Annie McLaughlin, Bareback Meanderer (A Lonely Teenage Broncin' Buck), 2016, gouache on paper, 24 x 18”
Annie McLaughlin, Poppy Field Kickback (Eastern Sierra Nudies), 2016, gouache on paper, 14 x 11”
Annie McLaughlin, Carnations, Marigolds, Lilies, Peonies, 2016, gouache on paper, 14 x 11”
Annie McLaughlin, There’s Pansies, That’s for Thoughts, 2016, gouache on paper, 14 x 11”
Ilyas Ahmed, 1/3 of Dreamboat
Ilyas stopped by today and dropped off the new Dreamboat record. Hailed on Fact Mag as "one of the best albums of 2016", it has also been featured in the New York Time article, Songs That Take Their Time, Evolve and Ask Plenty of Questions. Congrats to this great team!
Limited edition of 500 with digital code, MIE Music ($ 21)
Claire Redman, Sunday, 2015, oil on canvas, 20 x 14”
Claire Redman, Two Lips, 2016, oil and spray paint on canvas, 32 x 26”
Lora Baize, You Saw Me, 2016, acrylic and enamel on panel, 23 3/4 x 18”
Lora Baize, Blue Moon, 2016, acrylic and enamel on panel, 20 x 16”
Lora Baize, Standing Alone, 2016, acrylic and enamel on panel, 11 x 14”
Lora Baize, Off the grid, DP 411, 2016, acrylic, enamel, and frit on panel, 11 x 15”
Happy Easter! We will be enjoying friends & family for the first part of the day, back at the gallery after brunch...
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."
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