I'm currently the full-time arts calendar editor for EverOut, the events section of two legacy alt-weeklies: the Portland Mercury and Seattle's The Stranger.
Nonamey: Making Shipwrecks and Teen Dreams with Cardboard and Paint
Playing on an audience’s nostalgia can feel like a trick, but when Nonamey does it, it’s an invitation. Their pieces reference real objects, but Nonamey’s graphic, stylized aesthetic isn’t trompe-l’œil—instead of merely tricking the eye, they excite it, with artworks that feel joyous and genuine. The Portland-based artist creates ultra-vibrant sculptures, wearables, and installations in cardboard, acrylic paint, and spray paint.
Jónsi and the Fischersund Art Collective’s New Exhibit Is Kind of Amazing, Kind of Magic
If an ethereal falsetto singing in an invented language wafted into your ears sometime over the last three decades, chances are good that it was Jónsi’s. But the Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist behind the post-rock band Sigur Rós is also invested in another immersive, ephemeral medium: He creates perfume with his sisters Lilja, Inga, and Sigurrós Birgisdóttir as Fischersund, an art collective based in Reykjavík.
Fischersund: Faux Flora, the collective’s first exhibition, arrives at...
It's Important That the Bug Undulates: Anida Yoeu Ali
An interview with artist-activist Anida Yoeu Ali.
A Place Between: Nationale / La Loma Projects Press Release
In the mottled light of early summer, a new collaboration emerges: May Barruel, owner and director of the Portland art gallery Nationale, will present a curated selection of paintings by Portland- and Los Angeles-based artists at La Loma Projects’ airy Annex space. Aiming to facilitate fruitful conversations between artists, curators, and collectors in the two cities, A Place Between will unveil fresh works by new Los Angeles dweller Shiela Laufer, Los Angeles-based artist Sherise Lee, and Portlanders Anya Roberts-Toney and Amy Bay.
An Interview with the Most Fascinating Man in New York—and His Puppet Frog Dr. Love—Ahead of His Show in Portland.
If you’re acquainted with avant-garde music history, you might already know the story. One day in 1979, Brian Eno happened upon Laraaji meditatively busking with an electric zither in Washington Square Park and scrawled a short note inviting him to collaborate. Equally present in the online sphere is the counterpoint that Laraaji “discovered” Eno that day, a sentiment I tend to agree with. Although their partnership resulted in the shimmery album Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, Laraaji had alread...
Faith in nature and one another: Hannah Krafcik and Emily Jones at TBA
In apogee, trust is everything.
Invitation To Being A Future Being
Invitation..., part of TBA Festival 2021, Portland, OR
Kinke Kooi, "The Grotesk of Raising"
On view at Adams and Ollman until September 4, Kinke Kooi’s The Grotesk of Raising marks the Dutch artist’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast.
Facing the sun (tunnels)
Review of a Thunderstruck Collective exhibition at Carnation Contemporary.
Spring and other cycles: Thesis exhibitions from PNCA’s Low-Residency Visual Studies
2021 thesis exhibitions from PNCA’s Low-Residency Visual Studies MFA candidates.
Bitter Cherry, Bleeding Heart
If you’ve ever fantasized about your dream home, you might have conjured up a place like the Courtyard House.
Rachel Avallone: Permission/Pleasure
Rachel Avallone's Permission/Pleasure at Neverlab, Portland, OR.
Abundance under blacklights
Morgan Rosskopf and Manu Torres’s Color Burn at Well Well Projects, Portland, OR.
Howard Fonda: Birds, cages, and flying away
Howard Fonda at Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books, Portland, OR.
Emily Counts: Souvenir
Emily Counts's Souvenir is on view at Nationale, Portland, OR from April 22 - July 8, 2021.