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THURSDAY, DEC. 8th, 6 - 8 pm

Lois Leveen discusses the recasting of American history in contemporary art and literature, looking at the mixed-media sculpture of award-winning Native American artist Marie Watt and Leveen's own novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser, which is based on the true story of a free black woman who during the Civil War spied on behalf of the Union by posing as a slave in the Confederate White House. The first hour will be a talk in the gallery in front of Watt's sculpture, and the second hour will be a more informal discussion in the museum cafe.

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Molly Vidor's raw, gusty work might leave her best described as a punk rock painter. She's toyed with pure abstraction over the years, but in Honeydrippers she brings back floral work. In works like Dark Ranunculus and Flavor Hearts, she shreds the notion of the standard still life with visceral black plums on a near-monochrome backdrop. It's as if she is channeling the siren song of Lydia Lunch in the 1983 film Vortex. The artist's fascination with the succulent flesh of white peaches, after all these years, obviously steals desire itself, as they sear before disappearing. -TJ Norris

Sculptor Ellen George re-emerges with a stylish sophistication in “Sensing Place,” taking on the wilder side of botanicals. Recommendation by TJ Norris

In our PDX booth visitors will discover new, fresh artists and revisit artists they already know. We will present the work by three artists Amjad Faur, Johannes Girardoni and D.E.May. Each is distinct from the other yet they share a certain quiet intensity addressing space and form that has an emotional content. A peek in our closet will reveal works by additional PDX artists such as Cynthia Lahti, Nancy Lorenz, Storm Tharp, Masao Yamamoto, Kristen Miller and Adam Sorensen.
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PDX welcomes Heather Watkins!
We are proud and happy to announce that PDX now represents Heather Watkins. Known to many collectors and curators in Portland already, Watkins has created prints at Pace Prints and Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught at Lewis & Clark, Rhode Island School of Design and Massachusetts College of Art, among others. Her work draws upon the expressive potential of many materials (ink, thread, rope, twine, wire, yarn, netting) in pursuit of lines and forms that express a complex of emotional or physical states.

George's exhibition, "Sensing Place" reviewed by TJ Norris in Willamette Week.

Artist duo Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen are one of 30 artists selected for Tacoma Art Museum's 10th Northwest Biennial. They were selected by TAM Curator Rock Hushka and independent curator and art critic Renato Rodrigues da Silva from Vancouver, BC.

Thursday November 10th, 6 to 8 pm

Join filmmaker and photographer Vanessa Renwick at the Portland Art Museum for a talk on one of the piece's in the museum's collection. The talk will be followed by a happy hour.

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Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97209

"Interior Margins" - curated by Stephanie Snyder

Lumber Room
November 12, 2011 - January 30, 2012
419 SW 9th Ave
11 am to 6 pm

"Interior Margins" was born around a dinner table in May of 2010, when eight women artists gathered to converse about painting and abstraction with Lumber Room founder Sarah Miller Meigs and Reed College curator Stephanie Snyder, within the Lumber Room's inaugural installation by San Francisco artist Léonie Guyer. The ideas discussed that evening catalyzed the desire for a further exhibition, one bringing together work of an intergenerational group of Northwest women artists who are transforming the diverse legacies and practices of abstraction for a new era.
http://lumberroom.com/