PSU opens it BFA & MFA thesis show live and in person. Then they have artist talks.
Artists are: Vika Ayers, Madeleine Beer, Rebecca Copper, Sage Corradini, Nate Doogan, Mo Geiger, Robert Groff, Danny-Olivia Hanson, Johanna Houska, Hailey H., Jessica Joner, Tony Kane, Kylee Kaihūlalilali Iku Kubojiri, Shelbie Loomis, Kaitlyn Lundelius, Justin Maxon, Keenan Mccune, Renee Ollison, Luz Orellana, Alisyn Smith, Ni Made Maya Sutriasa, Laura Swingen, Tenzin Tardiff, Raja Timihiri, Sims Vincent, Maggie Wang, and Illia Yakovenko.
Opening Thursday May 26. Talks by BFA students: Tuesday & Thursday, May 24, 26, 31 & June 2, 2PM-5
On view May 24 - June 11, 2022
PSU Thesis Showcase https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/events/epilogue-2022-mfabfa-showcase
At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
May 26 - May 30 Seed
The CETI Institute https://ceti.institute evolved out of PNCA's Make+Think+Code. The City of Portland is reactivating downtown and the neighborhood with free events. One node is Pioneer Square. https://www.thesquarepdx.org/our-events/ and https://www.thesquarepdx.org/dome/
With Seed, Nanda D’agostino, Scott Garner, Scott Nieradka have a Spring and rejuvenation project there. Inside the dome, in the evening, there will be video artwork projections. Outside around in the day are plant installations hooked by an augmented reality app you put on your phone or tablet.
Seed https://ceti.institute/events/2022/seed/ on Pioneer Courthouse Square Map 10AM-10PM Free
With Seed, Nanda D’agostino, Scott Garner, Scott Nieradka have a Spring and rejuvenation project there. Inside the dome, in the evening, there will be video artwork projections. Outside around in the day are plant installations hooked by an augmented reality app you put on your phone or tablet.
Seed https://ceti.institute/events/2022/seed/ on Pioneer Courthouse Square Map 10AM-10PM Free
Saturday, May 21, 2022
May 21 Unfamiliar
Unfamiliar Thresholds by Padma Rajendran opens at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free
Saturday, May 14, 2022
May 14 Relief
Jessica Jackson Hutchins opens No Relief. No more information is needed. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of three members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free
Friday, May 13, 2022
May 13 Strawberry Fishbowl Get Down
Emily Wise, MoBak, Cayl Austin, and Jeff Pfeil open their new show this evening. The Fishbowl Gallery often shows bright colorful works, perfect for grey skies. Sometines the adjacent galleries and shops are open these nights.
At Fishbowl Gallery http://www.fishbowlgallerypdx.com 3450 North Williams Map 6PM-10 Free
Are you up for a sureal happy movie tonight? Strawberry Mansion imagines a future world in which dreams are taxed, advertising enters dreams, and time is fluid. It had a limited distribution in Portland, I believe it's on Jeff's streaming network, and it shows tonight at the NW Film Center/CUT. It's cute AF in a good way, the production design is amazing, and it is the perfect date night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpPsvOSc1Gk Strongly recommended. Movie https://pamcut.org/screenings-experiences/whitsell-auditorium/strawberry-mansion/ at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 6:30PM $12
The Soul Night monthly, dancable 50's and 60's black music on vinyl, with DJ Cooky Parker, returns to the Spare Room tonight, just sayin'
At Fishbowl Gallery http://www.fishbowlgallerypdx.com 3450 North Williams Map 6PM-10 Free
Are you up for a sureal happy movie tonight? Strawberry Mansion imagines a future world in which dreams are taxed, advertising enters dreams, and time is fluid. It had a limited distribution in Portland, I believe it's on Jeff's streaming network, and it shows tonight at the NW Film Center/CUT. It's cute AF in a good way, the production design is amazing, and it is the perfect date night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpPsvOSc1Gk Strongly recommended. Movie https://pamcut.org/screenings-experiences/whitsell-auditorium/strawberry-mansion/ at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 6:30PM $12
The Soul Night monthly, dancable 50's and 60's black music on vinyl, with DJ Cooky Parker, returns to the Spare Room tonight, just sayin'
May 13 City of Blue
Sari Carel https://www.saricarel.com/ started her art life in Israel at Bezalel, then an MFA from Hunter in 2001; now she is based in Brooklyn. She has been doing well traveling residencies, including Portland's C3: in 2019.
