Are you bored tonight? Noooo! Get with art, Eastside baby!
Nemo is an interactive agency which does art happenings in service of their same campaigns. You can boo that, whatever, but experiencing it rules in interesting and notable in Portland. Tonight they provide a show on the theme. At Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont 6PM-10 Free
Union|Pine has Kate Pugsley shows, Brooke Weeber too, and Emily Katz as well, all local makertrons. Union|Pine At Union|Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Newspace has a great show gathered internationally by the Photolucida process. Recommended. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
Manchus is a men and women store. Clean, minimal, elegant. Fittingly, they are in a clean, minimal, elegant, modern space. Tonight they present a short film by Portland artist Cliff Sargent: Tokyo, fittingly. At Machus www.machusonline.com 6PM-9 Free
Reception is from 6-9pm
Albina Hawthorne has Amelioranting. A show from the "jumbled steamer trunk of my mind" of Cloë Ashton. She wins the copywrighting award of the month with "Cloë Ashton is a carbon based food tube who enjoys a peaceful existence on Earth in the 21st century. In order to put food through her tube she works hard drawing things that will make other food tubes happy enough to give her green paper. Green paper isn't very good to eat, but you can usually trade it for better tube food." Of course the interwebs are a system of tubes, so it's all well. At Albina Press Hawthorne, 5012 SE Hawthorne 6PM-8 Free
Old rhythm and blues songs are exceptional in their ability to transform our perceptions and mood. Although lyrically they may be simplistic, often bordering on cliché, they are able to transport us out of our everyday life and into our vision of love. The rhythmic phrases are usually based on the vocals, not on the machine beat structure. The honesty within these songs speaks to an often repressed part of our psyche, that part of us that is uninterested in acknowledging the complications of reality. Zoë Clark is a Portland based artist vibing on that. She has a show tonight you should see. At RECESS recesspdx.blogspot.com At Recess in the Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th 6PM-11
23 Sandy is a gallery focused on photography and book arts. Tonight is a combo. It's Interplay: Elizabeth M. Claffey, Lauren Henkin, Clifton Meador and Laura Russell. At 23Sandy www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy 5PM-8
Print and Destroy is a show of new artists: Jalissa Taylor, Morgan Bass, Albert Navetta and Megan Fix at a PNCA|DIY curated space.
At Foco Gallery focogallery.wordpress.com 211 SE Madison Free
