Category Archives: Art

Plazm Design Week Exhibit at MoCC Extended Through This Weekend

Posted on October 16, 2012 by magdalen

If you were unable to make it down to the Museum of Contemporary Craft during last week’s Design Week 2012 festivities, you have a little extra time to check out the Plazm exhibit. As part of Design Week 2012, Plazm … Continue reading →

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Plazm at Design Week Portland

Posted on October 10, 2012 by magdalen

Check out all the sweet Design Week Portland events. http://designweekportland.com/ Plazm is participating with an exhibit sampling 20 years worth of Plazm magazines, posters and assorted ephemera at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. The display was selected and arranged by … Continue reading →

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William Damiano: “Art Show” in Portland

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Nora Robertson

Burnside Street gallery Nationale hosts the watercolors of  William Damiano through the 27th of this month. While a multitude of pop-cultural and historical figures–Sonic the Hedgehog, Marilyn Monroe and Busby Berkeley among them–appear in or are referenced by Damiano’s broader … Continue reading →

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Jon Raymond Rain Dragon reading at Powell’s

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Joshua Berger

Plazm editor Jon Raymond will read from his new novel, Rain Dragon, Friday at Powell’s Burnside. Damon and Amy have had enough of Los Angeles. Fitful and tired and dreaming of a simpler life, they leave the city to go … Continue reading →

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Transformation Time with Vanessa Renwick

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Joshua Berger

Vanessa Renwick is on her way back from a week of Portland at La Gaîté Lyrique just in time to do an in-gallery presentation at the White Box tomorrow night. This is a great opportunity to experience her Portland 2012 Biennial … Continue reading →

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Jon Raymond, Rain Dragon

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Joshua Berger

Plazm editor Jon Raymond’s second novel is about to be released. It is entitled Rain Dragon. I am pretty excited about it. Jon literally spent years working on this book and it’s awesome that it is finally coming out. We’ll … Continue reading →

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Abstraction, Feminist Art, and Film

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Joshua Berger

Two great shows are coming to a close. They are in the same building too. Upstairs in the Lumber Room you will find Interior Margins. Downstairs in the Elizabeth Leach Gallery you will find Body Gesture, a Group Exhibition of … Continue reading →

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Final Week – Plazm: 20 Years of Art and Design

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Joshua Berger

The twenty-year retrospective show of Plazm’s art and design work will close on December 10th. There are hundreds of pieces of ephemera, posters, and one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Hope you can make it out to the ‘couv this week. We … Continue reading →

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Making Faces Screening Tonight

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Joshua Berger

About ten years ago Plazm had the honor of doing a joint lecture with Jim Rimmer. Jim was a Vancouver, BC based artist and typographer. He had rooms and rooms filled with old type machines. He created limited edition artist … Continue reading →

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The New Oregon Interview Series: Linda K. Johnson

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Nora Robertson

Finding the Forest.  Image: Julia Keefe and John Klicker. Taller than the Other Trees:An Interview with Linda K. Johnson By Nora Robertson In 2008, I sat down with dance artist Linda K. Johnson in her shady Portland bungalow. Johnson moved … Continue reading →

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