Damien Gilley and Ethan Rose’s Approximate, co-curated by Jenene Nagy 2010’s been a big year for Jenene Nagy. She kicked things off in January with her solo show at Disjecta, Tidal, described by the artist as an examination of containment: Jagged pink sheets of drywall grew up the walls and into the rafters above, looming […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Aimee Alvarez! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury‘s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Original Scott Pilgrim Art at Floating World.
In this week’s My, What a Busy Week!, Alison recommends the exhibit of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s original Scott Pilgrim art that’s currently at Floating World Comics (20 NW 5th). I went down to check it out last night for First Thursday, and goddamn, it’s great. Seeing O’Malley’s pencils and inks—and seeing them next to the […]
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Going Guerrilla for Arts Funding at First Thursday
At 7 o’clock last night I was wandering through the usual First Thursday art scene in the Pearl, poking my head into the stuffy wine-and-cheese galleries, when I noticed a huge crowd gathered in the middle of the street at 13th and Hoyt. From a distance, I could see bright blue ribbons stretching out of […]
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First Thursday Picks
Doppler New work by Travis Townsend Tonight’s the First Thursday artwalk over on the west side, and rather than bog you down with a mega-list of openings (if you’re looking for that, see our visual arts listings, or PDX Pipeline’s monthly First Thursday post), I’ve chosen three shows that aren’t to be missed: Zachary Davis […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is Tripper Dungan! Congrats and look we’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury‘s Flickr pool, and start PHART-ing today!!
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Currently Hanged
No, Spider-Man, nooooooooo! From Giuseppe Veneziano’s show “Declino Del Supereroe.” (Via Comics Alliance, which hilariously censored this painting by pixelating it this way… …making the censored version hint at a painting that is much, much dirtier than the real thing.)
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Tonight: Last Thursday
Tonight’s Last Thursday artwalk over on NE Alberta offers a handful of openings that sound worth the trek— Jill Bliss, Betsy Walton, and others at Together Gallery, Gary Wiseman at Little Field, Tabor Robak at Appendix Space, a group show called I Dream Animal at Alicia Blue Gallery, and another over at the Goodfoot with […]
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Dance Off in the Rain
It’s too late for me to be this young and talented, but… gorgeous. Just gorgeous. Watch. via
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Review: Uprising
“A lot people think ballet is stuffy and boring,” said choreographer and producer Candace Brouchard, introducing the second installment of “Uprising,” a collaboration between the Oregon Ballet Theater and local pop musicians. “I’m here to show you that it’s not.” Brouchard went on to encourage the Sunday evening Aladdin Theater audience to have a beer, […]
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Fourteen30 Contemporary Skypes with Summer Show Artists
Grier Edmundson Tonight at 6:30 pm, Fourteen30 Contemporary is hosting the first of four Skype conversations in support of the gallery’s current group exhibit, Summer Show. During tonight’s session, Montreal-based painter Grier Edmundson will be piped into the exhibition space for a chat with ex-Mercury visual arts critic John Motley. They’ll be talking about Edmundson’s […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is twschopp! Congrats and look we’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr pool, and start PHART-ing today!!