First Thursday at AI of Portland
The Art Institute of Portland put on a great show for their in house gallery this month, curated by Nemo’s own Todd Templeman. On display was the the art of painter and tattoo artist Jacob Redmond, graphic / collage artist Nubby Twiglet, funiture artist Dave Seoane, painter and exhibitionist Dustin Flath a.k.a. “Nudist” and photographer Carlin Sundell. Make sure to stop in if you find yourself in the NW neighborhood of Portland to take a look. Click ahead to view more. (more…)
NEMO FIRST FRIDAY ART SHOW “THANKSGIVING”
Thanksgiving
A GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT AND SILENT AUCTION
Thanksgiving is a group photography exhibit/silent auction. The exhibit is a free form salon style show. The photographers’ only direction was to photograph something or someone they are grateful for. Nemo is excited to welcome some incredible photographers who are donating their work in an effort to raise money for the Oregon Food Bank
Please join us for the silent auction, opening night, Friday, November 7th from 6-10pm. Every piece will be auctioned off at affordable prices, allowing people to own a piece of art and raise funds for a great cause at the same time.
Go check out “Wild Beauty” at the Portland Art Museum
Boring poster I know, but if your in the PDX area you should go check out “Wild Beauty” at the Portland Art Museum. Its put together by the Northwest Photography Archive. It’s a collection of photos from various photographers such as Carleton Watkins, Lily White and Sarah Ladd. Its a look in to Oregon’s past and growth during the post industrial revolution era, pristine scenery captured on film at a time when people were just beginning to harness the Columbia for economic growth through trade/fishing, power etc… A definite must see.
Let Them Eat Crack! Banksy round 2
My friend Mikey H. in NYC just Ichatted me saying he just saw the Banksy show mentioned below (Which he said was rad.). He asked me if I have seen photos for the giant rat pieces Banksy did in Soho, they’re all legal too since they are commissioned pieces. Simply put, amazing stuff. Click on for more!
Photo cred: Mikey’s friends Iphone! (more…)
Banksy new work
When I was in NY last, I picked up a book for TG on Banksy’s art. His street art is really amazing, but this newest venture may take the cake. It’s so bizarre!!! The “Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill” is a tiny storefront that opened without notice or fanfare in NY. It has drawn confused crowed to its “animals” displays such as chicken mcnuggets, drinking from a communal bbq sauce, hot dogs under heat lamps in aquariums, and a leopard in a tree. Read more about it at the Wooster Collective or check out the photos and video below…
Older than My Little Pony…
Both My Little Pony and I celebrated our birthdays this past weekend. She hasn’t aged a bit, just more stylish (wish I could say that about myself)!
In honor of her 25th birthday, the Chelsea Art Museum held The My Little Pony Project:25 Ponies for 25 Years.
My favorite of the show was a Pony designed by Catalina Estrada , who is a Columbian artist out of Spain.
Spraygraphic.com ARTWALK Photo Assignment
Spraygraphic.com, the community for creative minds has a photo assignment for all of you! Venture out to your local art walk,1st Thursday, Last Friday, whatever it is, and document it along the way. Capture the art, the people, the galleries and atmosphere of your local art scene. Submit your best images to info@spraygraphic.com will post them on their blog at Sprayblog.net
An Art Retrospective by Nubby Twiglet @ StudioNemo
Nubby Twiglet Art Show @ Nemo Design from Austin Will on Vimeo.
On 10/3 StudioNemo was proud to host the fantastic work of Nemo Employee, Nubby Twiglet, AKA Shauna Haider. Nubby’s pop style art consists of stripes, shoes, and letterforms collaged on wood and ceramic, sealed in epoxy resin. The 30 pieces on display are compiled from three series and span over three years. We are ecstatic to have her work on our walls. Come in and check out Nubby’s art all month!!
Great First Thursday Show
Upper Playground is hosting Travis Millard and Mel Kadel for First Thursday this month. They’re work is incredible. This town is really stepping it up in terms of art! Check it out at 23 NW 5th Ave. tonight. Check out more about them on Fecal Face.
Untitled by Travis Millard
Foot Bath by Mel Kadel
StudioNemo visits the Innovative+Functional Furniture Show 2008 at PSU
Inovative+Functional Furniture Show 2008 from alex mertz on Vimeo.
A few of us here at StudioNemo took a trip this evening to PSU campus in Portland,OR to check out the Innovative+Functional Funiture Show 2008. Our good friend Dave Seoane was on hand exhibiting his work (killer table Dave.) among 40 other artists. AND HE WON 1ST PLACE!!! There were some very beautiful pieces, some odd, some just weird, but held their own, in their funky little ways. Be sure to check out the show all month long at the Shattuck Bldg. (3rd floor) on the PSU campus. Thanks to all the artists involved! Great work!
Goldmine Shithouse in SF
A good friend of Nemo’s, Mr. Jonny Fenix, is a part time collaborator in the art collective Goldmine Shithouse. They get together once in a while and spend a week or two in a debaucherous art-making mode, then have an exhibit. Their latest exhibit, Russian Reduction, happened last week in SF and it sounds like it went very well. Enjoy the pictures and watch the making of Carny Hands.
Lucky you…
So, here’s a little secret (maybe not too much of a secret)… I’m a big nerd. I am into psychoanalytic theory, in particular, trauma and affect theory. I have to say it comes in very handy as a lens with which to view the art and photography I write about on this site. And, if you’re a nerd like me and you’re in the UK right now, you are in luck! You have just a few short days to get to the Camden Arts Centre to view the infamous Chantal Ackerman’s latest installations. She is showing To Walk Next to one’s shoelaces in an Empty Fridge (2004), that she created based on her grandmother’s diaries of the holocaust. What interests me most about this work is her ability to simultaneously present the cathartic telling and witnessing of that traumatic experience in the same frame. She does this by splitting the frame and in one she and her mother read the diary at the kitchen table, while in the other, a reenactment of what they are reading occurs. Visually it represents the fracture that occurs in the psyche after a traumatic experience and on a deeper level, how it effects the generations to come.
