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• Andy thanks Amy, congratulations!

  
  
  Congratulations to PORT's Amy Bernstein, one of this years' Warhol Foundation Arts Writer's Grant program. Amy always brings incredible depth, poetic sensitivity and an admirable sense of responsibility to her reviews and interviews which you can check out here. To get' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:03pm EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• First Thursday Picks December 2009

  
  Richard Serra, "Paths and Edges #7," 2007
  
  Elizabeth Leach presents Richard Serra's Etchings 1999-2007. The exhibition explores Serra's lesser-known printmaking practice, featuring the 2007 Paths and Edges series. The works in the series "feature thick arcing lines, which stretch beyond the boundaries of the sheet, creating a palpable" [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:25pm EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• installation, video, lecture

  
  Tim Mahan, from "Side Tangled"
  
  H/D +Projects (the installation series at Half/Dozen Gallery in the Lofts) presents Side Tangled, an installation by Tim Mahan. The piece "creates a twisted boundary with a seemingly endless amount of yellow utility rope... challenging the idea of conventional boundaries. What good is" [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:08am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• Susanna Helke

  
  Susanna Helke, still from "Sin" (1996)
  
  Cinema Project, Pacific University, and the NW Film Center co-present The Cinematic Practice of Replayed Reality: Work by Susanna Helke. "As part of Cinema Project's ongoing Beyond Borders series, Finnish documentary filmmaker, university lecturer, and film theorist Susanna Helke comes to" [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:55am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• A gaggle of November reviews

  Because of the holidays November is often overstuffed with worthy shows and not enough time to see or review all of them properly... so I thought I'd put together a series of shorts on things you can see while shopping or walking off the turkey. Besides the' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 12:35am EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• Wednesday Links

  I'll have a series of reviews for you later today but for now:
  
  
  detail of Jean Nouvel's Vision Machine photo: Jeff Jahn
  
  The New Yorker's Paul Goldberger takes a look at architect Jean Nouvel's career. I like his work as it often has a harsh beauty.
  
  Randy Kennedy' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:55am EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• Join Blackfish

  
  Eric Rue at Blackfish
  
  Blackfish Gallery, one of the oldest existing cooperative galleries in the U.S., is seeking new artists to join the membership. Interested artists should live in the Portland area and be prepared to submit 20 images, a letter of intent, artist statement, anhttp://www.portlandart.net/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=1840&blog_id=1#d resume. The [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:29am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• Blackfish & the Anderson Ranch

  
  Eric Rue at Blackfish
  
  Blackfish Gallery, one of the oldest existing cooperative galleries in the U.S., is seeking new artists to join the membership. Interested artists should live in the Portland area and be prepared to submit 20 images, a letter of intent, artist statement, anresume. The application [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:29am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• on Wednesday

  
  Brian Gillis
  
  PCC Cascade Gallery presents ...on Wednesday, an installation by Brian Gillis. Using juxtaposed images, objects, and spaces, Gillis' work is "socially relevant, audience activated, and engaged... summoning stories that elicit rich metaphors and social exchanges in an effort to arouse awareness, introspection, and valuation." There will' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:30am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• West Coast Turnaround

  
  Crystal Schenk & Shelby Davis
  
  MP5 presents West Coast Turnaround, a sculptural installation by artists-in-residence Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis. This short term installation (November 22-29) features a life-sized tractor-trailer semi, made out of 2x4s and drywall, parked in a 4th floor artist loft. "The two artists see" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:23am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• new at MoCC

  
  Left: Lauren Kalman from Elusive Matter, Right: Andy Paiko & Ethan Rose from Transference
  
  Two new exhibitions open today at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose have installed Transference in the downstairs gallery. The pair collaborated to create a kinetic-sound installation reinterpreting the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:05pm EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• Long Haired Iconoclasts and Renegade Pirates: Broadcast at Lewis and Clark

  

  
  Hostage, Dara Birnbaum, 1994
  
  Lewis and Clark's Hoffman Gallery showcases a didactic display of the questioning of media this month in its exhibition Broadcast. The pieces in Broadcast span a timeline originating in the 1960's and includes a lineup of artists whose commentary ranges in tone [...]

