Are you bored and/or unproductive at work? Well, have I got some time-killing fun for you: oeilpouroeil.fr/ If it’s French, its cool. Click your way to the animation section and view the “Guts and Guests” cooking show starring a couple of bug-eyed creatures. Special guest stars include Michael Jackson and a voluptuous blow-up doll. […]
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Bruce Charlesworth
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Bruce Charlesworth S.K. Josefsberg Studio, 241-9912 Through May 24 Minneapolis-based photographer and filmmaker Bruce Charlesworth lures viewers into his constructed realities; sets flourished with Technicolor shades and strong, simple shapes. He adds just a hint of narrative, often abstract slivers of the human condition. Various series illuminate this impulse, such as his work in Trouble […]
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Senior Art
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Senior Art Exhibition Lewis & Clark College Gallery of Contemporary Art Through May 6 This spring, 26 senior art students will leave behind the posh, suburban campus of Lewis & Clark College and embark on the journey towards art-stardom. The young hopefuls mark this transition with the display of recent work in the Senior Art […]
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Sextablos
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Sextablos Augen Gallery, 224-8782 through April 28 Chicago artist and curator Michael Hernandez de Luna has organized an unusual revival of a Mexican painting tradition. 100 artists from six cities contributed work to Sextablos, an exhibition inspired by retablo paintings. Traditionally, retablos are small paintings on wood or tin depicting Christian icons. But in Sextablos, […]
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Ralph Rosenborg
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Selected Collections from the Rosenborg Estate 1940-1990 Mark Woolley Gallery, 224-5475 April 3-28 Ralph Rosenborg: Though the name isn’t familiar, it belongs to an artist that maintained a painting career which ran parallel to that of noted art icons like Pollock, Rothko, and Barnett Newman. Rosenborg began his long career in New York in the […]
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The Space Between
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The Space Between Sally Finch Gallery 114 1100 NW Glisan Through March 31 Most artist studios I have visited are enveloped in chaos; piles of images, towers of paint tubes, etc., lie scattered about. However, after viewing the recent work of Sally Finch, I imagine her art space to be of immaculate order- tidy stacks […]
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Now Is The Time, The Time Is Now
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Now Is The Time, The Time Is Now A mural created in 1989 by Isaaka Shamsud-din, Charlotte Lewis, Kathy Pennington, Paul Odighizuwa, and five assisting students. 4008 NE MLK Blvd Every neighborhood in Portland can boast of having at least a mural or two painted in its vicinity. Walls at parks, schools, and community centers […]
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Eric Stotik
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Eric Stotik PDX Gallery 604 NW 12th, 222-0063 Through March 3 For fifteen years, local artist Eric Stotik has dazzled viewers with paintings rich in imagination and technical aptitude. His current offering at PDX gallery does not disappoint. The images are born from a range of influences, including surrealist symbolism and rendering accented by both […]
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Orthosentric
Orthosentric New Sculptures by Gilles Foisy Butters Gallery, 248-9378 Through Feb 24 In an impressive solo debut at Butters Gallery, Portland sculptor Gilles Foisy constructs a forest of unique forms. Each piece is built from a skeleton constructed from organic materials, such as tree limbs, stones, and gourds. Foisy then conceals these elements underneath a […]
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Kate Shepherd
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The Paintings of Kate Shepherd Portland Institute of Contemporary Art 242-1419 Through Feb 11 Kate Shepherd’s current exhibit of paintings at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art offers a retreat into the meditative. Steered away from visual clutter, the work is economic, even sparse. The thin paintings fade into gallery walls, with Shepherd’s hand quietly […]
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jodi.org In my recent attempt to unearth interesting animation from the tangled Web, I began with a simple keyword: Animation. Unfortunately, the slew of links that pop up are all half-wit cousins from network cartoons. Clerksthecartoon.com was a tremendous disappointment, operating mainly as an advertisement for the cable ‘toon. Cartoonnetwork.com is also an advertising vehicle, […]
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Debra Beers
Debra Beers Mark Woolley Gallery 120 NW 9th Ste 210, 224-9972 Through Jan 27 For two decades artist Debra Beers has found subjects in the urban reality surrounding her. In 1987 she displayed portraits of street youth at Acanthus gallery, marking the beginning of an artist/model relationship with homeless individuals. She utilizes the classical approach […]