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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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Art Review: “Quilt Bloc” at Ditch Projects
The idea of a fabric based show had been in the air, says Laura Hughes. But it was an old photograph posted on Instagram by the Springfield History Museum—an image of people gathered around a...
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Arvie Smith show at Hallie Ford Museum demands you straighten up your spine...
The exhibition of Portland artist Arvie Smith’s extraordinary oil paintings at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem is remarkable on many levels, including the fact that it’s even here. It was, first...
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Art on the Road: On (un)predictability
Story and Photographs by FRIDERIKE HEUER Predictability – noun The quality something has when it is possible for you to know in advance that it will happen or what it will be like(often disapproving)...
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Art Review: Birthe Piontek at Blue Sky Gallery
As I grow older, I wonder more and more about the place of family in my life. When I was younger, I was sure the point of being young was to escape where I came from, to become something bigger. Now,...
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Hoffman Center for the Arts reflects Manzanita couple’s love of arts and...
“A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.” – Richard Powers, The Overstory He was a painter and she was a pianist. They were married 42 years. They didn’t have children, but had many...
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Exquisite Gorge II: Pattern Masters and Master Patterns
Mightily wove they the web of fate,While Bralund’s towns were trembling all;And there the golden threads they wove,And in the moon’s hall fast they made them. – Poetic Edda (Helgakviða Hundingsbana I)...
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Frida Kahlo, off the conveyer belt
Lola Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1903–1993), “Burial at Yalalag (Oaxaca, Mex),” 1946. Gelatin silver print; 7.5 × 9 inches (19.1 × 22.9 centimeters). The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th...
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Poet Q&A: Oregon Book Award finalist Jessica Mehta finds poetry ‘Good Medicine’
“How quickly this life does go by.” Tonight I wrote the last letters to my poetry students. It’s always been hard, dishing out compliments (unless I really, really mean it). My mother died halfway...
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At the Reser Center, Celilo Falls and a red shimmer of remembering
“…Make sure the spirits of these lands are respected and treated with goodwill.The land is a being who remembers everything.You will have to answer to your children, and their children, and theirs—The...
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Lee Kelly, giant of NW art, dies at 89
Lee Kelly, “Pavilion I and II,” stainless steel, 2013. Photo courtesy Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lee Kelly, a longtime major figure in the Pacific Northwest art world, died on Monday, March 28, 2022 at...
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The sensitive eye of a radical
Born and raised in Northeast Portland, photojournalist Bev Grant long ago moved to New York where, while Portland slept, the world was happening. Grant is a self-declared radical and makes no claim to...
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Exquisite Gorge II: Felt Worlds
Story and Photographs by FRIDERIKE HEUER “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country *** The last time I was...
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VizArts Monthly: In or out?
This month’s art offerings bring some ease to the season. Artists are centering the body at rest with exhibitions that stretch out, explore bodily functions, and grapple with interiority and...
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Exquisite Gorge II: Of Harm and Healing
Story and Photographs by FRIDERIKE HEUER We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people’s bodies, from communities, as if there’s no...
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