She has a new work, opening this afternoon, The Sun is a Mouth of Blue, cyanotypes with gouache. It is related to her City of Trees residency in New York. Cyanotypes are a chemical-based imaging process exposed by UV-A, freely available from the sun.
Her large scale installation works are modernist, inspired by, or in, nature. She works in video and drawing too. She is up to date on social practice works. Her work is visually beautiful, and it brings layers of ideas. That is apropos her interview with the late Dave Hickey, a proponent of beauty as an ingredient in contemporary art, but not the only ingredient. http://www.laalamedapress.com/davehickey.html His writing on beauty in art is easily searchable.
We hope she develops a connection to the Lumber Room and makes public artwork here.
At Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 4PM-6 Free
She has a new work, opening this afternoon, The Sun is a Mouth of Blue, cyanotypes with gouache. It is related to her City of Trees residency in New York. Cyanotypes are a chemical-based imaging process exposed by UV-A, freely available from the sun.
Her large scale installation works are modernist, inspired by, or in, nature. She works in video and drawing too. She is up to date on social practice works. Her work is visually beautiful, and it brings layers of ideas. That is apropos her interview with the late Dave Hickey, a proponent of beauty as an ingredient in contemporary art, but not the only ingredient. http://www.laalamedapress.com/davehickey.html His writing on beauty in art is easily searchable.
We hope she develops a connection to the Lumber Room and makes public artwork here.
At Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 4PM-6 Free
Thursday, May 12, 2022
May 13-14 Aliens Have Landed
Oregon weird extends beyond Portland. It even extends to congress holding hearings https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/us/politics/ufo-sightings-house-hearing.html. I think the Senate Intelligence Committee is more intelligent than their counterparts in the House. The House Intelligence Committee Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation is having their hearing Tuesday. Maybe it is an expression of counterintelligence?
The annual UFO Festival lands in McMinville. The whole website is a wild read.
The Oregon UFO Festival in McMinnville Oregon https://ufofest.com/ 10:30 Friday - 11PM Saturday, with a UFO breakfast Sunday Free-$125 for an all parallel universe pass.
The annual UFO Festival lands in McMinville. The whole website is a wild read.
The Oregon UFO Festival in McMinnville Oregon https://ufofest.com/ 10:30 Friday - 11PM Saturday, with a UFO breakfast Sunday Free-$125 for an all parallel universe pass.
May 12 Main Character
The PSU Littman and White Galleries have a small budget and a rotating cast of student curators. That has sometimes produced some excellent shows. Nia Musiba, from the PSU graphic design department, has a show with bright colors, I'm the Main Character: Radical Dreaming and Art for the Masses. You can learn more about her at https://www.pdx.edu/arts/news/graphic-design-student-featured-opbs-oregon-art-beat.
At the Littmand and White Gallery https://www.littmanandwhite.com/white-gallery/ in Smith Union Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 5PM-7 Free
At the Littmand and White Gallery https://www.littmanandwhite.com/white-gallery/ in Smith Union Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 5PM-7 Free
Monday, May 09, 2022
May 5-13 PNCA Thesis Zooms
PNCA is Zooming their MA/MFA thesis presentations. The schedule is: https://pnca.edu/academics/graduate/2022-grad-thesis-schedule. Free
Saturday, May 07, 2022
May 8 The Crow's Shadow is Long
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts https://crowsshadow.org is on today's diminished lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. It was founded by James Lavadour, Walla Walla and Phillip Cash Cash, Cayuse & Nez Perce) It is a printmaking studio. Works printed there are in museums now.
Trinity brings a collection of works from Crow's Shadow artists.
