Friday, March 28, 2008

April 3 Westside Art Openings

Some of the best time entertainment value viewing art may be had at the Everett Station Lofts and the DeSoto Building.

DeSoto, comprising Blue Sky Gallery, The Nine Gallery, The Charles Hartman Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Craft, Augen and Froelich cover a range of superbly curated work in for profit and non profit spaces. The DeSoto Building is bounded by Broadway, Davis and NW Park.

The Everett Station Lofts are live work spaces, changing always, showing spirited and usually authentic work. It's faster for you to see than me write about. Some notable spaces are Sequential Art, which has activated its website, including references to other galleries; Tilt Gallery, known for seriously curated installation; and The Pony Club with very inexpensive drawing-style work begging to be taken home by you. The Everett Station Lofts are bounded by Everett, Broadway, Flanders and NW6th. Generally open until at least 9:30PM


Ogle has work by prolific and provocative Scott Wayne Indiana. Indiana has organized park land art shows and embedded dozens of axes in the ceiling above art viewers. He is the instigator of the Horse Project, the toy ones attached to rings in the curb from the pre-fossil fuel days; he has been collaborating with Harvest Henderson and Andrea Zittel on the Cali desert Geochain. This month Ogle has 3 Indiana works: "Blown Over", "Door Man" and "one day you motherfuckers will See". He also has a performance at the gallery "Waiting in Line" April 19. Ogle www.ogleink.com 310 NW Broadway


The Elizabeth Leach Gallery has collages of layered paper cutouts and also bright jigsaw puzzles by Al Souza. Fernanda D'Agostino has blown glass sculptures and a video installation. Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW9th


James Lavadour paints seemingly effortless abstract landscapes. Sublime. PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders


Masters Reborn are today's artists reimagining classic old chestnuts from art history. Reimaginary artists inclide Krista Huot www.kristahuot.com, Jeremiah Ketner www.smallandround.com, Makiko Sugawa www011.upp.so-net.ne.jp/makiko/menu.html, Neri www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/d-bird/, Cristy Road www.croadcore.org/start.htm, Naoshi www.naoshii-u-iii.com, Daniel Lim "fawn fruits" www.daniel-lim.com, Arisu www.arisuart.com, Skaffs www.skaffs.com, Yoshi Tajima www.radiographics.jp, Nishi www.myspace.com/nishi89, Deseo www.deseoworks.com, Anke Weckmann www.linotte.net, Andy Council www.andycouncil.co.uk, Robert Hardgrave www.farmerbobsfarm.com, Kat Leuzinger www.katleuzinger.com, Milk www.myspace.com/logyu, Naomi Nowak www.naomi.se, Re-verse www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/re-verse/, Annali Olander www.anneliolander.com, Aaron Sikstrom http://seethrou.carbonmade.com/, David Macdowell www.macdowellstudio.com, Miss Kika www.misskika.com, Sophie Varela www.sophievarela.com, Tessar Lo www.tessarlo.com, Ippei Gyoubu www.gyoubu.com, Used bandaid www.myspace.com/gingerbreadcoffin, Matt Linares www.myspace.com/kamikazecauser, Nati www.nati-art.com, Jeni yang (jeya pomkuri) www.jeniyang.com, Leeloo www.june-leeloo.com. All at Compound 107 NW 5th