Author: Roger Wightman

While this month may not exactly be the one in which we celebrate those that gave us life, the new exhibit showing this month at Marylhurst University gives us reason to pause and reflect on mothers, fathers and the cycle of life.

Only in the most obscure way are the main exhibits now on display at Blue Sky Gallery related to each other. Their paths cross in areas dealing with transience, the Southwest and the way we view landscapes and the people in it.Only in the most obscure way are the main exhibits now on display at Blue Sky Gallery related to each other. Their paths cross in areas dealing with transience, the Southwest and the way we view landscapes and the people in it.

Everyone knows that journalists have it hard these days. With less people willing to pay for news, the alternative sources have slowly taken over the industry. These modern methods of transmitting information to the masses have affected not just the written word, but also the images that invoke the urgency and significance behind a story.

The exhibition room at Reed College’s Cooley Art Gallery feels a little bit strange these days, much like walking into an abattoir or the back room of an adult video store. Moans and groans echo throughout the room while flickering light pulsates shadows of your figure across the walls.

Drawing the Slightly Uneasy is a showcase of emerging Portland and New York artists who have found that they are drifting creatively toward a more fantasy-prone sense of inspiration.

The future has been the topic of the decade. Movies foresee it, legislators try to mold it and arts provide the commentary. With so much happening on the political and cultural landscape it seems fair to ask: What does our future look like?

Most of the stories told today about the Holocaust are the same ones that secondary school teachers have used for decades—stories like the amazing account of survival from Elie Wiesel and the heartbreaking journal of Anne Frank.

Toshiko Okanoue knew that the events of her childhood would one day influence what she would become.

All that glitters… is a new exhibit going up today at Chambers@916 gallery from local artist Blakely Dadson. The only way to describe Dadson’s work is awesome. Sure, his stuff may not be as blatantly brilliant as those other brainy types but it is at the very least fun and energetic.

This week, the Art Department will be hosting the opening of two shows that will grace the walls of university exhibits for the next month. Portland State sophomore Chloé Womack will be exhibiting her work for the first time in the MK Gallery and San Francisco artist Lucas Murgida will be showing work in the Autzen Gallery.

For some people, art comes naturally. They have the ability to pick up a brush or pen and just start to create something amazing. The image of a landscape remains as vivid in their memories as if they were still there watching the tides roll in and out.