The new issue of the Portland Mercury hits the streets today, sporting the classiest cover since a certain young photographer turned the weekly paper on its head (literally) in 2006. Kojo Griffin’s 2002 drawing of a elephant sorrowfully reading the morning paper graces the cover of the current Mercury (alongside a headline crowing about the recent Democrat victories). The Mercury can be found citywide, and “Untitled” (2002), is on view at QPCA through December 23 as part of Griffin’s Swing States of Mind. The paper’s art critic, John Motley, dubbed the exhibition a “staff pick,” drawing attention to the “monochromatic silhouettes [which] haunt empty, vaguely corporate spaces,” in Griffin’s newest paintings, which Motley applauds as newfound “complicated, formal terrain.”

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