The exhibit can be viewed any time the front office is open, Monday-Thursday, 10:00 am-3:00 pm, and Sundays 8:00 am-12:00 pm, May 8-July 3.
Crow's Shadow prints at Trinity Episcopal Church 147 NW 19th Free
Trinity brings a collection of works from Crow's Shadow artists.
The exhibit can be viewed any time the front office is open, Monday-Thursday, 10:00 am-3:00 pm, and Sundays 8:00 am-12:00 pm, May 8-July 3.
Crow's Shadow prints at Trinity Episcopal Church 147 NW 19th Free
May 7 Citizens Post- Heroes Saccharine Star Poem
Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. Nines has minimalist sculptures by Jerry Mayer.
Ukranian photographer Alexander Chekmenev https://www.alexanderchekmenev.com/ has Citizens of Kyiv https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/magazine/ukraine-war-kyiv.html. He has a relationship with Blue Sky in his show https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2016/alexander-chekmenev?rq=Chekmenev. He is from the Donbass region and works in Kiev today.
There is a reception for that show May 21, 2PM-5. Your donations to the Ukranian Society of Beaverton for medical supplies and humanitarian relief allow you to select one 8.5 x11 for each $100 contributed. Collect early and often.
Blue Sky has Matthew Moore's Post-Socialist Landscapes.
Russian history has many defining points. The fall of the last czars and the socialist revolution. The rise of Hitler and his defeat left Russia with a Soviet Union. The vicissitudes of the Cold War, a world war of philosophy and ego by its respective parties. The denouement of Soviet Europe and the coda of Gorbechev's release of the union. The rise of the oligarch state. The invasion of Georgia, disputed patches, and now the war of Ukraine. The ultimate expression of Deng's soft power in China gaining control of Russia, adjacent to its own strange quest of Hong Kong and Taiwan, is the current chapter.
Blue Sky shows are planned far in advance. So it is pure accident that his photographic exploration of the post-Soviet countries lands now. They are photographs of abandonded, destroyed, and removed monuments to Soviet times. There is an excellent explanation of the project on his website. http://moorephotographs.com/post-socialist-landscapes.html.
The artist speaks at 1PM in the gallery today.
Shine Heroes, recommended, continues.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free
The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.
At Oregon Contemporary Rick Silva's video installation, Peaking, opened about 2 weeks ago. Mediating Bodies by Marne Lucas, Josh Meier and Pepper Pepper, closes.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Little Star, small works at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8
Ben Buswell and Petra Sairanen are reomatic partners and art collaborators. They have their collaboration, Two Poems, at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
Jennifer Timmer Trail has Saccharine. She is a Small Talk Collective cofounder of four female-identified photographers. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
Ukranian photographer Alexander Chekmenev https://www.alexanderchekmenev.com/ has Citizens of Kyiv https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/magazine/ukraine-war-kyiv.html. He has a relationship with Blue Sky in his show https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2016/alexander-chekmenev?rq=Chekmenev. He is from the Donbass region and works in Kiev today.
There is a reception for that show May 21, 2PM-5. Your donations to the Ukranian Society of Beaverton for medical supplies and humanitarian relief allow you to select one 8.5 x11 for each $100 contributed. Collect early and often.
Blue Sky has Matthew Moore's Post-Socialist Landscapes.
Russian history has many defining points. The fall of the last czars and the socialist revolution. The rise of Hitler and his defeat left Russia with a Soviet Union. The vicissitudes of the Cold War, a world war of philosophy and ego by its respective parties. The denouement of Soviet Europe and the coda of Gorbechev's release of the union. The rise of the oligarch state. The invasion of Georgia, disputed patches, and now the war of Ukraine. The ultimate expression of Deng's soft power in China gaining control of Russia, adjacent to its own strange quest of Hong Kong and Taiwan, is the current chapter.
Blue Sky shows are planned far in advance. So it is pure accident that his photographic exploration of the post-Soviet countries lands now. They are photographs of abandonded, destroyed, and removed monuments to Soviet times. There is an excellent explanation of the project on his website. http://moorephotographs.com/post-socialist-landscapes.html.
