'Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else' Opens Tonight at Rayko!

Kent Rogowski - 'Contents'

Photolucida's Critical Mass 2011 TOP 50 traveling exhibition opens tonight at Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco. This is the third leg of the west coast tour of the exhibition, preceded by time spent at Photo Center NW in Seattle and Newspace in Portland. Our huge thanks to these three great photography centers - working with them has furthered the mission of all four photography organizations (including Photolucida) to bring top emerging talent to the public.

If we know Ann Jastrab (and we do!), the opening tonight at Rayko is sure to be a well-attended, lively event! Many thanks to Darius Himes, also a resident of San Francisco, for his curatorial contribution to the exhibit - we think it is brilliant - please click here to read his juror statement. We are thankful he found time for this project in addition to assistant directing at Fraenkel Gallery and thinking about racoons. Darius and many of the artists will be attending the opening this evening!

If you are in San Francisco, go, go, go! Reception begins at 6!

Here at Photolucida, we are gearing up for Critical Mass 2012, which opens next month. Stay tuned for more information on that!

Good-bye Portland Photo Month and Last Screening of THEN.NOW.HERE. project!

projected photo by Thomas Homolya, image by Shawn Records

We bid adieu to the second annual Portland Photo Month - thanks to all organizations and individuals who were part of it!  Photolucida had so much fun with the THEN.NOW.HERE. project - the last screening was on Sunday night on the Beam and Anchor building with the audience standing in the meadow, brightly lit night interstate highways in the background. (above). 

Thanks to our sponsors who helped make this happen, and to Ray Meeks for his curatorial skills, and to Photolucida's Shawn Records, who masterminded the whole project! We hope to continue the tradition annually, next version during Photolucida's Reviews event in April 2013.

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Thinking about the SUN with Chris McCaw!

 

A  delightful day with brilliant artist and fun guy Chris McCaw on Sunday - he brought the sun with him for his demonstration, and unfortunately for us, the sun disappeared when he left Portland. Some photos from his event at the Portland Art Museum and later at Newspace:

Julia Dolan and Chris outside Portland Art Museum

Camera in forefront taking long exposure

Opening in large camera to view interior

Demonstration prints developing at Newspace

Chris Rauschenberg, Chris McCaw, Julia Dolan at Newspace

Portland Photo Month - WEEK 4

 

Last week of Portland Photo Month and still going strong! A great day with visiting artist Chris McCaw yesterday - blog post coming soon.  Some highlights this week:

On Wednesday, April 27 at 8pm:  

Jen Mitsuko: I vaguely recall the roar of an uncontrolled wheel

THEN. NOW. HERE. screening will be in the Pearl District, at NW Park & Glisan on the building wall adjacent to RACC (building that also houses Photolucida office). Check here for details.

You can also check out the TNH slideshow in the window at Blue Sky gallery. Also a reminder to take a gander at the New Work in Blue Sky's NW Drawers that was curated for Portland Photo Month - a great representation of the great talent we have here in the Northwest. Just ask the friendly person at the Blue Sky desk to help you! Juror statements and slideshow here.



On Thursday, April 26 at 6pm:  

Jefferson Hayman: Girl

FACES, FIGURES, BONES - opening for an exhibition of nude, portrait & still life photographs by Brandon Fernandez (wet plate collodion on aluminum) & Jefferson Hayman (silver prints, gorgeous hand-made frames).

Opening from 6-10pm.

At Ampersand, more information here!









On Thursday, April 26 at 8pm:

PHOTO PICNIC! 

Mary Ellen Mark has kindly given us a copy of her just-out film Prom (co-produced with her husband/filmmaker Martin Bell) for a special Portland screening, and we will have a copy of her newly released book with the same title on hand.

The project has been getting a lot of press this month, including here in the NY Times:

Images from book, clip from film

Interview on shooting with the 20x24 camera

Screening event will be held at the studio of Joni Kabana in the Towne Storage building. Bring your beverage of choice, eats, and memories of your own prom. More info here!

Portland Photo Month - Week Three!

First, Portland Photo Month has gotten some nice press from:

The Oregonian
Portland Mercury

Thanks, John Motley and Jenna Lechner!


Second, projections of the THEN.NOW.HERE. project continue in new, exciting and yummy locations around town:

Friday, April 20th: "The Meadow" at Beam & Anchor, 2710 N. Interstate Ave.  - cancelled due to inclement weather! Check the THEN.NOW.HERE. website for updates on screenings!

Saturday, April 21st, "Cartopia" SE 12th and Hawthorne (grab a crepe, a shrimp Po' Boy, or some poutine*)

Not in Portland? You can still see the images here on the Tumblr site.
Open the site, let the images load while you are getting yourself some coffee, and check them out! (We love where we live).


