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The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art
February 26 – April 4, 2012
Tuesday – Sunday, noon – 4 pm

Preview Reception: Sunday, February 26 from 3 to 5 pm

The Art Gym is one of five venues presenting Portland2012, a biennial of contemporary art sponsored by Disjecta, produced by Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center and curated by Prudence F. Roberts. The Art Gym is presenting eight of the 24 chosen artists.

The artists exhibiting at The Art Gym are Future Death Toll, Chris Knight, Cynthia Lahti, Ben Killen Rosenberg, Jack Ryan, Marie Sivak and Dustin Zemel.

About Portland2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, produced by Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center and curated by Prudence F. Roberts.

To view all related events: http://disjecta.org/2012/

Check our website for more: www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/

The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
17600 Pacific Highway (Hwy 43)
Marylhurst, OR 97036
United States
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marylhurst.edu/artgym/

Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
David Rochkind: Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit
February 2–26, 2012
Tuesday through Sunday, Noon - 5 PM

Opening Reception: First Thursday, February 2, 6–9 pm

Artist Talk: David Rochkind & Jamey Stillings
Saturday, February 4, 2:00 pm

"Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit" is photographer David Rochkind's project about the social costs and consequences of Mexico's violent drug war.

After narrowly winning Mexico's presidential election at the end of 2006, Felipe Calderón quickly moved to escalate the battle against the country's drug cartels. "This is a permanent fight, in which, unfortunately, many have lost their lives," Calderón said at the time, "We are fighting without rest so that these sacrifices will not be in vain." Nearly 35,000 more people have been killed since and kidnappings have skyrocketed....

Blue Sky is free and open to the public.

Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
United States
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blueskygallery.org

Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
Jamey Stillings: The Bridge at Hoover Dam
February 2–26, 2012
Tuesday through Sunday, Noon - 5 pm

Opening Reception First Thursday, February 2, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Artist Talk: David Rochkind & Jamey Stillings
Saturday, February 4, 2:00 pm

Nazraeli Press will have copies of Stillings's monograph, 'The Bridge at Hoover Dam',
available for purchase and signing immediately following the talk.

From the moment photographer Jamey Stillings first encountered the bridge at Hoover Dam he knew it was a subject he couldn't ignore. Over the next two years, he visited the bridge 16 times documenting the progress and completion of the enormous structure that would eventually span the Colorado River....

Blue Sky is free and open to the public.

Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
United States
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blueskygallery.org

Disjecta
Peter Halley
January 22 – February 25, 2012
Friday–Sunday, Noon–5:00 pm

PRISON: A New Installation

Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center is pleased to present Peter Halley as the final exhibiting artist in Jenene Nagy's 2011-2012 Curator-in-Residence season.

Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan. 21, 6–9 p.m.

“Prison” continues Halley’s decades-long interest in architecture by creating a seductive, continuous image that wraps around the perimeter of the gallery space. Halley unites visual and architectural systems to create an immersive experience that weds the “geometry of the social” with the mall-level transcendence of saturated fluorescent color.

Disjecta will host a lecture by Halley at Pacific Northwest College of Art, co-sponsored by the PNCA MFA Low Residency Program, on Friday, Jan. 20 at 7 pm

Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center
8372 N Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
United States
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Disjecta.org

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College
BRUCE NAUMAN
January 27 – March 9, 2012
Tuesday – Sunday, noon to 5pm, FREE

Bruce Nauman
BASEMENTS
Early Studio Explorations
1967–1969

Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202
United States
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reed.edu/gallery

Lewis & Clark College: Eric & Ronna Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art
THE EDGE OF VISION
January 19 – March 18 2012
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public.

Abstraction in Contemporary Photography

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer, showcases the work of more than twenty contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer defines abstraction as ‘a departure from or the eliding of an immediately apprehensible subject.’

This exhibition is organized by Aperture Foundation.

Photo by Bill Armstrong.

