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You may as well call Miami “Portland South” this week, as dozens upon dozens of Stumptown artists, gallery owners, curators, collectors, and other sundry denizens have descended on South Beach for the annual    More

Visual Arts Last December, Yoshihiro Kitai burst upon the local scene with a dazzling show at Portland Art Center, full of gold and silver leaf upon swaths of oversized paper. In their imagery, the works evoked c ...   More

News Jennifer Gately, the Portland Art Museum's Schnitzer-endowed curator for Northwest art, has announced the five winners of the 2008 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards:

Dan Attoe of W...   More

News Pecha Kucha Night

8:20 pm, Monday, November 1, 2007

Pecha Kucha Night. Sort of sounds like some nocturnal luau, doesn't it? Some kind of ukelele grass-skirt coconut-bra soiree with apple-mouthed roast...   More

Visual Arts Much has been made of Gen X/Y’s post-ironic use of craft under the auspices of fine art. Installation artist Harvest Henderson shares her take on this phenomenon at Ogle this month in Never a St ...   More

Visual Arts Tom Cramer’s painted and carved wooden panels at Laura Russo are a jumble of maddening, fascinating paradoxes: Hyperkinetic yet serene, intricate yet cryptic, they show a midcareer artist taking ...   More

Visual Arts One of the most thoughtful and obsessive conceptual artists working on the West Coast today, Matthew Picton debuts a new body of work this month at Pulliam Deffenbaugh . The London-born artist, who n ...   More

News In the aftermath of a Sunday, Sept. 23 fire that left painter Michael Brophy's studio severely damaged, the arts community has mobilized to support the artist, who shows with the prestigious Laura Russo Gallery and was featured in the Portland Art Mus...   More

Visual Arts Michael L. Wilson has made a metaphoric jump across the Willamette River, evolving his painting from a lowbrow, Last Thursday sensibility to an elegant First Thursday polish. Caustic: 3rd Definition ...   More

Headout For the past four years, the Affair at the Jupiter Hotel has been one of the most enjoyable events on Portland’s visual-arts calendar. Organized by former PICA visual-arts curator Stuart Horodne ...   More