Friday, June 29, 2018
June 30 Seedy
Albina is one of Portland's oldest neighborhoods and was an independent city at one time. It's been thoroughly destroyed by highways, railroads and access to the river blocked by large industrial facilities and ruins. It's polluted too. There are a few old buildings in the neighborhood for a sense of what was: the old Widmer building, Beam and Anchor, some buildings on Russell, the old Ripe Family Dinner building, and some are artist work spaces. The North Coast Seed Building is one, a complex of artist studios in Albina. Today is their annual open studios, most of the artists open their studios. They also have a large solar array on the roof! Strongly recommended. May not be perfectly wheel chair accessible. At 2127 N. Albina Noon-8 Free
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
June 28 On Film
Tatsuo Takei is an Osaka-based surfing photographer who travels the world shooting on film. If you have seen the film Endless Summer, his work has that feel. He drops his book Authentic Wave in Portland tonight. It is a history of classic longboard surfing. He has been traveling to California for 20 years and living the #vanlife for three months a year shooting it.
He has worked hard to find the 60's cars and casual shots that make the best surfing seem effortless. The film is graded to the classic Kodachrome and very noisy Tri-X vintage look. He shoots Super 8 and stills on vintage cameras too. The film version of Authentic Wave has a pretty goofy 50s-60s jiggly jangly soundtrack. It's a great complement to his short on surfer Tommy Witt.
At Leeward, 2504 NE Sandy 7PM Free
He has worked hard to find the 60's cars and casual shots that make the best surfing seem effortless. The film is graded to the classic Kodachrome and very noisy Tri-X vintage look. He shoots Super 8 and stills on vintage cameras too. The film version of Authentic Wave has a pretty goofy 50s-60s jiggly jangly soundtrack. It's a great complement to his short on surfer Tommy Witt.
At Leeward, 2504 NE Sandy 7PM Free
Friday, June 22, 2018
June 23 Home School Field Day
Field Day is an arts event, primarily performance, organized by Home School. All the infos, there's a lot: http://homeschoolpdx.tumblr.com/. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock 2PM-8 Free
June 22-23 A Hiddur Mitzvah: My Own Saviour, I Do
A Hiddur Mitzvah: My Own Saviour, I Do is a 24 hour media installation by Kello Goeller. It is her personal impressionist meditation on the 24 hour (x 7 x 365 x hope it ends soon!) media culture.
Seminal cultural theorist Bill McKibben, with a career spanning the New Yorker and 350.org, undertook a similar labor with his 1992 Age of Missing Information project. Since, the media has greatly perfected its hooks, daggers, triggers and assault on privacy as well as assault on identity.
Goeller's project is more Joycean, filtered through the lens of a working media art maker in today's culture. The source material is primarily a long accumulation of artist-made source footage, not commercial footage.
Goeller brings the Jewish spiritual philosophy practice of hiddur mitzvah to the making and viewing the video. It is a sharpening and deepening exercise. The 25 hour event is contextualized within the tradition of Sabbath and the ritual of Shabbat.
Friday at 8:45PM ritual candles will be enflamed and blessings over bread and wine entoned. Then there will be a short performance by Goeller. The 24 hour video begins at 9PM. Ending the cycle Saturday at 9PM there will be a one hour discussion with the artist.
Goeller is a great experimental artist. We are always excited when they make larger projects with funding and collaborators. Sight unseen, this might be an example.
The exhibit space requests you contact them by private message ahiddurmitzvah@gmail.com to experience the installation late night or morning. The venue has stairs. Please contact as soon as you can for ADA accessibility.
It is in a private residence.
At My Apartment Wall http://www.megangraceharned.com/my-apartment-wall/ 6804 SE Pardee 8:45PM Friday to 10PM Saturday
Seminal cultural theorist Bill McKibben, with a career spanning the New Yorker and 350.org, undertook a similar labor with his 1992 Age of Missing Information project. Since, the media has greatly perfected its hooks, daggers, triggers and assault on privacy as well as assault on identity.
Goeller's project is more Joycean, filtered through the lens of a working media art maker in today's culture. The source material is primarily a long accumulation of artist-made source footage, not commercial footage.
Goeller brings the Jewish spiritual philosophy practice of hiddur mitzvah to the making and viewing the video. It is a sharpening and deepening exercise. The 25 hour event is contextualized within the tradition of Sabbath and the ritual of Shabbat.
Friday at 8:45PM ritual candles will be enflamed and blessings over bread and wine entoned. Then there will be a short performance by Goeller. The 24 hour video begins at 9PM. Ending the cycle Saturday at 9PM there will be a one hour discussion with the artist.
