On the plus side, PSU is coming out of Covid with open studios. In the art building 2000 SW 5th. 4PM-6 Free
Blind insect has a group show by Jaimee Lee, Julie Forbes, Wyatt Pottorff, Stephanie Hatch, Staci Gundry, Cambria Kasten, Joan Callaway, Marina, Soumya Jayaraman, Anna Hothai, John Seng, Sheeja Ranjit, Christopher DeGon, Marieke Mertz, Claire Roig, Orquidia Violeta, Levant Karayalim, Amy Daileda, Antonia Gustaitis, Carol Armstrong-Iovanovici, and Carol Raphael. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 6PM-8
Jesus Benitezf from Mexico has a print show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta Noon-5 Free
Stephanie Brown has a show along with local tattoo artists Lo Gonsalves, David Tattselhoff, Spectral Gardens, and Meg Adamson. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-8 Feee
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Friday, November 17, 2023
November 19 Sampling the Style of a Continent
Africa is a continent, not a country. Within there are over three thousand ethnicities. Whenever you see straight line on a map, it's a mistake. That doesn't even take into account nomadic people.
America ammuses itself to death in its own media bubble. African countries have journalists and observers of the local culture; our media deems them unreliable or uninteresting; so we see and hear little. Even if we had that, you have to put your feet on the ground, open your eyes and ears, smell the smells, and feel the weather. Listen and ask open-ended questions. Listen to people's dreams.
One outstanding example of Portlanders doing the work is Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. He has traveled that region collecting music people carry on their feature phones. He did a great show collecting posters on the Azawad independence movement people make in the graphics editors on those phones for the Portland Museum of Modern Art. He did a remake of the Film Purple Rain with local actors and musicians. See it, you can find it in the African Films collection at PCC Cascade.
The Portland Art Museum has done a good job the last few years updating its mojo. An example is a new show sampling African Fashion.
The curator gives a talk this afternoon. She is Christine Checinska, joining us from the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. Details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/making-africa-fashion/. You can reserve a ticket from that link that includes museum admission to see the show. At the Portland Art Museum in the Masonic Temple Building ballroom 1219 SW Park 2PM-3:30
America ammuses itself to death in its own media bubble. African countries have journalists and observers of the local culture; our media deems them unreliable or uninteresting; so we see and hear little. Even if we had that, you have to put your feet on the ground, open your eyes and ears, smell the smells, and feel the weather. Listen and ask open-ended questions. Listen to people's dreams.
One outstanding example of Portlanders doing the work is Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. He has traveled that region collecting music people carry on their feature phones. He did a great show collecting posters on the Azawad independence movement people make in the graphics editors on those phones for the Portland Museum of Modern Art. He did a remake of the Film Purple Rain with local actors and musicians. See it, you can find it in the African Films collection at PCC Cascade.
The Portland Art Museum has done a good job the last few years updating its mojo. An example is a new show sampling African Fashion.
The curator gives a talk this afternoon. She is Christine Checinska, joining us from the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. Details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/making-africa-fashion/. You can reserve a ticket from that link that includes museum admission to see the show. At the Portland Art Museum in the Masonic Temple Building ballroom 1219 SW Park 2PM-3:30
November 18 Applied Entangled Design
In addition to their regular show, Nationale has a project room pop-up by Irina Flore and Bilge Nur Saltik, Entangled Dimensions: Shape of Connection. It's functional sculptures, textiles, and design objects.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 3PM-5 Free
PNCA Willamette opens their Visual Studies and Applied Craft + Design MFA studios for a mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
At Nationale
PNCA Willamette opens their Visual Studies and Applied Craft + Design MFA studios for a mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
November 17 Time Cloud
It Is Our Time by Latoya Lovely opens. At 6 Latoya Lovely and Amenta Abioto perform. At Souvenier Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Cloud X, collage, painting, and textiles. It's "off kilter realities laced with social commentary," themed on "warped experiences regarding relationships, home, pleasure, excess, falsehood, jealousy, and the engrained and naive ways in which we compare ourselves to those around us." Perfectly post pandemic mass media crisis? Let's hope Alpha avoids this and solves all the world problems. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Cloud X, collage, painting, and textiles. It's "off kilter realities laced with social commentary," themed on "warped experiences regarding relationships, home, pleasure, excess, falsehood, jealousy, and the engrained and naive ways in which we compare ourselves to those around us." Perfectly post pandemic mass media crisis? Let's hope Alpha avoids this and solves all the world problems. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
November 17-19 Seattle Butoh Festival
Butoh is a strange dance performance style. Up in Seattle they are having a 3 day festival of performance and workshops. Events https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/seattlebutohfestival at Yaw Theaterin Seattle Georgetown 6520 5th Ave S 8PM $20-25
Friday, November 10, 2023
November 11 Bones Moan Glint Still Life
The show I Am A City of Bones opens. It is Dylan Beckman, Morgan Buck, Corinne Hamilton, Timothy Yanick Hunter, Juliana Huxtable, Mona Kowalska, Jenine Marsh, Martin Soto Climent, Pace Taylor, and Isabel Yellin.
