The MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture closes Hoşçakal with their coda artist talk. At the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture until May 29. Fri, Sat, Sun 2505 SE 11th Ave Suite 233 1PM Free
Zezza closes their video installation by Chinese artist Yang Fudong. In a warehouse downtown. It is not entirely mobility accessible on all floors, contact the organizers if you need that. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock & McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 2PM-4 Free
Our lovely friends 1122 are back with A Creeping Normality by Claire Elliott & Asa Mease, paintings. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free
Miroslav Skorik, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky and Boris Lyatoshinsky are Ukrainian musical composers. Chamber Music Portland perform them in a benefit concert. Masks and vax. At All Saints Episcopal Church 4033 SE Woodstock. 7PM Direct donations to organizations working in Ukraine: International Committee of the Red Cross, UNICEF, Mercy Corps requested
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Friday, April 29, 2022
April 29 - May 1 Get Your Motor Runnin'
Motorcycles. The One Moto event is the See See take on mororcycles. It's hipster motorcycle engagement. They have a sprawling trade show focused on custom bikes, spectator events, and ride yourself events. It's not specifically art, but it is a slice of Portland culture. Info at https://www.the1moto.com. $15-100
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
April 28 Here to Stay
Lori Damiano https://www.loridamiano.com/ is the new Stumptown artist fellowship awardee. She is a multiartist of illustration, animation, textiles; an educator too; CalArts schooled. She has a special interest in female identified skateboarders. As part of a collective she made Getting Nowhere Faster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrNk-StycQY in 2004 post dating the 2001 Dogtown and the Z-Boys based on 1970's footage.
The Stumptown fellowship is well respected and their openings are recommended. The shows are up for long enough you can stop in for coffeetime to see them.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
April 28-30 Graveyards Gardens Memories Remedies
If you like your music new, in a unique space, and with abstract dance, you might like Graveyards and Gardens, music by Caroline Shaw, movement by Vanessa Goodman, in the Bodecker skate bowl.
Caroline Shaw https://carolineshaw.com/ is a composer noted for being the youngest Pulitzer awardee for music. She is a prolific composer and collaborator. Her instruments are violin and voice. Her compositions have expanded to other instruments and up to date spoken word samples and electronic effects on the voice as an instrument.
Tonight her work Graveyards and Gardens is a collaboration with modern dancer Vanessa Goodman. Shaw is based on the East Coast, and Goodman on the West Coast in Vancouver, BC.
A description wins our copywriting award: "A dance. A concert. A curious analogue-driven performance experience. A visual and sonic album of reconstructed memories and distortions. Revealed in an immersive environment of nature and technology. The warm glow lure of antiquated innovations and embodied experience. It’s a living album that continues to fold and unfold into itself. Digging deep into the beauty of how the body remembers." I saw this, it is strongly recommended.
Graveyards and Gardens https://www.graveyardsandgardens.com/ presented by Third Angle thirdangle.org at the Boedecker Foundation https://bodeckerfoundation.org/. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=4&p=91.
2360 N.W. Quimby Map Thursday, Friday & Saturday 7:30PM, Saturday 3PM $5, $10, $30, $35
Caroline Shaw https://carolineshaw.com/ is a composer noted for being the youngest Pulitzer awardee for music. She is a prolific composer and collaborator. Her instruments are violin and voice. Her compositions have expanded to other instruments and up to date spoken word samples and electronic effects on the voice as an instrument.
Tonight her work Graveyards and Gardens is a collaboration with modern dancer Vanessa Goodman. Shaw is based on the East Coast, and Goodman on the West Coast in Vancouver, BC.
A description wins our copywriting award: "A dance. A concert. A curious analogue-driven performance experience. A visual and sonic album of reconstructed memories and distortions. Revealed in an immersive environment of nature and technology. The warm glow lure of antiquated innovations and embodied experience. It’s a living album that continues to fold and unfold into itself. Digging deep into the beauty of how the body remembers." I saw this, it is strongly recommended.
Graveyards and Gardens https://www.graveyardsandgardens.com/ presented by Third Angle thirdangle.org at the Boedecker Foundation https://bodeckerfoundation.org/. Tickets https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=4&p=91.
