The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons for renting space for artist studios.
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 11AM--8 Free
Una the Mermaid presents the Portlandia Mermaid Parade. It starts at Noon at Poet's Beach and travels along the waterfront to the Japanese memporial in Waterfront Park. Mermaids are very intelligent and they like to be close to the water, especially on heated days! Family friendly. Mermaid Parade https://www.portlandiamermaidparade.com/ Noon Free
Holding Contemporary closes Fool’s Gold Jodie Cavalier. It is their first post-Covid reception. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Almost 45 years ago, Portlander Ike Willis performed with the Frank Zappa band. Zappa was known for his expermiental rock compositions with a Dada irreverence and absurdity in lyrics. Zappa's music and videos are easily found for an idea. The Stinkfoot Orchestra, with Ike Willis, a fifteen-piece rock orchestra, perfoms a collection of Zappa tunes tonight. At Alberta Rose Theater www.albertarosetheatre.com 3000 NE Alberta Review their Covid policy pre-live ticketing Doors 8, show 9 $25
Saturday, July 30, 2022
Thursday, July 28, 2022
July 28 Last Thursday Art Openings sans Festival
Tonight the Last Thursday street festival closure is postponed because of heat.
That will return August 25 and September 29.
However many of the galleries will be open.
That will return August 25 and September 29.
However many of the galleries will be open.
July 28 - August 6 Glass Shadows
Dance is like a sail boat. It is moved by muscles and momentum, like the wind moves sails. The boat's keel is like the root of the stage for feet. But what if you could fly? That is the motovation and magic of aerial dance.
Aerial dance came to Portland when the Oregon Ballet commissioned Robert Davidson to make a work on Portland dancers. It was a lyrical performance.
Davidson was a longtime student of the seminal Joan Skinner at the Universiy of Washington in Seattle. That OBT cohort birthed many projects and performances, and some of those dancers continue to collaborate with Body Vox.
I'm not a dancer but I have many friends who are. After one performance I asked my friend how they could perch 50 feet in the air on a ring, and not zone out in pleasure and simply fall off. They said the pain of the stainless steel ring supporting their body focused things.
Several aerial dance performers located to Portland since and have started their own companies. One is A-WOL Dance, aerial without limits. They have done a good job building a community, http://www.awoldance.org
They bring their annual performance in the trees at night to the Mary Young Park in West Linn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUaUB7fupfw It is A-WOL Glass Shadows https://www.eventbrite.com/o/a-wol-dance-collective-268371542 at Mary Young Park 7:30PM $70
Aerial dance came to Portland when the Oregon Ballet commissioned Robert Davidson to make a work on Portland dancers. It was a lyrical performance.
Davidson was a longtime student of the seminal Joan Skinner at the Universiy of Washington in Seattle. That OBT cohort birthed many projects and performances, and some of those dancers continue to collaborate with Body Vox.
I'm not a dancer but I have many friends who are. After one performance I asked my friend how they could perch 50 feet in the air on a ring, and not zone out in pleasure and simply fall off. They said the pain of the stainless steel ring supporting their body focused things.
Several aerial dance performers located to Portland since and have started their own companies. One is A-WOL Dance, aerial without limits. They have done a good job building a community, http://www.awoldance.org
They bring their annual performance in the trees at night to the Mary Young Park in West Linn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUaUB7fupfw It is A-WOL Glass Shadows https://www.eventbrite.com/o/a-wol-dance-collective-268371542 at Mary Young Park 7:30PM $70
Saturday, July 23, 2022
July 23-24 Whose Xhurch? Our Xhurch!
The Xhurch is back though it never left in spirit. To celebrate 12 years of bringing experiental music and art, they welcome voyagers back for music, art and poetry. The poster at xchurch.net lists the artists each afternoon to evening. In the age of Omichron, it streams too at Twitch.tv/Xhurch. Strongly recommended.
At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 4PM-10
At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 4PM-10
July 23 Painting Bright Summer
Painter Lindsey Cuenca Walker https://lindseycuencawalker.com/Late-Bloomer has bulbous bright canvases edging between abstaact and impressionistic. She is PNCA BFA minted in 2017. Painter Laura Berger https://www.lauraberger.com/, from Chicago has flat schematic portraits.