The artist speaks at 1PM in the gallery today.
Shine Heroes, recommended, continues.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free
The Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta megaplex in Kenton has their First Saturday confab. They close early at 8.
At Oregon Contemporary Rick Silva's video installation, Peaking, opened about 2 weeks ago. Mediating Bodies by Marne Lucas, Josh Meier and Pepper Pepper, closes.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Little Star, small works at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8
Ben Buswell and Petra Sairanen are reomatic partners and art collaborators. They have their collaboration, Two Poems, at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
Jennifer Timmer Trail has Saccharine. She is a Small Talk Collective cofounder of four female-identified photographers. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
May 7 Print yur Day
Portland is a printmaking town. Much of that is the result of the tireless work of Gordon Gilkey who taught at PNCA. He was well known for recovering art stolen in WWII. From that he built a social network of artists, printmakers, and collectors, worldwide. Bob Koch established the next generation of that network with Augen Gallery. Jordan Schnitzer and his museums follow a philosophy of collecting multiples, many prints on paper, to eschew the astronomical price wars over rare originals.
Print Arts Northwest https://printartsnw.org is an association of printmakers supplementing Portland's several shared printmaking studios.
Print Day is a worldwide celebration of printmaking. Print Arts Northwest celebrates Print Day with indoor press printing, and a large exquisite corpse print project outdoors using a pavement roller, a steam roller, usually used to compact asphalt paving.
It is an experiential celebration, print sales benefit for Print Arts Northwest, and an arty party in the evening.
Print Day at Atelier Meridian https://www.ateliermeridian.com/ in River Studios 820 N River St, back of building, lower level. Masks & vax required indoors. Masks encouraged outdoors. 1PM-9 Free
Print Arts Northwest https://printartsnw.org is an association of printmakers supplementing Portland's several shared printmaking studios.
Print Day is a worldwide celebration of printmaking. Print Arts Northwest celebrates Print Day with indoor press printing, and a large exquisite corpse print project outdoors using a pavement roller, a steam roller, usually used to compact asphalt paving.
It is an experiential celebration, print sales benefit for Print Arts Northwest, and an arty party in the evening.
Print Day at Atelier Meridian https://www.ateliermeridian.com/ in River Studios 820 N River St, back of building, lower level. Masks & vax required indoors. Masks encouraged outdoors. 1PM-9 Free
May 7 Vocal House
Indian classical music has branches and roots. Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan is the 7th generation of a style of sitar modeled on vocals in rags. He is accompanied by Amit Kavthekar, a young tabla player, at age 37. They play together here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wttNmk8tEiY. Presented by Kalakendra https://www.kalakendra.org/events/shahid-parvez-khan/ at the First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park. 7PM $20-35
May 7 Paper Yarn a Go Go
Gallery Go Go is the show space and shop of the work-show space Jailbreak Studios, a collective. It is in a former clothing store in Pioneer Place Mall. They have Felicia Murray https://www.feliciajmurray.com/ with Art is Home, yarn-made bas-relief reminding flowers or coral, opening today, and a group show, Maximalist. That is amidst their gift items and small artworks by their stable of artists.
At Gallery Go Go 3rd floor Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW 5th Ave #3015 4PM-7 Free
A Sometimes Gallery has creative openings.
Susan Dwyer, Esther Ramirez, Alison Owen, India K, Mary Snow, Brandi kruse, Han Cao, Amy Rowan, and Arnold Drake present works on paper in the show Paper. It is at A Sometimes Gallery 687 North Tillamook Street, Suite C. In the back. 6PM-9 Free
At Gallery Go Go 3rd floor Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW 5th Ave #3015 4PM-7 Free
A Sometimes Gallery has creative openings.
Susan Dwyer, Esther Ramirez, Alison Owen, India K, Mary Snow, Brandi kruse, Han Cao, Amy Rowan, and Arnold Drake present works on paper in the show Paper. It is at A Sometimes Gallery 687 North Tillamook Street, Suite C. In the back. 6PM-9 Free
Friday, May 06, 2022
May 6 Eastside Art Openings
The Eastside art openings are gathering energy.
