Portland Building, 1st and 2nd floor
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Portland Building Public Art
Description:
The iconic Portland Building, designed by the late architect Michael Graves, is an internationally recognized example of the Postmodernist movement in architecture. New public art installed in the Portland Building adds a glow to the renovated architectural icon and joins the buildings’ original public art, Portlandia by Raymond Kaskey. The building has always doubled as a venue to showcase public art and that role has grown with the renovation, which includes new pieces commissioned and purchased through the Regional Arts & Culture Council to meet the City’s 2% for Art requirement. A local panel of artists, curators, community members, and city staff worked to select artworks that represent qualities summarized by a key list of concepts: resonant with Portland’s many communities, complex and multi -faceted, integrative, confluent, flexible, regenerative, and educational. Presenting artworks of Indigenous artists who have multi generational ties to Portland including the work of elders and youth is a prioritization of this collection to express the story of Indigenous people in the Portland region past to present and into the future.
Selection Panel:
Grace Kook Anderson, Yoonhee Choi, Nan Curtis, Ivy Dunlap, Michelle Ladd, Linda McGeady, Michael Reed, Dawn Uchiyama, Lisa Watt, Carla Weinheimer, Kristin Wells
Indigenous Artist Selection Panel:
Aja Blair, Laura John, Michelle Ladd, Lillian Pitt , Lorett a Seaman, Lisa Watt
Artworks
Adam Sorensen
Confluence, 2020
Oil on canvas
53” x 88”
Ka’ila Farrell-Smith
Predecessor Bundle, 2017
Acrylic and oil on vintage plastic
banner
8′ x 4′
Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum and Tim Keenan-Burgess
Indigenous Excellence (Toby Linwood), 2022
Inkjet print
28″ x 42″
Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum and Tim Keenan-Burgess
Indigenous Excellence (Bobby Mercier), 2022
Inkjet print
28″ x 42″
Refik Anadol
Data Crystal: Portland, 2019-2020
Robotic 3D printed AI data sculpture with projected digital video
11’ x 10’ x 8’
Lynn Yarne
Leah Hing Mural, 2023
Vinyl, acrylic paint, Baltic birch
plywood, and printed aluminum
10′ 4″ x 13′
Kayin Talton Davis
We’ve Been Here, 2019-2020
Acrylic printed with historic photographs
8’ x 40’
Bobby Mercier
Carver, 2021
Carved cedar
6′ x 3′ x 3″
Haruka Ashida Ostley
Every Path You Choose is a Journey, from the mural
Journey to Peace, 2019
Mixed media on panel
4’ x 48’
Haruka Ashida Ostley
One of a Kind, We Are, from the mural Journey to Peace, 2019
Mixed media on panel
4’ x 48’
Greg A. Robinson
Coyote Rebuilds the World, 2019
Acrylic on paper
23 7/8″ x 19″
Greg A. Robinson
Below the Yellow House, 2020
Acrylic on paper
23 7/8″ x 19″
Greg A. Robinson
White Window, 2017
Acrylic on paper
23 7/8″ x 19″
Odo Ishkiin
Ika Damme Sogo Bia’a, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
21 7/8″ x 28″
R. Toby Linwood
Untitled, 2022
Cedar panel and cedar etched frame,
paint
84 3/4″ x 36 1/2″ x 1 1/2″
Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum and Tim Keenan-Burgess
Indigenous Excellence (Natalie Ball), 2022
Inkjet print
28″ x 42″
Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum and Tim Keenan-Burgess
Indigenous Excellence (Toma Villa), 2022
Inkjet print
28″ x 42″
Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum and Tim Keenan-Burgess
Indigenous Excellence (Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum), 2022
Inkjet print
28″ x 42″
Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum and Tim Keenan-Burgess
Indigenous Excellence (Tim Keenan-Burgess), 2022
Inkjet print
28″ x 42″
Greg Archuleta
Ikanum (Ancient Stories), 2023
Red and yellow cedar
variable
Akihiko Miyoshi
Protocol, 2019
Resin and ink
26 1/2″ x 20 1/2″
Avantika Bawa
Coliseum #4, 2017
Graphite and pastel on paper
21 1/2″ x 31″
Avantika Bawa
Coliseum, Red Sky, 2018
Lithograph
13 1/2″ x 17 1/2″
Elena Thomas
From the Bridge, 2018 (printed: 2019)
Inkjet print
25 1/4″ x 20 1/2″
Ivonne Saed
Sellwood Bridge Construction 1, 2015
Inkjet print
35″ x 45 1/4″
James Allen
Portland Trolley Years, 2016
Book excavation
21 1/4″ x 14 1/4″
Loren Nelson
Under Wraps, 1999 (printed: 2019)
Archival pigment print
41″ x 33″
Marie Watt
Untitled, 2012
Reclaimed wool blanket and
embroidery floss
17″ x 14 1/2″
Marie Watt
Part and Whole: Ripple, Hoop, Baron Mill, 2011
Reclaimed wool blankets and thread
25 3/4″ x 22″
Michelle Muldrow
St. Johns Trailer, 2018
Gouache, graphite, casein paint on kaolin clay panel
18″ x 18″
Rory ONeal
Overpass Glow – PDX, 2019
Inkjet print
38 1/2″ x 38 1/2″
Ruth Lantz
Veil of Density, 2015
Acrylic, silkscreen and spray paint on panel
26″ x 15 1/4″
Gabe Fernandez
Audi and 356 Cover, 2018
Oil on panel
25 1/2″ x 22 1/2″
Shirod Younker and Toma Villa
Tla heniiya wens gahl hitchin’kin a’mah henwiis
k’ihlan eik’ tah lah and Fish Sticks, 2022
Wood dowels on panel and painted mural
8′ x 40′
Deb Stoner
Hellebore and Pieris Japonica in Winter, 2016 (printed: 2019)
Archival pigment print
33″ x 42 1/4″
Hsin-Yi Huang
The Light Within, 2009
Porcelain
22″ x 22″
Katherine Ace
Friends and Neighbors, 2019
Oil on board
26″ x 10″
Rebecca Rodela
Abuelito y yo reunidos, 2014
Acrylic canvas
30″ x 24″
Sabina Haque
New Portlanders, 2019
Photographic collage printed on
archival photo paper
29″ x 19″
Stuart Allen Levy
Cinco de Mayo, 2009 (printed: 2019)
Inkjet print
45″ x 21 1/2″
Sadé DuBoise
Ruwarashe Zanele Mutepfa Rhone, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
26” x 24”
Raymond Kaskey
Portlandia, 1982-1985
Hammered copper
35′ height, 13,000 lbs.
Crystal Schenk and Shelby Davis
Neither Here Nor There, 2019-2020
Salvaged silver maple and glass
variable
Natalie Ball
From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free, 2024
Cotton, polyester, wool, deer hide, elk rawhide, acrylic paint, and pastel chalk
70 1/2″ x 54 1/2″ (approximate)
