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Wednesday 12.29.10 Final Thoughts on 2010: First Impressions  10,000 artists at Worksound by Jim Neidhardt For December’s First Friday, I dropped in at Worksound to see Jim Neidhardt’s installation, 10,000 Artists. The gallery had just opened for the evening, and only the gallery director, Modou Dieng, Neidhardt and a couple of the artist’s friends were in attendance. The installation consists of a paper banner stapled along all of the walls in the gallery. The paper is inscribed with the names... Posted by Patrick Collier on December 29, 2010 at 11:50 | Comments (9) PermalinkWhy Not? Why Stop?  Start your NYE off with art: H/D Projects presents Why Not? Why Stop?, "Atmosphere, Movement, Information: A Performative Experience devised by Richard Decker." Movers include Richard Decker, Chelsea Petrakis, and Vanessa Vogel, with artwork by Hazel Sikorski. The performance will last 25 minutes. Performance • 7:13pm • December 31 Half/Dozen Gallery • 625 NW Everett #111 • 503.512.9079 Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 29, 2010 at 9:50 | Comments (0) PermalinkTuesday 12.28.10 Pop-Up Closing Party  Alex Rauch, "Barrière donnée" Watch PORTstar Alex Rauch deconstruct his installation Barrier Given at the closing party for the PDX Pop-Up Shops at the Downtown Artistry. Closing party • 6-8pm • December 30 Downtown Artistry • 940 SW Morrison • 503.515.1178 Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 28, 2010 at 9:22 | Comments (0) PermalinkMonday 12.27.10 Last day for nominations, 2010 art scene MVP etc. It is that time of year again... that's right it's time for the annual popularity contest, so let's nominate
2010's best and worst. In particular who do you think was 2010's MVP?
Feel free to nominate multiple artists/curators and suggest categories like; MVP, best solo show 2010, best group show 2010, alternative art space of the year, University gallery of the year, favorite museum show, tightest show, most overhung show, most overexposed, most disappointing solo show, most disappointing group show, curator of the year, best conceptualist, best installation, best abstract painter, best figurative painter, best light and space installation, best video piece, funniest art scene moment, best institutional decision, most perplexing institutional decision, most promising new talent, most exciting development and least exciting development. Email your nominations to me: jeff (at) portlandart.net Posted by Jeff Jahn on December 27, 2010 at 2:05 | Comments (2) PermalinkWednesday 12.22.10 Art book gift ideas No idea what to get? Here are three very nice books on; Asian art, Lynda Benglis and the Chinati Foundation.
 Asian Art Now by Melissa Chiu & Benjamin Genocchio, published by Monacelli Press (2010) In the past few six years I’ve subjected myself to numerous Asian contemporary art survey shows. Posted by Jeff Jahn on December 22, 2010 at 13:12 | Comments (0) PermalinkMonday 12.20.10 Monday Links Brian Libby has published Part
2 of his decade in review of Portland's architecture. This installment focuses
on the condos. Maybe no single project or neighborhood has redefined the city
but collectively the greater density and overall upward thrust certainly makes
Portland look and feel much larger than it was a decade ago.
Christopher Knight ponders 2010 as an art year. Tyler Green reports on the latest in the Smithsonian "integrity scandal" as AA Bronson asserts he has the legal right to remove his work from a compromised show. Posted by Jeff Jahn on December 20, 2010 at 12:39 | Comments (0) PermalinkFriday 12.17.10 Taking nominations for 2010 Portland art scene awards It is that time of year again... that's right it's time for the annual popularity contest, so let's nominate
2010's best and worst. Feel free to nominate multiple artists and suggest categories
like; best solo show 2010, best group show 2010, alternative art space of the
year, University gallery of the year, favorite museum show, tightest show, most
overhung show, most overexposed, most disappointing solo show, most disappointing
group show, curator of the year, best conceptualist, best installation, best abstract
painter, best figurative painter, best light and space installation, best video
piece, funniest art scene moment, best institutional decision, most perplexing
institutional decision, most promising talent, most exciting development and least exciting development.
