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Luminous Deer opening

2010 June 3
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White Box, 24 NW First Ave, Portland

June 3 – 25th, Tues – Sat, noon – 6pm.

“The Skeleton Dance”

2010 February 14
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is a 1929 short produced and directed by Walt Disney

and animated by Ub Iwerks

Val Valentino

2010 February 10
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(born June 14, 1956) is an American magician, illusionist, and actor, who gained notoriety by starring in specials exposing magic secrets, using the stage name the Masked Magician.
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Ghost Town

2010 February 9
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Victorian Cutups

2010 February 4
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Collage, one of riverheads of modernism, is usually thought to have been introduced around 1912, when Braque and Picasso began gluing pieces of newsprint and wallpaper to their Cubist drawings.
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Stan Vanderbeek

2010 January 28
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(January 6, 1927 – September 19, 1984) was an American experimental filmmaker.
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VanDerBeek’s ironic compositions were created very much in the spirit of the surreal and dadaist collages on Max Ernst, but with a wild, rough informality more akin to the expressionism of the Beat Generation. In the 1960s, VanDerBeek began working with the likes of Claes Oldenburg and Allan Kaprow, as well as representatives of modern dance, such as Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer.

“Television Sucks”

2010 January 26
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Home of the Bulldogs

2010 January 20
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Thanks to Ms. Bucher and her sophomore English class
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Marcel Dzama

2010 January 15
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(born 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian artist living in New York City known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings of human figures, animals, and imaginary hybrids.
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Dzama typically uses a muted, melancholic color palette of browns and greens, drawing from nature and army textiles.
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A recent departure for Dzama is the move into large-scale sculpture, film and video.
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Martha Colburn

2010 January 12
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is a filmmaker currently living in Long Island City, New York. She is most well-known for her animation films, which are created through puppetry, collage, and paint on glass techniques.
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She has made over forty films since 1994.