April 29 Figures

Thick in the Ground are figurative sculpture-paintings by Christian Rogers and Kyle Vu-Dunn. Opening at Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free

April 28 The Politics of Dancing

All the cool kids will be at the experimental music event by White Gourd, The Orchardist, The Tenses, Ambassador Dulgoon, Numbskull + DJ DNA & Nighthawk. Somehow the annual Cascade Aids Auction http://www.capartauction.org/gallery and another competing art event benefit were scheduled on the same night. At Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map 9PM $5

April 27 Magenta Thought Flower

Anna Schachinger has paintings Lost in Thoughts. It is colorful and individualistic, fitting well with the Fourteen30 brightness. At the first of two members in Portland of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 5PM-7 Free



Adams and Ollman does several things in their curation. One is showing older less-discovered artists. Katherine Bradford is one with Magenta Nights. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 209 SW 9th early close 6PM-8 Free



Manu Torres is a floral artist in Portland. Other plant arts, like Tropical Gardens and the Dust to Dust collaborations are attempting to contextualize flowers into galleries. And it's Spring. At S1 www.s1portland.com 7320 NE Sandy Map 7PM-9

April 26 Fascism: A Warning

Not art but serious. Former Secretary of State, and the first woman in that role, Madeleine Albright speaks tonight. It is in support of her new book, Fascism: A Warning. She has been the longtime chair of the National Democratic Institute. And she seems especially hated by Russian trolls, which means she must be doing something right. https://www.revolutionhall.com/event/1654180-former-secretary-state-portland/ At Revolution Hall 1300 SE Stark. 7:30PM $38, including the book

April 24 Weird Grapefruit

Weird Shift Microtalks are constantly on the move. It is an open source platform for short talks ranging from obscure to faux. Since it is a larger location, you simply must come to fill the space. You can even give a talk - they have a projector, so bring it on a laptop or on a flash drive or have it online somewhere. At Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 7PM Free

April 21 Indian Spring

Many classical Indian music ragas are specific to a season or time of day. Tonight is an intimate performance of Spring evening ragas. Michael Stirling sings the rags, with Joss Jaffee on tabla and Lucy Stirling on tambura. Michael Stirling studied ragas with Terry Riley, who, after his seminal In C, turned to Indian music. Bring Spring flowers. At the Nritya Mandala Mahavihara 1405 SE 40th 8PM by donation



Tejendra Majumdar, sarod and Subhankar Banerjee, tabla perform this evening. Here is an example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NWoUJ994g. Presented by www.kalakendra.org. At the First Baptist Church, 909 SW 11th. 7PM $30

April 20 Pixel Design Tropical Triad

We mentioned the recommended talks early, 5 at the Tropical Gardens. They were canceled at the last minute.



Portland Creative Mornings hosts Momo Pixel. She is a poet, singer, writer, game designer and ad woman! Thursday she sings at the Soul'd Out Music Festival. This morning she talks about her creative works. Creative Mornings is looking for someone new to take over producing it. The Portland crew is now focused on making Design Week Portland year around. Sponsored by Portland Creative Mornings At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map Doors 8AM, talk 9. Free



Design Week Portland - https://www.designweekportland.com/events - is wrapping. Plan your own adventure. I'm stopping by the 811 E Burnside open house - https://www.designweekportland.com/events/construct - and some other SE events.



Triad opens act 3, the last. https://www.facebook.com/events/1611803095599906/ It is at the always recommended OV Project Space, a gallery in the basement of a home, Portland style-y. At OV Project Space 7604 SE Washington Map 6PM-9 Free

April 15, 19, 20 Plants Are Everywhere

Portland Tropical Gardens are on fire! (in a good way) It is an artist project gifted surplus City of Portland space. A great example representative of the new City arts engagement program https://racc.org/2018/02/28/portland-city-council-adopts-arts-affordability-plan/.

For future reference, artists, the City, Prosper Portland (nee the Portland Development Commission) and arts-supporting commercial developers often have space available for the cost of insurance.

April 15 is Water: a talk/Q&A by Portland Tropical Gardens Lead Horticultist Shawn Creeden. He will talk about water and plants and answer questions about how to care for your own, neither watering too much, watering too little, and hopefully watering just right! Noon

April 19 is 5 Movements For The City Dweller by composer Ben Glas. He has a fascinating approach to composition expounded at https://www.thankyouforyourunderstanding.com/. 5PM

April 20 is not to be missed. It's {SMASH} The Glass House. The white box and the glass house are archetypes. It's always a good idea to question them from time to time and reform or discard them as needed. Photographer Sarah Meadows opines on The Victorian Garden: A Convergence of Technology & Desire, aptly titled. Emma Colburn speaks From Porte Dorée to Notre Dame: 12 algo-rhythms of white Time in Black space or how 21st century streetscapes of Paris repattern a Cartesian plane. 5PM

Keep tuned to the project at https://www.facebook.com/pg/portlandtropicalgardens/events/. At Director Park 877 SW Park Free

April 14 Yu Geys, Cats!

