Mark Woolley Gallery to Close May 30

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

Warlord Sun King, Art Gym

Northwest artists herald the age of “eco-baroque.”

Visual Arts The trek down to the Marylhurst Art Gym gallery has never been more worth your time and gasoline. Two complementary shows throw into luscious relief the wryly romantic Northwest attitude toward nature ...   More

 

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Old Man Art

Sculptor Mel Katz makes art for the ages.

Headout Youth is overrated. Mel Katz turns 77 this month, but his new sculptures are so fresh and spontaneous, they look like they were made by a 25-year-old wunderkind. For his 13th solo show at Laura Russo, ...   More

 

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

John Sisley & Jesse Durost At Fourteen30 Contemporary

Think Lincoln Logs in outer space.

Visual Arts Contemporary art goes through periods when artists frantically search for new ideas, hoping to be proclaimed the aesthetic innovators du jour. Arguably, we are just now coming out of such a period and ...   More

 

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Breedlove The Beautiful Boy

It’s an affair, but is it art?

Visual Arts Read a much longer version of this story here. In the wake of Sam Adams’ star-crossed affair with hunky Beau Breedlove, a group of arts leaders, including PICA’s Victoria Frey and RACC&rs ...   More

 

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 RICHARD SPEER

Breedlove the Beautiful Boy: WW art critic Richard Speer weighs in.

Artapocalypse: Quality Pictures closes.

Evident Laura Fritz At Naau

She always leaves us wanting more—bugs and pretty lights.

Visual Arts Laura Fritz is a mistress of the arcane. With her creepily clinical work, the Portland artist leaves you disoriented, curious, perhaps even repulsed, and above all scratching your head, saying, &ldquo ...   More

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 RICHARD SPEER