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:42am EST
  by Amy Bernstein

• WPA art

  This month's installment of the Art & Conversation series at PAM features local author and museum docent Ginny Allen leading a discussion on Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored art in the collection and other federal art projects around Portland. Meet in the Fields Ballroom in the Mark Building.
  
  Art chat • [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:31am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• launch art (opportunities)

  Launch Pad is seeking submissions for Light Sensitive Material, their first-ever *juried* group show in celebration of the gallery's fourth anniversary. "The show focuses on what appears to be a dying media in this modern computer driven age where many of our most cherished memories are recorded ethereally as a" [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:05am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• work so sweet

  
  Wendy Kveck, "Sweet Devouration"
  
  PCC Sylvania presents Sweet Devouration, new paintings and a sculpture by Wendy Kveck. The artist writes: "In recent work, food has evolved into content and material, a layered symbol that simultaneously informs abstractions and directs or embellishes my figurative narratives. These examine representations of" [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:28am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• Strange bedfellows these days: legitimacy and money

  Jerry Saltz has written his response to the whole New Museum debacle (which strangely became legitimized last week with the New York Times Article, though it was Tyler Green and William Powhida who really started the debate, Green was cited as being, "notoriously [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:59am EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• East/West interview with galleryHomeland by Gary Wiseman

  
  East/West storefront in Berlin, Mitte district (all photos: Jackie Friscia)
  
  Gary Wiseman - East/West is an innovative project. It is very compelling to me. The first time I heard Paul mention something about it was two years ago.
  Paul Middendorf - That's about right
  
  GW - Tell me about' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:27pm EST
  by Guest

• PAM Annual Book Sale

  
  Portland Art Museum, Mark Building
  
  PAM's annual book sale is happening this weekend: "Discover great book bargains at the [2-day] Crumpacker Family Library's annual sale, featuring thousands of donated new and used art books at a fraction of the full retail price."
  
  Book Sale • 9am-3pm • November 14 [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:37am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• alt.space(s)

  
  Sarah Meadows
  
  Sarah Meadows' Time Ends Now opens tomorrow at Nationale. In her first exhibition of landscape photography, Meadows "elaborates on her fascination with nature and the elastic properties of film images, dispensing entirely with narrative and human gesture and presenting instead a concentrated study of wilderness encountered."
  
  Opening' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:39am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• Transit Bridge Developments Nov 10, 2009

  
  November 10, 2009 version of Willamette Transit Bridge
  
  Yesterday's WBRAC meeting was interesting and more fiery, at least compared to previous meetings. It's detail time and the design of the new Transit/Ped/Bike bridge iis coming along. I like its triangular towers and belvederes designed [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• Transit Bridge Developments Nov, 2009

  
  November 10, 2009 version of Willamette Transit Bridge
  
  Yesterday's WRBAC meeting was interesting and more fiery, at least compared to previous meetings. It's detail time and the design of the new Transit/Ped/Bike bridge iis coming along. I like its triangular towers and belvederes designed [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• calling all souls

  
  detail of Antione Catala's Psychedelic Soul at the Cooley Gallery
  
  In conjunction with The Language of the Nude at Reed's Cooley Gallery, as well as their related Psychedelic Soul exhibition at TBA:09, Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder and PICA Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:16am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• more speaking

  
  Xu Bing, "Ghosts Pounding the Wall"
  
  In the first of two CDN lectures this week, renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing will speak tomorrow on 30 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art. "Ranging from monumental installations to handcrafted books, Xu's artistic practice is a playful and political exploration of the" [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• Catching up with last week

  Last week Modou Dieng interviewed me on Radio PNCA... you can listen to the archive here if you missed it. We discuss Portland, curation, PORT and follow-through. Sounds like the mp3 file was ripped a little too hot so there is slight distortion but it's [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• show your work @ disjecta

