 09/21/07 Portland Art Focus 2007
Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA) Oregon's foremost contemporary art galleries present regional and international exhibits year-round. Members are: Augen, Blackfish, Bullseye, Butters, Froelick, Elizabeth Leach, New American Art Union, PDX Contemporary Art, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Quintana, Laura Russo, Mark Woolley. Public receptions are held the first Thursday evening of every month. Hoffman Gallery Oregon College of Art and Craft Craft Biennial: A Review of Northwest Art and Craft August 2 - September 27 Featuring work by more than 60 artists, this juried exhibition examines the state of modern craft in the Pacific Northwest. Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery Reed College Marko Lulic / Peter Kreider A part of PICA's Time-Based Art Festival Curators Stephanie Snyder / Reed + Kristan Kennedy / PICA September 4 - December 9 This commissioned installation brings together two artists who explore the material and social repercussions of modernisms cultural cycles and cross-pollinations. Austrian artist Marko Lulic explores the repercussions of modernism and monumentality; and New York City artist Peter Kreider explores the unholy marriage of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Catalog published by Reed College and PICA. Portland Institute for Contemporary Art 2007 Time-Based Art Festival Visual arts projects through October 6 A contemporary art festival of more than 200 regional, national and international artists presenting performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects. Join us for moments of movement and imagery throughout Portland, Oregon. Portland Art Center Multimedia Installations in three galleries September 6 - 28 Piece Process; a national traveling exhibition by artists of Middle Eastern descent, working in America, Europe and the Middle East. Preparations by Mack McFarland; experiments in color, touch, sound and smell. Feldman Gallery + Project Space Pacific Northwest College of Art Regina Silveira Part of PICA's Time-Based Art Festival September 6 - October 21 In Outgrown (Tracks and Shadows) Regina Silveira utilizes the white cube of the gallery as the backdrop for her spatial experiments, composed of poetically profound, stark, black images applied directly to the gallery walls. Museum of Contemporary Craft The Living Room October 11, 2007 - March 23, 2008 Challenging notions of how a museum typically displays its collection, The Living Room re-contextualizes objects from the museum's collection within a contemporary domestic setting. The installation examines a cultural trend in which vintage garage sale finds, mid-century classics, and fine craft mingle within the 21st century home, highlighting the resurgent interest in mid-century modern design, ornamentation and eco-consciousness. Portland Art Focus travel packages available with The Jacobs Group Packages include three-night deluxe hotel accommodations, tickets to art events, unique and exclusive events, select transportation and a VIP concierge service to help tailor your package to your tastes. http://www.thejacobsgroup.net | 866.362.1039 For more information about Portland Art Focus, visit: http://www.portlandartfocus.net |
