Tara Jane O’Neil is a musician and artist who will displaying her zine (entitled doodle book selections #3) at IPRC — Independent Publishing Resource Center TODAY for First Thursday.
If you don’t know her work OR the amazing things that are happening at the IPRC, you should definitely stop by.
Sign me up for this show! Together Gallery’s offering for the Last Thursday’s art walk on Alberta tonight has an opening running from 5:00pm to 10:00pm. What is it? Nothing short of FANTASTIC. Including musical performances by BRAINSTORM and ASTROLOGY as well.
An L.A.-based artist who explores themes that are much larger than ourselves and capture, in one fell swoop, the darkest and brightest themes in existence (they’re almost metal in that way). Don’t miss these exploding rainbows of creatures and form!!
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Howell and Stouffer might share similar color palettes, but their works could not be further apart. Howell’s light-hearted illustrations waver between Muppet-like blobs and newspaper comic strip residents. Also: the release of the IDEA BOARD 2 limited edition skateboard, which Howell contributed art for.
Martinez will be showing a 6.5-minute film entitled Near The Egress, which is a compiled stop-motion animation using a series of black-and-white film prints.
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Jim Vecchi creates conceptual photographic images which focus on minute details; his latest series — and the series on display at Blue Sky Photography Gallery — is entitled so much depends… and revolves around the poetry of American poet William Carlos Williams whose “poems centered on the quotidian aspects of life.” Read Vecchi’s notes behind the series here.
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Grace Before Dying is a series of black-and-white wide-format images photo-documenting a maximum-security prison in Louisiana. The series was created over the period of three years, focusing on a prisoner-run hospice program at the penitentiary.
Elemental is a group show featuring collaborative pieces that have undergone Round Robin treatment by Yellena James, Jill Bliss, Betsy Walton, and APAK Studios (Aaron and Ayumi Piland), going on now at Together Gallery, through the end of the month (and then some).
Blackbirds
Breeze
Crystal Garden
Deep Sea Coral
Dreamcatcher
Embers
Portland conceptual artist Abraham Ingle’s first solo show is quite a curious one. Starting today at False Front Studio in Portland, Ingle will be displayed his socially-inspired art. The show, entitled If A Tree Falls… consists of all new practice projects which explore notions of presence in the age of “always on.” You should definitely visit this blog post on Ingle’s website to view more of the summary, but I’ll pick and choose a couple of interesting components to the six-part show:
Interruptions is a series of three videos that mix content from social media, drama, and real life to explore interaction. Interruptions was made in collaboration with Dustin Zemel.
A collaboration with The Portrait Booth Project, This is How I See You uses portraiture to juxtapose states of hyper-awareness and obliviousness.
The entire show will be streaming on Chat Roulette the entire time. YES.
This is sure to be a fascinating show.
With the proliferation of text-messaging and chat conversations and all sorts of data! being! transmitted! at! amazing!! speeds!!! throughout the world at any given SECOND, and in all sorts of RiDiCuLuZ FoRmZ, it seems only appropriate to base one show… or maybe even tons of shows… off of this theme. Which leads me to this post.
James Harris Gallery in Seattle currently has a group exhibition going on entitled TXT. Graphics and text converge to create two- and three- dimensional works that can be interpreted on multiple levels by viewers. This show runs through August 20th. Here are some of the pieces:
Lawrence Lemaoana’s Things Fall Apart, 2009
Textile (49″ x 32″)
Walter Robinson’s Forest, 2008
MDF, Epoxy, metalflake (84″ x 62″ x 1″)
Anthony Discenza’s EVERYTHING YOU’VE HEARD, 2009
Vinyl on aluminum, Ed. of 5 (24″ x 18″)
Alejandro Cesarco’s Footnote #7, 2008
Vinyl text on wall, Ed. of 5
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On a similar note, Portland’s Recess Gallery has an open call to artists who are working with text. Call is as follows:
Work that recontextualizes the text. Work that informs, invites, or inquires. Work that sends, receives, documents messages/ideas. Work that does work. Work you made. Work that you and someone else made. Work that you want to make with people. Work that is technically proficient? Sure. Work about ideas about ideas about ideas. Work in Helvetica. Work in Garamond. Work in video. Works on paper.
Do you have something that seems to fit? Does it coincide with at least three of the above statements? That’s okay, even if it doesn’t, you should send it to
recesspdx@gmail.com by the end of July for a show opening in the middle of August.
Please include your proposal/project description/artist statement along with some contact informtion, artist bio, or link to a relevant/personal website.
Suggested Additions:
Images of proposed work
Images of recent work
Your phone number
If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to recesspdx@gmail.com.
Interior Designer Irene Lovett matches images of interior design with music albums to create a sonic-visual mash-up of a non-projected, non-synthesized sort. Check these out for some ideas of what you might be able to do at your house!
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[Irene Lovett has contributed on projects such as The W Hollywood Residences and EVO Penthouse. A Mexico native and former resident of Salamanca, Spain, her design influences are as wide ranging as her musical tastes, and she commonly utilizes one aesthetic to produce results in the other. Accordingly, she has created vignettes reflecting the mutual inspiration of her favorite artists and her favorite designs.]
No.Fest is this weekend in Portland, and it begins Friday, the 25th at 7:00pm and Saturday the 26th at 10:00am! With 46 shows in 14 hours, the festival will be a cornucopia of art, music, and performance-based events for everyone. Originally a noise festival, No.Fest is now a festival celebrating experimental art, and Klein & Woolley (David Klein and Nick Woolley) will be just be two of the artists showing there. Here are their amazing acrylic and cut wood pieces, which are way cheaper than you’d expect for how awesome and probably labor-intensive they are:
Here’s a super remarkable lightbox, too:
