tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259741892024-03-17T20:04:03.576-07:00portland or us nowA selective guide to art events and exhibitions in Portland, Oregon, US with occasional musings, related and not.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comBlogger2693125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-65828968648638201292024-03-15T21:57:00.000-07:002024-03-15T21:57:06.873-07:00March 17 NevelsonThe Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ - has Bruce Guenther presenting Hand and Eye: Louise Nevelson and a Bricolage Future.
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Talk at PNCA | Willamette University <a href="http://www.pnca.willmaette.edu/">www.pnca.wilamette.edu</a> 511 NW Broadway <a href="http://www.google.com/maps/place/511+NW+Broadway,+Portland,+OR+97209/@45.5267777,-122.6778704,17z/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 2PM-4 FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-22490594312008907582024-03-15T21:45:00.000-07:002024-03-15T23:05:55.843-07:00March 16 Partake in Silence Knowing Doors Wake Modulation PDX Contemporary has present and past employee art. At PDX Contemporary Art <a href="www.pdxcontemporaryart.com" rel="nofollow">www.pdxcontemporaryart.com</a> 1825 NW Vaughn <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/1825+NW+Vaughn+St,+Portland,+OR+97209/@45.537373,-122.692579,16z"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com3-5 Worker art
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Glen Baldridge & Louise Sheldon have Doors in Floors along with Martha Daghlian The Great Art of Knowing. At Ditch Projects <a href="https://ditchprojects.com/" rel="nofollow">https://ditchprojects.com/</a>
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Nathan Paul Rice and Ellen Robinette have Modulations. At Sator Projects</span><span> <a href="https://www.satorprojects.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.satorprojects.com/</a> 1709 SE 3rd 4PM-7
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One Grand has Partake in Me, a group aniversary show. At One Grand Gallery</span><span> <a href="http://www.onegrandgallery.com">www.onegrandgallery.com</a> 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
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Ambient musician Steve Roach has Structures From Silence, a 2 hour show with projection-mapped visuals. Their ticketing link is insecure, so no idea the price. At the First Congregatioional Church 1126 SW Park. 8PM
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Neal Kosaly-Meyer reads Part II, Chapter 2 of Finnegans Wake in honor of St Patrick's Day. The reading will be in darkness and 2 1/2 hours without a break. At Passages Bookshop
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660. 5:30PM Doors, 6 Lecture, 7 Reading, $5-20 No late entry
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There is also flamenco at Artichoke, always fun.
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The yearly CAP Art Auction and afterparty are tonight. More at https://www.capartauction.org/.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-88894208955896089922024-03-15T13:52:00.000-07:002024-03-15T13:52:46.080-07:00March 15-17 Go Sou'west, young personThe Sou'wester is a vintage trailer motel and lodge in Seaview, Washington. It is a short walk to the sea and adjacent to a wild native forest. They have arts and crafts events throughout the year. For a week the last few years, it is taken over by mostly Portland contemporary artists and musicians. They have a week of residency and a weekend of unfolding the work.
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Friday, 6PM-10 Ilwaco Art Works
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Saturday, Noon-2 Wave of the Future Preschool and 2PM-10 at Sou'wester proper
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Sunday, 11AM-1PM Ilwaco Art Works
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More at <a href="https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/" rel="nofollow">https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/</a> and a flipbook of the detailed schedule, projects, and a map <a href="https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/#flipbook-df_25976/1/" rel="nofollow">https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/#flipbook-df_25976/1/</a><br />
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It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby. The weather this year is stellar.
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At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA Recommended. FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-53363403373718218872024-03-15T11:46:00.000-07:002024-03-15T11:46:32.851-07:00March 15 Secret CreatureSecret Room Press is part of the Portland Riso revival along with Outlet, PSU, and the IPRC. The Risograph is a Japanese color printer that uses stensels and ink. The ink is in a large cartridge. To change the color, you change the cartridge. It's lo-rez.
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Tonight they open with a show Creature Comforts by Adam De Souza, Arantza Peña Popo, Chris Koelling, Cole Pauls, Eileen Chavez, Eleonora Simeoni, Erin Tanner, Jensine Eckwall, Kirsten Hatfield, Molly Lecko Herro, Patrick Kyle, Ryan Cook, Sean Christensen, and Victor Bizar Gómez. They are all printed with Sunflower, Aqua, Bubblegum, and Brown Riso ink.
