Dual garage galleries, Appendix and Little Field, present fusion performance- installation events this last Thursday on Alberta.
The Oregon Painting Society, returned from their show in London, occupies Appendix while Future Death Toll puts on a performance including homebuilt and circuit bent music machines at Little Field.
At Appendix Project Space and Little Field Galleries on the alleys between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta and between 28th and 29th North of Alberta. www.appendixspace.com 6-10ish
Always recommended is the never anticipated Emerson Space Case emersonspacecase.blogspot.com NE 30th and Emerson
Alicia Blue shows Kevin Taylor's dream-like nature and figure illustrations, finely detailed and maybe a little Jungian. As well, Coleen Flaherty shows impressionistic landscapes and botanical illustrations incorporating geometric patterns, some suggestive of Australian aboriginal patterning. Both artists practice in San Francisco. At the Alicia Blue Gallery aliciabluegallery.com 1468 NE Alberta
False Front has Michael Lauch shows Mountains, process work made climbing a mountain near his school in Ashville, North Carolina. It's not Bill Viola's Room for St John of the Cross because it's not video. But it does represent an artistic interchange between Portland and Ashville. At False Front Studio ww.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd 7-10
David Wien shows, The Bigger Picture, stencil-style art at Together Gallery www.togethergallery.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste A
Ampersand has reworked and encaustic crusted vintage photos from San Francisco's Jhina Alvarado. The artist's description is a little florid, so omitted here. At Amersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B
Art Not Crime - Provenance Gallery team for a graf-style show. Art Not Crime creates opportunities for large scale graffiti art in spots with the owner's permission as an alternative to lazy tagging. May was a tribute to the late Pirate Town, a temporary autonomous zone, acquired, and demolished, by the University of Portland. It was the home of a notorious toxic was site, very Tarkovsky. Tonight fresh art by Vaquero, Raskoe, Ajust One, Sektr 1, delo MFK and Kauz. Music by ComputerFAM and Mr. Wu. At Art Not Crime 4943 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. 5PM-12AM $5
