November 18, 2010 – February 26, 2011
Curated by: Gerri Ondrizek, Reed College; Barbara Tetenbaum, Oregon College of Art and Craft; and Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft.
The artist’s book is an object that extends work beyond the boundaries of a gallery setting. Through selections from the significant 20th century modern and contemporary artists’ books in Reed College’s Special Collections, this exhibition explores the book as an object which defies the boundaries between art, craft and design, and moves along a spectrum from a recognizable to a deconstructed form.
PICA presents Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen in an ON SIGHT Salon at Washington High School as part of TBA:11. An informal lecture by the artists will touch upon their collaborative practice and their interest in alternate and revisionist histories. The talk will take place within the duo's 'Fix It' office where they worked at editing, redacting and manipulating September, an art historical broadside made specifically for TBA.
http://www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=772
Read more"Watkins' show is dominated by a series of poured ink works on paper … sumptuous pools of ink, which fork into thick bands and slinky rivulets … reveal[ing] her openness to chance, her willingness to permit the ink a voice in the collaboration. In that sense, Watkins' project take its cues from John Cage's methodical use of chance in creating his artworks, as well as the poured canvases of second-wave Abstract Expressionist painters such as Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis."
- John Motly, The Oregonian
Read moreHeather Watkins' wood and fiber sculptures are inclued in the COCA Annual. The CoCA Georgetown Gallery is located in Suite 258 of Seattle Design Center at 5701 6th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108, and is open Monday through Friday 9am to 5 pm. Work is on display through March 10, 2013
Read moreTraveling exhibition “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live” featuring Hallie Ford Fellows (including PDX artists Cynthia Lahti and D.E. May) opens for the final time tonight at the East Oregonian Gallery at Pendleton Center for the Arts...
Read moreThe classic concept of “Painting on Canvas” was the simple starting point for this recent series. Both the canvas and the painting inevitably became exaggerated. Canvas turned into jute, twine, and garden fencing. Painting became brushwork in relief, watergilt, and burnished.
A...Read more
Laura Fried, the Artistic Director of the Seattle Art Fair, selected Jeffry Mitchell, among several artists, to create special projects for the fair...
Read moreOpening November 3rd at PNCA and November 4th at Newspace, Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are featured in two part group show...
Read moreWatt: Trying something new - Prior to the opening of her new exhibit at the Rockwell Museum, artist Marie Watt has been at the Corning Museum of Glass this week to spend some time out of her comfort zone...
Read moreFinally, your problems vanish, with Miracle Cure.
Topical application, non-toxic, for external use only.
In these works tonics and cleaning agents serve as icons of metamorphosis and desire. Midst our media saturated world, brands flourish and the magical qualities of products are...Read more
Marie Watt will be giving a lecture at Frye Art Museum as a part of the "In Focus: Contemporary First Nations and Native American Women Artists and Curators Lecture Series.”
Thursday, September 19, 2019
7:00 pm
Frye Art Museum
704 Terry Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
Lecture information: "What would the world look like if we thought of ourselves as companion species? Marie Watt doesn’t pretend to have the answer to this question, but her work does seek to forge relationships and reveal aspects of our connectedness to one another, to animals, and to the natural world. Rather than presenting her extensive body of work in chronological order, Watt will piece together themes in a way that might resemble sewing together a blanket.”
https://fryemuseum.org/calendar/event/7245/
Read more"A Stitch in Time"
Barbara Stafford’s show “Falling Green” is exactly the uplifting, breath of spring we hope to share with you right now.
Yet, to use an old phrase “A stitch in time saves nine,” in current language “flatten the curve,” of COVID-19 we ask you to visit us by appointment.
Please email us at info@pdxcontemporaryart.com to set up an appointment.
If you are staying home, let us know if we can help you online. Whether you see the exhibition in person or online, we hope you feel you are in a place of peace, curiosity, and even joy.
