But of course, it’s hard to tell; a collaborative exhibition by Alyson Provax and Serrah Russell is on view throughout September at Well Well Projects. Provax is a member of the gallery, which gives its members a month out of the year to have an exhibition. Provax and Russell created the work for the show earlier this year. That time consisted of some of the bleakest months of the pandemic. I found it incredibly inspiring that these two artists could come together throughout this time to create a body of work. Openly and vulnerably sharing, iterating on pieces of work sent back and forth through the United States Postal Service. The subsequent marks of these correspondences as they move through processing, travel, and arrival. The imprints of distance, touch, and being.
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A review of "Artifacts of Affection" by Rachael Zur at Gallery 114, up through August 2020 by Ashley Gifford
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Davey Barnwell works primarily in painting and illustration. She boldly uses color in her visual language, which is often rooted in memory and her abstracted forms and shape serve as a way to understand her own surroundings.
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An interview with Kalaija Mallery, the director of Third Room, an artist-run alternative art space that’s been operating since 2017. We highlight this space and the concepts that helped frame its existence, and where it’s going moving forward.
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As I waited in anticipation, the cold marble wall I was leaning on began to warm with my rising excitement. We took our seats, the lights low and blue - someone is on stage in a defensive fetal-like position. It was Linder, I later came to realize. The scene hushes the incoming audience members into a whispered lull. The atmosphere is set.
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On an early fall evening at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, a crowd waits in eager anticipation under a hush of palpable energy. Three large projections fill the wall in front of us, and a three-channel video appears as if mimicking a triptych.
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Nudity is both personal and universal, and occupies this ‘space’ in different ways that aren’t always just physical - but does it take up more space?
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Interview with Portland-based artist Tabitha Nikolai following the opening of “Utopia Without You” at Williamson | Knight in Northwest Portland.
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Interview with Portland-based Artist & Educator Amy Bay following her solo show at Melanie Flood Projects.
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An interview with artist and co-director of Dust to Dust, Emily Nachison.
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Portland-based Artist, Educator & Curator, Avantika Bawa discusses her background, how she maintains and balances her art practice with being an educator, the evolution of her work, and her upcoming solo show at the Portland Art Museum that is open from August 2018-February 2019.
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An interview with Matt Jay, the founder of End of Summer, a cross-cultural art program based in Portland, Oregon at the Yale Union Contemporary Art Center.
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A short interview with Clifford Prince King, following the opening of his solo show Colors So True at Melanie Flood Projects in July 2018.
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Interview with the founding members of First Brick highlighting how their curatorial project began and the type of artists and work they showcase.
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Interview with BriAnna Rosen, artist and founding member of Killjoy Collective, a gallery dedicated to showcasing artists who identify as women in Southeast Portland since 2016
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Interview with founders of 1122 gallery. highlighting their non-traditional art space in SE Portland that opened their doors in May 2018.
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A conversation with artist Paula Wilson following the opening of her solo show “FLOORED” at Williamson | Knight.
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A conversation with artist Justin L'Amie after the opening of his fourth solo show “Midnight Florist” at PDX Contemporary Art.
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Interview with artist Kellen Chasuk following her solo show “Plastic Flowers” at Stephanie Chefas Projects.
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