Chambers@916 Brent Ozaeta’s Introverted Floating World, on view at Chambers@916 First Thursday alert! If you’re planning on heading to the west-side artwalk tonight, I’ve got some openings to add to your itinerary. Here’s my hit list for the night (and samples from each show are after the jump): Breeze Block is hosting San Francisco-based painter […]
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(En)Counter Culture, Flashing Up This Weekend
(En)Counter Culture Sometime between now and Monday, (En)Counter Culture— a “social experiment in visual arts” organized by Kristin Bayans and Joey Brown of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)— will announce the location of a “guerrilla art exhibition” via Twitter. The “flashmob art exhibit” will last for “approximately 30 minutes” at “a public […]
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Junk Stories
Bret Hodgert of Old Portland Hardware & Architectural Salvages History—and the Stories Behind Them
Bret Hodgert collects architecture—and the stories behind them.
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On View: ForeverScape at The Globe
ForeverScape.com A section of Vance Feldman’s ForeverScape Hey guys, if I could have your attention for a quick sec, I’d like to point out a project called ForeverScape by local illustrator Vance Feldman: On September 26, 2009, Feldman put a pen to the first page of his never-ending drawing and “pledged to expand the ForeverScape […]
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Sarah Palin Breathes…
… and it’s just as uncomfortable as everything else she does. (via The Rumpus)
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Blazer Mania at Compound Gallery
Compound Gallery “Rip City Bigs” by Ryan Berkley Attention, sports fans: If Ezra’s mid-season Blazers checkup didn’t depress the fandom out of you satiate your Blazelust, then I have an art show for you! Blazer Mania, Compound Gallery’s Blazers-inspired group show, is on view through the end of the month— bringing together local and regional […]
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Two Israels
Two Photographers, Two Perspectives on Israel
Two photographers examine the physical and personal landscapes of Israel.
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R.I.P, Crappy Art Trends
Matt Stangel Eulogizes Art Trends Whose Time Has Come
Matt Stangel eulogizes art trends that’ve been done to death.
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Between Two Escalators
Galleries invade Pioneer Place
Four new galleries sprawl in an upper level of Pioneer Square.
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Art and Censorship Hosted by PICA and the Museum of Contemporary Craft
Over the last few weeks, art communities worldwide have rallied against the controversial decision to remove a video by David Wojnarowicz from Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, an exhibit exploring LGBT issues that’s currently on view at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC. Spearheading the unpopular decision are Republican congressmen […]
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Levi Pitters at Black Wagon
Hungry Eyeball “I am faster than 80% of all snakes.” Awesome alert! Tonight from 5-7 pm, Black Wagon is debuting a series of paintings by local 13-year-old artist Levi Pitters. Over at Hungry Eyeball (a website operated by the painter’s father) Pitters introduces himself and tells us about his work: Hello, my name is Levi […]
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Compromising Authority
The Content-Driven Curation of Tori Abernathy
Tori Abernathy emphasizes content-driven art at Recess Gallery.