Photographer Delaney Allen presents A personal Nature. Allen is a 2010 minted PNCA MFA with a strong body of landscape, alternative portraits and still lifes. The work hews to minimal surrealism. An artist that is capable of showing beyond Portland and who is represented by Nationale. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map Free
Camera Work:Contemporary Portraiture opens at tonight. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Chris Johanson, Acharya Vyakul and Chris Corales show together in intimate space tonight. At Adams and Ollman Gallery www.adamsandollman.com 811 E Burnside #213 6PM-9
Jessie Sugarman has video work California City opening tonight. California City is a huge area planned by land speculators anticipating it to be on the route of the California aqueduct. The aqueduct took another route, leaving much of California City a ghost suburb. Recommended, as always. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 11AM-6PM Weekends, 6PM-9 tonight
Theodore Blackshear Bowen will be doing live painting tonight. At Manchus Clothing www.machusonline.com 542 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Steel + Ink is a show of Portland axes which have been customized by five Portland tattoo artists. Trust repurposed used axes and asked five Portland tattoo artists to adorn their heads with weldbead, etching, grinding and to modify the handles. Mark Mirocha and Ian Orion show photographs, Julie Everhart has prints. Eatcho has made a mural. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Pacific Midwest is a show by Milwaukee photographers who go by Milwaukee, - "Milwaukee Comma". At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map 6PM-9 Free
Remake: the world in paper are miniature sculptures of everyday objects by Tae Won Yu. Poses, Tae's band also performs. At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8
ADX has photographer Tim Roth with Vertex. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map