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Stiler’s sculptural forms reference and reconstrust classical iconography from out of artist-constructed “rubble.”
Learn moreLost in contemplation, a lone man rotates endlessly in an undefined, space ship-like environment, chanting a reinvented prayer.
Learn moreTransformed from a worn instrument to a body of art, Hutchins’ family piano inspires new prints, sculpture and video work.
Learn moreSynth-based soundtracks underscore two videos that dream of an escape to a better place, and the start of a new world.
Learn moreJoin us September 9-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon for a ten-day happening of contemporary performance, dance, music, and new media, with an additional month of visual arts installations.
Learn moreAfter sifting through a library, the artist selects particular books, stacking them so their titles can be read in sequence.
Learn moreAlthough frequently referred to as “disposable” in our society, objects often predate and outlast us, continually cycling through owners and contexts over time.
Learn morePICA will host curators Jens Hoffmann and Harrell Fletcher of the People's Biennial to discuss the TBA:10 show and solicit artist suggestions.
Learn moreJoin curators Kristan Kennedy (PICA) and Stephanie Snyder (Reed) for a discussion of Antoine Catala's installation and Psychedelic Soul.
Learn moreA walking tour of the visual art projects. Roam room to room, ask all of the questions you were afraid to ask, and take one last look.
Learn moreLinzy performs songs from SweetBerry Sonnet, with video segments produced as a result of a PICA residency, along with local jazz and rock rising stars.
Learn moreArtist Antoine Catala and Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy discuss Catala's installation, TV, and field questions from gallery visitors.
Learn morerobbinschilds performs a series of original performances and interactions in, on, and around the Washington High School grounds.
Learn moreA day at THE WORKS that puts the “all” in “all ages,” tiny tba is a festival within a festival, sampling dance, music, and film that refuses to draw the line between kid and adult.
Learn moreArtist Fawn Krieger and Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy invite you to join them in National Park, for conversation and exploration.
Learn moreWithout Sun is an edited compilation of “found performances” of individuals on a psychedelic substance.
Learn moreMovements, Portland-based artist Ethan Rose’s latest sound installation, consists of over one hundred altered music boxes, carefully timed and methodically displayed across the gallery walls.
Learn moreLinzy continues his episodic soap-opera series Conversation Wit de Churen with Episode VII, in which Linzy portrays the melodramatic life of a fictional family.
Learn moreSlappe creates an army of costumed youth in a project that mines your photo albums for evidence of what he calls “contemporary cultural indoctrination."
Learn morerobbinschilds presents a full-spectrum video with acutely visual live dance, set to a score by rock quartet Kinski and edited in succinct rainbow-hued sections.
Learn moreMa Qiusha presents a simple confessional that explores the artist's conflict with personal, parental, and societal pressures to be successful.
Learn moreNational Park takes its cues from Lewis & Clark, museum dioramas, Superstudio, and the U.S.’s post-war middle-class tourism pastime, the roadtrip.
Learn moreThe Walls Of My Hall is a multichannel video installation referring to the human body as a place to exist—a structure—related to its built environment.
Learn moreSeveral hundred painted, stackable boxes are presented for our collaboration in an installation intended for direct audience manipulation.
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