Many of the Pearl galleries are favoring the Saturday after first Thursday.
Cross Quarters Merry Meet by Paul Swenbeck from Boston is an installation with cactus-like shapes, abstract animals, flower motifs, and relief blocks. All fantastical. It is much more eloquently explained on the gallery website. 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
You can get your soft cute with Cat Rabbit all the way from Melbourne or Naarm in the Woiworung language. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Lull is Sarah Umles from LA and and Jenn Sova from here. The "exhibition explores themes of loss, grief, and the weight of expectations. With overlapping interests in the materiality of death and the emotionality of life, Umles and Sova carve out moments of pause and provocation, wherein rituals of resistance and healing can take place. Their respective works strike a delicate balance between overwhelm and absence, the corporal and the cerebral, the ceremonial and the everyday." At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 4PM-8 Artist talk 5 Free
Oregon Contemporary has an art picnic on their lawn, so bring it. The rest of the space has some loan works. At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Books 2PM-8 Free
Tyler Stoll has Greased explained on the website. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Michael Espinoza has self-referental imagry and Allan Pichardo has something to do with media & tech. Their website explains it. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
