Compound Gallery Zach Johnsen and Mhak collab mural at the Jupiter Hotel Tonight from 6-10 pm at the Jupiter Hotel (800 E Burnside), local painter Zach Johnsen and Japanese import Mhak will be unveiling a collaborative mural they’ve been working on for the past few weeks. Johnsen and Mhak began working together last year, when […]
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Estate of Mind
A Mount Tabor Mansion Goes into Foreclosure—and Becomes a Temporary Artists’ Colony
A local production crew documents 28 days in a foreclosed mansion-turned-artists colony.
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Tonight, First Thursday. Tomorrow, First Friday.
PDX Contemporary Gus Van Sant’s “boy and girl” on view at PDX Contemporary The First Thursday artwalk is tonight on the west side, and First Friday is tomorrow on the east— there are a few openings that have popped up on the radar which I’d like to pass along to you. After the jump: Gus […]
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Gus Van Sant’s Multi-Bodies
Photographic Cut-ups
PDX Contemporary presents Gus Van Sant’s photographic mashups in Cut-ups.
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Last Thursday and Some Friday Stragglers
The Goodfoot The Goodfoot presents Keenan Havens Tonight is the Last Thursday artwalk over on NE Alberta Street and it sounds like there’s a decent range within the openings offered. From the brainy circus of Appendix Space and their new partners at the Little Field Gallery, to the folky illustrations of Guy Burwell at Screaming […]
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Going Balls Out
Grass Hut Gallery Says Goodbye to East Burnside
Grass Hut closes up its East Burnside location and moves into Floating World Comics.
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Portland2010: Artist Talks Tonight at the Templeton Building
Oregon Painting Society The Hexenwitch’s hexplex. Yesterday I posted a write-up of the Templeton Building’s Portland2010 exhibits. In that write-up I focus a good bit on Oregon Painting Society’s Hexenhouse, and “the crash” to Jenene Nagy’s Tidal. Just now I got an e-mail from Jason Traeger of Oregon Painting Society, not only informing me of […]
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Two Weekends Left: Portland2010
Oregon Painting Society Oregon Painting Society’s Hexenhouse There are just two weekends left to check out Portland2010, the Disjecta-organized, multi-location biennial which concludes on April 25. While our local biennial spreads out through the city, and there’s a whole lot offered within that loose cloud of locations, I feel that the Templeton Building (open Friday […]
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Design Density
Cabinets of Curiosity at Tractor Gallery
Tractor gallery’s exhibit evokes an old-time wonder cabinet.
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Tonight: Opening Reception for Scarecrow at Reed’s Cooley Gallery
Robert Rauschenberg’s “Autobiography” Daniel Spoerri’s 1969 film Resurrection starts with a close-up of a pile of brown mush, which de-coils and rises as a continuous mass, sliding into a man’s ass in a smooth singular motion. Next, a steak is un-eaten, each bite glued back to the larger whole with a knife. Things continue going […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
Compound Gallery Jen Lobo Yesterday I spoke briefly with Matt Wagner from Compound Gallery (107 NW 5th Ave), who has been busily working to curate a triptych show (opening tonight from 7-10 pm). Triptychs are classically religious, three panel images, used to a narrative end. From Wagner himself: I was recently in France and was […]
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Red Truck Gallery Pops Up
Red Truck The Red Truck Boys I’m about six feet four inches tall, so I’m not super used to looking up at people. Noah Antieau, owner and director of the traveling New Orleans-based Red Truck Gallery, stands well above me, looking gracefully out-of-town in worn overalls and a tattered white shirt. “My mom [Chris Roberts-Antieau] […]