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Posted in Other Openings on Apr 14th, 2008
It’s been a few days since visiting the Whitney 2008 Biennial and seeing a lot of the works there. Unfortunately much of the show is un-memmorable and or uninspiring. I guess that speaks volumes. So I’m left trying to scratch my head for my best recollections from my sparse notes just 3 [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Apr 11th, 2008
Last night we had wonderful dinner with Vanessa & Jeff. We all had a wonderful chance to talk and laugh about all sorts of things. They are showing their work this weekend in the “A Gallery For Fine Photography” booth at AIPAD (April 10-13, Park Avenue Armory, NYC). They are quickly rising stars. [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on Feb 8th, 2008
Michael T. Hensley’s “Loss/Control” show at Mark Woolley Gallery (817 SW 2nd, Portland OR) was a great place to start Portland’s First Thursday this month. Chromatically you had your choice of vibrant blue or cream&rust. Both worked wonderfully for me.
The cream and rust were more numerous and had some beautiful isolated interesting intimate [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Feb 4th, 2008
Rauschenberg’s “Runts” at PaceWildenstein Gallery (534 West 25th Street, NYC, Chelsea). These works are created from Rauschenberg’s archive of photographs, which he then transfers onto polylaminate mounted on aluminum panels. These images are of a more personal nature than other commercial images that appear in earlier work.
“Mine is the need to be where it [...]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on Jan 22nd, 2008
Hap Tivey gave an artist lecture this past Friday at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR). Hap talked about each piece of his “Sands of the Ganges” show. “Sands of the Ganges” is based on a Sanskrit metaphor for infinity.
Hap gave an energetic uplifting lecture. His work focuses on the beauty [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Dec 8th, 2007
Jenene Nagy’s work “Slope” was one of the first works I saw at the Open Studios opening at the Troy Laundry building this weekend. 20+ artists are having open studios. I always like going into studios to see finished work and work in progress and partial ideas. It is also a great time [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Nov 11th, 2007
Boxlift Buildings Open Studios show is this weekend at 333 NE Hancock Street is open Saturday November 10 4-10PM and Sunday November 11 12-5 PM. In addition to the open studios the hallways are filled with works to form a group exhibition that was curated by Mark Woolley of Mark Woolley Gallery (817 SW [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Oct 21st, 2007
Saturday October 20th, Tom Cramer gave a talk about his exhibition, New Work. On the left is Tom pointing to his work “Moon Lake”. It was an interesting talk and he touched on lots of interesting topics. Many artist lectures that I’ve been to lately have not added much to my understanding [...]
Posted in Other Openings on Oct 18th, 2007
I was sitting at home poking at my website and a fellow photographer appeared on the TV. on the “The Colbert Report.” none the less. (click to see the video) I think Chris did a nice job and showed various images during the interview. Last year I got an email preview of [...]
Posted in Art Car, Other Openings on Oct 1st, 2007
First of all, in October, Tom Cramer is having a solo show at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). The opening reception is this 1st Thursday 4-Oct from 5-8p. He has been doing some very interesting new work. I’m really looking forward to the show and the opening should [...]