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Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
On view January 14, 2012 to April 29, 2012Located in the: Special Exhibition Galleries
Shapeshifting celebrates Native American ideas that have crossed time and space to be continuously refreshed with new concepts and expressions. Experience this vitality through sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, photographs, videos and monumental installations drawn from collections in the United States, Canada and Europe. Rarely seen historic pieces, shown alongside some of the finest contemporary works, demonstrate the diversity and continuity of Native American art and culture from 200 B.C.E. to the present.Exhibition supported in part by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Peck Stacpoole Foundation, the Bay and Paul Foundations, Ellen and Steve Hoffman, ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) and the East India Marine Associates (EIMA) of the Peabody Essex Museum.

Congratulations Adam Sorensen.

“The effects of creasing and crumpling cannot be reversed. Every gesture is a permanent and evident record, and makes visible an indelible history.” -- Ellen George & Jerry Mayer

January 5 – January 29, 2012
Nine Gallery (inside Blue Sky Gallery)
12:00 – 5:00pm, Tuesday - Sunday
122 NW 8th
Portland OR 97209......
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Best painting: For Portland Art Museum’s APEX series, Adam Sorensen created his biggest painting ever: a 7-by-10-foot masterpiece called Tabernacle. In impossibly saturated jewel tones, it presented a landscape resplendent with waterfalls, mountains and rivers that looked more like the stuff of psychedelia or fantasy than reality.

Congratulations to PDX artists Arnold Kemp, Vanessa Renwick, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, and Cynthia Lahti!

David Row reviews Molly Vidor's

Ceramics Now Exhibition, The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
December 9, 2011 - January 6, 2012

Ceramics Now Magazine has the pleasure to invite you to the first edition of Ceramics Now exhibition, held at the Paintbrush Factory, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from December 9, 2011 to January 6, 2012.

Opening reception: Friday, Dec 9, at 18:00.

The exhibition presents different approaches of contemporary ceramic art through the works of 15 artists from USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, South Korea, Israel and Poland, and celebrates the launch of Ceramics Now Magazine’s first printed issue. The artists are also featured in the issue.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Chang Hyun Bang (SK), Antonella Cimatti (IT), Patrick Colhoun (UK), Carole Epp (CA), Simcha Even-Chen (IL), Shamai Gibsh (IL), Mark Goudy (US), Roxanne Jackson (US), Margrieta Jeltema (IT), Maciej Kasperski (PL), Jim Kraft (US), Cynthia Lahti (US), Claire Muckian (UK), Connie Norman (US), Liza Riddle (US).

EXHIBITION SPACE:
The Paintbrush Factory (third floor)
Henri Barbusse nr. 59-61
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Open Monday-Saturday, 14-20 pm, closed on Sundays, Christmas (Dec 24, 25, 26) and New Year (Dec 31, Jan 1). Free admission. With the kind support of SABOT Gallery and the Paintbrush Factory.
http://www.ceramicsnow.org/exhibition

Click on the following link to listen to Molly Vidor talking on KBOO about her current show, "Honeydrippers."

http://kboo.fm/node/32498

THURSDAY, DEC. 8th, 6 - 8 pm

Lois Leveen discusses the recasting of American history in contemporary art and literature, looking at the mixed-media sculpture of award-winning Native American artist Marie Watt and Leveen's own novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, which is based on the true story of a free black woman who during the Civil War spied on behalf of the Union by posing as a slave in the Confederate White House. The first hour will be a talk in the gallery in front of Watt's sculpture, and the second hour will be a more informal discussion in the museum cafe.

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