Saturday, November 23, 2024

November 23 Defamiliarize Get It On

Sara Rahmanian is a recently minted Yale MFA in painting. Ily2 brings her for her first solo show.

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


Enjoy and Get It On is a group show curated by Christopher Baird. The artists are Morgan Ritter, Rainen Knecht, Lila Jarzombek, Agatha Jaquiss, Jeffrey Hale, Derek Franklin, Srijon Chowdhury and the curator.

"South East Portland is big. It’s like a weirdly spread out tight city, it’s: fucked up apartments, bars, movie theaters, warehouses, porn shops, stores, trains, classic Portland houses with covered porches that used to be cheap to live in. Elliott Smith. Exploding Hearts. I used to get fucked up on drugs and walk the Ross Island bridge into South East. Burnside bridge more times than I can count. Pine Street theater/ La Luna. SHARPS, goths, skaters, music nerds. Unwound at Reed. There’s a thing to South East; punk, rocker kids doing whatever thing they are making cool. Poison Idea. Steve Malkmus and Jessica Jackson Hutchins. Feral House publishing. Leather and tight jeans and boots, even in the rain. There’s people in South East Portland painting paintings. It’s healthy and vibing out there. This thing is just a slice of a few folks, in close proximity to each other, in that part of town- passing energy around."

Hide & Seek Gallery has Carolyn Hazel with The Sewing Room. At Hide & Seek Gallery, a gallery in an apartment, 2638 N. Interstate Unit B 3PM-6 Free

Friday, November 22, 2024

November 22-24 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/seattlebutohfestival2024 at Yaw Theaterin Seattle Georgetown 6520 5th Ave S 8PM $20-25

Sunday, November 17, 2024

November 17 Land Art Talk

The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ - has Kris Timken speaking on four women in land art 1078-1983.

"Timken’s dissertation “Women, Land Art and the Social (1978-1983)”, [is] a revisionist project that moves beyond the necessary impulse to recover forgotten female artists as pioneers in the early years of the land art movement. She deploys the iconic earth art made by men like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer in the late 1960s and early 1970s as the starting point in an examination of 4 large-scale artworks made by women in the ensuing decade. In the late 1970s, female artists such as Nancy Holt (Sun Tunnels), Patricia Johanson (Fair Park Lagoon), Beverly Buchanan (Unity Stones) and Betty Beaumont (Ocean Landmark) were at the forefront of the land art movement as it transformed from one characterized by isolationism and minimalism to one that was social, connected, and activist."

Talk at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free

Sunday, November 10, 2024

November 10 Ghosts in the Void

Portland artists Hannah Piper Burns brings Deathlessness, sculpture and installation. She ran an excellent space, post-Multiplex, at the Everett Station Lofts in its fertile time.

At Virtua Gallery https://xhurch.net/virtua/upcoming.html nee Xhurch in the in Lloyd Center Mall. They are on the mid level next to now-closed Animal. Plant. Mineral. The mall locks the doors at 7PM, so get inside before the doors are locked. 4PM-6 Free


Building 5 at the NW Marine Art Works welcomes resident artists. Look at what they have done and bring your proposals to fill the large space.

Ground Beneath Us is one of the residencies. This readout is from artist Kim Smith Claudel https://www.kimsmithclaudel.com/. Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz Higgins provide movement to the work Ghosts in the Void.

"During her residency at Building 5, Kim will use water and light to create large-scale analog projections, evolving pictures that are formed through choreographed movement within the water. Drawing on historical research of Northwest Marine Ironworks, this work uncovers specific mechanical projects that serve as a metaphorical blueprints for larger themes of containment: the ways in which we seek to hold and represent our natural, messy world, and shape it through our technological frameworks.

Kim searches for moments along the creative process in which gestures of physical forces (gravity / entropy / time) intersect with the ephemeral magic of being (consciousness / intuition / wordless poetry). Her work intersects painting, sculpture, and performance while using a variety of natural, discarded, and technological media—often created within limitations or rule sets.

Her exhibition further explores the ways in which we hold, contain, and ultimately attempt to control water."

At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 3PM-6, Performance at 4 Free


Thursday, November 07, 2024

November 7 Westside Art Openings+

First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.


ILY2, Adams & Ollman, and The Black Gallery continue.


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


+2 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.


+3 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. The current show is curated from Fountain Gallery artists. The Fountain Gallery is also the subject of a retrospective at the Oregon Historical Society https://www.ohs.org/museum/exhibits/a-fountain-of-creativity.cfm.

While the Museum and Museum Art School were strong contemporary forces, the Fountain Gallery, 1961-1986 was arguably the first contemporary gallery in Portland. The Fountain Gallery stable was continued by Laura Russo, 1943-2010, who worked at the Fountain, and her gallery, now Russo-Lee. Curator Bruce Guenther, a strong contemporary curator for the Portland Art Museum, worked at the Fountain.

You can see a time capsule of an era in art in this show with parallels to the Portland Art Museum collection of works.

At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-fountain-of-creativity-first-thursday-tickets-1041699219407?aff=oddtdtcreator Free


Jeremy Okai Davis has new paintings From the Stage, A Calling, By and Gravid: Tides of Becoming by Alexis Day.