2360 N.W. Quimby Map Thursday, Friday & Saturday 7:30PM, Saturday 3PM $5, $10, $30, $35
April 27 Girls and Boys Together
The Thorns and Timbers play a coed match today. Each team fielded will be coed. It is a benefit for UNICEF in Ukraine. It is https://www.timbers.com/thornsfc/news/ptfc-for-peace-how-to-watch-attend-and-support-tonight-s-special-charity-match. Doors 5PM, match 6.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
April 23 The universal solvent as metal
To End It All, with dirges, doom, death industrial, dark ambient, and art song visits from Seattle, Throbbing Gristle, Wax Traks and the 80s. It includes members of Eye of Nix and Serpentent. They bring butoh player Vanessa Skantze, a force of nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BekLUwNBmEw Also performing is Hail, with a metal set, JWW, and Zvi. Proof of vaccination required for entry. At Azøth NE Sandy Blvd & 87th. 8PM $10-20
Friday, April 22, 2022
April 23 Nuestro Camino, Nuestros Antepasados
This is a visual art show and street fair. The visual art show, closing today, with 13 artists, is inspired by the ancestors. The gallery opens at 2 with Mariachi Mexico En La Piel and Faded Memories Car Club & Impalas Portland in the street, 3 an Aztec ceremony & Dance performed by Huehca Omeyocan, 4 bands Caicedo & Gata Galactica, 6:45 drag with Perra Desgraciada and 7 to 9 DJ Global Based. At Tuck Lung Gallery
140 NW 4th and on the street. 2PM-9 Free
April 22-23 Battery-Powered Polyphony
Experimental musician Naoyuki Arashi ~ ASUNA https://sites.google.com/site/aaaaasunaaaaa/ is always laying down new work. It has been so since her teen punk time.
A 'wall of synths," paralleling Coltrane's "wall of sound" referred to a dizzying array of knobs and wires in the Moog days. ASUNA brings a floor of keyboards in work "100 Keyboards." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh3H6x1GFn4. It is on tour.
100 plastic portable keyboards change pitch as their batteries run down. It takes up part of a warehouse for two evenings here to walk around with your ears.
"100 Keyboards is a live music performance/installation featuring as the title implies over 100 keyboards. This performance focuses on the phenomenon of “interference sound," the complex distribution of sound pressure and other parameters as sound waves of the same frequency but with a different direction of transmission overlap. As each keyboard plays a sustained note of a certain pitch, and as the number of notes increases, a “moiré of sound” is created. The auditory experience is akin to weaving an individual “textile pattern" (the original meaning of “moiré") and a sound equivalent to the visual “moiré effect.” As you change the direction of your ears while listening, or move to a different location, the complex, interfering sounds and resonances in space will produce a different aural pattern composed of buzzes, loops, and beats, unique to each location. Most of the keyboards being played are inexpensive products or made as toys, so the pitch/tuning of each key may be slightly off and fluctuate slightly in pitch when played for a length of time. This slight misalignment creates the complex resonance" - the artist.
At 15 NE Hancock 6PM $5 Arts for All/Students ... $10 General Sliding Scale ... $20 General Sliding Scale ... $25 True Cost
A 'wall of synths," paralleling Coltrane's "wall of sound" referred to a dizzying array of knobs and wires in the Moog days. ASUNA brings a floor of keyboards in work "100 Keyboards." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh3H6x1GFn4. It is on tour.
100 plastic portable keyboards change pitch as their batteries run down. It takes up part of a warehouse for two evenings here to walk around with your ears.
"100 Keyboards is a live music performance/installation featuring as the title implies over 100 keyboards. This performance focuses on the phenomenon of “interference sound," the complex distribution of sound pressure and other parameters as sound waves of the same frequency but with a different direction of transmission overlap. As each keyboard plays a sustained note of a certain pitch, and as the number of notes increases, a “moiré of sound” is created. The auditory experience is akin to weaving an individual “textile pattern" (the original meaning of “moiré") and a sound equivalent to the visual “moiré effect.” As you change the direction of your ears while listening, or move to a different location, the complex, interfering sounds and resonances in space will produce a different aural pattern composed of buzzes, loops, and beats, unique to each location. Most of the keyboards being played are inexpensive products or made as toys, so the pitch/tuning of each key may be slightly off and fluctuate slightly in pitch when played for a length of time. This slight misalignment creates the complex resonance" - the artist.
