News

http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2010/11/filmmakerartist_vanes….
"Vanessa Renwick, the Portland filmmaker/artist/provocateur who serves as doyenne of the Oregon Department of Kickass brings a new show of video and photographic work to the PDX Contemporary Art's Across the Hall gallery this month.

Entitled "as easy as falling off a log," the show includes video, sculpture and photography, musical themes by Sam Coomes and the collaboration of the design collective Von Tundra.

The show opens on Tuesday November 2, with a reception during First Thursday on November 4."

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/10/flechemuller_at.html. Click on image for more information.

November 18, 2010 – February 26, 2011
Curated by: Gerri Ondrizek, Reed College; Barbara Tetenbaum, Oregon College of Art and Craft; and Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft.
The artist’s book is an object that extends work beyond the boundaries of a gallery setting. Through selections from the significant 20th century modern and contemporary artists’ books in Reed College’s Special Collections, this exhibition explores the book as an object which defies the boundaries between art, craft and design, and moves along a spectrum from a recognizable to a deconstructed form.

Review of Adam Sorensen's "New Westerns" in Art Ltd. Nov/Dec 2010 issue. Click on image for more information.

This November, we are transforming our Window Project into a sock-gathering site, gathering deeply-needed socks for seasonal workers and other people who need warm feet. Help us out by donating clean, matched or unmatched, new or old socks. So many of us have extra socks that we don’t know what to do with, whether it’s an old pair or some random single sock hanging out by the dryer.

The socks will be donated to the Center for Workers and to VOZ (Worker’s Rights Education Project), their sponsor organization. Chelsea Mosher of Sign Wizards will design a sign for the project.

You can drop off socks at PDX Contemporary Art, and at these additional drop-off spots:
- Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny Street
- Mabel & Zora, 748 NW 11th Street

* We would like to start getting sock donations right away. You can drop off socks at PDX from Tuesday Oct. 26th - Saturday Nov. 27th.

image credit: Tucker Nichols, "Untitled," 2008, colored pencil on paper. click on image for more information

Review by Richard Speer, September 2010 ARTnews. Click on image for full review.

THE HOUSE OF SOUND. Screening at: RACE AND PEDAGOGY NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA (Oct. 10 - Nov. 13); BIJOU THEATER, Iowa City, IA (Nov. 3); URBAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Grand Rapids, MI (Nov. 7); KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, Kent, OH (Nov. 9); ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Lafayette, LA (Nov. 21); MUSICAL PORTRAITS, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA (Dec. 4); UNION THEATER, Milwaukee, WI (Jan. 27)

"Clicks and Pffts" at the Telephone Room Gallery in Tacoma, a sound installation by Jessica Robinson, CURATED BY GRAHAM BELL of PDX Contemporary Art.

http://www.facebook.com/Telephone.Room.Gallery

OPENING THURSDAY OCTOBER 7th, 6 to 8. October 7th - November 2nd.

Forget Me Not is a Reading Frenzy tradition and this year we're pleased to present the biggest one ever! Nearly two dozen local artists (and one from the UK!) who have created work honoring a dearly departed person, place or thing.

Join us for the first Thursday reception or come visit us any time in October. You're also invited to bring small items (photos, artwork, tchotchkes, etc.) that represent your dearly departed to contribute to a public shrine.

September 10th - October 16th at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL (click on image for more information)