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At Secret Room Press <a href="https://www.secretroompress.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.secretroompress.com/</a> 3325 SE Division 5PM-8 FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-4640869897731604312024-03-14T09:03:00.000-07:002024-03-14T09:21:22.559-07:00March 14 Getting Stronger Every DayI met Miranda July in the late 1990s at the Tidbit Gallery. The gallery had a storied short run. We struck up a conversation involving her red polkadot boots and patterned Summer shift, then ongoing about her writing that became Me, You, and Everyone We Know.
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She had been doing zines with Johanna Fateman, then spoken word, and spoken word with images <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J419epd_oJA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J419epd_oJA</a>, performing venues like 17 Nautical Miles. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA8E7Zb9P9c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA8E7Zb9P9c</a> She collaborated on shows with Olympia and its diaspora Riot Girl bands including Cadallaca. She released several recordings of her stories on Kill Rock Stars and K records you can find. I suggested her to PICA, who commissioned Love Diamond, and PICA suggested her to The Kitchen. She has since built a sustainable career in social practice art, including Learning to Love You More, movies, and writing.
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Along the way some of her short performances became short movies. Tonight you can see a few.
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From CST:
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"Atlanta (1996) — A 12-year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother speak to the public about going for the gold.
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The Amateurist (1998) — A captivating video about surveillance, identity, watching, and being watched, which slides along the edges of horror and satire to create an unsettling portrait of a woman on the brink of technologically-driven madness.
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Nest of Tens (1999) — Four alternating stories which reveal mundane yet personal methods of control, linked by a quasi-academic lecturer revealing the phobias and queasy strangeness that lies behind the everyday.
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Getting Stronger Everyday (2001) — A dark and disturbing mystical tale about two boys who were taken from their families and then returned to them years later."
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You can probably find most of them, but it will be more fun to see them with friends!
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They encapsulate her slightly disturbing jumping narrative style and her unique voice on a DIY canvas.
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Around that time she started her Big Miss Moviola / Joanie 4 Jackie video chain letter project. <a href="https://www.joanie4jackie.com/chainletter-tapes/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joanie4jackie.com/chainletter-tapes/</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KJw7icQjk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KJw7icQjk</a> Lady movie makers would send in their DIY shorts and a letter to viewers, they would be combined into as many as would fit on a VHS, and then sent out to the makers and subscribers.
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July once explained, "The innocent woman is only innocent because she knows that if she shows what she knows nobody will like her and she won't be able to do all the important things she needs to do. Innocence is like an art form."
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Vintage Miranda July on screen at the Clinton Street Theater. 2522 SE Clinton 7PM $10
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-31744393394132714342024-03-08T19:16:00.000-08:002024-03-08T19:16:53.453-08:00March 9 Venerable Showers of Awakening ContentHotels can be mini art galleries. In my memory it's been done in Eugene and in Portland on Interstate Avenue. The Ace Hotel did a version connected to the Portland independent fashion and stylist world. Now the Society Hotel has revived it.
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Content 2024 has artists Rain Ezra, Dandy Gal, Arbor House, Brady Lange, Madre Linen + Camille Shu, Carolina Dulanto, Chris Lael Larson, Danielle Delceppo, Elouise Elliott, Father Fannie, Francesca Lohmann, Gili Rappaport, Holly Stalder, Hyun Jung Jung, i. max. miller, Nishimoto Is The Mouth, Spacelab, Kate Towers, Kristen Diederich, Making Earth Cool, Martie Kilmer: Space Design, Mary Luczycki, Megan Sinclair, Melissa Monroe, Michelle Freedman, Nami Hall, Rachael Modrcin, Sam Kalafat, Savina Monet and Outsrc.
