Thursday, September 26, 2024

September 27 Mischievous Botanical Yards

Portland has apartment galleries, house galleries, garage galleries, and yard galleries, past and present. One is Congress Yard Projects. They host Public Nature tonight. Public Nature, curated by Danielle Ross and JP Jenkins, is an experimental, changing, spatially itinerant container to hold performance.

Tonight Marissa Niederhauser - dance/movement, Samuel Klapper - violin/sound and Jules Tillinghast - poetry/text bring it.

At Congress Yard Projects easily found Doors 6:30PM, movement 7 Donations by cash, Venmo, or PayPal lovingly accepted


Laura Burke comes all the way from Brooklyn to present The Unseelie Court, loose botannicals.

"Inspired by Scottish folklore, the title references the Unseelie Court, a faction of fairies known for their mischievous and malevolent nature, contrasting with the more benign Seelie Court. Through her enchanting portraits and scenes, Burke brings these gremlins to life, inviting viewers into a fantastical world where joy and mischief intertwine. Each piece feels like a page from an imaginary storybook, showcasing these flower-headed beings as they dance under moonlight or practice ballet, infusing the works with a sense of delight and wonder."

At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free

September 27-28 Brain Injury

The brain is a complex thing. One way we study it is by studying brain injuries. Doctor of neurology researcher Oliver Sacks is noted for case studies of brain injury. Brain Injury Connections NW is a services and social group for individuals with brain injuries. One of the many things they do is nurture visual artists.

For 2 days, they host an art show of their community.

Brain Injury Connections NW art show at adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map Friday 4PM-8 and Saturday 1PM-4 Free

September 26 Alberta Thursday

Antler and Talon hosts a group show in memory of the gallery cofounder Susannah Kelly. Longtime gallery artists join artists selected by the gallery for this honor, on "themes of rebirth, renewal and the circle of life." At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free

Other galleries on the street may be open this evening.

September 26-28 Moving Movies

The Portland Dance Film Festival is a three day selection of shorts, each night unique. They are not dance documentation, but narrative, abstract or concrete, incorporating dance/movement. The films are drawn internationally.

Night 1: "Nostalgia, longing, and reckoning, whether held lightly or earnestly, moves throughout.. films.. from France/Vietnam, Greece, India, USA, Canada, Austria, and The United Kingdom. Night 1 contains nudity.

Night 2: "The aperture.. shifts out and in, holding many Revolutions in its frame. With these 10 films we contemplate the revolution of the Earth itself and of our youth's unconditioned clarity of our one home. Revolutions that nudge our collective madness towards breaking into sanity, the courageous revolutions of resistance and love, and the revolutions of magnetic release all entice us into emergent relationships with our humanity.. from Spain, USA, Iran, Germany, and Sweden.

Night 3: "a dinner party, it would carry on late into the night, slipping into the realm in between this and that.. films that evoke geological and bodily time, grief's many longings and stalemates, the horrors of piecing ourselves back together, the refreshment of piecing ourselves back together, and we follow our dance elders as they offer themselves to the luminous mundanity of a life given to the dance of it all.. from the USA, China, Spain, Japan, and Sweden.

The 2024 Portland Dance Film Festival https://portlanddancefilmfest.com/ at the Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater 3530 SE Division 7:30PM Each night $20 advance $25 door, $15 artist/student 3 days $50.

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

September 25 Artefactos Alterados

Georgina Treviño brings Artefactos Alterados. She is a San Diego jewelry and sculpture artist in a contemporary Churrigueresque style, think Southern Italian design rather than Northern Italian design. https://georginatrevinojewelry.com/about As part of the West End Last Wednesday https://westendwednesdays.org/ where you can see the Wildfang x Debbie Harry clothing at Wildfang. Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 5PM Free

Sunday, September 22, 2024

September 22 Realistic Moment

Realistic Moment is a Summer music series.

Iilyas Ahmed, Dashka, Greg Allison & Harlan Alexander Silverman, with Carly Barton interludes, perform.

Experience it on the tree bridge with blankets, chairs, a picnic.

Realistic Moment at Leach Botanical gardents Tickets: https://sales.leachgarden.org/Performance.aspx?pid=5097 At Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4PM-7:30 $25 Kids Free

Friday, September 20, 2024

September 21-27 The End of Summer

Portland and Japan have a long relationship. The Portland Japanese Garden https://japanesegarden.org/about-portland-japanese-garden/history/ is a physical manifestation of it.

The End of Summer https://www.end-of-summer.org/ is a Summer artist residency created by the late Matt Jay at The Portland Japanese Garden Japan Institute. Jay spent much of his life living in Tokyo.

Throughout the year the works by Japanese artists are shown at the gardens. It is a great motivation for a year membership. This week, September 21-27, the project unfolds with talks and an art show at the Bullseye building in the Pearl District.

