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Tony Labat & Tad Savinar: Nice to Meet You

This exhibition combines the works of Tony Labat and Tad Savinar, two influential West Coast conceptualists who explore the personal and the socio-political in drawing, sculpture, video, printmaking, and performance. The title, Nice to Meet You, acknowledges the fact that until this pairing was planned, the artists had never met, and it affirms that both men are interested in reaching audiences in accessible and often humorous ways. It is the combination of a seemingly straightforward approach combined with analyzed anger and astute irony that gives their work its power..........http://www.thecontemporary.org/exhibitions/tony-labat-tad-savinar-nice-… ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Featured in our booth will be a beautiful, monumental, meditative screen by Nancy Lorenz, ceramic and paper sculptures by Cynthia Lahti (who is currently in Berlin), a sculpture from a new series of work by 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Arnold Kemp, and a fantastic polished bronze sculpture by Storm Tharp (pictured above). We will also have a large selection of Kristen Miller's delicately beaded works on paper.

Also available will be new works by Amjad Faur, Victoria Haven, Justin L'Amie, Lisa Lockhart, Adam Sorensen and a selection of photographs from Masao Yamamoto.

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"Portlander Johanna Barron, a third-generation Oregonian, presents the mixed-media piece "Still Life With Unfolding Rock," 2012. Barron's work considers..."

We are very happy to announce the upcoming exhibition of artworks created Cynthia Lahti during her residency at the Zentrum für Keramik - Berlin.

"Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, along with their two-year-old son Calder, are a family art team who create works with a cool analytic aesthetic in a multitude of media, including photo-based indexes, textual mixed tapes, associative lectures, and mass mailings... "

"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