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Tickets are going to be needed in advance. There are two sessions, Noon-4 and 6-11. All ages. Tickets <a href="https://www.merctickets.com/events/148440551/content-a-multi-discplinary-fully-immersive-art-take-over" rel="nofollow">https://www.merctickets.com/events/148440551/content-a-multi-discplinary-fully-immersive-art-take-over</a>. Content <a href="https://www.wearecontentpdx.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wearecontentpdx.com/</a> at the Society Hotel 203 NW 3rd Noon-4 and 6-11 $25-30
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Pythagoras was wrong. <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2419442-pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music/#:~:text=An%20ancient%20Greek%20belief%20about,appreciate%20harmony%2C%20researchers%20have%20found.">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2419442-pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music/#:~:text=An%20ancient%20Greek%20belief%20about,appreciate%20harmony%2C%20researchers%20have%20found.</a> People like Western music and Eastern music with different rhythms and scales.
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That brings us to the gamelan. It is back in public in Portland.
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A gamelan is an Indonesian percussion symphony with added instruments, no conductor, and the possibility of improvisation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWCCSuHsuQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWCCSuHsuQ</a> It has existed about two millennia. Lewis and Clark College, with it's excellent ethnomusicology program, has a gamelan.
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Tonight is a gamelan concert and a documentary Goong: Sound Through Fire on forging and tuning a large bronze Gamelan gong.
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At Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis & Clark College, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road. 7:30PM Tickets <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gamelan-music-film-goong-sound-through-fire-tickets-826739960477?aff=oddtdtcreator" rel="nofollow">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gamelan-music-film-goong-sound-through-fire-tickets-826739960477?aff=oddtdtcreator</a> $20, discounts for students
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Tatsumi Hijikata was born 96 years ago in Northern Japan. At age 31 he created the first Butoh dance work a new form of modern dance. He died at age 57 leaving a family tree of performers though it is still a niche few see live.
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Tonight Hiroko Tamano from San Francisco and Kaoru Okumura from Seattle perform a piece entitled Awakening of Insects on Hijikata's birthday.
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Awakening of insects <a href="https://www.sfzc.org/calendar/events/city-center/kei-chitsu-awakening-insects-butoh-performance-cc-39" rel="nofollow">https://www.sfzc.org/calendar/events/city-center/kei-chitsu-awakening-insects-butoh-performance-cc-39</a> at the San Francisco Zen Center 308 Page Street $35 Sold Out
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-53875775483174600902024-03-08T11:04:00.000-08:002024-03-10T11:44:34.913-07:00March 8 Microdose or bachata? Both!Microdose 4 is the 4th Nucleus group show of tiny works. They would be perfect for a tiny home! And for apertments they are easy to move - just put it in your pocket! Artists this year are Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Cat Rabbit, Creature Creature, Chloe Niclas, Deth Sun, Diego Penuela, Erick Martinez, Felicia Chiao, Hanna Jaeun, Heather Birdsong, Heidi Moreno, Helice Wen, Jessica So Ren Tang, JP Neang, Juliet Schreckinger, Kanako Abe, Katie Gamb, Kim Baise, Kime, Kozy Kitchens, Laura Catherwood, LIFO, Lily Seika Jones, Marjolaine Roller, Matt Schu, Mizna Wada, Molly Mendoza, Nana Williams, Naoshi, PaperPuffin, Po Yan Leung, Samantha Mash, Sibylline Meynet, Yu Maeda, and Zach Meyer. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 (no early sales) Free
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Landdd has new rugs and textiles from Mexico and visiting artists from Dominicana. They have mezcal and mini Coronas. They are playing cumbia and bachata vinyls and cassettes on their vintage art speakers. At Landdd Gallery <a href="https://www.landdd.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.landdd.org</a> 7PM-9ish
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The Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater has Afro-Futurist costume designer Ruth E Carter tonight at 7:30PM $75 Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-39433672000806936222024-03-07T13:15:00.000-08:002024-03-07T15:27:01.658-08:00March 7 Westside Art Openings +First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
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Illy2, Adams and Ollman, and After/Time continue. No idea on Landdd, or the Everett Lofts.
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For your +1, Soil Gallery in Seattle opens Sleepless Nights by artists Marcelo Fontana, Pamela Hadley, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Hannah Newman, Jessie Rose Vala, Morgan Rosskopf, and Katherine Spinella. It's curated by Hannah Newman at Portland's Wave Contemporary and who has shown at Carnation.
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They win the copywriting award today:
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""Sleepless Nights explores the anxieties that keep us awake at night. In the transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep, the unconscious comes alive, quickening our thoughts to the realities and fears we suppress in waking hours. Doomscrolling, insomnia, and poor mental health are the results of carrying the uncertainties that litter our contemporary social, political, and physical landscapes.
