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THURSDAY, MARCH 24TH, 5 - 9 PM at 1100 NW GLISAN ST, PORTLAND, OR 97209. PDX Contemporary Art, Augen Gallery, Froelick Gallery, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Pulliam Gallery and Nazraeli Press: These galleries are banding together, hosting a modest event to raise money for Mercy Corps' Japan relief fund. Each participating gallery will have on view and for sale art by Japanese artists and artists who feel they have been influenced by Japanese culture. We will donate 25% of the sale to Mercy Corps.

We wanted to do something right away to help Japan and at the same time honor and recognize the artistic and creative importance of the country.

We realize that not everyone will be able to make it to the event, so PDX extends this offer from Thursday, March 24th - Thursday, March 31st.

Portland-based artist Renwick presents personal and experimental landscape documentaries which explore the U.S. Pacific Northwest. WED, MARCH 23, 12:30 p.m. at the Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

ON VIEW AT THE TACOMA ART MUSEUM UNTIL APRIL 24, Vanessa Renwick's "Mighty Tacoma" frames the powerful mechanical operations of the industrial tide flats between the languid waters of Puget Sound and the towering splendor of Mount Rainier. Her film honors the ongoing importance of Tacoma as a port city while continually emphasizing the city’s geographical setting. Renwick’s deft balancing of the manmade city and the region’s natural ecosystems illuminate range and qualities of beauty that inform our day-to-day life in Tacoma. Renwick’s dichotomy also serves a gentle but eloquent reminder of the fleeting and miniscule qualities of human endeavor.
The soundtrack, written and performed by Lori Goldston, reflects the dignity of the port’s activities and reinforces Renwick’s vision of Tacoma as an vital hub of industrial activity set at the edge of a stunningly beautiful coastline.
-Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum

Congratulations to Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen - one of the seven finalists for the 2011 Brink Award.

The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington is delighted to announce the short list of candidates for The Brink, an award for emerging artists in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. The 2011 finalists are Grant Barnhart (Seattle, WA), Debra Baxter (Seattle, WA), Dawn Cerny (Seattle, WA), Andrew Dadson (Vancouver, BC), Tannaz Farsi (Eugene, OR), Allison Hrabluik (Vancouver, BC), and artist team Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen (Portland, OR).

This new award is now in its second biennial cycle, following 2009’s winner, Isabelle Pauwels (Vancouver, BC.) The selection committee will conduct studio visits with the eight artists in late March and early April.

In partnership with long-time Henry Art Gallery benefactors and Seattle art supporters John and Shari Behnke, the Henry confers this biennial prize of $12,500 to one of these artists, all of whom are at the beginning stages of a promising professional career. The recipient will also be given a solo exhibition at the Henry, and a work of his or her art will be acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. The winner of The Brink will be announced Friday, April 22, 2011, at 7PM.

"Reader on a Black Background": Sarah Meigs was curious to understand more fully "The Decorator" ( 2010.ink, gouache, colored pencil, charcoal and gold leaf on paper 57.5" x 85") which she purchase for his most recent PDX exhibition. Meigs invited Tharp to curate an exhibition for which Tharp selected works from her collection including "The Decorator" and write a corresponding essay. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Congratulations Megan Murphy! PDX is proud to announce that Megan Murphy is one of the seven winners of the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. Click on image to read Oregonian review.

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Feb 26 - Apr 9, 2011
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Oregon receives gift of art for its birthday
Painting by Pendleton man is the latest addition to the Capitol collection of works

Portland Art Museum | From A to B and Black Again: ARNOLD J. KEMP
13 Feb 2011 ... Artist and curator Arnold Kemp will give his personal observations about what it is to be an African American artist in the 21st century.
portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/events/2011/02/13/From-A-to-B-and-Black-Again

Artist and scholar lecture series, 7 p.m. in PUB 161 (Fireside Lounge).
All events are free and open to the public.
January 25th, James Lavadour

One of the Northwest's most revered painters, James Lavadour lives on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Northeastern Oregon. His rich and complex paintings of the Oregon landscape combine loose, gestural strokes with bold colors and slashes of energy, exuding primal vigor and spiritual power. His works are included in the collections of the Bank of America (San Francisco, CA), the Microsoft Corporation (Redland, WA), the Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR) and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington DC) to name but a few.