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Martha Daghlian is an artist and writer based in Portland. Her past/future projects include Grapefruits Art Space, athousandcirclets.garden, and the High-Tech Luddites Anti-Smartphone Club. She is an admirer of all things artsy, ephemeral, and handmade, and she loves cartoons.
Portland’s newest contemporary art venue, ILY2 has existed as an emotional support hotline and series retail residencies—one of which offered glam shots at the mall. Now it’s moving into a brick and mortar.
Computers are alchemical in the way that they use tiny assemblages of conductive squiggles and crystal wafers to generate images, solve complex mathematical problems, and connect people miles apart in real time. How does this transformation from material to information to image occur? Weaving Data, a group exhibition in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art […]
For two years, Portland’s newest contemporary art venue, ILY2, has existed in a state of flux. It was a downtown storefront window that hosted live performances. It was an emotional support hotline. Its next-to-latest form was that of an offshoot “glamshot” pop-up in the Lloyd Center Mall—called ILY2 Too. Now, in March, ILY2 will take […]
Computers are alchemical in the way that they use tiny assemblages of conductive squiggles and crystal wafers to generate images, solve complex mathematical problems, and connect people miles apart in real time. How does this transformation from material to information to image occur? Weaving Data, a group exhibition in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art […]
Two local galleries, Blackfish Gallery and Chefas Projects are expanding into new locations—and its because they want to
Both Blackfish Gallery and Chefas Projects are expanding, and that’s a good sign for the local arts community.
In the midst of Portland’s changing arts scene, here are two moves that represent good news
Paper-focused visual artist Morgan Rosskopf and electronic musician Ashlin Aronin created a chaotic blacklight grotto at North Portland’s Well Well Projects. Arts writer Martha Daghlian visited the immersive, “warm-hearted apocalyptic” installation.
In the spoof horror movie Shaun of the Dead (2004), the main characters pretend to be zombies in order to avoid attracting attention from roving groups of undead. Their ruse is quickly uncovered, but what if they had kept up the act long-term? Morgan Talty’s debut book, Night of the Living Rez—published this past July […]
I must have missed something at the start of They Can Never Burn the Stars. A few minutes into the collaborative audiovisual performance by Pacific Islander interdisciplinary artist D.B. Amorin and Cree sound artist Chloe Alexandra Thompson, a few people stood up and started walking out. “Wow, rude! The show just started,” I naively thought. […]
San Cha has done it again. For many Portland art fans, her name is synonymous with longing—as her 2019 performance memorably packed Pearl District gallery, the lumber room, to capacity—creating a line of would-be audience members that snaked around the block. Even at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)’s larger, warehouse-like headquarters, the show […]
Every September, the Time Based Art Festival (TBA) kicks off what I think of as “art season” in Portland. The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) brings artists from around the world (and local favorites, too) to their headquarters and various other locations around town to present work that is often beautiful, sometimes challenging, and […]
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