November 25 Exploring

Exploring the Vessel gathers functional mugs and other small ceramics from artists, mostly pretty. At Antler Gallery + Talon Gallery antlerpdx.com + talongallery.com 2728-2724 NE Alberta 11AM-5PM Free

November 24 Pilgrim Society

The Anti-Pilgrim Society meets, with live painting, prints for sale, and dialogue. Hosted by native artist April Holder.

At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 5PM sharp Free

November 22 Think of the Day

1122 is one of Portland's galleries in a back yard, garage, or chicken coop. They are excellent curators, and their events are friendly and family friendly. "We’ll have art, collaborations, snacks, drinks, stickers, and other surprises (including a piñata from @thevenderia)" It is a Fall afternoon, rain or shine. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 11:22AM-6PM Free

November 19-20 Sun Flowers

Yukio Suzuki stepped into his journey of butoh dance in 1997. Since 2000 he has directed his own group, collaborated, and toured extensively. His movement style reminds Min Tanaka's early work. Tanaka is known for butoh training on his family farm in Japan. Suzuki has been resident here on a small neighborhood farm in St Johns. He performs tonight and tomorrow. It might be an inspiration for modern dancers looking for something completely different, his videos are online.

Yukio Suzuki http://www.suzu3.com/ and https://kingyocompany.wixsite.com/yukiosuzuki-archive/past-activites performs A Moment of Flower solo tonight. It is https://www.witd.org/witd-produced/yukioperformance 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 7PM Sliding scale Cash, Check, PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp


The Seattle Fall Butoh Festival is also this weekend.

November 19 Wax Pomes

Elise Wagner is a longtime Portland painter. She has made a lot of firmly abstract work, some inspired by science research. She has done a lot with encaustics, formulating media, and teaching workshops. She added a printmaking practice of colographs. In honor of relocating to Astoria, she is having one last show and studio sale in Overlook.

At Elise Wagner studio http://www.elisewagner.com 1522 N. Humboldt Noon-7PM


Rainen Knecht opens paintings accompanied by poetry from Morgan Ritter at Melanie Flood Projects, one of 3 Portland galleries in the New Art Dealers Alliance www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early Noon-2 Free

November 12 Groups of Jewels

Wave Contemporary has the Nexus of Here with Jessi DiTillio, Claire Elliot, Tia Factor, Marcelo Fontana, Asa Mease, Midgray, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Susan Murrell, Hannah Newman, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Michael Stephen, and John Whitten.

At Wave Contemporary 730 SW10th Avenue, Suite 111 & 112 5PM-8 Free


Next door, After / Time Collective has Afterimage 01: The Third Terrain with Raphael Fan, Pamels Hadley.

At After / Time Collective 730 SW 10th Suite 110 Look for the entrance on 9th 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary has several things. At 3:30: The World is Like a Jewel in the Hand Unlearning Imperial Plunder II by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. 5: Catalog of curator Lucy Cotter's time at Oregon Contemporary and talk. 6: reception.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 3PM-7 Free


PNCA opens their MFA in Applied Craft & Design and their MFA in Visual Studies for a mid-program readout. RSVP requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mfa-open-studios-at-pacific-northwest-college-of-art-tickets-450842711687. In the PNCA Glass Building studios 2139 N Kerby 5PM-8 Free

November 12 Broken Spectre

Richard Mosse, b.1980 https://www.richardmosse.com is an Irish artist. I came across his work through his Infra and Enclave. He, like I, was able to travel into Eastern Congo with guides. I was there in about July 1994. The Rwandan civil war, where a lot of bad things happened, was tailing, there were gunshots in the distance, some of our guards subsequently lost their lives. By 2010, the echos of the Rwandan civil war left Eastern Congo a battleground between warlords mining strategic minerals. For his Congo projects, Mosse worked with expired military photographic film Kodak Aerochrome. The film paints the dense green forests as magenta, pink, and sky blue. He exposed images of the landscape, the remnants of war, and his warrior guards. The project, began in 2010 as Infra and subsequently Enclave, a multi channel video work presented at the 2013 Venice Biennale. They were brought by the Portland Art Museum, the first US museum to show the work, in 2014.

Mosse was minted at Goldsmiths, and Yale for his MFA in photography. He immediately began showing at Shainman in New York with Airside and The Fall, themed on aircraft crashes. Later he made images in Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia. One project used infrared video to document refuge flows to Europe, as did Ai Weiwei in a different way.

