January 4 - February 24
THE OTHER PORTLAND:
Art & Ecology in the 5th Quadrant
Presented by Art on the Peninsula
Organized and Curated by Rhoda London

THE OTHER PORTLAND: Art & Ecology in the 5th Quadrant, was sponsored and organized by both Art on the Peninsula; a non-profit grass-roots organization located in North Portland, and The North Portland Neighborhood Services. The artists chosen for the exhibition had responded to and identified environmental issues in North Portland particularly Smith and Bybee Lakes, and the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.
Artists: Peg Butler, Cecillia Cannon, Clare Carpenter, Jedidiah Chavez, James Jack, Laura Foster, Courtney Frisse, Susan Harlan, TJ Norris & Abi Spring, Liz Obert & Mike Suri

January 4 - February 24
Second Skin | J.D. Perkin & Anne Thompson
6,000 earplugs…11,000 cigarette butts…865 pried open beer cans…1,000 pounds of clay…16 animal hides…tire tread, rose petals, human hair, fake fur, cross cut fir, pond liner, antlers, and leaves. These are some of the materils encountered upon entering Second Skin, a life-size installation by J.D. Perkin and Anne Thompson. The show’s title was derived from the unnatural media that covers each individual object in the installation. The artist duo had constructed a campsite that allowed the viewer to experience texture, smell, color, video and sound while presenting a familiar yet strange narrative where nature and culture collide.

March 1 - 30
Alchemy | Christine Wallers & Steve Peters
Alchemy, a collaborative installation by artist Christine Wallers and sound artist Steve Peters, was originally presented in 2000 as a site-specific installation at the Old San Ysidro Church, an historic adobe chapel in Corrales, New Mexico. A series of large bowls made of spun yellow brass rest on steel plates suspended from the ceiling. Transducers affixed to the bowls transmit sound directly into the metal causing them to resonate sympathetically.

The sound is derived from the whispering voices of 24 people reading written responses the artists received from over 300 people in fifteen countries imagining positive change in the world. Heard clearly in the first bowl, the individual voices are electronically transformed into increasingly pure, abstract tones as they flow through the space in a quiet wave and gradually subside into silence. Random groupings of unprocessed voices are also played at very low volume through small speakers distributed throughout the gallery.

March 1 - 30
Survy (at the edge of the continent) | David Lindsay
Survey is a self-contained frieze of painting that comes up from the ground in a spiral, 14 feet in diameter. The figures and space of the painting create a thin veil of illusion between the viewer and the emptiness that fills the work.

April 5 - 27
The Portland Grid Project
Presented by Blue Sky Gallery
One city, 7 curators, 12 years, 21 photographers, 3000 prints. Exhibition is part of the Photolucida festival of photography

The Photographers
Blake Andrews, Mark Barnes, Tom Champion, Dawn-Starr Crowther, Deborah Dombrowski, Lisa Gidley, Barbara Gilson, Bruce Hall, Ann Hughes, Tom Kearcher, Ann Kendellen, David Potter, Doug Prior, Christopher Rauschenberg, Shawn Records, Rich Rollins, Faulkner Short, Patrick Stearns, Paul Sutinen, Bill Washburn and Bryan Wolf.

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May 3 - June 1
Dialectically Placed | Alexandra Opie
Video Installation

Dialectically Placed is a room, within a room, within a room. At its periphery are four screen-walls forming an outer area, which encloses a cylinder that can be occupied by the viewer. Both can be entered and circumambulated. These volumes share a gossamer surface, on which panoramic images are projected, shifting and fading. The projected images of indoor settings and exterior landscape spaces depict a compound, a spiritual community in Oregon, which was my childhood home. Viewers enter the work, enter the projected image, can in a ghostly way, inhabit the spaces depicted.

May 3 - June 1
OCAC Graduation Class Exhibition
Oregon College of Arts and Crafts student exhibition.

The graduating class from the Oregon College of Art & Craft present innovative artwork created in the book arts, ceramics, drawing/painting, fibers, metal, photography, and wood studios. As emerging artists whose education has explored a wide scope of critical thought, both formal and conceptual, their fresh perspective includes a wide range of contemporary concerns.

Respecting the important history of traditional craft they continue to push the boundaries of contemporary issues and meaning. Unafraid to skillfully experiment with materials and processes the artworks vary in scope from the utilitarian to the abstract, but no matter what the object or the subject, the work of accomplished young artists is on display.

