Emily Counts at Carl & Sloan reviewed on Oregon ArtsWatch
Artist and writer Patrick Collier recently wrote an insightful feature about Emily Counts' new show at Carl & Sloan for Oregon ArtsWatch. Check out the complete article here. Thanks Patrick for getting our brains working with your astute reflections on Emily's work!
Past Nationale reader, Merchant-in-Residence, and beloved Portland author, Jon Raymond is releasing THE COMMUNITY: Writings About Art In and Around Portland 1997-2016 tonight at Publication Studio. This is a project dear to our hearts as I had a couple great conversations with Jon this past fall about him getting started on this monumental task and Gabi ended up helping him assemble the project. If you've read any of her fantastic artists interviews, you probably want her to write a book of her own next!
Details of new sculptures by Emily Counts
Please join us this Saturday, March 12 (6-10pm) for the opening reception of gallery artist Emily Counts' solo exhibition of new, large-scale sculptures at Carl & Sloan. Through the generous support of a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Emily was able to realize her ideas on an impressive scale, and we are thrilled to experience these new pieces in person. The show runs from March 12 until April 17, 2016. More information can be found here.
Carl & Sloan
8371 N. Interstate (same building as Disjecta Contemporary Art Center)
art gym presents: and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive // copyright © 2016 The Art Gym
Claire Redman, Two Lips (detail), 2016, oil and spray paint on canvas, 32 x 26"
Spring is in the air and we are thrilled to kick off the season with three young women painters in the exhibition Spring Buds opening this Sunday afternoon (3—6pm). Lora Baize and Annie McLaughlin have both shown here before, and Claire Redman joins their dynamic team for a painting show that should be as fun as it is refreshing.
Amy Bernstein's contribution to the Art Gym's and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive
Nationale will open at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 24 so we can attend gallery artist Amy Bernstein's conversation with Michelle Ross. We love these two women and wouldn't miss it for anything in the world. Please join us at Marylhurst University's Art Gym. The talk starts at 11:30 a.m. See you there!
The live auction starts at 7 pm at PNCA. Gallery artists and PNCA alumni Delaney Allen, Ty Ennis, and Elizabeth Malaska all have contributions. Tickets can be purchased HERE. The event benefits PNCA's scholarship fund.
Congratulations to gallery artist Carson Ellis on her Grammy nomination. Our fingers are crossed for her tonight!
One of Ennis's three new paintings for the Bothy, LA, and his notes about the series.
Thanks to a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, gallery artist Ty Ennis is off to Los Angeles for William H Bothy's inaugural exhibition, sub Jove Frigido featuring two other West Coast artists, Shaun O'Dell and Alessandro Pessoli. Join him on Saturday, February 13 in Highland Park for the reception (4 pm on).
For this exhibition, we've asked a group of artists to respond to the idea of a “study,” as either a single stage in a larger process, or as a continual meditation on a single subject, both being a place to test out ideas and experiment. The result is a diverse group of styles, perspectives, and ways of working.
Although every piece is representative of a small moment in a larger body of work within each artist’s practice, they are also objects and worlds unto themselves with their own formal and conceptual concerns. With their stops and starts, imperfections, ruminations, and empty spaces, these collages, sketches, and paintings are visual notes offering a rare and intimate view into the creative process.
Join us this Saturday, February 6 for the reception (3—6 pm). More info & bios HERE
From left to right:
Elizabeth Malaska, MFA '11 / Venus Leo (After Rossetti)
Delaney Allen, MFA '10 / Recreating the Heavens in the Swimming Pool
Ty Ennis, BFA '03 / Pulp
Gallery artists and PNCA alumni Delaney Allen, Ty Ennis, and Elizabeth Malaska are all featured in Spanning Histories, PNCA's first ever Alumni Art Auction curated by Nan Curtis, Emily Ginsburg, Matthew Letzelter, Lennie Pitkin, Killeen Hanson, MK Guth, and Mack McFarland. Please join us all this Friday, January 29 at PNCA for the auction's free preview. For more information, visit the event's page.
Just a few of the amazing books currently in stock...
Marcel Dzama: Behind Every Curtain ($22)
Sophie Calle: Detachment ($25)
Sophie Calle: Suite Vénitienne ($34.95)
Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Confessions ($45)
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries ($40)
Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends ($45)
Wolfgang Tillmans: The Cars ($30)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Abstract Pictures ($50)
Agnes Martin ($55)
Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia ($55)
Feelings: Soft Art ($35)
Mary Ellen Mark: Tiny, Streetwise Revisited ($50)
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series ($50)
Brad Cloepfil / Allied Works Architecture: Case Work Studies in Form, Space & Construction ($19.95)
Now in the shop
SPIES!
Here are some of our favorite excerpts:
"To send a confidential note to Cyrus the Great along heavily guarded roads, sixth-century-BC Median noble Harpagus inserted a paper message into a dead hare’s belly and ordered a servant to pose as a hunter to deliver the corpse."
"Even a paranoid can have enemies." -Henry Kissinger, 1977
"Walter Kirke, British deputy head of military intelligence in France, noted in his diary in October 1915 that the chief (“C”) of the Secret Intelligence Service had come upon a solution for how to send secret messages: “Heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen,” Kirke wrote. The substance, it turned out, was hard to detect by the common revealing method of iodine vapor. The chief’s name: Mansfield Cumming."