At 15 NE Hancock 6PM $5 Arts for All/Students ... $10 General Sliding Scale ... $20 General Sliding Scale ... $25 True Cost
April 22 Home Bird
"Home Bird is about paying respect to the peace and quiet of the place and the people that kept me going while the world was falling apart," is what Eliza Ivanova is saying by drawing. She was born in Bulgaria, studied at Calarts, and works in California. She is a multi-artist illustrator and animator. Nucleus engaged her in California early, continuing with this show. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-7 Free
Thursday, April 21, 2022
April 21 Vision Quest
The Photolucida Portfolio Walk is back, masked and vaxed. 75 internatinally curated photographers show their work to the public. Photolucida Portfolio viewing https://www.photolucida.org/portland-photo-month/events/ in the Fields Ballroom of the Portland Art Museum 1119 SW Park 6PM-9 Free
Friday, April 15, 2022
April 15 Collapse and Rebirth Art Fills the Void
The MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture has paintings, Hoşçakal, by principals Ilknur Demirkoparan and Vuslat D. Katsanis. It is Portland and Turkey connecting. At the MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture until May 29. Fri, Sat, Sun 2505 SE 11th Ave Suite 233 1PM-5 Free
Several spaces are open tonight at 3450 N Williams. They show art until the developer finds proper tenants, while marketing the building as hip. 6PM-9 Free
Several spaces are open tonight at 3450 N Williams. They show art until the developer finds proper tenants, while marketing the building as hip. 6PM-9 Free
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
April 14 Darkness Darkness
The 45th Parallel Universe presents a variety of music on acoustic instruments. Some is classic chamber music, some modern, experimental, and genre-bending too. Tonight they have a modern piece, the String Quartet No. 3, by G.F. Haas. It will be performed in total darkness, as it was intended. They have several groups of musicians throughout their concert year, depending on the score. Tonight it is the Pyxis Quartet. Concert In the Dark https://www.45thparallelpdx.org/concerts/in-the-dark at PICA 15 NE Hancock 7PM $25
Saturday, April 09, 2022
April 10 Revolution
Some classical music, meaning scored music where the paper scores survived, like the written word which survived for literature, was pop music in its time. That included chamber music improvised in a jam.
Even big famous works, that required a lot of money to stage with a symphony, were savaged by critics in their time. An amusing collection of those is in the book A Lexicon of the Musical Invective. The author of that Nicolas Slonimsky, https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/slonimsky-nicolas-nikolai-leonidovich, outlived his own critics to age 101. It is worth an entertaining read if you think classical music is boring.
Classical Revolution PDX takes a lighthearted accessible approach to classical music here. They have classical music open mics and they are back.
Classical Revolution PDX https://www.classicalrevolutionpdx.org instantiates their monthly chamber jam tonight at The Waypost, 3120 N. Williams 6:30PM-9 Free
Even big famous works, that required a lot of money to stage with a symphony, were savaged by critics in their time. An amusing collection of those is in the book A Lexicon of the Musical Invective. The author of that Nicolas Slonimsky, https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/slonimsky-nicolas-nikolai-leonidovich, outlived his own critics to age 101. It is worth an entertaining read if you think classical music is boring.
Classical Revolution PDX takes a lighthearted accessible approach to classical music here. They have classical music open mics and they are back.
Classical Revolution PDX https://www.classicalrevolutionpdx.org instantiates their monthly chamber jam tonight at The Waypost, 3120 N. Williams 6:30PM-9 Free
Friday, April 08, 2022
April 9 ¡Superheroes!
Signals & Mysteries: Photographs from Chicago Public Schools are portraits now by late career artist Melissa Ann Pinney. It will be looked back upon perhaps as the boom-Covid-BLM era. The artist speaks in the gallery in person at noon. Registration on Eventbrite required https://www.blueskygallery.org/programs-events/2022/4/9/artist-talk-melissa-ann-pinney. I would suggest watching her talk when it goes up on the Blue Sky YouTube channel. It gives a lot of context to each photo.
The Photolucida Critical Mass award is a big thing. Federico Estol from Uraguay won the Blue Sky solo show award this year. His project is Shine Heroes/Héroes del Brillo.
The project "started three years ago as he began engaging with the shoe shiners of Bolivia. There are 3,000 shoe shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz and El Alto suburbs each day in search of clients. They are from all ages and in recent years have become a social phenomenon in the Bolivian capital.