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
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
Monday, July 18, 2022
July 18 Ear Musics
The Lumber Room art gallery continues guestsing Laraaji to Portland. This one is more performance of music. 6PM park by Cherry Sprout Produce. Free.
Saturday, July 16, 2022
July 17 Musics to Your Bodies
The Lumber Room art gallery guests Laraaji to Portland for a sound and laughter healing. It is 2PM at Peninsula Park. Eyemasks suggested. Free
July 16 Contours Fore Curly Hot Metal Bingo
Marc Handelman https://www.marchandelman.com/ all the way from Brooklyn brings show Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond to Portland. The show is paintings and video animations.
The artist statement takes on some big questions along the lines of Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Frontier, mutated since beyond recognition in the social media world.
'Nature has long been a political and ideological medium in the construction of identity: of who and what belongs, what is native or invasive, and who and what is deemed natural or deviant in the violent grammar and hierarchies of social and political life. Since the early 2000’s, Handelman’s practice has explored the entanglements of politics and nature in the vestiges of the dissolved genre of American Landscape. Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond continues to examine these themes during a period in which language, imagery, and tropes of ecological thinking are increasingly appropriated and warped by white nationalists, alt-right ecology, and eco-fascism. Within them are proposals of ethno-states, visions of biological “stewardship” of racial purity, the naturalization of heteronormativity, and the weaponized rhetoric against immigrants, foreigners, and racial others.
In 2020, a propaganda print from a white supremacist hate group was posted in Handelman’s neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. This 5”X4'' print contained an appropriation of an 1855 romantic survey expedition landscape painting by John Mix Stanley captioned by the phrase from the U.S. constitution: “TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY.” These prints were part of a broader national propaganda campaign by the same organization drawing on the ideology of Manifest Destiny. They include a poster mapping the Louisiana Purchase, the re-annexation of Texas, and the Pacific Northwest among the expanded territories of the U.S., stamped with the phrase “NOT STOLEN, CONQUERED.”'
I read the artist as an historical anthropologist with a refined graphic art sensibility. It will be interesting to see how miscible those ingredients are in the work.
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 2PM-5 Free
Fore x four is a dual to the previous show, The Quick by Brackens and Williams, at the Lumber Room. It is abstractly themed on the image of the strength of a table supported by four legs.
This group show is drawn from the Miller Meigs collection including Etel Adnan, Leonor Antunes, Christo, Nona Faustine, Lonnie Holley, Roni Horn, Luchita Hurtado, Simone Leigh, Dave McKenzie, Ana Mendieta, K.R.M. Mooney, Frida Orupabo, Gordon Parks, Deborah Roberts, Pipilotti Rist, and Bill Traylor. Wow.
Tonight the gallery brings Laraaji, an ambient musician from Philadelphia in the sound healing vein for a live performance. See tomorrow for a master class with Laraaji. Strongly recommended.
At The Lumber Room http://www.lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2022/fore-x-four 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map Masks required 5PM-7 Free
Christian Rogers and Shohei Takasaki bring paintings Curly Hair / Hot Metal. They are bright in a good way. There is a more eloquent explanation of the show and the artists on the Nationale website. Curly Hair / Hot Metal https://www.nationale.us/christian-rogers-shohei-takasaki-2022 atwww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 5PM-7 Free Masks required 5PM-7 Free
Artists are, always be selling, and galleries too. So why not make it fun? Well Well Projects hosts an artist talk by Andrea Alonge on her current show Ain’t No Dark ‘Til Something Shines. There will be much socializing, and there will be bingo! The prizes are artworks by Ben Buswell, Jeremy Le Grand, Hyun Jung Jung, Sarah Mirk, Nathanael Moss, Alyson Provax, Harper Quinn, Anthony Roberto, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Kelda Van Patten, John Whitten and more. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM starts, 5:30 artist talk, 6:30-9 bingo-pay to play, otherwise Free
The artist statement takes on some big questions along the lines of Walter Prescott Webb's The Great Frontier, mutated since beyond recognition in the social media world.
'Nature has long been a political and ideological medium in the construction of identity: of who and what belongs, what is native or invasive, and who and what is deemed natural or deviant in the violent grammar and hierarchies of social and political life. Since the early 2000’s, Handelman’s practice has explored the entanglements of politics and nature in the vestiges of the dissolved genre of American Landscape. Discovery of a Flower / Contours of a Pond continues to examine these themes during a period in which language, imagery, and tropes of ecological thinking are increasingly appropriated and warped by white nationalists, alt-right ecology, and eco-fascism. Within them are proposals of ethno-states, visions of biological “stewardship” of racial purity, the naturalization of heteronormativity, and the weaponized rhetoric against immigrants, foreigners, and racial others.
