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Al Solheim, well known and respected developer in Portland's Pearl District and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pacific Northwest College of Art, commissioned James Lavadour to make a painting for a new building in the Pearl, The Machine Works, Northwest 14th and Northrup. "Making Birds" a nine panel work can be viewed in the lobby on NW Northrup. The doors are locked but one can get a good view from the sidewalk.

Mary Henry lived a long, full life. We admired the absolute clarity of vision and purpose she had in her art and in her life. We will miss her.

"Style Map/Portland, Oregon.Slick ,creative companies like Adidas, Nike and Wieden+Kennedy may have their headquarters here,but when it comes to art and design, Portlanders embrace more of an indie aesthetic. The city's artisans take D.I.Y.(earth-friendly) approach to their wares-from sake cups to sauna to sustainable stationary-but their creations are far from folksy"
Maura Egan, page 18. New York Times, 5/17/09 Sunday Style Magazine. "Look out, world. Summer Travel 2009"

"Mary Henry & Ellen George: PDX Contemporary A one-two punch of transcendental abstraction and elegant sculpture"

"Taken together, Mary Henry’s and Ellen George’s shows add up to the most exhilarating double bill a local gallery has put on in years"

Storm Tharp will speak about his work, Thursday, May 14th, at 7:00 pm at PCC SE at Mt. Tabor Hall

Monday May 11,2009
http://kpsu.org/program/art_talk_am_on_the_radio

a brief interview in the Columbian

WW PickPDX CONTEMPORARY ART
Mary Henry, Ellen George.
Venerable gallery PDX Contemporary Art offers up what promises to be a gorgeous double-whammy of a show this month. Veteran painter Mary Henry (now 96 years old) is showcased in a selection of chromatically rich, compositionally rigorous abstract and semi-abstract paintings and drawings. Meantime, sculptor Ellen George presents intricate polymer clay pieces that marry whimsy and precision. This is the first month that PDX will program in the space that Pulliam Gallery (now sans MaryAnn Deffenbaugh) is occupying only bi-monthly. We had our doubts about the wisdom of the new arrangement, but if this is the caliber of show we can expect from a double dose of PDX, we say bring ’em on! PDX Contemporary Art and Pulliam Gallery, 929 NW Flanders St., 228-6665. 925 NW Flanders St., 222-0063. Closes May 30. Map Willamette Week,page 53, May 6,2009, Richard Speer

"R-Y-A-N-N-A", a collaborative by Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen.

Congratulations to Storm. Whitney Museum of American Art recently purchased the drawing titled "Boom".