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
