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Patterns of Protest: Pat Boas and the Making of “Sentinels” Arts Writing

Patterns of Protest: Pat Boas and the Making of “Sentinels”

by Prudence Roberts The five paintings in Pat Boas’s recent installation at the Sun Valley Museum of Art are testament to her brilliance as an […]

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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  Arts Writing Artist Features

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  To post or not to post? In light of the “delete-Facebook” and anti-social-media movements, an increasingly vocal contingent of visual artists is […]

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Jess Perlitz’s Tragicomic Practice Arts Writing Artist Features

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 […]

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Kristan Kennedy: A Corporeal Presence Arts Writing

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, […]

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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 Arts Writing

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 […]

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Modernist on the Mountain Arts Writing

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 […]

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Land and Language: Some Recent Prints from Crow’s Shadow Exhibition Images + Catalogs Arts Writing

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 […]

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Arts Writing

Sue Taylor • Editor’s Statement

A Social Good by Sue Taylor Originally published April, 2017 The five writers commissioned for the Oregon Visual Arts Ecology Project in 2017 had a […]

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Elizabeth Malaska, Art in America Arts Writing Artist Features

Elizabeth Malaska, Art in America

Sue Taylor, “Elizabeth Malaska,” Art in America, April, 2018. (Exhibition Russo Lee Gallery, Portland, Oregon Feb 1 – March 31, 2018) “In the six large […]

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Arts Writing

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 […]

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Abstract Art as Political Art: Lynne Woods Turner by Sarah Sentilles Arts Writing

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 […]

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Modou Dieng and the Worksound Moment by Mack McFarland Arts Writing

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 […]

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Thoughts on a Museum of Wonder by Linda Tesner Arts Writing

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 […]

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Kurt Fisk’s Monkey Fishes Arts Writing

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 […]

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Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’: Blind Fear • PSU Talks + Programs

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’: Blind Fear • PSU

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds: Blind Fear, an illustrated lecture by Sue Taylor, April 29, 2000. Lecture poster. Portland, Oregon: Department of Art, Portland State University, […]

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Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ • PSU Talks + Programs

Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ • PSU

Facsimile Preliminary Sketches of Picasso’s Guernica, a lecture by Sue Taylor, October 5, 2007. Lecture poster. Portland, Oregon: Department of Art, Portland State University, 2007. […]

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“Heidi Schwegler: Poking Holes” Exhibition Images + Catalogs Arts Writing

“Heidi Schwegler: Poking Holes”

Taylor, Sue. “Heidi Schwegler: Poking Holes.” Call + Response, June 18-October 31, 2009. Exhibition essay. Portland, Oregon: Museum of Contemporary Craft, 2009. Drawing on the […]

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Call and Response • MoCC (3) Exhibition Images + Catalogs

Call and Response • MoCC (3)

Call + Response, June 18-October 31, 2009. Installation view. Portland, Oregon: Museum of Contemporary Craft, 2009. Photo: Mark Stein Drawing on the musical concept of […]

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