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Excelsior! Marvel Universe @ MoPOP || SEAttle

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Scarlet Witch #1
David Aja, 2016

Daredevil #188, cover
Frank Miller (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), 1982

Giant-size X-Men #1, cover
Gil Kane and Dave Cockrum (pencils) and Dave Cockrum (inks), 1975
This rare piece of original art shows the first appearance of the ”new” X-Men literally bursting through an image of the old team.

New X-Men, in-house advertising art
By Dave Cockrum, 1978

The Uncanny X-Men #136, cover
John Byrne (pencils) and Terry Austin (inks), 1980

Wolverine #1, cover
Frank Miller (pencils), Joe Rubinstein (inks), 1982

New Mutants, poster
Art by Bill Sienkiewicz, 1984
Mixed media

Matt Murdock’s cane & glasses as used by Charlie Cox in ”Daredevil” and ”The Defenders” (2015-2017)

Daredevil #69, cover
Art by Alex Maleev, 1998

Daredevil #181, cover
Frank Miller (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), 1982

Tony Isabella and Arvell Jones created Mercedes Kelly Knight in 1975 for the ”Iron Fist” series. A former NYPD cop, Misty had a mechanical arm (courtesy of Tony Stark), a striking Afro hairstyle (courtesy of Angela Davis) and a tough, sexy attitude (courtesy of the popular so-called Blacksploitation movies that also inspired Luke Cage). As a super-powered woman of colour, Misty was instantly ground-breaking; what’s more, in 1977, Misty and Iron Fist shared what may have been the first interracial kiss in a Super hero comic.

I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot (trnsl: Groot as seen in ”Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014)

Museum of Pop Culture

June 13th, 2018

In the Beginning | Minor White’s Oregon Photographs

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“Long before co-founding Aperture magazine or establishing the groundbreaking photography program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Minor White (1908-1976) moved to Portland, where he sowed the seeds of what would become a forceful artistic vision. This exhibition of White’s rarely seen early work celebrates the artist’s influence on the region, and honours the Museum’s dedication to acquiring and displaying photography as the institution enters its 125th year.”

– Julia Dolan, Ph.D, The Minor White Curator of Photography

Untitled (Union Station Loading Platform) | ca. 1932 | Gelatin silver print

After the Fire Architecture (1211 Southwest First Avenue at Madison)  ca. 1939 | Gelatin silver print

Untitled (Broadway Bridge) | ca. 1939 | Gelatin silver print

Front Street, Portland, Oregon 1939 (negative) | ca. 1970 (print) | Gelatin silver print

Portland Art Museum

June 9th, 2018

 

We Construct Marvels

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Between Monuments

Titus Kaphar | The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) XVI | 2014 | Chalk on asphalt paper

Sarah Lucas | Oh! Soldier | 2005 | Braces, wire hanger, cast concrete army boots and nylon stockings

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons | Untitled | 1999 | Lithograph and paper pulp

William Morris | Artifact Panel | 2000 | Glass, wood, and paint

Nicholas Galanin | By-Product | 2012 | Glass and vinyl

Portland Art Museum

June 9th, 2018

Passing Resemblance

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of Reality

Randolph Rogers | Nydia the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii | 1855/1884 | Marble

Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière | Bust of Diana | ca. 1882 | Bronze

Augustin Pajou | Portrait of the Marquis de Lubersac | 1772 | Terracota Heidi Schwegler | Passing Resemblance (to the artist herself) | 2014 |Silicone, hair, doll body

John McCracken | Black Box | ca. 1965 | polyester resin on fiberglass and plywood (selfie op entirely intentional)

Palmyra, Syria | Funerary Portrait: Yarkhai, Son of Ogga and Balya, his Daughter | ca. 150-200 CE | Limestone

Portland Art Museum

June 9th, 2018