Art

The Portland Art Museum1219 SW Park Ave, 226-2811 Opens July 7 How shocking, how scandalous: Art involving nudity. Let’s Move On. Let’s Entertain promises a spicy smorgasbord of multi-sensory fun. Fresh from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Let’s Entertain is an international collection of over 80 artists offering reflections on our entertainment-savvy, consumerist society. […]

4031 SE Milwaukie, 239-6065. View by appointment or at closing reception, July 14, 6-10 pm. Two ring-neck doves, three powdered donuts, five bottles of beer…Sounds like a convoluted Christmas carol, but the objects are elements of Patrick Rock’s multi room, installation series, It is All About You. The size of the installation and its varying […]

In 1997, Rebecca Gilbert started a private studio and office space for Reading Frenzy. Today, the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) marks how far it has come this month by moving into a new 900-ft space. Over the past three years, the IRPC has evolved from a publishing center for individual publishers and artists to […]

SK Josefsberg Studio 403 NW 11th Ave., 241-9112 Through July 15 The current show at SK Josefsberg features the work of French photographer Marc Riboud and Oregonian Dianne Kornberg. Both artists are masters of the photographic process and even though their conceptual aims only slightly intersect, the show reveals that their work is complementary; both […]

What is the Red 76 Collective? “It’s a means to get artists–photographers, performers, architects–to show their work when there isn’t any other place to do it.” How are you at interviews? “I’m horrible at interviews.” Why Red 76 Collective? “The pretentious answer is ’76 being the year of our revolution and ‘red’ symbolizing the blood […]

at Blue Sky Gallery 1231 NW Hoyt St., 225-0210 Blue Sky Gallery features two photographers who use the camera in distinctly different fashions. In a vibrant use of color photography, Catherine Chalmers presents 20 large prints from a series entitled Food Chain. Chalmers attempts to capture the realities of this dog eat dog, er rather, […]

Basil Hallward Gallery at Powell’s City of Books 1005 W. Burnside St., 228-4651 The intimacy of John Holdeman’s small oil paintings somehow coalesces with the grand retail environment they exist within: Powell’s City of Books. The herds of shoppers milling around are soon forgotten as one becomes immersed in Holdeman’s conjuring of childhood remembrances. Alternating […]

Part of my art viewing routine is identical to many other art aficionados: 12 Thursdays a year, I partake in the ultimate tour-de-force of Portland’s gallery offerings. I find myself part of a sea of viewers, flowing rhythmically through the Pearl District streets, digesting artist after artist, piece by piece. After three solid hours of […]

“I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT that as soon as I left, the Kingdome collapsed,” Art Chantry announces into the phone. “I’ve been holding up that town way too long. It’s a terrible burden. I expect the Space Needle to go at any moment.” There’s still a listing in the residential pages of the Seattle […]

YOU CAN’T TALK about artists who sew without mentioning women’s work. It’s an art-historical reference, with political overtones that tend to make people assume they already know what the art is going to be like. This doesn’t mean, happily, that all such work comes with an ideology embedded in it, or that it’s all the […]