Questioning Success: Reading and Thinking Together
By Bean Gilsdorf William Deresiewicz’s latest book, The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big […]
Author: Meagan Atiyeh
Phantom Limbs
When we look back on this time of the pandemic, it may be the confusion that we remember the most. We have been bombarded by […]
Sacred Threads at Great Vow
by Jovencio De La Paz Between Tank Creek and the hills of Clatskanie, Oregon, just south of the Columbia River, a Zen Buddhist Monastery nestles […]
Ocean X
by Prudence Roberts This is the story of one of Terry Toedtemeier’s most distinctive photographs, its place in his career, and how the image made […]
Jess Perlitz’s Tragicomic Practice
by Bean Gilsdorf Perlitz’s grounding in sculpture underscores the spirit of these practices, explicating the real and symbolic power of objects and their potential to […]
To the Air • Paul Maziar and Cynthia Lahti
by Paul Maziar Originally published March 2020 Author’s Note: I’ve been enchanted by Cynthia Lahti’s work since the moment I first saw it—thanks to my […]
Oregon College of Art and Craft to Close in May • American Craft Council
Photo: A painting class in Julia Hoffman’s studio prior to 1896. Abby McGehee, Oregon College of Art and Craft to Close in May | American […]
Tannaz Farsi • Linfield Gallery (2)
Tannaz Farsi, “The Points of Departure,” Installation View, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, Oregon, March 22 – April 29, 2017. Curated by Josephine Zarkovich. The Points of […]
Tannaz Farsi • Linfield Gallery (1)
Tannaz Farsi, “The Points of Departure,” Installation View, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville, Oregon, March 22 – April 29, 2017. Curated by Josephine Zarkovich. The Points of […]
Laurie Danial’s Dynamic and Enigmatic Abstraction
by Patrick Collier Originally published May 2019 To the casual viewer, abstract painting may seem to lack coherence. Familiar epithets abound, usually because there is […]
Alison Jean Cole’s Way West
by Paul Maziar Originally published July 2019 Precipitous calcite Mined from the hills of Nephi By harried and obsessive men Who probably tote guns Who […]
Arranging the Deck Chairs
by Josephine Zarkovich Originally published May 2019 Recently I have begun to document all the steps I take to perform each task in my very […]
Kristan Kennedy: A Corporeal Presence
by Meagan Atiyeh Kristan Kennedy’s color-field paintings are worked and washed in a repetitive process. A small number of marks, additive or reductive in ink, […]
Mira Dancy: “Self Seed” at the lumber room
by Carlin Brown Originally published March, 2019 The entrance to the lumber room’s lower level glows a flush pink. The unexpected color dissipates in the […]
Ellen Lesperance, Frieze
Jennifer Kabat, “Pattern Recognition: How Ellen Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting,” Frieze, August 14, 2017. “When Lesperance was young, […]
Tannaz Farsi Named Bonnie Bronson Fellow
Tannaz Farsi, Blink, 2016, LED bulbs, steel, wire, 216 x 3 x 14 inches. Installed at YOU IN MIND, Converge 45, 2017, Disjecta Contemporary Art […]
Tannaz Farsi
Tannaz Farsi. 2016 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Greg Wahl-Stephens Originally published January, 2016 At PICA’s TBA Festival last year, Tannaz Farsi’s work […]
Ludd or Lucifer: Felicity Fenton Considers Whether to Abandon the World Wide Web or Strike a Deal with the Devil and Use the Internet to Critique the Internet
by Richard Speer Originally published Feb, 2019 To post or not to post? In light of the “delete-Facebook” and anti-social-media movements, an increasingly vocal contingent […]