Belgian artist Jeff Geys opens one of his last shows at Yu tonight. It is an exploration of a lifetime of work including work made at Yu in a Sol LeWitt-process and combining samples from Geys previous works. Included is a project with Da Vinci middle school students; Geys worked for years in experimental arts education. His blog https://jefgeysweblog.wordpress.com/ may provide a view of his work and the Yu website has a description of the show. Jeff Geys at Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 4PM-6 Free



Volt Divers is a night of analog synth performers. This month they are 6 performers and 2 quartets: Cat Synth (S.F.), ANON, Grease Envelope, Cult Quartet II, bifurcation, Occurian, Star Blade (Corvallis) and Cult Quartet I. Live visuals by Victoria - spacepunk.media. The theme tonight is cats, it's caturday, right? 100% of the modest cover, $5, goes to the a cat shelter. Volt Divers at Lovecraft Bar 421 SE Grand 7PM Sharp-10 $5

April 13 Cat Self Triad

Painter and mixed media artist Mira Dancy has Self Seed. She is a rising NYC artist. This evening Portland modern dancer Allie Hankins performs at 6 to accompany the art. At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 5PM-7 Free



Cat Castle is an art collective doing shows in a home in St Johns. They have been curating shows from their own network.

They have a show at the PSU White Gallery, That Femmiliar Feeling, with collective members Lily H. Valentine, Merry Jo Carter, Indigo Wrenn, Amy Woelbeast, & J. Simspon. It's early, 6PM-9. After, they retire to the Cat Castle for a show with Maxwell Benedetti and Scarlet Hasseries from 8PM-11:59. Cat Castle at the White Gallery https://www.littmanandwhite.com/white-gallery/ in Smith Union Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway. Map 6PM-9 Free



The Triad show, started last Friday, continues at Grapefruits Art Space, 2119 N. Kerby Ave., Suite D, grapefruitsartspace.org 6PM-10 Free

April 7 Flat White

Ann Ploeger has photographic portraits The Woman Who Was Alive There. They are studio-lit against a white background straight portraits of friends. She is known for portraits in homes, so this is a little different and loses her trademark bare feet from that house portrait series.

Sometimes Mississippi-Albina observes gallery night on the first Saturday of the month.

At Luke's Frame Shop 4703 N Albina 6PM-8 Free

April 6 Eastside Art Openings

Small Talk Collective, 7 women photographers, have We’re Always Touching By Underground Wires. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free



Kate Bingaman-Burt has a mural and new print works dropping tonight. At Project Object 2502 NE Sandy Blvd. 6PM-9 Free



Photographer Lisa Bauso has exposures of modern life and tradition commingled in Oaxaca, Puebla and Mexico City At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free



ANX, the gallery at ADX, has a show focused on taking design by software, them implementing it physically. At adxportland.com/anx-gallery/ ANX Gallery 1015 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free



Ann Wilson has photographs Uncovering Language. At Passages Bookshop 1223 NE ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free


True Measure has part 1 of 3 shows, Triad, distributed over 3 weeks inspired by one, two or three by 21 artists making 3 works each. Parts 2 and 3 are at Grapefruits in a week and OV a week after.

Got that?

The artists are Alex Oslance, Dustin Houston, Severin Moore, Elizabeth Lovell, Hanako O'Leary, Cameron Hawkey, Winnie Black, Martha Daghlian, Henry St John Newell, Andrew Auble, Anthony White, China Faith Star, Sam Klickner, Matthew Henderson, Erin Guy, Srijon Chowdhury, Arrington de Dionyso, Colin Manning, Misha Capecchi, Courtney Knight and Isis Fisher. Tonight also includes a performance by Pelican Ossman. One, Two, Three at True Measure 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free



Ryan Bubinis has from the ground up, bright flat schematic illustration. Jeff Pfeil has Rhizome, graphic designs suggestive of biological illustration. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 7PM-10



José Sierra and Janice Jakielski have ceramic work. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free



A Wild Hare is a bunny themed show by Heidi Davis, Tripper Dungan, Lisa Laser and Amelia Opie. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free



Black Box photo gallery has Taking Pictures, a broad theme show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs Early close 5PM-8 Free

April 5 Westside Art Openings

April is Portland photo month inspired by Photolucida.



Matthew Picton has El Dorado, schematic city maps and photographer Robert Lyons has hometown One Eye Crying.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Svetlana Bailey has Once There Was There Wasn't and J. Fredric May has Apparition: Postcards from Eye See You. They are inspired by growing up in Russia and having a stroke respectively.

In the Nine Gallery, Bill Will has Symphony of the Small Appliance. His work is often kinetic. This is an array of kitchen and other household appliances which activate in a sequence of musical noise. It's topical, all but two of the appliances are imported from China.

At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



The Ace Hotel has a First Thursday experimental music event curated by Sounds et al. It pairs well with Veriform's sound gallery First Thursday, but it detracts from people flowing to galleries and it is a very small space. This month: Southwoods, Skin Lies, and Mike Gamble. In the Ace Hotel Lobby 1022 SW Stark 6PM-8 Free



The Feeling Good Handbook is a dual show by Heidi Hahn and Shana Moulton. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free



Every First Thursday, the Portland Art Museum is free from 5PM-8.

It is a great opportunity to see the year-long project by Libby Warbel: We Construct Marvels Between Monuments. Warbel is the creator of Portland's other art museum, the Portland Museum of Modern Art. Tonight is a performance by Sidony O'Neal and Tropic Green from Florida and LA. Marvels https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/performance-tropic-green/?instance_id=29304 At the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free



PNCA is recommended to stop in. They have long time cycle shows and pop ups distributed throughout the building. PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 6PM-9 Free



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 9PM-10:30ish, in cold Winter earlier

April 4, 11, 18, 22, 25, 29 Foot Stomping Your Should See

Butoh is a weird beautiful modern dance movement. You can see it and decide. There are international visitors here to see. Performances will sell out. Yumiko Yoshioka from Japan, Maureen Flemming from New York, Mizu Diserto and Anastazia Arnaga from PDX/SF, Dengerate Ensemble from Seattle. Meow! Each performance is about $25. Dancing at Headwaters https://www.witd.org/performance/butoh-college-performance Various nights $10-25