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Malignant monuments: On permanency, “Prototypes,” and York
One of the most intriguing mysteries in Portland this year was the February appearance of a large sculpture at the top of Mt. Tabor. Overnight, an unknown artist had taken over the plinth once occupied...
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An artist-activist “keeps on keeping on”
Editor’s Note: This essay is included in the forthcoming catalog on Bruce Burris’s solo exhibition A Shrine for a Shrine on view in Ashland at the Schneider Museum of Art. The catalog was made possible...
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Herring Carnival: Recent paintings by Morgan Walker
The carnival theme pops up in unexpected ways: bright geometric shapes on the sides of some of the canvases, a glamorous animal trainer holding a fish for a crane, or the less glamorous rendering of a...
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Raise a Voice: Art as Social Praxis
Theodore A. Harris, “War is the Sound of Money Eating,” after John G. Hall (Collage and Conflict series), 2008, triptych, 42 x 28″ in each panel, collage printed on paper. STORY AND PHOTOS BY...
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Review: “Beyond Creative: Japanese Prints Since the 1950s” at White Lotus...
Hue-Ping Lin and Dick Easley began their love affair with Japanese prints before they ever dreamed of opening an art gallery. Volunteering as a docent at the University Art Museum at the University of...
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Seal Rock couple open Peephole Gallery-Studio in Yachats
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Seal Rock couple open Peephole Gallery-Studio in Yachats” was published originally on Oct. 17, 2021, by YachatsNew.com, an ArtsWatch Community Partner. ArtsWatch is republishing the...
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The Cultural Landscape: 11 Portraits
Text and Photographs by K.B. DIXON The portraits in this first installment of a new series focus on our cultural landscape—on the talented, dedicated, and creative people who have made significant...
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‘Tikkun Olam’: Repairing the world a stitch at a time
“Thank you so much. Lovely to meet you. And thank you for doing that mending. Nice, beautiful. Again, thank you for coming here.” Textile artist Bonnie Meltzer stands at the front of the small gallery...
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Yamhill County gallery calendar: From contemplative landscapes to the hard...
Yamhill County’s visual art scene continues to pop, and while supply-line and worker shortage woes seem to have touched every industry from food and automotive to high-tech and toys, art galleries...
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VizArts Monthly: Exploratory work in fresh spaces
We’re inching closer to 2022—let’s prepare for a new year by digging into some freshly-founded art spaces! SATOR projects, a migrating exhibition series, highlights the work of Yemeni American artist...
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Katarina Zdjelar’s “Proximities, a rehearsal, an archive” at Oregon Contemporary
“Proximities, a rehearsal, an archive,” a solo exhibition by Serbian artist Katarina Zdjelar (she/her), invites a pluralistic relationship to context. This exhibition is one point on a much larger...
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Review: “Nobody’s Fool” at Carnation Contemporary
“Nobody’s Fool“, curated by art historian, cultural worker, and writer Ella Ray (she/they), opened at Carnation Contemporary on Saturday, October 23rd. The exhibition presents six contemporary artists...
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Review: Iván Carmona’s “tierra de GIGANTES” at PDX Contemporary Art
“tierra de GIGANTES” is Iván Carmona’s third solo exhibition at PDX Contemporary Art. Carmona is known for his vibrant biomorphic ceramic sculptures, and his most recent body of work is his most...
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Review: “Patterns Do Furnish a Life” at SATOR Projects
On May 26th, 2011, the U.S. issued an “ordered departure” for all non-essential diplomats in Yemen, amidst bloody clashes between supporters and opponents of then Yemeni president, Ali Abdullah Saleh....
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Exquisite Gorge II: It begins with sheep
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER bell·weth·er /ˈbelˌweT͟Hər / noun the leading sheep of a flock, with a bell on its neck. an indicator or predictor of something. – Oxford English Dictionary...
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Art review: Stephen O’Donnell, shifting history’s gaze
Wait. Isn’t that Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe lolling on the lawn at Froelick Gallery? Sort of, yes. And absolutely, no. Something seriously, beautifully playful’s going on in Re:Pose: Subverting...
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‘Time in Place’ tells the story of Oregon over 9,000 years through art from...
Time in Place: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection, a genuinely epic show at Salem’s Hallie Ford Museum of Art, has its roots in the pandemic. The exhibition, which considers “the concept of...
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Art review: Anya Roberts-Toney at Nationale
Many of us are under the misapprehension that a gallery show represents an endpoint for an artist: a bow around a completed thought that now exists in the past or a place of arrival after which the...
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Art Review: Simone Fischer at Astoria Visual Arts
Here in the Pacific Northwest, as the sun takes its annual rest behind shrouded clouds, we find ourselves at the start of winter, a time of year when we retire to our homes and creativity flows to the...
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VizArts Monthly: Cozy interiors and the natural world
The month of December has a way of overflowing with plans, but you’ll want to set aside some time for art viewing, too! Between a lively painting show by the late Carola Penn, MK Guth’s...
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