Converge 45: To repair a wounded world
September 7, 2023
The Portland biennial’s point of depARTure: In a world of multiple crises, political art is having its day again.
The Portland biennial’s point of depARTure: In a world of multiple crises, political art is having its day again.
With his own small gallery in a shed, a show at Elizabeth Leach, and a key role in the Converge 45 biennial, the artist juggles “three ways I get to make magic out of dust.”
Leslie Peterson Sapp’s vivid collage-paintings reflecting the moods of Film Noir echo a long creative history of borrowing and revising in music and art.
At Pacific University’s gallery, an exhibition whispers its materials and speaks to the giving and taking of the land.
In Portland’s Central Eastside Industrial District, a gallery features “graphic, color-drenched work by artists who have neither their fists nor their noses up in the air.”
Hank Willis Thomas’s “The Embrace” in Boston is “a monument to love and joy, the twin wells of courage and perseverance.”
The trauma of invasion has a long history before Putin. Ukraine artists draw on it in remarkable ways, reaching back to the modernist movement of a century ago.
The gallery’s painting and photography show “Inheritance” spotlights agricultural workers in Ghana and Black farmers in America.
Street art abounds on the city’s walls – sometimes sanctioned, sometimes not. Is it time for Portland to join the “Free Walls” movement?
Entering into the abstract: “I found myself wanting to slide through an imagined gap between several layers as if a door was left ajar. ‘Explore,’ it tempted.”
Art from Tumult: Bev Grant’s Photographic Record
of Radicalized New York, at Reed College’s Cooley Art Gallery.
Like Cézanne’s and Wayne Thiebaud’s, Wolf’s sensory paintings seduce the ordinary by upending our assumptions about reality.
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