I would call it conceptual landscape photography. It works with my theory of ingredients in contemporary art. He combines an artist statement-narrative, beauty, with difference - false color, and with the emotions of what humans have done. To be successful they have to balance. He has been criticized for the last ingredient, but I don't think he overuses or misuses it.

His latest project Broken Spectre, and the focus of his talk today, is about Amazon deforestation. 

Converge45 guests Richard Mosse for a talk this afternoon at Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium. https://www.converge45.org/events/a-talk-with-richard-mosse There is no fee to enter the museum for the talk. Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium 2PM Free

November 5 Scenic Slime Liquid Smolder Home Future

Graham Collins opens Scenics. He is a painter and professor all the way from New York. At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free


Fisk has a pop-up book release for Slime, by Christopher Michlig⁣.

"Slime collates a cultural history of 'slime' and 'sliminess,' with particular emphasis on precedents in pop-culture, contemporary art, ecology, science fiction, literature, critical theory, and cinema."⁣

At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 5PM-8 Free


Future Prairie is returning with a public event. They have a little thing of poetry and music. Jzl Jmz, Libretto, Machado Mijiga, Joni Whitworth, Helen Spencer-Wallace, Rich Perin, and Vandoren Wheeler perform. At the Honey Latte Cafe 1033 SE Main 7PM Free


Rosskoph and Ashlin Aronin have a sound and pictures collaboration themed on the oceans, Like Liquid, Cut Loose. Rosskopf has a bright anaglyph painting style. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  Artist talk 4:15PM Reception 5PM-8 Free


M Acuff and Carolyn Hopkins have Smolder, video, sculpture and flat, themed on the "rising anxiety surrounding the various catastrophes of the recent past and impending future." On that theme, "Masks are required for the first hour, to keep our space accessible for our whole community.⁠" At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8


Smalltalk continues their show. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary brings their next curators in residence, Home School from Portland. They have their first group show, including Jasmine Nyende, Fatima Abby Tall, collective Ibisazi Designers Nyabyo from Rwanda, Khadijat Yussuff from Pittsburg, Ansar El Muhammad Intisar Abioto from Portland, and Olivia McKayla Ross from NY,

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

November 4 Eastside Art Openings

You can find many art shows on the Facebook 1FPDX group.


Way out in Beaverton but on the TriMet MAX, the Abioto family of 6 opens an art show. Midnite, Intisar, Dr. Wood Chopper, Ni, Amenta Yawa, and Medina Abioto span generations and present photography, film, music, dance, written/spoken word, visual and culinary arts. At the The Reser - Patricia Reser Center for the Arts www.thereser.org 12625 SW Crescent Street, Beaverton Map 6PM-9 Free


The After / Time collective presents Afterimage 01: The Third Terrain. The rest of the show opens November 12, 5PM-8 at 730 SW 10TH Suite 110. Tonight it is at home terrain, 707 NE Broadway 5PM-8 Free


Dadu Shin RISD-minted opens a show of illustrations. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free


One Grand has a large group show in collaboration with Machete Factory, tattoo artists who love gothic fonts. DJ's etc., what they do. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM->9 Free

November 3 Westside Art Openings

A Shared Horizon (Western Door) by Marie Watt opens today. She also has a large installation in the Park Blocks. Covid precautions and an RSVP by info@pdxcontemporaryart.com. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5PM-6:30 Free


Ann Hamilton opens Sense. She is famous. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-8 Free


PNCA is back in session and open for First Thursday. Commonly Uncommon: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft Collection, a three-part exhibition of objects and archives runs November 3 - December 10. Also opening tonight, #FF0000, by Tom Manzanarez. Later they are showing the movie Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y. Craft, Art and Design, by exhibiting artist Faythe Levine, in the PNCA Mediateque on the 1st Floor on Thursday, November 10th. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free


I’m This, I’m That by longtime gallerist Laurie Danial, and from Emma Gerigscott, For The Love Of Duck open. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis. Not sure if they are open tonight


Glory Glory by Jess Perlitz reopens Holding Contemporary for first Thursday. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 5PM-8 early close Free


Jordanna Kalman has Jordanna and the Masters of Photography, collages of classic photographs. Lee Materazzi has Pushed In, colorful collages on body models. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7 Free


Mini Giri opens What Remains. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Blackfish is having a garage sale in preparation to move to a new space by World Foods.