Sculptor Meredith Dittmar is doing amazing work—unfortunately, Portlanders won’t get a chance to see it.
Matt Stangel
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Synthetic Organics
Scott Wolniak’s Patterning
Chicagoan interdisciplinary artist Scott Wolniak combines five past bodies of work in Patterning.
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Fontanelle Gallery: Closing!
Image lifted from Fontanelle’s website On view at Fontanelle: Juliana Bright’s “Here Mama, Here It Is” After a year and a half in business, Fontanelle Gallery will close at the end of the month. The press release announcing Fontanelle’s closure was admittedly sad, though positive overall, emphasizing a capital of success built over the course […]
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Tonight: Black Wagon Presents Meredith Dittmar
Local artist Meredith Dittmar will be exhibiting new sculptures tonight from 5-8 pm at Black Wagon (3964 N Mississippi Ave). Dittmar’s last hometown show was in 2007, at Compound Gallery. As the artist doesn’t show much around town— recently she’s been busy showing in Berlin, Istanbul, and Mexico City— this is a rare opportunity to […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
It’s that time of the month again— First Thursday time, and tonight looks like it’ll be a good one. While there are boatloads of art events tonight, I’ve chosen three to talk about, and I hope you’ll go check ’em out. Ashley Sloan’s “Untitled,” on view at Tribute Gallery This month’s big buzz surrounds Play […]
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The Art-cession
Put it Where Your Money Is
The recession’s impact on the arts community in 2009.
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Experiencing the Artificial
Faking It with Ann Ploeger, Mary Frey, and Reiner Riedler
Exploring notions of artificial reality with photographers Ann Ploeger, Mary Frey, and Reiner Riedler
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Tonight: The Big 100 Art Show
Lifted from the Portland City Art website Portland City Art, the non-profit arts organization run by Chris Haberman and John Graeter, does a great job organizing massive group art shows. The most recent memory of this ability is Manor of Art, held this past August at Milepost 5 in their Studios building— a not-yet-renovated defunct […]
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Japan Wins…
…the proverbial weird-bike arms race: Image lifted from Wonderhowto.com “My name is Dekochari. My father was a pinball machine and my mother was an ATM.” These clunky things are called Dekocharis, which essentially means “art-bike” in Japanese. They look a lot like props from sci-fi flicks— which isn’t surprising, considering that the Dekochari is a […]
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Tonight: First Thursday
Blaine Fontana On view at Upper Playground As many of us are gearing up for the holidays, so is the arts community— that means gift buying opportunities, and so, below you’ll find info on various seasonal celebrations of self-gifting, normal-gifting, and other art gifts available for purchase tonight during the First Thursday art walk. Self-gifting: […]
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Preserving History
The Dill Pickle Club Revives a Long-Forgotten Arts Institution
A new Portland arts organization revives the values of Chicago’s
long-forgotten Dill Pickle Club.
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Jim Lommasson’s Oaks Park Pentimento
Jim Lommasson Recently I checked out Oaks Park Pentimento, a photo exhibit by Jim Lommasson which documents paintings that were found on the carousel at Oaks Amusement Park, circa 1982. To summarize the show’s press release: In 1912, “German and Italian immigrants” painted the carousel with “Edwardian-era scenes.” Then in 1944, two brothers from Washington […]