The Best Of 2005
Glass totems, blood transfusions and PAM's new wing make 2005 a hit.
June 17th, 2009
Lesbian Art Show At Fontanelle | Two artists put up a mirror to sapphic identity.0 comments
June 10th, 2009
Jason Low Moon | Checkmate; bang-bang.0 comments
May 13th, 2009
Mary Henry & Ellen George PDX Contemporary | A one-two punch of transcendental abstraction and elegant sculpture.0 comments
April 22nd, 2009
Michelle Goldberg The Means of Reproduction0 comments
April 22nd, 2009
Frost/Nixon (Portland Center Stage) | A power-hungry, white-guy cage match.0 comments
April 15th, 2009
Mark Woolley Gallery Says Goodbye | The longtime outsider gallery calls it quits.1 comment
April 8th, 2009
Matt King Fourteen30 Contemporary | Sizing up contemporary life.0 comments
April 1st, 2009
Paul Dahlquist at Gallery 114 | This 80-year-old photographer shows he’s about more than boobs, butts and schlongs.0 comments
March 11th, 2009
Warlord Sun King, Art Gym | Northwest artists herald the age of “eco-baroque.”0 comments
February 11th, 2009
John Sisley & Jesse Durost At Fourteen30 Contemporary | Think Lincoln Logs in outer space.1 comment
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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.
