Thursday, October 26, 2017
October 27 22 Floors
Artist Emily Wobb works the dynamics of our construction of big things: buildings, jetliners and cars, and their destruction. Perfect for ADX, maker central! Her website has a much more eloquent description - www.emilywobb.com/22floors. This show has an about 1/50th scale model of The Yard monolith, a geometric black residential tower designed by Skylab. It is fabricated from a previous project themed on suburban homes, that were subsequently distressed. The show also includes models of jetliners carrying wood chips from models of luxury suburban sport utility vehicles. Recommended. At adxportland.com ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 7PM-9 Free
October 27-29 Cloudy Con
Kumori is the Japanese word for cloudy. It names Kumoricon: Portland's big cosplay, and it aligns with Halloween! You can find all about it at www.kumoricon.org. If you see cosplayers around, smile and wave! At the Portland Convention Center varying hours until late $65
Sunday, October 22, 2017
October 22 Kawaii Dogs
NY painter Sophie Larrimore has Sunday Painting opening today. They are bright schematic paintings of poodles. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free
Friday, October 20, 2017
October 20 Violet Pixies
Joy Feasley has Violets Under a Spell, paintings and fused glass sculptures inspired by the Aurora Borealis. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th 6PM-8 Free
George Kuchar was an experimental filmmaker. His work spanned video art to low budget drama. Tonight his films Phantom of the Pine Barrens, 1998, 49 minutes; Domain of the Pixel Pixies, 1998, 33 minutes and Weather Diary #3, 1998, 24 minutes screen His work is archived at the Video Data Bank where previews area available www.vdb.org/artists/george-kuchar. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 7PM Free
George Kuchar was an experimental filmmaker. His work spanned video art to low budget drama. Tonight his films Phantom of the Pine Barrens, 1998, 49 minutes; Domain of the Pixel Pixies, 1998, 33 minutes and Weather Diary #3, 1998, 24 minutes screen His work is archived at the Video Data Bank where previews area available www.vdb.org/artists/george-kuchar. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 7PM Free
Monday, October 16, 2017
October 16 Gambling Profit
French artist Eva Barto presents two books on the imprint Buttonwood Press: All in, An Anthology of Gambling, 2016, and Give Way to Profit, 2016. Her recent work is focused on money and wealth. She speaks about her work this evening. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 7PM Free
Friday, October 13, 2017
October 14 Hair Volt
Volt Divers is a night of analog synth performers. This month they are Anon, Darcy Neal + Lolo, Kakiharae, Cult Group II, Astrowarrior, Jakub Jerzy, Pixel Crusher and Cult Group I. Tonight 100% of the modest cover, $5, goes to the ACLU. Yes. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5
The Killjoy Collective is a project by recent PNCA MFA grads taking action to show women artists. Hair care businesses are a safe community space. Tonight is Safety in Numbers by Seattle artist Jono Vaughan. The artist has been working on the role of hair in identity. For this show they create a hair salon and perform in it. Safety in Numbers at Killjoy Collective http://www.killjoypdx.com/events/2017/9/16/perceive-candace-jahn-jill-falk. 222 Southeast 10th Avenue #102B 7PM-9 Free
The Killjoy Collective is a project by recent PNCA MFA grads taking action to show women artists. Hair care businesses are a safe community space. Tonight is Safety in Numbers by Seattle artist Jono Vaughan. The artist has been working on the role of hair in identity. For this show they create a hair salon and perform in it. Safety in Numbers at Killjoy Collective http://www.killjoypdx.com/events/2017/9/16/perceive-candace-jahn-jill-falk. 222 Southeast 10th Avenue #102B 7PM-9 Free
October 14, 15, 21, 22 Open Source
Portland Open Studios is a yearly event. Artists self-select, apply, are curated, are included in a guide and then open their studios. It is an opportunity to see what a working artist studio looks like, straightened up for guests.
In the past, you, the viewer and collector, paid a fee for a printed calendar and map to the studios, many in residences.
