folio of arts, culture, design features, reviews, and interviews with makers & thinkers +
Curator Terri Hopkins at Marylhurst's Art Gym cannot be credited highly enough for the Gym's program of highlighting the work of frequently mid-career regional artists in extensive exhibitions (often solo shows) accompanied by handsome catalogs. I recently reviewed Pat Boas' solo show, Record Record on the Culturephile. Boas' drawing series based on the NY Times
Posted: November 5th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art + Craft | Tags: art, artist, culturephile, exhibition, marylhurst art gym, review, terri hopkins | No Comments »
Taking Stock is a piece I wrote for Portland Monthly's Mudroom (FOB) on my favorite new Portland arts microgranting project, STOCK.
Posted: October 20th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, portland monthly | No Comments »
Honoring the Past is a feature for Portland Spaces on a truly remarkable mid-century modern home in SW Portland. The home had just one previous owner, the man who built it, based on a home he'd seen on a Sunset mag tour in Vancouver, B.C. Notable for its redwood paneling (from my old stomping grounds in the Santa Cruz mountains) and gorgeous rock fireplace, as well as floor to ceiling windows along one whole side of the house, it's clearly loved by its new owners who are carefully restoring it themselves. And Lincoln Barbour's photos are incredible.
Posted: October 20th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Feature | Tags: architecture, interior design, lincoln barbour, mid-century modern, portland spaces | No Comments »
Recently for Culturephile, I both summarized a lecture about his work given by Brooklyn-based artist Ward Shelley and followed up the next day with an interview. My first audio interview, complete with funky lead-in mini-theme by Tim DuRoche (see if you don't think it sounds a little Courvoisier), it's the launch of a series I'm going to call Stop and Give Me 30. Shelley, brought to town by PNCA, does both performative architectural installation and informational drawings. Both branches of his work are interesting, AND, as it turns out, he's a good guy. Check it out. And thanks PNCA for arranging the interview.
Posted: October 18th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art + Craft | Tags: art, artist, culturephile, drawing, installation, interview, pnca | No Comments »
I'm really looking forward to 10,000 Invitations: A Roundtable on Arts Institutions and New/Social Media I'm putting together for the New Communicators on October 30 from 4-6 PM at The Gerding Theater at The Armory. Smart people from the Portland Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Craft, PICA, and Portland Center Stage will be on hand to discuss what about how they're using new/social media to further engage audience and what their plans might be for future. I wrote about my thinking behind it on Culturephile.
Posted: October 13th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 000 invitations, 10, art, arts institutions, new communicators, portland, social media | No Comments »
Wrote a preview of the remarkable China Design Now exhibition at the Portland Art Museum. The exhibition originated at the V&A in London and was designed for PAM by Ziba. One of the wall texts reads:When asked, “How can our design be more international?” Alex Chan replied, “Go ask your mother how she cooks a good meal. What I mean is don’t forget where you are from.”
Posted: October 9th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Design | Tags: china design now, culturephile, Design, portland art museum | No Comments »
One of my favorite visual art exhibitions of the recent PICA TBA:09 festival was Brian Lund's New Work at the Feldman Gallery and Project Space at PNCA curated by Mack McFarland. I found Lund's diagram/drawings of Hollywood movies pretty thrilling. Here's the review of Brian Lund, New Work I wrote for Culturephile.
Posted: October 3rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art + Craft | Tags: art, brian lund, culturephile, feldman gallery and project space, pica, pnca, tba | No Comments »
I review Bobbi Woods solo exhibition at Fourteen30 for Culturephile. "Woods’ decontextualized (unlike collage which recontextualizes) images float literally as well as figuratively, but they never fall far from the tree of sensuous commercial image from which they were plucked."
Posted: September 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art + Craft | Tags: art, bobbi woods, fourteen30 | No Comments »
Love this little profile for Portland Spaces on Portland ceramicist Lisa Hough and her Pigeon Toe Ceramics. Since I wrote Head to Toe Lisa got married and has continued to grow Pigeon Toe like crazy with new products all the time. Be sure to see her website!
Posted: September 20th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ceramics, craft, in the workshop, pigeon toe ceramics, portland, portland spaces | No Comments »
