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Bright Lights Preview: PICA's Angela Mattox
Image: Courtesy Wayne BundWith two TBA Festivals behind her, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s artistic director Angela Mattox will discuss her evolving views of the city, its taste, and her...
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How Carli Davidson is Reinventing Pet Photography
Image: Carli DavidsonIn her Southeast Portland photography studio, Carli Davidson rummages through a box, emerging with a container of tiny squeaky toys. Then, she straps on knee pads. Such are the...
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Living the Wookiee Life with Neon Werewolf
Mako Miyamoto doesn’t have a weird Star Wars fixation. Really. Some nostalgia lingers, he says, but only the normal amount for a 33-year-old. Instead, the local artist’s Neon Werewolf project, an...
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Arthur Hitchcock Walked Across America. You Should See the Photos.
Image: Ira Lippke The word preternatural was created for people like Arthur Hitchcock. His father died when he was 2 (he only knew the man through the photos he left behind). Arthur's mother died of...
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Glenda Goldwater, Portland's Bon Vivant
Image: Stuart Mullenberg The omnipresent Glenda Goldwater (no relation to Barry) at Disjecta’s Portland2014 Biennial, viewing Modou Dieng and Devon A. VanHouten-Maldonado’s TranquilloAfter five decades...
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First Thursday May Gallery Guide
Steven Goldman Gallery at the Art Institute of PortlandNotions of Beauty: NW Fashion Photography NowLocal fashion photographer Christine Taylor has a long impressive history in the biz. From shooting...
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Portraits of Trans Men Layer the Ambiguities of Photography and Gender
Ed Note: Two years ago for Pride, we ran a series of portraits by photographer Lorenzo Triburgo called Transportraits, featuring trans men posing stately in front of Bob Ross landscape paintings. With...
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The Art Museum Brings a Bit of Paris to Portland
Image: Courtesy Portland Art MuseumMediterranean or Latin Thought (1923–1927) by Aristide MaillolPortlanders take great pride in Forest Park. We stroll through Waterfront Park and the Park Blocks, find...
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A Summer-Camp Craft Becomes High Art
Image: Courtesy Jo HamiltonIn Jo Hamilton’s portraits, laugh lines crease purple. Crow’s feet erupt in green shadows, evoking the intensity of painter Lucian Freud. She works not with paint, however,...
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August First Thursday Gallery Guide
The weather is gorgeous and the galleries are open late. Go out and get some art!PDX Contemporary Art: James Lavadour’s Fingering Instabilities It’s been a good year for the self-taught Umatilla...
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Portland’s International Mural Festival Takes Over Our Walls
Image: Jim FeltIf you see a 20-something perched on a metal platform 30-feet in the air spray-painting a wall this week, do not be surprised; do not call the cops. This is not an ambitious graffiti...
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Neil Patrick Harris Talks About Digital Art, PNCA, Hedwig, HIMYM, and Why...
LG Electronics announced today that Pacific Northwest College of Art student John Summerson is a finalist in its Art of the Pixel new-media competition. He beat out 300 submissions via an online vote...
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September First Thursday Gallery Guide
Image: Ryan Trecartin and Regen Projects Los Angeles/Andrea Rosen Gallery New York Ryan Trecartin's 'Center Jenny'Upfor Gallery: Ryan Trecartin The dynamic digital art gallery Upfor celebrates its...
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THEESatisfaction Kick Off PICA’s T.B.A. Festival with Synchronized Dance Moves
Image: Arthur HitchcockThe women of THEESatisfaction—Catherine Harris-White and Stasia Irons—are no strangers to Portland. The rise of the Seattle duo in the last two years has roots all over this...
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Portland Art Museum Chief Curator Bruce Guenther to Retire
The Portland Art Museum announced this morning that Bruce Guenther, the chief curator and Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, will retire on October 20.Since joining in...
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TBA Review: Luke George's 'Not About Face'
Image: PICA/Nick RouxNot just any artist can make me feel the common denominator between my normally disparate reactions to ISIS and Jeff Koons. But this Melbourne/Brooklyn conceptualist and performer...
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Time-Based Art Festival Field Guide
Brace yourself for the tidal wave of performance, interactive installations, drag balls, concerts, dance parties, and conversation about some of the least likely topics (see: the sex life of seniors)...
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Upfor Gallery Celebrates Its First Year with Art Superstar Ryan Trecartin
Image: Ryan Trecartin and Regen Projects Los Angeles/Andrea Rosen Gallery New York Former Portland–artist Lee Kyle surrounded by the girls of 'CENTER JENNY.' Viewers didn’t know how to react to Ryan...
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How Blue Sky Gallery Became a Northwest Photography Mecca
Image: Courtesy the Respective Artists CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Works by Hillerbrand+ Magsamen, Eileen Cowin, Michal Chelbin, Louie Palu, and Jessica Todd Harper will be featured in the Portland Art...
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