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, […]
Arts Writing
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 […]
Modernist on the Mountain
by Briana Miller Originally published February, 2019 In 1975, the non-profit Friends of Timberline launched a project to recreate and restore the textiles of Timberline […]
Five Oregon Artists Named Joan Mitchell Grantees
Congratulations to the five Oregon artists who have been honored by the Joan Mitchell Foundation with artist grants: Addoley Dzegede, Lisa Jarrett, Elizabeth Malaska, Wendy […]
Land and Language: Some Recent Prints from Crow’s Shadow
By Karl Davis Originally published January, 2019 Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in northeast Oregon, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts has […]
Ellen Lesperance, New York Times
Jillian Steinhauer, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” New York Times, September 20, 2018 (Exhibition: Lily of the Art Light, Derek […]
Heather Watkins: Waiting Room at PDX CONTEMPORARY ART
By Sam Hopple Originally published May 2018 In Waiting Room, Heather Watkins presents a series of thirty-two, hand-stitched embroideries that line the walls of PDX […]
Elizabeth Malaska
Elizabeth Malaska. 2016 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Greg Wahl-Stephens Originally published January, 2016 One can’t study Elizabeth Malaska’s painting without finding […]