EXCLUSIVE: Rake Gallery may close after July show

Divine Phantasmagoria

Tilt’s group show is simply...Divine.

Visual Arts A wild collision between minimalism and maximalism, Tilt’s third annual juried exhibition, Divine, is one of the strongest group shows so far this year. In the past, guest curators such as artis ...   More

 

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

The Aftermath of Experience

Multimedia virtuoso TJ Norris conjures 1980s Manhattan, even as he embalms it.

Visual Arts In his installation, INFINITUS, at New American Art Union, multimedia artist TJ Norris has pulled off an elegant, thought-provoking show in his hallmark aesthetic of clinical-yet-invigorating minimali ...   More

 

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

(Im)material World

Two artists break on through— the fourth wall.

Visual Arts “Nature is a haunted house,” wrote Emily Dickinson, “but art is a house that tries to be haunted.” Art, then, can only approximate nature, showing us an alternate reality, a mo ...   More

 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

Late-April Roundup

See these shows before they come down!

Visual Arts With M.K. Guth’s triumphant showing in the Whitney Biennial—and with ongoing evidence that the artist’s day-job employer, Pacific Northwest College of Art, is on track to gobble up e ...   More

 

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

Installation Situation

Two effective installations shine at Marylhurst and Portland State University.

Visual Arts Jenene Nagy’s and Stephanie Robison’s Sitelines at the Marylhurst University “Art Gym” is an elegant show made up of inelegant pieces. Nagy, whose s/plit is currently part of t ...   More

 

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

Live Review: Cap Auction Saturday, April 5

Great people watching; not so great art.

Defining Sex

Two shows confront masculine and queer identity.

Visual Arts There are as many masculinities as there are men, and as many queernesses as there are queers—but that hasn’t stopped two local curators from trying to pin down the essences of gender and ...   More

 

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

Jim Riswold

This Local Artist’s glass is half full—of Jesus juice.

Q & A Retired Wieden & Kennedy ad guru and leukemia survivor Jim Riswold is in the Indian-summer bloom of a second career as an artist. His previous four shows at Portland’s Augen Gallery showcased eB ...   More

 

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 RICHARD SPEER

New gigs for former Portland Art Center heads