Let’s talk. Do we have to enumerate for you the ten-thousand reasons that you—artist, gallerist, critic, performer, collector—should be at Art Spark this Thursday? Bracing conversation, reconnecting with wayward compatriots, access/introductions to gatekeepers and/or smashing talent, news of opportunities. AND, Art Spark guest host last time ’round, Commissioner Sam Adams, reminded the assembled that we […]
Get RAW: Cat Chow at Reed Arts Week
don’t miss work by conceptual NY fashion artist Cat Chow at Reed Arts Week through Sunday
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.
Just One of Those Things: Au Revoir Affair
We were just reflecting on the fact that everything has its moment, that momentum waxes and wanes, AND that the best things that happen are thanks to extraordinary expenditures of energy from a few. We know we’re in Portland at a very good time, but we shouldn’t take a bit of it for granted. Carpe […]
Tilt Gallery is TWO
Q & A with Tilt Gallery and Project Space directors Jenene Nagy and Josh Smith on the eve of the two-year anniversary of one of the most consistently interesting galleries in Portland and the wondertwins behind it