Lewis & Clark College
0615 SW Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97219
United States
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lclark.edu/hoffman_gallery

Museum of Contemporary Craft, in partnership with PNCA
Generations: Betty Feves
March 15 – July 28, 2012
Gallery hours are Tue-Wed, Fri-Sun 11am-6pm; Thu 11am-8pm

Curated by Namita Gupta Wiggers

Presenting Sponsors: Whiteman Foundation and Institute of Museum and Library Services

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR 97209
United States
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museumofcontemporarycraft.org

Museum of Contemporary Craft, in partnership with PNCA
Studio H: Design. Build. Transform.
through February 25, 2012
Gallery hours are Tue-Wed, Fri-Sun 11am-6pm; Thu 11am-8pm

A different kind of classroom.

Emily Pilloton and partner Matthew Miller believe design solutions can, and should, empower people, communities and economies.

Putting theory into practice, they moved to rural Bertie County, North Carolina to engage students in a bold and experimental high school design/build curriculum called Studio H.

Emily Pilloton will give a CraftPerspectives Lecture on December 2.

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR 97209
United States
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www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org

Museum of Contemporary Craft, in partnership with PNCA
Anne Crumpacker
February 1 - February 29, 2012
Gallery hours are Tue-Wed, Fri-Sun 11am-6pm; Thu 11am-8pm

Anne Crumpacker MFA AC+D '11 creates intimate bamboo sculptures that redefine a venerable material, interweaving scale and proportion to create living topographies.

See the result of what began as explorations during her practicum during her studies in the MFA in Applied Craft and Design program.

Museum of Contemporary Craft
724 NW Davis Street
Portland 97209
United States
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museumofcontemporarycraft.org

Newspace Center for Photography
BLACK and WHITE: 2012 themed exhibition
February 3 – 26, 2012
Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm Friday-Sunday 10am-6pm (First Fridays 6-9pm)

Opening Reception: Friday, February 3rd 6–9 pm

Newspace Center for Photography is excited to announce our Annual Themed Exhibition with the theme “Black & White”.

This year we wanted to investigate and celebrate the beauty of black and white photography in all its glory, exploring the many methods and techniques available to photographers today, be it alternative process, digital, or traditional film.

Newspace Executive Director Chris Bennett selected 50 images from over 400 submissions for the exhibition.

Newspace Center for Photography
1632 SE 10th Avenue
Portland, OR 97214
United States
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newspacephoto.org

Oregon College of Art and Craft
Scholastic Gold Key Winners Exhibition
February 2 – 23, 2012
Gallery hours: 10am to 5pm daily

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 2, 4:00–7:00pm

OCAC is proud to showcase the 2012 Oregon Scholastic Art Awards Gold Key Art and Photography Portfolio Winners. The Scholastic Art Awards are the largest source of scholarship funds for creative teens in the US, offering recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarship opportunities to outstanding students in art and writing.

The Awards have a distinguished roster of alumni including Andy Warhol, Robert Redford, Sue Miller, Richard Avedon, Philip Pearlstein, Kay WalkingStick, Zac Posen, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Otterness, Robert Indiana, Sylvia Plath, John Lithgow, and Joyce Maynard

OCAC Hoffman Gallery

Image: Claire McKinney

Oregon College of Art & Craft
8245 SW Barnes Rd Portland OR
United States
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www.ocac.edu

Oregon College of Art and Craft
Invisible Cities and Hidden Landscapes
March 1 – April 1, 2012
Gallery hours: 10am to 5pm daily

A traveling exhibition of books and book-related artworks.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 1 from 4:00-7:00pm

Devised as an opportunity to promote dialogue between teaching institutions in Britain and The United States, this exhibition investigates the medium of artists' books. Participants were invited to submit a book of their choice or make one in response to Italo Calvino's poetic novel "Invisible Cities". Lecturers, alumni and students contributed to this eclectic collection featuring work from more than sixty artists.

Oregon College of Art and Craft
8245 SW Barnes Road
Portland
United States
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www.ocac.edu

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Feldman Gallery
XYLOR JANE and B.WURTZ
January 17 – March 24, 2012
The Feldman Gallery is free & open to the public 9am-9pm

Xylor Jane and B. Wurtz is a two-person show highlighting recent work of two important artists who consistently surprise with the simplicity of their means and process.