Angry Florist presents paintings by multiartist Laura Viers. Mike Gamble provides musics. Viers at Angry Florist 401b NE 28th 5PM-9 Free
Peace & Harmony, a themed group show, is at Splendorporium http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st 7PM-9 Free
Importer Cargo has an interest in local art. Sometimes they transform their freight elevator into a small gallery. Occupying it now are Patty Merrill and Claire Olberding, collage and mixed media. At Cargo 81 SE Yamhill 5PM-7 Free
https://orlyavineri.com/about Erika Rier has paintings and ceramics, Dream House. It is inspired by pandemic dreams of imaginary housing. At Lolo Pass 1616 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free
Sidestreet Arts has a group show Feathers, Fins, and Fur, by Daniel DeLeon, Melody Bush, Miss Cay, Sharon Comunale, Alison Grayson, Lisa Laser, Michelle Pappas, and Brett Superstar. At 140 SE 28th 5PM-7 Free
Rachel Mulder has Pleasure Vacui at Radius 2324 SE Belmont 6PM-9 Free
The 211 space opens its studios and shows Steve Dehlinger, Noah Alexander, and Isaac Stein. The Crow Show closes. At 211 SE Madison 6PM-9 Free
John Rigby shows. Amidst "ritual dance offerings with Jordan Sun, musical stylings with Calin Matei, rune readings with Emily Ra and a gongfu tea lounge with Russell Bohr." At Earthspace 4135 SE Gladstone 6PM-10 Free
Jailbreak Studios is having a Priced Out show. Fortunately they have a sparkly new gallery space Go Go in the Pioneer Place Mall. At Jailbreak Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 5PM-8
Angry Florist presents paintings by multiartist Laura Viers. Mike Gamble provides musics. Viers at Angry Florist 401b NE 28th 5PM-9 Free
Peace & Harmony, a themed group show, is at Splendorporium http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st 7PM-9 Free
Importer Cargo has an interest in local art. Sometimes they transform their freight elevator into a small gallery. Occupying it now are Patty Merrill and Claire Olberding, collage and mixed media. At Cargo 81 SE Yamhill 5PM-7 Free
https://orlyavineri.com/about Erika Rier has paintings and ceramics, Dream House. It is inspired by pandemic dreams of imaginary housing. At Lolo Pass 1616 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free
Sidestreet Arts has a group show Feathers, Fins, and Fur, by Daniel DeLeon, Melody Bush, Miss Cay, Sharon Comunale, Alison Grayson, Lisa Laser, Michelle Pappas, and Brett Superstar. At 140 SE 28th 5PM-7 Free
Rachel Mulder has Pleasure Vacui at Radius 2324 SE Belmont 6PM-9 Free
The 211 space opens its studios and shows Steve Dehlinger, Noah Alexander, and Isaac Stein. The Crow Show closes. At 211 SE Madison 6PM-9 Free
John Rigby shows. Amidst "ritual dance offerings with Jordan Sun, musical stylings with Calin Matei, rune readings with Emily Ra and a gongfu tea lounge with Russell Bohr." At Earthspace 4135 SE Gladstone 6PM-10 Free
Jailbreak Studios is having a Priced Out show. Fortunately they have a sparkly new gallery space Go Go in the Pioneer Place Mall. At Jailbreak Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 5PM-8
Thursday, May 05, 2022
May 5 Westside Art Openings
Few Westside galleries have reopened for First Thursday evenings. Blue Sky has shifted receptions to Saturday. Leach and Froelick are on mid-month opening cycles. PNCA is seems to be going back to sleep, hopefully we will see some thesis shows.
Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. If they are open and you haven't seen the current show at Fuller Rosen it is important. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving has restarted under new management.
No idea on Everett Station
Artist coops Blackfish and 114 seem to be open. Russo Lee and Waterstone are back on schedule. If they are open and you haven't seen the current show at Fuller Rosen it is important. The curated street art and crafts show on NW 13th around Irving has restarted under new management.
No idea on Everett Station
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