Chas Bowie

There’s a new form of art criticism in town taking the form of pointed satire. Like The Onion of the Portland art scene, Portland Art News ( www.portlandartnews.com ) skewers sacred cows in a laugh-out-loud faux-reportage style. In the two issues since the e-zine’s conception, editor Clay Hawthorne (aka local artist Stephen Cleary) has broken […]

Dog Days: I am Temple at Motel, NW Couch between 5th & 6th, through Aug. 1; Bella’s Pockets at Nine Gallery, 1231 NW Hoyt; Erinn Kennedy at Pulliam Deffenbaugh, 522 NW 12th, through July 31 One sweltering afternoon last week I stopped in a well-known local art gallery to check out their current exhibition. Starving […]

Paperwork Savage Art Resources, 1430 SE 3rd, through August 27 A s with big screen blockbusters and summer concert tours, it’s the time of year for ubiquitous group exhibitions, and this week takes us to Savage Art Resources, where Paperwork, a drawing salon, is on view. Drawings and summertime seem like a perfect fit–light and […]

Twenty-One Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Service Cathedral Park Place, 6635 N. Baltimore, Sat-Sun noon-6 pm, through July 25 It’s not really fair to evaluate Twenty-One Years of Studios: Friends of Carton Services as a traditional art exhibition. To do so would be like sending a restaurant critic to a block party potluck dinner–but […]

T he most consistently fascinating place to see new and inspired artwork in Portland right now is the land where traffic laws hardly exist: the inner Southeast Warehouse District. In this industrial area bordered by the Willamette River and MLK, Burnside and Madison, a startlingly fresh, image-and-icon-based wave of graffiti and poster art punctuates concrete […]

Double Exposure @ Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery Through June 26, 522 NW 12th Ave. Pulliam Deffenbaugh made a major photographic splash this month with a portfolio of diptychs by world-renowned artists in a show called Double Exposure (why do people always feel the need to try to throw in cute photography lingo like “focus,” “exposure,” and […]

Power Pointillism 2 June 30th and July 1st, show time at 7:15 pm US Bank meeting room at the Central Library, 801 SW 10th Avenue Geeky hipsters, unite! It’s time for the new, improved sequel to Power Pointillism, the coolest art event held in a Portland library last year. Some of you may remember Andrew […]

Erik Sandberg at the Compound Gallery, 11 NW 2nd, through June C ompound Gallery brings the collective neurosis to Chinatown this month with an exhibition of mixed media paintings by Erik Sandberg, a masterful illustrative artist from Pasadena, CA. With superior technique and draftsmanship, Sandberg employs a fairy-tale like collage approach to convey his allegorical […]

Events Preceding (Level 2) occurring three places simultaneously: PDX Window Project (612 NW 12th), Seaplane (3352 SE Belmont), Pacific Switchboard (4637 N. Albina), June 3, 7 pm Bombing in cafes, issues of momentum and synchronized timing, and the emotional tension of suspended destruction are all themes being worked out in The Events Preceding: Level 2, […]