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Arnold Kemp: Poetry Reading at Crow's Shadow Institute
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A
RECEPTION AND POETRY READING
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012; 5:30 – 7:30KATRINA ROBERTS, a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is the Mina Schwabacher Professor of English and the Humanities at Whitman College, where she directs the Visiting Writers Reading Series.
ARNOLD J. KEMP, director of the Visual Studies Program at Pacific Northwest College of Art and artist in residence at Crow’s Shadow, has published poems in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4 Period(ical), River Styx Nocturnes and Art Journal.CROW’S SHADOW
48004 St. Andrews Road, Pendleton, OR, 97801
Phone: (541) 276-3954"True, what's / lost is lost/But often space left by loss / makes places available in the heart and day / / for other makers of song to fill."
— Katrina Roberts
“Emptiness needs no defense / Space cannot be damaged / An opinion or image can be attacked and hurt but the space in which opinion or image exists is indestructible.”
— Arnold J. KempCrow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization aimed at providing opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development.
Read moreHeather Watkins: Oregonian Gallery Review
"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 moreTad Savinar: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center & Oregon Arts Commission
Tad Savinar's 'Selected Works about Cities' is currently on exhibit at the Governor's Office, presented by the Oregon Arts Commission. The artwork will be on view until September 27, 2012.
More information here: http://www.oregonartscommission.org/content/tad-savinar’s-selected-works-about-cities-exhibited-governor’s-office
Savinar will also be exhibition with Tony Labat at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in 2013 from January 11 - March 17. From their website:
"This exhibition combines the interdisciplinary works of Tony Labat and Tad Savinar, who each use humor and straightforward presentation strategies to explore human foibles, social structures, and political history. Labatt is an influential teacher of new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute and a fixture in the art and music scene in California; Savinar is a visual artist, playwright, designer, and urban planner based in Portland, Oregon. This pairing offers a meditation on conceptual art as practiced by two artists who have worked for decades in specific West Coast locales."
More information can be found here: http://www.thecontemporary.org/exhibitions/tony-labat-and-tad-savinar/
Read moreHeather Watkins: Oregonian Gallery Preview
For art in Portland, August is the calm before the storm. In another month, PICA's 10th annual Time-Based Art Festival will electrify the city, as galleries kick off their new programming schedules with typically strong shows. And yet, for such a quiet time, there are a number of intriguing -- and suitably quiet -- shows opening in August, led by Portland artist Heather Watkins' first solo exhibition at PDX Contemporary, "Movement of Objects at Rest." Watkins, whose work shone in the "Interior Margins" group show at the Lumber Room last year, creates chance drawings by methodically pouring ink onto paper, which she manipulates to create spidery forms full of luscious pools and flows. Like a Rorschach test, the fluid sweep of the ink in Watkins' drawings doesn't create a picture of anything per se, but that won't keep you from finding signs of life in these abstract works. PDX Contemporary, 925 N.W. Flanders St., 503-222-0063, pdxcontemporaryart.com, through Sept. 1 [...]
--John Motley
Full text here: http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2012/07/august_gallery_preview_a...
Read moreAnna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen: 100 Posterworks in the Huffington Post
It was 1967 when Bob Dylan appeared in his video for Subterranean Homesick Blues, using cards to illustrate a series of sardonic refrains about modern life.
Fast-forward to 2012 and married artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen are channeling the singer’s spirit in their 100 Posterworks photography projects.
A series of wry messages are held up as they deadpan into the camera, creating black and white images that are at first deceptively simple but often bear deeper scrutiny.
Take for example the baby crawling away from a pair we assume to be its parents holding a sign saying ‘GO! GO! GO!’.
Your first reaction may be to smile, then wonder if the image is saying something about the burdens of expectation children can be born with, whether from overbearing parents or a fast-paced capitalist society that urges them to grow up quickly.
For their part the couple say they are aiming to create a “playful, inquisitive, critique” of society and personal attitudes, and say reaction to the photos have been “mostly pretty warm”.
