Vito Acconci Interview at the Nevada Art Museum

It has a been a long couple of weeks since I have updated the site, so I will start at the beginning.  In early October, I was at the Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Art Museum.  The conference was excellent and I met a lot of great people.  During the conference, I had a chance to interview Vito Acconci.  The link to the inter view is here:

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/10/vito_acconci_at.html

 

Eadweard Muybridge and The Matrix

Over the last couple of days, I have been working hard on a review of a show of Eadweard Muybridge’s work for PORT (http://www.portlandart.net/).  The review takes Muybridge’s ideas of space and time and applies them to Cubism, Hockney’s photo collages and the movie The Matrix.

The direct link to the post is:

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/08/edward_muybridg.html

 

 

Art and Architecture: An Interview with Brad Cloepfil on PORT

Maryhill Overlook by Allied Works

A few weeks ago, Jeff Jahn and I had chance to sit down with Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture to discuss the influences that art has had on his work.  The coversation went very and it was very interesting.  The first part of the interview has been posted on PORT (http://www.portlandart.net/)

The direct link to the post is:

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/08/art_and_archite.html

 

Design and Construction of the Japanese Garden

 

Shiro Nakane of Nakane Associates spoke at PNCA last Monday night.  Nakane is one of the premiere landscape architects in the world.  He and his family have renovated or restored most of the famous zen gardens in Kyoto including Ryoan-ji, Kinkaku-ji, and Saiho-ji.  It was an honor of to get an introduction to Japanese gardens by one of the masters of the art.

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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

Robert Beckmann

Test House-First Light

2008

For me, Robert’s work has always been about the transience of experience. His recent body of work is called Test House, and is currenly part of a group show at Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York. Test House is a based on a series of images of a house that dissolves in an atomic blast in a few microseconds as part of Operation Cue that was at the Nevada Test Site in the mid-fifties.

Rather than contemplating mortality sitting beside a gentle stream in the country, why not use a more contemporary metaphor of the shockwave of a nuclear blast? His paintings are a meditation on the impermanent.

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Ed Rusha interview on PORT

The Ed Ruscha interview has finally posted on PORT.  I think that it turned out really well.  The link to the PORT site is:

www.portlandart.net

The direct link to the post is:

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2008/06/i_will_see_wher.html