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To look upon the paintings of James Lavadour is to see worlds you know like your own backyard. Nevermind that you can’t place the exact peaks and drainages, that you can’t claim to have seen these exact combinations of color cast upon the Missions or Beartooths. These are landscapes we Montanans know by heart: jagged cliffs slicing red-streaked sunset skies, cascading sheets of rain plunging from blustery clouds.

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Be sure to visit White Box to see Vanessa Renwick's most recent video installation "Medusa Smack". The original score is by talented, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Tara Jane O'neil The University of Oregon White Box exhibition is part of the city wide Disjecta Portland2012 Biennial, curated by Prudence Roberts....................
April 1- May 26 , 2012
Tuesday - Saturday 12- 6 pm
24 NW First Ave Portland OR

Marie Watt: Collaboration can be more than a strategy.

Marie Watt’s work is about community involvement. It needs it to survive, and in her small but potent retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem right now, each element speaks to a greater company of bodies than Watt’s own.

James Lavadour discusses the roots of his ideas in creating "Ruby Lift", a cast resin sculpture, made at Walla Walla Foundry. Video is courtesy of Sam Beebe.
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Vanessa Renwick, founder of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass, will be presenting two shows of her films "Portrait #1 Cascadia Terminal" and "Medusa Smack" with musician Tara Jane ONeil playing the score live at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Centre Pompidou/Metz. She also will screen a selection of films that she curated of contemporary Portland artists, as well as a curation of her own short films.
From the 19th to the 29th April 2012, at La Gaîté Lyrique and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Le Lieu Unique in Nantes.

Arnold Kemp and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are exhibiting at Disjecta as part of Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art

Just in from Walla Walla foundry

Installation video of Marie Watt's Dwelling at the Hallie Ford Museum.

As part of Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cynthia Lahti will be exhibiting new work at the Marylhurst Art Gym.

February 27 - April 4, 2012

Painter James Lavadour has been prolific since Art Beat visited him in its first season back in 2000. He describes his inspiration and process of making art in this update. Take a drive with him out onto the lands of his Eastern Oregon home, then back into his studio where invites us to look closely at his paintings, their surface and the messages they hold. Listen and watch as explains his engagement with paint and the unfolding of image.