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Keenan Jay: Installation in "The Wrong Gallery"
Keenan Jay in "The Wrong Gallery" Playing on the No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service sign and the history of the real "Wrong Gallery" now housed at The Tate Modern (http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/2005/wronggallery...), PDX Intern Keenan Jay presents an installation in "The Wrong Gallery"1:6 Scale model, before returning to his studies at R.I.S.D. "No BFA,No MFA No Service."
Read moreNick Blosser: Solo Exhibition at Johnson City Area Arts Council Gallery, Tennessee
"Outside In"
September 1 - October 31, 2011
Reception: October 7, 6-8 pm
Johnson City Area Arts Council Gallery
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300 East Main Street, Suite 102
Johnson City, TNAdam Sorensen: "Tabernacle" the cover of Willamette Week
Adam Sorensen has the cover - and a feature article about his show at The Portland Art Museum's APEX which runs from Sept 3rd- Jan1. Congratulations Adam!
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FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK ON IMAGEGus Van Sant: Museum of the Moving Image
Gus Van Sant is the focus of a three-week retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
Read moreAnna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen: TBA:11
September 8th - October 30th, 2011
Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen present "Don't Worry We'll Fix It" for PICA's annual Time-Based Art Festival. This show will be on view throughout the festival, as a part of the "On Sight" program.
How is it that 115 billion human life stories are distilled into one approximate “history”? Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen indirectly approach that question through the establishment of a production office that specializes in redaction and restorative text-work.
The Fix It office will employ a variety of divergent archival and historiographic methods in order to examine the ways that the institution of history is continuously built up and broken down through texts.
The office will both produce the publication September, a daily art historical broadside specially made for TBA:11, and be an active space where the artists will work onsite to correct, revise, and compile errata from previous editions of the paper amidst a new body of their related object-work.
Opening Reception : Thursday, Sept. 8, 8-10 pm
Gallery Hours: Sept 9-Sept. 18 -- 12-6:30 everyday
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Sept 22-Oct 30 -- 12-6:30 Thu-Fri, 12-4 Sat-SunMarie Watt: "Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years"
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis and Clark College
September 7-December 11, 2011
Opening reception September 7 at 6:30 p.m.In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Bonnie Bronson Fund, this exhibition debuts new work by the Bonnie Bronson Fellows, some of the Pacific Northwest’s most influential contemporary artists, including Christine Bourdette, Marie Watt, MK Guth, and Kristy Edmunds. It is the first such gallery event to bring these artists together in one exhibition.
The Lewis & Clark exhibition is the centerpiece of a multi-part tribute to the legacy of Bonnie Bronson.
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http://www.lclark.edu/hoffman_gallery/Cynthia Lahti and Justin L'Amie: Exhibit 'The Return of the Native'
PDX artists Cynthia Lahti and Justin L'Amie will be exhibited in KALA @ hipfishmonthly's 'The Return of the Native'. The opening is Saturday Sept. 10, 5-9pm in Astoria.
Read moreCynthia Lahti: Featured in Plazm Magazine #30
The sculpture of PDX artist Cynthia Lahti is proudly featured in the latest Plazm magazine.
Read moreAdam Sorensen: Solo Exhibition at Portland Art Museum's APEX
September 3rd - January 1, 2012
Adam’s meticulously executed landscape paintings shimmer with natural and neon-like colors depicting pseudo-mountains, glaciers, and watery expanses. These new works embrace a current pop-culture aesthetic, but are influenced by a heavy dose of 18th and 19th century Japanese wood block printing. Hiroshige clearly provides a vocabulary for Sorensen’s own story.
Portland Art Museum
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1219 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205Terry Toedtemeier: Oregonian Review
When Portland photographer Terry Toedtemeier passed away in late 2008, he left behind an accomplished body of work not only as an artist, but also as a historian and curator. In fact, the work for which he is best known -- "Wild Beauty," a photographic history of the Columbia River Gorge -- triangulated around these passions, becoming a book co-edited with John Laursen and an exhibit at the Portland Art Museum.
In 2013, the museum, where Toedtemeier served as curator of photography from 1985 until his passing, will launch a retrospective and provide an opportunity to reflect on the lifetime of one of the state's most visionary chroniclers. For now, "Unfinished Business," at PDX Contemporary, offers Toedtemeier's last works -- only a handful of which were printed by the photographer before he died.
Apart from a few older photographs taken in eastern Oregon, the work in "Unfinished Business" was largely shot beyond state lines, during travels to coastal Maine and the American Southwest, including Walter De Maria's "Lightning Field" in Western New Mexico. Still, these black-and-white pictures are filled with the same seductive properties that mark his close-to-home output: rhythmic passages of light and shade and geologic formations that suggest a sculptural dimension. "Untitled (between Flagstaff and Tuba City" from 2005 offers a fairly pedestrian image of a rural road disappearing into the horizon. But Toedtemeier focuses on a seam in the roadway, which literally disrupts the continuity of the lane's center line. That formal hiccup cleaves the shot in two and draws out the symbolic tension between the earthbound pavement in the foreground and the dramatic sky above it.
In "Rock Cairn (shot-up bucket), Malheur County, Oregon," an older inclusion from 1994, Toedtemeier focuses his lens on a man-made structure: a makeshift target, in which bored, rural thrill-seekers have crowned a precarious stack of stones with a metal bucket. Clearly, he was drawn to the itinerant structure in formal terms: the slipshod arrangement of rocks, the bucket stippled with bullet holes. But the makeshift nature of the target was his subject, too. And like any great photographer, that appreciation of the ephemeral allowed him to see the mythic disguised in the incidental.
