The Jeff Jahn-curated showVolume picks up where the Contemporary Art Awards left off.
John Motley
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Concept-Driven Art at Rocksbox
Jo Nigoghossian and Natascha Snellman
Two young, conceptually driven artists show at a North Portland gallery.
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Reflecting on Scratching the Surface
galleryHOMELAND’s Surface Tension reflects on three years of Scratching the Surface.
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APEX: Marc Dombrosky
Tacoma artist Marc Dombrosky brings his found and modified art to Portland.
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Ed Ruscha’s Pop Art
Ruscha addresses the sort of heavyweight concerns we’d expect from an artist of his caliber.
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No Wave: Post-Punk Underground. New York. 1976-1980.
by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley
Thurston Moore’s book stakes out the No Wave movement.
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Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Portland Art Museum
Over the history of the Oregon Biennial, the Portland Art Museum learned that it’s impossible to please everyone. When the museum announced that it would eschew the ever-divisive Biennial for the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, the prospect of a show that would whittle down its participants to five artists and expand its geographical reach to […]
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Holly Andres
Sparrow Lane
In 2006, the work of Portland-based photographer Holly Andres was everywhere: in group shows at Ogle and the now-defunct Alysia Duckler Gallery, at the Oregon Biennial, and, for one week, even on the cover of the Mercury. The broad appeal of her images was obvious. Though thoughtfully packed with intellectual allusion and narrative detail, they […]