Idaho Statesman on SQFT

Image ©Lorna Nakell

SECOND TIME AROUND! + More

This is the final week for SQFT in Portland (click above to see artists). The show, including 50 or so artists, closes this Saturday at the Fishbowl II/Blackfish Gallery (420 NW 9th Ave). After Portland the momentum continues as the show plans to pick up an additional half dozen artists prior to each site in which it lands. The next visit will be to the historical Egyptian Theater in downtown Boise, sponsored by Boise State University Visual Arts Center, opening in mid-November. I will keep you posted on further plans here.

It’s not a shooting match (even though a piece was shot in the face), just some basic observation. Here we have two small exhibitions, over 75 artists represented, and a very small footprint overall, each spread along a single wall (w/certain extensions). There’s something about containment, communion and comparison going on. That’s all for now.

THE GRID

MP5³ (Milepost 5 Project Space)
900 NE 81st Avenue
through October 17

SQFT

Blackfish Gallery (Fishbowl Two)
420 NW 9th Avenue
through September 26
(other locations tba)

SQFT is now snuggly hung and on view inside the Fishbowl Two of the Pearl District’s cooperative gallery, Blackfish. It was a mini feat to pull together so many wonderful artists and fit them all into one offbeat grid of sorts. I hope you enjoy it.

You know, being on the coast (where it was 20-35 degrees cooler) without cellphone/internet connectivity over the last several days was refreshing. I should just turn it all off every other day. Start my own personal (r)evolution. The following days have me installing SQFT at Blackfish Gallery. Don’t forget to peak inside the window on 1st Thursday, the Fishbowl II that is. Then I’m off, taking an 18-hour train ride towards the city by the Bay.

Admittedly, I’m a solar wuss. Granted between applying for scads of random administrative odd jobs, posing The Facebook Friend Challenge and otherness - I’ve been hard at work on both The Grid (for Milepost 5 in August) and SQFT (starting a lengthy tour at Blackfish Gallery’s Fishbowl in September), otherwise I’m sorta short, slowly single and sizzling. So.

To pass the hours I’m following shadows, finding area pools and drinking plenty H2O. If you didn’t notice, I also extended my bit on movies w/reporters (below), I’m still ready/willing/able to teach my class at Newspace (as long as I have enough students) and headed outta town for the Fourth to follow part of Maya Lin’s Confluence Project on the way to Long Beach.

CHUGGA: Oh, there’s a new curated cultural newsletter out called A Portland Conversation in Culture, and a new Artist’s Grant available called STOCK. And speaking of the coast - an exchange show between Portland/Astoria-based artists (July: 160 10th St, Astoria; August: 12×16 Gallery, Portland), and a leaner/meaner (good meaning, meaning good) David Eckard is back in town in a few weeks after many moons abroad!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY