Visual Arts Chinese-born artist Weihong combines computer graphics, Eastern philosophy and an ancient tea ceremony in her interactive photography installation at Ogle. In 255-0+Tea, Weihong riffs on the RGB color ...   More

Visual Arts Brooklyn photographer Peter Beste is obsessed with Norwegian dark metal bands—a quasi-Satanic subgenre of heavy metal whose frontmen tend to look like a cross between Gene Simmons of Kiss and Br ...   More

Visual Arts Media glut notwithstanding, Storm Tharp's spectacularly overrated show at PDX isn't the only show up this wintry month. Other notables include Biennial alum K.C. Madsen's crumpled-paper sculptures at ...   More

Visual Arts Quick: What do you get when you cross a cigarette butt and an earplug? No, no, not a butt plug—shame on you and your dirty mind! You get J.D. Perkin and Anne Thompson's Second Skin at Portland A ...   More

Visual Arts Storm Tharp's contribution to last year's Oregon Biennial, an untitled floral still life, was one of that exhibition's unmitigated highlights. Almost hidden within its luxuriant oils was a bizarre, be ...   More

Visual Arts Sitting on the floor in my home office, looking through hard copies of my 2006 reviews, I'm surprised at how great a year it was for visual arts. On paper, the year looks so much more stellar than it ...   More

Visual Arts A taxidermized deer head bursts out of the wall at the entrance to Jarrett Mitchell's show at Organism, greeting you as you walk through a barbed-wire fence disturbingly evocative of prisons or concen ...   More

Visual Arts There are no December doldrums in the visual arts scene—in fact, this may be the most jam-packed month for standout shows in the entire year. Things kicked off First Friday with Marne Lucas' Sit ...   More

Visual Arts Twenty bucks is a lot to shell out to see an art show, but The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt is worth every penny. The touring mega-exhibition, now at Portland Art Museum, offers a ...   More

Visual Arts Dreary weather notwithstanding, November has proved a radiant month in the local gallery scene. At PDX, Nancy Lorenz flexes her compositional and material muscles in showstoppers like Night Sky I and ...   More