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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Which Way, Portland? by Grace Kook-Anderson
By Grace Kook-Anderson Originally published August 2017 In The Lure of the Local, Lucy Lippard defines place as “the locus of desire.” That locus for […]
Anna B. Crocker and the First Decade of the School of the Portland Art Association by Prudence Roberts
Anna B. Crocker and the First Decade of the School of the Portland Art Association by Prudence Roberts Originally published April 2017 Some years […]
Three Used Books by Jon Raymond
Three Used Books by Jon Raymond Originally published April 2018 One of the best garage-sale scores I ever had came in Brooklyn sometime in 2003. […]
My Rules: Patrick Rock’s Aesthetics of Antagonism by John Motley
by John Motley Originally written April 2017 In a promotional poster for Bay Area–based Club Paint’s second exhibition at Rocksbox Contemporary Fine Art in October […]
“Wild Life: The Work of Ryan Pierce” by Melanie Flood
Portland Wild Life: The Work of Ryan Pierce by Melanie Flood Originally published April 2017 The ecology of the place we live in helps define […]
Abstract Art as Political Art: Lynne Woods Turner by Sarah Sentilles
Abstract Art as Political Art: Lynne Woods Turner by Sarah Sentilles Originally published August 2017 Lynne Woods Turner’s abstract paintings and drawings trouble certainty. Her […]
Modou Dieng and the Worksound Moment by Mack McFarland
Modou Dieng and the Worksound Moment by Mack McFarland Originally published April 2017 What makes an art scene? To start, a group of artists, like-minded […]
Thoughts on a Museum of Wonder by Linda Tesner
Thoughts on a Museum of Wonder by Linda Tesner Originally published April 2017 For the past thirty-six years, I have worked in museums and art […]
Kurt Fisk’s Monkey Fishes
by Patrick Collier I first saw Kurt Fisk’s Monkey Fish drawings at ArtWorks, a gallery/project space that is part of Collaborative Employment Innovations (CEI), an […]
“Why We Work Here”
Raymond, Jonathan and Tad Savinar. Why We Work Here. Salem, Oregon: Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation, 2013. The Visual Arts Ecology Project […]
Michael Brophy • Coos Art Museum
Brophy, Michael. Drift: Driftwood 4.Oil. Permanent Art Collection. Coos Bay, Oregon: Coos Art Museum. Purchased with the support of The Ford Family Foundation Art Acquisition […]
Stephanie Snyder, Editors’ Statement
Originally published April 2017 To write is to send thoughts and feelings into the world—seeds that take root and blossom into emotional sustenance. To write […]