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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Marcel Dzama
“I draw during the day, but my ideas come at night.” —Marcel Dzama Just before PAM closed temporarily, our team installed this large new acquisition by Marcel Dzama and not […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Hank Willis Thomas
Back in November, we closed the national tour of the PAM-organized exhibition, Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal… The works in the exhibition stick with me and I continue […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar’s Encyclopedia Grid (Acropolis) tugs at my wanderlust. During the pandemic, I’ve traveled very little and have not been very far from Portland. Here, Cwynar arranges what appear to […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Light
“One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Lynda Benglis
“When you visit the second-floor of the modern and contemporary galleries, you’ll find a group of works by women artists: Judy Chicago’s Pasadena Lifesaver Blue, Judy Pfaff’s Untitled, Dorothea Rockburne’s […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Robert Pruitt
“I look forward to sharing Robert Pruitt’s drawing ‘Meteorite’ with our audiences this fall in an installation of contemporary artworks that are new to the collection. This multimedia piece pairs […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Marlon Mullen
“Marlon Mullen begins his paintings with covers and pages cut from lifestyle magazines and contemporary art periodicals. As he develops a work, he transforms the images into a painted matrix […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Lynn Aldrich
“Brightly colored sponges, rubber gloves, scouring pads and scrubbing brushes pile together in the lively sculpture ‘Biophilia.’ Artist Lynn Aldrich describes this work as a “miniature explosion” created to reflect […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: American flag
“Monuments are on my mind. As we are seeing statues of racist historical figures being toppled in cities across the country, my thoughts jump over to the American flag. A […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Vaginal Davis
“Vaginal Davis describes herself as a ‘doyenne of intersexed outsider art,’ working across, around, and between artistic disciplines: she is a performance artist, painter, curator, composer, writer, and musician. She […]
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DiscoverLearnCurators in Conversation: Triple Candie on the exhibition Being Present
The Portland Art Museum is an extensive resource of the art history of the Northwest. Our Crumpacker Library houses several archives, and one of the most sought-after is that of […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Chaïm Soutine
“Let slide the weary art-historical narratives that lock Soutine into categories of style and sequences of influence. Only look.” —Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for “The New Yorker” “I adore this […]