Please know how much we appreciate your interest in the artists we represent and whose art we exhibit. We will update our website and social media with updates to our open hours.
Wishing you and your loved ones the very best in health and spirit.
Jane Beebe with Jordan Pieper, Debbie Mishler, Iván Carmona, Lydia Beebe, Nathan Anderson, Jill Guild
Read moreJoin exhibiting artists Bruce Burris, Harrell Fletcher, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Marie Watt on October 7, at 5:30 p.m. for “Hallie Ford Fellows: Art and Activism,” a virtual live presentation and Q&A on the intersections of activism, social practice and art making in their lives and communities.
To join the Virtual Presentation and Q&A: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/94097839085
For more information visit: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/fall-brings-some-options-your-arts-an...
Read moreClick here to view a video walkthrough of PDX CONTEMPORARY ART's December 2020 exhibition, Ferocious Mothers:
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART presents the work of women artists who have managed to make art, and build successful careers while being attentive mothers. This is not an easy task, particularly today.
It takes strong belief in the value of their art, a strong will to produce it, and a strong heart for their families.
With Work by:
Natalie Ball
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Ellen Lesperance
Maya Lin
Senga Nengudi
Heather Watkins
Marie Watt
FEROCIOUS MOTHERS is on view at PDX December 2, 2020 - January 2, 2021
Open by appointment Wednesday - Saturday, 10am-4pm
If I were to attempt to write a statement for my proposed model of a spiral staircase to be installed in a forest or desert, it might reference Vladimir Tatlin's famous unbuilt spiral tower, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim design, DNA structure, the golden ratio, planetary orbits, Robert...Read more
As a means to better understand the use and effects of color in my figurative work, I began in the mid-seventies to study the theories of Johannes Itten, Joseph Albers and others. The color exercises I was doing at the time eventually evolved into my main artistic objective.
Initially I...Read more
The Soft Shovel, a Signal Fire exhibition at Igloo Gallery
Reception: Thursday, October 1, 6-10pm
Open First Saturdays 1-5, and by appointment.
PDX is pleased to announce the inclusion of Cynthia Lahti in the 2010 Bellevue Arts Museum Biennial: Clay Throwdown, the inaugural edition of BAM's new, juried exhibition competition. With over 30 participating artists, it provides a panoramic survey of ceramic art created in the Pacific Northwest and a glimpse into the many directions in which this dynamic medium is moving.
August 28, 2010 - January 16, 2011
Read moreIf an image can be didactic without a title, and Michael David's often are, removing the imagery, as David does in his current encaustic paintings seen at Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, Arizona), focuses your attention first on optics. But check the title of the show's central work, "The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes," and the cinematic quality of the blood red sun of a tondo, and see if that doesn't take you in some surprising directions. If the landscape's presence is indirect in his body of work, it couldn't be more explicit to both the form and content in Vanessa Renwick's current project at PDX Contemporary (Portland), "as easy as falling off a log." Given the Pacific Northwest locale, shades of Ken Kesey's Stamper family, the show conveys how immersion in the environment pushes us to anthropomorphize it. A send-up image like "flat as a board (knot)," translating a bit of tree bark and pine needles into a frontal nude, helps puncture, without contradiction, the environmental polemic.
Read moreThe sculpture of PDX artist Cynthia Lahti is proudly featured in the latest Plazm magazine.
Read morePERSONAL STRUCTURES, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, 2011
Hardback, 168 Pages, 109 color illustrations
ISBN 9783941763098
This publication accompanied the exhibition PERSONAL STRUCTURES at Palazzo Bembo, part of the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia 2011. The exhibition presented 28 artists from 5 continents, representing 12 countries.
Available through www.cornerhouse.org
Read moreHome of the world renowned Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Burchfield Penney Center, Buffalo now plays host to this small, growing art fair. PDX will be exhibiting new work by Nick Blosser. Blosser's paintings are inspired by such American artists as Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley...Read more