Friday, August 30, 2019

August 30 Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar: Where We At is a show by 10 Portland black woman artists: Asha Harper, Bernadette Little, Christine Miller, Danielle McCoy, Intisar Abioto, Julia Bond, Nia Musiba, Ruby Joy White, Sabrina Powell and Salimatu Amabebe. At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
7PM-10

Sunday, August 25, 2019

August 25 Residency

Portland has many artist residency programs. One is at YU. Today is the readout of their work. Artists are: Soshi Nakamura, Kei Ota, Shiho Saito, Ai Sugiura, Misako Taoka and Rieko Tsuji. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 6PM-9 Free

Saturday, August 24, 2019

August 24 Biennial

The 2019Biennial opens tonight with Natalie Ball (Chiloquin, OR); Adam Bateman (Ashland, OR); Jovencio de la Paz (Eugene, OR); Demian DinéYazhi with R.I.S.E (Portland, OR); Dru Donovan (Portland, OR); Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Modoc Point, OR); Harriet Tubman Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice (Portland, OR); Sabina Haque (Portland, OR); Anthony Hudson (Portland, OR); Garrick Imatani (Portland, OR); Colin Ives (Eugene, OR); Rubén García Marrufo (Portland, OR); Jess Perlitz (Portland, OR); Vanessa Renwick (Portland, OR); Sara Siestreem (Portland, OR); Sharita Towne (Portland, OR); Lou Watson (Portland, OR); and Lynn Yarne (Portland, OR). At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free

Thursday, August 22, 2019

August 22 Holding

Michael Lazarus has paintings: Untitled No.10. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com (in the former Williamson | Knight, now Williamson+Harker) 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

August 21 Fail Harder

Forest for the Trees is in peak busy time. But they made time for a reception for Undisclosed Chapters: Scratches on a Mirror by Drew Merritt. It is a "haunting installation representative of a polluted mind. Flooded with a constant stream of information and stimuli that we discard as quickly as we consume, we are left with the ghosts of our own lived experiences, emotions and beliefs. Love, loss, hope and depression are explored in an ethereal backdrop referencing mythology, religion and the occult, in a seemingly futile attempt to navigate through the clutter and fog that surrounds us."

At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
7PM-10

Saturday, August 17, 2019

August 17 Ecstasy Mostly Water

Mostly Water is a new show of objects by Stephanie Simek. She is well known for her exploration of science and media in Portland. Now she is immersed in an MFA at UW in Seattle. Her work is always elegant and the connections made unexpected. Strongly Recommended. At Melanie Flood Projects, www.melaniefloodprojects.com 420 SW Washington St #301 Early 2PM-4 Free



In conjunction with the current show by arch Japanese conceptual artist Yutaka Matsuzawa, YU presents films by Masanori Oe: Filming Ecstasy. Art history professor Ignacio Adriasola from BC speaks on the work. At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 7PM Free

Thursday, August 15, 2019

August 15 People Helping People

Rahab’s Sisters is a volunteer social services group working with women out of an Episcopal church in Montavilla. They have been faithfully doing it for over 15 years. 1122 is hosting a photography show of portraits by Briana Cerezo of the participants. The gallery has also started their own social program to complement the program of the Rahab’s Sisters. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-8 Free

Saturday, August 10, 2019

August 11 Autopoesis

Converge 45 launches its first show under new curator Lisa Dent. The artists are Roland Dahwen, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Tuesday Smillie. The show opens in the Cooley Gallery at noon followed by a panel discussion with the curators and two of the artists in the Union, 1:30PM. At the Cooley Gallery Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. noon-3 Free

Friday, August 09, 2019

August 9 Faust's Manhattan

The advance of modern physics is an amazing story.

Nuclear chemistry is a little different than electron chemistry. It gives us what the alchemists wanted, transforming one element to another. There have been naturally occurring nuclear reactors: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/.

Since the first human-built nuclear reactor, we have been able to do nuclear chemistry. The economics of WW II, and the Faustian bargain of many physicists, gave us the nuclear bomb, a very fast nuclear reactor.

There were two bomb designs. One used U-235, purified at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The other used Pu-239 made at the B Reactor in Richland, Washington. It was the first large scale reactor.

The B Reactor and nuclear history is the subject of Portland photographer Harley Cowan's large format photography. He grew up in Richland.

This show is Manhattan Project; it documents the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Richland.

Tonight the photographer speaks 6:30PM-7:30, with a reception and viewing 7:30-8:30

At Camerawork Gallery www.thecameraworkgallery.org in the Lorenzen Conference Center - Legacy Emanuel Medical Center Campus 301 N. Graham. 6:30PM-8:30 Free

Thursday, August 08, 2019

August 8 Iridescent

More an event than a visual event, Bushwick brings Iridescent Dreams. VHS sound poetry by Erica Schreiner, John Dydo, Caspar Sonnet, Andrew Jones, and Aurora Bodenhamer. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 8PM Free

Monday, August 05, 2019

August 5 Undertones

Undertones II invites video artists and sound artists to collaborate. Artists are Francisco Botello + Zack Rowe, Chloe Alexandra Thompson + Matt Henderson, Sonic Arts & Music Production Laptop Ensemble + Mia Ferm. Undertones II https://nwfilm.org/films/undertones-ii/ At the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 7PM $10

Sunday, August 04, 2019

August 4 Sun, Shadows, Stone+

Portland photographer Terry Toedtemeier was a cofounder of the Blue Sky Gallery and founding curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum. He built the museum's collection.