  "Vestibule," Disjecta's visual arts space, is putting out an open call for proposals from emerging artists: "The Curatorial Committee reviews proposals from artists and organizations, choosing programs for their artistic strength and cultural and/or social relevance. Applications are accepted year round." For submission guidelines and further information, visit their [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:07am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• Transit Bridge update and meeting

  
  A design for the new transit, pedestrian and cycling bridge, a first in the US
  
  For those who are transit and design oriented the latest public feedback meeting for the exciting new Willamette River Transit and Pedestrian Bridge with the architect Donald MacDonald [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:19pm EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• update: pmmnls

  
  Laurel Nakadate, "Exorcism in January"
  
  PICA, PSU, Reed, et al present Laurel Nakadate for next week's PMMNLS. Nakadate is a photographer, video artist and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, The Yerba Buena, The Getty Museum, and The Reina Sofia. In 2009, her first feature film, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:38pm EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• The Dia that wont die links

  The Big news today is that the Dia is returning to Chelsea, the NYT's Carol Vogel has the story. Looks like the Dia is trying to recapture it's legendary role as institutional patron of difficult, inconvenient art. I.E. the best kind of art. In the [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• The Dia that refuses to die links

  The Big news today is that the Dia is returning to Chelsea, the NYT's Carol Vogel has the story. Looks like the Dia is trying to recapture it's legendary role as institutional patron of difficult, inconvenient art. I.E. the best kind of art. In the [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  by Jeff Jahn

• flotsam, jetsam, bontei

  
  Steven Beatty and Laurel Kurtz
  
  Clark College's Archer Gallery presents Flotsam & Jetsam and Jetties & Gyres by Steven Beatty and Laurel Kurtz. "Referencing earthworks from the 70's as well as the mass quantities of plastics trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, the artists create a space filled" [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:02am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• First Weekend Picks November 2009

  
  Jim Lommasson, from "Oaks Park Pentimento"
  
  In 1982, photographer Jim Lommasson documented the "strange and beautiful" paintings that decorated the center column of the historic carousel at Oaks Amusement Park. The original carousel images were painted by German and Italian immigrants around 1912 and contained an exotic assortment [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:59pm EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• talking

  
  Carson Ellis, "The Junkyard"
  
  PAM's artist talk series continues this week with illustrator Carson Ellis, who has created art for local rock band The Decemberists and books such as The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and The Beautiful' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:38am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• First Thursday Picks November 2009

  
  Rachel Davis, "Glass Cloud"
  
  Rachel Davis presents Family Tree at Chambers@916. The series of watercolors on paper combine architectural and botanical forms, "taking their visual language from Chinese vernacular architecture and the life cycles of a garden in a continuous loop of growth and decay. By combining the" [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:25pm EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• learning, seeing, hearing

  
  Attributed to Danele da Volterra, after Michelangelo's "Last Judgment", 16th century
  
  Crocker Art Museum Curator William Braezeale will lecture tomorrow evening on Four Centuries of the Human Body: Old Master Drawings From the Crocker Art Museum, which is currently on view at Reed's Cooley Gallery. Gallery viewing [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:32am EST
  by Megan Driscoll

• An interview with Tom Cramer

  
  Tom Cramer, September 2009
  
  Somewhat predictably, Tom Cramer's most recent show at Laura Russo Gallery is his best to date (and it ends October 31st). It is an inventive mixture of cosmic energy, German Romanticism and hard nosed discipline, which helps make his work both ' [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:51pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• lectures

  
  Ryan Pierce, "Comet"
  
  PORTstar Ryan Pierce is speaking tomorrow in conjunction with his show Written From Exile at Elizabeth Leach.
  
  Artist lecture • 11am • October 31
  Elizabeth Leach Gallery • 417 NW 9th • 503.224.0521
  
  
  
  Vicki Halper
  
  Independent curator and writer Vicki Halper returns to the Museum [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• ornaments and patterns

  
  
  The fourth lecture in UO's School of Architecture and Allied Arts ongoing Machine in the Garden series is happening tomorrow. George Gessert will present Ornamental Plant Breeding for the 21st Century. Gessert is a writer and author on art and genetics whose book, Green Light: Toward an [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Last Thursday Picks October 2009

  
  
  Appendix presents Benjamin Young's installation Material Affair. "In collaboration with collected materials, Young sculpturally explores the tension, process, and ecology of synthesized form."
  