Email your nominations to me: jeff (at) portlandart.net Posted by Jeff Jahn on December 17, 2010 at 12:23 | Comments (0) PermalinkThursday 12.16.10 PLACE & HOME/BODY  We jumped the gun on this a couple of weeks ago - the actual opening reception for The Settlement's next set of shows is this weekend. The Settlement is PLACE, STORE, PEOPLE, and TRADE galleries in the Pioneer Place mall. PLACE will be opening Terror and Ego, new installations by Joshua Berger, Vanessa Calvert, Rhoda London, Emily Nachison, TJ Norris, and Dustin Zemel, on the 3rd floor of the mall. People's "offers original, small-scale works by local artists." Store is the result of a collaboration between the Settlement and PNCA, and "continues to develop and feature installation works by the BFA students of Victor Maldonado's Art, Ethics, and Transgression class." And finally, Trade is "the most fluid of the galleries focuses on local institutions that fill a creative and experimental niche," starting with a curatorial collaboration between Nim Wunnan of Research Club, Tori Abernathy of Recess Gallery, Wynde Dyer of Golden Rule, Elizabeth Lamb of White Box, and Max Ogden. Opening reception • 6-10pm • December 18 The Settlement • Pioneer Place Mall downtown Appendix presents HOME/BODY: "An elevator. A bus. A packed line. These are spaces where human proximity is close but not chosen. Juxtapose this with the selected intimacy of the domestic, and you have HOME/BODY, the latest piece by Choreographer Danielle Ross in collaboration with Video Artist Dustin Zemel. Eight performers are placed in a home and asked to improvise while negotiating pre-designed rules, task-oriented movement, and more importantly, each other. The audience will move freely through the space as the performers play with the sense of crowdedness and forced intimacy." This will serve as research for a larger upcoming project. The work will begin the Project Space and continue throughout the house, the audience is invited to come and go freely during the dance performance and installation. Installation-performance • 4-7pm • December 18 Appendix Project Space • South alley b/w 26th & 27th off Alberta Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 16, 2010 at 9:16 | Comments (0) PermalinkWednesday 12.15.10 artist opportunities The Museum of Contemporary Craft has extended their call for proposals for a 2 week artist residency program in conjunction with the spring 2011 exhibition, Laurie Herrick: Weaving Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. One local artist will be selected to work on site to create a piece based on one of Herrick's designs, which will then travel as part of the exhibition to additional venues. The extended deadline is January 10, 2011. Learn more about it on the MoCC website.
(More! OHSU seeks a portrait photographer, applications are open for PNCA's 2011 Boundary Crossings, the Oregon State Hospital is seeking public art, RACC recently put out a guide to public art, and the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site is seeking site-specific art.) Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 15, 2010 at 11:51 | Comments (1) PermalinkTuesday 12.14.10 Ed Cauduro, Oregon's greatest art collector passes away Perhaps the greatest collector of modern and contemporary art in the Pacific
Northwest, Ed Cauduro, died last Saturday in Palm Springs at the age of 83.
 Warhol: Four Jackies (formerly part of Cauduro's collection, exhibited at PAM in 2004) What differentiated the reclusive collector was his prescient eye as he was among the first to collect artists like Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Jean Michel Basquiat, Terry Winters and Jeff Koons. He even collected John Chamberlain's first car crush sculpture, Shortstop. Besides donating works like the orange Alexander Liberman sculpture Contact II in Jamison Square Park... (more) Posted by Jeff Jahn on December 14, 2010 at 0:25 | Comments (0) PermalinkSunday 12.12.10 Wojnarowicz: Art & Censorship  David Wojnarowicz, still from "A Fire in My Belly," 1987 In case you hadn't noticed, the culture wars are back. And in response to the censorship of David Wojnarowicz's 1987 film A Fire in My Belly, recently (and very briefly) displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, PICA has organized a panel on issues surrounding the censorship of art. Panel luminaries include Kristan Kennedy (PICA visual arts curator), Stephanie Snyder (Cooley Gallery curator), Namita Wiggers (Museum of Contemporary Craft curator), Matthew Stadler (Publication Studio), Todd Tubutis (Blue Sky Gallery director), and many more. Current art events panel • 6:15-7:45pm • December 17 PICA hosted by MoCC • 724 NW Davis Update: The Andy Warhol Foundation has promised to stop all Smithsonian funding unless A Fire in My Belly is reinstalled. PICA will also be screening the film in their resource room through February 13, 2011. 224 NW 13th #305 Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 12, 2010 at 18:55 | Comments (0) PermalinkFriday 12.10.10 Torben Eskerod at Blue Sky Gallery 
As we get older, the photographs of family members kept in albums increasingly become mementos of the dearly departed. For a matriarch or patriarch of the family, a particularly memorable or essential image may get installed into the face of a tombstone. Doing so maintains the semblance of the living relationship. Yet, stories passed from one generation to the next are not enough to keep that image sharp and new copies do not replace the worn and weathered when the time... (more) Posted by Patrick Collier on December 10, 2010 at 11:48 | Comments (4) Permalinkthe happiest holiday  Donald Morgan, untitled Rocksbox presents Donald Morgan's The Happiest Holiday, which "presents a willfully off-kilter mash up of sorts, keeping one foot in a hard-edge, grid based aesthetic and the other firmly in a little-known Catalan Christmas tradition, the beating of the Caga Tio or 'Poop Log.'" Opening reception • 8-11pm • December 11 Rocks Box • 6540 N Interstate • 503.516.4777 Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 10, 2010 at 10:11 | Comments (0) PermalinkThursday 12.09.10 ABMB hangover 2010 Todd Eberle chronicles the annual Art
Basel Miami Beach people watching hangover... in Vegas.