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-4 Free
Erika Warhus brings Glint. At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 5PM-8 Free
Hickory Mertsching has oil painted still lifes with early 20th Century midwest themes.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-4 Free
Erika Warhus brings Glint. At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 5PM-8 Free
Hickory Mertsching has oil painted still lifes with early 20th Century midwest themes.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, November 04, 2023
November 4 Northside Eastside Westside Openings+
No excuses of sun to see art today.
Anya Roberts-Toney has Water Witch Moon Mother. At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 1PM-3 Free
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of the Sibyl. She had a pink altspace and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free (postponed)
James Lavadour brings Planet Waves, landscape works on paper. Along with Elemental Things, 2d, by Heather Watkins. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
Illustrator Eliza Ivanova is back with painter Sean Mahan. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Nat Turner Project’s Drinking Gourd Fellowship has a readout. Sound artist Marcus Fischer has an installation themed on mass shootings, Mass, part of a larger retrospective What Was Lost and What Remains, and is doing a live performance at 6. Their website has more detail.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Seattle has lovely art spaces. Tyna Onkto, Mel Carter, Sara Osebold, Stefan Gonzales, Peter Christenson, and Francesca Lohmann visit from the Vestibule space in far Ballard. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Kyle Adam Kalev Peets and Matthew Earl Williams have Earthbound, conceptual landscapes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Anya Roberts-Toney has Water Witch Moon Mother. At Nationale
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of the Sibyl. She had a pink altspace and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free (postponed)
James Lavadour brings Planet Waves, landscape works on paper. Along with Elemental Things, 2d, by Heather Watkins. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
Illustrator Eliza Ivanova is back with painter Sean Mahan. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Nat Turner Project’s Drinking Gourd Fellowship has a readout. Sound artist Marcus Fischer has an installation themed on mass shootings, Mass, part of a larger retrospective What Was Lost and What Remains, and is doing a live performance at 6. Their website has more detail.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Seattle has lovely art spaces. Tyna Onkto, Mel Carter, Sara Osebold, Stefan Gonzales, Peter Christenson, and Francesca Lohmann visit from the Vestibule space in far Ballard. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Kyle Adam Kalev Peets and Matthew Earl Williams have Earthbound, conceptual landscapes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, November 03, 2023
November 3 Eastside Art Openings
There is a large annual show of post card size art. 5"x7" $110. Artist list and links https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/power-in-numbers-8-postcard-show. Collect them all and win! At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; there are many possibilities. Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; there are many possibilities. Free
Thursday, November 02, 2023
November 2 Westside Art Openings
Portland artists Malia Jensen and Stephen Hayes represent. Malia Jensen is known for 3d works from salt licks to bronze with ceramics in between. She is also known for the plywood stack giant beaver in the W+K lobby. Hayes is known for bucolic landcsape paintings. Melody Owen has collages based on bio-themes. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Lisa Jarrett has paintings and mixed media on black hair, It Cut A Sky, along with impressionistic figure paintings by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Te Busca Mi Corazon by Angennette Escobar are mythical-folklore-themed paintings; Sounds from Tom and Neko are prints by Gene Flores; What It Is is a group show of Blackfish artists complementing their studio clearing popup November 5. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
En Foco is a long-running curatorial and residency project in NYC that Blue Sky ias joined as collaborator. This month has artist guested from En Foco. Danny Aros-Aguilar has Sandunga Nunca Muere. Carmen Lizardo has To Swallow a River. M.O.E. is a photographer out of Portland's outstanding KSMOCA. Yes!
Influencers is a show of loose landscape paintings by Renée Zangara. She had a large landscape in the Biomass show. At the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block had Jess Hope Curran with bright abstract paintings Tales of the Sea and Ancestors. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Tender Paths is a four artist residency redout at Stello tonight. The artists speak at 6PM so you can know who they are and what they do. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
The Black Gallery closes their Hip Hop Lives The Remix! At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com 5PM-8 Free
Christian Burchard has sculptures, A Case of Bibliophilia. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Photohrapher Stu Levy has Once in a You Get Shown the Light. Hibiki Miyazaki has prints and drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Love Letter From A Shapeshifter is paintings by Orlando Almanza. at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
Lisa Jarrett has paintings and mixed media on black hair, It Cut A Sky, along with impressionistic figure paintings by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Te Busca Mi Corazon by Angennette Escobar are mythical-folklore-themed paintings; Sounds from Tom and Neko are prints by Gene Flores; What It Is is a group show of Blackfish artists complementing their studio clearing popup November 5. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
En Foco is a long-running curatorial and residency project in NYC that Blue Sky ias joined as collaborator. This month has artist guested from En Foco. Danny Aros-Aguilar has Sandunga Nunca Muere. Carmen Lizardo has To Swallow a River. M.O.E. is a photographer out of Portland's outstanding KSMOCA. Yes!
Influencers is a show of loose landscape paintings by Renée Zangara. She had a large landscape in the Biomass show. At the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block had Jess Hope Curran with bright abstract paintings Tales of the Sea and Ancestors. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Tender Paths is a four artist residency redout at Stello tonight. The artists speak at 6PM so you can know who they are and what they do. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
The Black Gallery closes their Hip Hop Lives The Remix! At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com 5PM-8 Free
Christian Burchard has sculptures, A Case of Bibliophilia. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Photohrapher Stu Levy has Once in a You Get Shown the Light. Hibiki Miyazaki has prints and drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Love Letter From A Shapeshifter is paintings by Orlando Almanza. at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
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