  Opening reception • 6-11pm • October 29
  Appendix Project Space • South alley b/w 26th and 27th on NE Alberta St. • appendixspace@gmail.com
  
  
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:11am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Taking Full Stock of the Portland art scene, Part I

  
  "The goal of our intellectual efforts cannot be a static, polished possession...In our many efforts toward knowledge, science, math, logic as in life itself, it is the process, not the terminus, that should concern us - if we are wise." Bruce Aune Rationalism, Empiricism, and Pragmatism
  
  The fall season is in [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• China Architecture Now

  
  Architecture by Yung Ho Chang
  
  Architect Yung Ho Chang is lecturing this week at PAM in conjunction with the ongoing China Design Now exhibition. In China Architecture Now Chang will discuss "how the rapid changes in contemporary China's economy, mobility and consumerism are profoundly affecting architectural practice" [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 1:47pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• artists needed

  The Trim/Vojdani Gallery at p:ear, "a nonprofit program that builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth... through education, art and recreation," is seeking artists for their regional juried exhibition. This year's holiday season show is called "12 Days of P:ear" and will feature up to 12 artists. Submissions are [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:52am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Processions: an Elaborative Cartography at PSU

  
  Processions: an Elaborative Cartography (detail)
  
  For the past few months a group of artists consisting of; Maggie Casey, Zachary Davis, Joshua Pavlacky and Benjamin Young has demanded increasing attention in the Portland art scene by opening an unlikely space in a garage. It is called [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 12:59am EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• the masters

  
  Raphael, "La Donna Velata or La Velata (The Woman with the Veil)," c.1516
  
  PAM presents Raphael's Woman With a Veil, on view October 24 - January 3, 2010. On loan from the Medici collection, the museum will be showing "one of the most important paintings of the Renaissance" [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 2:26pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Portland art scene in National Geographic Traveler

  Ok, the good news is its not yet another NY/LA times travel story on Portland but the November/December issue of National Geographic Traveler does a similar tour. Not really a big deal and none of this is new to anyone who lives here, but it was [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:11pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Blue PLAY

  
  
  MP5 presents Blue. Curator TJ Norris invited Matthew Haggett, Todd Johnson, and Victor Maldonado to interpret the open theme of "blue" in the lofts. Highlights include Spherelab: Blue, a site-specific installation using adhesive-backed-vinyl applied directly to walls and other surfaces by Haggett, Blue Velvet, a group show [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:55pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Thursday links

  In case you missed it yesterday on Radio PNCA Modou Dieng interviewed Arnold Kemp, discussing how to make Portland a better art city. I'll be on next November 4th.
  
  Tyler Green talks with MoMA's Connie Butler about Nacy Spero... rest in peace.
  
  Remember art fairs and how they were' [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 1:02pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• processions

  
  Processions
  
  The coordinators of Alberta' Appendix Project Space present Processions: an Elaborative Cartography at PSU's Recess Gallery (dept. of architecture). The work is a collaborative installation by Maggie Casey, Zachary Davis, Joshua Pavlacky and Benjamin Young: "Navigating the topology of the individual, the group, and emergent form,'" [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 11:24am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Tuesday ponderings

  In the NYT's Karen Rosenberg considers cut paper as art (Tom Friedman, Olafur Elliason and an absent Yuken Teruya) at the Brad Cloepfil designed Museum of Art and Design
  
  If Terry Toedtemeier and John Laursen don't win the Frances Fuller Victor Award for [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• pnca/ocac lectures

  
  Zahid Sardar
  
  Zahid Sardar, author and designer of New Garden Design and San Francisco Modern, is lecturing this week for PNCA & OCAC's MFA in Applied Craft & Design program. Sardar has written and lectured for many years on architecture, interiors, garden design, craft, and design.
  
