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The unlikely career of a Portland experimental filmmaker and installation artist.
The radical fun of Unobstructed Views.
AIMEE FLOM When downtown’s Portlandia sculpture was commissioned by the city in 1985, she was originally intended to be a reproducible symbol of Portland, like a West Coast Statue of Liberty. That didn’t happen: Artist Raymond Kaskey maintained exclusive rights to his sculpture. But now, with the new group show Her Own Wings: Femme Representations […]
At Land Gallery, visions of the Portlandia that could have been.
Corey Arnold A stark close-up photo of a blind bald eagle with its beak wide open wide graced our covers this week, a visceral shot by local photographer Corey Arnold. Since 1995, Arnold has worked as a fisherman off the coast of Alaska, while also capturing the views of what it’s like to live on […]
John Baldessari’s Picaresque Conceptual Work Comes to Portland
Portland’s Anders Nilsen debuts a new comic, with Greek drama, god drama, and strange wars.
Little Blue, 12 x 12, oil and acrylic on panel, 2015 So Youn Lee On the cover this week is So Youn Lee’s pastel neon starry-eyed vision topped with an ice cream hat, peeking through a forest of blue roses and woodland creatures, named Little Blue. I’m not sure what has captured Little Blue, but […]
The Fight for Women’s Rights TAYLOR ADKINS For months, I’d been meaning to pay Killjoy Collective a visit. When I finally arrived at the gallery space at Southeast 10th and Sandy last Sunday, I was greeted at the door by collective member BriAnna Rosen and a Shiba Inu mix puppy she’d adopted just the day […]
Please enjoy Killjoy Collective’s cheeky resistance.
There’s something we need to talk about this weekend, and that’s BRUNCH. It’s that essential weekend meal that brings people of all different hangovers together and makes us human again (or so we hope). In this week’s issue, we found 80 perfect brunches for you to consider, regardless of if you want a brunch that’s […]
Newspace Center for Photography during last year’s Prison Obscura exhibition. courtesy of Newspace Center for Photography This morning, I heard a sad rumor from a Blogtown tipster that Newspace Center for Photography was closing. When I called up the photography studio and exhibition space, the closure was confirmed, and the staffer I spoke with joked […]
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