Reviews & Publications

 You New Bad Things, gallery exhibition by Chase Biado, was reviewed by John Motley in the Oregonian on March 22.  http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2013/03/a_lot_of_good_in_bad_thi...

School of Art & Design Studio MFA students are featured in this article on the Portland State University MFA Studios' Exhibition Exchange with University of Oregon MFA Studio Art students:
http://aaablogs.uoregon.edu/blog/2013/03/01/uo-department-of-art-collabo...

A video drawing by Pat Boas, Assistant Professor of Art, has been published in Issue #16 of Drain Magazine - A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, edited by Avantika Bawa and Greg Minissale.

Lis Charman's Design and Social Change class is featured in the Oregonian, December 3, 2012. Lis partners with Conrad Schumacher of Centennial Learning Center to match disadvantaged high school students with college mentors from PSU's Graphic Design Program. Read about the Friendtorship program here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2012/12/wednesdays_take_on_special_mea.html

Please see this review of Vicki Wilson's installation "Cumulus" at PCC Sylvania:
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2012/10/cumulus_at_nort.html

Experimental Film Fest Portland (EFF Portland) burst onto the scene last May with a week of screenings, performances and exhibitions. Jeff Jahn reviewed Rumblings, a group show of video installations curated by the programmers of EFF Portland at Gallery Homeland that included a giant, quiet new piece by Julie Perini. 
Read about it here. 

Check out Julie Jenson's review in Gertrude Press of Julie Perini's Big Film at Place Gallery earlier this year.

MFA Exhibition & Release & Reception at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel received top billing in the Oregonian!
http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2012/06/first_thursday_summer_art_scen.html

Ralph Pugay, Crystal Schenk and Joey Macca, PSU MFA graduates, were reviewed in "Our Next Art Capital: Portland?" The Wall Street Journal, p. D4, May 3, 2012.

Tia Factor's work was featured in the most recent issue of the Bear Delux magazine, #33 Winter-Spring 2012: The Identity Issue is out and featuring a full page image of Tia's painting, "Fulcrum in the Ozarks," 2011. http://www.orlo.org/orlo.html

Michihiro Kosuge's exhibition at the Laura Russo Gallery, Memory, Recent Paintings, was favorably reviewed in the Oregonian. http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2012/0/review_sculptor_and_painter_mi.html

Holly Andres recently shot photos for a story that was featured in the Sunday, March 18, 2012 New York Times Magazine: Rediscovering the Rockaway Bungalow on the Working-Class Riviera. For a preview of some of the images:  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/03/18/magazine/far-rockaway.html?ref=magazine

PSU's GRAPHIC DESIGN PROGRAM was featured in How Magazine as a top-notch design school.  Lis Charman and Kate Bingaman-Burt are both quoted in the article.  http://www.howdesign.com 

SUE TAYLOR published a critical review of a new biography , Grant Wood, A Life, by R. Tripp Evans, in ArtUs, September 2011.

CHARLES COLBERT: Published a book, Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2011.

KATE BINGAMAN BURT: 1001 Indie Posters, edited by John Foster. Rockport, 2011.  Kate Bingaman Burt was selected to provide posters for this compilation of cutting edge poster design work.

KATE BINGAMAN BURT: Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?  Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.  Three years of Kate Bingaman Burt's ink drawings of sundry items.  This book has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, and Time, to name a few, and is available nationwide. Recently named one of the 13 best design books of 2010 by Fast Company Magazine. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662949/13-of-the-best-design-books-of-2010#

HARRELL FLETCHER: THE SOUND WE MAKE TOGETHER (Melbourne)
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square
Twentieth – Twenty-First Century Australian Art (Gallery 15), Level 3
September 11, 2010 - January 30, 2011
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SUE TAYLOR published "Artistic Fathers and Love Triangles," a review of  Henry Adams' double biography of Jackson Pollock and his mentor Thomas Hart Benton, in ArtUs, September 2010.

HARRELL FLETCHER: THE SOUND WE MAKE TOGETHER
Arts Hub, Arts at Heart
September 21, 2010
By Sama Hugo-Giali
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HARRELL FLETCHER: THE PEOPLE'S ARTIST
by Liza Power, August 28, 2010
"Fletcher's latest project, The Sound We Make Together, promises to bring revelations of a different kind to the National Gallery of Victoria. Opening next month, the exhibition is about us - Melbourne, that is - our people, history, sights, politics, goings-on. To create it, Fletcher and curator Alex Baker have liaised with a diverse range of community groups, with each unveiling their own unique pocket of the city." read more

ERIK GESCHKE IN NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS 
The Pacific Coast Edition, issue #85
Sculpture Faculty member Erik Geschke has drawings featured in the current edition of New American Paintings, The Pacific Coast Edition, issue #85. The 40 artists featured in this juried exhibition-in-print were selected from over 1,000 submissions by Dominic Molon, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. New American can be found at all major bookstores and newsstands.New American Paintings: http://www.newamericanpaintings.com/

PAT BOAS 
Review by Sue Taylor, Art in America
December 31, 2009
Art Gym, Marylhurst Univeristy
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Varinthorn Christopher received an RACC (Regional Arts & Culture) Project Grant for her Good Seed Book, a collaboration with Dave Dahl. Dave is a self described ex-convict and drug addict who turned his life around when he opened the bakery Dave's Killer Bread. The book tells Dave's story, and was designed to be donated to correctional facilities throughout Oregon and the United States. It received positive feedback, is now donated to prisons and libraries, and was featured on the cover of Street Roots, a magazine written and produced by homesles people in Portland: https://streetroots.wordpress.com/tag/varinthorn-christopher/

Tia Factor's work appears in the art book "New American Landscape," published in Spring 2010.

News: Graphic Designers in Portland Thinking Sustainably
By Carrie Sturrock
The Oregonian, November 19, 2010

Shine a Light" lights up the Portland Art Museum for a night - D.K. Row, The Oregonian
September 21, 2009
PSU MFA Social Practice

Rock block: New gallery coordinator Patrick Rock revitalizes the Autzen and MK galleries 
Patrick Rock, PSU Gallery Director and Adjunct Faculty
By Celina Monte, The Vanguard

Ben Rosenberg: Artist inspired art, Thank You For Having Me
By Celina Monte, The Vanguard
MK Gallery, October 2008 

Stephanie Robison & Paula Rebsom: Roadside Attraction 
by John Motley
Autzen Gallery, March 2009

Installation Situation: Two effective installations shine at Maryhurst and Portland State University
by Richard Speer
Autzen Gallery, September 2009

Air Lift, Lilt with traffic 
Dan Senn
Asymmetry Music Magazine
Autzen Gallery, January 2008

Avantika Bawa at Portland State University
Avantika Bawa
by Micah Malone, Bid Red and Shiny, December 2007
Autzen Gallery, November 2007