The 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.
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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
In Tint Von Tundra identifies the conditions that define the PDX Window Project and highlights them for what they are not. Functionally, the PDX Window Project is in close relation with the more ubiquitous display windows that many retailers use to attract customers to their store. However in...Read more
IT'S SHAPING UP to be a good year for artist Vanessa Renwick . . .
Read moreStorm Tharp is exhibiting at The Hallie Ford Museum of Art as a part of the Hallie Ford Fellows in Visual Arts exhibition, "What Needs to Be Said," curated by Diana Nawi. Of Storm's work, Diana Nawi writes, "... Storm Tharp's 'Cadre' (2017) contains a quality of pathos, communicated through dynamic gesture and bodies and visages that make visible sentiment and sensation. For Tharp, seriality yields both juxtaposition and cohesion. While a breadth of gestures is contained in this suite of thirty-six works on paper, ranging from total abstraction to clear figuration, from grinding black lines to washy inks, together they form an expressive, almost linguistic set of images that holds contradiction and grace side-by-side." ('What Needs to Be Said,' Diana Nawi, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, 2019, Page 17)
Congratulations, Storm, and thank you to The Ford Family Foundation for their generous support of Oregon Artists through the Hallie Ford Fellowship program!
September 14 - December 20, 2019
Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University
700 State Street
Salem, OR 97301
Tuesday - Saturday
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Keen writer and arts and architecture appreciator Briana Miller finds ten great shows around Portland with a wide range subjects from Black Lives Matter to Swedish log cabins to D.E. May archives in today's Oregonian.
Read the full article here: https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2022/01/10-shows-in-portland-ar...
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