Worksound has a triple header of Kim Donaldson, Michael Zheng and Laura Fritz. It continues Worksound's program of international artists mixed with Portland. Donaldson works in what could be Portland's sister city, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. There has been an interchange of artists between Portland and about four times larger Melbourne for a few years. Chinese artist Michael Zheng makes work in San Francisco. Portlander Laura Fritz makes sculpture and installation that's vaguely scientific and enigmatic. At Worksound At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 6PM-10
Disjecta shows paintings by Dutch Portland artist Henk Pander. Pander is known for a large body of large scale figurative oils with a dark to light tonal range and a serious, even dark tone. This show is no different; it is portraits, made between 1998 and 2010, of Mary Alice, a close granddaughter, raised by Pender and his late wife. Recommended. Also showing are patterns of rust on silk by Portland artist Rio Wrenn. Wrenn collects small pieces of steel turning to rust, often falling from speeding vehicles, too small to recycle but large enough to yet be consumed by oxidation. Wrenn has been making these rust marks in wall pieces and as pattern on clothing, poignantly mixing high and low, beauty and time's ravages. So in a way, it's a poetic pairing with Pander. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