Other back issues in stock (all $17): Fashion / Family / Swindle & Fraud / Foreigners / Sports & Games / The City / Arts & Letters / Celebrity / Intoxication / Food / Travel / Time / Animals / Death
Delaney Allen from the series, Painting a Portrait (2012)
Nationale is pleased to announce that Delaney Allen is included in the group exhibition, A Person Is a Noun opening this Friday evening at Dean Jensen Gallery in Milwaukee, WI. Like last year's inclusion in Through the Lens at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, here again Allen is in fantastic company with Natalie Krick of Seattle, Lisa Lindvay of Chicago, Tom Zust of Sydney, Australia, and Kyle Seis of Milwaukee. A selection of work from Sally Mann’s Family Pictures series will also be shown. Congratulations, Delaney!
We are excited to share with you the news of Rikki Rothenberg's LA debut this coming weekend. Please do not miss her performance and installation, Divinjnowshoe at PAM Residencies.
Using movement, an installation of glitter paintings, and poetic language, dancer Rikki Rothenberg performatively explores her understanding of the self as synchronistic, contradictory, and inherently meaningful.
Rikki Rothenberg is a visual & performance artist and a psychotherapist. Rothenberg earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2004 and her MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2015. In 2005 she co-founded the performance group Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner in Portland, OR, with Katie Arrants and Kathleen Keogh, which presented work at the Performática Festival in Mexico, Bumbershoot in Seattle, the Portland2010 Biennial (in collaboration with Oregon Painting Society), Pieter in LA and PICA's TBA festival. Rothenberg has shown her visual art work both in solo and group exhibitions in various Portland, OR, galleries, including New American Art Union and Nationale. Divinjnowshoe at PAM is her Los Angeles debut.
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January 22nd and 23rd at 8:30pm
RSVP to info@pamresidencies.com
5-10$ suggested donation
PAM Residencies, 5810 1/2 North Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042 (free parking behind radio shack off ave. 58)
Elizabeth in her studio. Photograph by Gia Goodrich
Congratulations to Elizabeth Malaska on her recent award from the Oregon Arts Commission! Elizabeth, alongside 12 other amazing artists, was just awarded a 2016 Individual Artist Fellowship.
About the Fellowship:
The Arts Commission’s fellowship program is available to more than 20,000 artists who call Oregon home. Fellows are recommended by a review panel of arts professionals from Oregon and beyond who consider artists of outstanding talent, demonstrated ability and commitment to the creation of new work(s). This year visual and design arts were reviewed. The 2016 review panel included gallerist Amy Adams, artists MJ Anderson and Modou Dieng, curator Yaelle S. Amir and museum director Scott Malbaurn and was chaired by Arts Commissioner Christopher Acebo. Their recommendations were approved by the full Arts Commission.
The following visual artists were awarded 2016 fellowships:
Natalie Ball, Chiloquin (Joan Shipley Fellow)
Fernanda D’Agostino, Portland
Laurie Danial, Portland
Tannaz Farsi, Eugene
Julie Green, Corvallis
Laura Heit, Portland
Michael Hensley, Portland
Aaron Flint Jamison, Portland
Jim Lommasson, Portland
Elizabeth Malaska, Portland
Brenna Murphy, Portland
Ronna Neuenschwander, Portland
Blair Saxon-Hill, Portland
Read more about the program and the artists honored here.
Phone Porn, 2015, oil on air dry clay, 7 x 4.5"
Please join us this Sunday, January 10 (1—4pm) for the reception of Relaxo Patio, Lindsay Kennedy's third solo exhibition at Nationale. Inspired by the lush life of Miami Beach, Relaxo Patio with its pastels abstractions and luxurious floral textures, is a welcome visual respite from the icy, grey days of winter. The exhibit showcases Kennedy's diverse yet fully realized style, as it fluctuates between the grid-like "knit" paintings composed of hundreds of dabs of paint, alongside paintings of looser, textured brushstrokes.
Pat Boas, Three Triangles and Three Colors, Sumi ink on paper, 2015, Courtesy of Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Join us for the opening reception of and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive at The Art Gym this Sunday, January 10 from 4-6pm. Represented artist Amy Bernstein has work in the show alongside a number of amazing artists. Amy will also be giving an artist talk with fellow-painter, Michelle Ross on February 24 at 11:30am. Press release below.
Opening Reception - Sunday, January 10, 4-6pm
Conversations on Painting -
Amy Bernstein and Michelle Ross - Wednesday, February 24, 11:30am
Pat Boas, Calvin Ross Carl, and Michael Lazarus- Tuesday, January 26, 3:30pm
Jack Featherly and Grant Hottle- Friday, February 12, 10:30am
Roomful of Teeth event in partnership with the Music Department - January 29, 7:30pm
The Art Gym at Marylhurst University will present and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive from January 12 to March 5, 2016. This group exhibition will feature ten artists of the Pacific Northwest working with abstraction in painting. The artists included in the exhibition work in a broad range of formal and conceptual abstraction, and within a broad definition of painting.
and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive, curated by Blake Shell, includes works by Amy Bernstein, Pat Boas, Calvin Ross Carl, Jack Featherly, Ron Graff, Robert Hardgrave, Grant Hottle, Michael Lazarus, Michelle Ross, and Amanda Wojick.
An opening reception will be held from 4-6 pm on January 10, 2016. The Art Gym will publish an accompanying catalogue, designed by Sibley House, that includes an introduction by Blake Shell and essays by art writers Graham W. Bell and Sue Taylor.
The Art Gym is supported by the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation, the Collins Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Art Gym’s publication fund is supported by the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation and Linda Hutchins and John Montague.
This exhibition and publication are made possible in great part through the generosity of The Ford Family Foundation. Other individuals and businesses provided additional support.
