Definitely walk by and spend some time with Jordan Tull’s art in the PDX Window Gallery…

Jordan Tull in the PDX Window Gallery

Ethan Rose Reflection at PDX Contemporary Art(925 NW Flanders, Portland OR)

Ethan Rose Reflection PDX Contemporary

Detail of speakers on opposite wall at PDX contemporary…

Ethan Rose Reflection PDX Contemporary - speaker detail opposite wall

I really enjoyed the work of Yoshihiro Kitai “Inscribe 01″ at Pulliam Gallery (929 NW Flanders, Portland, OR 97209)

Yoshihiro Kitai Inscribe 01 Pulliam Gallery

… you need to get close… yeah that’s what we like…

Yoshihiro Kitai Inscribe 01 Pulliam Gallery - detail image

Yoonhee Choi’s work at Blackfish Gallery (420 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR)

Yoonhee Choi Blackfish Gallery

definitely spend time with Scott Wolniak’s “Flash Art” at Chambers Gallery @ 916(916 Flanders, Portland OR)

Scott Wolniak Flash Art Chambers 916

Sally Finch at Froelick Gallery (714 NW Davis, Portland OR). Sally also gets a well-earned nod in “Art in America” Jan 2012 edition with a review of her solo show in 2011 at the Froelick Gallery.  Sally, thanks again for you work on the Visual Art Exchange.

Sally Finch Froelick Gallery

Laura Ross-Paul’ Remote also at Froelick Gallery (714 NW Davis, Portland OR).

Laura Ross-Paul Remote Froelick Gallery

Two good shows at Blue Sky Gallery (122 NW 8th Ave, Portland OR), Robert Frank’s “Painkiller” and Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira “Bliss Street.”

Robert Frank Painkiller Blue Sky Gallery

Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira Bliss Street Blue Sky Gallery

Eva Lake’s collage is on target at the  Augen Gallery (716 NW Davis, Portland OR)

Eva Lake Augen Gallery

Also at Augen Gallery (716 NW Davis, Portland OR), is Trish Grantham’s work.

Trish Grantham Augen Gallery

The only thing I wish this month was that there were a few less group shows. Now that 2012 is rolling, I expect that will change soon.

To invite a narrative: Brad Carlile discusses photographing hotel rooms around the world

The Independent
530 NW 12th, (12th & Hoyt) Portland Oregon
Show: July 7- August 14 (Just Extended!)
Fri-Sun 12-6PM & by appointment

Recommended.

The Independent
530 NW 12th, (12th & Hoyt) Portland Oregon
Show: July 7- August 14 (Just Extended!)
Fri-Sun 12-6PM & by appointment

Eva Lake, the gallery owner/curator writes…

The Independent is pleased to present photographs by Brad Carlile as our inaugural exhibition. Carlile was one of the winners of the 2009 Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial, an international competition for emerging photographers. The Hearst Biennial judges Peter Lindbergh, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, & John A. Bennette, III. chose 8 photographers from over 1,000 entries. Works from Carlile’s Tempus Incognitus series will be on view from July 7th through August 7th.

Empty hotel rooms from all over the world form the basis of these works, all shot in multiple exposures over time in slide film, with no post-exposure or digital manipulation. The rooms are electric with acidic color, yet spare and detached by virtue of their transient energy and occupation. The perimeters of shifted space and time are blurred, giving a result both classic and contemporary.

Gallery on Google Maps: (Across from Oba’s — where the “Cultured Pearl” used to be)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=530+NW+12th,+Portland+Oregon&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.360684,87.451172&z=16

The Independent, 530 NW 12th (12th & Hoyt), Portland OR
http://www.bradcarlile.com
(When you go to my website on your iPhone, iPad, etc, you will be asked if you want the mobile-optimized website — simply touch “OK”. On the first page link to map for you mobile device.)