In 2020, a propaganda print from a white supremacist hate group was posted in Handelman’s neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. This 5”X4'' print contained an appropriation of an 1855 romantic survey expedition landscape painting by John Mix Stanley captioned by the phrase from the U.S. constitution: “TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY.” These prints were part of a broader national propaganda campaign by the same organization drawing on the ideology of Manifest Destiny. They include a poster mapping the Louisiana Purchase, the re-annexation of Texas, and the Pacific Northwest among the expanded territories of the U.S., stamped with the phrase “NOT STOLEN, CONQUERED.”'
I read the artist as an historical anthropologist with a refined graphic art sensibility. It will be interesting to see how miscible those ingredients are in the work.
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 2PM-5 Free
Fore x four is a dual to the previous show, The Quick by Brackens and Williams, at the Lumber Room. It is abstractly themed on the image of the strength of a table supported by four legs.
This group show is drawn from the Miller Meigs collection including Etel Adnan, Leonor Antunes, Christo, Nona Faustine, Lonnie Holley, Roni Horn, Luchita Hurtado, Simone Leigh, Dave McKenzie, Ana Mendieta, K.R.M. Mooney, Frida Orupabo, Gordon Parks, Deborah Roberts, Pipilotti Rist, and Bill Traylor. Wow.
Tonight the gallery brings Laraaji, an ambient musician from Philadelphia in the sound healing vein for a live performance. See tomorrow for a master class with Laraaji. Strongly recommended.
At The Lumber Room http://www.lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2022/fore-x-four 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map Masks required 5PM-7 Free
Christian Rogers and Shohei Takasaki bring paintings Curly Hair / Hot Metal. They are bright in a good way. There is a more eloquent explanation of the show and the artists on the Nationale website. Curly Hair / Hot Metal https://www.nationale.us/christian-rogers-shohei-takasaki-2022 at
Artists are, always be selling, and galleries too. So why not make it fun? Well Well Projects hosts an artist talk by Andrea Alonge on her current show Ain’t No Dark ‘Til Something Shines. There will be much socializing, and there will be bingo! The prizes are artworks by Ben Buswell, Jeremy Le Grand, Hyun Jung Jung, Sarah Mirk, Nathanael Moss, Alyson Provax, Harper Quinn, Anthony Roberto, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Kelda Van Patten, John Whitten and more. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM starts, 5:30 artist talk, 6:30-9 bingo-pay to play, otherwise Free
July 16 Dig It
The Kam Wah Chung General Store and museum is unique in the world. Learn and visit.
The University of Southern Oregon has an archeology department. They are exploring the John Day and Canyonville area for artifacts of the Chinese community of the 1800s. https://news.sou.edu/2020/04/soula-wins-oregon-heritage-excellence-award-chinese-immigrant-research/
This afternoon they invite you to see and learn about the dig. Here is more information on today's program https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/public-archaeological-dig-slated-for-july-16-at-kam-wah-chung/article_04f09fd6-f7fe-11ec-bbcd-4743ff680920.html
Reservations to tour the General Store are extremely limited, so get yours ASAP if they are available.
At the Kam Wah Chung State Historical site https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=5 100 Ing-Hay Way, John Day, OR Free
The University of Southern Oregon has an archeology department. They are exploring the John Day and Canyonville area for artifacts of the Chinese community of the 1800s. https://news.sou.edu/2020/04/soula-wins-oregon-heritage-excellence-award-chinese-immigrant-research/
This afternoon they invite you to see and learn about the dig. Here is more information on today's program https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/public-archaeological-dig-slated-for-july-16-at-kam-wah-chung/article_04f09fd6-f7fe-11ec-bbcd-4743ff680920.html
Reservations to tour the General Store are extremely limited, so get yours ASAP if they are available.
