Sue Williams | Testical Flange on the Green | 1997 | oil and acrylic on canvas
June 9th, 2018
Tag: travel
The World Stage | Green Palette
Kehinde Wiley | Indio Cuauhtemoc (The World Stage: Brazil) | 2017 | Oil on canvas
Claes Oldenburg | Profile Airflow | 1969 | Polyurethane over lithograph, edition 62/75
Alden Mason | Green Cradle | 1973 | Oil on canvas
June 9th, 2018
In the Beginning | Minor White’s Oregon Photographs
“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
June 9th, 2018
We Construct Marvels
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
June 9th, 2018
Passing Resemblance
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
June 9th, 2018
Touch
But don’t
Art:
Elie Nadelman, La femme assise (Seated Woman), ca. 1918-1921; wood, copper wire and wrought iron
Jeppe Hein, Please Participate, 2015; neon tubes and transformers
June 9th, 2018
A very good boy
Sleeping
Karl Hofer, Frühe Stunde (Early Hour), 1935, oil on canvas
Portland Art Museum
June 9th, 2018
An obnoxious cat
”Firmin-Girard enjoyed great popularity at the time the Impressionists were revolting against the highly detailed, academic style that he practiced. However, Firmin-Girard shared the Impressionists’ interest in painting modern life, especially scenes along the River Seine. In this work, Parisians enjoy a Sunday brasserie overlooking the river at Bas-Meudon southwest of Paris. At left, the artist depicted his daughter stroking an appreciative cat as her brother chats with their grandmother…” (from the accompanying tag)
An appreciative cat? I don’t think so… What I see, is a mean character, eyes narrowed, probably plotting its next attack; I can almost hear it hissing and growling at the dog across the street.
Marie-François Firmin-Girard (1838-1921)
Sunday at Bas-Meudon, 1884
Oil on canvas
June 9th, 2018
Portland||OR||Art Museum – The Shape of Speed
A few glimpses only; installation was underway. We had arrived a week too early.
June 9th, 2018
Portland||OR||Ground Kontrol Arcade
Standard basic education of my generation. But play too long and you start seeing Green Men…
Ground Kontrol & The Green Man of Portland
June 8th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 