Downtown? Stop by the Heathman Hotel for a cocktail and a visit to the mezzanine to see Elizabeth Leach Gallery's group show Places and Portraits. Includes work by Malia Jensen, Justine Kurland, Coco Kuhn, Isaac Layman, Dihn Q. Le, Robert Lyons, Melody Owen, and Christopher Rauschenberg.

At the 12 x 16 Gallery in Sellwood - Jeffrey Baker's Remnants exhibit is comprised of 40 gel medium photographic transfers that drift from the baseboards of the gallery floor to within inches of the ceiling. Imagery includes teetering roller coasters, tarnished effigies of antiquity, and eulogies for loved ones now gone.



Wednesday, April 18, noon:

As part of the Brown Bag lunch series, Curator of Photography Julia Dolan speaks on: Industrial Fireworks: Lewis Hine’s Empire State Building Photographs in the Popular Press, 1930-1931. At the Portland Art Museum. Whitsell Auditorium, free and open to the public.

Saturday, April 21 at 7:30pm at always-interesting Ampersand:

Artist talk and book signing by San Francisco-based Nick Haymes. The subject of Nick's book, GABEtm, Gabe Nevins will also be present. Get there early, will most likely be a well-attended event, more information here!Saturday, April 21 at The Northwest Center for Photography, 1-6pm:Open portfolio reviews with Ken Hawkins, George Olson and Patty Reksten. Bring your portfolio and get a 15-minute review from each gallery curating committee member. Sharon Lavier OKeefe will moderate. Free, and on a first-come-first-served basis.

Sunday, April 22 (Earth Day!) noon- 6pm

Chris McCaw will be driving up from San Francisco with one of his uber-big handmade cameras (see photo above!) and will demonstrate his unique technique at location listed below*. At 2PM, Chris will speak at the Portland Art Museum. At 4:30, he will process the photograph he created at Newspace Center for Photography, and a reception follows. This will be so cool, I can't think of what else to say other than this will be so cool. 

* Weather permitting, the photography demonstration will take place approximately between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. along the SW Park Avenue side of the Museum courtyard.

* What is "poutine" anyway? Don't worry, I had to look it up, too!

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HEY, MAN!

GET IN THE VAN!




Ever want to get in a van with your camera and not know where you were headed? You can! Join professional street shooters/photojournalists Joni Kabana and Leah Nash for this workshop-on-wheels here in Portland.

Leah and Joni will charm your way into side alleys, "interesting" shops, and one very special up-their-sleeve fantastic venue, all the while helping you master your camera and frame all of those on-the-spot subjects you will meet. You will walk home tired (but "good-tired") - with a fun set of images and an even more thrilling experience.

Friday, April 27 from 2pm-9pm (or until you drop)

SIGN UP NOW! Participants are limited to the van seats.



Note: It is probable that the van used for this event will NOT look like any of the vans depicted here. They are shown only to emphasize that vans are cool and it is fun to ride around in one!

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Portland Photo Month - Week Two!

Some highlights this week:

Jim Lommasson's show 'What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization' ends on Saturday April 14th. It is currently up at the Washington County Museum - Print Arts Northwest. The series is a documentation of items (photos, books, jewelry, flags) that people fleeing Iraq brought with them juxtaposed with the handwritten notations of the people, resulting in a both elegant and dark compilation of personal accounts. If you can't make it in person (but you should!), more information is here.


On Thursday, April 12, the Oregon Historical Society is opening an exhibit of photography shot by Marian Wood Kolisch, a renowned Oregon portrait photographer who worked with Ansel Adams. For 30 years, she photographed many of Oregon's notable citizens in their own environments, including director Gus Van Sant (at right). More information here!

On Saturday, April 14th, 6-9pm, LightBox Photographic Gallery is having a reception for artists included in the 'PDX Photo Month Exhibit', which was organized in appreciation of the great talent in Portland's photographic community. If you can't make it to the reception, take a field trip to Astoria at some point this month to see the show - a great representation of Portland's finest in one room. If you can't make the field trip (but you should!), images can be seen here.

Other exhibits to check out: Frank Lavelle (images of the Holy Week processions in Sicily) at Camerawork Gallery, Beth Kerschen & Jerri Bartholomew (each respectively using 'solar plate intaglio' and 'photographic/mixed media collage') at Guardino Gallery, and Portland photographer Tatiana Wills (beautiful color images of American icons and artists) at pushdot studio.

As always, check the Portland Photo Month website for details and additional happenings!

Image of Gus Van Sant by Marian Wood Kolisch

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