September 11th, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Art News, Portland Openings
Untitled (Graves) by Dutes Miller & Stan Shellabarger | SEPTEMBER 11-12, 2010 It’s TBA time in Portland again, and this weekend Chicago artists Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger will be presenting Untitled (Graves) at the Works at Washington High School. Husband and husband artist team Dutes Miller & Stan Shellabarger’s art documents the bittersweet rhythms [...]
September 1st, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Art News, Portland Openings
Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong | RECEPTION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, September 3, 8 pm, $5, ALL AGES Shows Run: August 18- September 5, 2010 On September 3rd, Disjecta hosts Alexis Gideon’s follow up to his genre-busting animated/stop motion video opera Video Musics. Video Musics II: Sun Wu-Kong is a one-hour multimedia [...]
September 1st, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Art News, Portland Openings
Them | Danny Treacy Opening Reception: Friday, September 2, 6 – 9 pm Shows Run: September 2 – October 3, 2010 London-based artist Danny Treacy searches his surroundings for discarded clothing to create suggestive, haunting costumes. Treacy then dresses himself in what he fabricates and, by making striking life-sized self-portraits, he becomes “Them.” The “suits” [...]
July 31st, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Art News, Portland Openings
Alicia Blue Gallery is one to watch in Portland’s Alberta Arts District. Now in their third month, the gallery has launched a new interview series through their production company Alicia Blue Productions. The first (in what they promise to be many) interviews, is with artist Kevin Taylor. To get some behind the scenes on this [...]
July 5th, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Art News, Portland Openings
The Mercury presents the Portland premiere of MACHOTAILDROP. Winners of Fuel TV’s million dollar short film contest, Corey Adams and Alex Craig have created a satirical indictment of our logo-laden, consumerist culture which is equal parts comedy and fable, and 100% just plain weird. Take the 1971 Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, set it [...]
June 11th, 2010 | by beefmaster | published in Art News, Portland Openings
Starting June 12th the Portland Art Museum will be exhibiting The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis. “The exhibition features all 207 individual black-and-white drawings incorporating every word from all 50 chapters of Genesis. Illustrated in his signature bawdy style, Crumb’s version puts an entirely new twist on the Bible. Labels and text panels [...]
