Visual Art Whiting Tennis Wins the Prize
posted by on June 16 at 9:35 AM
Saturday night in Portland, Whiting Tennis was given the first $10,000 Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the first Northwest Contemporary Art Awards competition and exhibition. (Portland Art Museum organized the awards, and intends to do them every two years.)
The show is a knockout. New work by every artist. Well worth the drive. A podcast with the five artists—Tennis, Dan Attoe, Cat Clifford, Jeffry Mitchell, and Marie Watt—will go up later this week, and later today, I’ll post more.
But for now, here’s a detail of an enormous new Tennis painting (6 by 14 feet) in the show, called Bitter Lake Compound. It’s based on a dilapidated backyard the artist came across.
nothing is worth "the drive" anymore.
maybe hot sex. but art?
its worth The Train Ride.
Wrong, Solomon. I thought that too until I checked it out. Two round-trip Amtrak tickets from Seattle to Portland will run you substantially more than $100. Compare that to a $40 tank of gas and the reality that driving is an hour faster each way, and it's a no-brainer.
Always appreciated Tennis' art since first seeing some paintings in the late nineties at a Pioneer Square gallery. Nice to see good work rewarded.
I met Tennis at the CNWAA reception. He's a very tall guy! So humble and deserving too. His 2008 piece, the large backyard one is personally my favorite in the show. Although Watt's large dual-installation is terrific too! Drive it!
Yes, he IS very tall, very humble, talented and deserving.
AND he used to have a band called "Big Tube Squeezer"! And they were awesome!!! (Dear God, am I the only person who remembers Big Tube Squeezer? gulp...)
For those of you who were at the reception, Whiting told me he actually meant to say a few words but wasn't motioned to do so. He didn't mean to just duck back into the crowd. (Apparently he was asked about this by a reporter.)
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