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Vanessa Renwick: Portland2012 opening at White Box
Be sure to visit White Box to see Vanessa Renwick's most recent video installation "Medusa Smack". The original score is by talented, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Tara Jane O'neil The University of Oregon White Box exhibition is part of the city wide Disjecta Portland2012 Biennial, curated by Prudence Roberts....................
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April 1- May 26 , 2012
Tuesday - Saturday 12- 6 pm
24 NW First Ave Portland ORMarie Watt on Oregon Arts Watch
Marie Watt: Collaboration can be more than a strategy.
Marie Watt’s work is about community involvement. It needs it to survive, and in her small but potent retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem right now, each element speaks to a greater company of bodies than Watt’s own.
Read moreJames Lavadour: youtube video
James Lavadour discusses the roots of his ideas in creating "Ruby Lift", a cast resin sculpture, made at Walla Walla Foundry. Video is courtesy of Sam Beebe.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgdUsnU0vvgVanessa Renwick at the Keep Portland Weird Festival, Paris, France
Vanessa Renwick, founder of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass, will be presenting two shows of her films "Portrait #1 Cascadia Terminal" and "Medusa Smack" with musician Tara Jane ONeil playing the score live at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Centre Pompidou/Metz. She also will screen a selection of films that she curated of contemporary Portland artists, as well as a curation of her own short films.
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From the 19th to the 29th April 2012, at La Gaîté Lyrique and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Le Lieu Unique in Nantes.Arnold Kemp and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen at Disjecta for Portland2012
Arnold Kemp and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are exhibiting at Disjecta as part of Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art
Read moreJames Lavadour : a video clip"Ruby Lift" sculpture
Just in from Walla Walla foundry
Read moreMarie Watt: Dwelling- Time lapse video
Installation video of Marie Watt's Dwelling at the Hallie Ford Museum.
Read moreCynthia Lahti at the Art Gym for Portland2012
As part of Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cynthia Lahti will be exhibiting new work at the Marylhurst Art Gym.
February 27 - April 4, 2012
Read moreVanessa Renwick: Showing her short films at Museum of Jurassic Technology.
Feb 23, 8-11pm. Filmmaker Vanessa Renwick is in LA showing her beautiful shorts on thursday night at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. 9341 Venice Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232-2621
Read moreMarie Watt: Lodge at the Hallie Ford Museum
The Hallie Ford Museum is pleased to present Marie Watt: Lodge, February 4th - April 1st, 2012
Read moreAdam Sorensen on HI-FRUCTOSE blog
Alongside the epic resurgence of non-traditional figurative and narrative art, the time honored tradition of landscape painting has morphed quietly itself, producing a sub genre of artists who create works of serene yet semi-apocalyptic landscapes, such as Jean-Pierre Roy (HF Vol.18) and Gregory Euclide (HF Vol.17) for example, an emotional tug of war between the longing for the diminishing natural world versus a painful look at what seems destined to be. Portland painter Adam Sorensen falls within this category, with his imaginary worlds of crystalline structures and bright irradiated colors contrasting with smooth, lava flow dark bumps and luminous waterfalls. Oddly cheerful in it's otherworldly- ness, the work invokes the idea of a melted, post-mankind landscape and gives the landscapes their star turn as seemingly sentient personalities of their own. -Kirsten Anderson
Read moreMarie Watt: Book cover image for "Shapeshifting:Transformations in Native American Art"
Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art
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On view January 14, 2012 to April 29, 2012Located in the: Special Exhibition Galleries
Shapeshifting celebrates Native American ideas that have crossed time and space to be continuously refreshed with new concepts and expressions. Experience this vitality through sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, photographs, videos and monumental installations drawn from collections in the United States, Canada and Europe. Rarely seen historic pieces, shown alongside some of the finest contemporary works, demonstrate the diversity and continuity of Native American art and culture from 200 B.C.E. to the present.Exhibition supported in part by the Terra Foundation for American Art, Peck Stacpoole Foundation, the Bay and Paul Foundations, Ellen and Steve Hoffman, ECHO (Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations) and the East India Marine Associates (EIMA) of the Peabody Essex Museum.Visiting Artist Lecture Series at U of O: Victoria Haven
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Victoria Haven
Victoria Haven is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington. She received her BFA in painting from the University of Washington and her MFA in 1999 from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her work has been included in group shows at the Drawing Center in New York, The Henry Art Gallery, The Frye Art Museum, Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto) and Tablet Gallery (London), among others. Haven uses drawing, sculpture and photography to mine the fertile ground between 2 and 3 dimensions. Her work has been written about in several publications including Artforum, Art LTD and Art in America. Her recent book Hit the North, published by Publication Studio in 2011, is a collection of images with essay relating to her practice as a visual artist. Haven is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland and Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Lawrence Hall room 115