What characterizes this tribe is the use of ski masks so they will not be recognized by those around them. They confront the discrimination they face through these masks; in their neighborhoods no one knows that they work as shoe shiners, at school they hide this fact, and even their own families believe they have a different job when they head down to the center of the city from El Alto.
Estol collaborated with sixty shoe shiners associated with the shoe shiners newspaper "Hormigón Armado" with the idea to create a photobook. Together they planned the scenes during a series of graphic novel workshops depicting the new Andean architecture of El Alto as its background. In this process, the shine heroes became both producers and protagonists of a street-style photobook to fight against a social stigma.
Today this group makes its living primarily from selling the photobook and postcards of the project more than from being shoe shiners. This casts light on the possibilites of art in transforming discrimination into a sign of struggle and survival that could ultimately help promote social integration."
It is a modern superhero social practice art admix! The photographer speaks April 20, 6PM advance registration on Eventbrite required https://www.blueskygallery.org/programs-events/2022/4/9/artist-talk-melissa-ann-pinney-rl9sy
The Nines Gallery has Georgiana Nehl, longtime former instructor at OCAC, with Centering and Encircling.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 11AM-5PM Free
I'm sure there are aliens and I'm sure they haven't visited Earth. But if they did, they would be the 3d drippy amoeba sculptures of Dan Lam. She uses some kind of flow foam then decorates them with spiky cilia in jucy and flouro colors. She has a new series of flat blobs that remind of our new awareneness of microorganisms of late. These have bright color, while microorganmisms have little.
At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free
The big CAP auction art party is tonight. All the info is at https://www.capartauction.org/. Doors 5PM, art auction video stream 7. Dance party 8. At the Convention Center Hyatt 375 NE Holladay $55-300
The Photolucida Critical Mass award is a big thing. Federico Estol from Uraguay won the Blue Sky solo show award this year. His project is Shine Heroes/Héroes del Brillo.
The project "started three years ago as he began engaging with the shoe shiners of Bolivia. There are 3,000 shoe shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz and El Alto suburbs each day in search of clients. They are from all ages and in recent years have become a social phenomenon in the Bolivian capital.
What characterizes this tribe is the use of ski masks so they will not be recognized by those around them. They confront the discrimination they face through these masks; in their neighborhoods no one knows that they work as shoe shiners, at school they hide this fact, and even their own families believe they have a different job when they head down to the center of the city from El Alto.
Estol collaborated with sixty shoe shiners associated with the shoe shiners newspaper "Hormigón Armado" with the idea to create a photobook. Together they planned the scenes during a series of graphic novel workshops depicting the new Andean architecture of El Alto as its background. In this process, the shine heroes became both producers and protagonists of a street-style photobook to fight against a social stigma.
Today this group makes its living primarily from selling the photobook and postcards of the project more than from being shoe shiners. This casts light on the possibilites of art in transforming discrimination into a sign of struggle and survival that could ultimately help promote social integration."
It is a modern superhero social practice art admix! The photographer speaks April 20, 6PM advance registration on Eventbrite required https://www.blueskygallery.org/programs-events/2022/4/9/artist-talk-melissa-ann-pinney-rl9sy
The Nines Gallery has Georgiana Nehl, longtime former instructor at OCAC, with Centering and Encircling.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th Map 11AM-5PM Free
I'm sure there are aliens and I'm sure they haven't visited Earth. But if they did, they would be the 3d drippy amoeba sculptures of Dan Lam. She uses some kind of flow foam then decorates them with spiky cilia in jucy and flouro colors. She has a new series of flat blobs that remind of our new awareneness of microorganisms of late. These have bright color, while microorganmisms have little.
At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 5PM-8 Free
The big CAP auction art party is tonight. All the info is at https://www.capartauction.org/. Doors 5PM, art auction video stream 7. Dance party 8. At the Convention Center Hyatt 375 NE Holladay $55-300
April 8 Ambient Drawers Now
It is a homecoming tonight at Eutectic. Kat and Roger lived in Portland, now they are in the LA area. Roger was an early employee of Mudshark Studios adjacent to Eutectic.
They make functional art pots, they have production lines cast by Mudshark, and they have a line of tile at Pratt and Larsen. Roger makes the shape and Kat glazes the pattern. It is reminiscent of SW native pottery patterns or mid-20th century design. It will probably be collected hence.
