Live Review: Cap Auction Saturday, April 5
Great people watching; not so great art.
November 18th, 2009
China Design Now Portland Art Museum | PAM’s new show unwittingly plays into the worst stereotypes of Communist China.2 comments
October 7th, 2009
The Century Project At Bamboo Grove | Photographer Frank Cordelle wrestles with body acceptance.71 comments
September 30th, 2009
High Art | Tom Cramer resurrects the psychedelic ’60s.3 comments
August 19th, 2009
Shits & Giggles At Launch Pad | Jeremy Okai Davis paints the halcyon days of summer.0 comments
August 12th, 2009
Manor Of Art At Milepost Five | A hundred-plus artists turn a former nursing home into an aesthetic free-for-all.1 comment
July 29th, 2009
Marking Portland Portland Art Museum | Tattoo art graduates from bohemia to the blue-hairs.0 comments
July 8th, 2009
Equivocation (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) | Shakespeare in trouble.2 comments
July 8th, 2009
The Shock of the New Butters Gallery | Butters introduces four new artists to its roster.0 comments
June 17th, 2009
Lesbian Art Show At Fontanelle | Two artists put up a mirror to sapphic identity.0 comments
June 10th, 2009
Jason Low Moon | Checkmate; bang-bang.0 comments
[April 9th, 2008]
The annual fundraising gala and auction for the Cascade AIDS Project last Saturday, April 5, may be the Portland art scene’s most glamorous event: tuxes and cocktail dresses, hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, and oh yes, art. The theme for this year’s CAP auction was “Cirque,” and as always it was a circus of preen-and-be-seen festivities in the service of a great cause, raising $600,000 ($50K less than last year’s total) for the nonprofit’s prevention, support, housing, advocacy and education programs.
The ambience this year was more upscale than last year; the food about the same; and the art, on the whole, not as challenging. Curator Linda Tesner’s picks had a predominantly middlebrow feel, an impression reinforced by the lackluster organization and hanging of the pieces in the silent auction. The highest-fetching lot in the live auction was Wedlock, an embarrassingly middling abstract by Lucinda Parker, which sold for $12,500. Second place was Dale Chihuly’s Sarnen Drawing, which brought in a cool 10 G’s. Recession? What recession? Standouts in the silent auction included Sarah Wolf Newlands’ sock-monkey tapestry, Argos; Ted Sawyer’s moody, misty Ode; Gordon Marshall’s Immortality III, with its Close Encounters-like alien figure; Annette Thurston’s Mr. Roboto-meets-Martha-Stewart print, Fish Fork; and Lee Musgrave’s tender drawing, Hold on Tight to your Dreams. Christopher Mooney’s neo-Impressionistic oil painting of three children was enigmatic and more than a trifle creepy, while Larry Cwik’s Striated Iceberg showed the artist nicely finessing the line between fine-art and nature photography.
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