The Preservation of Fleeting moments by Adrienne DeBoer @ StudioNemo
Adrienne DeBoer Photo Show at StudioNemo from alex mertz on Vimeo.
On 9/5 StudioNemo was proud to present Adreinne DeBoers “The Preservation of Fleeting Moments”. Adrienne explains that she is compelled to create a memory that will be transformed into the tangible before it is too late. Were excited to have her work on our walls, come in to check it out this month.
Photographer Paul Schiek
Paul has a show at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in California from September 4th - October 18th titled the thing about you is you will end up like me. Check it out if you can! I wish i could.
I’ve been a fan of his work for the last few years, falling in love when i first saw into his Polaroid panoramics. Whether you’re a long time ogler of his work or are just learning of it now you will be stoked to know that These Birds Walk has just published a book of his work. This book is one of a series of affordable art books that include works from 3 more of my favorite photographers! Ari Marcopoulos, Mike Brodie, and Jim Goldberg. Ari and Jim’s books are yet to come but Mike Brodie’s (aka the Polaroid Kid’s) book was amazing. I cant wait to see what Jim and Ari have in store for us!
First Friday Gallery Show
Friday 09/05/08
6-10PM
1875 SE Belmont Ave.
Please join us for First Friday at Nemo. We are excited to present the work of photographer Adrienne DeBoer. DeBoer explores memories through the topography of her childhood. Her work gives the viewer glimpses into issues of emotion, forgetting, tradition and collective realities. While a dark humor runs through the dreamy landscape, the more tangible reality of disconnection between childhood and adulthood; and the consciousness of city dweller vs. rural inhabitant are present throughout the work.
Lee Miller Exhibit at MOMA
The SFMOMA is showing a retrospective of photograper Lee Miller’s work. She was the muse of Man Ray and an amazing surrealist photographer/photojournalist:
One of the most unconventional female artists of the 20th century, Lee Miller was admired for her classical beauty, intelligence, and photographic talent. This retrospective spans her career as a photographer and explores her transformation from muse and model to groundbreaking artist in her own right. Born in New York in 1907, Miller modeled for Vogue before meeting Man Ray in Paris in 1929. Inspired by his work, Miller began creating her own striking surrealist photographs. Later, she became a war photographer for British Vogue and was the only woman in combat photojournalism in Europe during World War II. After the war, she continued a nimble photographic practice, with later work including high-comedy portraits of art-world friends such as Max Ernst, Alfred H. Barr Jr., and Saul Steinberg. - SFMOMA
Check out the interactive exhibit here
Bande á part - NY Underground 60’s-80’s @ Augen Gallery PDX,OR
Nemo went for a visit to the Augen Gallery in NW Portland. Featuring photographs from Danny Fields, Godlis, Anton Perich, Bobby Grossman, Roberta Bayley along with many others, and they even have some Andy Warhol prints on the wall too, phenomenal show!
Go Boom by Plain T
When i hear the word boombox, i immediately think of the scene in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing where Radio Raheem’s ghetto blaster runs out of batteries, and he has to go to the corner store to buy “20 D batteries”. Canadian photographer Lyle Owerko is so moved by this electronic icon he decided to make it the subject of a portrait-like study of the influence of the boombox. His visual time line of the boombox captures the transformation of a stereo into what Lyle describes as a form of portable entertainment and expression.
Stapled and Torn Poster Show on Vimeo
First Friday Poster Show at Nemo Design/Studio Nemo featuring the Northwest’s best poster artists.
More from The Post Family…Save Polaroid
Artist Rod Hunting of The Post Family art group, was asked by Save Polaroid to auction of some of his “Polareds” for the cause.
Portland Bike Culture - Cycle Seen 08
We may be a bit late on blogging about this (since most of the art has come down already), but it was such a cool idea it’s deserves some credit. I am all for artists being more involved in our metropolitan day to day life. Did anyone see the art around town?
Bridging communities of cyclists, photographers and artists
We are proud to announce a new event in Portland’s prominent bike culture. Cycle Seen is an exhibition of photographs, artwork and documentation representing the bicycle culture in Metro Portland. This project is a celebration of the bike community through pictures. Portland has an astonishingly diverse and unique community of cyclists ranging from daily commuters to bike performance groups. There are various sub-cultures that make up the dynamic mix of PDX cyclists.
The exhibition includes a combination of materials from invited photographers/artists and images selected from a call for submissions. Photographs and illustrations that represent a snapshot of cycling in PDX over the last two years will be displayed through out the city at various locations during the month of June. The locations will allow an intertwining of communities, artists and cyclists. A bike map/route and location guide is available to at the various locations and by download (pdf).
A night of Furry Kama Sutra
Nemo Design hosted Furry Kama Sutra, a photo show by Michael Cogliantry. Here are some images from the event in all its sexy costumed glory!
Andy Batt- March 4th band
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Incredible Art Show - Eric White
QUALITY PICTURES in Portland, Oregon presents
ERIC WHITE New Paintings - Opening Reception
Thursday, April 3rd, 6-9 pm
On display through May 31st.
QUALITY PICTURES916 NW Hoyt Portland, OR 97209
503.227.5060
http://www.qpca.com/exhibitions/2008_2b
