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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.