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solid object/SANDWICH and solid objects/VOIDS, is a collaborative performance project by Victoria Haven and Heather Kravas, taking place May 12 and 14 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

“Honoring individual and communal practice, solid objects is a multiyear collaborative project between Seattle-based choreographer Heather Kravas and visual artist Victoria Haven that unites the forces of dance and drawing. Each brings a range of influences: with roots in feminist and punk aesthetics, Kravas generates ecstatic and meticulous physical states; Haven activates space through architectural interventions for the performers to embody.

For this Walker premiere, they offer complementary presentations created for the stage and public spaces: solid objects/VOIDS and solid objects/SANDWICH. Viewed independently or as a whole, the works illuminate each physical space and audience as its own transitory and charged universe.

The onstage performance solid objects/VOIDS proposes necessary expressions of radical intimacy and devotion with architecture, light, bodies, and objects. The piece includes a new electro-acoustic score and sound installation by composer Zeena Parkins, lighting design by Madeline Best, and costumes by womxn’s rites. Featuring Kravas and company members Aretha Aoki, Cecilia Eliceche, Joey Kipp, Jennifer Kjos, opal, and Symone Sanz in collaboration with three of Minnesota’s most distinctive dancer/choreographers: José A. Luis, Judith Holo Shuǐ Xiān, and Chris Schlichting.”

For more information:
https://walkerart.org/calendar/2022/heather-kravas-and-victoria-haven-s…
https://walkerart.org/calendar/2022/heather-kravas-and-victoria-haven-s…

(Image: solid objects residency, Oxbow, Seattle, 2018. Pictured: Cecilia Eliceche and Heather Kravas. Photo: Anna Fotheringham.)

We have a new address!

1825 B NW Vaughn Street
Portland, Oregon
97209

After nearly 25 years, our chapter in the Pearl District has closed and we will be moving into our new location on 1825 B NW Vaughn Street Portland, Oregon 97209.

We are excited to welcome you into our freshly completed gallery space for the opening of Calling Invisible Doctors, an exhibition of new work by James Lavadour. Our tentative opening date is April 15th, please call or email us to confirm before arriving as construction is still in progress and plans may change. Additional information about the exhibition to follow.

We will be spending the next two weeks moving and settling into our new space and during that time will have limited access to telephone and email. Please leave us a message and we will reach out to you as soon as we can. For urgent matters you may contact Jane Beebe at (503) 913-3754.

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Marie Watt will be the Knapp Chair, Visiting Scholar at the University of San Diego this month.

Join February 16, 2022, for a public lecture at the Humanities Center at 5 PM (PST). The lecture will also be accessible via Zoom (https://www.sandiego.edu/galleries/exhibitions/hoehn-family-galleries).

This lecture coincides with "Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt", a major survey exhibition organized by the University of San Diego and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.

Keen writer and arts and architecture appreciator Briana Miller finds ten great shows around Portland with a wide range subjects from Black Lives Matter to Swedish log cabins to D.E. May archives in today's Oregonian.

Read the full article here: https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/2022/01/10-shows-in-portland-a…

The World of Jeffry Mitchell Pop-Up

The pop-up is also available to shop online: https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/shop

A portion of the sales from the pop-up will benefit the Portland Art Museum’s Connection Campaign for the Mark Rothko Pavilion. The pavilion will connect the Portland Art Museum’s two historic buildings on all four floors and integrate universal design principles throughout the campus to ensure that all people will enjoy improved access throughout the buildings to the Museum’s entire art exhibition and programmatic spaces. At its core, it underscores the Museum’s greater mission — building community through the arts.

We are excited to invite you to come along on our slow, but sure, journey of creating a new gallery space in a Skylab creative community project. Happily, a portion of our quonset hut is almost complete.

Jeffry Mitchell's new show will be at our new space, open our regular hours 10:00 am - 5:00pm.

We look forward to seeing you!

1825 B NW Vaughn Street
Portland, OR 97209

info@pdxcontemporaryart.com
(503)222-0063

Iván Carmona's new exhibition tierra de GIGANTES, was reviewed in Oregon Artswatch.
The review goes in depth about the stories and memories attached to these vibrant, colorful works.

Read the full review here: https://www.orartswatch.org/review-ivan-carmonas-tierra-de-gigantes-at-…

Congratulations on a wonderful and successful show, Iván!

Marie Watt and her work on display at the Hunterdon Art Museum was featured in hyperallergic.

Curated by Jason Vartikar in collaboration with the artist, Companion Species (At What Cost): The Works of Marie Watt, highlights tapestries among a variety of textile works.

Read the full article here: https://hyperallergic.com/688494/hunterdon-art-museum-exhibition-explor…

Congratulations, Marie!

We are happy to present new works on paper by artist James Lavadour.

Started as early as 1994 and finished in 2021 during the pandemic, Lavadour has titled these new works on paper Portfolio: 1994/2021. They are from different time periods, on different papers, and different sizes but were worked on and completed as a group during this past year of isolation.

Lavadour found applying his current way of painting to pieces he was working on in 1994 to be an astonishing experience. For him, paintings hold memories and to be using new techniques that he has developed over time combined with techniques he has used or experimented in the past was an interesting meditation on how his thinking in paint has evolved over 27 years.

These new works range in size from 20” x 28” to 14” x 20” and feature the same rich depth and physical, process-oriented practice of Lavadour’s works on panel.

View all available works here: https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/portfolio-19942021

Join artist Marie Watt and author Sarah Sentilles for a conversation about their shared interest in responding to the natural world in their respective practices. The two will discuss their explorations of "companion species" (the title Watt gave to a large body of work), and their expansive thinking about what counts as family and about kinship as a practice. As Sentilles asks, "What would the world look like if we lived as if we were all related?"

Tuesday, October 5 at 6:00pm at the Sun Valley Muesum of Art in Ketchum, Idaho.

To attend the virtual livestream- free, pre-registration here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/marie-watt--sarah?mc_cid=a4e565595d&mc_eid=7…