Events
Opening on January 18 is the inaugural event of Waterstone's 20th Anniversary Year. This group show, "The Sum of the Parts", will feature the three original founders of the gallery as well as the 16 current members.
On the first Tuesday of every month,
the Museum offers the opportunity for babies and their caregivers to enjoy art together.
The group will explore art with a docent for 45 minutes of slow looking in the galleries followed by coffee, tea, and conversation.
Art historians usually classify images like Cézanne’s Card Players as genre pictures: views of daily life that may reveal attitudes toward a class of society or a set of cultural practices.
Cézanne’s earliest viewers evaluated his Card Players as if they were abstractions, and thus, the paintings gained a special social significance.
Vollum Lecture Hall, Free
Take a break from your workday on February 8 at 12:30pm and join curator Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson for a 45-minute talk in the galleries about the exhibit 'Izquierdo: Seven Decades Paperworks'.
Donald Fortescue is a Professor of Art and Design at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. He moved to the US in 1997 to head the Furniture Design program at CCA. Since then he has exhibited extensively in Australia, the US and South America. He received an Experimental Design Award from the San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art in 2001
Tim DuRoche
writer, artist and curator living in Portland. The focus will be the painting “Self-portrait” by Anna B. Crocker, 1926, displayed just for this event. He will pay tribute to women such as Crocker, who put community first. DuRoche's writing has been published in IDEA Magazine, Oregon Humanities, Willamette Week, and The Oregonian.
Talk followed by happy hour.
$5 members $15 non-members. Space limited.
"History Lessons", an exhibition of small watercolor sketches by Laura Ross Paul, is now on view at the Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus. Each of the drawings was created in one of three museums Laura visited last fall: The British Museum, London; The Picasso Museum, Barcelona; and the Prado, Madrid. The works will be on view at PCC through February 18th.
Mel Katz will discuss the work in his newest exhibition of wall sculptures. Created from anodized aluminum and featuring bold shapes and bright colors, Katz's slyly humorous sculptures challenge the view that metal is unyielding and geometry impersonal.
Henk Pander will talk about the work in his latest exhibition, titled "Worlds Apart: Plein Air Watercolors." These paintings reveal seldom-seen landscapes from Oregon's forests and deserts, places of harsh terrain and wild beauty
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Dark River of Stars, a limited-edition artist book by Oregon Poet Laureate, Paulann Petersen; printmaker, Barbara Mason; and bookbinder, Laurie Weiss. Poems collected in this volume were gifts the poet sent out individually each Valentine’s Day to friends and family over a period of nine years. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP's not necessary.
Come to the gallery for a round table discussion with co-directors Keaney and Trisha as they talk about the gallery and its 20 year history.
With Christopher Rothko
Do not miss this special opportunity to hear Christopher Rothko, Mark Rothko’s son, discuss his father’s writings and their revelation of his development, and the future of abstract painting in the last half of the 20th century
Neidhardt will discuss his new painting series, Modern Screen, a satirical commentary on electronic media in art. “There is elitism now about what you look at imagery with iPads, Blu-ray projectors, etc. which I suggest may be related to size rather than content,” Neidhardt says. “It is something akin to linking machismo with size.”
image: '23 inch', paintstick and acrylic on inked canvas, 30" x 40"
Chris Taylor is an architect, educator, and director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University. 1998 he was awarded the Steedman Traveling Fellowship by Washington University and spent a year in Venice Italy mapping the spatial character of the city's existence between water and sky.
Lin Stanionis's work encompasses both jewelry and hollowware. Referencing the history of ritual and ceremonial objects, her pieces employ symbolic language exploring transcendence, interchange, and desire.
Her work has received numerous reviews, appeared in many publications and has been the subject of feature articles in Metalsmith and Ornament magazines.
Centrum Gallery
Rothko spent his childhood in Portland and graduated from Lincoln high school in 1971. Join us at McMenamins Kennedy School for a frosty pint of handcrafted ale and learn how Rothko’s Portland childhood shaped his life and work.
image: Rothko self-portrait (detail)
Look for Froelick Gallery to “pop up” again in Palm Springs again this March. The gallery will take over the same space at the Palm Canyon Galleria. We will be featuring works by Terrell James, Alfred Harris, Gwen Davidson, Leiv Fagereng and other gallery artists.
Thursday through Monday
11am to 5pm
and by appointment
Sandy Chilewich
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Chilewich, the brand, is renowned worldwide for their modern reinterpretation of underutilized materials and manufacturing processes.
Chilwich Designs available at the SHOP@ocac.edu
Portland Mayoral candidates Eileen Brady, Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith will be joined by Portland City Council candidates Amanda Fritz, Mary Nolan and Steve Novick for a forum on the arts in Portland, moderated by Portland Monthly Magazine's Randy Gragg.
This is the opportunity to know these candidates and understand the their impact on arts, culture and creativity in Portland.
To RSVP or pose a question, e-mail rsvp@theartscan.org.
