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Wednesday August 20
Klaus Moje retrospective
Portland Art Museum German-born glass maestro Klaus Moje has a major retrospective at the Portland Art Museum, showcasing the artist’s 30-year career combining influences from his European roots and his many years in Australia, leading what is arguably the world’s premier glass studio. Moje is a kiln-former; he fuses glass into intricately patterned works that can be intimate in scale, but can also fill a 24-foot wall. Says exhibit curator Bruce Guenther: “He creates objects that have reference to tradition but explode and reorient into an experience that’s purely optical.” Moje will go down in history as one of the greats of his medium, and this show will go down as a watershed moment. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 7.
Contemporary Northwest Art Awards with Dan Attoe, Cat Clifford, Jeffry Mitchell, Whiting Tennis, Marie Watt
Portland Art Museum The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards is a tight survey of mostly thirtysomething regional artists of a certain persuasion: self-aware, unconcerned with beauty, and studiously unstudied. The big $10,000 prizewinner Whiting Tennis contributes paintings of dingy suburban homes, along with an effective sculpture called Boogeyman, while Dan Attoe scores big with a towering neon paean to stripper culture. Jeffry Mitchell’s kitschy cabinet distills the soul of a generation overflowing with nostalgia, but Cat Clifford is nowhere nearly as effective with her sophomoric, one-note video installations. Lone Oregonian Marie Watt owns the front gallery with her soaring, circling fabric extravaganzas. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 14.
Ed Ruscha
Portland Art Museum Features new works in a three-part wall motif. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 21.
Department of Prints and Drawings
Portland Art Museum 30th anniversary celebration. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Oct. 5.
Upcoming Events
Thursday August 21
Klaus Moje retrospective
Portland Art Museum German-born glass maestro Klaus Moje has a major retrospective at the Portland Art Museum, showcasing the artist’s 30-year career combining influences from his European roots and his many years in Australia, leading what is arguably the world’s premier glass studio. Moje is a kiln-former; he fuses glass into intricately patterned works that can be intimate in scale, but can also fill a 24-foot wall. Says exhibit curator Bruce Guenther: “He creates objects that have reference to tradition but explode and reorient into an experience that’s purely optical.” Moje will go down in history as one of the greats of his medium, and this show will go down as a watershed moment. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 7.
Contemporary Northwest Art Awards with Dan Attoe, Cat Clifford, Jeffry Mitchell, Whiting Tennis, Marie Watt
Portland Art Museum The Contemporary Northwest Art Awards is a tight survey of mostly thirtysomething regional artists of a certain persuasion: self-aware, unconcerned with beauty, and studiously unstudied. The big $10,000 prizewinner Whiting Tennis contributes paintings of dingy suburban homes, along with an effective sculpture called Boogeyman, while Dan Attoe scores big with a towering neon paean to stripper culture. Jeffry Mitchell’s kitschy cabinet distills the soul of a generation overflowing with nostalgia, but Cat Clifford is nowhere nearly as effective with her sophomoric, one-note video installations. Lone Oregonian Marie Watt owns the front gallery with her soaring, circling fabric extravaganzas. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 14.
Ed Ruscha
Portland Art Museum Features new works in a three-part wall motif. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Sept. 21.
Department of Prints and Drawings
Portland Art Museum 30th anniversary celebration. 1219 SW Park Ave., 226-0973. Closes Oct. 5.
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