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Marie Watt | Sewing Circle Invitation
Marie Watt invites you to an Open-to-the-Community Sewing Circle.
“Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24 we will be hosting in-person sewing circles in Portland, Oregon and look forward to connecting with our community through shared embroidery and conversation. This is an all ages event and no experience required.
Friday, July 23, 2 - 4:30pm
Sellwood Park, Picnic Area H
714 SE Miller St.
Portland ORSaturday, July 24, 10am - 12pm
Oregon Center for Contemporary Art
8371 North Interstate Avenue
Portland ORSewing circles are inclusive by nature and design. Everyone’s voice is equal in a circle; circles can expand or contract as needed to create space. The panels being stitched often start with an Indigenous point of view in relation to site, histories, and Iroquois teachings, and these themes then become touchstones for conversation, connection, and cross-cultural knowledge generously exchanged by participants. Our stories connect us.
No sewing experience necessary
All ages welcome (participants to date have included individuals from ages 3 to 93)
Come and go as you wish
I will trade a print in exchange for your stitches
Bring a friend and feel free to pass the invitation onThese outdoor sites are new to us. As table space will be limited, consider bringing a blanket to gather and stitch from.
RSVPs are appreciated, but not required.”
RSVP July 23 at Sellwood Park:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRPykVpYYe72QGaG-Q79WvIJY6_4LL...RSVP July 24 at Oregon Contemporary:
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSci6qXiqC9ZZwgBnULZ479WRuK5FLEf...PDX Visits Lostine | A PDX pop-up at Lostine Tavern
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is delighted to announce a pop up show July 16 - 26 at the Lostine Tavern in Lostine, Oregon.
Jane Beebe, Owner and Director of PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, has been visiting Wallowa County for forty years to spend time at a family place. Last January, noticing a "For Sale" sign in the Lostine Tavern window, Beebe wondered if Peter Ferre, owner of the Tavern, would let PDX have a pop up in the space. Ferre welcomed the idea and thus plans began.
While the Lostine Tavern is currently closed, the Tavern continues to host classes and community events and remains a beautiful, two-story, local stone building in the center of town. The Lostine Tavern was built in 1900, renovated in 2013, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Like a visit from an old friend, the show hopes to say hello, share what's new in work and life, and have a fun summer visit. The show will feature twenty eight artists with work ranging from prints, paintings, and photographs to ceramics, bronzes, and books. All art will be for sale and a portion of proceeds will be donated to the Lostine basketball court effort.
The Artists: Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Tina Beebe, Nick Blosser, Iván Carmona, Bean Finneran, Jacques Flèchemuller, Ellen George, Victoria Haven, Elizabeth Knight, Justin L’Amie, James Lavadour, Kristen Miller, Wes Mills, Jeffry Mitchell, Megan Murphy, Jenene Nagy, Georgina Reskala, Joe Rudko, Tad Savinar, Adam Sorensen, Barbara Stafford, Storm Tharp, Terry Toedtemeier, Molly Vidor, Nell Warren, Heather Watkins, Marie Watt, and Yamamoto Masao.
We hope you will stop by!
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Lostine Tavern
125 Hwy 82
Lostine, OR
97857Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Read moreIván Carmona and Justin L'Amie Pendleton Center for the Arts | East Oregonian
Iván Carmona and Justin L'Amie's exhibition at the Pendleton Center for the Arts is open July 1 - 31, 2021.
They will be discuss their work during an opening reception for the first in-person show in the East Oregonian Gallery at Pendleton Center for the Arts in 16 months.The reception is Thursday at the arts center, 214 N. Main St., from 5:30 - 7pm.
For more information on the reception and exhibition: https://www.eastoregonian.com/community/news/arts-center-welcomes-cerami...
Read moreJenene Nagy | Iris Project Residency
Jenene Nagy is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California, for the month of June.
Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.
Additionally, there will be a live, virtual studio visit on the Iris Project's Instagram LiveTV on June 26th from 2-5pm. To tune in visit their Instagram @irisprojectresidency
For more information visit: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/nagy-smith
To tune in for the studio visit on Instagram LiveTV: @irisprojectresidencyCongratulations, Jenene!
Read moreJeffry Mitchell | Breakfast Under the Tree at Carl Freedman Gallery
Jeffry Mitchell is currently in a group exhibition, Breakfast Under the Tree, at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate, UK curated by Russell Tovey of TalkArt.
