Visual Arts British art critic Roger Cardinal didn't realize what a can of worms he was opening in 1972 when he coined the term "Outsider Art." He was looking for a suitable translation for the French term "Art B ... More
Outside The Ordinary
Woolley's two galleries double up on Outsider art.
Visual Arts British art critic Roger Cardinal didn't realize what a can of worms he was opening in 1972 when he coined the term "Outsider Art." He was looking for a suitable translation for the French term "Art B ... More
Ape Shit
Monkeying around doesn't pay for Butters artist.
Visual Arts One of Patricia Bellan-Gillen's paintings at Butters shows a monkey sitting atop a jack-o'-lantern, an orange sailboat floating over its right shoulder. Bellan-Gillen also likes to paint frogs and bil ... More
Drips And Splatters
Backspace scores a hit with action-painting duo.
Visual Arts If gonzo artist Ralph Steadman were a Gen-Y Portlander instead of a 59-year-old Brit, chances are he'd be making work like Justin Gorman and Caleb Freese's collaborations in the Backspace annex. Gorma ... More
Boredom? Hardly. First Thursday In Review
An invigorating show at Portland Art Center belies its title.
Visual Arts One of the most invigorating shows in an all-around amazing month for visual arts is Portland Art Center's group show, Boredom: I Learned It by Watching You (an odd title for a show that is far from b ... More
Gate Keeper
Portland Art Museum's new Northwest curator, Jennifer Gately, holds the keys to the museum's upcoming Biennial.
Visual Arts Fresh-faced and energetic, professional yet unguarded, Jennifer Gately, 35, is the new kid on the South Park Blocks. The Portland Art Museum's recently hired curator for Northwest art (a position endo ... More
A View to a Kiln, Part II
Ceramic alien squiggles, puckered foreskins, and pink pigs.
Visual Arts You could tell how people felt about ceramics by the way they referred to the 40th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, held in Portland last week. If they refe ... More
Selectees for the Oregon Biennial 2006 announced.
Visual Arts Jennifer Gately, curator of Northwest art at the Portland Art Museum, has just released her final list of selectees for the Oregon Biennial 2006. The Biennial, to be held July 29-Oct. 8, is arguably t ... More
The Best Of 2005
Glass totems, blood transfusions and PAM's new wing make 2005 a hit.
Visual Arts BEST PAINTING SHOW: Scott Wayne Indiana's virtuoso gestural abstractions at Residence Gallery.BEST SCULPTURE SHOW: Harry Hillman Jr.'s glass totems at Elizabeth Leach.BEST PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: It's a thr ... More
ART WARS
Pastiche or Par-TAY? Conceptual or Sensual? Those questions are at the heart of the divide separating the art stars who are painting Portland's scene.
Visual Arts Two factions among Portland's young art-Turks are battling it out on the streets, from Everett to Alberta, and in shows everywhere in between. With their art and curatorial visions, both sides are doi ... More
Flaying Faces
Painter Joe Thurston peels off layers of skin to find what's underneath.
Visual Arts Painter Joe Thurston's style is shocking, even off-putting: portraits of women whose faces are, as he says, "flayed." Flayed as in "stripped of skin." His paintings are many things-confrontational, cr ... 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. 10 Favorite Visual Arts Shows of 2011
Contemporary Northwest Art Award Finalists
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.
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