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Charlie Finch visited Cutters at Cinders Gallery and wrote this wonderful piece about the work in the show as well as its subject matter, Dimaggio. It’s a thrill to be on Artnet.Speaking of which, Walter Robinson is showing right now with Richard Hell (!!!) and Brigitte Engler at Bowman/Bloom Gallery. The show is called Nincompatibles. Below is a studio view of Robinson’s recent paintings. I

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Listen to the interview here.Modou Dieng has a show at the Marylhurst Art Gym called Black Star - mixed media with records and record sleeves. He also curates Work/Sound. He'll be my guest tomorrow on Art Focus on KBOO.

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Tonight is Disjecta's annual rather raucous art auction and this year I get to emcee along with the extraordinary AC Dickson! Expect good music, food and alcohol plus art by the likes of Bean Gilsdorf, Jeffry Mitchell, Anna Fidler, Horia Boboia, James Lavadour and many others.

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Willamette Week is celebrating 35 years in business, presenting a Trashed @ 35 party at Backspace. Basically the magazine (via Klutch and Richard Speer) asked a group of artists to take old WW covers and re-spin them. I took this as an opportunity to use a bigger NRA target for a self-portrait, also using a cover from Art Forum (with Wonder Woman) and Art in America. The opening is tonight, First

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Listen to the interview here.Mary Josephson makes folk art-like portraits in paint, mosaic and thread. She has a show opening this week at the Laura Russo Gallery. She will be my guest on Art Focus tomorrow.

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The New Communicators is a series of events intented to inspire and educate on ways of communicating. Tonight is Show and Tell PDX: What Are You Doing to Change the World? and I'm a part of it.The topic of the evening intrigued me - I remember coming across it about ten years ago when someone said it was impossible to do it, especially just one person. But I already knew that it wasn't true. Not

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Listen to the interview here.Maria T.D. Inocencio makes art around community. I've followed her from "the Tree," where she cut down the tree in her yard and shared it in an art show (through photos, collage, seedlings, stumps) at PSU to her present project, which is a mural for Innovative Housing. Inocencio also works with her partner Mark R. ; I documented their project on the South Waterfront

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The opening for Cutters at Cinders in Brooklyn was last Friday and of course I couldn't make it. Luckily ex-Portlander and fabulous photog Mark Rabiner was on the spot and took some pics for us. Looks like it was quite a crowd. You can see my pieces on the wall below. Arrested Motion also picked my work out; a big thanks! I should also mention here that Mark has been shooting some of Auto Ego

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Listen to the interview here.Tomorrow my guest on Art Focus will be Ryan Pierce, who has a show up at Elizabeth Leach. The exhibition is called Written from Exile and presents acrylic paintings which explore a post-industrial world.

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Target No. 46 (Jean)A few years ago I showed at Guestroom, a Portland gallery, with James Gallagher of New York. It was a group show called Paperchase, curated by Jenny Strayer. I’m now thrilled to announce that I get to show with Gallagher again and this time he’s curating the show. Cutters, an international collage show, opening this Friday at Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, comprises the work of

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Listen to the audio here.The Oregon Cultural Trust has given a grant to Disjecta to produce the (now rather homeless) Oregon Biennial. I will have Cynthia Kirk from the Trust, Bryan Suereth from Disjecta and Cris Moss the curator as my guests on Art Focus at KBOO. Kirk will also talk about "A Day of Culture" coming up on the 8th.The Trust funds and promotes many essential things. When I first

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Listen to the interview here.Tom Cramer has a new show opening at Laura Russo this week. He will be my guest tomorrow on Art Focus. His exhibitions keep pushing forward into new territory and this one in particular has a big variety of approaches. Some seems Byzantine; his silver and gold is better than ever. One work is like an oil slick, reminiscent of Arts and Crafts and Tiffany. There are

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More than once I have written about James Kalm here. I am a big fan and he’s definitely the inspiration behind my own artist-interview Youtube project. So when I head that he was making a video of at least part of Dave Hickey’s lecture at SVA, I was excited. Before I even saw it, the controversy started. Various powers that be told him to take it down. Kalm has a blog which details the course of

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Listen to the audio here.This coming Tuesday (September 22nd) my guest on Art Focus will be Mark Menjivar who has a show opening on the 23rd at Ampersand Vintage. The show is called You are What You Eat. These photographs examine the interiors of refrigerators of homes across the country.

