Many galleries continue openings from last month.
Eileen Isagon Skyers has Eyes Without A Face. It an obvious and topical examination of Internet and social media voluntary surveillance. And it wins the copywriting award for the month.
"We have a tendency to approach the verisimilitudes of computers and other non-human intelligence with a striking amount of unearned trust. Todays AI mimics the dynamic relationships we engage in with other people, using elements of our input to both soothe and comfort us at all times. Plotting techniques for facial analysis render bright, minimal geometries over the face — a seemingly perfect recalculation of facial specificity. We have grown to rely on this, desperately ensnared by the elaborately orchestrated mirror that always recognizes us, always tells us what we want to hear, and shows precisely what we want to see. In search of reflections, we glean together the distorted elements of a self.
Taking its title from her recent essay by the same name, this exhibition evokes the beyond — or other-than networked self—as-something-necessary, and yet no longer fully known, or understood."
At Williamson | Knight 916 NW Flanders early close. Early Close 6PM-8 Free
En Foco Photography Fellowships are a curatorial process in New York State with Blue Sky, odd. Their selectees are here this month. Read if you like on the Blue Sky website. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
The Ace Hotel has 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: Dweomer, Adaptive Machines and System Lords. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.
It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by Sidony O'Neal and Tropic Green from Florida and LA. Marvels https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/performance-tropic-green/?instance_id=29304 At the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free
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