At the Kam Wah Chung State Historical site https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=5 100 Ing-Hay Way, John Day, OR Free
Friday, July 15, 2022
July 15 Slow Moving Mangrove
The Rubis Discolor Project https://rubusdiscolorproject.com/ continues the fine tradition of galleries in homes and visiting artist residencies in Portland. In this case, the resident artist is Rujuta Rao https://www.rujutarao.com/ with Rhizophora. It is a social practice piece with a complicated narrative about mangrove trees which are cool. You can visit the opening tonight, masked, and find out more. At the Rubis Discolor Project https://rubusdiscolorproject.com/, address and social practice appointments for Dispersal in their Tumblr 6PM-8 Free
Slow Moving Disasters are collages of found and weathered metal by Emily Pratt https://www.emilyjpratt.com/. They are themed in an abstract way on our natural man-made disaters. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 7PM-9 Free
Slow Moving Disasters are collages of found and weathered metal by Emily Pratt https://www.emilyjpratt.com/. They are themed in an abstract way on our natural man-made disaters. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 7PM-9 Free
Thursday, July 07, 2022
July 10 - August 29 CETI - The Search for Creative Life
PNCA's Make+Think+Code moved over to PSU in CETI. Their Enchanted Technology Summer Festival 2022 is now.
The festival is arranged by institutes: Enchanted Objects, July 18 - 29; Interactive Murals, physical and digital, August 1 - 12; Augmented/XR Storytelling, August 11 - 19; and Interactive Installations August 17 - 23. There are also opportunities in Machine Learning/AI, for art, sound, visuals, and pattern recognition; Interactive Data Visualisations and Stories; Generative Design; and Emerging Technology and Society: Implications and Futures.
You can grok it at https://ceti.institute/
The festival is arranged by institutes: Enchanted Objects, July 18 - 29; Interactive Murals, physical and digital, August 1 - 12; Augmented/XR Storytelling, August 11 - 19; and Interactive Installations August 17 - 23. There are also opportunities in Machine Learning/AI, for art, sound, visuals, and pattern recognition; Interactive Data Visualisations and Stories; Generative Design; and Emerging Technology and Society: Implications and Futures.
You can grok it at https://ceti.institute/
July 9 Westside Art Openings+
Chris Lael Larson is a multiartist: painter, photographer, sculptor, interventionist and musician. In painting, he works abstracts in bright primary colors. I met him at this year's Sou'wester art residency. He is doing a pop up today and dropping a new music recording.
Second light drop https://www.chrislaellarson.com/second-light-album-release-art-show at Half Court Studio 2500 NE Sandy Blvd. Suite F 3PM-7 Free
Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. Nines has Bean Gilsdorf https://www.beangilsdorf.com/ with Some Women, Baconesque deconstructed photocollage portraits.
Double Life, 20 Years, by Kelli Connell is a deep fake play in a conceptualist vein. One model has been composited into staged domestic scenes.
Jennifer Georgesc has the Mother Series, an exhibition of photographs by Jennifer Georgescu
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free
Second light drop https://www.chrislaellarson.com/second-light-album-release-art-show at Half Court Studio 2500 NE Sandy Blvd. Suite F 3PM-7 Free
Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. Nines has Bean Gilsdorf https://www.beangilsdorf.com/ with Some Women, Baconesque deconstructed photocollage portraits.
Double Life, 20 Years, by Kelli Connell is a deep fake play in a conceptualist vein. One model has been composited into staged domestic scenes.
Jennifer Georgesc has the Mother Series, an exhibition of photographs by Jennifer Georgescu
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free
July 7 - August 18 Every Corner is Alive
PNCA-Willamette has several programs producing graduates. One is their Low Residency MFA in Visual Studies. They have the following events and many of their viewing spaces are open.
The artists are Stashia Cabral, Élan Chardin, Laura Jean Foster, Amy Gibson, Ondrea Levey, Kelly Marshall, Lynn Ruth Stephens, Devon Pardue, Jenny Wilde, and Ahuva S. Zaslavsky get solo shows changing every week over the period.
