Yale Union There’s a funereal feeling to Cathy Wilkes’ show, currently installed at contemporary art gallery Yale Union. Wilkes required Yale Union to cover their enormous, west-facing windows for the show’s duration. Not only does this block any light and breeze these windows may have provided, it creates the shape of great white tombstones, visible […]
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The Silent, Shuttered Works of Cathy Wilkes
Pieces From Yale Union’s Current Show Will Be in Next Year’s Venice Biennale
Pieces from the Cathy Wilkes show at Yale Union will be in the 2019 Venice Biennale
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Xander Marrow and Rocket Are Perfectly Paired for Germination
XANDER MARROW A map of East Burnside spreads across the north wall of the PSU White Gallery. It’s part of a two-person photography show called Germination in which black-and-white 35mm film photographs separate north and south sides of the directionally divisive street, creating a mind-map of Xander Marrow’s relationship with the Northeast and Southeast neighborhoods. […]
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Xander Marrow and Rocket Are Perfectly Paired for Germination
The Two-Person Photography Show Explores Intimate History and Artistic Development
Portland Photographers Xander Marrow and Rocket explore local history and artistic development in their two-person White Gallery show Germination.
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XOXO’s New Look: Changes to the Fest and Expanding to Veterans Memorial Coliseum
⏰ Reminder: XOXO 2018 registration is open until this Friday noon PT/3pm ET! https://t.co/6EVw1d9Wof— XOXO (@xoxo) June 26, 2018 Registration for tickets to this year’s XOXO Festival will close tomorrow, Friday, at noon PST. The fest’s registration opened last Tuesday with the intention of only remaining available for ten days. Line-up for the festival includes […]
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Art Review: Consu Tolosa at Guardino Gallery
CONSU TOLOSA Consu Tolosa’s abstract paintings exude joy. The 30-some canvases, on display at the Guardino Gallery (alongside works by Helen Kaufman, Hazel Glass, and Rosey Covert), all share a jelly bean palette, with a blushing pink their common star. Tolosa’s organically shaped orbs and repeating dots recall mid-century modern art, but Pleasures + Perils […]
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Owen Wilson Visits the Portland Art Museum’s The Shape of Speed
Wow! Jon Richardson Owen Wilson and Andrew Wilson visited the Portland Art Museum YESTERDAY. Sorry, Portland, we missed’m. “It was a surprise visit!” Ian Gillingham, the PAM’s Press and Publications Manager said via e-mail. “They were visiting the The Shape of Speed during the PAM’s press preview.” (UGH, I WAS INVITED TO THAT. I wish […]
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Art Review: Consu Tolosa at Guardino Gallery
Pleasures + Perils Continues Tolosa’s Shift Toward Abstract Painting
Consu Tolosa’s Pleasures + Perils Continues Her Exploration of the Abstract
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S1’s Fourth-Anniversary is This Weekend!
Keyon Gaskin and Felisha Ledesma ANDRE MIDDLETON It’s embarrassing to admit I hadn’t been to S1’s new location until recently. They moved a little over a year ago from their former subterranean basement in the Hollywood District to a new above-ground storefront 30 blocks east, still on Northeast Sandy. Recently there’ve been a number of […]
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S1’s Fourth-Anniversary Weekend
Portland’s Partial Gallery, Partial Venue, All Synth Paradise
S1’s Packed Anniversary Weekend of Parties, Shows and Workshops
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Peep The Library’s Photo Archive of Portland’s Black Community
Unthank Park, May 1971 Courtesy of Our Story / City of Portland Archives The Multnomah County Library just launched a new digital collection of photos and documents chronicling Portland’s African American community over the years. Called “Our Story: Portland Through an African American Lens,” the collection melds archives from Oregon Historical Society Research Library, Oregon […]
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Extra Extra! Ginger Makes Good, I’m Your New Arts Editor!
Suzette Smith Good afternoon, Portland! I’m your new Mercury Arts Editor. I’m not really new but I’m NEW TO YOU. But I’m not really new to you! I’ve been writing for the Mercury, since 2011 when I was an intern with big hair and even bigger dreams. You may remember me as the intern who […]