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Jenene Nagy is Artistic Director Of Painting, Drawing And Printmaking
Jenene Nagy is a visual artist living and working in Aspen and Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the University of Arizona in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Oregon in 2004. Nagy’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Portland Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum, Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin, Germany, and Dam Stuhltrager in NY, among others. Recent awards include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, a three-month residency at Raid Projects in Los Angeles and in 2011 Nagy was named as a finalist for the Contemporary NW Art Awards. Along with a rigorous studio practice, Nagy is one half of the independent curatorial team TILT Export:, an independent art initiative with no fixed location, working in partnership with a variety of venues to produce exhibitions.

Adam Sorensen is out the PDX door as staff and into his studio ! Just where such a talented artist should be.

He has been a generous, gracious presence at PDX for 7 years. We wish him all the best and look forward to having new paintings in the gallery.

Thank you Adam for all your hard work.

Hollywood Theatre will show Vanessa Renwick's "Charismatic Megafauna" on Sunday, May 27th at 7:30 PM.

Arnold Kemp has been named a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts

Joe Macca: Two Man Show at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University

To look upon the paintings of James Lavadour is to see worlds you know like your own backyard. Nevermind that you can’t place the exact peaks and drainages, that you can’t claim to have seen these exact combinations of color cast upon the Missions or Beartooths. These are landscapes we Montanans know by heart: jagged cliffs slicing red-streaked sunset skies, cascading sheets of rain plunging from blustery clouds.

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Be sure to visit White Box to see Vanessa Renwick's most recent video installation "Medusa Smack". The original score is by talented, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Tara Jane O'neil The University of Oregon White Box exhibition is part of the city wide Disjecta Portland2012 Biennial, curated by Prudence Roberts....................
April 1- May 26 , 2012
Tuesday - Saturday 12- 6 pm
24 NW First Ave Portland OR

Marie Watt: Collaboration can be more than a strategy.

Marie Watt’s work is about community involvement. It needs it to survive, and in her small but potent retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem right now, each element speaks to a greater company of bodies than Watt’s own.

James Lavadour discusses the roots of his ideas in creating "Ruby Lift", a cast resin sculpture, made at Walla Walla Foundry. Video is courtesy of Sam Beebe.
TO VIEW, CLICK ON IMAGE or GO TO :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgdUsnU0vvg

Vanessa Renwick, founder of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass, will be presenting two shows of her films "Portrait #1 Cascadia Terminal" and "Medusa Smack" with musician Tara Jane ONeil playing the score live at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Centre Pompidou/Metz. She also will screen a selection of films that she curated of contemporary Portland artists, as well as a curation of her own short films.
From the 19th to the 29th April 2012, at La Gaîté Lyrique and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Le Lieu Unique in Nantes.