The US West Coast has many Japanese communities. Seattle does. Nihonmachi Alley in the ID has artworks referencing that history. Sadly in the news of hate for destruction lately. Today dancer Kaoru Okumura http://kaoruokumura.com/ performs. Her mode is Butoh, a modern Japanese dance form, often super slow. It's notable on the 80th anniversary of the Nagasaki bomb.
Modern dance performance in Nihonmachi Alley, Seattle. 1PM-6 Free
Your big thing may be backyard gallery show What Happens Before You Die? Not because of the title or existentialism. Because it is a backyard gallery with good curation and a fine community!
Sommer Browning and Carin Rodenborn, making it, are both visual artist-writers.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
The big Nucleus has a solo and a group. Josh Stover, all the way from Richmond, Virgina is solo. Erika Strohecker, Ippei Matsui, Itoyo, Jackie Brown, Jeffrey Sincich, Jordan Metcalf, Joshua Minnich, Kahoko Sodeyama, Keita Miyairi, kidtofer, Misato Sano, Nathan McKee, Raf Spielman, Takahiro Moriki, Takuma Suzuki, and The Tiny Spoon are group.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ori is an indivudalistc black focus gallery in a small vintage house built in 1903. It remains on Mississippi Avenue. African Americans migrated to Portland for the Kaiser shipyards of WW2. Many workers lived in Vanport in the area of the Portland Raceway today. It was wiped out in the Flood of 1948. Subsequently many flood control dams on the Columbia-Snake were built which produce carbon-free energy. Some people want to tear them down so they can have the privilege of rafting the rivers. Portland African Americans then relocated within Red Line neighborhoods, including Mississippi and Alberta displacing Germans, who moved to Parkrose and Argay Terrace.
Ori has traced its own path in its small community; many art shows open by appointment. I think I can announce this without blowing it out and glad to remove it at their request.
Oregon has a strong bill of rights in its constitution. One of the strongest among states, and stronger than the US Constitution. The courts in Henry and Nyssa affirmed exotic dancing as free expression. In the 1990s dancer-activists Dulce and Mona Superhero created Danzine. Dulce went on to do noted AIDS work, worldwide. Portland artist Marne Lucas organized dancer art shows. PICA did sex worker art shows including a large retrospective.
Now Ori in collaboration with the Oregon Safer Workers Coalition, brings show The Oldest Profession. Look up Mary Magdalene. This show is not the first in the world or Portland on the topic.
Show at 4PM-9 under 18 must be accompanied by parents. Free
I'm very selective in my interest in lowbrow and pop surrealsim. I would not have it in my home. I viewed La Luz de Jesus Gallery from the begining. I rarely list the genre here. That said, Brassworks sells and packs out openings. They have one at 5.