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To cope with our anxieties, we stay busy in our waking lives. Busyness in contemporary life is not simply a response to inflation or grind culture, but ultimately, a survival tactic. The moment we slow down, our worries catch up - we will be overcome by the weight of the unknown. Instead, we distract ourselves, focusing on consuming and creating beauty - the survival strategies of an artist. The anxiety waits, patiently anticipating our return to the twilight zone between waking and sleeping.
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Recreating this liminal space, the exhibition Sleepless Nights unfolds in a dark room via blacklights, nightlights, phone screens, and projectors. The room is infused with a continuous stream of audio, a background score of current events, news updates, podcasts, and other data. The exhibition features work by artists working in a wide variety of media and methods, but connected by their anxieties, drive to create, and hope for the future. The artists display their work within an environment of the unease within which it is created. Each artwork becomes a talisman to hold our anxieties at bay.
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Sleepless Nights is a space for reflection and introspection, where visitors can engage with their own cares and concerns as well as the uncertainties of the wider world. It is an invitation to look beyond the veil of busyness and productivity to confront the deeper fears that lie within us all.""
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At Soil 112 3rd Ave S. Seattle 5PM-8
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For your +2, Julie Rall opens installation Ghosts Ship. It includes large fabric sailing sails, encrusted anchor chain, and salt. At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 5PM-8 Free
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It must be trying to be Spring, so for your +3 you can experience Flamenco msic 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
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<br />The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
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Kirsten Blair has Found and Foraged. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8 Free
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The big ad agency brings Draw the Good, a group show connected with their Portland Is What We Make It campaign.
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At W+K <a href="http://www.wk.com/">www.wk.com</a> 224 NW 13th <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=224+NW+13t,+portland,+or&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=27.366321,49.042969&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=224+NW+13th+Ave,+Portland,+Multnomah,+Oregon+97209&z=17">Map</a></span> 4PM-7 Free
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In the Nine Gallery has Moons, by Susan Weil. It is a body of work from 1980 to now inspired by the moon on paper, canvas, plexiglas, mixed-media sculpture ans as artist book.
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Fazilat Soukhakian has Queer in Utah. The artist was born in Iran, then moved to the US in their 20s. After school, they now teach in Logan.
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Sarah Malakoff from Boston has Personal History, lush individualistic American domestic interiors sans occupants.
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At Blue Sky Gallery <a href="http://www.blueskygallery.org/">www.blueskygallery.org</a> <a href="http://maps.google.com/places/us/or/portland/nw-8th-ave/122/-blue-sky-gallery-and-nine-gallery?hl=en&gl=us"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
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Walt Curtis was Portland's real multiartist: poet, painter, author, radio host, naturalist, historian, gay icon, and legend, in the words of the show organizers. All true and more. He made it to age 82! Walt was a big part of the Portland 80s & 90s creative world, inspiring Gus Van Sant's feature film breakout when Gus was in his early 30s. His mythic dream paintings, Moveable Feast, are up tonight. Dan Ness on the decks. At Portland Arts Collective 120 SW Harvey Milk 6PM-9 Free
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PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. There are too many shows to list inside, there are outdoor projections, and DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid + DJ Timothy Bee spin.