  Scholar lecture • [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:51am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Memory/Frequency at Worksound

  Memory/Frequency is a tightly curated show that explores cognitive dissonances and synchronicities through the work of three PNCA professors; Carl Diehl, Lennie Pitkin and Tracey Cockrell. It's a taut, liminally fringed show at Worksound that is even more mysterious for the fact that its curator has chosen to remain anonymous.' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:58pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• pecha kucha & art on alberta

  
  MFA in Applied Craft & Design students hard at work, from their blog
  
  If you're curious about PNCA & OCAC's new MFA in Applied Craft and Design, here's your chance to get to know the students and their ideas. In conjunction with the ongoing Call +' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:56am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• lecture, panel, participation

  
  Tom Cramer's opening
  
  Tom Cramer is lecturing this weekend at Laura Russo in conjunction with his ongoing exhibition of new work.
  
  Artist lecture • 11am • October 17
  Laura Russo Gallery • 805 NW 21st • 503.226.2754
  
  
  
  Professor and Composer Ye Xiaogang
  
  In China Design Now-related news:' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:43am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• another round of opportunities

  Beginning with an announcement: In 2010, Disjecta will mount its first biennial survey of Portland contemporary art. Work will be exhibited at Disjecta and the IFCC in spring 2010, and the program is being organized and curated by Linfield director Cris Moss. Studio visits will happen before artist selections are [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 9:29am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Ugly links

  Brian Libby goes to "The Couv" and checks out Maya Lin.
  
  Mighty Toy Cannon considers Portland's Ugly...
  
  Is the Portland Building the world's ugliest as some suggest? No, but It is probably the most dated edifice to the 80's I can imagine. On the [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 11:27am EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• art escape

  
  
  Portland Mural Defense is facilitating Art Spark this month. They'll explore the importance and history of murals in Portland, and muralist Robin Dunitz will be present.
  
  Art chat • 5-7pm • October 15
  Art Spark @ Zaytoons • 2236 NE Alberta
  
  
  
  Gretchen Hogue
  
  Ongoing at Ditch Projects: Gretchen' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:07pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Tuesday Links

  RACC has a brand spanking new website... the old one was oh so 2001.
  
  The Whitney Museum is moving ahead with their expansion near the High Line. I suppose the recession is over, is Chelsea too?
  
  Tyler Green asks the AAMD the [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:31pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• PAM CHINESE DESIGN PREVIEW: BOLD + RED ALL OVER

  The opening of China Design Now ushered in a new era for the Portland Art Museum, one where design and an eye on the future join the museum's extensive and longstanding displays of China's past. It's the only West Coast stop for this show. As THE social event of' [...]

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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 9:09am EDT
  by Sarah Henderson

• on film

  
  
  Deep Leap Microcinema presents Sign Languages tonight. The films in tonight's screening explore "notions of language, semiotics, translation and communication," featuring work by Stephanie Barber, Les Leveque, Oliver Laric, Ben Russell, Catarina Simoes, James Whipple, Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, Frank Zadlo, Aleksandra Domanovic, Nathaniel Stern, Diane Borsato, Erik [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 8:48am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• PAM CHINESE DESIGN PREVIEW: BOLD + RED ALL OVER

  

  
  
  Photography by Sarah Henderson - www.sirenapictures.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 12:09pm EDT
  by Sarah Henderson

• China Design NOW

  
  China Design Now exhibition entrance (photo Jeff Jahn)
  
  Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you've probably heard that PAM is about to launch China Design Now, a traveling exhibition (from London's Victoria & Albert Museum) on contemporary Chinese design. The show "explores the recent explosion of critically'" [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:24am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Anne Wilson: A Portable Interview

  

  
  Anne Wilson, Portable City 2008
  
  
  Anne Wilson is a Chicago based textile artist and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her postdisciplinary work uses sculpture, drawings, internet projects, and stop motion animations that explore ideas of time, loss, private and social rituals. [...]

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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 3:21pm EDT
  by Alex Rauch

• 2nd Friday

  
  Carl Diehl
  
  Another gallery celebrating the PNCA centennial this month is Worksound with Memory/Frequency. They'll be featuring sculpture, sound, video, and photography by Carl Diehl, Tracey Cockrell, and Lennie Pitkin, all faculty at PNCA.
  