“It started as a mail project; we were sending out the posters to a long list of curators, friends, writers, editors, artists, and institutions and the posters worked in that format,” explains Ryan.
“What was really interesting was the suggestions we would get from others about what type of signs we should hold. Once it got picked up by blogs there was a mixed reception of course - some fair critiques and some amazingly antagonistic dribble.”" -Sam Parker, The Huffington Post UK
Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/10/100-posterworks-slogan-art_n_...
Read moreAnna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen: Review in the Willamette Week
Richard Speer reviews "Maybe it Takes a Loud Noise" CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read moreAllen C. Smith reviews Echo Art Fair
PDX Contemporary were our art fair neighbors all weekend...
Read moreNell Warren: Congratulations to Nell and Greg Misarti on the birth of their daughter, Gigi.
We look forward to welcoming another "gallery baby"
Read moreEllen George: With Jerry Mayer at The Nine Gallery
In an on going series of Nine Gallery shows, Ellen George and Jerry Mayer again collaborate to create an installation.
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CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATIONAnna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen at The San Diego Museum of Art Summer Salon Series
On July 13th at The San Diego Museum of Art Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen will be presenting the first installment of an ongoing research project "Don't Mistake Our Intelligence for Knowledge", which explores the rapid rise of drone technology in warfare, surveillance, security, and entertainment and the shifts it brings to our understandings of the world. If you are in the area, please come by. We'd like to see you from above.
Read moreecho Art Fair: July 7th-8th 2012, Larkin Center of Commerce, Buffalo NY
Buffalo New York is the home of the world renown Albright Knox Art Gallery, the Burchfield Penney Center, Hall Walls and nearby Art Park. We are happy to be selected to exhibit at this small, growing art fair in Buffalo, a city of culture and renewing commerce.
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PDX will exhibit Nick Blosser's is inspired by Dove, Avery, Hartley and importantly Charles Burchfield's abstracted landscapes.Marie Watt: "Lodge" at Tacoma Art Museum
Marie Watt's solo exhibition "Lodge" travels to the Tacoma Art Museum: June 30 - October 7 2012.......LINK:http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/Page.aspx?nid=116 FOR MORE INFORMATION:CLICK ON IMAGE
Read morePDX Artist: Anna Gray+Ryan Wilson Paulsen, D.E.May, Johannes Girardoni, Tina Beebe,Victoria Haven
Now on Display at the Herman Miller Soho Pop Up Shop. Art on the walls include works by Anna Gray+Ryan Wilson Paulsen, D.E.May, Tina Beebe,Victoria Haven
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Read moreCaitlin Moore: Gallery Manager
We are pleased to announce that Caitlin Moore is returning to PDX as our Gallery Manager.
Read moreJenene Nagy: At Anderson Ranch
Jenene Nagy is Artistic Director Of Painting, Drawing And Printmaking
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Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in Aspen and Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2004. Nagy’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Portland Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Germany, and Dam Stuhltrager in NY, among others. Recent awards include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, a three-month residency at Raid Projects in Los Angeles and in 2011 Nagy was named as a finalist for the Contemporary NW Art Awards. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is one half of the independent curatorial team TILT Export:, an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues to produce exhibitions.Adam Sorensen: Out the Door
Adam Sorensen is out the PDX door as staff and into his studio ! Just where such a talented artist should be.
He has been a generous, gracious presence at PDX for 7 years. We wish him all the best and look forward to having new paintings in the gallery.
Thank you Adam for all your hard work.
Read moreVanessa Renwick: Charismatic Megafauna at Hollywood Theatre
Hollywood Theatre will show Vanessa Renwick's "Charismatic Megafauna" on Sunday, May 27th at 7:30 PM.
Read moreArnold Kemp: 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts
Arnold Kemp has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts
Read moreJoe Macca at The Art Gym
Joe Macca: Two Man Show at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
Read moreTina Beebe:
Commentator, colleague, friend in the PBS film Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/charles-ray-eames-the-a...)
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