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Weather Patterns by Barb Burwell is at Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
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Will a flower grow inside me if I eat soil and seeds? is a group show. At Stelo Arts <a href="https://www.steloarts.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.steloarts.org</a> 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-8 Free
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Waterstone has impresionistic figurative painter Ruth Hunter. At Waterstone Gallery <a href="http://www.waterstonegallery.com/">www.waterstonegallery.com</a> 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free
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The Black Gallery is open with Adriene Cruz: Power Prayer for the Community. It is textile work. She is in the Oregon Black Artists show at the Portland Art Museum. Curated by Teena Wildero of Art Bridges Community Partnerships. https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7
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Blackfish has their 45th Anniversary founding members show. The Unseen is clay sculptures by Ruri. Jana Demartini has prints. At Blackfish Gallery <a href="https://www.blackfish.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.blackfish.com/</a> 938 NW Everett <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/938+NW+Everett+St,+Portland,+OR+97209/@45.5249541,-122.6808993,16z/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 5PM-8 Free
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The Fables are primitive-style paintings by the late Michael C. Spafford. Approaching the Still Point of Turbulence are abstract apintings by Audrey Tulimiero Welch. At Russo Lee Gallery <a href="http://www.russoleegallery.com//">www.russoleegallery.com</a> 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
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Sally Cleveland has paintings With the River. At Augen Gallery <a href="http://www.augengallery.com/">www.augengallery.com</a> 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
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Froelick has Tom Prochaska paintings Another Go. Kevin Kadar has paintings Landscapes and Townscapes. At Froelick Gallery <a href="http://www.froelickgallery.com/">www.froelickgallery.com</a> 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
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The late Lee Kelly has Bennington Suite & Color Studies, works on paper. Anna Von Mertens has drawings Elements and Objects. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery <a href="http://elizabethleach.com/">www.elizabethleach.com</a> 417 NW 9th <a href="http://maps.google.com/places/us/or/portland/nw-9th-ave/417/-elizabeth-leach-gallery?hl=en&gl=us"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 5:30PM-7:30 Free
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RACC has an open house with works from the substantial public collection they manage. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
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Paul Xavier Rutz has Small Forwards: Paintings of Girlhood in Basketball, based on coaching their daughter's elementary school basketball team. Get on that W+K. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery <a href="https://lvdesignandgallery.com/" rel="nofollow">www.lvdesignandgallery.com/</a> 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
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Beatriz Alcaraz has bright busy schematic illustrations. At Erickson Gallery 9 SW 2nd 5PM-8
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-80440131365209022602024-03-06T14:13:00.000-08:002024-03-06T14:13:58.976-08:00March 6 Papa BearCaldera Arts has always had a Portland office to go along with their artist residency on Blue Lake in Sisters. They open their doors this afternoon for a group show Origin Story. It will be an intimate opportunity to share stories of the late Dan Wieden on his birthday. At Caldera Gallery <a href="http://www.calderaarts.org">www.calderaarts.org</a>, 1227 NW Davis. 3PM-5 FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-38656906654230705492024-03-02T10:45:00.000-08:002024-03-02T10:45:41.864-08:00March 2 Northside Art OpeningsHide & Seek Gallery has Donyel Ivy-Royal with Ceremony.
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Kim Slate <a href="https://www.kimslate.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kimslate.com/</a> has schematic animals. At Nucleus Portland <a href="http://www.nucleusportland.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.nucleusportland.com</a> 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
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Georgie Friedman from Boston has video piece Breathing-Light. There is also a preview until March 10 of donations to the CAP auction.
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At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan <a href="https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/">www.oregoncontemporary.org</a> 8371 N. Interstate <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=8371+N.+Interstate,+portland,+or&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=25.484783,50.800781&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=8371+N+Interstate+Ave,+Portland,+Multnomah,+Oregon+97217&ll=45.58338,-122.685764&spn=0.002741,0.006201&z=17">Map</a></span> 5PM-8 Free
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Well Well has Meteorite Mama, sculpture and video, by Jessie Rose Vala. At Well Well Projects <a href="https://www.wellwellprojects.com/" rel="nofollow">www.wellwellprojects.com</a> in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=8371+N.+Interstate,+portland,+or&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=25.484783,50.800781&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=8371+N+Interstate+Ave,+Portland,+Multnomah,+Oregon+97217&ll=45.58338,-122.685764&spn=0.002741,0.006201&z=17">Map</a> 5PM-8 Free
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Hours After Winter by Rachael Zur are mixed medial paintings referencing domestic spaces and processes. At Carnation Contemporary <a href="https://www.carnationcontemporary.com">www.carnationcontemporary.com</a> in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-37588559294641405992024-03-01T11:59:00.000-08:002024-03-01T11:59:26.679-08:00March 1 Mending Protean JauntAfter/Time has Mending, paintings by Sarah Peters. At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
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Daniela Repas has Protean. She has an animation and illustration background. At Souvenir Arts https://souvenirartspdx.org 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
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Joseph is a group show curated by the Jaunt arts residency in Joseph, Oregon. They are Tim Biskup, Jillian Evelyn, William LaChance, Macarena Luzi, and Stevie Shao. At Stephanie Chefas Projects <a href="http://www.stephaniechefas.com/">www.stephaniechefas.com</a> 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/134+SE+Taylor+St,+Portland,+OR+97214/@45.5148527,-122.6641461,17z/">Map</a></span>. 5PM-8 Free
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More at <a href="http://firstfridaypdx.org/" rel="nofollow">http://firstfridaypdx.org/</a> and their socials list many shows and their times.
