Your PADA Art Picks: April 22

pada picks: april 22 - may 13, 2015

Colleen Plumb Public Projection

April 22 - 26, 2015

For Portland Photo Month, Chicago-based photographer Colleen Plumb will be taking her video, Thirty Times A Minute, beyond Blue Sky Gallery's walls and projecting this stirring 8-minute piece about elephants in captivity onto buildings and structures in and around Portland. Visit thirtytimesaminute.com/schedule and follow #thirtytimesaminute on Instagram for an up-to-date schedule of times and locations between April 22-26.

Audience Archive Discussion at PICA

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 6:00pm

Join PICA for a special event Field Guide Mining Memories: From the Audience Archive. This event will call attention to recollection as an act of audienceship, offering a forum for reflection on TBA Festival history and past PICA performances spanning theater, dance, and interdisciplinary work from 1995 to present.

Experimental Fashion Event at Disjecta

Friday, Apr. 24, 2015, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Disjecta Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present a collaborative event with Oregon College of Art and Craft. The OCAC Experimental Fashion event is created by the OCAC Fiber Department’s Experimental Fashion class, which addresses the relationships, crossover and theories of fashion, costume, sculpture and culture.

Special Photolucida Discussion with Susan Seubert

Saturday, April 25, 2015, 11:00am

Join Froelick Gallery in conjunction with Photolucida for a discussion with renowned photographer Susan Seubert. In her solo exhibit, Seubert will exhibit two distinct bodies of work on the subject of hindsight bias. Through these she examines her own choices and biases.

Artist Talk with Clint Brown

Saturday, Apr. 25, 2015, 2:30pm

Join Blackfish Gallery to hear painter, Clint Brown's talk, Nude vs. Naked: An Abbreviated History of the Figure in Art.
This event is free and open to the public.

MFA AC+D Visiting Artist Lecture with Anders Ruhwald

Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Join the Oregon College of Art and Craft for a lecture with visiting artist Anders Ruhwald. In the last decade Ruhwald has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.

Q & A with Ben Buswell

May 9, 2015 11:00 am

Join Upfor gallery as sculptor Ben Buswell sits down with gallery owner Theo Downes-Le Guin for an informal question and answer session on the final day of Buswell’s latest solo exhibition at Upfor. The discussion will focus around Buswell’s recent work presented at Upfor and The Art Gym.
Free to attend; all are welcome.

Portland Art News

Upfor: Paris Photo Los Angeles

May 1 – 3, 2015, Paramount Pictures Studios, Los Angeles

Upfor gallery joins over 80 leading galleries from around the world at the 2015 Paris Photo 2015, LA, May 1 – 3, 2015. Held annually at Paramount Pictures Studios, the fair is the stateside edition of Paris Photo, an art fair renowned for photography and moving image art created in the 20th and 21st centuries Upfor is proud to present new and recent works by contemporary artists Ben Buswell, Akihiko Miyoshi and Rodrigo Valenzuela at Stage 31, Stand 9.

Frank Boyden at OSU Fairbanks Gallery

Opening Reception: May 5, 2015 Noon - 1 pm

Oregon State University's Fairbanks Gallery will host an opening reception an exhibition of work by Frank Boyden on May 5th. Oregon Icon will explore a lifetime of prints and will be on view May 4 - 27, 2015.

Boyden is represented in Portland by the Laura Russo Gallery.

Cynthia Lahti at the Imogen Gallery

Through May 5, 2015, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR.

Imogen Gallery in Astoria, OR. is exhibiting My Land, a series of Cynthia Lahti's paintings celebrating the Oregon landscape.

Lahti is represented in Portland by PDX Contemporary Art.

Collecting in Context: Regional, National, International

Thursday, May 21, 2015, 5:30 pm

Presented by: Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Sponsored by : Portland Art Dealers Association (PADA)

Join PADA at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery for an in-depth conversation about art collecting. This event marks the second in a series of conversations throughout Portland on art collecting.
RSVP to: art@elizabethleach.com

Portland Photo Month - April 2015

Through April 30, 2015

Each April, the city of Portland is abuzz with photography events and exhibitions. Photolucida spearheads the festivities and collaborates with local galleries and organizations to highlight all of the photographic happenings on our website.

Photolucida also hosts Portland Photo Month’s flagship events – the Portfolio Reviews, the Portfolio Walk, and Keynote Lecture.

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