This is not another cat show. It's from Alix Pearlstein who makes minimalist video works staging suggestions of human social interaction in architectural space. The cat piece, Harem Room-1, is a timely comment. You can see both and read about both. This is a great show by Upfor operating on a national stage. The artist speaks Wednesday January 31 in the gallery at 6 on art and #metoo/#notsuprised. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
Ellen George and Jerry Mayer have Repose. It's a minimalist room installation involving rice. Loose material piled resolves into a natural angle of repose. It's an interesting topic. The Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Henk Pander has new drawings. Pender is a Dutch artist and longtime portland artist resident with a unique rough realistic style edging surreal. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free
G. Lewis Clevenger has Reclaiming My Time, along with Robert Yoder: Club Number and Heavenly Bodies by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free
Froelick has Willie Little, a California artist raised in North Carolina.
His work references self-taught, even visionary, artists from the South. Those artists always existed as folk artists. The art valuation excesses of Reagan-era Wall Street drew collectors to discover these folk artists.
Locally and in New York, the Jamison Thomas gallery added folk artists. Charles Froelick worked for the Jamison Thomas Gallery and assumed some artists in this style, so this is an apt return. The Portland Museum of Modern Art has also championed folk art & self taught art styles.
Willie Little is a new generation of self-taught artists embraced by the gallery-museum ecosystem. It's a nice complement to the work of Edwin Jeffery Jr now at W+K. Jeffery was a fireman involved in the civil rights movement who used firehouse free time to carve artworks of wood.
Also showing is the late Rick Bartow, a former Jamison Thomas artist. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8 Free
In a similar vein Alison O’Donoghue has New Bones, paintings. At Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery, 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside
Leach has collages by Jimmy Baker, Pat Boas, Claire Cowie, John Evans, Ann Hamilton, Lee Kelly, Kara Maria, Vik Muniz, Melody Owen, Eunice Parsons, Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, Michael Scheurer, Brion Nuda Rosch, Michelle Ross and Myrna Tatar. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
The RACC + Open Signal Night Lights series of video projection has Julia Calabrese. It's on the building wall at 411 NW Park 5PM-9ish
The Ace Hotel has started a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Brin and Christi Denton. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8
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
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. 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, in cold Winter earlier