A retrospective of his work, Sun, Shadows, Stone, closes at the Museum today.

Photography became practical about the time of the American Civil War. The military hired photographers to document that war. Post the war, many of those photographers were employed on great expeditions to document the Western United States. Photographers William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and others made enduring images of the Western landscape. The intent of the government was to encourage settlers. But the stunning large format exposures also supported Transcendentalist beliefs and offered an existence proof of God in the beauty of nature for many.

A self-taught photographer who studied geology, Toedtemeier continued the tradition of the great Western photographic expeditions, but with a more humble Northwest spirit.

This afternoon, there will be a panel discussion of his work.

Panelists are: Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum; Rock Hushka, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Tacoma Art Museum; Sandra Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Toby Jurovics, Chief Curator and Holland Curator of American Western Art at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska; and Prudence Roberts, former Curator of American Art, Portland Art Museum.

Talk https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/panel-discussion-the-photography-of-terry-toedtemeier/
At the Portland Art Museum - NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park 2PM Museum admission fee



Namiko Kunimoto is an art historian. Tsujimura Kazuko is a butoh dance performer who collaborated with founding conceptual artist in Japan, Yutaka Matsuzawa, subject of the current YU show. The talk this afternoon is "Tsujimura Kazuko and Dance Without Body." At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th. 6:30PM Free



Machines on the Spot is an outdoor performance by hardware synth musicians. DIY Portland style. Musicians are Ahpook, Chaos soahC, Dr. Strangeknob, Ian Hicks, Production Unit Xero, Transparent Aluminum, and J$Fur. It is in a back yard in a residential area. If you are interested, I'm sure you can look it up. Portland area 5PM-9



Jaik Faulk is an impressionist painter based in Louisiana. He is good at titling the paintings to puzzle. His latest show is the last at the current National location. They move to a larger space off Burnside in the Fall. At Nationale www.nationale.us 3360 SE Division Map 3PM-5 Free

Saturday, August 03, 2019

August 3 Extinction Rebellion

Famous Monsters is a project by Maria Lux. Its monster is the last remaining individual of a species. The treatment is pop culture. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9

Friday, August 02, 2019

August 2 Eastside Art Openings+

What do we love about Flamenco? The heat. New series August Fridays happens. Baile - Montserrat Andreys, Lillie Last, Nela McGuire, Shiho Travis, Maia Eckhardt; Cante - Randa BenAziz, Cara Eckhardt Toque: Brenna McDonald; and Percusión - Nick Hutch. Meow. At Bar Vivant www.barvivant.com 2225 E Burnside. Arrive 6, performance 7 - 7PM-9 Free



Keep Portland Weird school and gallery for children has Spellbound, paintings and installation on witching. Participation there too. At http://www.splendorporium.net/ 3421 SE 21st. 7PM-9



Always check the 811 block.



Pushdot has Pollution of Night by photographer Gregory Sullivan. It's night photography. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free



One Grand guests Lauren Prado with pop culture-influenced schemes with Kardashians, and the American Dream. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 7-10 Free



Radius is innagurating a new space. They have some kind of paint off. At Radius Annex 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free









Thursday, August 01, 2019

August 1 Westside Art Openings

Gallery 114 has two social practice artists this month. James Reed, from South Africa has ...not not: in view of..., mixed media pieces using organic material. Longtime Portland space maker, Gary Wiseman, has The Incomplete and Unfinished Works Vol. 1 Purple, a Storm (Are We Dead or Just Dreaming?) Wiseman is responsible for the Renegade Tea Party, Kitchen Sink and the Place gallery. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free



Glean is a project for a select group of artists to make art from trash. This year the artists are Vanessa Calvert, Jeremy Okai Davis, Asa Mease, Miel-Margarita Paredes and Lauren Prado. They are artists in residence at the Metro transfer station for 5 months. It's gleanportland.com at Lovejoy Square, 1313 NW Kearney. 6PM-9 Free



Portland sculptor Michihiro Kosuge is paired with Seattle painter Anne Siems and Maya Vivas. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8 early close Free



Leach Pat Boas has Memo, colorful abstracts and Nicola López has prints, Hybrids. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



The Portland Chinatown Museum has Eugene Lee (1924-2017) and son Jeff Lee with The Color of Black and White: The Lens of Two Generations. Eugene Lee studied under some noted photographers. At the Portland Chinatown Museum https://www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org/ 127 NW 3rd early close 5:30PM-7:30 Free



Christos J. Palios has Conversations, photographs of shared meals, once a place for face-to-face conversations. Anton Gautama has Home Sweet Home, domestic interiors of Indonesia. In the Nine Gallery, Lee Hale has Kaleidocopia. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



The Jewish Museum has a permanent collection and traveling shows. They will be open until 8 on First Thursday in the previous Contemporary Craft Museum space.



Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It is always evolving and there are many strong spaces. 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



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



W+K has an elaborate project: A Night Out in Babetown. It represents itself as a well-funded no-limits to create fantasy caricature simulations. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 6PM-9 Free



Another big party with art is Ink and Thread sponsored by Adidas. RSVP required https://inkandthreadartshow.splashthat.com/. At Castaway 1900 NW 18th 6PM-10 Free