still making things […]
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