Portland photographer Terry Toedtemeier was a cofounder of the Blue Sky Gallery and founding curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum. He built the museum's collection.
A retrospective of his work, Sun, Shadows, Stone, closes at the Museum today.
Photography became practical about the time of the American Civil War. The military hired photographers to document that war. Post the war, many of those photographers were employed on great expeditions to document the Western United States. Photographers William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and others made enduring images of the Western landscape. The intent of the government was to encourage settlers. But the stunning large format exposures also supported Transcendentalist beliefs and offered an existence proof of God in the beauty of nature for many.
A self-taught photographer who studied geology, Toedtemeier continued the tradition of the great Western photographic expeditions, but with a more humble Northwest spirit.
This afternoon, there will be a panel discussion of his work.
Panelists are: Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum; Rock Hushka, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Tacoma Art Museum; Sandra Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Toby Jurovics, Chief Curator and Holland Curator of American Western Art at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska; and Prudence Roberts, former Curator of American Art, Portland Art Museum.
Talk https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/panel-discussion-the-photography-of-terry-toedtemeier/
At the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 2PM Museum admission fee
Namiko Kunimoto is an art historian. Tsujimura Kazuko is a butoh dance performer who collaborated with founding conceptual artist in Japan, Yutaka Matsuzawa, subject of the current YU show. The talk this afternoon is "Tsujimura Kazuko and Dance Without Body." At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 6:30PM Free
Machines on the Spot is an outdoor performance by hardware synth musicians. DIY Portland style. Musicians are Ahpook, Chaos soahC, Dr. Strangeknob, Ian Hicks, Production Unit Xero, Transparent Aluminum, and J$Fur. It is in a back yard in a residential area. If you are interested, I'm sure you can look it up. Portland area 5PM-9
Jaik Faulk is an impressionist painter based in Louisiana. He is good at titling the paintings to puzzle. His latest show is the last at the current National location. They move to a larger space off Burnside in the Fall. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