My new work
http://www.bradcarlile.com/newsletter

THANKS!
Brad

My show was reviewed and recommended in the Willamette Week’s Visual Arts section

recommended. Brad Carlile

BRAD CARLILE This month, two local artists wrestle with divergent but equally mythic conceptions of the great American road. In Tempus Incognitus, photographer Brad Carlile’s striking exhibition at Eva Lake’s new popup, the Independent, the artist conjures a psychedelic nightmare of corporate hotels across the country. Carlile takes photos inside hotel rooms using slide film in multiple exposures that last from a scant 1/500 of a second to a languid 96 seconds. He keeps his camera on a tripod and exposes film throughout the day, which yields fantastical effects, superimposing wildly varying lighting conditions onto the same frame. As the hues overlap, they produce acidic lime greens and chartreuses, fuchsias and ruby reds in wholly unnatural combinations as light emanates from lamps and television screens and bounces off mirrors and windows. Except for the occasional rumpled sheet, there is no trace of human life in any of the prints, lending a dissonance between compositional starkness and chromatic oversaturation.

The hotels themselves are neither skanky nor swanky; they are the kind of middlebrow pabulum palaces that corporate drones deposit themselves in night after night. They are not going to win any awards for design or decor, but they are conveniently located near the airport and the convention center. Carlile is able to intuit and convey the vulgar neon desperation underneath the banal veneer of contemporary business travel. Where are you, America, and who are you—the Marriott or the Mustang Ranch? The only difference, Carlile suggests, is in the length of your exposure.
- Richard Speer, Willamette Week, page 43.

Link to online version:
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-17723-brad_carlile_rio_wrenn.html

You can see the scanned print edition here:
http://npaper-wehaa.com/willametteweek/2011/07/20/s1/#2011/07/12/?page=42

Brad Carlile

There is something eerie and otherworldly in Brad Carlile’s immaculate photographs. The prints in Tempus Incognitus show hotel rooms around the world photographed on slide film. Long exposures impart a richly saturated, thoroughly unnatural, and perversely arousing panoply of hues.

You can see the scanned print edition here:

http://npaper-wehaa.com/willametteweek/2011/07/06/#?page=43&z=52

The Independent
530 NW 12th, Portland Oregon
Opening: July 7th, 6-9PM
Show: July 7- August 14 (Just Extended!)
Fri-Sun 12-6PM & by appointment

I look forward to seeing everyone at the First Thursday opening!

Eva Lake, the gallery owner/curator writes…

The Independent is pleased to present photographs by Brad Carlile as our inaugural exhibition. Carlile was one of the winners of the 2009 Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial, an international competition for emerging photographers. The Hearst Biennial judges Peter Lindbergh, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, & John A. Bennette, III. chose 8 photographers from over 1,000 entries. Works from Carlile’s Tempus Incognitus series will be on view from July 7th through August 7th.

Empty hotel rooms from all over the world form the basis of these works, all shot in multiple exposures over time in slide film, with no post-exposure or digital manipulation. The rooms are electric with acidic color, yet spare and detached by virtue of their transient energy and occupation. The perimeters of shifted space and time are blurred, giving a result both classic and contemporary.

Gallery on Google Maps: (Across from Oba’s — where the “Cultured Pearl” used to be)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=530+NW+12th,+Portland+Oregon&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.360684,87.451172&z=16

The Independent, 530 NW 12th, Portland OR
http://www.bradcarlile.com
(When you go to my website on your iPhone, iPad, etc, you will be asked if you want the mobile-optimized website — simply touch “OK”. On the first page link to map for you mobile device.)

My new work
http://www.bradcarlile.com/newsletter

THANKS!
Brad

This past weekend was the opening of my show at the De Santos Gallery in Houston.  Gemma and Luis de Santos hosted a vernissage dinner one night and a public opening the next night. Both were well attended.

