The galleries in the mall open their monthly show this evening. The big news is that long time Portland gallerist Mark Woolley is moving into the middle space. To celebrate, he launches a red-themed art show, Simply Red (2). The opening features funk stylings by DJ Parmajohn, and the Sexbot dancers st 8. Suggest attire is red. The mall closes sometime after 9, so arrive early and plan a post funk. At the Mark Woolley Gallery at Pioneer www.markwoolley.com 700 SW 5th 3rd Floor 6PM-9 Free
Place continues Crying, Feeding, Touching by Heather Zinger; The Weighing of Souls by Georganne Watters; and High School Football Memories by Phillip Bone & BT Livermore. With Within the Ephemeron by J. Brown, half of Half|Dozen Gallery and Mimesis by Wayne Bund documenting queer people in both straight and fantasy settings. At Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth 3rd Floor West. 6PM-9 Free
We don't cover music posters as art here. Because they have their own aesthetic and collectors largely outside the areas in which we are interested. But We support the work the People's Art of Portland and bro gallery the Goodfoot, in providing a place to see posters and outsider art. The People's Art of Portland open a show of poster art by John Howard: Spawn Camping the Psionic Swamp, in his own pop surrealism style he calls psychedelic. That includes anaglyphic 3d posters. In the same space, Portland duct tape artist Mona Superhero shows her new work. At People's Art of Portland in the Pioneer Place Mall peoplesartofportland.com 700 SW 5th 3rd Floor South 6PM-9 Free
