Saturday, January 20, 2024

January 20 Opening Thaw

Kenji Ide from Japan has his second show in Portland. He was curated by founder Matt Jay into the Portland Japanese Garden contemporary art program with Poems of Perception. Ide’s Garden work is a contemporary interpretation of Japanese death rituals in minimalist sculpture.

Ruined Windows by Jessica Jackson Hutchins with Marley Freeman making glass shares the opening.

At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 2PM-4 Free


Pace Taylor has colorful bulbous paintings, Before the Doors Open. Perfect bright for grey.

At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-5 Free Masks are highly encouraged


The Schnitzer Collection is a foundation continuing the work of Fountain Gallerist Arleen Schnitzer. Their exhibition space hosts the first of their Art Fit events ~ "wear your art swag and art-inspired outfits" if you like. The show up, which you should see, is curated for the Converge 45 project. The signature piece celebrated today is a large silk screen authorized reproduction of Phooey, a Basquiat painting.

At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-5 Free


Out of Salem: D.E May & Friends, has D.E. May and contemporaries Brad Ford, Bonnie Hull, Craig Klyver, Natalie Laswell, Bryan Null, Dan Schmidt, Terry Schneider, Monte Shelton, and John Van Dreal.

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-4:30 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com


Martha Daghlian has Leaves of The Sibyl. She had a pink altspace, her own writing and art event/spaces newsletter, and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video.

"Leaves of The Sibyl is an installation of intricate embroidery, soft sculpture, cast metal, & analog video. stitching a through line between the Romantic Period & present day, a transformative & coded imagery emerges between mediums: cherubs, black cats, crescent moons, flowers & plants, human skulls/bones, & poems which require a special tool to be read. Martha’s work possesses a contemplative reverence for magic & beauty, while acknowledging the confusion, fear, death, & rebirth which accompany moments of change."

At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free