“Breakfast Under the Tree brings together a diverse range of depictions of contemporary social scenes, group portraits and shared spaces. Populated by characters both real and imaginary, and wide-ranging in style, from neo-realism to cartoonish dreamscapes, they together form a pictorial survey of how we live now.”
The exhibition includes works by Ana Benaroya, Susan Chen, Caroline Coon, Lenz Geerk, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Oscar yi Hou, Cheyenne Julien, Jon Key, Doron Langberg, Lindsey Mendick, Jeffry Mitchell, Cassi Namoda, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Sola Olulode, Benjamin Senior, Salman Toor, Charmaine Watkiss.
Breakfast Under the Tree is on view from 4 June – 14 August 2021.
Read moreMarie Watt | The Art Newspaper
Marie Watt's exhibition Each/Other with Cannupa Hanska Lugar at the Denver Art Muesum was featured in The Art Magazine.
"The American artists Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger originally envisioned their joint exhibition Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum (until 22 August) as a project that would activate the galleries with collaborative, hands-on events evoking Indigenous art-making and community-building traditions. But with plans upended by the coronavirus pandemic, the artists shifted their focus “toward the idea of shelter, both as it relates to the global health crisis but also the civil unrest in the US that ensued over the last year”, Luger says. The show comprises more than 20 mixed-media sculptures, wall hangings, installations and two crowd-sourced works."
To read the entire article visit: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/preview/marie-watt-and-cannupa-hanska-lu...
Read moreMarie Watt | Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum in the New York Times
Marie Watt's new exhibition Each / Other with Cannupa Hanska Luger opened at the Denver Art Museum on May 21. The exhibition celebrates collaborative art-making that involves public participation.
"Exploring the collective process of creation, Each/Other will feature 26 mixed media sculptures, wall hangings and large-scale installation works by Watt (Seneca, Scottish, German) and Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European), along with a new monumental artist-guided community artwork. While each artist’s practice is rooted in collaboration, they have never before worked together or been exhibited alongside one another in a way that allows audiences to see both the similarities and contrasts in their work.
Watt and Luger's work is divided into two sections that explore the artists’ engagement with community, materials and the land. A new collaborative piece will be located where the two artists’ works converge within the gallery. Works on view in Each/Other will consist of materials including carved wood, ceramic and fabric sculpture, photography, installation works with concertina and oil drums, video-based interpretive elements and documentation pieces to show past performance works by the artists."
The exhibition was featured in the New York Times, to read more about the exhibition:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/arts/denver-indigenous-artists.html?r...To learn more about the exhibition: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/each-other
Read moreMarie Watt | Cowboys & Indians Magazine
Marie Watt was featured in Cowboys & Indians Magazine.
"Her project today is a snapshot of what she’s best known for: using humble everyday objects as touchstones, blankets in particular. Since she first rummaged through the city’s thrift stores in 2003, scavenging for wool blankets, anything around $5 apiece to make the totemlike tower sculptures of stacked blankets, she has relied on reclaimed objects as a primary medium for her artwork. Beyond that, her process is largely collaborative. That may mean working with a printmaker, like she’s doing today, or gathering blankets and their individual histories from friends and strangers, and weaving that element into her pieces, too."
To read the full article visit: https://www.cowboysindians.com/2021/05/art-gallery-marie-watt/
Read moreJoe Rudko | Iris Project Residency
Joe Rudko is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California, for the month of May.
Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.
Congratulations, Joe!
For more information visit: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/joe-rudko
Read moreJoe Rudko | Exhibition Walkthrough
On the occasion of Joe Rudko's show Support System, we are pleased to share a short, casual exhibition walkthrough with the Artist.
Please let us know if you would like any additional information about the work or if you would like to schedule an appointment to view the exhibition. Joe Rudko's show remains on view through May 1st.
Read moreMarie Watt | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Marie Watt will be a panelist in Quilts, Blankets, and Tapestry: Contemporary Art and Textiles with Aaron McIntosh, Marie Watt, and Ebony Patterson with the Berkley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on Wednesday, April 21, 4 PM PDT.
Discover the innovative practices of three artists who have turned to textiles—incorporating or referring to them in their work—in this discussion moderated by BAMPFA Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm, presented in conjunction with Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective.
To register please visit:
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https://bampfa.org/event/quilts-blankets-and-tapestry-contemporary-art-a...Yamamoto Masao | Online Pop Up Shop
In conjunction with Yamamoto Masao’s current exhibition Bonsai, PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present an online showing of a selection of works from the Artist’s earlier series A Box of Ku and Nakazora.
