America has embraced food as a fetish. Culinary school has produced a generation of cooks who are obsessed with artistically garnished plating. There are food magazines with photography that could go up with any beauty or architecture publication. Then eaters are photographing their food and sharing it on social media. With that inspiration, Gina Beavers presents Family Style. Starting with photographs of food from social media sites, they are paintings of that photograph built in low relief. The messy build textures work well with the range of hue. Ironically the work itself does not translate well to being photographed, it demands to be seen in person. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-8
The Decisive Moment: Documentary and Street is a group show curated by Christopher Rauschenberg, who brings quite a few years himself of looking at, and sometimes exposing, street photography. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Homeland opens Free People, a show of paintings. The painters are Kavin Buck, Calvin Ross Carl, Timothy Scott Dalbow, Arcy Douglass, Danridge Geiger, Ruth Lantz, Kendra Larson, Matthew Letzelter, Raul J Mendez, Ralph Pugay and Roy Tomlinson. It's an interesting cross section of some of the more individualistic painters in town. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6:30PM-9 Free
Mad Science is a performance installation. Imagine a future in which the Mad Science institute, using time travel, pulls the brilliant minds of today forward to solve the sure-to-be-many problems of 2045. Would you go? Falling firmly into yes are the artists: Jason Blackheart, Eric Trine, Shawna X, Jason Rens, Kiji McCafferty, Nick Stokes and William Bryant. Continually living into the future, at least a little, is the Portland ad community which seem to be behind this project. Mad Science at Gallery 135,
135 NW Park. RSVP requested. Free
ADX opens Americana, household furniture by local maker Carlino. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 6PM-9 Free
