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The Academy Award winning director Gus Van Sant is well known for his unparalleled vision in cinema, as well as his original screenplays. An accomplished artist as well, he is debuting two bodies of photographic work in Oregon this month. “Cut-ups” opens at PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, on May 5, and “One Step Big Shot: Portraits by Andy Warhol and Gus Van Sant” will be on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, from May 16 to September 5.

A multidisciplinary panel of Portland artists whose work has had a strong relationship to Donald Judd's. This will be a be a thought provoking discussion about intersecting influence, precedent, examples and the inevitability of where these artists differ from Judd. Of particular interest is the inter-artist note-comparing portion of this gathering as they all produce such divergent work.

Where : Pacific Northwest College of Art.1241 NW Johnson, Portland OR

Hosted by the Painting Dept Room 201

When : Saturday April 17th. 3 PM

Moderator: Jeff Jahn

On April 8th, James Lavadour will lead a discussion about Max Beckmann's oil painting The Mill, 1947. Lavadour notes that he is drawn to talk about this work in particular because of the personal meaning it holds for him. A self-taught painter, he is known for his expressive abstract landscapes that are influenced by movement through the mountainous region of northeast Oregon. Lavadour is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation where he lives and works in his studio, and where he helped found Crow's Shadow Institute. - CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION

Eva Lake will interview James Lavadour on KBOO Art Focus. Airs at 11:30am Tuesday March 30th

Hear it at the following address. http://kboo.fm/node/20446

Adam Sorensen and Joe Macca are included in he latest edition of New American Paintings.

Storm and Jessica at photographed at the opening of the 2010 Whtiney Biennial

Inspired by Werner Herzog’s book “Of Walking In Ice,” Sixteen artists explore themes of ice
and travel – through film, sound, installation, painting, photography, sculpture and writing.
For more information about the exhibit and the White Box, visit http://bit.ly/d0mOLr.
ªAnna Gray + Ryan Paulsen
Color in "Of Walking in Ice", by Werner Herzog, 2009
archival inkjet)
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Best of the Whitney Biennial by Rachel Wolff, Thedailybeast.com.
" The premier American art exhibition is smaller and more fun this year, and pays tribute to “the coolest artist of all”—in the White House. "
Tharp left hand image, Aurel Schmidt, upper right, Pae White’s tapestry, lower left.

Storm Tharp, Pigeon (after Shunsen) (2010) and Dolores (2010), both ink, gouache, colored pencil, graphite, charcoal and fabric dye on paper.

Gold Medal in Watercoloring

Five large-scale portraits by Storm Tharp are at first glance a nifty exercise in watercolor painting. A closer look reveals a more layered process: he contours the paper with water before sketching out enigmatic portraits, gilded them with geometric sequences of gold leaf and details in drawn pencil. The black and white Rorschach blots around his faces are a little menacing and a little ambiguous when paired with light, crisply rendered tones in costume and accessories.
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Congratulations to Storm Tharp for his inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, opening this week. CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION