Longtime illustration-style painter and collage artist Trish Grantham opens a show of her newest work, The Victory Garden, tonight. At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8 Free
Performance painting is always a fun and high energy event, almost whatever the style. Tonight the Hellion Gallery, Matt Wagner's new effort after curating Compound Gallery, presents live painting at Rotture. Portland artists Zach Johnsen and Blaine Fontana. It's part of the regular hip hop show at Rotture 315 SE 3rd 9PM-late
It's a little dated, but the 1967 film, The Graduate, established one of the great 20th century memes in pop culture: plastics. Plastics are a varied synthetic material. The same amount of plastic might cost fractions of a cent as a plastic knife, fork and spoon; a few hundred dollars as a pair of eyeglasses; a few thousand as an artificial joint or engineered membrane. And plastics is the theme of tonight's photography show made with plastic cameras. In this case, plastic becomes part of the value establishing narrative. That some of those cameras were born as children's toys cant hurt either. Curated by Alli Azevedo, artists include Christopher Buckingham, Ann Suckow Mcgarry, Jason Quigly, Justin Morrison, Kim Nguyen. DJ Skinny Miracles for tunes, on vinyl - that's plastic too! At Albina Press, 4637 N. Albina Ave at Blandena. Not sure on the time, 6PM-8 Free
