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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

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.