Goeller is a great experimental artist. We are always excited when they make larger projects with funding and collaborators. Sight unseen, this might be an example.
The exhibit space requests you contact them by private message ahiddurmitzvah@gmail.com to experience the installation late night or morning. The venue has stairs. Please contact as soon as you can for ADA accessibility.
It is in a private residence.
At My Apartment Wall http://www.megangraceharned.com/my-apartment-wall/ 6804 SE Pardee 8:45PM Friday to 10PM Saturday
Thursday, June 21, 2018
June 22 Meet Brand Colors
Where We Meet is a show of artists Ektor Garcia and Pei-Hsuan Wang guest curated by Little Rock's Good Weather Gallery. The Chicken Coop Gallery openings are leisurely and a good opportunity for conversation and a snack. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 5PM-8 Free
Vala Rae is a collaborative exhibition and brand launch by Jessie Rose Vala and Emily Rae Counts of functional ceramics. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
Colors So True is the first solo exhibition by photographer Clifford Prince King from LA. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
Vala Rae is a collaborative exhibition and brand launch by Jessie Rose Vala and Emily Rae Counts of functional ceramics. At Dust to Dust http://dusttodust.space 3636B N Mississippi - inside Beacon Sound Map 6PM-8 Free
Colors So True is the first solo exhibition by photographer Clifford Prince King from LA. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 6PM-8 Free
June 21 The Bern
Amy Bernstein is a smart arts writer and a unique painter. Tonight she is the guest artist selecting a work at the Portland Art Museum and discussing her response to it. The event is limited to an intimate group, so suggest getting tickets on the Art Museum website in advance. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park. 6PM-8 $5 members, $19.99 non-members (includes museum admission)
Saturday, June 09, 2018
June 9 La La Land
LA is strongly connected with the emergence of Pop Surrealism - Lowbrow Art - at La Luz de Jesus Gallery and 01. The expansion of that movement of primarily self taught artists-illustrators is the "New Contemporary Art" movement promoted by Culver City's Thinkspace, and is closely connected with Juxtapoz Magazine. Hi Fructose travels the same terrain. Thinkspace has been guesting itself into cities around the world to promote the movement. Thinkspace frames it as the West Coast vs the "rabid ‘conceptual-turn’" in East Coast art. Most of the art is presented without narrative.
The LA/PDX show includes 80 artists promoted by the gallery, and includes some Portlanders. But the style will be familiar from Backspace, Jason Brown at Goodfoot, Playground PDX, Compound and Hellion.
LA/PDX www.antlerpdx.com/pages/laxpdx at Antler Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2728 NE Alberta 6PM-11 Free
The LA/PDX show includes 80 artists promoted by the gallery, and includes some Portlanders. But the style will be familiar from Backspace, Jason Brown at Goodfoot, Playground PDX, Compound and Hellion.
LA/PDX www.antlerpdx.com/pages/laxpdx at Antler Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2728 NE Alberta 6PM-11 Free
Friday, June 08, 2018
June 8 Expired Research
Lisa Radon is a Portland writer, poet and artist. She has Research and Development, sculptures and a reading. It is the result of her residency at ANX which offers access to otherwise very difficult to engage fabrication facilities. At adxportland.com ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6:30PM Free
Grapefruits has been having a good run with guest curators. This is that, Expired Recollection, photographs by Lula Durango and Roman Lopez. There will be live music at the opening too. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-9 Free
Grapefruits has been having a good run with guest curators. This is that, Expired Recollection, photographs by Lula Durango and Roman Lopez. There will be live music at the opening too. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
June 7 Portland Chinatown Museum
The Portland Chinatown Museum opens tonight with a photography show by Dean Wong. Raised in Seattle's Chinatown as second generation, he is the first artist in residence at the Portland Chinatown Museum. He is also the creator of the book Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown. More on the photographer: www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2016/08/22/24492606/dean-wong-has-been-the-portraitist-of-chinatown-for-four-decadesand-he-is-so-not-done and lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/why-chinatown-still-matters/.
Recommended. At the Portland Chinatown Museum https://www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org/ 127 NW 3rd. 4PM-8 early close Free
Recommended. At the Portland Chinatown Museum https://www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org/ 127 NW 3rd. 4PM-8 early close Free
June 7 Westside Art Openings
Portland galleries get serious in the Spring and Fall. They rest in December-January and August. This month, some of our galleries are getting very serious.