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-64490676933501556432024-02-24T08:27:00.000-08:002024-02-24T10:24:40.136-08:00February 24 Mélange Void ScrapbookStillness of the Seeming Void is a group show with Bettina, Lee Bontecou, Cynthia Carlson, Abigail DeVille, Covey Gong, Nina Hartmann, Heidi Lau, Kate Newby, Lynne Woods Turner, Stefanie Victor and Stella Zhong. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance <a href="https://www.newartdealers.org/members">newartdealers.org/members,</a> <a href="http://adamsandollman.com/">www.adamsandollman.com</a> 418 NW 8th 2PM-4 Free
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Jeremy Okai Davis, <a href="https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2024/02/jeremy-okai-davis-elizabeth-leach-nationale-self-portrait-interview" rel="nofollow">https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2024/02/jeremy-okai-davis-elizabeth-leach-nationale-self-portrait-interview</a>, is guest curator for the group show Mélange. It is in the small back room gallery. Artists include Rebecca Boraz and Chris Lael Larson, Portland, Maria Britton, Carrboro, NC, and Anthony R. Grant, SF Bay Area. The colorful Pace Taylor in the main space closes tomorrow. At Nationale <at a="" href="http://www.nationale.us" nationale="">www.nationale.us</at> 15 SE 22nd <a href=" https://www.google.com/maps/place/15+SE+22nd+Ave,+Portland,+OR+97214/@45.5226534,-122.6462596,16.64z?hl=en&gl=us"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 4PM-6 Free
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Joe Rudko from Seattle has Scrapbook, collage work. The reception is today toward the end of the show.
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At PDX Contemporary Art <a href="www.pdxcontemporaryart.com" rel="nofollow">www.pdxcontemporaryart.com</a> 1825 NW Vaughn <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/1825+NW+Vaughn+St,+Portland,+OR+97209/@45.537373,-122.692579,16z"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-86748367408916437222024-02-24T08:11:00.000-08:002024-02-24T08:11:21.725-08:00February 24-25 Oregon Black Artists TalksThe Portland Art Museum has a major show of Black Oregon visual artists. Saturday and Sunday they have talks and demonstrations. Saturday is ticketed. It appears Sunday in the large Masonic temple ballrooms is not, you can inquire if museum admission is required.
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All the details are <a href="https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon-convening/#sunday-february-25-2024%c2%a0" rel="nofollow">https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon-convening/#sunday-february-25-2024%c2%a0</a>
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At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Saturday 10AM Sunday 9:30AMRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-58629188082255253492024-02-22T11:17:00.000-08:002024-02-22T14:44:22.883-08:00February 23 - May 19 Change in Art Institution ContextSocial change is in the air. With instant Internet self-curated information sources people and artists naturally ask how they can change the world. It is a good form of self-actualization. Policing Justice is PICA's attempt to catch some of those winds. The whole program is on their website.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-65666734392016655022024-02-22T06:16:00.000-08:002024-02-24T08:30:10.536-08:00February 22 IngredientsI have a theory of contemporary artwork ingredients. They may include beauty-anti-beauty, color, form, the title, the artist statement, the artist narrative, and emotional carriers.
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Carriers can take many forms. The skill of an artist is to balance the ingredients. Too much beauty is not playing fair. Too much emotion is not playing fair, in my opinion. For instance, an artist can insert images of the Holocaust or similar. It is guaranteed to get a response from the audience.
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I have followed the work of Alfredo Jaar for some time. He does socially conscious art. His causes are fine. I love much of the work, but I think he crosses over into exploiting too obvious emotional ingredients in some works. I have heard him speak twice. His ego does not admit the possibility of audience exploitation. Some of his audience like it. Hey, if you want to collect triggers into your living space, go for it! Personally I think artists Ai Weiwei and Banksy ply the same waters better.