What is new is that there is a free app to guide you. There is an in-app upgrade if you want a map and images from the artists in your phone. Otherwise the images of artists works are on the Open Studios website. There is also a printed guide for sale - check their website.
Portland Open Studios portlandopenstudios.com. Throughout town. 10AM-5. (better app) $4.99, (paper guide)$15, Free
In the past, you, the viewer and collector, paid a fee for a printed calendar and map to the studios, many in residences.
What is new is that there is a free app to guide you. There is an in-app upgrade if you want a map and images from the artists in your phone. Otherwise the images of artists works are on the Open Studios website. There is also a printed guide for sale - check their website.
Portland Open Studios portlandopenstudios.com. Throughout town. 10AM-5. (better app) $4.99, (paper guide)$15, Free
October 13 Rainy Reflection
Peggy Sisouvong and Steven Mayer have Reflection Pools. At Grapefruits, www.grapefruitjuiceartists.org/www.grapefruitsartspace.org 2119 N Kerby, STE D. 6PM-9 Free
Friday, October 06, 2017
October 6 Eastside Art Openings
Portland encaustic artist Elise Wagner has Climate Charts. Wagner has been inspired by science over several bodies of work. With climate and science a species-level concern, it is welcome artists are addressing it. She stealths scientific illustration into sensual, warm works. Is it OK to have something beautiful in our home to inspire changing the world? Yes. Eric Boyer also has small wire screen sculptures. Artist talk 6:30PM. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 157 NE Grand 6PM-8 Free
The 811 building is always recommended. Black Box, upstairs, has a show ending at 8 - early. Redux has a regular show extending later. Other shops, up and down join in. The 811 building is always recommended. At 811 East Burnside Map 6PM-8 Free
Ann Ploeger is a Portland photographer. She is noted for commissioned straight-shot color portraits of individuals, couples and families in their homes. Her trademark is often clients/subjects in bare feet at home. She has The Woman Who Was Alive There, portraits of female-identified friends. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
Mike Lee & Betsy Walton have a show. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
One Grand has poppy Porous Walker. Their openings are fun whatever the work. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 8PM-11 Free
Inherent Terrain is a show by Rain Harris, Amanda Salov, Undine Brod and Sasha Koozel Reibstein. It is at Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
The Splendorporium is lovely Portland creative electricity. Their main vector is children art studioing and connecting to parents of self same. But that does not mean they can't be subversive in a good way. They are the root of an art bike moon ride tonight: http://firstfridaypdx.org/2017/09/21/costumes-cats-and-bikes-oh-my/ - meet 5:30PM. Main show is on Tarot 7. Always worth a check. At http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st. 7PM-9 Free
The 811 building is always recommended. Black Box, upstairs, has a show ending at 8 - early. Redux has a regular show extending later. Other shops, up and down join in. The 811 building is always recommended. At 811 East Burnside Map 6PM-8 Free
Ann Ploeger is a Portland photographer. She is noted for commissioned straight-shot color portraits of individuals, couples and families in their homes. Her trademark is often clients/subjects in bare feet at home. She has The Woman Who Was Alive There, portraits of female-identified friends. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9 Free
Mike Lee & Betsy Walton have a show. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10 Free
One Grand has poppy Porous Walker. Their openings are fun whatever the work. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 8PM-11 Free
Inherent Terrain is a show by Rain Harris, Amanda Salov, Undine Brod and Sasha Koozel Reibstein. It is at Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
The Splendorporium is lovely Portland creative electricity. Their main vector is children art studioing and connecting to parents of self same. But that does not mean they can't be subversive in a good way. They are the root of an art bike moon ride tonight: http://firstfridaypdx.org/2017/09/21/costumes-cats-and-bikes-oh-my/ - meet 5:30PM. Main show is on Tarot 7. Always worth a check. At http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st. 7PM-9 Free
Thursday, October 05, 2017
October 5 Westside Art Openings
