Alicia J. Rose at Grass Hut

Alicia J. Rose charges into the woods in her genderfucked Fairytales.

Visual Arts In 1812, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published what has become the world’s best-known collection of adapted European and Middle Eastern fairy tales. Three of these tales—Snow White and the Sev ...   More

 

Wednesday, January 16, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

Mark Rupert at Quality Pictures

Photographer Mark Rupert explores the midpoint between city and nature.

Visual Arts Weird, intriguing creatures dwell in the estuary, the neither-here-nor-there zone where rivers flow into the sea, freshwater mingles with salt, and alligators swim side-by-side with sharks. Wherever t ...   More

 

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

Best of 2007

Raves and raptures from the year that was.

Visual Arts In a year when the national media couldn’t get enough of Portland’s creative-class utopia, local visual arts venues experienced a dearth of challenging group shows and a wave of staggering ...   More

 

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

Welcome to Miami: Art Basel Miami Beach

Richard Speer reports (and cavorts) at Miami’s biggest art weekend.

Visual Arts You may as well have called Miami, Fla.,“Portland South” last week, as dozens upon dozens of Stumptown artists, gallery owners, curators, collectors and other sundry denizens descended on ...   More

 

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

Yoshihiro Kitai at Pulliam Deffenbaugh

With his stylized clouds, Yoshihiro Kitai blends East and West.

Visual Arts Last December, Yoshihiro Kitai burst upon the local scene with a dazzling show at Portland Art Center, full of gold and silver leaf upon swaths of oversized paper. In their imagery, the works evoked c ...   More

 

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

Harvest Henderson, Ogle

Stitching shopping, femininity, and the human heart.

Visual Arts Much has been made of Gen X/Y’s post-ironic use of craft under the auspices of fine art. Installation artist Harvest Henderson shares her take on this phenomenon at Ogle this month in Never a St ...   More

 

Wednesday, November 7, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

Tara Jane ONeil at Reading Frenzy

Tara Jane ONeil’s newest songs are caught on paper.

Visual Arts One of the most interesting images in local musician Tara Jane ONeil’s new book of drawings is of a figure’s back, its exposed spinal column extending below its body, below its webbed feet ...   More

 

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Jim Sandberg

Tom Cramer at Laura Russo

The artist treads familiar and unfamiliar ground at Laura Russo.

Visual Arts Tom Cramer’s painted and carved wooden panels at Laura Russo are a jumble of maddening, fascinating paradoxes: Hyperkinetic yet serene, intricate yet cryptic, they show a midcareer artist taking ...   More

 

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 RICHARD SPEER

Mapping Time

You Say You Want an Evolution