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Adam Sorensen: APEX Exhibition in PORT's "The Score III"
PORT round-up features Adam Sorensen's APEX exhibition.
Read moreMolly Vidor: on KBOO
Click on the following link to listen to Molly Vidor talking on KBOO about her current show, "Honeydrippers."
Read moreMolly Vidor: in Willamette Week
Molly Vidor's raw, gusty work might leave her best described as a punk rock painter. She's toyed with pure abstraction over the years, but in Honeydrippers she brings back floral work. In works like Dark Ranunculus and Flavor Hearts, she shreds the notion of the standard still life with visceral black plums on a near-monochrome backdrop. It's as if she is channeling the siren song of Lydia Lunch in the 1983 film Vortex. The artist's fascination with the succulent flesh of white peaches, after all these years, obviously steals desire itself, as they sear before disappearing. -TJ Norris
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Read moreEllen George: Visual Art Source
Sculptor Ellen George re-emerges with a stylish sophistication in “Sensing Place,” taking on the wilder side of botanicals. Recommendation by TJ Norris
Read morePulse Miami 2011: Dec 1-4 booth E403
In our PDX booth visitors will discover new, fresh artists and revisit artists they already know. We will present the work by three artists Amjad Faur, Johannes Girardoni and D.E.May. Each is distinct from the other yet they share a certain quiet intensity addressing space and form that has an emotional content. A peek in our closet will reveal works by additional PDX artists such as Cynthia Lahti, Nancy Lorenz, Storm Tharp, Masao Yamamoto, Kristen Miller and Adam Sorensen.
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For more info look under our exhibitions: http://pdxcontemporaryart.com/pulse-miami-2011Victoria Haven, Nell Warren & Heather Watkins: the Lumber Room
"Interior Margins" - curated by Stephanie Snyder
Lumber Room
November 12, 2011 - January 30, 2012
419 SW 9th Ave
11 am to 6 pm"Interior Margins" was born around a dinner table in May of 2010, when eight women artists gathered to converse about painting and abstraction with Lumber Room founder Sarah Miller Meigs and Reed College curator Stephanie Snyder, within the Lumber Room's inaugural installation by San Francisco artist Léonie Guyer. The ideas discussed that evening catalyzed the desire for a further exhibition, one bringing together work of an intergenerational group of Northwest women artists who are transforming the diverse legacies and practices of abstraction for a new era.
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http://lumberroom.com/Heather Watkins: Represented by PDX
PDX welcomes Heather Watkins!
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We are proud and happy to announce that PDX now represents Heather Watkins. Known to many collectors and curators in Portland already, Watkins has created prints at Pace Prints and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught at Lewis & Clark, Rhode Island School of Design and Massachusetts College of Art, among others. Her work draws upon the expressive potential of many materials (ink, thread, rope, twine, wire, yarn, netting) in pursuit of lines and forms that express a complex of emotional or physical states.Vanessa Renwick: Artist Talk & Happy Hour at Portland Art Museum
Thursday November 10th, 6 to 8 pm
Join filmmaker and photographer Vanessa Renwick at the Portland Art Museum for a talk on one of the piece's in the museum's collection. The talk will be followed by a happy hour.
To purchase tickets, visit: https://pam.spotlightboxoffice.com/purchase/step4?ticketID=63558
Portland Art Museum
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1219 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97209Ellen George: Willamette Week Review
George's exhibition, "Sensing Place" reviewed by TJ Norris in Willamette Week.
Read moreAnna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen: Selected for the 10th Northwest Biennial
Artist duo Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen are one of 30 artists selected for Tacoma Art Museum's 10th Northwest Biennial. They were selected by TAM Curator Rock Hushka and independent curator and art critic Renato Rodrigues da Silva from Vancouver, BC.
Read moreAnna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen lecture at Lewis & Clark College
Tuesday November 1st, 5 pm
Lewis & Clark College - Miller Center for the Humanities, room 205
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 92
Portland, OR 97219Free and open to the public
Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen will relate their idea-based practice to notions of twin-dom.
