Jess Perlitz
Perlitz, Jess. Barely There, 2017. 2018 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Originally published February, 2018 “I am equally interested in how artwork can be […]
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Huang, Hsin-Yi • Oregon Percent for Art in Public Places
Huang, Hsin-Yi. The Peaceful Sea, 2015. Glazed and fired ceramics. Photo: Annie Foong. Courtesy of the Oregon Arts Commission. The Peaceful Sea consists of an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.”[1] 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
My Rules: Patrick Rock’s Aesthetics of Antagonism by John Motley Originally written April 2017 In a promotional poster for Bay Area–based Club Paint’s second exhibition […]
“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 […]