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

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

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.

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.

In 2009 I was one of the eight winners of that Biennial — The premiere biennial garnered more than 1,000 entries from 47 countries. I can tell you it is a high-profile well-run competition that has helped my career in fine art photography.  It was great to have my work on display at the Hearst Tower (West 57th st) in NYC.

Details at: www.hearst8x10.com.  The 2011 contest is open to all U.S. and international freelance, amateur and professional photographers and students, aged 18 to 35 years of age.

An international competition saluting the next generation of talent, which will play an important role in the future of magazines, media, the web, design and photography. Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial is a competition to identify and promote new and emerging talent among photographers in the United States and abroad.

Selected works will be showcased in an exhibition under the title, “8×10″ in the Alexey Brodovitch Gallery and the Hearst Gallery at Hearst Tower in New York City. Winners will be published in the accompanying “8×10″ catalog and on www.hearst.com and www.hearst8x10.com.

There is no entry fee for the competition.

Hearst Corporation’s history of working with photography’s pioneers and rule breakers continues with the 2nd Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial – an international competition saluting the next generation of talent, which will play an important role in the future of magazines, media, the web, design and photography.

Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2010.

Details for submission at: http://www.hearst8x10.com/contest.php

The ten judges for 2011 are:

* Lillian Bassman, photographer
* Bonni Benrubi, owner, Bonni Benrubi Gallery
* Michael Clinton, EVP/CMO & publishing director, Hearst Magazines
* Stephen Gan, creative director, Harper’s Bazaar, co-founder of Visionaire, and editor-in-chief of V Magazine
* Oberto Gili, photographer
* Jean-Paul Goude, graphic designer, illustrator and photographer
* Howard Greenberg, owner, Howard Greenberg Gallery
* Willis “Buzz” Hartshorn, director, International Center of Photography
* Simen Johan, photographer
* Mary Shanahan, creative director, Town&Country magazine

SQFT Egyptian Theater, Boise, ID (Brad Carlile image: 2nd row, 4th col)

SQFT is a window-based, traveling exhibition curated by TJ Norris 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.

November 14-December 30, 2009
SQFT
60 Established + Emerging Pacific NW Artists
curated by TJ Norris
Egyptian Theater, Boise, ID
(portable/traveling exhibition)

For more information see:
http://www.bradcarlile.com/blog/my-art-update/sqft-show/

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!

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.

The window will simply include the title of the show and names. The information about the pieces will be on the window ledge inside the window, just in case you go by on 1st Thursday or during the month of September!

SQFT Show

I have a work in that show “the race for kicks”

Brad Carlile - the race for kicks - SQFT

:: PRESS RELEASE ::

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. All works will be presented unframed, hung with simple bank pins in a grid pattern. The work will travel to several cities, big and small for two years and will be housed in a custom-made crate which will also be placed at each presentation site.  Other locations TBA (Seattle, Vancouver/Victoria BC, Boise, Butte, Spokane, Eugene…). Curator TJ Norris is currently working under an agreement with Gallery Homeland to be the non-profit umbrella organization helping get the show on the road. Norris will also work with regional curators as curatorial site scouts in their regions to locate best sites for the show.

This is an invitational, open to whatever the artists I welcomed decide to do within their own ‘square foot’. Of course, as would be expected, the results have been quite far-reaching. Some stunning works of art, some conceptually sly, some responding to the beckoning call of making reference to the reflectory/in-situ nature of its presentation (Ann Ploeger, Smith Elliott), others completely going into their own lofty post-Dadaist perspectives (Marc Dombrosky). Some pieces are quite intricate (Laura Vandenburgh), some are a melange, mixing the past and perhaps a touch of what’s to come (Jesse Hayward). It’s been a fun show to do, and overlapped nicely within my un/conscious of the whole grid thing. I love to think, curatorially, in sets, patterns, almost like a good game of chess. Making pairs, changing out where something lands, rearranging and keeping with the whole concept that all patterns are interchangeable, how to distort the flat plane with very diverse work in all media.

Other Sites: TBA

SQFT - Blackfish

SQFT - Fishbowl 2 Blackfish Gallery - photo courtesy TJ Norris

You can clearly see some of my work at starting at 2:32 and also at 3:30…

The images in the show are from my Tempus Incognitus show. Which you can see on my website at:
http://www.bradcarlile.com/portfolio/jose.html

I also loved that fact that they used a favorite song of mine “Tonto” by Battles as the background music. I had nothing to do with this choice, but great minds must think alike . I blogged about battles back in Nov 2007. http://www.bradcarlile.com/blog/music/battles-coming-to-portland-2-nov/

ROOTED
Opening reception: Thursday, June 25th : 6 - 8 pm
Show: JUNE 25 – JULY 25 2009
TUE – FRI 2.30 – 6.30 pm, SAT 10 -12 am / 2 – 5 pm
The gallery is located at 21, rue du St-Esprit – 1475 Luxembourg.
(see map)

The WINNERS (Galerie Clairefontaine):

Brad Carlile USA – Adam Martinakis Greece – Nebojsa Despotovic Serbia – Myriam Ziade Luxembourg – Franca Giovanrosa Italy