Taking images of everyday occurrences, and oftentimes overlooked moments, Yamamoto Masao makes us further consider what is happening in the world around us— to stop, look, and savor. His undeniable ability to capture seemingly simple, mundane moments and make them feel complex, transitory, and poetic is a hallmark of his practice.
Small silver gelatin prints, hand-toned and slightly worn, present like found objects. Made in editions of 20 or 40, the Artist treats each individual piece as one in its own— slightly scratching through the gelatin surfaces, adding small specks of gold paint, weathering the edges, and toning the images. Purposefully small prints are carried around in the Artist’s pocket to add a natural wear to the image. With each finesse and subtle mark, poetic and mysterious objects are born.
To view the online shop visit: www.pdxcontemporaryart.com/shop
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10% of all proceeds from this pop-up will be donated to Portland Japanese Garden.Georgina Reskala | Iris Project Residency
Georgina Reskala is an Artist in Residence at the Iris Project in Venice, California for the month of March.
Iris Project Residency offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practice, freed from the pressure of production or material exchange. We strongly believe that when creativity is uncoupled from commercial requirements, new directions and insights will emerge, and that these benefits will extend beyond the artist's time at the residency.
Congratulations, Georgina!
We are looking forward to her solo show in May 2021!
For more information: https://www.irisprojectresidency.com/residents/georgina-reskala-6wsby-kl8p6
Read moreJames Lavadour | Image in Artforum
James Lavadour’s painting Golden, 2018 was acquired by the High Desert Museum through the Oregon Arts Commission Arts Acquisition Fund. Today this work was featured as part of their permanent collection in Artforum's announcement of the High Desert Museum's recent gift of $6 million from the Roundhouse Foundation for capital improvements to increase the number of works on permanent display.
https://www.artforum.com/news/oregon-s-high-desert-museum-receives-6-mil...
Read moreGus Van Sant | Cinema Unbound Awards
Gus Van Sant is an honoree for the 2021 Cinema Unbound Awards!
“The Cinema Unbound Awards is an annual celebration presented by the Northwest Film Center, honoring boundary-breaking multimedia storytellers working at the intersection of art and cinema. We honor artists and nonconformists who are not content to be contained but instead expand the notion of what’s possible. The Cinema Unbound honorees defy expectations and refuse to embrace labels using their creative vision to inspire and push us to look at what is beyond the norm.
The Cinema Unbound Awards represents the Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center’s embrace of artistic exploration and commitment to equity and inclusion. Though born out of the tradition of film, the Cinema Unbound Awards expands the reach of cinema as an art form to challenge for whom, by whom, and how stories can be told.
The 2021 Cinema Unbound Awards honorees are Steve McQueen, Garrett Bradley, Gus Van Sant, Mollye Asher, and Alex Bulkley: boundary-breaking multimedia storytellers working at the intersection of art and cinema. The awards will be presented on March 4, 2021, kicking off the 44th Annual Portland International Film Festival running from March 5 to March 14, 2021.”
-Cinema UnboundThis year’s Cinema Unbound Awards will invite viewers to join through both a Drive-In experience as well as a virtual experience. More information about the honorees and on how to attend can be found here: https://cinemaunbound.org/event-directory/cinema-unbound-awards
Congratulations, Gus!
Read moreTristan Irving in PDX Window Project | The Skanner
PDX CONTEMPORARY ART is pleased to present the paintings of Portland-based artist Tristan “TK” Irving in the PDX Window Project for the month of February 2021.
Drawing inspiration from a range of sources and time periods, from Rembrandt to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Irving’s work integrates abstraction and modernist sensibilities to create portraits which are bold, graphic, and colorful. Each portrait, oftentimes depicting famous artists or public figures, acts to honor and commemorate. Those he’s painted include Frederick Douglass, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Frida Kahlo, Maya Angelou, Madam C.J. Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Stacey Abrams, among others. Irving is best known for his portraits of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, which have been carried at protests and marches for racial justice this summer.
As part of the PDX Window Project, Irving will be offering 20” x 16” commissioned portraits for $500 each. If clients wish to commission a piece, they can email info@pdxcontemporaryart.com for more details. The artist will work from a photograph of the client’s choosing.
The PDX Window Project is viewable from the sidewalk 24 hours, 7 days a week, on the corner of NW 9th and Flanders. The window itself is on 9th avenue.
Irving's work in the PDX Window Project was featured in The Skanner: https://www.theskanner.com/news/newsbriefs/30956-pdx-window-project-feat...
