Visual Arts In case you didn't get the memo, this is the summer of Scott Wayne Indiana. First, the artist was featured on KATU TV for installing those damned ubiquitous toy horses around the Pearl District and ot ...   More

Visual Arts Rarely do dead people and living people exhibit more handsomely together than the late printmaker Rupert Jasen Smith and the living (and very lively) painter Eva Lake, both showing this month at Augen ...   More

Visual Arts Breathe in, breathe out: Mounting a successful biennial art exhibition is as deceptively simple in theory and fiendishly difficult in practice as Buddhist breathing exercises. Fortunately for local ar ...   More

Visual Arts Valentina Barroso-Graziano's bravura installation at Ogle numbers among the highlights of an atypically rich July for local visual arts. A visual tour de force that shows how a gifted artist can do a ...   More

Visual Arts Thirty-year-old James Boulton began making a name for himself in 2001 and 2002 with audacious shows at the Everett Station Lofts. His hyperkinetic style, influenced by graphic design and popular cultu ...   More

Visual Arts Jim Riswold has a knack for imbuing his photographs with subversive yet somehow non-threatening irony, a talent well showcased at Augen in three shows over the course of the past year and a half. The ...   More

Visual Arts TJ Norris is one of those people you don't appreciate until they go away. The erstwhile director of Soundvision gallery (Everett Station Lofts, 2002-2003), Norris was easy to take for granted. During ...   More

Visual Arts Run, don't walk, to Motel to see two of the most knee-weakening paintings to hit Stumptown since Tim Bavington's show at Pulliam Deffenbaugh four years ago. Twenty-eight-year-old Omar Chacon, who stud ...   More

Visual Arts Generally, a portraitist is only as good as his subjects. Up until now, this has worked in Jock Sturges' favor, as he's photographed nudist families in Northern California and the South of France, mak ...   More

Visual Arts Whoever decided to hold Cascade AIDS Project's annual "Art for Life" benefit at the Oregon Convention Center must've been smoking a bowl. It would be hard to imagine a tackier, more déclass&eac ...   More