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Repository 185: Michelle Grabner on Boredom and Inclusiveness | Disjecta Biennial 2016
This past Summer Disjecta, a small non-profit artist space in Portland, Oregon, announced that Michelle Grabner would curate the Portland2016, their version of the area’s biennial. This evening Ms. Grabner had a public talk and QA session at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts as part of PNCA’s 2015-2016 Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series. I’ve written previously about Ms. Grabner’s achievements to date, specifically about the irony of the “anti-curator” returning full circle to…
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Repository 72: Art, Weaving and Words
‘Minamal’ – a typo created when writing notes for Diane Jacob’s recent overview of her work, “Comb Over” in Portland, Oregon. I realize the new word I created is a combination of the word mammal and minimal. This actually describes Diane’s works in this show to a tee – she has taken the most simple elements that define us as mammals, human specifically, hair and language and prepared some quiet yet complex pieces that stir loudly in the mind. These…
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