  Opening reception • 7-11pm • October 9
  Worksound • 820 SE Alder • mojomodou@gmail.com
  
  
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 10:14am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• white stag/box

  
  
  UO Portland is opening a new gallery space at their downtown White Stag building. The "White Box's" inaugural exhibition will be Inspiration China (an informal tie-in to PAM's upcoming China Design Now): "For Inspiration China, the students created individual art pieces--in various forms of technology and media--that'" [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 10:03am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• PSU & PCC

  
  Dorothea Lange, c.1939
  
  PSU's Littman Gallery is exhibiting Dorothea Lange in 1939, a collection of FSA photographs presented by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission. During the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) hired photographers like Lange to "portray the suffering of rural Americans in terms understandable to'" [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 10:13am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• LOTS of lectures

  
  Anne Wilson
  
  Chicago-based artist Anne Wilson will be lecturing twice this week in Portland. Wilson is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a renowned craft artist who coined the term "sloppy craft." First, she'll present Liminal Networks at Reed College: "Employing familiar,'" [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 11:41am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Rothko skies in Portland today

  A couple times a year Portland is covered with an intense lavender glow at dusk. It's partially due to the way the west hills block the sunset but allow the reflected light from the clouds. Sometimes it is so intense that all of the dogs, cats, birds and insects [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Rothko skies in Portland

  A couple times a year Portland is covered with an intense lavender glow at dusk. It's partially due to the way the west hills block the sunset but allow the reflected light from the clouds. Sometimes it is so intense that all of the dogs, cats, birds and insects [...]
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  Posted: October 04, 2009, 11:59pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• film & local culture

  
  Still from Janie Geiser's "Magnetic Sleep"
  
  Cinema Project & Pacific University are screening Magnetic Sleep by Janie Geiser. The film is a nine-part serial about a woman hypnotist, Marceline, and her journey across an ever-changing landscape. This textual/cinematic project "channels" early experimental filmmakers such as Man Ray and [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 11:22am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• First Friday Picks October 2009

  
  Kimi Kolba
  
  Pushdot presents Linger by Kimi Kolba. Kolba's photography focuses on the contemporary night landscape, asking the viewer to allow themselves time to adjust to the images the way their eyes take time to adjust to the darkness of night. She explores "the new, the northwest urban'" [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:30am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Kartz Ucci & PMMNLS

  
  Kartz Ucci, "an opera for one"
  
  TILT Export presents installation artists Kartz Ucci at the PCC Rock Creek Helzer Gallery. In an opera for one, Ucci hired soprano Deanna Pauletto to sing a capella Pablo Neruda's book of poetry, "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair." The [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:21am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• First Thursday Picks October 2009

  
  Vanessa Renwick, still from "Britton, South Dakota"
  
  In October, Blue Sky will be screening Vanessa Renwick's Britton, South Dakota. The short film features found 16mm footage of children standing in front of a Strand movie theater shot by local theater manager Ivan Besse. Renwick writes: "The children'" [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Cloepfil scores

  
  Brad Cloepfil in his SW Portland office (photo Jeff Jahn)
  
  It was announced today that Brad Cloepfil has won the competition to design the new National Music Center in Calgary Canada. The design is exciting and somewhat reminiscent of Kahn's National Assembly building [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 11:37am EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Monday links

  The Angels of Anarchy show in Manchester England charts the contributions of the Surrealists who happened to be women. Would love to see this on the West Coast of the USA.
  
