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"Twelve Must-See Painting Shows: September 2012 -

Sarah Cain, Matt Connors, Angela Dufresne, Mark Flood, Toba Khedoori, Dimitri Kozyrev, Robert Lostutter, Erick Parker, Cory Ryman, STORM THARP, Devin Troy Strother, Wendy White

"It is September and the art world has come back to life..."

"Holding a Peach, Storm Tharp’s exhibition of new paintings and sculptures, is a study in intimacy..."

Ida Green Gallery, Austin College presents "Prairie" a solo exhibition by Ellen George.
September 17 - November 9, 2012

Storm Tharp
PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Review by Richard Speer

Continuing through September 29, 2012

The fetishization of fabric and flesh in Storm Tharp’s exhibition, "Holding a Peach," recalls similar fascinations in fashion designer-cum-film director Tom Ford’s cinematic debut, "A Single Man." . . .

"Watkins' show is dominated by a series of poured ink works on paper … sumptuous pools of ink, which fork into thick bands and slinky rivulets … reveal[ing] her openness to chance, her willingness to permit the ink a voice in the collaboration. In that sense, Watkins' project take its cues from John Cage's methodical use of chance in creating his artworks, as well as the poured canvases of second-wave Abstract Expressionist painters such as Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis."

- John Motly, The Oregonian

Heather Watkins speaks about her work in conjunction with the new exhibition at Reed's Feldenheimer Gallery, Gradual Instant

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A
RECEPTION AND POETRY READING
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012; 5:30 – 7:30

KATRINA ROBERTS, a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is the Mina Schwabacher Professor of English and the Humanities at Whitman College, where she directs the Visiting Writers Reading Series.
ARNOLD J. KEMP, director of the Visual Studies Program at Pacific Northwest College of Art and artist in residence at Crow’s Shadow, has published poems in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4 Period(ical), River Styx Nocturnes and Art Journal.

CROW’S SHADOW
48004 St. Andrews Road, Pendleton, OR, 97801
Phone: (541) 276-3954

"True, what's / lost is lost/But often space left by loss / makes places available in the heart and day / / for other makers of song to fill."
— Katrina Roberts
“Emptiness needs no defense / Space cannot be damaged / An opinion or image can be attacked and hurt but the space in which opinion or image exists is indestructible.”
— Arnold J. Kemp

Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization aimed at providing opportunities for Native Americans through artistic development.

PDX Contemporary were our art fair neighbors all weekend...

Tad Savinar's 'Selected Works about Cities' is currently on exhibit at the Governor's Office, presented by the Oregon Arts Commission. The artwork will be on view until September 27, 2012.

More information here: http://www.oregonartscommission.org/content/tad-savinar’s-selected-works-about-cities-exhibited-governor’s-office

Savinar will also be exhibition with Tony Labat at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in 2013 from January 11 - March 17. From their website:

"This exhibition combines the interdisciplinary works of Tony Labat and Tad Savinar, who each use humor and straightforward presentation strategies to explore human foibles, social structures, and political history. Labatt is an influential teacher of new genres at the San Francisco Art Institute and a fixture in the art and music scene in California; Savinar is a visual artist, playwright, designer, and urban planner based in Portland, Oregon. This pairing offers a meditation on conceptual art as practiced by two artists who have worked for decades in specific West Coast locales."

More information can be found here: http://www.thecontemporary.org/exhibitions/tony-labat-and-tad-savinar/

For art in Portland, August is the calm before the storm. In another month, PICA's 10th annual Time-Based Art Festival will electrify the city, as galleries kick off their new programming schedules with typically strong shows. And yet, for such a quiet time, there are a number of intriguing -- and suitably quiet -- shows opening in August, led by Portland artist Heather Watkins' first solo exhibition at PDX Contemporary, "Movement of Objects at Rest." Watkins, whose work shone in the "Interior Margins" group show at the Lumber Room last year, creates chance drawings by methodically pouring ink onto paper, which she manipulates to create spidery forms full of luscious pools and flows. Like a Rorschach test, the fluid sweep of the ink in Watkins' drawings doesn't create a picture of anything per se, but that won't keep you from finding signs of life in these abstract works. PDX Contemporary, 925 N.W. Flanders St., 503-222-0063, pdxcontemporaryart.com, through Sept. 1 [...]

--John Motley

Full text here: http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2012/07/august_gallery_preview_…