Karolin Klüppel has Mädchenland, Kingdom of Girls, documentation of young people in Assam, India. They are indigenous Khasi people photographed in their town of Mawlynnong. Thomas Roma has Plato's Dogs, photos of the shadows of dogs. Kim Ray and D. Scott Clark have an installation, Reliquary: The Stuff We Save. They are photographic prints of the interiors of an elder relative they share. It is in the Nine Gallery. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Enfant terrible Jim Riswold has prints has How to Make Fun of Nazis, unfortunately topical. Riswold is a former ad man at W+K. He doesn't shy from provocation. Karen Esler has detailed figure drawings in situ. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Riswold also has a very large show themed on cancer, death, bad men and women, medical research. It has plenty of 2d and substantial sculptures. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Mel Katz was in the thick of the NY art world of the 1950s. He has lived and taught in Portland for many years, bringing that experience. He has Options, abstract wall sculptures fabricated of aluminum. Betty Merken has Continuum pigment-saturated minimal sculpture and painting. Calvin Ross Carl has paintings I Am Here Until I Am Not, geometrics, icons and words. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
The weather will be perfect tonight for the RACC projection series which takes place in a parking lot at Park and Glisan. Pepper Pepper and friends will perform live. Their fun drag stylings will be captured live, sent through a kaleidoscopic MAX patch and projected on the large blank wall of the RACC building. Fun. We hope to see this around throughout the year. RACC First Thursday projection night. SW Park and SW Glisan. 7PM-9 Free
Raque Ford has con•fi•dence, abstract monoprints. It's at Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. 6PM-8 Free
Upor continues General Song by Rodrigo Valenzuela. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Gallery 114 is a member coop, similar to Blackfish. It is a useful model, along with Tokyo's short rental gallery shows. They do video press releases which is interesting. But they are rarely on my sonar. This month they have guest Horatio Yung-Yan Law with Burnt Offerings, along with Mary Jo Mann with Un-Becoming, contrasting weeds and houseless humans in our urban environment. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free
The Jewish Museum has a permanent collection and traveling shows. They will be open until 8 on First Thursday in the previous Contemporary Craft Museum space.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
Enfant terrible Jim Riswold has prints has How to Make Fun of Nazis, unfortunately topical. Riswold is a former ad man at W+K. He doesn't shy from provocation. Karen Esler has detailed figure drawings in situ. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
Riswold also has a very large show themed on cancer, death, bad men and women, medical research. It has plenty of 2d and substantial sculptures. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Mel Katz was in the thick of the NY art world of the 1950s. He has lived and taught in Portland for many years, bringing that experience. He has Options, abstract wall sculptures fabricated of aluminum. Betty Merken has Continuum pigment-saturated minimal sculpture and painting. Calvin Ross Carl has paintings I Am Here Until I Am Not, geometrics, icons and words. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 early close Free
The weather will be perfect tonight for the RACC projection series which takes place in a parking lot at Park and Glisan. Pepper Pepper and friends will perform live. Their fun drag stylings will be captured live, sent through a kaleidoscopic MAX patch and projected on the large blank wall of the RACC building. Fun. We hope to see this around throughout the year. RACC First Thursday projection night. SW Park and SW Glisan. 7PM-9 Free
Raque Ford has con•fi•dence, abstract monoprints. It's at Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. 6PM-8 Free
Upor continues General Song by Rodrigo Valenzuela. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Gallery 114 is a member coop, similar to Blackfish. It is a useful model, along with Tokyo's short rental gallery shows. They do video press releases which is interesting. But they are rarely on my sonar. This month they have guest Horatio Yung-Yan Law with Burnt Offerings, along with Mary Jo Mann with Un-Becoming, contrasting weeds and houseless humans in our urban environment. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free
The Jewish Museum has a permanent collection and traveling shows. They will be open until 8 on First Thursday in the previous Contemporary Craft Museum space.
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish
PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free
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