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Surplus Space is accepting proposals for three guest curators for 2015. Each month of our final year we’re inviting a different guest curator to program Surplus Space. Our hope is that with an open...

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Four years ago, Pioneer Place Mall did a very groovy “Portland” thing…

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In March, I stopped by Place, an installation gallery on the third floor of Pioneer Place Mall, to drop off copies of PDX Magazine and to say hello to the gallery’s owner Gabe Flores. My young boys who were with me were quickly drawn toward the mass of colorful balloons that were part of the main exhibit.Curtains of multi-colored latex balloons framed the installation, and many more rolled around on the floor. Along the back wall, a video played on a flat-screen television. In the video, a man in a dog costume walked along a trail. There were other artifacts in the exhibit too, and I made a mental note to return later to take it all in when my parking meter wasn’t running dangerously low. I did not know at the time that this innocuous-looking installation would be the last exhibit for Place and that it would figure prominently in the gallery’s demise. Shit Balloons is the name of the installation by artist John Dougherty. And, yes, from what we can ascertain, it contributed to Place losing its lease rather abruptly at the end of March. This exhibit, as well as two others: Paul Clay’s Parking Lot Dance and Michael...

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Some documentation from our closing celebration can be viewed here.

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Please, visit our website (placepdx.com) for further details.

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3/1/14 Saturday

The gallery will be opening at 1pm today. 

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no opening tonight?

No, postponed until Saturday.

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Gallery is closed today

Due to severe weather conditions the gallery will be closed Sunday the 9th. 

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Insa Evan's performing "Apologia" in _____ Loves Me, _____ Loves Me Not. 

The video gets a little intense. 

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Check out Carla Rossi's interview in the first issue of Premiere magazine. Continue reading here. 

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Surface Matters rescheduled

Due to severe weather throughout the weekend we have moved the opening of Surface Matters to Sunday from 5-8. Hopefully Sunday will turn out to be a safer day of travel for everyone! 

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Muscle Beach and Place are pleased to present NY based artist Heather McKenna’s first solo exhibition, Surface Matters. Working in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, and installation, McKenna explores the relationship between form, surface, and the ways in which matter is shaped to reflect content. Human-sized plaster forms slip between recognition and amorphous blobs. Two large paintings, pretending to be three: wall painting relating to wall’s paint. There is water without weight, moving with the fluid room.  Heather McKenna (b. Santa Cruz, CA 1991) received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2013. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Muscle Beach is an ongoing curatorial project by Flynn Casey and Tony Chrenka.

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Adam Johnson's Signs

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Part of his project was to get naked in public spaces while on their road trip. He's posing in front of Kayleigh Nelson's Convergence.

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JP Huckins' Big Booty Bounce. 

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Caitlin Rose Sweet hanging out with her piece "A Tube is a Tube" part of _____ Loves Me, _____ Loves Me Not.

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Trace Harris spraying the ceiling!

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