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February 15th, Storm Tharp

Storm Tharp was raised in Ontario, Oregon. He attended Cornell University and received a BFA from the College of Architecture, Art and Urban Planning. Upon graduation in 1992, he moved to Portland, Oregon where he presently resides. Tharp's work is representational – by both figurative and conceptual means and expressed through a variety of media. In the spring of 2010, Tharp was selected for The Whitney Biennial: 2010, in which new portrait works were created. His work has been acquired by The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Saatchi Gallery, The Portland Art Museum, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art and Reed College.

"The Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon State Capitol Announce the Acquistion of James Lavadour's Flag 2 "RECEPTION NOON MONDAY FEB. 14, 2011 AT THE OREGON STATE CAPITOL. CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

"Carrie Brownstein’s Cinematic Sisterhood: Vanessa Renwick, Miranda July & Marne Lucas" by Anne Richardson

3 PDX artists are finalists for the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards: Megan Murphy, Cynthia Lahti and Arnold Kemp

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In conjunction with Victoria Haven's "Hit the North" exhibitions at PDX Contemporary Art and Greg Kucera Gallery, a book has been published by Publication Studio. Available as a plain edition or an artist's edition, signed and numbered by Victoria Haven. Please contact PDX to purchase a copy, or you can purchase one through Publication Studio online at http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/77.

WEDNESDAY JAN. 19, 5:30 - 7:30. Please join us for an artist reception to celebrate the opening of Victoria Haven's exhibition "Hit the North (45º 52’N)." A book by Publication Studios has been published in accordance with this show.

Click image for a video on Megan Murphy and "Water" exhibition at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

WHICH PORTLAND ARTIST HAD THE BIGGEST 2010?

Storm Tharp was the overwhelming winner with 55% of the vote on the strength of his numerous local and national solo shows and appearance in the Whitney Biennial. He edged out Jessica Jackson Hutchins who was perhaps the lone break out star of the Whitney Biennial and David Eckard who won both the Bonnie Bronson and Ford Fellowships.

SOLO SHOW OF THE YEAR:

With 40.3% of the vote Storm Tharp's Hercules at PDX Contemporary wins. Funny thing is it wasn't even his best show, his break out 2007 show was absolutely perfect which is interesting because Hercules was all about perfection. Needless to say Storm has what it takes to go the distance. 2nd place with 18.5 % of the vote each was Bruce Conkle's Magic Chunks at Worksound and Ai Weiwei's Dropping the Urn at MoCC. With 16.9% of the votes Eva Lake's Targets at Augen Gallery took 3rd place.

Art of any genre's greatest strength and weakness is its ability to nearly become something, without actually being forced to commit to fully becoming that thing. Think of it as a butterfly just as it breaks free of the chrysalis... not a moment before or after. It is a delicate moment between entropy and becoming something new through accretion and artists like Richard Tuttle and Jackson Pollock are masters of it.

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