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Here is an exercise as an art-maker or in an art-making group, do a crit of Jaar's works.
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To me, that question is an ongoing discussion for art makers and art audiences. He has certainly been successful in the art-making machinery.
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Jaar speaks free tonight.
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At PNCA <a href="https://pnca.willamette.edu/">www.pnca.willamette.edu</a> 511 NW Broadway <a href="http://www.google.com/maps/place/511+NW+Broadway,+Portland,+OR+97209/@45.5267777,-122.6778704,17z/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Map</span></a> 5PM Free
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-14670415075696984672024-02-17T11:55:00.000-08:002024-02-17T11:55:52.188-08:00February 17 California SeenEastern curator Cornelia Stokes stops by to talk about ther show Seen they made at L'Atelier Yaffe. Artists are Samantha Wall, AN Wallace, James Stoval, Alim Ringgold, Ibrahem Hasan, and Christopher Paul Jordan. At https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE MLK BLVD, Suite 104. 2PM-4 Free
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Ido Radon opens California. It includes bold abstract sculptures, some reminding of Louise Nevelson. She was born here, showed in many of our well-curated alt spaces, then nationally. internationally and recently recieved her MFA at UBC. She writes too. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 <a href="https://ily2online.com/" rel="nofollow">https://ily2online.com/</a> 925 NW Flanders 4PM-6 FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-43287884370907330722024-02-15T15:06:00.000-08:002024-02-15T15:06:55.339-08:00February 15 GrapefruitGrapefruits, originally in industrial Albina, is back. They are not resident in Mother Foucault's Bookshop and open with a show of paintings and drawings by Ním Daghlian. 523 SE Morrison 6PM-9 FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-46744653587897598132024-02-10T15:14:00.000-08:002024-02-10T15:20:22.674-08:00February 10 New Space is the PlaceL'Atelier Yaffe is a new space with Samantha Wall, AN Wallace, James Stoval, Alim Ringgold, Ibrahem Hasan, and Christopher Paul Jordan. They are curated by Cornelia Stokes and are https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE MLK BLVD, Suite 104. 3PM-8 FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-66194366501757082472024-02-05T06:43:00.000-08:002024-02-22T09:46:42.479-08:00February 9 - June 15 SeaDamien Hirst is a polarizing artist. He was minted at Goldsmiths, forged the YBA with Freeze, and won a Turner. That momentum produced his shark at age 26. Few people know a former Portland collector was instrumental in his work. They lived in Texas, Hirst visited, he was in a challenging life period, they had a houseful of free physician pharmaceutical samples. That was the inspiration for Pharmacy, age 27.
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Everyone hates taxes, including art collectors. Just like there is an Irish Sandwhich for reducing corporate taxes, there is an Oregon equivalent for art US collectors. After buying, if you loan your artwork to a museum in Oregon (and several other states,) you are excused from sales taxes. Bruce Guenther at the Portland Art Museum tapped it bringing significant works. Those included Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon. Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossoms was also brought by the Oregon sandwich to the Portland Art Museum in 2019.
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Cherry Blossoms came after his Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, widely considered a failure, though it funded numerous studio assistants and fabricators. Cherry Blossoms are large canvases painted in daubs of bright pigments. The floor of Hurst's very large studio was floored with grey canvas to catch the drips; Hirst seems to relish getting pigments all over himself. Blossoms out the door, Hirst stretched the drippy canvas and began his Where the Land Meets the Sea works.
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The body has monochrome almost photorealistic images of surf, Sea Paintings; Coast Paintings and Seascapes. Hirst placed those canvases against the wall, flung paint at them, and added more paint, brush and stick in hand. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvJ-xPJIuGf/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CvwaM1oopGl/. The pieces were named by found tourism post cards, now afixed to the back of the canvases.
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Hirst has a new direct sales model through Philips and HENI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCG93Vh7h3U.
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The Halle Ford Museum in Salem is part of Willamette University which absorbed PNCA. It is an Oregon private school with generous alumni. The museum is small with a good collection and some rotating shows.
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The Halle Ford Museum has on loan Rhossili Beach, Colwyn Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea, 2019.