  Roberta Smith seconds my opinion about a sort of unconvincing minimalism and equally [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 2:05pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Johanson and Jackson unveiling today

  
  Finished mural by Jo Jackson and Chris Johanson in North Portland's Albina Green Park
  
  Sorry for the late notice but the new Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson mural in North Portland will be unveiled today from 12-8PM at Albina Green park. It is at the' [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Johanson and Jackson unveiling Sept 26

  
  Finished mural by Jo Jackson and Chris Johanson in North Portland's Albina Green Park
  
  Sorry for the late notice but the new Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson mural in North Portland will be unveiled today from 12-8PM at Albina Green park. It is at the [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• New Designs on Portland

  
  The design for the new leaf-shaped Rainwater Pavilion for the Tanner Springs urban wetland park in the Pearl District is pretty impressive. The pavilion designed by Herbert Dreiseitl (like the rest of the park) conjures "Space Elves" in my mind, something that would be hokey [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Camouflagiennial

  
  
  British artist Mary George presents Camouflage Party at Rocksbox: "So I think, what if... what if I went outside my little cave studio to find the world blown away like in an episode of the Twilight Zone? I'd have to survive on the contents of my studio'" [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Black Moon Rising

  
  Donald Morgan
  
  Donald Morgan's Black Moon Rising is currently showing at Ditch Projects: "Employing imagery based in the forest, such as tangled undergrowth, spider webs and the architecture of fire look-outs, the pieces in Dark Moon Rising take advantage of the interstices between the two and three dimensional." [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Looking at New York, New York looking back

  I recently had another opportunity to take in New York... whose gallery scene is still adjusting to new economic realities (esp. at the mid and lower levels). Overall, it still has the vulnerability I saw last March but seems to have found a bit of a direction... i.e. what [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 2:28pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Last Thursday Picks September 2009

  
  
  Gary Wiseman and Meredith Andrews present Inside, Outside, Upside Down, a one-night Last Thursday installation at Appendix. The artists write: "...The difference between fantasy and reality seems infra-thin. I like the idea of time and space folding. I want to go home. Nine dimensions seem so ambiguous" [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:32pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Lectures

  
  Ward Shelley, "Stability," installation view
  
  The first lecture for PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies will be given this week by Brooklyn artist Ward Shelley, who "specializes in large-scale projects that freely mix sculpture and performance."
  
  Artist lecture • 6:30pm • September 24
  The Lab at the Museum [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 10:21am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Mike Kelley and Michael Smith at SculptureCenter

  
  A Voyage of Growth and Discovery Installation view, Image c. 2009 SculptureCenter and the artists Photo: Jason Mandella
  
  Voyages are an incredibly rich subject, let's briefly consider;
  
  The Odyssey, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, King Kong, Francis Alÿs's paseos, Kubrick's 2001, The Heart of Darkness, Moby Dick, Thor [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 1:01pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Cinema

  
  Still from "MY CHINA NOW"
  
  In conjunction with the upcoming China Design Now exhibition (lots more on that later), the NW Film Center presents Lens on China, a film series that "explores the perspectives of Chinese and western filmmakers whose works reflect on the broad currents of contemporary" [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:30am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Friday appetizer

  I'll have several things for PORT from my recent trip to New York (monday). Till then, here are some links:
  
  Roberta Smith is excited about Kandinsky in the Times... (overall there is a renewed interest in the mysteries of abstraction in NYC these days and the big K' [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 10:53am EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• CoCA Seattle Annual

  Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art is seeking submissions for their 2009 Annual juried exhibition. Inviting work from artists in any medium from any origin, "the exhibit will showcase the ways in which contemporary artists, regardless of their location, share similar aesthetic concerns and conceptual approaches in a world of increasingly" [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 9:08am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• A Night at the Museum

  
  
  PAM presents Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum: "Stay up late and watch the galleries come alive with participatory art created for the evening by PSU's Art and Social Practice Program, led by artist Harrell Fletcher and Jen Delos Reyes." Events include live bands in [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 11:20am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Art Spark: Art on Alberta

  
  
  This month's Art Spark is hosted by Art on Alberta at Vendetta: "Fancy yourself a surrealist artist? Intrigued by all things Dada? Eager to explore the real roots of punk? Got an affinity for community and collaboration? Art on Alberta will engage Art Spark groupies" [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:34pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• The City Onscreen

  
  Brian Libby, still from "Creamery Birds"
  