Since retiring as chief curator for the Art Museum, and the architect of the Museum upping its contemporary game, building relationships with the Broad Foundation and perfecting the use of the Simon Norton Wynn-Bacon rule, we haven't heard much from Bruce Guenther. He continues to make an art mark for Portland, curating R.B. Kitaj: A Jew Etc., Etc. It contextualizes the work of the contemporary painter who lived from 1932-2007. The show is focused on his later work, much made after significant shows in Europe. He left Europe after anti-Semitic attacks surrounding a major show at the Tate. England, the world's nation, has significant immigration owing its days as empire. That diversity is sadly met by xenophobia to this day, as we are having here. At the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
The Elisabeth Jones Art Center is an issue-focused gallery. They have a show by native artists associated with the Standing Rock resistance to an oil pipeline. That oil pipeline drains the Bakken Formation to Texas for export. There are several other projects in the opening of this new space. At the Elisabeth Jones Art Center elisabethjones.art 516 N.W. 14th 5PM-8 early close Free
Fueled by a Schnitzer grant, Blue Sky is expanding beyond their local open source curation committee with this show. It is curated out of New York and includes a fellowship. The first two artists are Cinthya Santos-Briones and Daesha Devón Harris. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Food, Fashion and Capital Punnishment is a show of paintings on plates by Julie Green, OSU art professor. It complements her ongoing work The Last Supper, over 800 paintings of the last meal requested by death row inmates. She has started a new project, The First Supper, the first meals of individuals released from imprisonment. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The Book is a Body that Bends is a new show by minimal conceptualists Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. This is 2d and 3d work themed on the printed and bound book. They are good artists to get to know the work of in this genre. We don't track the Window Project, but noticed this month it is Emily Nachison with Gemini, glass sculpture. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
The PNCA thesis show has been up since commencement, but many artists will be there on this first Thursday. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-10 Free
Willimason Knight has paintings by Annie Swiderski in show Pom-Palm. The artist made pigments from soil. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Leach vintage work by Portland-born Richard Diebenkorn and a retrospective of Lee Kelly who continues to work from his country studio. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a group show of late career and vintage prints Face: 20th Century Portraits. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM 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-10ish 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: Heather Perkins, Reliqs, Wallflower. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Since retiring as chief curator for the Art Museum, and the architect of the Museum upping its contemporary game, building relationships with the Broad Foundation and perfecting the use of the Simon Norton Wynn-Bacon rule, we haven't heard much from Bruce Guenther. He continues to make an art mark for Portland, curating R.B. Kitaj: A Jew Etc., Etc. It contextualizes the work of the contemporary painter who lived from 1932-2007. The show is focused on his later work, much made after significant shows in Europe. He left Europe after anti-Semitic attacks surrounding a major show at the Tate. England, the world's nation, has significant immigration owing its days as empire. That diversity is sadly met by xenophobia to this day, as we are having here. At the Oregon Jewish Museum www.ojmche.org 724 NW Davis 6PM-8 Free First Thursday
The Elisabeth Jones Art Center is an issue-focused gallery. They have a show by native artists associated with the Standing Rock resistance to an oil pipeline. That oil pipeline drains the Bakken Formation to Texas for export. There are several other projects in the opening of this new space. At the Elisabeth Jones Art Center elisabethjones.art 516 N.W. 14th 5PM-8 early close Free
Fueled by a Schnitzer grant, Blue Sky is expanding beyond their local open source curation committee with this show. It is curated out of New York and includes a fellowship. The first two artists are Cinthya Santos-Briones and Daesha Devón Harris. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Food, Fashion and Capital Punnishment is a show of paintings on plates by Julie Green, OSU art professor. It complements her ongoing work The Last Supper, over 800 paintings of the last meal requested by death row inmates. She has started a new project, The First Supper, the first meals of individuals released from imprisonment. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The Book is a Body that Bends is a new show by minimal conceptualists Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. This is 2d and 3d work themed on the printed and bound book. They are good artists to get to know the work of in this genre. We don't track the Window Project, but noticed this month it is Emily Nachison with Gemini, glass sculpture. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
The PNCA thesis show has been up since commencement, but many artists will be there on this first Thursday. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-10 Free
Willimason Knight has paintings by Annie Swiderski in show Pom-Palm. The artist made pigments from soil. At Williamson|Knight williamsonknight.com 916 NW Flanders 6pm-8 early close Free
Leach vintage work by Portland-born Richard Diebenkorn and a retrospective of Lee Kelly who continues to work from his country studio. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Augen has a group show of late career and vintage prints Face: 20th Century Portraits. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM 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-10ish 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: Heather Perkins, Reliqs, Wallflower. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, June 02, 2018
June 3 Coop Delight
The Sunset Ceases to Delight by Royce Allen Hobbs is a minimal sculpture installation. At Chicken Coop Contemporary www.chickencoopcontemporary.com 12400 SE Knapp 4PM-7 Free
Friday, June 01, 2018
June 2 Tidal
Wobbly Dance is a Portland couple who travel by wheelchair. But that does not stop them from performing contemporary dance. When you think about it, it's the most radical dance happening in Portland. They perform live from time to time and they make dance productions on video. Tidal is their newest. Here is an explanation:
"The new dance film Tidal is a collaboration among Wobbly Dance, cinematographer Ian Lucero, costume designer Jenny Ampersand, and musicians Sweetmeat. It’s “a fantastical film, where breathing masks transform into diving masks, ventilator tubing morphs into costumes, and an ancient diver who calls the ocean home, draws us into his world. We fall, we dream, we dive. We transform from human to jellyfish and everything in between. This film is a continuation of the exploration of Wobbly’s dark, dream-like and sometimes absurd aesthetic. Starring Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson as the Dreamers, Nathan H.G. as the Diver, and Grant Miller as the Forager.”
