Suzy Poling Pat Maher and Liz Harris are in a show Elemental Forces. From Oakland, Poling's work spans light installations, performance, music, video and film. This show is themed on ecology, materiality and regeneration. Meanwhile in the vestibule space, Brittany Powell has large classic pen and ink comic style illustrations parodying American Apparel advertisements in Soft Core Apparel. The Southeast gallery has a show by Glean, a collaboration to use discarded materials as art materials. The artists are Andrew Auble, Chandra Glaeseman, Greg Hanson, Sarah Wolf Newlands and Jennifer LaMastra. LaMastra has some stunning dresses in a series Disremembered. Tonight for the opening, there will be performance by Princes Dies, Chromium Dumb Belle, White Gourd, Pod Blotz, Diamond Catalog and DJ Aaron Montaigne. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11 Free
Bob Ross. Public television painting instructor, from 1983 to 1994, inspired a generation of protopainters with his cheery demonstrations. Some of them grew up and offer a tribute to Bob in this show opening tonight, Happy Little Trees. Often worth stopping by Antler next door. At Screaming Sky www.screamingskygallery.com 1416 NE Alberta Free
There is no finish line is a show by Dan Gluibizzi and New York by way of Portland artist Zefrey Throwell. Throwell had an irregular series of house and itinerant space shows, Alphabet Dress, in Portland for artists to clear their studios of works at very reasonable prices. He is a member of Red 76. He moved to New York and has been doing provocative photo work. His photo work is paired with Gluibizzi's watercolor washes of figures for this show. This is the artists' second collaboration. The show work is also a book. Just a note, the official opening of the show is Wednesday evening, 6PM-9. Live music tonight at 8. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
The Goodfoot does one of the ever popular in Portland panel shows 88 Strong. 88 artists made 8 8"x8" panels inspired by their choice of 88 themes. They are all for sale for $50 each, cash and carry. You can take home the art now for instant gratification. Arrive early for the full view of the art. The artists will be listed on the Goodfoot website later in the week. The list of themes is amusing: 27 Club, 41 Forever, Absinthe, Antique, Art Mafia, Avengers, Bar Fly, Bath Salts, Batman, Beards, Bikini Brew, Botox, Breaking Bad, Bridge and Tunnel, Burnside, Campaign, Compost, Consume, Damaged Goods, Danger Zone, Dapper Dan, Day of the Dead, Deadly Sins, Die Antwoord, Dirty Bird, Do It Myself, Dr. Who, Dreads, Dubstep, East Side, Eat Your Face, Emo, Free Range, French or Homeless?, Friend, Like, Poke, Frolf, Get Safe, Gone Fishin', Happy Little Trees, Hick, High Life, Hoarding, Hops, Hot Tub, Illcommunication, Infusion, Interwebs, It's In My Mouth, iThings, Just To See How It Feels, Keep Portland Weird, Kincaide, Kind of a Big Deal, Kinda Reality, Last Call, Lebowski, Liz Lemon, Master Chef, Mayan, Merkin or 'Merican, Midwest, Mythical Beasts, Naked Bike Ride, Obey, Occupy, Pearl District, Pinballin', Portlandia, Queens, Re-Use Me, Red Dawn, Resin, Robo Tech, Roller Girls, Scandals, Skinny Jeans, Smoke's Worth, So 2006, Sound Check, Star Wars Forever, Tattoo Palooza, Tie Died, Timbers Army, Transplants, Urban Farm Yard, Vagabond, Vegan and VooDooDoo. At The Goodfoot www.thegoodfoot.com/gallery 2845 SE Stark Map Starts 5PM, viewable business hours until late. Free
Mercy Corps holds a public reception with the curator for the Design With the Other 90% show in the Mercy Corps Action Center. www.mercycorps.org/events/2012/08/02/27267 At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st 5:30PM-7:30 Free
And Portland Tuvan Throat Singer Soriah performs with collaborators and guests tonight. I prefer his solo shows, but any opportunity to see the best Western Tuvan throat singer in the world is special. The collaboration does allow more instrumental tectures to be added resulting in a beautiful dark ambient sound that you can just curl up to. At Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th. 9PM $10
The University of Oregon presents an evening with photojournalist and noted technical photography & video consultant Vincent Laforet. You can find out more about him at blog.vincentlaforet.com and www.laforetvisuals.com. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch. Reception 6PM, talk 7. Free