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


Mary Josephson https://www.russoleegallery.com/artists/mary-josephson and partner Gregory Grenon are larger than life portaitists and parents of the Portland Art Collective. This month the gallery presents Josephson's bright portraits.

At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 120 SW Harvey Milk 6PM-9 Free


French photographer, Charles Xelot, brings White Water https://charlesxelot.com/series/white-water/. He is an environmental photographer at the nexus of the natural environment of the Russian Arctic and the human presence there. It is a current topic.

The Arctic Ocean has been seasonally or entirely ice-bound for 2.6 million years. With the human-made increase in atmospheric CO₂, it partially melts in Summer. Oil and gas is found on its edges, and beneath the waters. In the US, that is the at the end of the Alaska Pipeline. In Russia, overland pipelines drain it. Russia ships oil and gas by ship from wells on land when the ice is passable. https://www.tradewindsnews.com/tankers/russia-ramps-up-risks-with-non-ice-class-ships-on-arctic-route-says-poten-partners/2-1-1527386 and https://pame.is/images/03_Projects/ASSR/ASSR_1_-_2024_update.pdf

Of course the long game is to burn all the fossil fuels to end Arctic ice. The side effect is that it will melt the tundra, frozen soil, release the methane sequestered in the soil, further increasing the earth temperatures and extrmeme weather. A meling tundra will cause all the human-made structure foundations to collapse.

In White Water, Xelot photographs ships, people, the land, and the sea. This is Xelot's first Blue Sky Show. He speaks on November 13.

Canadian photographer Pierre Dalpé https://www.pierredalpe.com/ brings Wigstock, portraits 1992-1995 imaged at NYC's legendary drag festival of the same name. He speaks on November 9.

In the Nine Gallery, Ronna Neuenschwanter brings ceramic sculpture in show titled Djinn and Their Environs http://www.ronnaneuenschwander.com/djinn_and_their_environs. She is partner to Baba Wagué Diakité and they share influences of the folk art of Mali.

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


Jackson Hunt and Mikaela Shafer bring Ancestor Adjacent. It is a meditation on how Native American wisdom and culture connects through today and into the future.

At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free


Tom Cramer has Superplanet and other new wood reliefs. The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. Along with prints by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free


PNCA has open studios and a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free


V Maldonado is an artist force and a curator force. Northwest Pedagogies brings artists Garrick Imatani, Amoqiix-araceli, Linda Wysong, Horatio Hung-yan Law, Marie Conner, Mei Love, and David J Torres II. At After/Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free


We Meet in Kangirnaq is a collaboration between Merridawn Duckler in Portland and Palmarin Merges in Japan. It is inspired by the idea of each walking North to meet overland in Alaska.

Ruri has Reflections. She is an expressive while minimalist sculptor; much of her work is anagama-fired. Anagama kilns are wood-fired. It is an ancient method from Japan, now in the Northwest for several artist generations. This show is abstract gestural sumi ink on mulberry paper.

Christopher Shotola-Hardt brings paintings, Elegies. They are paintings of birds in slightly surreal landscapes.

All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Julie Rall has paintings Thread the Needle. At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free


Laurie Danial continues their evolution in abstract painting with Before My Very Eyes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free


Chris Moench has sculpture Axis of Hope Prayer Wheels and painter Kirk Weller has Discovered Horizons. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free


Salt / Water are fish sculptures by Roberta Lampert. She uses some unique firing methods. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free


Adriene Cruz, Bridgette Hickey, Marquishia Winters, Sesalli Castillo and Syon Davis have a show Mending Histories. At Stelo Arts 412 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free

Saturday, November 02, 2024

November 2 Northside Art Openings+

Today is the last day for 45.52951° N, 122.67341° W at the Nine Gallery. The project is a collaboration between the late John Montague, Linda Hutchins, and Stephen Slappe. At 1PM participants will walk from the gallery as a group to the Willammette Greenway, site of the source material. Meet at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 1PM Free


PNCA opens their MFA studios for an early readout. Details: https://events.willamette.edu/e/5903, RSVP requested. At the PNCA MFA studios 2139 N Kerby Avenue 5PM-8 Free


Bobby Fouther https://about.me/bobby.fouther, multiartist, brings new work Receiving Space Dancing in the Dark. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 2PM-5 Free


Stevie Shao from Seattle brings new illustrations, https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/stevie-shao-solo. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free


In association with Walk In, Well Well presents Rae Brown From Memory. Bryston Wallace provides music. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  6PM-8 Free


Carnation continues its exchange with Soil Gallery in Seattle. The artists are on the Carnation insta. Soil is always a great stop visiting Seattle. At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free


Oregon Contemporary opens a large installation by ceramics artist Emily Counts. Some of it comes from the late Seattle Museum of Museums.

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


If you are in Seattle, 206Zulu brings their Hip Hop Film Festival. It's https://www.206zulu.org/programs/seattle-hip-hop-film-festival/ at Washington Hall 153 14th Avenue, Seattle 6PM $10

Friday, November 01, 2024

November 1 Eastside Art Openings

Info at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.


Pam Puck is at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free