Move as galleries do. New show, Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Ryan McLaugthan. At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of two members of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
New space Shed has Vinh Pham 6817 N Missouri 6PM-8 Early close Free
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
September 18 Skin
I never met him, but there was a color scientist at Kodak dedicated to studying the history of skin tone in print. Over the years in print magazines, skin tone has wandered into green, orange and blue. Color management is the term of art for reproducing the colors in nature in a naturally believable way. Color management was built into film; our eyes are very sensitive to the correctness of skin tone. Today the computer in your camera does the same, then you can remix it further in Photoshop.
Shirley Cards, named after Kodak model Shirley Page, were portrait standards including color patches used to calibrate photography from film to print. Similar systems are used in video. Their history is traced by Dr. Lorna Roth at Concordia University, Ontario, Canada, for instance: www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2196/3069.
The challenge is that if the final image we see, a photographic print, a magazine print, a web image, video, or projected film has a figure with a different skin tone to a Shirley card, and the Shirley card is used to correct the image, the skin tone will not be accurate. (We leave for a moment the abysmal lack of calibration in computer screens and home entertainment TV screens; Filmmaker Mode, welcome!)
In about the 1980's Kodak introduced Shirley cards with Caucasian, Asian, and African models on the same card. Meanwhile, Fujifilm introduced its own models to more accurately reproduce Japanese skin tone. Today, we have a variety of mass-produced color checker targets, and the implied class setting of Kodak's models have been updated as illustrated in Getty's surreal version at www.colourbalance.lornaroth.com/projects/shirley-card/.
Contemporary artists and social commentators worldwide have incorporated the male gaze and the Shirley Card into their creative analysis, though we don't see much critical thinking about beauty and the absence of male models, to say nothing of implied class and income/asset inequality. Maybe we need a Nomads or Residents of New York by Serrano, set in Portland? Nonetheless we are starting to get traction on simple things like first aid bandages.
The Presence of Color by painter Jeremy Okai Davis are portraits inspired by the Shirley Cards. He works in portraits from photographs with a great awareness of color, so the show is an ouroboros. Davis is the latest Stumptown Coffee Roasters Artist Fellow, which this opening celebrates. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Shirley Cards, named after Kodak model Shirley Page, were portrait standards including color patches used to calibrate photography from film to print. Similar systems are used in video. Their history is traced by Dr. Lorna Roth at Concordia University, Ontario, Canada, for instance: www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/2196/3069.
The challenge is that if the final image we see, a photographic print, a magazine print, a web image, video, or projected film has a figure with a different skin tone to a Shirley card, and the Shirley card is used to correct the image, the skin tone will not be accurate. (We leave for a moment the abysmal lack of calibration in computer screens and home entertainment TV screens; Filmmaker Mode, welcome!)
In about the 1980's Kodak introduced Shirley cards with Caucasian, Asian, and African models on the same card. Meanwhile, Fujifilm introduced its own models to more accurately reproduce Japanese skin tone. Today, we have a variety of mass-produced color checker targets, and the implied class setting of Kodak's models have been updated as illustrated in Getty's surreal version at www.colourbalance.lornaroth.com/projects/shirley-card/.
Contemporary artists and social commentators worldwide have incorporated the male gaze and the Shirley Card into their creative analysis, though we don't see much critical thinking about beauty and the absence of male models, to say nothing of implied class and income/asset inequality. Maybe we need a Nomads or Residents of New York by Serrano, set in Portland? Nonetheless we are starting to get traction on simple things like first aid bandages.
The Presence of Color by painter Jeremy Okai Davis are portraits inspired by the Shirley Cards. He works in portraits from photographs with a great awareness of color, so the show is an ouroboros. Davis is the latest Stumptown Coffee Roasters Artist Fellow, which this opening celebrates. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
September 17 Shiny Wires
Tabitha Nikolai is a Portland artist opening Downstream a Shining Wire, new media work with video and game engines. She is the latest media fellow to work at Open Signal. At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 6PM-8 Free
Sunday, September 08, 2019
September 8 Cars!
Jesse Sugarmann is a founding member of Ditch Projects and UO MFA minted. Now he lives in Bakersfield, California. It's a desert agriculture region with boom-bust artifacts. His work has been focused on cars in an ironic way. The Way Forward is his new show. 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 11AM-1 Free
Saturday, September 07, 2019
September 7 Slow Thunder
Ryan Bubnis has illustrations Slow and Steady. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. Early close 5PM-8 Free
Thunderstruck is the product of several artists making several road trips to New Mexico. Along they way they visited the Lightning Field and other nature-made and human-made monuments. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Thunderstruck is the product of several artists making several road trips to New Mexico. Along they way they visited the Lightning Field and other nature-made and human-made monuments. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9
Friday, September 06, 2019
September 6 Eastside Art Openings+
First Friday likes Summer, like last month when the Pearl went crazy on block parties.