Saturday is a relaunch of the program designed by San Francisco Studio Bang-Gu. The Studio formed the visual identity with founder Jay. Advance tickets are limited, required, and free at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/end-of-summer-cafe-talks-with-studio-bang-gu-tickets-1007017054117.

Sunday, End of Summer artists Ai Sugiura and Hanae Utamura, 2019 and 2017, respectively, speak, moderated by art historian Keenan Jay.

"Ai Sugiura is Tokyo based multidisciplinary artist who focuses on the trivial objects of everyday life and rethinks their meaning and function. Sugiura’s artistic practice is driven by her interest in material and space, inside/outside, memory, and the transition between the ordinary and extraordinary. Sugiura’s work often takes the form of sculpture and installation, and in recent years she has been incorporating photography into her three-dimensional production and take the technique of photo collage."

"Hanae Utamura is a Japanese interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Tokyo. Her work engages with historical memory, questioning the notion of progress in modernity, ecology and technology. Utamura’s media include video, performance, installation, and sculpture. She connects human beings and the earth, using the physical human body as a conduit. She explores negotiations and conflicts between the human and the non-human, and how all the varieties of the wills of life manifest such as in the field of science. By decentralizing the human perspective, Utamura diversifies historical narratives, and enters the imagination of nature."

The show is viewable noon-6 throughout the week.

The End of Summer https://japanesegarden.org/events/end-of-summer-2024/ at Bullseye Projects 300 NW 13th. Noon-6 Free

September 20 Sometimes Seek Marias

Artist friends in real life, Vaginal Davis and Ektor Garcia present There's Something About Maria. The writeup on the gallery website explains their theme and history.

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 5PM-7 Free


A Sometimes Gallery brings a show of vinyl album cover covers, WAX:The LP Show. It's a deep cut group of artists including: Jess Ackerman, Anna Rogers,Lena Fridman, Ryan Bubnis, Lettie Jane Rennekamp, Jeff Pfiel, Emily Kepulis, Emily Wise, Jeremy Okai, Tron 444, Allie Yacina, Sunny Eckerle, Kirsten Bauer, Alina Radetsky, Wokeface, Mandy Grotie, Damn Zippy, Rachel Rose, Morgan Bak, Stevie Shao, Jason Sturgil, Jeff Sheridan, Nathan Mckee, Josh Gates, Kate Bingaman Burt, Daren Todd, Matt diLeo, Fry, Jack Graydon, Courtney Knight, Nathan Paul Rice, Wyatt Hersey, Logan Britt, Katie Benn, Alex Stone, Drew Garza, Chloe/Rowdy Air, Shag Me To Hell, Kristina Micotti, Hiller Goodspeed, Chris Koelling, Nicky Kriara, Alex Smyth, Eatcho, and Charles.

DJ? Check. Pop Up vinyl store? Check. Dranks? Check. And A Sometimes Riso vinyl cover? Check.

At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 5PM-9 Free


One Grand draws an up-to-date crowd. Seek Skate Camp on Mt Hood is doing a Northwest Open, events in town, and on the mountain. In town, One Grand is doing a skate themed art show. Artists are Mike Gigliottai, Charlie Salas-Humara, Scotty Coplman, Jesse Kamerzell, and James Alby. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free

Thursday, September 19, 2024

September 19 Citizen Fellow

Citizen Fellow reprises native artists supported by the Native Arts and Culture Foundation. The artists are Joe Feddersen (The Confederated Tribes of The Colville Reservation (Okanagan and Lakes), John Feodorov (Navajo/Diné), Linda Infante Lyons (Alutiiq/Sugpiaq), James Luna, 1950 - 2018 (Luiseño/Puyukitchum/Ipai/Mexican), Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation), Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Tewa – Santa Clara Pueblo), Abigail Romanchak (Native Hawaiian), Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo/Creek/Greek), Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota), and Shirod Younker (Coquille/Miluk Coos/Umpqua/Visayan).

Citizen Fellow https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/citizen-fellow at the Center for Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 6PM-8 RSVP to https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ Free

Saturday, September 14, 2024

September 15 Modular Grain

Timothy Yanick Hunter https://www.yanickhunter.com/ from Toronto brings Noise / Grain. It is image, sound, and video, sampled and remixed, on the theme of the extended African diaspora. Granular sampling, and synthesis, Hunter's technique, uses very short samples with sub-second durations akin to blipverts.

His gallery show opens at I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 3PM-5 Free


Modular on the Spot begins 2024 sound making. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.

Knob twisters today are Marcus Fischer, Akemie, Max Myriad, Puzzle Teeth, brotherjacob, and Drozas.

The Synth Library is in Llovd Center and doing more events.