Read moreMarie Watt | New York Times
Marie Watt's piece, Blanket Story: Indian Territories, Round Dance, Grandmother, 2016, is a part of a group exhibition at Kasmin Gallery in New York City. The show, Between the Earth and Sky, was reviewed in the New York Times.
"An exhibition of twenty-two monolithic sculptures that brings together examples of the form spanning from 900 A.D. to 2019. The presentation demonstrates how stelae, herms, and columns have acted as repositories of meaning or markers of time and place across many cultures since prehistory, as well as the way in which the expressive possibilities of this format continue to resonate with sculptors working internationally today. Be they analogues for the human form, waypoints, sentinels, support structures, memorials or otherwise, their metaphorical and formal potency abides."
-Kasmin GalleryRead the full review in the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/arts/design/monolith-mania-gallery-ka...
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Visitors at Kasmin with Marie Watt’s columnal “Blanket Story: Indian Territories, Round Dance, Grandmother” (2016), Credit: Marie Watt and Marc Straus; Nina Westervelt for The New York TimesIván Carmona | Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Collection
Congratulations to Iván Carmona for the acquisition of his piece, Juey, into the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation collection.
Today, Joseph R. Biden and the inauguration committee shared, “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ‘Everyone can be great because everyone can serve.’ It’s one of his many lessons that endures today, as we’ve seen throughout this pandemic. From sewing masks to dropping off groceries to elderly neighbors, Americans across the country know that service — looking out for one another — is part of who we are as a nation.”
It is in this spirit that PDX will donate 1/2 of the proceeds to the Oregon Food Bank from the sale of this work.Iván Carmona
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Juey, 2020
flashe paint on ceramic
34 3/4” x 30” x 9”Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen | Congress Yard Projects
Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are exhibiting work at Congress Yard Projects.
"Congress Yard Projects’ first exhibition of 2021, hard & SOFT will submit the artworks to continuous display outside, throughout the wet dragging days of late winter. This turns our previous format on its head from the summer series of weekend long exhibitions where artworks susceptible to the elements are moved inside nightly. Rather, hard & SOFT will run for 1344 hours, from late January til Spring Equinox, showcasing works that stand resolute under the weight of the grey dripping sky, alongside works that embrace weathering transformation and decay. On view will be a range of works from the most obstinately impervious, to those that might melt, fade, or rot away in reaction to the elements, as well as some that depend upon the impacts of duration and exposure for their full potential. At times, the exhibition will be only open to viewers when it is raining, and others just available after dark, to make the most of the existing perceptual conditions."
hard & SOFT
Exhibition Jan 24 – March 21, 2021Opening Sunday January 24 11-5pm
For more information visit: https://congressyardprojects.wordpress.com/
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or on Oregon Live: https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2021/01/art-shows-a-bit-more-in...Marie Watt | Collaboration with Loro Piana | Recommended by the New York Times
A collaboration between Loro Piana and Marie Watt, "Companion Species: Blanket Stories, Generations, Acknowledgement," is now on view at Loro Piana, coinciding with the opening of their new Meatpacking District store in New York City. Loro Piana will feature three sculptures, by Marie Watt as a collaborative reflection on community and environmental stewardship, generational respect, family history and the myriad symbolic meanings of loved – and lived-in – textiles.
Blankets are an essential component of Loro Piana and Watt’s respective histories.
At Loro Piana, blankets were among the first products ever produced. To this day, they remain an important element of the company’s legacy: blankets are an ultimate expression of warmth and comfort. Within Watt’s oeuvre, blankets symbolize safeguarding, established traditions, familial heirlooms, and physical entities to which memories may be imprinted and embedded. Together, the brand and the artist believe in weaving together textile and form to tell stories from our vast yet inextricably connected global community.The Blanket Stories sculpture, in particular, consists of nearly fifty thoughtfully layered and stacked blankets donated by a diverse group of Loro Piana’s friends, partners and family. Donations were submitted from around the world and each blanket arrived with an anecdote from its owner; their narratives range from humorous to heartwarming, with every single anecdote illustrating a deeply personal sentiment that is as once individual in experience yet universal in feeling. These stories are written on hang tags attached to the piece, and can be viewed on Loro Piana’s website as well.
For more information on the project please visit : https://www.loropiana.com/blanket-stories/en/
Featured in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/t-magazine/wine-wallpaper-sol-lewitt...."Companion Species: Blanket Stories, Generations and Acknowledgment" is on display from December 14th, 2020 to January 31st, 2021 at 3 Ninth Avenue, New York City.
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