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.

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

Everyman running Fuerza Bruta

What is it exactly, well… you’re inside of a wordless show filled with the dance sounds of a club, performances and visual feats happen all around, and you want to move and groove. You should see this show.

Suspended pool dance Fuerza Bruta

Fuerza Bruta is an extravaganza with many interesting moving pieces. Be prepared to move around around this standing-room only presentation thumping with a techno beat — it has a suspended pool hovers inches above the crowed, a moving 6-foot-high treadmill and a 20-foot curtain that brushes your fingertips.

Pool party comes to you at Fuerza Bruta

Fuerza Bruta means “brute force” and the show originated in Argentina. Dress casual and check your bags, You might get misted, and confetti’ed but this is all to help you get involved. Dance admit, it’s all in good fun. Works for those in wheelchairs by the way.

The Daryl Roth Theatre is a 19th-century former bank on Union Square East (101 East 15 Street Union Square). The show runs Wed-Sun with two shows on Saturday. It is about a 1 hour show. Insiders tip: 2 hours before the showtime there are a limited number of $25 tickets sold at the box office.

http://fuerzabrutanyc.com/tickets.html

My impression of Nisennenmondai burning brightly

Nisennenmondai is Tokyo-based Japanese noise-pop that really hit stride in their set on the third song. Sayaka Himeno (drums), Yuri Zaikawa (bass) and Masako Takada (guitar) really created an interesting and complex fare. This trio tossed around this large crow. I got a kick out of how they politely and diminutively they thanked us — very nice girls. I look forward to them next time starting with the third song and then taking it further to kick my butt again.

Battles at Webster Hall New York

I’ve been a fan of Battles for a while. Honestly I didn’t know how it would all change with the departure of Tyondai Braxton, but Dave Konopka, Ian Williams, and drummer John Stanierthis is a Battles to keep.

Battles at Webster Hall New York

Dense interesting energy is what they deliver. Battles is now an instrumental trio with guest vocalists. So joining them (in a pixelated fashion) on stage was Gary Numan, Kazu Makino (of Blonde Redhead) and Matais Aguayo.

Battles at Webster Hall New York

I’m really enjoying Battles Gloss Drop (Warp) this past month. It took me a while to pick up the CD (I’m too old school in these regards).

The talk at Aperture coincided with his new book, “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious”(Aperture).  The nearly 400 images are in his private collection and contained masterworks by the well-known as well as images he collects from flea markets.  The one thing that ties them all together is that they all capture heart and stop his feet — they have impact on him personally.

This was special performance piece for Bill which had projections and video which covered his many years of collecting photography — his life in photography. “This is a photography of me,” he joked during many of the portraits in his collection.  The connections to his images are deep and what he collects is a way of exploring his different sides.

For more insights, buy the book, then read this great interview of Bill Hunt on At Length Magazine by Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of the Klomp Ching Gallery.

Bill Hunt vs. Houston - Brad Carlile 2010

Above is an image I took of Bill at FotoFest 2010 in Houston. (not in his collection)

Show:
“The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection,” is being shown at the George Eastman House International Museum (Rochester, New York) through Feb 19. His book can be found in bookstores worldwide.

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