Visual Arts Sometimes art is uncriticizable even by a critic. This month at Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Baba Wagué Diakité offers folk-art ceramic sculptures that depict animals and spirit icongraphy from ... More
Critiquing The Uncritiquable
Two local art shows leave Richard Speer (gasp) at a loss for words.
Visual Arts Sometimes art is uncriticizable even by a critic. This month at Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Baba Wagué Diakité offers folk-art ceramic sculptures that depict animals and spirit icongraphy from ... More
Fluorescent Fabulosity
Viktor Popovic illuminates the Portland Art Center.
Visual Arts The Portland Art Center needed a showstopper to make up for last month's Catacombs, a labyrinth of low-grade performance art that would have undershot expectations even if a high-school drama troupe h ... More
Demons, Silks & Polar Bears
A jaunt through October's art highlights.
Visual Arts Eighty-eight-year-old Jack McLarty has had a distinguished career, with an exhibition history stretching back to the 1940s and artworks housed in collections such as the Smithsonian Institution's. His ... More
Stumbling onto Beauty
Brad Adkins finds art in balloons—or are they sphincters?
Visual Arts As Andy Warhol proved, banality does not equal boredom. Depictions of commonplace mass-produced objects like soup cans or Brillo pads needn't stultify the viewer, so long as there's flair in the execu ... More
Disjecta Rising
With Haunted, Disjecta pulls off its best show to date.
Visual Arts There were Hollywood-style searchlights outside the Templeton Building on the opening night of Disjecta's Haunted, as if announcing that "Something Big" was going on inside. And it was. The most engag ... More
A Fine Affair
AFFAIR @ The Jupiter Hotel provides some stellar room service.
Visual Arts The third time was a charm for the annual AFFAIR @ the Jupiter Hotel (Sept. 29-Oct. 1), Portland's premier contemporary-art fair. Operating like a well-oiled machine, the AFFAIR filled more than 30 ro ... More
The Oakland Invasion
Bay Area artists are kicking ass in Old Town.
Visual Arts Seems lately that the best artists showing in Portland are from Oakland, Calif. Omar Chacon, whose vibrant, incendiary paintings this June at Motel practically set the Old Town gallery on fire, is a f ... More
Too Cool For School
Sean Healy takes us back to high school—and leaves us stranded.
Visual Arts Sean Healy tackles the ever-scary, still scarring phenomenon of high school in his show Supernormal at Elizabeth Leach. John Hughes had his way with high school, American Pie screwed it to the stickin ... More
Opulent Dreamscapes
Brenden Clenaghen alchemizes cow udders and chandeliers into haunting abstractions.
Visual Arts During a month of strong shows, Brenden Clenaghen's Endless Parade at Pulliam Deffenbaugh is the strongest. Because of PICA's decision to effectively compete with First Thursday by kicking TBA off on ... More
Underwater Idylls
Sonia Kasparian summons the Ladies of the Lake (and one naked dude, too).
Visual Arts First, know this: Sonia Kasparian is a romantic. There's no getting around that. This is no naturalist, postmodernist, or Gen-Y termite cutester here. No, this is a visionary with utopic designs and t ... More
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Confronting the myth of the great American road. Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Portland Art Museum scores a hit with this showcase of thought-provoking Northwest art. Stage Sets
Three local shows ask where art ends and architecture begins. Best Portland Art of the Year 2012
Favorite shows and pieces from 2012. Christine Clark/Jay Steensma @ Nine Gallery/Pulliam Gallery
Two Portlanders confront impermanence. Contemporary Northwest Art Award Finalists
10 Favorite Visual Arts Shows of 2011
The Century Project At Bamboo Grove
Photographer Frank Cordelle wrestles with body acceptance. Lloyd Reynolds A Life of Forms in Art
A calligrapher’s life beyond letters. Portland Art Center, R.I.P.
The Portland Art Center closes—who is to blame?
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