Read the article for more on each, but the shows he liked where:

1. Matt McCormick’s elegiac The Great Northwest at Elizabeth Leach
2. Adam Sorensen Portland Art Museum’s APEX series
3. Brad Carlile’s Tempus Incognitus at the Independent
4. Malia Jensen at Elizabeth Leach
5. Sean Healy at Elizabeth Leach
6. Kris Hargis’ me and you at Froelick Gallery
7. Carrie Iverson’s Correspondence at Bullseye Gallery
8. Collective Object, Christine Clark at Nine Gallery
9. Bullseye’s Crossover group show at Bullseye
10. Contemporary Northwest Art Awards at Portland Art Museum’s

Thanks Richard, I’m glad you enjoyed them!

2011 Portland Visual Art Exchange

This year over 50 artists were selected and contributed work this year. Thanks to all of you for sharing your art with each other.

This year Laura Ross-Paul was the top pick of the contributing artists. Because of this she could select any work that she wanted — she picked  my work “One-o.”  Laura, I hope you enjoy!

Top pick Laura Ross-Paul pick's Brad Carlile's One-o

Due to Laura’s pick, I could pick the work that I wanted, I picked Sally Finch’s work — I love it!

Brad Carlile picks Sally Finch's work - thanks Sally for the great art

Other contributors to this year’s Portland Visual Art exchange:

1. TJ Norris created a catalogue of some selections
2. Chris Rauschenberg created a new-and-improved trading system

Participating artists for the 6th annual show:

• Abi Spring
• Alex Hirsch
• Ann Ploeger
• Arcy Douglass
• Becca Bernstein
• Ben Buswell
• Bill LePore
• Brad Carlile
• Briana Linden
• Bruce West
• Cara Tomlinson
• Cary Doucette
• Chris Bennett
• Chris Haberman
• Christopher Rauschenberg
• Cynthia Mosser
• Darrell Williamson
• Dorothy Goode
• Elise Mravunac
• Farouk Hassan
• Felicity Fenton
• Gabriel Liston
• Jim Lommasson
• Jim Neidhardt
• Karen Esler
• Kim Hamblin
• Kimberly Kent
• Laura Ross-Paul
• Linda Womack
• Lisa Kaser
• Liz Obert
• Matthew Cosby
• Matthew Haggett
• Michael T. Hensley
• Mike Suri
• Nan Curtis
• Nika Blasser
• Noah Nakell
• Pat Boas
• Quin Sweetman
• Rebecca Shelly
• Richard Schemmerer
• Sally Finch
• Sara Hertel
• Shanon Playford
• Shawn Demarest
• Shu-ju Wang
• Tamara English
• Tatiana Defiguerdo
• TJ Norris
• Vicki Wilson
• Victor Maldonado
• Wilder Schmaltz

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 year’s show is being held at the Littman Gallery at PSU, Smith Center.

All of the congrats and thanks for putting this show together go to fellow artists Becca Bernstein, Tamara English and Sally Finch for organizing this year’s special event.

Details:

“Gifted” Show at the Littman Gallery PSU
Opening: Thursday, October 14th from 5-7pm (catered reception open to the public)
Show:    October 7th – 27th, weekdays 12-4
Address: Littman Gallery
Portland State University, Smith Center Building
1825 SW Broadway #250, 2nd Floor
Portland OR 97207
503 . 725 . 5656
littmanandwhite@gmail.com

This establishment is Billy Dee Approved

When talking about my new work “Tempus Incognitus,” John described it as “Technicolor Noir.”  I love that description and asked him if I could use it when talking about my work.  He graciously agreed.

John is currently curating a show about the South. If you are in the Atlanta area you should see this show. http://slowexposures.blogspot.com/2010/05/southern-memory-part-i-inside-and-out.html.

John is busy working on the 2nd edition of the Hearst Biennial.  He also teaches a course in collecting at the New School in New York City.