Seattle artist Rachel Maxi mainly creates tiny landscape paintings that manage to evoke a sense of space in rather mundane settings, but she turned away from her usual subject matter to make a very lovely series of pieces documenting hand tools. There’s something very satisfying and elegant in the stark contrast between the straightforward, realistically rendered tools and their highly saturated, single toned backgrounds. I, for one, certainly appreciate any work of art that leaves me thinking, “Why what a pretty hand saw!”
So much edible bling!! Brooklyn artist Julia Chiang created this dapper ring pop installation for a group show at Art Basel Miami. The ring pops slowly melt under the display lights, staining the walls as they disintegrate.
Laura Brothers makes glitched-out art that overflows and manipulates layers of pixels to create organic flows. Please visit her website to see the full-size pixel art in all of its intricate glory.
Last night’s Analog Playset custom toy show and action featured 25 custom robot toys by well-known Los Angeles-area musicians and artists, including Joe Ledbetter, Alex Pardee, and members of bands like Minus The Bear, Eisley, Circa Survive, Thrice, All-American Rejects, and Fall Out Boy.. Andrew McMahon (of Something Corporate) held a special performance, as this event benefitted his Dear Jack Foundation, a non-profit benefiting leukemia research.
Here are some pieces from the show.
By Sherri Dupree-Bemis of Eisley.
By Alex Robinson.
By Joe Ledbetter.
This is our last installment of one-off events you shouldn’t miss at this year’s Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) 2010.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2010
Sunday, September 19th, 2010, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm
@ THE WORKS at Washington High School (531 SE 14th Ave., Portland, OR 97214)
Free Admission / All Ages
“Dan Gildsdorf‘s score consists of a single uninterrupted chord—a sound rumored to have been banned by the Catholic Church in the eighteenth century — that tests the endurance of performers and audience alike. It is an exercise in human stamina, tonal dissonance, and the evocative sound design of horror films.” I’m there.
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Sunday, September 19th, 2010, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm
@ Northwest Film Center, Whitsell Auditorium at Portland Art Museum (1219 SW Park)
$8 Members, $9 General / All Ages
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Native American history is an immensely complex thing, and although it is now a complex issue that’s easily swept under the rug, a series of short films in this program (featuring the works of video artists from around the country, including Elizabeth Day, Nicholas Galanin, Priscilla Naungagiaq Hensley Holthouse, Mona Smith, Emily Johnson, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, Carter Meland, and youth from Red Lake High Schoo), will showcase numerous perspective relevant to the Native American lifestyle as we know it (or don’t know it).
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Sunday, September 19th, 2010, from 8:30pm to 10:30pm
@ THE WORKS at Washington High School (531 SE 14th Ave., Portland, OR 97214)
$8 Members, $10 General / All Ages
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Join the community in a hilarious evening of home-made karaoke videos, in conjunction of Eric Fredericksen, curator and director of Western Bridge, a non-profit art exhibition space in Seattle, and Weekend Leisure, a Vancouver, BC-based group that holds everyting from gallery exhibitions to weekly karaoke nights in their hometown.
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