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At the Willamette University Halle Ford Museum https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/index.html, across from the backside of the Capitol 700 State St, Salem museum hours $8
Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-51486734641929056772024-02-04T12:29:00.000-08:002024-02-04T12:29:35.851-08:00February 4 Different WalkaboutOuter Voice, a curatorial project by Sarah Rushford, has a physical space in the old Disjecta building but operates on its own schedule. The focus is on time-based art. We do miss the old PSU time-based art club.
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Today Outer Voice brings Year of the Dragon, 2024, The American Standard by Qi You. She is doing a workshop and performance Sunday at 1. You are requested to wear two different shoes in your pair. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 1PM FreeRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-14179337433377352832024-02-03T14:13:00.000-08:002024-02-04T12:25:16.972-08:00February 3 Northside Art OpeningsShintaro Kago brings his illustrations of deconstructed heads. They are very wild and instantly recognizable. At Nucleus Portland <a href="http://www.nucleusportland.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.nucleusportland.com</a> 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
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Kelda Van Patten brings If I Had a Flower for Every Time I Think of You. At Well Well Projects <a href="https:///" rel="nofollow">www.wellwellprojects.com</a> in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=8371+N.+Interstate,+portland,+or&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=25.484783,50.800781&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=8371+N+Interstate+Ave,+Portland,+Multnomah,+Oregon+97217&ll=45.58338,-122.685764&spn=0.002741,0.006201&z=17">Map</a> 5PM-8 Free
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Raphael Arar brings Value(s). At Carnation Contemporary <a href="https://www.carnationcontemporary.com">www.carnationcontemporary.com</a> in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
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Oregon Contemporary continues shows. Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-48188870431626886212024-02-02T06:41:00.000-08:002024-02-02T06:41:48.685-08:00February 3 Learning from LandThe Japan Institute is the visionary cultural arm of the Portland Japanese Garden. This afternoon, in their Living Traditions series, they bring Yuko Hasegawa, Shohei Shigematsu, Dorothée Imbert, and moderator Ken Tadashi Oshima to discuss the aspirational role of the built environment.
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The American relationship with land and building is framed by the great frontier, manifest destiny, Transcendentalism, and landscape as a manifestation of a god. I often recommend the Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb to explain it. Those ideas informed the great Western expeditions, including photographers like Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and others. Law and land ownership are prime. With so much land, inspiration and care is confined to islands and instances, parks. The dark side is represented by Interior Secretary Watt. His belief in the pending apocalypse required maximum exploitation at maximum speed of all public lands.
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Japan has a different vibe. Shinto spirits inhabit the land. Japanese care and aesthetics inform building and placemaking on land. Small farms are supported. There are, of course, industrial sacrifice zones. Maybe America can learn from Japan.
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Thus, A Conversation on Art, Architecture, and Landscape unfolds this afternoon <a href="https://japanesegarden.org/events/living-traditions-2024-creative-forum-pdx/" rel="nofollow">https://japanesegarden.org/events/living-traditions-2024-creative-forum-pdx/</a> at W+K 224 NW 13th. Doors 3PM, talk 3:30, reception 5. Free (Sold out, wait for the video)Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-66038658417635119222024-02-02T05:35:00.000-08:002024-02-02T05:35:09.650-08:00February 2-3 Dark Sleep ConcertImbolic is a traditional festival marking the transition between Winter and Spring. The Portland Imbolic Sleep Concert returns. It reminds an historic all night planetarium series with music and visuals in another city. The Portland one is dark music for dreaming. The lineup is Adriene Arwen, Pansophia, Operafication, Anastasia Darkwater, Soriah, Wicking Ground, Proqxis, and Shifting Harbor. Bring something to sleep on and things keep warm. At Azoth 10PM-7AM $30 Sold OutRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-90927727671499405512024-02-02T05:19:00.000-08:002024-02-02T05:19:28.018-08:00February 2 Eastside Art Openings<a href="http://firstfridaypdx.org/" rel="nofollow">http://firstfridaypdx.org/</a> and their socials list many shows and their times. Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25974189.post-62402955167850996462024-02-02T05:17:00.000-08:002024-02-02T05:17:34.919-08:00February 2 Kowaii is not KawaiiNuceus House brings Japanese illustrator Mizna Wada https://miznaw.com/. She has been making horror-themed illustrations and sometimes 3D fgures for 20 years, showing worldwide. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14007274216293696693noreply@blogger.com