Glasswork

Facture: Artists at the Forefront of Painterly Glass at Bullseye Gallery

A group exhibition surveys a relatively rare “painterly” approach the medium, in which drips, daubs and melded flat layers create unique landscapes.

 

Form + Function

Ethan Rose’s Reflection at PDX Contemporary
The mad-scientist musician has set up a selection of bells that produce reversed tones in real time followed by delayed natural tones, for a heady, disorienting environmental effect.

 

Abstraction

Marlene Bauer’s Sequence and Gina Wilsons Clay Works at Laura Russo Gallery

Bauer’s paintings (pictured) juxtapose ordered simplicity with the chaos of memory, and Wilson’s free-form sculptures are etched with abstract 2-D figures.

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