Dealing simply in the complexity and specificity of color and material, Xylor Jane’s and B. Wurtz’ artworks are rigorously executed translations of environment and experience.

This exhibition is curated by MFA in Visual Studies Chair, artist and curator, Arnold J. Kemp.

Pacific Northwest College of Art
1241 NW Johnson
Portland, OR 97209
United States
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pnca.edu

Portland Art Museum
JOHN FRAME: Three Fragments of a Lost Tale
February 18 – May 27, 2012
Open until 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays

Art, music, poetry, and film come together in Frame’s ambitious project, The Tale of the Crippled Boy. The goal is a feature-length collection of animated and live film vignettes.

Three Fragments of a Lost Tale presents his work during the past five years: installations of handmade puppets, stage sets, still photographs, music score, and film vignettes.

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue
United States
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PortlandArtMuseum.org

Portland Art Museum
JOSEPH BEUYS
February 4 – May 27, 2012
Open until 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays

One of the most controversial internationally known German avant-garde artists of the postwar years, Beuys (1921-1986) was an influential theorist and teacher for several generations of European artists.

The exhibition features the monumental environmental work, Blitzschlag mit Lichtschein auf Hirsch (Lightning with Stag in its Glare), 1958-1985, along with selected multiples that extend the installation’s conceptual framework.

For more information:
http://portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue
United States
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www.PortlandArtMuseum.org

Portland Art Museum
Izquierdo Seven Decades Paperworks
November 19 – March 4, 2012
Open until 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays

One Artist’s Legacy on paper

One of Oregon’s most important artists, Manuel Izquierdo is best known for his lyrical sculptures. Lesser known are his large, expressive pastel drawings.

This exhibition celebrates the life and legacy of Izquierdo through a vibrant selection of drawings and prints, a number of which have never been exhibited.

For more information:
http://portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue
United States
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www.PortlandArtMuseum.org

Portland Art Museum
MARK ROTHKO
February 18 – May 27, 2012
Open until 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays

One of the leading American artists of the 20th century, Mark Rothko began his life in art in Portland, Oregon.

The 45 works in the exhibition trace Rothko’s artistic path from the late 1920s until shortly before his death in 1970.

The exhibition presents Portland’s first comprehensive look at the artist’s development and aesthetic issues that shaped his production.

For more exhibition information: http://portlandartmuseum.org/calendar/

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue
United States
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Portland Art Museum
Emerging: New Photography Acquisitions
March 10 – June 17, 2012
Open until 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays

Emerging, a selection of more than 50 works, celebrates the diversity and breadth of a set of 500 recent gifts and purchases.

Included are images by such exceptional photographers as Adolphe Braun, Berenice Abbott, Chris McCaw, Linda Connor, and Eadweard Muybridge.

These photographs demonstrate the exciting trajectory of the history of photography as well as the Museum’s commitment to the collection and display of the medium.

Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue
United States
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PortlandArtMuseum.org

White Box at the University of Oregon in Portland
Notes on a Recent Arrival
January 24 – March 24, 2012
Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 6 pm

University of Oregon – Art Department Faculty Show

Bringing together a set of diverse projects, all by artists on the faculty of the University of Oregon, this exhibition explores the dynamic interactions between agent and environment. It’s title is appropriated from a 1995 essay by art historian Lucy Lippard, in which she laments a loss of connection to the sites we inhabit in the postmodern era, and argues for a renewed relationship to our surrounding environments—one that “makes connections visible.”

Free Public Reception and Curator Remarks:
March 2, 2012 5:30 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.

http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/

White Box
24 NW First Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
United States
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whitebox.uoregon.edu/

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
The Long Now
January 21 – April 8, 2012
Tuesday – Saturday 11am–5pm, Wednesday til 8pm

New Work from the University of Oregon Faculty.
An exhibition of 22 artists from the Department of Art.

Opening Reception: January 20, 6–8 pm

Tour with exhibition curator Stamatina Gregory: Saturday, January 21, 4:00 pm

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
1430 Johnson Lane
Eugene, OR 97403
United States
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jsma.uoregon.edu

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