The show is Here and Now https://eutecticgallery.com/show/eutectic-gallery-here-and-now At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 5PM-7 Free
Blue Sky splits their opening between tonight for the NW Photography Drawers and tomorrow for the main shows. The drawers are a multi-artist selection you can take an afternoon examining with white gloves. This 15th year was curated by Portland's Dru Donovan, and New York's Efrem Zelony-Mindell.
Artists are Jon Bagby, Candace Biggerstaff, Nika Blasser, Heather Boyd, Carolyn Kay Chema, Daniel Ciochina, Meghan Crandall, Elisabeth Dare, Misha Davydov, Danielle Dean, Dennis DeHart, Lucas DeShazer, Marico Fayre, Jon Feinstein, Kevin Fletcher, John Francis, David Frazier, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Conner Gordon, Lauren Grabelle, Tyler Green, Darwin Grey, Anna Guyton, Mick Hangland-Skill, Megan Hansen, Justine Highsmith, Kristy Hruska, Melinda Hurst Frye, Natalie Jenks, John Kane, Tom Kay, John Kirkley, Cheston Knapp, Zachary Krahmer, Laura Kurtenbach, Cole Lalomia, Adam Long, Brad Messinger, Loren Nelson, Chris Nesseth, Janet Neuhauser, Angel O'Brien, Jody Poorwill, Matthew Ragen, Michael Raines, Stan Raucher, Thibault Roland, Isaac Sachs, Darcie Sternenberg, Sharon Swanson, Jocelle Rosano, Andrew Thomas, Sandra Ullmann, Kelda Van Patten, Alice Christine Walker, Eric Walker, Marjorie Williams, and Sky Wilson.
NW Photography drawers https://www.blueskygallery.org/nw-drawers/2022/3/31/2022-pacific-northwest-drawers. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
If you like your music ambient, Ambient Church touches down here tonight. Artists are Chihei Hatakeyama (Japan) and Patricia Wolf (US). They are accompanied by ambient video projection mapping on the interior of the church. From what I've seen from recent electronic music concerts, trucker hats and cute pointy wool beanies are out now finally. Ambient concert https://ambient.church/events/chihei-hatakeyama-in-portland-on-april-8-2022-at-7pm at the First Congregational Church of Portland 1126 SW Park. Doors 7PM show 8 $30
They make functional art pots, they have production lines cast by Mudshark, and they have a line of tile at Pratt and Larsen. Roger makes the shape and Kat glazes the pattern. It is reminiscent of SW native pottery patterns or mid-20th century design. It will probably be collected hence.
The show is Here and Now https://eutecticgallery.com/show/eutectic-gallery-here-and-now At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 5PM-7 Free
Blue Sky splits their opening between tonight for the NW Photography Drawers and tomorrow for the main shows. The drawers are a multi-artist selection you can take an afternoon examining with white gloves. This 15th year was curated by Portland's Dru Donovan, and New York's Efrem Zelony-Mindell.
Artists are Jon Bagby, Candace Biggerstaff, Nika Blasser, Heather Boyd, Carolyn Kay Chema, Daniel Ciochina, Meghan Crandall, Elisabeth Dare, Misha Davydov, Danielle Dean, Dennis DeHart, Lucas DeShazer, Marico Fayre, Jon Feinstein, Kevin Fletcher, John Francis, David Frazier, Ebenezer Galluzzo, Conner Gordon, Lauren Grabelle, Tyler Green, Darwin Grey, Anna Guyton, Mick Hangland-Skill, Megan Hansen, Justine Highsmith, Kristy Hruska, Melinda Hurst Frye, Natalie Jenks, John Kane, Tom Kay, John Kirkley, Cheston Knapp, Zachary Krahmer, Laura Kurtenbach, Cole Lalomia, Adam Long, Brad Messinger, Loren Nelson, Chris Nesseth, Janet Neuhauser, Angel O'Brien, Jody Poorwill, Matthew Ragen, Michael Raines, Stan Raucher, Thibault Roland, Isaac Sachs, Darcie Sternenberg, Sharon Swanson, Jocelle Rosano, Andrew Thomas, Sandra Ullmann, Kelda Van Patten, Alice Christine Walker, Eric Walker, Marjorie Williams, and Sky Wilson.
