The Shock of the New Butters Gallery

Butters introduces four new artists to its roster.

Visual Arts With scores of local art spaces closing (Quality Pictures), cutting back (Pulliam) and going freelance (Woolley), it’s rare to see a gallery welcome new artists into its stable. But with New Dis ...   More

 

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Equivocation (Oregon Shakespeare Festival)

Shakespeare in trouble.

Visual Arts Oregon Shakespeare Festival accountants, rejoice: In his world-premiere production of Bill Cain’s magnificent Equivocation, artistic director Bill Rauch has found a work that pleases both OSF&rs ...   More

 

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 BRETT CAMPBELL

Lesbian Art Show At Fontanelle

Two artists put up a mirror to sapphic identity.

Visual Arts To title an exhibition Lesbian Art Show requires either temerity or naiveté. Azsa West and Mary McAllister, the lesbian couple behind this collaborative effort, have plenty of both. To mount a ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Jason Low Moon

Checkmate; bang-bang.

Visual Arts It’s hard to think of a modern cartoonist with a more recognizable drawing style than Norway’s Jason. From his signature anthropomorphized characters—generally gaunt, straight-faced ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 CASEY JARMAN

Mary Henry & Ellen George PDX Contemporary

A one-two punch of transcendental abstraction and elegant sculpture.

Visual Arts In four years, painter Mary Henry will be 100. The California native, who now lives on Whidbey Island, Wash., only recently stopped making art as a concession to her age, but her work on display at PD ...   More

 

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Frost/Nixon (Portland Center Stage)

A power-hungry, white-guy cage match.

Visual Arts If you count yourself among the many disappointed by Ron Howard’s Best Picture-nominated film, hear this: Peter Morgan’s 2006 stage play about British playboy and talk show host Peter Fros ...   More

 

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 BEN WATERHOUSE

Michelle Goldberg The Means of Reproduction

Visual Arts After extensive research, writer and journalism professor Michelle Goldberg has come to a big conclusion: The world’s most pressing problems can only be solved when women are finally given the f ...   More

 

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Megan Brescini

Mark Woolley Gallery Says Goodbye

The longtime outsider gallery calls it quits.

Visual Arts After 15 years in business, the Mark Woolley Gallery will close May 30, becoming the third major PDX gallery to close this year. Woolley says the closure is only partly due to the recession, and that ...   More

 

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Matt King Fourteen30 Contemporary

Sizing up contemporary life.

Visual Arts What’s your IQ? How much money did you make last year? What’s your waist size, your bra cup, your dick length? Richmond, Va.-based artist Matt King wants to know. And while we’re at ...   More

 

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Paul Dahlquist at Gallery 114

This 80-year-old photographer shows he’s about more than boobs, butts and schlongs.

Visual Arts That Paul Dahlquist, spry and feisty and flirty, has just turned 80 years old is the least of his surprises. Among the others: He is known for his sensual male nudes and has been appropriated as a &ld ...   More

 

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 RICHARD SPEER