  Brian Libby presents The City Onscreen, a collection of short films featuring Portland architecture and design. In addition to four films by Libby, the screening includes work by Matt McCormick, Rob Tyler, Karl Lind, and Andrew Curtis, as well as a 1955 [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 5:17pm EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Record Record

  
  Pat Boas, "breathing," from "What Our Homes Can Tell Us"
  
  The Marylhurst Art Gym presents Pat Boas - Record Record. The exhibition features four series that "comment in very quiet ways on the text and images in The New York Times," as well as a new series of [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 10:42am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Thursday Links : Cranky Critic's Edition

  Newish Mercury critic Matt Stangel has a review of Bobbi Woods at Fourteen 30, a show I'll definitely check out before the end of the month. Nice to see the Merc is still committed to criticism in a time when all publishing is facing serious business' [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 3:02pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Illuminated Recollections

  
  Laura Corinne Hayes, "Illuminated Recollections" (installed)
  
  Laura Corinne Hayes presents Illuminated Recollections at the Alpern Gallery.
  
  Artist reception • 6-9pm • September 11
  Alpern Gallery • 2522 NW Vaughn • 503.347.7689 [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:57am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Call and Response as Critical Chorus

  

  
  
  
  In a world increasingly fixated upon the propulgation, proliferation, production, fetishizing, and pushing of objects and things that we somehow need, it is ironic that we question less and less the inherent significance of these particular objects as symbols. They literally fill up and inhabit the [...]

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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 3:15pm EDT
  by Amy Bernstein

• Sell Out

  
  Micah Malone
  
  Micah Malone sells out this weekend at Worksound. In Sell Out, Malone asserts that "the desire to make a living from one's artistic practice can be as emotional, conceptual, poetic and honest as any other reason for making art." The exhibition revolves around a sculpture and [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 10:39am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Interview with Gregory Green

  
  
  
  
  
  An interview with Gregory Green in his installation on Sunday.
  
  WCBS Radio Caroline
  
  The voice of the New Free State of Caroline 96.7fm Portland Oregon.
  
  A .5 watt "pirate" radio station for the period of 09/06/09 -12/13/09 stationed in the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis and Clark [...]

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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 10:08am EDT
  by Alex Rauch

• Broadcast

  
  Gregory Green, WCBS Radio Caroline: The Voice of the New Free State of Caroline, 89.3, 1995-2007
  
  In their first collaboration with TBA, Lewis & Clark's Hoffman Gallery presents Broadcast, guest curated by Irene Hofmann, Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. The exhibition "explores the ways" [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 10:00am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll

• Nell Warren at PDX Contemporary Art

  

  
  
  

  Nell Warren's exhibition "Storied" at PDX Contemporary art is a refreshing example of a contemporary twist on the tradition of landscape painting. Warren's work, with it's highly calligraphic, tiny brushstrokes [...]

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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
  by Alanna Risse

• Echo Gap

  
  
  On 9/9/09 Modou Dieng is curating a one night show of 9 video artists titled Echo Gap at Valentines. Lineup includes; Arnold Kemp, Sari Carel, Posie Currin, Stephen Slappe, Kelley Rauer,Sean Carney, David Eckard, Hannah Piper Burns, and some [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 12:53am EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Art and tennis?

  
  Laurent Perbos, Aire 2005
  
  It is US Open time and I'm watching Nadal play Alamagro right now... just for fun please indulge this as Art and tennis have an incredibly long history together considering Caravaggio etc. In fact it's probably where I developed a [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 12:31pm EDT
  by Jeff Jahn

• Experiencing Art At PICA's TBA Opening

  

  
  Fawn Krieger - National Park at the PICA TBA Festival

  Last night's opening of PICA's Time Based Art Festival was quite a scene. The walls of once abandoned Washington High School [...]

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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 3:37pm EDT
  by Alanna Risse

• October Country

  
  Donal Mosher, from "October Country"
  
  Disjecta presents Donal Mosher's October Country, "an investigation of the artist's life and family through photography, film, and narrative writing... considering the nature of human interaction, experience and the measures we take to find a place for ourselves within contemporary society."
  
  Opening reception • [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:16am EDT
  by Megan Driscoll