In Cathedral Park under the St Johns Bridge 6635 N Baltimore 6PM Free

SEPTEMBER 14 Infinite Freckled Properties

The reception and artist walkthrough for the current show Properties of Layers by Bean Finneran and (in)finite by Johannes Girardoni is this afternoon.

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 4PM-5:30 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com


Carson Ellis is a painter and writer. She discovered an old diary from the time she first arrived in Portland, has illustrated it, and shaped it into a book, One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary. You can see the paintings and the book this afternoon. Ellis is famous for teaching alien illustration, https://www.ksmoca.com/carson-ellis, at KSMOCA.

Carson Ellis with https://www.nationale.us/carson-ellis-one-week-in-january-2024 at Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Recommended 2PM-5 Free

Friday, September 13, 2024

September 13 Tender Zymoglyphic

Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert https://patohebert.com/ open their show Tender in a joint presentation by the Cooley Gallery and Ditch Projects in Eugene/Springfield. Ditch opens their part in October. Opening at the Cooley Gallery. Gilbert participates in a discussion of the work Sunday. At Reed College Cooley Gallery 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. 5PM Free


Portland's Zymoglyphic Museum brings a readout of their fourth residency, Muse IV. The artists in this group are Heléna Dupre Thompson, Lyndsay Hogland, Patty Burns, Zac Banik, Alice Langlois, and Sam David. Recommended. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free

Saturday, September 07, 2024

September 7 Northside Art Openings+

Bruce Conkle brings Gettin Hot in Here, climate change-themed work. His Instagram has many rough-drawn sketches on the theme too. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map Noon-3 Free


Receiving Space is a show by Elizabeth Arzani and Owen Premore. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free


Form.a is an art press fair hosted by Oregon Contemporary, Carnation, Outer Voice, and Well Well.

It includes Ahnika Wood, Alice Christine Walker, Benchmark, Berm, Blackfish Gallery, Borderline Press, Briseida Pagador, Buckman Journal, Carnation Contemporary, Chess Club, CO/LAB, Chris Lael Larson, Claire Spaulding, Conner Gordon, Converge 45, Container Corps, Diana Marcela Cuartas, Ditch Projects, Erika Rier, Grapefruits, Hi Books, Impeller Press, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Mahma Jaguar, Martha Wurzelbacher, Nicole Williford, One Grand Gallery, Outer Voice, Outlet, PNCA Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, Push Pulled Editions, Rubis Discolor Project, Serena Kathleen, Soil Gallery, Stephanie Hatch, Stelo Arts, Wave Contemporary, Well Well Projects, Whatnow Press, and Will Mairs. In the Oregon Contemporary Complex. Noon-5 + 5PM-8 Free


En Motion and Orbit are group shows, including video art, from WAVE Contemporary members overflowing into the Oregon Contemporary space, along with Inner Sun by Katherine Spinella and Morgan Rosskopf - "frayed edges with thick embroidery and photographic textures among material assemblage."

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  5PM-8 Free


In Present Space by Kim Smith Claudel is sculpture. At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free


For your +1, Julie Beeler has Take Root derived from mushrooms. At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 5PM-7

Friday, September 06, 2024

Thursday, September 05, 2024

September 5 Westside Art Openings +

First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.


It is hot Summer, so for your +1 you can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free


Barbara Sternberger opens paintings Continuum and continues Distant Dreamer by MK Guth.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free


Chance Bounty is a collection of small works by multiple artists. At Portland Arts Collective 120 SW Harvey Milk 6PM-9 Free


The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.


Morgan Walker has a retrospective of paintings. It is alongside Art About Architecture by Peter Paul and Mark Bennett.

At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free


PNCA has Outside Inside World by Videotones, Born on the 4th of June by Ran Sheng themed on the 1989 Democracy Movement. As Seen Through Threads by Fatimah Hobaish, Out of Sorts by Ray Zill, Second Skin by Steele Alden & Hawk Ferdig, two group shows, DJs and photobooth complete the party.

At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free


Fruit Snacks is a pop-up by Laurs Kemp, Namai, and Sara Bergman. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 2PM-5 Free


Xavi Bou has Orinthographies inspired by birds and there is a big group show from PNCA.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Maria Jean brings graphic style show Sex. At After/Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free


Caverna Clara by Corey S. Pressman, Palimpsets by Lauren Carrera, Zai Yiqie Zhijian: In-Between by Limei Lai and Tracing Resonance by Anastasiya Gutnik are all at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Fretta MM Cravens shows Timeless Engagement. At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Metals artist Greg Wilbur has Surface Tension. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Orlando Almanza brings portrait paintings Gente de RíoAndrew Alba and Jake Scharback has dramatic paintings Treachery of Images. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free


Bethany Rowland has paintings What Meets the Eye. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free


The Urban Art Network is back with their sprawling crafts and art show on 13th.