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Pat Boas opens a show at the Maryhurst Art Gym this week. The artist makes work that explores and examines language in context—letter by letter, word by word, image by image. Record Record includes four series that comment on the text and images in The New York Times - and a new series of digital works What Our Homes Can Tell Us that captures language found in the artist’s home and places of

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In my path was a box of diaries, the first 67 notebooks. Being allowed almost nothing but idleness in the extraordinary heat of late July/early August, I picked up a book at random and started reading: it was 1990 (the cover is above). That’s a year I could never read before. I was trying to be hopeful in a bad situation around a negative person. The diary gave me an interesting perspective on

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In last week's episode of Art Focus about TBA, not everyone who was planned to appear got covered. So next week (on September 8th) I will have Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner and the Oregon Painting Society on. Guests include: Woolly Mammoth--Rikki Rothenberg and Kathleen Keogh and Oregon Painting Society--Matt Carlson, Jason Traeger and Liam Drain.

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Sean Ongley, fellow volunteer at KBOO, asked me if he could produce a small segment on the upcoming PICA/TBA festival. I said take the whole ball and run with it. So Sean will host Art Focus tomorrow, talking with Kristan Kennedy, Erin Boberg, Cathy Edwards and Mike Daisey - plus a special interview piece on the Works featuring Fawn Krieger and Jesse Hayward, to be capped off with an interview

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Listen to the interview here.Pictured above is a fresh-faced Gavin Shettler, a few years before the Portland Art Center and his current gig at Milepost Five. He’s now a wiser, maybe more pragmatic director of dreams. When I saw him at the Manor of Art, he said: “I don’t really care what the critics say. I’m here to facilitate what artists want to do.” We’ll talk about that and a whole lot more

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The initial wander down the hallways of The Manor of Art, filled with stains and cracks and lurid reminders, took me straight away to an exhibition I experienced years ago – seen is not quite the right word – of Ed and Nancy Kienholz. These artists used an entire hallway and its rooms for an installation: one was never really sure what came readymade and what was built in. But it all sprung from

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Listen to the interview here.This week on Art Focus my guest will be Michelle Ramin, who has a show up at Falsefront called Need it/Got it - along with the director of Falsefront, Jason Doizé. Falsefront is a curious space – in a neighborhood full of homes, it looks like it must have been a storefront at one time. Inside it looks like a regular gallery (which I confess to liking). The exhibition

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Listen to the interview here.This week on Art Focus my guest is Lisa Radon. Lisa is the mastermind behind Ultrapdx, an online magazine which started with a focus on design and style but eventually moved more firmly into art. She recently launched a new art blog at Portland Monthly, Culturephile. Radon is also known for her sound art, poetics and performances; she performs occasionally with Tim

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Listen to the interview here.Paul Middendorf is the director and curator of gallery Homeland, a nonprofit arts organization in SE Portland. Paul is helping Oregon artists get their work out of town and bringing artists from all over the world to Homeland. He'll be my guest this Tuesday on Art Focus.

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So many people recommended more Margaret Atwood, but when I returned to the library, her section was practically empty. And so my eye stumbled along the A section to Jami Attenberg, who wrote A Kept Man (she also has her own Youtube channel, which followed her book tour – neat idea). An artist falls from a ladder into a six year coma. His wife sells off his paintings to support herself and him –

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Photo by Dmae RobertsListen to the interview here. We’ve seen her all over town, at plenty of openings. She’s not the kind of person you forget. Pammela Springfield opened a place called Cannibals awhile back, but I think it began to make a dent in the art world when it delivered work to the CAP Auction. That’s when I started walking into galleries and overheard conversations about that wild

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