June 7 - 29
Basil Wolverton
Curated by Kenny Sharf
and
Robby Cooper
Presented by:
Platform International Animation Festival
A rare retrospective of original works by legendary cartoonist, comic-book artist and illustrator Basil Wolverton (1909-1978), one of Mad Magazine's most inspirational artists whose influence extends to this day. Renowned artist Kenny Scharf will curate the exhibition.

July 5 - 27
No Good God | John Mace (PDX)

No Good God examines the roles of belief and hope in human existence. It takes the stance that hope is like breathing while belief is like holding your breath. No Good God probes the soft underbelly of the individual spiritual body and meters the journey from the profound to the profane.

July 5 - 27
Lost Wisdom | Roxanne Jackson (PDX)
Sculptural Installation

Working with emotions such as pain, fear, separation and repression; Jackson exhibits an installation of exquisitely crafted hyenas lingering in the darkness. Captivated by the hierarchies of the animal world, Jackson contemplates the roles of both predator and prey seeking to question and remind us of our primal, mortal nature.

July 5 - 27
Natural Synthesis | Matthew Mitros (Seattle)
Sculptural works in urethane resin

Natural Synthesis references the natural systems of parasitic plant life and their need to coexist with their host. The viewer is confronted with a disorienting sense of weight and orientation as the growth logic of plant life has been altered by shifting or removing the effects of gravity.

August 2 - 31
The Push | Keith Langergraber (Vancouver, BC)
Installation

Keith Langergraber’s site-specific installations focus on social, political and cultural issues surrounding the land and the effects of tourism. Using La Push Washington as a focal point, The Push examines the effects of increased growth, commercialization and economic reliance on tourism on the lives, values and histories of the local and indigenous people.

August 2 - 31
Space Garbage 3 | Jubal Nance (PDX)
Installation

Space Garbage 3 is a life-sized, immersive, and interactive installation that references science fiction set design. Disposable materials such as styrofoam, shipping blocks, vacu-formed plastic take-out containers, cardboard tubes, foam core scraps, and other twenty-first century detritus are repurposed to become engine-room components and spaceship corridors.

September 6 - 28
"BLAM" | Josh Arseneau (PDX)
Installation

Using wall painting and an engine as a sculptural focal point, BLAM explores spectacle and futility. BLAM is part of an ongoing process of combining appropriated imagery from current and historical contexts with personal experiences, memories and opinions.

September 6 - 28
Piece Process
Organized by Kannan Kannan

Piece Process is a national traveling multimedia exhibition by artists of Middle Eastern decent, working in America, Europe and the Middle East. They represent multiple voices and shared possibilities that rise above hate and ignorance.

October 4 - 26
Crybabys, or a Sad State of Affairs
Jim Neidhardt and Kerry Davis (PDX)
Video Installation

Crybabys, is a metaphor for the fact that life is hard. Jim and Kerry explore the cathartic nature of crying in public for both viewer and participant as the viewer is placed face to face with varying ages of crying adults.

October 4 - 26
Console
Ali Schmeltz, Molly Reily, Stephanie Dotson
Installation

Console is a collaborative effort by three women artists who are reacting to the changes occurring both stylistically and conceptually within the evolving, disposable, consumerist society. Examining the cultural remains from the shelves of thrift stores and American myths they configure a new iconography and landscape combining old materials with new.

November 1 - 30
Hollow/Shallow | Joseph Kohnke & Karen Kazmer (Vancouver, BC, and IL)
Pneumatic installations

Hollow/Shallow is a collaborative exhibition of two established artists that share a fascination with and use of pneumatic devices to animate and inflate inanimate, household and constructed objects.

December 6 - 22
Memory Machines | Alicia Eggert (PDX)
Installation

Memory Machines is an installation based on the visual incarnation of the process of thought and our minds attempt at capturing and holding these thoughts and memories. Using post-it notes as a physical holder of these thoughts, Alicia has constructed an installation of little yellow birds (two post-it notes stuck together) fluttering above and around three birdcages that represent the three areas of the brain (fore, mid and hindbrain) and their functions.

December 6 - 22
PDX Panels
a large group show showcasing our city’s talent
Proceeds go to PAC and the artists

Portland Art Center invites artists to participate in its December group show PDX Panels. This is an open invitation to emerging, mid-career and established artists to participate in a large community show and to support PAC. Portland Art Center is a non-profit art center here to directly support the arts community. Each panel will be priced at $300 with 75% of proceeds going to support PAC, and 25% to the artist. PDX Panels is designed as a holiday fundraising exhibition for PAC. Many artists have approached PAC with a desire to help, but not having the funds to do so. This exhibit creates the environment to support PAC, and to showcase the breadth of talent we have here in our city.