During the opening weekend, Douglas Britt of the Houston Chronicle interviewed me about “Tempus Incognitus.”  On June 9th, the Houston Chronicle published the interview in their print edition, “Photographer Brad Carlile sheds new light on hotel rooms.”  the online version can be seen here.

The press release for the show is also online here.

Brad Carlile - Installation at De Santos Gallery

Show details:
When: now Through July 24, 2010
De Santos Gallery
1724 Richmond Ave.
Houston, TX 77098
www.desantosgallery.com
Contact: Gemma de Santos,
info@desantosgallery.com

When asked to describe this new body of work, I often say, “Think Edward Hopper interiors awash in James Turrell colors with David Lynch directing.

“Tempus Incognitus” records the day’s transitional times and shows them existing concurrently. The Cubists painted individual scenes from several different perspectives at once. In this series, I photograph individual rooms at several different times of day from a single perspective during the course of 1-3 days.

In the coming posts I’ll write more about my thoughts on the physical, psychological, and emotional detachment of hotel rooms and other ponderings on this work.

Tom Cramer Lecture at Laura Russo in October 2009

Tom Cramer gave a artist lecture this past Saturday (17-Oct) at Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR) where he discussed his work in his current show. There was a lot of interaction and questions on a wide range of topics. A good-sized crowd heard and inspiring talk about Tom’s work and his influences.

Tom Cramer Lecture

Tom’s new rebellion… is leading a cause to be ultra positive in these times. This is not a blind positivism but a thoughtful positivism.

Tom Rebelling

Another part of this is a deep responsibility for all of us. He talked about his reading of Schopenhauer and the need for each of us to “Think for Yourself”

Tom Cramer & the front row

He is also rebelling against “1-liner” art. In my mind a lot of 1-liner art has jumped the shark. Life is richer than that.

Tom Cramer

Below are some random thoughts from the lecture:

Art is a verb.

Music activates other senses

Tom Cramer's Scent (detail)

Other influences… Heidegger, Blake, Pacific Rim artists, poets, writers, Maurer and many others.

Tom Cramer's Scent

Especially in America he wants more support for non-mediocracy.

…more images from the show in upcoming posts.  I’m behind on posting images from October’s First Thursday’s shows, I’ll try to catch up before long…

PDX Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders, Portland OR) is showing Nell Warren’s new work.

Nell Warren Whale Song PDX Contemporary

Nell Warren - Brink - PDX Contemporary

Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR) is showing Portland Artist MK Guth who’s work was seen at the last Whitney Biennial. Here is a peak in the door, but you must go in!

MK Guth - Elizabeth Leach

SQFT is show Curated by TJ Norris you can see outside Blackfish Gallery (420 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR) in the Fishbowl II – Window. It will be showing August 31 – September 26, 2009.

SQFT is a window-based, traveling exhibition of 2D works by 50 of the most innovative, emerging and established artists in the Northwest. It is intended as a showcase of where we are right now, and many works respond directly to the in-situ nature of being either on public display or behind glass.

Read more about it at my previous blog posting.

Brad Carlile - the race for kicks - SQFT

Inside the Blackfish Gallery (420 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR) I liked Carol Benson’s painting in the back.

Carol Benson - The Internet is the Devil - Blackfish Gallery

Froelick Gallery (714 NW Davis, Portland OR)

Rick Bartow - Arms Crossed Pow Wow - Froelick Gallery

Nine Gallery which is inside Blue Sky Gallery (122 NW 8th Ave, Portland OR) has an installation by Jiseon Lee Isbara called Accumulated.

Jiseon Lee Isbara - Accumulated - Nine Gallery

Jiseon Lee Isbara - Accumulated - Nine Gallery

Augen Gallery (716 NW Davis, Portland OR) was showing Andrew Young’s work.

Andrew Young - Untitled c 188 - Augen Gallery

Here was Port’s posting on first thursday recommendations for September.

Walking around Everett galleries we ran into Tom Cramer,w ho has a show at Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR) next month, check it out!