-- John Motley
Read moreJames Lavadour: Re-joins Crow's Shadow Board of Directors
Returning to the Board is artist and Crow’s Shadow co-founder James Lavadour (Walla Walla). Since leaving the Board in 1999 to focus on his illustrious career, Lavadour has continued to support Crow’s Shadow through artistic direction and donations of his prints to support Crow’s Shadow fundraising efforts.
When asked about his current participation on the Crow’s Shadow Board of Directors, Lavadour says, “I’m just very happy to be back on and see the new directions Crow’s Shadow is embarking on. With the new leadership of Melissa Bob as interim executive director and the future master printer, I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store for the organization.”
Read moreMarie Watt: Makes new prints at Crow's Shadow residency
Marie Watt created new prints during a recent residency at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton, Oregon. Watt previously completed residencies in 2002, 2003 and 2005, during which times she created a combined 12 mostly sold-out editions of lithographs and woodcut prints.
Read moreMarie Watt: "Counting Coup" at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
August 19 – December 31, 2011: "Counting Coup" - at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Counting Coup is a form of prestige, pride and power. “Counting coup” is an expression originating from Plains Indian tactics of intimidation, and an act of bravery that accounts for survival originating from personal victories in non-violent battle exploits. The evidence of confrontation, interaction, and risk encountered through incessant forms of colonization are recorded as experiences and achievements etched in memory, heart and spirit. Counting Coup will include works by artists from the United States, Canada and Australia and range in media; sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, photography, installation, film and video, and poetry.
Artists include Courtney Leonard, Shelley Niro, Teri Greeves, Duane Slick, Alfred Young Man, Marty Gradolf, Carl Beam, Marie Watt, Maria Hupfield, Alex Jacobs, Vern Ah Kee, Tom Jones, Jesus Barraza, Ryan Red Corn, Jim Denomie, Greg Staats, Jason Garcia and Nigit’stil Norbert w/ Paul Wilcken.
Read moreAdam Sorensen: "Wild Kingdom" at Texas State University
“Wild Kingdom" Exhibition dates: August 24 – September 22, 2011 Texas State University – San Marcos
San Marcos, Texas
Read moreAnna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen: Gallery Homeland
Reading.Writing.
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August 5 through September 9, 2011
galleryHOMELAND, 2505 SE 11th, Portland, OR
Click image for more infoKahnaway Art & Ecology: Exhibition "The New American Landscape"
Open one weekend only! Friday August 12th - Sunday August 14th. Click on image for more info.
Read moreJames Lavadour and Marie Watt: Smithsonian exhibition
Smithsonian.com
August 2, 2011
Hurry In! Exhibitions Closing in August2.“Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection” at American Indian
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At times provocative and at times moving, these works run the gamut from a blanket sewn out of thrift store fabrics to a photographic spoof of a Frida Kahlo self-portrait to a video installation projected on a screen of white turkey feathers. the museum’s acquisitions during the past several years. When the National Museum of the American Indian opened its doors on the National Mall in 2004, the museum had already begun to amass a rich collection of contemporary art by Native Americans. The museum’s exhibit, “Vantage Point,” a survey of 25 contemporary artists, opened last September and also closes this Sunday.Vanessa Renwick & Montana Maurice show at Cherry Sprout Produce
We love Vanessa's energy and broad participation in community. Here, Vanessa and her daughter Montana are showing in a small very "Portland" produce store.
Cherry Sprout is a locally owned and inspired neighborhood market. Not only is it a place to get great deals on produce, healthy snacks and tasty beverages, but Cherry Sprout is also a community space hosting a variety of art, music and cultural happenings. Check them out at www.cherrysprout.com.Saturday July 30th: 8pm - 11pm
at Cherry Sprout Produce, 722 N. Sumner St.Come to Vanessa Renwick and Montana Merida’s photos and videos art opening!
Lots of new photos by Vanessa and Montana.
Super special musical guests Lori Goldston and Marisa Anderson playing together! Come hear the crazy amazing cello and guitar sounds!
Also, screening of Renwick's Portrait #2:Trojan, Portrait #3:House of Sound, and Richart! (co-directed by Dawn Smallman)
If it is nice out, the music and movies will be outside in the park.
Otherwise inside in the bulk section!Oregon Department of Kick Ass t-shirts will be for sale at this event!
Saturday nite 8pm – 11pm at the produce market! FREE and All-Ages
Read moreArnold Kemp: Perfomance/Lecture at SFMOMA
Thursday, July 28, 2011:
Arnold J. Kemp on Mary Heilmann's Fire and Ice Remix
Arnold J. Kemp, poet
Meet in the Haas Atrium before moving into the galleries.
6:30 p.m.Inspired by The Steins Collect, this series of readings honors poet Gertrude Stein and her relationships with the visual artists of her day. Each Thursday evening, a leading contemporary poet gives a reading, performance, or talk on a single artist or artwork on view. Readings last 20 minutes.
Part of Pop-Up Poets.
Free with museum admission.
Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/events/1909#ixzz1TRaGdQgO
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San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtMegan Murphy: Artist Talk & Tour at Portland Art Museum
FRIDAY, JULY 15, 6:00 - 7:45 PM. Join Contemporary Northwest Art Award recipient Megan Murphy for a discussion and tour of her work in the exhibition. $5 members; $12 non-members. Space is limited to the first 45 ticket holders. Advance tickets available online at https://pam.spotlightboxoffice.com/purchase/step4?ticketID=59895 and on site.
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