Out Eastside, Milepost5 has a poignant performance by artist Wendy Dyer. Dyer, who has been making groundbreaking performances based on her childhood family life, presents Sorting Things Out. In this performance, Dyer uses a paper shredder to reduce all of her childhood family portraits to bits. She then will sort the bits by hand, by grayscale and hue, into piles. I really can't say anything more about the intensity of this idea. It's at Milepost5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 6PM-9 Free
YU Contemporary has a talk by 2008 Whitney Biennial photographer Shannon Ebner. Ebner places handmade signs in her photographic field as another layer of content. At YU Contemporary www.yucontemporary.org 800 SE 10th &PM $5
Valentines is cohost to 13 for 13, an exchange of artists and art between The Portland State University & the San Francisco Art Institute. Most of the show is at PSU's Autzen Gallery. Tonight there are live performances and videos at Valentines valentineslifeblood.blogspot.com 232 SW Ankeny 10PM-11:30 Free
Notes on a Recent Arrival is the show by University of Oregon faculty. Tonight curators Stamatina Gregory and Kristan Kennedy discuss the work. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch 5:30PM
Ajna Lichau is a smart installation and video artist locating from San Francisco to Portland. She combines her studio with other building openings, Gallery Homeland and curator Modou Dieng for a show, Slow Invisible Drama of Madonna. The work is an interactive light and video sculpture by Daniel Long, Mary T Brossman and Val Hardy Jr, current or recent PNCA students. 2nd Floor, Ford Building 7PM-9ish Free
Meanwhile downstairs Homeland continues performances supporting portrait paintings by Jeff Diteman. Winter Compresses the Day is a dance performance by Grace Nowakoski, Jacqueline Rubinstein and Jaasiel Bean; with live music by Jeff Diteman, Justin Glenn Smith and Ryan Spangler; video by Dora Gaskill, Grace Nowakoski & Jeff Diteman. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division 6PM-9
Portland painter James Papadopoulos, in PNCA's MFA program shows his work at Nationale thenewnationale.com 811 E Burnside Map
Portland Scottish artist Neil M. Perry makes anthropomorphic illustration style work. You can see it at Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Color: The Visual Spectrum is a photography show of landscapes and a few peoplescapes curated by Todd Johnson. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Gabe Flores continues and About Framing, by Avantika Bawa, opens. At Half/Dozen Gallery www.halfdozengallery.com 722 E Burnside (enter on 8th) 6PM-9, half dozen
Foco has 2011 grad of Arizona State Jonni Cheatwood who combines collage and urban aerosol techniques in his paintings. At Foco Gallery focogallery.wordpress.com 211 SE Madison Free
Painter and illustrator Ian Anderson opens new illustration paintings at the Hawthorne Albina Press tonight. 5012 SE Hawthorne 6PM-8 Free
