Artist: Ben Sanders Exhibition title: Foreign & Domestic Venue: Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland, US Date: August 14 – September 6, 2015 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland Carl & Sloan Contemporary is pleased to present Foreign&Domestic, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles artist Ben Sanders. The aesthetics of mass-produced consumables … Read more
Artist: Isaac Tin Wei Lin Exhibition title: Chromatic Intercession Venue: Adams and Ollman, Portland, US Date: July 16 – August 15, 2015 Photography: images courtesy of the artist and Adams and Ollman, Portland June 3, 2015, Portland, OR: Adams and Ollman is pleased to present a solo exhibition of twodimensional works by Philadelphiabased artist Isaac Tin Wei Lin. The exhibition will be on view from July 16 through August 15, 2015. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Portland, Oregon. Drawing on sources such as Gorky, Gottlieb, and graffiti, Lin makes drawings and paintings that are strongly graphic and formally captivating. Lin’s bold and colorful markmaking with logographic and alphabetic elements is reminiscent of hieroglyphs, as well as musical scores, Chinese characters and calligraphy. It is clear that language and writing figure prominently in the work. But while his lexicon is recognizable, it is enigmatic and incomprehensible as it repeats and creates a visual cacophony—a kind of buzzing of color and pattern—that camouflages and obfuscates the panels, photographs, walls, clothing and found paper on which he paints and draws. On view at Adams and Ollman will be new multipaneled paintings on panel and drawings on paper that appear as if modular as they spread out across the wall. Grouping these panels or framed works on paper together allows for diverse thoughts, interests or vantage points within a singular work. In this sense, Lin’s statements become a conversation. There is a push and pull between the large arrangements and the small, subtle experiences of the textures, colors, and gradients found within. While his paintings place emphasis on color and pattern, Lin’s pen and ink drawings contain odd shapes with strange gaits that read as cartoons, architecture, landscapes, plantlife. Isaac Tin Wei Lin (b. 1976) lives and works in Philadelphia. Lin’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at numerous institutions including: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, … Read more
Artist: Derek Franklin Exhibition title: Gray Minstrel Venue: Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland, US Date: June 18 – August 2, 2015 Photography: images courtesy of the artist and Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland Carl & Sloan Contemporary is pleased to present Gray Minstrel, New York artist Derek Franklin’s first solo exhibition in Portland, Oregon in eight years. Gray Minstrel includes new paintings and sculptures and opens Thursday, June 18, 2015, 6–10pm and will run until August 2. Let us be intimate with our ancestral ghosts Sing the songs that old women used to sing And blow a communal wind that unites a germ traveling to communion There was a partition where our dominance pulled the gems From your ground imbued with witness This partition, identical to the screen created by water Between the crayfish and me, exists all of my love for you Joined only by the yarn, cast to procure desire Like the soft violence of the piper The odd stillness of the bodies wrenched out Excite in ways that feel anointed Like the cinematic I eat from the feed Our arms were given to us to carry the impressions Which swing to imitations For current MINSTRELS That Turkey Trot Abhorrence into our lives without a trace Gumbo … Read more
Artist: Joan Nelson and Joseph Yoakum Venue: Adams and Ollman, Portland, US Date: June 4 – July 11, 2015 Photography: images courtesy of the artists and Adams and Ollman, Portland April 1, 2015, Portland, OR: Adams and Ollman is pleased to announce a twoperson exhibition with Joan Nelson and Joseph Yoakum. Yoakum’s animistic drawings depict places from … Read more