FRAMING · THE ART OF JEWELRY
January 19-May 11, 2008

This exhibition examines the experience of art jewelry in two presentational "frames" - the printed page and the "white cube" of the museum. The genesis of this exhibition is Metalsmith's Exhibition in Print 2007, which was designed and curated by writer, curator and graphic designer Ellen Lupton, and published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG).

Image left: Deganit Stern Schocken, Mold of Baby, 2003; Rubber


GENERATIONS: KEN SHORES
April 10-July 23, 2008

This retrospective is the first survey of the life and work of Ken Shores - Oregon ceramist, sculptor and long-time Lewis & Clark College professor. Spanning over five decades, the exhibition views Shores' work through his world travels, his personal art collection and his experiences as a foundational figure in the American Craft Movement.

Slideshow image: Ken Shores, Warrior, 1960; Stoneware; From the collection of Joan Triplett; Photo by John Clark

TADA! Annual! Gala!
Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 6:00 until 8:00 in the evening
Dinner by Simpatica, Live Auction, & Entertainment Big Art Group.
Honorary Chair Brad Cloepfil & Honorary Co-Chairs Laura + Nawzad Othman
Tickets $150 ($100 Tax-Deductible) call 503.242.1419 x221

BIG ART GROUP is a NYC-based performance company founded in 1999. The company uses the language of media and blended states of performance in a unique form to build culturally transgressive and challenging new works. THANK YOU TADA! SPONSORS: Otak, Keyes, Williams and Dame, Boora, Dunn Carney, Gerding/Edlen, Hanna Anderson, Here/Now, Merisel, Opus Creative, and Morgan Stanley.

SAVE THE DATE
September 5 - 14, 2008 : 2008 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA:08)

PMMNLS: Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
Free Artist Talks Almost Every Monday at 7:30 pm
5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall St at 5th Ave

Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA) includes the state's foremost contemporary art galleries committed to the highest standards of representation. One will find the region's leading artists exhibited alongside renowned national and international artists. PADA hosts city-wide public receptions on the first Thursday evening of every month.

Members are Augen Gallery, Blackfish Gallery, Bullseye Gallery, Butters Gallery Ltd, Froelick Gallery, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, New American Art Union, PDX Contemporary Art, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Quintana Galleries, Laura Russo Gallery, and Mark Woolley Gallery.

Image: Mark Woolley Gallery; William Park, Some May Wonder, 2008, acrylic on paper, 28 x 22 inches

Richard Deacon
January 26, 2008 - May 11, 2008

A new monumental sculpture by internationally celebrated British artist Richard Deacon is the focus of the latest installment of the Museum’s contemporary art series. Constructed from twisted, square strips of oak joined end-to-end with stainless steel, Dead Leg is a complex, linear structure that winds and stretches across the gallery. Both playful and serious in spirit, Dead Leg redefines sculpture not as weighty mass, but as a silhouette that explores space as a flowing line.

Recipient of the Turner Prize in 1987, Deacon’s work has been featured internationally in exhibitions, including the Carnegie Biennial, Documenta, and The Venice Biennale, and in major solo museum exhibitions in Europe and the United States. He lives and works in London.


Image: Richard Deacon, Dead Leg, 2007, Oak and stainless steel, Copyright of the artist. Courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.

This exhibition is the eighth in an ongoing series of contemporary art exhibitions organized by Bruce Guenther, Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and supported in part by the Miller Meigs Endowment for Contemporary Arts.

HOFFMAN GALLERY EXHIBITION SERIES

Post-baccalaureate Exhibition
May 5-May 27, 2008, with a reception on Thursday, May 15 from 4:00-7:00pm.

Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition
Worksound/PDX @ 820 SE Alder in Portland
May 5-May 27, 2008, with a reception on Friday, May 16 from 4:00-7:00pm.

Graduating students in OCAC’s BFA and Post-baccalaureate programs spend their final year perfecting their craft in the creation of an original body of work. This learning experience culminates in the showcase of their work in the Undergraduate Thesis and Post-baccalaureate Exhibitions.

The show highlights the multidisciplinary approach taught at the College. Because the OCAC curriculum encourages students to experiment media outside of their major concentration, they have the freedom and fluency to merge their ideas and bridge boundaries across a variety of media.

The Searchers
Feldman Gallery + Project Space
April 3-May 25
1st Thursday Opening: April 3, 6–9PM
The Feldman Gallery is open daily from 9am–9pm

The Searchers ask: What is the relationship between eBay and the consumer? Two eBay consumers? A person and their computer? The Searchers uses the construct of a first time eBay seller to explore the way that people connect, or don't connect, through technology--websites, email, letters, newspaper, books, iPods... The Searchers started with a work of fiction written by curators Amoreen Armetta and Molly Dilworth. The exhibit proves that the relationship between the above entities exists, but that this relationship is difficult to quantify because the connections are constantly changing, and the entities are always in motion. The challenge posed to the artists asked to take part in The Searchers was to materialize these connections, assuming that metaphor serves as proof.

The Searchers features: Nuno Cera, Ann Craven, AC Dickson, Joan Grossman, Lucien Samaha, Jenny Vogel; with artist publications by Bill Brown, Gabriela Forcadell and Alejandro Cesarco, LTTR, Josephine Meckseper, Aleksandra Mir, Lone Twin, Pruess Press.

Image by: Nuno Cera, video still from "The Lost Soul."

Jess: To and From the Printed Page
May 9 - July 20, 2008

The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College presents Jess: To and From the Printed Page, an immersive exhibition including painting, sculpture, collage, book arts and ephemera by the seminal Beat Generation artist Jess Collins, known as “Jess” (1923-2004).

Jess: To and From the Printed Page, is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by iCI, (Independent Curators International), New York. Guest curator for the exhibition is Ingrid Schaffner. The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the iCI Exhibition Partners. Catalog available at the Cooley Gallery.