Lucy Cotter

Lucy Cotter’s practice encompasses experimental and art critical writing, curating, and performance to engage with art as a form of knowledge production and a site for cultural and political transformation. Recent curatorial projects include Undoing Language: Early Performance Works by Brian O’ Doherty at The Kitchen, New York (2021), and a year-long program as Curator in Residence at Oregon Center for Contemporary Art (2021-22). She was curator of the Dutch Pavilion, 57th Venice Biennale (2017). Internationally published in books, catalogs, and journals including Flash Art, Frieze, and Artforum, she is the author of Reclaiming Artistic Research (2019). Cotter holds a PhD in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. Irish-born, she is currently based in Portland.

Water, smoke, and words: Patricia Vázquez Gómez’s ode to indigenous language

The Portland-based artist's immersive installation at Portland Institute of Contemporary art brings questions about the resilience of indigenous immigrant languages to the fore.

TBA Review: Anna Martine Whitehead’s ‘FORCE! an opera in three acts’

Staged as part of the return of PICA's Time-Based Art festival, Whitehead's impressive opera explores embodied and emotional experiences around incarceration.

Empathy and eros: Ralph Pugay’s ‘The Longest Journey’

The paintings and drawings in the artist's solo exhibition at Adams and Ollman use humor as a vehicle for incisive social reflection. Drawing on social media feeds, they feature everything from human caterpillars to zebra surrogates.

Disintegrating language: Will Rawls’ ‘Amphigory’

Review: Rawls' screen-prints at Adams and Ollman Gallery are like a tug-of-war between dance and writing.

The Promise of ‘Opacity’: Takahiro Yamamoto’s ‘Opacity of Performance’

Yamamoto’s quietly stunning work of dance at the Portland Art Museum begs to be widely seen.