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Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen: "A Classroom Reader" Book Launch at Publication Studio
This Sunday evening, PDX artist duo Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen will release their new book "A Classroom Reader" at Publications Studio. Please join us for the book launch JANUARY 9, 2011, 6:30 - 9:30 PM @ PUBLICATION STUDIO, 717 SW ANKENY STREET, PORTLAND, OR 97205.
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Click on image for more information.Megan Murphy: Video on recent work
Click image for a video on Megan Murphy and "Water" exhibition at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.
Read moreMarie Watt on Oregon Art Beat, OPB
Marie Watt featured on episode 1209 of OPB's Oregon Art Beat: http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/segments/view/883
Read moreMarie Watt and James Lavadour at National Museum of the American Indian
The exhibition 'Vantage Point' features works from the National Museum of the American Indian's permanent collection of contemporary art, including the work of PDX artist's Marie Watt and James Lavadour.
Read moreVanessa Renwick: The Huffington Post
If an image can be didactic without a title, and Michael David's often are, removing the imagery, as David does in his current encaustic paintings seen at Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, Arizona), focuses your attention first on optics. But check the title of the show's central work, "The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes," and the cinematic quality of the blood red sun of a tondo, and see if that doesn't take you in some surprising directions. If the landscape's presence is indirect in his body of work, it couldn't be more explicit to both the form and content in Vanessa Renwick's current project at PDX Contemporary (Portland), "as easy as falling off a log." Given the Pacific Northwest locale, shades of Ken Kesey's Stamper family, the show conveys how immersion in the environment pushes us to anthropomorphize it. A send-up image like "flat as a board (knot)," translating a bit of tree bark and pine needles into a frontal nude, helps puncture, without contradiction, the environmental polemic.
Read moreVanessa Renwick: review of "as easy of falling off a log" in the Oregonian
by John Motley
Throughout her new exhibition, "As Easy as Falling off a Log," Vanessa Renwick fixates on wood and sex, pairing her interests in the great outdoors with the bedroom, so to speak.
Read moreArnold Kemp "DAYDREAM NATION" review in the Oregonian
by John Motley
In his past work, Kemp, who serves as chairman of PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies program, has explored ideas of blackness as a means to understand and express his experience as an African American.
Read moreVanessa Renwick: review of "as easy of falling off a log" on PORT
by Patrick Collier
In 1957 the State of Oregon outlawed the use of splash dams on Oregon waterways. Splash dams were built on rivers and creeks as a way to back up water in a sufficient volume to propel logged trees downstream. The flood caused by the sudden gush of water, plus the massive number of logs, scoured the waterways down to the bedrock, thereby making those streams inhospitable to the spawning salmon that required gravel beds (redds) to lay and fertilize eggs. Only after a series of lawsuits by anglers and environmentalists was the practice terminated nationwide.
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/11/vanessa_renwick_2.html
Read moreArnold Kemp in Studio Museum in Harlem exhibition, "Collected. Black & White"
November 11 - January 2, 2011. Click on image for more information.
Read moreEllen George: in collaboration with Jerry Mayer at Nine Gallery
"Drawing Room": Ellen George & Jerry Mayer
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November 4 – November 28, 2010
Nine Gallery (inside Blue Sky Gallery)
12:00 – 5:00pm Tuesday - Sunday
122 NW 8th
Portland OR 97209
503-225-0210
CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATIONVanessa Renwick: " Filmmaker/artist Vanessa Renwick has a new show" Shawn Levy, The Oregonian
http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2010/11/filmmakerartist_vaness....
"Vanessa Renwick, the Portland filmmaker/artist/provocateur who serves as doyenne of the Oregon Department of Kickass brings a new show of video and photographic work to the PDX Contemporary Art's Across the Hall gallery this month.Entitled "as easy as falling off a log," the show includes video, sculpture and photography, musical themes by Sam Coomes and the collaboration of the design collective Von Tundra.
The show opens on Tuesday November 2, with a reception during First Thursday on November 4."
Read moreAdam Sorensen: Art Ltd. Review. Richard Speer
Review of Adam Sorensen's "New Westerns" in Art Ltd. Nov/Dec 2010 issue. Click on image for more information.
Read moreJacque Flechemuller: Port review, Patrick Collier
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/10/flechemuller_at.html. Click on image for more information.
Read moreSock Gathering Project: PDX is collecting new & used socks for donation
This November, we are transforming our Window Project into a sock-gathering site, gathering deeply-needed socks for seasonal workers and other people who need warm feet. Help us out by donating clean, matched or unmatched, new or old socks. So many of us have extra socks that we don’t know what to do with, whether it’s an old pair or some random single sock hanging out by the dryer.
The socks will be donated to the Center for Workers and to VOZ (Worker’s Rights Education Project), their sponsor organization. Chelsea Mosher of Sign Wizards will design a sign for the project.
You can drop off socks at PDX Contemporary Art, and at these additional drop-off spots:
- Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny Street
- Mabel & Zora, 748 NW 11th Street* We would like to start getting sock donations right away. You can drop off socks at PDX from Tuesday Oct. 26th - Saturday Nov. 27th.
image credit: Tucker Nichols, "Untitled," 2008, colored pencil on paper. click on image for more information
Read moreMarie Watt: Art News Review
Review by Richard Speer, September 2010 ARTnews. Click on image for full review.
Read moreVanessa Renwick: Current and Upcoming Shows & Screenings
THE HOUSE OF SOUND. Screening at: RACE AND PEDAGOGY NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA (Oct. 10 - Nov. 13); BIJOU THEATER, Iowa City, IA (Nov. 3); URBAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Grand Rapids, MI (Nov. 7); KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, Kent, OH (Nov. 9); ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Lafayette, LA (Nov. 21); MUSICAL PORTRAITS, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA (Dec. 4); UNION THEATER, Milwaukee, WI (Jan. 27)
Read moreGraham Bell curates "Clicks and Pffts" at The Telephone Room Gallery, Tacoma
"Clicks and Pffts" at the Telephone Room Gallery in Tacoma, a sound installation by Jessica Robinson, CURATED BY GRAHAM BELL of PDX Contemporary Art.
http://www.facebook.com/Telephone.Room.Gallery
Read moreCynthia Lahti in "Forget Me Not": Group Exhibition at Reading Frenzy
OPENING THURSDAY OCTOBER 7th, 6 to 8. October 7th - November 2nd.
Forget Me Not is a Reading Frenzy tradition and this year we're pleased to present the biggest one ever! Nearly two dozen local artists (and one from the UK!) who have created work honoring a dearly departed person, place or thing.
Join us for the first Thursday reception or come visit us any time in October. You're also invited to bring small items (photos, artwork, tchotchkes, etc.) that represent your dearly departed to contribute to a public shrine.
Read moreMasao Yamamoto included in "The Color of Black & White," curated by Chris Johanson
September 10th - October 16th at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL (click on image for more information)
Read moreJames Lavadour: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
James Lavadour's multipanel painting is included in the exhibition "Vantage Point: The Contemporary Native Art Collection"
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September 25, 2010–August 7, 2011
NMAI on the National Mall, Washington, DC
Vantage Point highlights the National Museum of the American Indian's young but vital collection of contemporary art, with significant works by 25 artists in media ranging from paintings, drawings, and photography to video projection and mixed-media installation. These complex and richly layered works speak to the concerns and experiences of Native people today, addressing memory, history, the significance of place for Native communities, and the continuing relevance of cultural traditions. The artists featured include Marie Watt (Seneca), James Lavadour (Walla Walla), Alan Michelson (Mohawk), and Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk).