Read moreVanessa Renwick: Charismatic Megafauna - New Film Show
Vanessa Renwick presents a new film show with live musical accompaniment this Friday, October 14, 2011 in Seattle. Supported by the Seattle Office of Cultural Affairs CityArtist Projects 2011 grant. Part of Wayward Music Series in the Chapel Performance Space.
Read moreArnold Kemp: Artist Talk and Happy Hour at Portland Art Museum
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
The chair of the Master in Fine Arts in Visual Studies Program at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Arnold Kemp has received multiple national awards. His works are in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
$5 members; $15 non-members. Space is limited to the first 45 ticket holders. Advance tickets available online and on site.
http://portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/events/2011/10/13/Artist-Talk-and-...
Read moreGus Van Sant and Brad Cloepfil: Talk at The Hammer Museum
Gus Van Sant's movie "Restless" is in the theaters http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=p7t29dNoTxs.
Brad Cloepfil's book is in the book stores.http://www.alliedworks.com/news/awa-book-and-hatje-cantz/ .Tuesday Oct 18th, Brad and Gus will talk about the inspiration that drives them and their shared beginnings in and continued love for the Pacific Northwest.
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Read moreSilas Beebe and Rob Tsunehiro : Award winning bike
OREGONIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL
Silas is the son of PDX owner/director Jane Beebe ...proud mother.
Innovations in Bicycle Safety and Usability Unveiled at Oregon Manifest
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The nation's leading custom bike builders gathered in Portland on September 24 for Oregon Manifest, a demanding competition that allows designers and builders to showcase their best ideas and compete for the title of the ultimate urban utility bike.
Second place went to the collaborative design/build team of Rob Tsunehiro of Tsunehiro Cycles and Silas Beebe of ID+. Tsunehiro, a former Boeing engineer and custom bike builder, and Beebe, an industrial designer with over a decade of global design experience, who won for their "Louis Vuitton of city bikes."
In awarding the second place finish, Rob Forbes, founder of Design Within Reach and Public Bicycles, challenged the other judges to "show me one way this bike falls short." In their hands, the practical urban utility bike maximized its functionality but with added elegance and safety.
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CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATIONAnna Gray+Ryan Wilson Paulsen: PICA TBA On Sight Salon, Sunday Oct. 2nd, 2-3pm
PICA presents Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen in an ON SIGHT Salon at Washington High School as part of TBA:11. An informal lecture by the artists will touch upon their collaborative practice and their interest in alternate and revisionist histories. The talk will take place within the duo's 'Fix It' office where they worked at editing, redacting and manipulating September, an art historical broadside made specifically for TBA.
http://www.pica.org/festival_detail_new.aspx?eventid=772
Read moreVanessa Renwick: PNCA lecture Sept 29th,6:30pm
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Vanessa RenwickSep 29, 2011 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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The MFA in Visual Studies invites Vanessa Renwick to speak for the 2011-12 Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, Vanessa Renwick produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society. She puts scholars to rout by solving through nature’s teaching problems that have fretted their trained minds. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationship between bodies and landscapes, and all matter of borders.
Presented by: ZGF Architects LLP
Supported by PNCA+FIVE (Ford Institute for Visual Education)
Read moreKristen Miller: New American Paintings Review
Kristen Miller's exhibition "Memento" reviewed on the New American Paintings blog by Seattle contributor Erin Langner.
Read moreStorm Tharp: Crow's Shadow Institute printmaking residency
Crow’s Shadow will be hosting artist Storm Tharp for a two-week printmaking residency, Sept. 19-30, 2011.
SEPT. 29 EVENING RECEPTION FOR STORM THARPCrow’s Shadow will be hosting a public reception for visiting artist Storm Tharp on Thursday, Sept. 29, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., in the Crow’s Shadow gallery.
Visitors will have the opportunity to meet Tharp and check out new works—or works in progress—created during the artist’s two-week printmaking residency.
Tharp also will present a brief slide presentation on his past works in other media. Light refreshments will be available.
Tharp arrived at Crow’s Shadow on Monday to begin some preliminary portrait drawing and experimentation with various lithographic drawing materials.
You can read more about Tharp and his residency here.
We hope to see you here (Crow's Shadow Institute 48004 St. Andrews Road, Pendleton, OR, 97801).
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