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This Week’s Triptych Artist: D.E. May

This year's National Exhibition #7 titled "Antillean: an Ecology" supports the work of 47 visual artists and five pedagogues, and challenges Bahamian practitioners to respond broadly to the dynamics of race and class, issues that undoubtedly transcend fixed geographical and cultural boundaries. The platform has been generated to showcase how these important cultural signifiers have come to shape the collective consciousness of a post independent Bahamas...

And in the rhapsodic print Occultation, a panoply of burning candles, wrapped in twine, seems to float in midair. Like many of the images in this show, it’s menacing, beautiful, and more than a little uncanny...

Actress Bitsie Tulloch studied Fine Arts and Literature at Harvard. In an interview with Answers.com Bitsie talks about her enthusiasm about lending her work by D.E.May to Dan's solo exhibition at LAXART.......................................................................................................................................................................
"What would you be doing if you weren't an actress?
I would have gotten my MFA and been a curator. I love art and collecting it. I'm really excited right now because one of my Dan May pieces is going to be in an upcoming exhibit in Los Angeles at LAX art gallery - that's the first time I've been able to loan a work :)"
http://www.answers.com/bitsietulloch

PDX Contemporary Art is pleased to announce D.E. May's solo exhibition at LAXART curated by George Baker. November 8th - December 13th. Opening Reception, Saturday, November 8, 6-8pm.
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http://laxart.org/exhibitions/view/de-maybrihalf-distancei/#images

"Tharp's fluid and loopy portraits in gouache and ink, which were featured in the 2010 Whitney Biennial, are gone, replaced by portraits and object studies, several in oils, that emphasize more earth-bound depictions of his subjects. This shift plays to his strengths, making "Tiger," which contains some truly exceptional compositions, the most effortless and natural body of work Tharp has shown in Portland." ...

Traveling exhibition “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live” featuring Hallie Ford Fellows (including PDX artists Cynthia Lahti and D.E. May) opens for the final time tonight at the East Oregonian Gallery at Pendleton Center for the Arts...

Jenene Nagy is making some gorgeous work these days and her latest, titled "brilliant"...

The stratification of socioeconomic class in Aspen, Colo., wouldn’t at first seem fodder for a fascinating art show, but former Portlander and current Aspen doyenne Jenene Nagy has the moxie to turn this arid conceit into a dazzling grouping of drawings, prints and sculptures...

This former Portland artist's installation sculptures and graphite works on paper share bold geometric shapes and engrossing shiny surfaces. This exhibition questions the separations between the two art forms.