The work reminds of the surreal scenes in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Recommended.
You can see it free tonight at New Expressive Works, formerly Zoomtopia 810 SE Belmont. 6:30PM Free
"The new dance film Tidal is a collaboration among Wobbly Dance, cinematographer Ian Lucero, costume designer Jenny Ampersand, and musicians Sweetmeat. It’s “a fantastical film, where breathing masks transform into diving masks, ventilator tubing morphs into costumes, and an ancient diver who calls the ocean home, draws us into his world. We fall, we dream, we dive. We transform from human to jellyfish and everything in between. This film is a continuation of the exploration of Wobbly’s dark, dream-like and sometimes absurd aesthetic. Starring Yulia Arakelyan and Erik Ferguson as the Dreamers, Nathan H.G. as the Diver, and Grant Miller as the Forager.”
The work reminds of the surreal scenes in Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. Recommended.
You can see it free tonight at New Expressive Works, formerly Zoomtopia 810 SE Belmont. 6:30PM Free
June 2 Tender Tough
Lindsey Cuenca Walker has paintings Tough and Tender. At a rare evening opening at Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 6PM-8 Free
June 1 Eastside Art Openings
The Feeling Remains the Same Even After the Glitter Fades are abstract watercolors by Jess Curran. At a new garage-gallery, Portland has had several notable ones, 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-9 Free
Kendra Binney, Marisa Govin, Jaclyn Evalds and Alison Grayson explore the theme of emergence. It has to do withe the idea of expressive headdresses. There is a nice explanation at reduxpdx.com/artists/. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box has group show Color Space. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
30 From 10 is a group show of 30 artists from 10 years of Fraction: www.fractionmagazine.com. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Judith René Sturdevant has a show of colorful sculpture installations, Oracle. They are in the windows of the shop, so viewable a variety of times beyond the opening. It's at Adam Arnold's spot 338 SE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-8 Free
Platinum Blend 4 is a group show of artists Stephanie Chefas has collected over the years. So it is a one stop shop to see how this gallery thinks. 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
True Measure is the artist studio Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. They are doing more shows of guest artists, including this month's Dinosaur group show. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Jeremy Brooks and Mike Stumbras have Threadbare, contracting contemporary and baroque styles of ceramics. Chanda Zea has contemporary soft geometric mixed media incorporating ceramics. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
One Grand Gallery has a group show benefitting a local cancer hospital. The work is international. It is organized by the group that runs Hood to Coast, so it may be graphic design-influenced. One Grand's openings can be fun. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
Kendra Binney, Marisa Govin, Jaclyn Evalds and Alison Grayson explore the theme of emergence. It has to do withe the idea of expressive headdresses. There is a nice explanation at reduxpdx.com/artists/. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Black Box has group show Color Space. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free
All at 811 East Burnside Map
30 From 10 is a group show of 30 artists from 10 years of Fraction: www.fractionmagazine.com. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
Judith René Sturdevant has a show of colorful sculpture installations, Oracle. They are in the windows of the shop, so viewable a variety of times beyond the opening. It's at Adam Arnold's spot 338 SE Martin Luther King Blvd. 6PM-8 Free
Platinum Blend 4 is a group show of artists Stephanie Chefas has collected over the years. So it is a one stop shop to see how this gallery thinks. 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
True Measure is the artist studio Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. They are doing more shows of guest artists, including this month's Dinosaur group show. At True Measure truemeasuregallery.com 3022 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
Jeremy Brooks and Mike Stumbras have Threadbare, contracting contemporary and baroque styles of ceramics. Chanda Zea has contemporary soft geometric mixed media incorporating ceramics. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
One Grand Gallery has a group show benefitting a local cancer hospital. The work is international. It is organized by the group that runs Hood to Coast, so it may be graphic design-influenced. One Grand's openings can be fun. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7PM-10 Free
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