Continuing through September 14, 2014
Well known for their individual and collaborative work in film, graphic novels, animation and fine art, brothers Arnold and Jacob Pander unite in their first joint solo show in Portland in a decade. The artworks on display are not collaborative pieces, but they are linked by a common theme: the allure and danger of wealth and fame. During the course of their screenwriting and directing work, the Pander Brothers, as they bill themselves, have spent a lot of time in Los Angeles. They are intimately familiar with celebrity culture and its discontents.
These themes are woven into Arnold Pander’s black-velvet paintings, which in tragicomic ways depict film and music industry icons-cum-train-wrecks, such as Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus. Jacob Pander depicts the fall from grace into ruination more literally in his photographic prints on metal panel. In his images of billboards and derelict cityscapes he condenses poignant narratives of urban decay. The Pander Brothers are the sons of beloved Northwest painter Henk Pander, but they have proven time and again — and do so again in this exhibition — that they are thoughtful, relevant artists in their own rights.
