The Best Of 2005
Glass totems, blood transfusions and PAM's new wing make 2005 a hit.
October 1st, 2008
Bruce Conkle at Rocksbox0 comments
October 1st, 2008
Gate Closing | Why is Jennifer Gately leaving the Portland Art Museum?2 comments
September 17th, 2008
Volume at Worksound | Portland artists explore space in curator-about-town Jeff Jahn’s latest show. 0 comments
September 3rd, 2008
Ed Ruscha at the Portland Art Museum | An edgy elegy to youth from a pop art original.0 comments
August 13th, 2008
History Versus Nostalgia | Two shows offer differing takes on the swingin’ ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.0 comments
July 30th, 2008
Something To Believe In | With Immaterialized, Disjecta scores a direct hit.0 comments
July 23rd, 2008
From Seattle, with Gusto | Kinga Czerska and John Dempcy show Portlanders how it’s done.0 comments
July 16th, 2008
A Summer Serenade | At New American Art Union, Jacqueline Ehlis shines in one of the year’s best shows.0 comments
June 25th, 2008
Heart Of Glass | Henry Hillman Jr. explores Relationships—in art and life.0 comments
June 18th, 2008
Lowbrow Writ Large | The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards capture the zeitgeist—too well.0 comments
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[December 28th, 2005] BEST PAINTING SHOW: Scott Wayne Indiana's virtuoso gestural abstractions at Residence Gallery.
BEST SCULPTURE SHOW: Harry Hillman Jr.'s glass totems at Elizabeth Leach.
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: It's a three-way tie between Anthony Georgis' cool yet sexy work at Motel, Jim Riswold's Hitler figurines at Augen, and Elizabeth Hickok's Jell-O cityscapes at Alysia Duckler.
BEST GROUP SHOW: A tie between Jeff Jahn's sprawling Fresh Trouble and Pacific Northwest College of Art's ambitious Toca Brasil.
BEST CONCEPTUAL SHOW: Matthew Picton's riffs on decay at Mark Woolley.
BEST MIXED MEDIA: I'm torn between Jacqueline Ehlis' elegant variations at Savage and Tom Cramer's gilded reveries at Mark Woolley.
BEST EVENT: The Affair @ Jupiter Hotel—end of story.
BEST INSTALLATION: A tie between John Mace's hospital nightmare at Portland Art Center and Dan and Bean Gilsdorf's abstracted blood transfusion at The Affair @ Jupiter Hotel (Gallery 500 room).
BEST NEW GALLERY: Chambers.
BEST WINE AND CHEESE: Broderick Gallery.
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BEST LOCAL VISUAL-ARTS WEBSITE: Port (www.PortlandArt.net), with its savvy daily updates on Stumptown art happ'nin's.
BEST VIS-ARTS BLOG: It's a tie between Eva Lake's juicy yet thought-provoking Lovelake.org/diary and TJ Norris' spirited, incisive OregonLive.com/weblogs/isitart/.
BEST STYLISTIC EVOLUTION: A tie for Joe Thurston's infusion of Renaissance landscapes into his flay-faced portraits at Mark Woolley and Eugenia Pardue's new foray into chromatic minimalism at The Affair @ Jupiter Hotel (Gallery 500 room).
BEST LOCAL ARTISTS WHO ARE NOT REPRESENTED BY A PORTLAND GALLERY BUT SHOULD BE: Scott Wayne Indiana, Chandra Bocci, Marne Lucas, Katherine Treffinger and Corey Smith.
BIGGEST STORY OF THE YEAR: Portland Art Museum's new Mark Building opened to a generally positive critical and popular reception. While some museum-goers groused that too many pieces hang in narrow corridors, making it hard to view them from a proper distance, we disagreed and hailed the building, collection, curation, and hanging and lighting as an unqualified hit.
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The Best Of 2005Broderick has "Best Wine & Cheese"! I knew there was a reason I work here ... Oh yeah, we've also got some damn good art! Hey, I'm not complaining; It's always good to be noted ...
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The Best Of 2005I just thought you would be happy to know, concerning artists who are not represented in a Portland gallery but should be, that Corey Smith is represented by the Rake Gallery.