NW Photography drawers https://www.blueskygallery.org/nw-drawers/2022/3/31/2022-pacific-northwest-drawers. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free
If you like your music ambient, Ambient Church touches down here tonight. Artists are Chihei Hatakeyama (Japan) and Patricia Wolf (US). They are accompanied by ambient video projection mapping on the interior of the church. From what I've seen from recent electronic music concerts, trucker hats and cute pointy wool beanies are out now finally. Ambient concert https://ambient.church/events/chihei-hatakeyama-in-portland-on-april-8-2022-at-7pm at the First Congregational Church of Portland 1126 SW Park. Doors 7PM show 8 $30
Wednesday, April 06, 2022
April 7 Westside Art Openings
Few Westside galleries have reopened for First Thursday evenings. Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving has restarted under new management. PDX Contemporary has completely decamped to far NW. No idea about Everett Station.
The PSU architecture department has assembled a large international collage show, Corporeal Gestures https://www.pdx.edu/arts/events/corporeal-gestures. It is in Shattuck Hall 5PM-7 Free
PNCA is welcoming the public back to all of its galleries, Covid common sense but no rules. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-7 Free
The Laura Vincent Gallery has William Park with paintings and James Florschutz with Memory Fragments, mixed media sculptures. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
The PSU architecture department has assembled a large international collage show, Corporeal Gestures https://www.pdx.edu/arts/events/corporeal-gestures. It is in Shattuck Hall 5PM-7 Free
PNCA is welcoming the public back to all of its galleries, Covid common sense but no rules. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-7 Free
The Laura Vincent Gallery has William Park with paintings and James Florschutz with Memory Fragments, mixed media sculptures. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Friday, April 01, 2022
April 3 April Flowers Bring Tweed
The Tweed Rides are an international phenomena recreating Victorian-era aesthetic bicycle rides and picnics.
Portland's Tweed Ride happens today. It may sprinkle, wear wool!
In the spirit of keeping Portland weird, you can find out more at
http://tweedpdx.net/
Meet at Grant Park. 11AM Free
Portland's Tweed Ride happens today. It may sprinkle, wear wool!
In the spirit of keeping Portland weird, you can find out more at
http://tweedpdx.net/
Meet at Grant Park. 11AM Free
April 2 Red Honeymoon Quick Majority Field Portal Untold
Rose Dickson is a Portland artist working in 2d and 3d. Her work has been morphing from minimal to compositions of glyphs, all with a conceptual basis in her own emotional landscape, drawn from her journals. Several recent shows include a craft-like variety of materials, but not in a precious craft way. Her show in 2020 at Melanie Flood is an example. It was reviewed by Sue Taylor https://www.orartswatch.org/more-than-a-sum-of-parts/.
This show has three bodies. 2 1/2d glyphs are sand-cast aluminum wall hangings. There are watercolors on mirrors. Paintings layered with wax complete this show.
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
If you are in Eugene, Ditch Projects opens a new show. Julieta Gil from Mexico City and now UO, has Field Recordings. The description on the DP website is better than I can recreate. Eric Ramos Guerrero has drawings, Age Of Majority, also explained on the DP website. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 6PM-8 Free
Dana Robinson is a SVA-minted artist in NYC who has been participating in an impressive number of shows. Fuller Rosen is one, which is impressive too, with Second Honeymoon. They are large impressionistic portraits derived from vintage Ebony Magazine on transparent silk with accompanying sound loops. The FR web site has a more articulate writeup. Portland artists could take inspiration in the energy of the artist's accomplishments: https://danarobinsonstudio.com/CV At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 6PM-8 Free
To Dog a Portal is a group show by the Well, Well family: Andrea Alonge, Ben Buswell, Erik Geschke, Jeremy Le Grand, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Jessie Weitzel Le Grand, and John Whitten.
"Through pattern, pixelation, and repetition in action or motif, artists in To dog a portal observe the natural world through scientific data, human interaction, and magical thinking. Emboldened by the possibility of science and magic coexisting, this exhibition engages in a willful suspension of disbelief. Balancing these works on the horizon of time through careful precision in the making process, these artists cultivate a field for observing the super-natural qualities in seemingly everyday occurrences."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 2PM-5 Free
Rachael Zur and Heather Lee Birdsong have Told and Untold.