1190 Franklin Blvd.
Eugene OR
97403JOHANNES GIRARDONI - PERSONAL STRUCTURES, part of the 54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
PERSONAL STRUCTURES, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, 2011
Hardback, 168 Pages, 109 color illustrationsISBN 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 moreEllen George: Ellen George & Jerry Mayer installation in the Nine Gallery
“The effects of creasing and crumpling cannot be reversed. Every gesture is a permanent and evident record, and makes visible an indelible history.” -- Ellen George & Jerry Mayer
January 5 – January 29, 2012
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Nine Gallery (inside Blue Sky Gallery)
12:00 – 5:00pm, Tuesday - Sunday
122 NW 8th
Portland OR 97209......
CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATIONAdam Sorensen: "Best painting of the year" as selected by Willamette Week Visual Arts Writer Richard Speer
Congratulations Adam Sorensen.
Read morePortland2012: Congratulations, Artists!
Congratulations to PDX artists Arnold Kemp, Vanessa Renwick, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, and Cynthia Lahti!
Read moreCynthia Lahti: Ceramics Now Exhibition, Romania
Ceramics Now Exhibition, The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
December 9, 2011 - January 6, 2012Ceramics Now Magazine has the pleasure to invite you to the first edition of Ceramics Now exhibition, held at the Paintbrush Factory, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from December 9, 2011 to January 6, 2012.
Opening reception: Friday, Dec 9, at 18:00.
The exhibition presents different approaches of contemporary ceramic art through the works of 15 artists from USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, South Korea, Israel and Poland, and celebrates the launch of Ceramics Now Magazine’s first printed issue. The artists are also featured in the issue.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Chang Hyun Bang (SK), Antonella Cimatti (IT), Patrick Colhoun (UK), Carole Epp (CA), Simcha Even-Chen (IL), Shamai Gibsh (IL), Mark Goudy (US), Roxanne Jackson (US), Margrieta Jeltema (IT), Maciej Kasperski (PL), Jim Kraft (US), Cynthia Lahti (US), Claire Muckian (UK), Connie Norman (US), Liza Riddle (US).
EXHIBITION SPACE:
The Paintbrush Factory (third floor)
Henri Barbusse nr. 59-61
Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaOpen Monday-Saturday, 14-20 pm, closed on Sundays, Christmas (Dec 24, 25, 26) and New Year (Dec 31, Jan 1). Free admission. With the kind support of SABOT Gallery and the Paintbrush Factory.
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http://www.ceramicsnow.org/exhibitionMarie Watt: Writer Lois Leveen talks on Marie Watt sculpture at Portland Art Museum
THURSDAY, DEC. 8th, 6 - 8 pm
Lois Leveen discusses the recasting of American history in contemporary art and literature, looking at the mixed-media sculpture of award-winning Native American artist Marie Watt and Leveen's own novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, which is based on the true story of a free black woman who during the Civil War spied on behalf of the Union by posing as a slave in the Confederate White House. The first hour will be a talk in the gallery in front of Watt's sculpture, and the second hour will be a more informal discussion in the museum cafe.
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Read moreMolly Vidor: Oregonian Review
David Row reviews Molly Vidor's
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