Mona Lisa Ali
Ali, Mona Lisa. steady echo, 2017. 2018 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Originally published February, 2018 “I attempt to reconcile the notion of belonging […]
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Jess Perlitz
Perlitz, Jess. Barely There, 2017. 2018 Individual Artist Fellow and Joan Shipley Award recipient, Oregon Arts Commission. Originally published February, 2018 “I am equally interested […]
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.” 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 […]
Erik Geschke
Erik Geschke in his studio. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2012 Erik Geschke’s most recent work is […]
Laura Fritz
Laura Fritz. 2014 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2014 One critic has fittingly called her “a poet of […]
Anna Fidler
Anna Fidler. 2012 Individual Artist Fellow, Oregon Arts Commission. Photo: Sabina Poole Originally published January, 2012 Anna Fidler works big. She made a splash with […]
“Rose-colored Sound” by Lisa Radon
Photo: Ethan Rose. Movement. Music boxes and electronics. 2008. “Rose-colored Sound” by Lisa Radon Originally published June, 2011 Armonica, music box, pipe organ, player piano. […]