Storm Tharp: winner of 2 categories in PORT's 2010 readers poll awards

Which Portland artist had the biggest 2010?

Storm Tharp was the overwhelming winner with 55% of the vote on the strength of his numerous local and national solo shows and appearance in the Whitney Biennial. He edged out Jessica Jackson Hutchins who was perhaps the lone break out star of the Whitney Biennial and David Eckard who won both the Bonnie Bronson and Ford Fellowships.

Solo Show of the Year:

With 40.3% of the vote Storm Tharp's Hercules at PDX Contemporary wins. Funny thing is it wasn't even his best show, his break out 2007 show was absolutely perfect which is interesting because Hercules was all about perfection. Needless to say Storm has what it takes to go the distance. 2nd place with 18.5 % of the vote each was Bruce Conkle's Magic Chunks at Worksound and Ai Weiwei's Dropping the Urn at MoCC. With 16.9% of the votes Eva Lake's Targets at Augen Gallery took 3rd place.