"Can we be content with the fragmented stories that will be told about our lives? Between what is said and unsaid, people create narratives about those they have loved and lost. Domestic objects and uninhabited rooms also give accounts of a life, allowing for those no longer with us to be felt as being simultaneously present and absent. Heather Lee Birdsong’s paintings of Pacific Northwest forests and architectural elements reflect on grief: how we hold it and, variably or simultaneously, fail to hold it. Rachael Zur’s expanded paintings of objects from living rooms give form to the residue of lives lived held in domestic spaces. Together the artists use place as a narrator to recall the absent."
At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 2PM-5 Free
Oregon Comtemporary has their fundraising auction dance party tonight. All the information is at https://event.gives/oregoncontemporary.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11ish $40-100
Portland is fortunate because Seattle is fortunate to have some very talented performers of butoh, Japan's contribution to contemporary dance. Joan Laage studied and performed in Japan with a small group created by the founder of the genre. In that lineage, the improvised movement is inspired by images from nature. Laage is giving a workshop Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday evening is a performance.
Laage performs Rivers Running Red and Cosmo Rapaport & Sophia Solano perform their own works too.
"Rivers Running Red has a haunting commissioned score by Seattle musicians. The piece is greatly inspired by an article exposing the practice of sending women off to the mountains to remain in huts and, often not surviving the harsh conditions, fueled by the belief that women are unclean while menstruating. It is also a reflection on this monthly cycle being celebrated as a sacred passage in other cultures. RRR was performed as a duet in Milan, and a solo in Pontedera (Italy), Frankfurt and most recently in Seattle Butoh Festival 2021: FemAlchemy produced by DAIPANbutoh Collective last November.
Tickets can be purchased in advance through Venmo @interartistmotion for a suggested sliding-scale cost of $10-20.
Three works https://www.witd.org/butoh at Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7:30PM $10-20
This show has three bodies. 2 1/2d glyphs are sand-cast aluminum wall hangings. There are watercolors on mirrors. Paintings layered with wax complete this show.
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
The Quick by Diedrick Brackens & D'Angelo Lovell Williams includes weavings, photographs, and objects. Bracken is a West coast artist working in tapestry. Williams is an East coast artist working on paper. Both are queer African American artists. This collaboration is inspired by love and intimacy. The show was arranged by local curator Ashley Stull Myers. The artists are visiting and giving a talk at 2 tomorrow at PNCA.
At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Free
If you are in Eugene, Ditch Projects opens a new show. Julieta Gil from Mexico City and now UO, has Field Recordings. The description on the DP website is better than I can recreate. Eric Ramos Guerrero has drawings, Age Of Majority, also explained on the DP website. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 6PM-8 Free
Dana Robinson is a SVA-minted artist in NYC who has been participating in an impressive number of shows. Fuller Rosen is one, which is impressive too, with Second Honeymoon. They are large impressionistic portraits derived from vintage Ebony Magazine on transparent silk with accompanying sound loops. The FR web site has a more articulate writeup. Portland artists could take inspiration in the energy of the artist's accomplishments: https://danarobinsonstudio.com/CV At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 6PM-8 Free
To Dog a Portal is a group show by the Well, Well family: Andrea Alonge, Ben Buswell, Erik Geschke, Jeremy Le Grand, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Jessie Weitzel Le Grand, and John Whitten.
"Through pattern, pixelation, and repetition in action or motif, artists in To dog a portal observe the natural world through scientific data, human interaction, and magical thinking. Emboldened by the possibility of science and magic coexisting, this exhibition engages in a willful suspension of disbelief. Balancing these works on the horizon of time through careful precision in the making process, these artists cultivate a field for observing the super-natural qualities in seemingly everyday occurrences."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 2PM-5 Free
Rachael Zur and Heather Lee Birdsong have Told and Untold.
"Can we be content with the fragmented stories that will be told about our lives? Between what is said and unsaid, people create narratives about those they have loved and lost. Domestic objects and uninhabited rooms also give accounts of a life, allowing for those no longer with us to be felt as being simultaneously present and absent. Heather Lee Birdsong’s paintings of Pacific Northwest forests and architectural elements reflect on grief: how we hold it and, variably or simultaneously, fail to hold it. Rachael Zur’s expanded paintings of objects from living rooms give form to the residue of lives lived held in domestic spaces. Together the artists use place as a narrator to recall the absent."
