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Posted in Other Openings on Sep 30th, 2007
This Saturday, the group show “Construct/Re-Construct” opened at the Cathedral Park Building in St Johns.
This exhibition was organized by Portland artist/curator Rhoda London. The show de-constructs (if you will) the physicality of the creative building process, and explores the dialog between an artist and his or her materials.
On of my favorites was Horatio [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 28th, 2007
Harrell Fletcher, Portland State University art professor (PSU), hosts a series of free lectures that are open to the public at 7:30p Mondays. Harrell always has an interesting series.
PSU Art Lectures 7:30PM
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St (corner SW 5th & Hall, on PSU Campus) Portland, OR
Fall Quarter
Oct 1st: Corin Hewitt (project [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 26th, 2007
Of course every artist needs to eat, and there are some fine eats around Portland to keep us happy. Everyone around Portland knows the fine dining we have here.
Portland’s dining isn’t restricted to any one cuisine and in every cuisine there are a wide range of resturants. The New York Times [...]
Posted in Music on Sep 26th, 2007
This past weekend I saw two bands. Some might be wondering why the posts on music when I talk a lot about art. I think there is a deep connection. In fact after this week’s posting on the band “Battles” one of my friends told me that he understand’s why I [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 25th, 2007
I’m still loving shooting film, although it is getting harder. I see smaller shelves of film, my long-time portland lab no longer does any film, and expenses are rising. Sometimes I get asked “why not switch, you do such crazy stuff that kinda looks digital, why bother with film?”. I still like [...]
Posted in Music on Sep 24th, 2007
I have Battles new CD “Mirrored” on heavy rotation, they are doing some interesting things. I’m finding a lot of people around here aren’t familiar with this New York band, but get ready Portland… 2-Nov at Hawthorne Theater (1507 SE 39th, ticketswest)
Battles plays “Atlas” on “Mirrored” album
lots of interesting repeating musical images. [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 23rd, 2007
Sarah Shields nearly sold out her show at Stumptown Coffee downtown on 3rd last fall. I really wanted one from that series so I commissioned one. Here is the work she did for me.
new work by Sarah Shield (Click here to email Sarah)
I’m thrilled to have this work. Her paintings have a [...]
Posted in Misc on Sep 22nd, 2007
Kevin Kwan, New York photographer & author, has just published a new book that looks great. The book is called “I Was Cuba: Treasures from the Ramiro Fernandez Collection”. It is published by Chronicle books and will be generally available in Nov 2007. In New York at the ICP (International Center of [...]
Posted in Art Car on Sep 20th, 2007
After getting my art car, I’ve been hearing more and more about the art cars. I found this bit about the making of the 1997 Andy Warhol BMW art car. It also has footage from the 1979 24 hours of Le Mans where it came in 6th. “I tried to portray speed [...]
Posted in Music on Sep 18th, 2007
In May I mentioned a new documentary called “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten” which opened in the UK this spring. It has now crossing the pond and is sheduled to open in the US on 2-Nov. Don’t know where yet…
“Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten” a Julian Temple film, was released [...]