Here are some photo's of some of the art at the main ABMB fair on ArtInfo. I'd categorize them as Vegas meets the morgue. ...and more photos. Posted by Jeff Jahn on December 09, 2010 at 12:41 | Comments (0) PermalinkWednesday 12.08.10 Agnes Martin book + prints  Agnes Martin For one night, Monograph Bookwerks will be showing Agnes Martin prints in conjunction with a discussion of what it was like to publish Agnes Martin's On a Clear Day by Robert Feldman of Parasol Press. There will also be wine and conversation. Prints & chats • 6:30pm • December 9 Monograph Bookwerks • 5005 NE 27th • 503.284.5005 Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 08, 2010 at 11:35 | Comments (0) PermalinkMonday 12.06.10 Contents  Production still from "Contents," photo by Sarah Greig The White Box at UO Portland presents Art Now, Duration in Common, Contents. The exhibition presents works in video, drawing, sculpture and other media by Montreal-based artists Thérèse Mastroiacovo and Sarah Greig on the theme of "time between limits." The show will run December 9, 2010 through January 22, 2011. Opening reception • 5-8pm • December 9 White Box • 24 NW 1st Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 06, 2010 at 23:13 | Comments (0) PermalinkSunday 12.05.10 religious harmony, seasonal celebrations & ceramics  Tamara English, "Maghrib" Tamara English presents The Universal Book Of Hours, a series of oil paintings on paper depicting a twenty-four hour period, each of which references a specific time of day for prayer and contemplation according to different religions, including the five daily prayers in Islam and the monastic schedule of prayer in the Christian tradition. The series is currently being exhibited at the North Portland Library Branch through December 20. Artist reception • 5:30-7:30pm • December 7 North Portland Library • 512 N Killingsworth The Falcon Art Community is having their annual holiday show & open studio this week, featuring work by Alexander Rokoff, Roll Hardy, Carrie Iverson, Michael Endo, Kelly McCarty, Peter Zuckerman, Nathaniel Praska, Tony Furtado, Destiny Lane, Rai Villanueva, April Coppini, Mike Suri, Sam Arneson, Bobby Abrahamson, and others, as well as live music, food, and drink. Art party & sale • 6-9pm • December 8 Falcon Art Community • 5415 N Albina Ongoing at PCC Cascade: Ceramics PDX, an exhibition of ceramics work by faculty from colleges and universities across the Portland metro area. The work ranges from pottery to sculpture to wood-fired pieces and mixed media. The show is running now through January 6, with a closing reception for the artists. Closing reception • 5-8pm • January 6 Cascade Gallery • 705 N Killingsworth • Terrell Hall, Room 102 Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 05, 2010 at 22:50 | Comments (0) PermalinkFriday 12.03.10 PLACE happenings  TJ Norris Here's a good reason to go to the mall: PLACE, the art gallery and exhibition space in Pioneer Place, is exhibiting a whole new series of shows this weekend, including TJ Norris' Spread Ego. Exhibitions • December 4-January 31 PLACE • Pioneer Place Mall atrium building 3rd floor Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 03, 2010 at 14:58 | Comments (0) PermalinkThursday 12.02.10 First Friday Picks December 2010  Lahaina Alcantara, detail of "The Voyeur" Golden Rule presents Unnatural, curated by Aiden Koch, featuring Lahaina Alcantara, Shawn Creeden, Austin English, Dennis Foster, Israel Lund, Mia Nolting, and Paul Wagenblast. The works in the exhibition explore the subjective and cultural nature of the concept of the unnatural: "this is a topic that we all can approach, perhaps from a personal relationship with the unnatural, even within one's self, to those things that make us the most uncomfortable." Opening reception • 7-10pm • December 3 Golden Rule Gallery • 811 E Burnside Suite 122 • 503.477.5124 (More: 10,000 artists at Worksound, Thesis via RECESS at Research Club, and Car Hole Gallery closing reception/book.) Posted by Megan Driscoll on December 02, 2010 at 12:46 | Comments (0) Permalink |
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