Special Section THE ART, THE MAN: Jeffrey Butters. IMAGE: Christine TaylorIt’s hard to believe it took painter Jeffrey Butters 22 years to have a solo show in Portland. After all, he’s one of this town&rs ... More
Visual Arts: Going Solo
After two decades on the sidelines, painter Jeffrey Butters takes center stage.
Special Section THE ART, THE MAN: Jeffrey Butters. IMAGE: Christine TaylorIt’s hard to believe it took painter Jeffrey Butters 22 years to have a solo show in Portland. After all, he’s one of this town&rs ... More
Manor Of Art At Milepost Five
A hundred-plus artists turn a former nursing home into an aesthetic free-for-all.
Visual Arts Gavin Shettler knows a thing or two about luring scenesters into the hinterlands to look at art. Back in 2003, he was one of the driving forces behind the Modern Zoo, a sprawling if polarizing mega-sh ... More
Visceral Art
Grass Hut wants to do bad things with you.
Headout IMAGE: Hellen JoSkeleton arms reaching out of a grave, fondling a terrified, half-naked woman; a ghostly geisha girl having sex with a freaked-out teenage boy; an innocent baby being spirited away by ... More
Farewell, Sugar Gallery, Hello PDX/LA/NY
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"Nattefrost of Carpathian Forest" by Peter Beste at Sugar Gallery February 2007
When First Thursday gets underway tonight, the Everett Station Lofts will be one gallery lighter, and we art-walkers will be poorer for it. More
Marking Portland Portland Art Museum
Tattoo art graduates from bohemia to the blue-hairs.
Visual Arts That tattooing has moved into the mainstream is hardly news, nor is the fact that tattoo artists can enjoy concurrent careers as fine artists (local inkers Dan Gilsdorf and Peter Archer spring to mind ... More
Live Review: Infected Mushroom, Thursday, July 16 @ Roseland Theater
Music Infected Mushroom didn't just take the Roseland by storm, they took it by force, took it hostage, and took it down. I've dug the Israeli-formed, L.A.-based DJ duo for years but had never seen them live until this performance, part of their tour promoting the September release of their new album, L... More
The Shock of the New Butters Gallery
Butters introduces four new artists to its roster.
Visual Arts With scores of local art spaces closing (Quality Pictures), cutting back (Pulliam) and going freelance (Woolley), it’s rare to see a gallery welcome new artists into its stable. But with New Dis ... More
Lesbian Art Show At Fontanelle
Two artists put up a mirror to sapphic identity.
Visual Arts To title an exhibition Lesbian Art Show requires either temerity or naiveté. Azsa West and Mary McAllister, the lesbian couple behind this collaborative effort, have plenty of both. To mount a ... More
Store For A Month
Art bargains and food for thought—now available at a “store” near you.
Performance What’s more prestigious: buying a fine-art print at a Pearl District gallery or picking up a poster from Urban Outfitters to match your living-room sofa? What if they’re both the same pric ... More
Mary Henry & Ellen George PDX Contemporary
A one-two punch of transcendental abstraction and elegant sculpture.
Visual Arts In four years, painter Mary Henry will be 100. The California native, who now lives on Whidbey Island, Wash., only recently stopped making art as a concession to her age, but her work on display at PD ... More
Top Articles from RICHARD SPEER
Visceral Art
Grass Hut wants to do bad things with you. The Fuzz That Was
Beaver or Brazilian? The latest Bush War has Portlanders tearing their hair out. Fall Arts Guide 2011: Bring On the Rain
Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. Brad Carlile/Rio Wrenn
Confronting the myth of the great American road. Road Trip
Matt McCormick takes a look in Oregon’s rear-view mirror. Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Portland Art Museum scores a hit with this showcase of thought-provoking Northwest art. Best Portland Art of the Year 2012
Favorite shows and pieces from 2012. Stage Sets
Three local shows ask where art ends and architecture begins. Christine Clark/Jay Steensma @ Nine Gallery/Pulliam Gallery
Two Portlanders confront impermanence. 10 Favorite Visual Arts Shows of 2011
Grass Hut wants to do bad things with you. The Fuzz That Was
Beaver or Brazilian? The latest Bush War has Portlanders tearing their hair out. Fall Arts Guide 2011: Bring On the Rain
Dayglo landscapes, feral children, killer choruses and more art to keep you sane this fall. Brad Carlile/Rio Wrenn
Confronting the myth of the great American road. Road Trip
Matt McCormick takes a look in Oregon’s rear-view mirror. Contemporary Northwest Art Awards
Portland Art Museum scores a hit with this showcase of thought-provoking Northwest art. Best Portland Art of the Year 2012
Favorite shows and pieces from 2012. Stage Sets
Three local shows ask where art ends and architecture begins. Christine Clark/Jay Steensma @ Nine Gallery/Pulliam Gallery
Two Portlanders confront impermanence. 10 Favorite Visual Arts Shows of 2011
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