July 3–9th in PNCA’s CCAC: Half Life, Kelly Marshall Reception: Thursday, July 7th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: Friday, July 8th, 2:00 PM
July 13–19th in PNCA’s CCAC: Under The Net, Amy Gibson Reception: Thursday, July 14th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 15th, 2:00 PM
July 23–29th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Gallery 157, and CCAC: Sangre de Fresa, Ondrea Levey roams a Golem, Ahuva S. Zaslavsky Reception: Thursday, July 28th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 29th, 2:00 PM
August 2–8th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: This Room Has to do with the Measurement of Time, Élan Chardin tear down., Laura Jean Foster The Brevity within Temporal Asymmetry, Devon Pardue Reception: Thursday, August 4th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: August 5th, 1:00 PM
August 12–18th in PNCA’s Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: CONSPIRATIONS, lynn ruth stephens A Patch in the Fabric of Knowing, Jenny Wilde Licking Toads and Puking Diamonds: A Fairy Tale, Discomposed, Stashia Cabral Reception: Thursday, August 11th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defenses: Friday, August 12th, 1:00 PM
It's all free!
The artists are Stashia Cabral, Élan Chardin, Laura Jean Foster, Amy Gibson, Ondrea Levey, Kelly Marshall, Lynn Ruth Stephens, Devon Pardue, Jenny Wilde, and Ahuva S. Zaslavsky get solo shows changing every week over the period.
July 3–9th in PNCA’s CCAC: Half Life, Kelly Marshall Reception: Thursday, July 7th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: Friday, July 8th, 2:00 PM
July 13–19th in PNCA’s CCAC: Under The Net, Amy Gibson Reception: Thursday, July 14th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 15th, 2:00 PM
July 23–29th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Gallery 157, and CCAC: Sangre de Fresa, Ondrea Levey roams a Golem, Ahuva S. Zaslavsky Reception: Thursday, July 28th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: July 29th, 2:00 PM
August 2–8th in PNCA’s Design Corridor, Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: This Room Has to do with the Measurement of Time, Élan Chardin tear down., Laura Jean Foster The Brevity within Temporal Asymmetry, Devon Pardue Reception: Thursday, August 4th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defense: August 5th, 1:00 PM
August 12–18th in PNCA’s Mediatheque, Gallery 157, and CCAC: CONSPIRATIONS, lynn ruth stephens A Patch in the Fabric of Knowing, Jenny Wilde Licking Toads and Puking Diamonds: A Fairy Tale, Discomposed, Stashia Cabral Reception: Thursday, August 11th, 6:00–8:00 PM Thesis defenses: Friday, August 12th, 1:00 PM
It's all free!
July 7 Pioneer Square Seattle First Thursday
First Thursday of the month evening gallery opernings started in Seattle and spread to Portland where it died. Waterstone is doing it. Blackfish appears to have shifted to virtual with their recent art school grads show.
Complementing the Pioneer Square gallery openings tonight, the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, a fancier and more vibrant version of the Portland Everett lofts hosts a performance.
DAIPANbutoh dancers Sheri Brown, Dhyana Garcia-Snyder, Kaoru Okumura, and Robyn Bjornson; musicians Scott Adams, Ken Jacobson, Kai Strandskov, Julie Baldridge, and Demetri Albright; and live visual artists Barry Connolly and Noa Piper, perform an improvisational relay score celebrating the return of live arts and summer! Stay for as long or as little as you deem fit as you stroll through the re-awakened original First Thursday Art Walk of Pioneer Square.
At Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts 115 Prefontaine Pl. S, Seattle. 6PM-8 Free
Complementing the Pioneer Square gallery openings tonight, the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts, a fancier and more vibrant version of the Portland Everett lofts hosts a performance.
DAIPANbutoh dancers Sheri Brown, Dhyana Garcia-Snyder, Kaoru Okumura, and Robyn Bjornson; musicians Scott Adams, Ken Jacobson, Kai Strandskov, Julie Baldridge, and Demetri Albright; and live visual artists Barry Connolly and Noa Piper, perform an improvisational relay score celebrating the return of live arts and summer! Stay for as long or as little as you deem fit as you stroll through the re-awakened original First Thursday Art Walk of Pioneer Square.
At Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts 115 Prefontaine Pl. S, Seattle. 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, July 02, 2022
July 2 Echo Sky
If you are up in Seattle you can see a free performance. Joan Laage/Kogut, Katrina Wolfe, Michael Shannon, David Stanford & Joey Largent perform butoh, a unique modern dance form from Japan. From NW 20, enter the park, walk across the bridge and down to the beach. At Richmond Beach Saltwater Park, https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richmond+Beach,+Shoreline,+WA+98177/@47.7702956,-122.5118816,16z, Seattle. 2PM Free
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