Live Review: Cap Auction Saturday, April 5
Great people watching; not so great art.
May 7th, 2008
(Im)material World | Two artists break on through— the fourth wall.0 comments
April 23rd, 2008
Late-April Roundup | See these shows before they come down!0 comments
April 16th, 2008
Installation Situation | Two effective installations shine at Marylhurst and Portland State University.0 comments
March 19th, 2008
Defining Sex | Two shows confront masculine and queer identity.0 comments
February 27th, 2008
The End of the Affair | The Affair at the Jupiter says goodbye...for now.0 comments
February 20th, 2008
Westward ho! | Two photographers find gold—and brothels—in them thar hills.0 comments
February 13th, 2008
Reaching for the APEX | Jenene Nagy dons myriad artistic hats—and wears them well.0 comments
January 30th, 2008
Hap Tivey and Gregg Renfrow at Elizabeth Leach | Can SoCal Light and Space cure the Portland winter blues?0 comments
January 23rd, 2008
Portland Art Center, R.I.P. | The Portland Art Center closes—who is to blame?10 comments
January 16th, 2008
Alicia J. Rose at Grass Hut | Alicia J. Rose charges into the woods in her genderfucked Fairytales.0 comments
[April 9th, 2008]
The annual fundraising gala and auction for the Cascade AIDS Project last Saturday, April 5, may be the Portland art scene’s most glamorous event: tuxes and cocktail dresses, hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, and oh yes, art. The theme for this year’s CAP auction was “Cirque,” and as always it was a circus of preen-and-be-seen festivities in the service of a great cause, raising $600,000 ($50K less than last year’s total) for the nonprofit’s prevention, support, housing, advocacy and education programs.
The ambience this year was more upscale than last year; the food about the same; and the art, on the whole, not as challenging. Curator Linda Tesner’s picks had a predominantly middlebrow feel, an impression reinforced by the lackluster organization and hanging of the pieces in the silent auction. The highest-fetching lot in the live auction was Wedlock, an embarrassingly middling abstract by Lucinda Parker, which sold for $12,500. Second place was Dale Chihuly’s Sarnen Drawing, which brought in a cool 10 G’s. Recession? What recession? Standouts in the silent auction included Sarah Wolf Newlands’ sock-monkey tapestry, Argos; Ted Sawyer’s moody, misty Ode; Gordon Marshall’s Immortality III, with its Close Encounters-like alien figure; Annette Thurston’s Mr. Roboto-meets-Martha-Stewart print, Fish Fork; and Lee Musgrave’s tender drawing, Hold on Tight to your Dreams. Christopher Mooney’s neo-Impressionistic oil painting of three children was enigmatic and more than a trifle creepy, while Larry Cwik’s Striated Iceberg showed the artist nicely finessing the line between fine-art and nature photography.
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