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