Visual Arts No need to mince words: 2008 kicked the Portland art scene in the nuts. The Portland Art Center folded. Affair at the Jupiter Hotel canceled indefinitely. Tilt and Rake galleries closed. At the Portla ... More
Visual Arts Best of 2008
Bright spots in a challenging year for the arts.
Visual Arts No need to mince words: 2008 kicked the Portland art scene in the nuts. The Portland Art Center folded. Affair at the Jupiter Hotel canceled indefinitely. Tilt and Rake galleries closed. At the Portla ... More
Letter from South Beach: PDX at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
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SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI, FLORIDA
Last year at this time, you couldn't turn a corner in Miami Beach without running into a Portland artist or gallery owner (read my report, here). This year's Portland presence at the More
Dark Corners: Dan Gilsdorf/Horia Boboia
Two installations explore the spooky corridors of the creative mind.
Visual Arts Dan Gilsdorf’s Interiotrope is a cross between Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and T.C. Boyle’s The Road to Wellville, with a smidgeon of Edgar Allan Poe thrown in. When you walk around each ... More
Jeanine Jablonski
Economy be damned, Fourteen30’s got bold ideas for our art scene.
Books At age 30, gallery impresario Jeanine Jablonski is so poised, disciplined and single-mindedly ambitious, it’s hard to believe she used to be a wild child in Alaska, running around with a shaved ... More
The Nines
Don’t just look at local art—sleep with it.
Visual Arts What’s the artiest hotel in Portland? Competition just got stiffer thanks to the newly opened, fancy-schmancy Nines hotel, which occupies the top nine floors of the historic Meier & Frank Buildi ... More
Brenden Clenaghen at Pulliam Deffenbaugh
Portrait of an artist—in search of a new style.
Visual Arts Sometimes an artist needs to step back before moving forward. This is the mode Brenden Clenaghen is in with his new show We Became. For many years, Clenaghen has been one of the Northwest’s most ... More
Juri Morioka At Butters
The New York painter transcends the prosaic.
Visual Arts Juri Morioka’s paintings are hard to describe in prose. Try as we would to dissect the Zen influences that color this Japanese artist’s semi-abstract tableaux—strive though we ought ... More
Gate Closing
Why is Jennifer Gately leaving the Portland Art Museum?
Visual Arts On Sept. 16, Jennifer Gately, the Portland Art Museum’s curator for Northwest art, announced she was resigning after only two years and nine months on the job. An outpouring of disappointment fr ... More
Bruce Conkle at Rocksbox
Visual Arts Bruce Conkle has been in all kinds of group shows around town, and solo shows as far away as New York City and Iceland, but this is his first local solo show since 2004. As Portland’s preeminent ... More
Volume at Worksound
Portland artists explore space in curator-about-town Jeff Jahn’s latest show.
Visual Arts Volume feels different—more cavernous and self-directed, less tour-guidey—than most Jeff Jahn-curated shows. Perhaps that’s because the show’s theme is space and the way Portla ... More
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Beaver or Brazilian? The latest Bush War has Portlanders tearing their hair out. Fall Arts Guide 2011: Bring On the Rain
Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. Brad Carlile/Rio Wrenn
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Matt McCormick takes a look in Oregon’s rear-view mirror. 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
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