Art Show Review

Each student will attend a local art show at some point during the semester. A list of openings and links to galleries will be posted on the class blog. After attending an opening, the student will write a review of the show based on their interpretation of it. Students should discuss topics explored in class as well as share their own personal reactions to the work on exhibit.






-Papers should be 1-2 pages, no larger than 12-pt font, and double-spaced.
-Students should be prepared to briefly present to the class an overview of their review of the show they attended on the day their review is due.

Due dates:
Feb 3rd – Brad, Cary, Lori, Rob, Jessy, David, Nick, Owen, Spencer, Zoe, Sara, and Jay

Feb 22nd - Amanda, Emma, Brantt, Michelle, Charlie, Calvin, Mackenzie, Ana, Kajsa, Kyle, Allie, Fatimah, and Salas



Below is a list of art exhibits and openings around Portland during February 2011:


On Campus:



Event: Art Exhibition: PAINTALLICA!









New Perspectives in Cave Painting – New work from Jason Traeger
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, February 3, 2011 – Friday, February 25, 2011
Opening reception: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 5-8 p.m.
Autzen Gallery - Second floor, PSU Neuberger Hall, Room 205, 724 SW Harrison, Portland, OR  97201
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m.
>>read artist statement and bio






ORPHAN DRUG - New work from Dunja Jankovic and Derek Bourcier
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, February 3, 2011 – Friday, February 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 5-8 p.m.
MK Gallery - Second Floor, PSU Art Department Building, Room 207, 2000 SW 5th Ave., Portland, OR 97201
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10-5 p.m.
Exhibition Statement
ORPHAN DRUG, named after a yet to be formed band, is a search for hidden meanings through a crossing of genres, methods and ideologies. Derek Bourcier, an MFA candidate at Portland State University teams up with Dunja Jankovic, a Portland and Croatia-based artist who recently published a comic book entitled HABITAT, in a psychedelic exhibition of floating sculptures, collage, music and printed matter.















In & Around Portland  
February:

Matt McCormick, "Crescent Motel"

In The Great Northwest, Matt McCormick presents video installation and photographs inspired by a scrapbook created in 1958 by four friends and found by McCormick in a thrift shop. The scrapbook details their Northwest travels together, which McCormick recreated in spite of a new highway system and towns that entirely disappeared. The resulting video and installation is his documentation of the process, which "reminds the viewer of the fragility of history, of the swift passage of time."


Dan Attoe, "Monument Valley Meteor Shower"

Here/Now is a group exhibition that "recognizes and celebrates the ever-changing Portland art community," including current and former Portland artists. Featured artists include Dan Attoe, MK Guth, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Arnold Kemp, and Michael Lazarus.

Opening reception (both shows) • 6-8pm • February 17
Elizabeth Leach Gallery • 417 NW 9th • 503.224.052


BOOMSHAKLAKA opens this Friday at Land.



Opening this weekend at PAM: Riches of a City: Portland Collects. The show celebrates the influence that art collection and patronage have had on the museum, featuring over 200 objects from local private collections, including works by Picasso, Lautrec, Miro, and Warhol.

Exhibition • February 5 - May 22, 2011
Portland Art Museum • 1219 SW Park • 503.226.2811+








False Front presents Jamie Marie Waelchli's Thought Maps, "a continuing series of psychoanalytic installations. Using strategically positioned illumination, Waelchli directs the viewers eye through layered sheets of vellum textured with self-examining stream of consciousness writing, diagrams and drawings. Designating these works as 'maps,' she encourages the viewer to navigate, unconditionally, the artist's notion of continuous introspection-stimulus for both development and reversion of the creative process."

Opening reception • 7-10pm • January 28
Closing brunch / workshop / lecture • 12-3pm • February 20
False Front • 4518 NE 32nd Ave • 503.781.4609











Bruce Conkle, "Who the Hell is Piet Mondrian"

Project Grow presents Bruce Conkle's Who the Hell is Piet Mondrian? The show features Conkle's past and present illustrations and installations, included the gilded trees from his fall 2010 show at Worksound.

Opening reception • 7-10pm • February 4
Project Grow • 2156 N Williams • 503.236.9515 x116
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