It feels like a funeral in there. Only a few weeks remain to visit the Museum of Contemporary Craft (MoCC) before it closes on April 23. Not surprisingly, it feels like a funeral in there, with the monochrome solemnity of the current Rowland Ricketts show, and the Gallery Store’s contents packed up, as museum staff […]
Jenna Lechner
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One of Portland’s Most Important Art Spaces Is Closing. Now What?
The Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Struggles Highlight Need for Art World Alternatives
The Museum of Contemporary Craft’s struggles highlight the need for art world alternatives.
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Samantha Wall Makes the Invisible Visible
The Contemporary Northwest Art Award Winner’s Larger-Than-Life Drawings Explore Multiracial Identity
The Contemporary Northwest Art Award winner’s larger-than-life drawings explore multiracial identity.
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That Capitalist Vision of Thomas Kinkade
Upfor Gallery Curators on the McDonald’s of the Art World
Upfor Gallery curators on the McDonald’s of the art world.
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Natalie Anne Howard’s Art Is Psychedelia by Southwest
Lowell is a stunning shop with a tight Instagram game: For the unacquainted, the shop/gallery specializes in vintage merchandise, as well as work by contemporary artists and makers. As a friend put it, they’re a “treasure shop,” with a well-curated collection of curiosities, covering everything from zines to rugs to clothing to the tiniest, quarter-inch-tall […]
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Natalie Anne Howard’s Art Is Psychedelia by Southwest
The ’90s Nostalgia of Diurnal Doldrums
Her exhibit Diurnal Doldrums evokes ’90s nostalgia.
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At the Pony Club Gallery, You Better Watch Out for Krampus the Christmas Demon!
Sylvia Mann KRAMPUS! Is coming! To town! Everywhere you go in December, there are Christmas decorations, pop-up shops, and gift guides, but walk into the Pony Club Gallery and you’re greeted by walls decked with evil. This is what a Krampus-themed art show looks like: a life-size faux fireplace shaped like the holiday demon’s face […]
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Krampus Sees You When You’re Sleeping
And He’s Coming to the Pony Club Gallery!
And he’s coming to the Pony Club Gallery!
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Liminal Wants You to Feel Weird (and You Will)
The Art of the Insult in Offending the Audience
The art of the insult in Offending the Audience.
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Dynasty Handbag’s Delusions and Grandeur
Courtesy of Paula Court / PICA Dynasty Handbag is here to entertain. Dynasty Handbag makes a one-woman show look good—in the tackiest way possible. Her performance, Good Morning Evening Feelings, was delivered to a sold-out house at Disjecta on Thursday. In case you’re wondering, “Dynasty Handbag” is the alter ego of Los Angeles-based artist Jibz […]
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Dynasty Handbag’s Delusions and Grandeur
Courtesy of Paula Court / PICA Dynasty Handbag is here to entertain. Dynasty Handbag makes a one-woman show look good—in the tackiest way possible. Her performance, Good Morning Evening Feelings, was delivered to a sold-out house at Disjecta on Thursday. In case you’re wondering, “Dynasty Handbag” is the alter ego of Los Angeles-based artist Jibz […]
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Pictures of the Moon with Teeth: TBA’s Visual Art Tackles Spirits and Space
TBA is over halfway through, but you still have plenty of time to catch their visual art component of the festival, which runs through October 11. Pictures of the Moon with Teeth tackles the “spirit,” playing with scale and expectation. The work that fills 2500 NE Sandy comes from 10 different artists, but shares a […]