November 19-21 Seattle Butoh Festival

Butoh is a strange dance performance style. Up in Seattle they are having a 3 day festival of performance and workshops. One of the performers visiting is Vangaline from New York City. Her book offers a contextualization of the performance process in feminism and neuroscience. Events at https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/seattle-butoh-festival. Yaw Theaterin Seattle Georgetown 6520 5th Ave S $20+

November 13 Longest Dry Cleaning Origin

Yellena James has poppy paintings that may be sea life or land plants, Origin. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Free 1PM-6 

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Emmanuela Soria Ruiz opens The Longest Leg, video work. At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 5PM-8 Free 

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The UK brings quartet Dry Cleaning to Portland. Their music video for Strong Feelings is great glitch video work, inspired by discrete cosine encoding errors, over their solid instrumental rhythms. Their breakout was Magic of Meghan an abstract reaction to royals Americans can never understand. Two of the members of the band are art professors, including the talk lyrics singer. At Vitalidad Movement Center 116 SE Yamhill Doors 8PM $25

November 6 Softwood Landscapes, Water Murmurs, Bottoms Up Proximities

Three new shows take Adams and Ollman Gallery to mid-December when the pandemic should be over amiright?

Joy Feasley has Lysuslukker, abstract and impressionistic romantic landscapes, paintings and silk screen on photographs. Emma cc Cook has impressionistic black, grey and white landscape paintings of barns and billboards in the countryside of her base in Austin and around the Midwest and South. Vince Skelly has In Between, softwood sculptures. 

At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free

Natalie Ball collaborates with artist Annelia Hillman in Water:NFS, themed on water problems in the Klamath Basin. The artists speak at 6. Lucy Cotter is a well known curator. This is her last show of her curatorial residency at Oregon Contemporary. It is Proximities, a rehearsal, an archive by Katarina Zdjelar of Serbia. She represented Serbia at the 2009 Venice Biennale. 

At the Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan  www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free

A group show, Nobody's Fool, closes tonight. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate#2. 5PM-8 Free

Bottoms Up by Jeremy LeGrand, and Murmurs by Nathanael Moss, open. The works of each are colorful and graphic. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free

November 4 Westside Art Openings

November First Thursday is much like October, few in person items. 

Blue Sky is open in person. Likely Blackfish and PDX are open. Leach is live-streaming artist interviews.