At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 2PM-5 Free
Oregon Comtemporary has their fundraising auction dance party tonight. All the information is at https://event.gives/oregoncontemporary.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11ish $40-100
Portland is fortunate because Seattle is fortunate to have some very talented performers of butoh, Japan's contribution to contemporary dance. Joan Laage studied and performed in Japan with a small group created by the founder of the genre. In that lineage, the improvised movement is inspired by images from nature. Laage is giving a workshop Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday evening is a performance.
Laage performs Rivers Running Red and Cosmo Rapaport & Sophia Solano perform their own works too.
"Rivers Running Red has a haunting commissioned score by Seattle musicians. The piece is greatly inspired by an article exposing the practice of sending women off to the mountains to remain in huts and, often not surviving the harsh conditions, fueled by the belief that women are unclean while menstruating. It is also a reflection on this monthly cycle being celebrated as a sacred passage in other cultures. RRR was performed as a duet in Milan, and a solo in Pontedera (Italy), Frankfurt and most recently in Seattle Butoh Festival 2021: FemAlchemy produced by DAIPANbutoh Collective last November.
Tickets can be purchased in advance through Venmo @interartistmotion for a suggested sliding-scale cost of $10-20.
Three works https://www.witd.org/butoh at Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7:30PM $10-20
April 1-2 Sou'wester Art Residency Readout
Your art options Friday and especially Saturday are lovely. This one, both days, is especially lovely.
The Sou'wester is a vintage trailer motel and lodge in Seaview, Washington. It is a short walk to the sea and adjacent to a wild native forest. They have arts and crafts events throughout the year. For a week the last few years, it is taken over by mostly Portland contemporary artists and musicians. They have a week of residency and a weekend of unfolding the work.
In the past years it had a space, aliens, and mystery theme. It is more freeform now. The curation, by artists, of artists, is stellar.
This year the artists are Anthony Alvarado + Jason Walker, Ana Anu, Rachel Blumberg, Laura Halsey Brown, Julia Canfield, Lindsay Clark, Brea Currey, Anouk De Clercq, Breana DePriest, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Ophir El-Boher, Elizabeth Goltz, Mikey Kampmann, Una Kim, Gino M Kline, Nicky Kriara + Cory Gray, Chris Lael Larson, Anis Mojgani, Phoebe Moore, Kaitlyn Nelson / The Gyer V Project, Emily Newton, Emily Pacheco, Jane Paik, Bobbie Robinson + Jordan Badger, Anna Rogers, Tracy Schlapp + Danny Wilson, Alison Segura, Adrian Shirk + Erin Adair, Andie Sterling, Jen Tam, Daren Todd, Kelda Van Patten and Fox Whitney / The Gender Tender Experiment.
There are performances and events on a schedule from 5PM-10 Friday, and Noon-10 Saturday with other installations and works to attend to on your own throughout.
More at https://www.souwesterlodge.com/event/arts-week/?instance_id=27572.
It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby.
At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA Recommended. Free
The Sou'wester is a vintage trailer motel and lodge in Seaview, Washington. It is a short walk to the sea and adjacent to a wild native forest. They have arts and crafts events throughout the year. For a week the last few years, it is taken over by mostly Portland contemporary artists and musicians. They have a week of residency and a weekend of unfolding the work.
In the past years it had a space, aliens, and mystery theme. It is more freeform now. The curation, by artists, of artists, is stellar.
This year the artists are Anthony Alvarado + Jason Walker, Ana Anu, Rachel Blumberg, Laura Halsey Brown, Julia Canfield, Lindsay Clark, Brea Currey, Anouk De Clercq, Breana DePriest, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Ophir El-Boher, Elizabeth Goltz, Mikey Kampmann, Una Kim, Gino M Kline, Nicky Kriara + Cory Gray, Chris Lael Larson, Anis Mojgani, Phoebe Moore, Kaitlyn Nelson / The Gyer V Project, Emily Newton, Emily Pacheco, Jane Paik, Bobbie Robinson + Jordan Badger, Anna Rogers, Tracy Schlapp + Danny Wilson, Alison Segura, Adrian Shirk + Erin Adair, Andie Sterling, Jen Tam, Daren Todd, Kelda Van Patten and Fox Whitney / The Gender Tender Experiment.
There are performances and events on a schedule from 5PM-10 Friday, and Noon-10 Saturday with other installations and works to attend to on your own throughout.
More at https://www.souwesterlodge.com/event/arts-week/?instance_id=27572.
It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby.
At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA Recommended. Free
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