Heidi Schwegler What the fuck, Elmo?! The Art Gym at Marylhurst University is a pain in the ass to get to, so I don’t often write up a show there unless it’s really worth seeing. Reader, the Art Gym’s current show, Botched Execution: Selected Works by Heidi Schwegler 2004-2015, is really worth seeing. Schwegler‘s work […]
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From Trauma to Print: Art by Veterans at the Ash Street Project
This past weekend, I saw political messages and images of violence printed on pulped military uniforms. Ash Street Project’s Deconstructing the Divide featured prints and other art from Iraq War veterans, much of it printed on what the artists and exhibitors call “combat paper”—some of the veterans pulped their own uniforms, turned them into paper, […]
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This Week in Art: Small Press Comics, Daniel Clowes, and Portland’s Best Photo Blog Goes Analog
Daniel Clowes COMICS INVASION: Daniel Clowes is coming to town. So are a slew of small comics publishers. What a ridiculous week this is for art: Linework NW invades Norse Hall this weekend, fresh new plays are opening across town, and certain legendary comics writers are headed our way. And on the horizon? Kathleen Hanna […]
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Going to Linework NW? Here’s Your Essential Guide to Small Press Comics Releases
Portland spring emerges from her dainty (organic, grass-fed) clamshell and unpacks her greens, her rains, some guys that want to yell at you, and a hot mess of new releases from small press comics publishers. So it’s appropriate that the small press comics festival Linework NW also happens in spring at the beautiful Norse Hall. […]
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Art House: Tending Home at Surplus Space
Surplus Space From Tending Home. With a premium on Portland housing, many alternative arts spaces have closed their doors, but Surplus Space, on NE 7th, isn’t one of them. It’s a proudly alternative exhibition space housed in an actual house, with projects in the works to assist other alternative spaces throughout the city—something increasingly necessary […]
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A Terrible Pretty Okay Book, Reviewed in Doodles: Rachel Brathen’s Yoga Girl
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This Week in Art: Tennessee Williams, Nikki Glaser on Taylor Swift, and First Friday Maybe Isn’t a Thing
NIKKI GLASER: Fan of Taylor Swift, dream best friend. Nikki Glaser—As if we couldn’t adore the delightful stand-up any more than we already do, she opened up to Courtney Ferguson about her love for Taylor Swift. “I can’t stop listening to Taylor Swift’s 1989,” she told Courtney. “I feel like she writes for me. I […]
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There’s a New Curator in Town: Disjecta’s Chiara Giovando
Chiara Giovando From SMASHISIM, a show curated by Chiara Giovando at Human Resources LA. Yesterday, Disjecta announced their latest curator-in-residence, and it’s Chiara Giovando, formerly of Los Angeles’ Human Resources. It’ll be interesting to see what the LA-based Giavondo does as she fills the position left by Rachel Adams, who showed huge range as a […]
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Here’s Your Spring/Summer Poetry Press Week Lineup
Poetry Press Week For its spring/summer iteration, the crazy poetry lovers at Poetry Press Week put out an open call for local writers to submit work for a Fashion Week-inspired staging at the festival June 19-20. Judges Zachary Schomburg and Samiya Bashir selected writer/musician Timmy Straw and Zachary Cosby, one half of Bone Tax Press. […]
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The Cube Craft Lab
Baby steps: As of March, it’s become a little bit easier to begin a business in sewing, jewelry making, or screen printing. ADX stands for “Art Design Portland,” and with the opening of their craft lab, the Cube, they’re taking bigger steps in fulfilling the “art” portion of that name’s promise. ADX has functioned as […]
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New In: The Day’s News in Local Fashion, Retail, and Design
—Vintage lovers, add another address to your hunting route: Velvet Goldmine has just opened shop at 5923 SE Foster, with what appears to be a tendency toward embroidered pieces from around the world. Just the sort of thing to capture your inner traveling bohemian, even if you’re going nowhere fast. —Nationale and Portland Garment Factory […]
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Portland Crime Stats, Art-ified
At last night’s First Thursday, I stumbled in by chance to one of the most aesthetically pleasing examples of Portland data that I’ve ever seen. Diode Gallery for Electronic Art is currently hosting an exhibition by San Francisco artist Doug McCune that makes Portland crime stats look good. For instance, this map of Portland DUIs […]