The + is a tape release show for Chibi and Clamber. Musicians performing are Winnie Black, Chibi, Library Studies, Halfbird, and Clamber, followed by DJ Illigit. At the Boathouse Experimental Studios 822 N River Doors 7:30, show 8 $6 (do not park on or near the tracks!)
Blue City are watercolors & oils by longtime Portland graphic novelist and multi-artist Arnold Pander. At one time, studio space here was 25 cents a square foot, now it's 2 dollars+. Housing parallels. So the show represents that change in Portland. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Kapo:Finding Heroes in the Age of Trump are Ming Dynasty-style blue on white vases by Shoji Satake. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Erik Markov has paintings at 350 SE Mill 6PM-9 Free
Wolff Gallery has The Allegories paintings by Jen Brown. 2804 SE Ankeny 6PM-9 Free
The Submissive Stone by Christine & Dana Parker is a show of jewelry by rockhounds. Skin Deep is a show by Portland tattoo artists. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has a great benefit show with $5 admission for a cause RAICES, the group that provides legal help to immigrants. 60 artists have been juried, there will be merch for sale, and music. The One Grand events are always fun, and this one is for a good cause. At One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 $5
Radius Annex has painter Beth Wooten and ceramic artist Brent Pafford. At Radius Annex 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Nina Bindi has paintings at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SE Washington 5PM-8 Free
Kate Blairstone has botanical paintings at Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 6PM-9 Free
Tara Murino-Brault, Charlotte Flory, and Kim Manchester have prints at print studio Bite 2000 SE 7th 6PM-10
Deborah Kuprunas has photographs at Nucleus 1725 SE Hawthorne 6:30PM-9 Free
211 SE Madison has studios and art outdoors too. 6PM-9
Tatyana Ostapenko has paintings Family Album. Up all month, they open at Stumptown Division 4525 SE Division 4PM-6
The Infinite Well 2 is a group show. At Nucleus Portland 1445 SE Hawthorne 6PM-9 Free
The + is a tape release show for Chibi and Clamber. Musicians performing are Winnie Black, Chibi, Library Studies, Halfbird, and Clamber, followed by DJ Illigit. At the Boathouse Experimental Studios 822 N River Doors 7:30, show 8 $6 (do not park on or near the tracks!)
Blue City are watercolors & oils by longtime Portland graphic novelist and multi-artist Arnold Pander. At one time, studio space here was 25 cents a square foot, now it's 2 dollars+. Housing parallels. So the show represents that change in Portland. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Kapo:Finding Heroes in the Age of Trump are Ming Dynasty-style blue on white vases by Shoji Satake. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9 Free
Erik Markov has paintings at 350 SE Mill 6PM-9 Free
Wolff Gallery has The Allegories paintings by Jen Brown. 2804 SE Ankeny 6PM-9 Free
The Submissive Stone by Christine & Dana Parker is a show of jewelry by rockhounds. Skin Deep is a show by Portland tattoo artists. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
One Grand has a great benefit show with $5 admission for a cause RAICES, the group that provides legal help to immigrants. 60 artists have been juried, there will be merch for sale, and music. The One Grand events are always fun, and this one is for a good cause. At One Grand www.ogpdx.com 1001 E Burnside 7PM-10 $5
Radius Annex has painter Beth Wooten and ceramic artist Brent Pafford. At Radius Annex 3022 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Nina Bindi has paintings at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center 107 SE Washington 5PM-8 Free
Kate Blairstone has botanical paintings at Jailbreak Studios 910 SE Taylor 6PM-9 Free
Tara Murino-Brault, Charlotte Flory, and Kim Manchester have prints at print studio Bite 2000 SE 7th 6PM-10
Deborah Kuprunas has photographs at Nucleus 1725 SE Hawthorne 6:30PM-9 Free
211 SE Madison has studios and art outdoors too. 6PM-9
Tatyana Ostapenko has paintings Family Album. Up all month, they open at Stumptown Division 4525 SE Division 4PM-6
The Infinite Well 2 is a group show. At Nucleus Portland 1445 SE Hawthorne 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, September 05, 2019
September 5 Westside Art Openings
Christine Bourrette has Erosion and Ryan Pierce has Hot Hex. Both at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free
Cranbrook-minted Kristin Miller has has minimal mixed media works inspired by time spent in Northern Finland. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Rodrigo Valenzuela has photographs Past/Present. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The First Years by Josh Smith and Testament by Jennifer Thoreson are at Blue Sky Gallery. In Situ, photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg are in the Nine Gallery. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Kaiju Hobo is small sculpture by Bwana Spoons mixing scrap materials, beach trash, and sofubi elements. At Grass Hut in Floating World 400 NE Couch 6PM-8 Free
Jaine Lowe, Arturo Villasenor, Alex Valle and Alvero Terrago have Borderline Stories at Newmark Theater Lobby 1111 SW Broadway early close 5PM-7 Free
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
Cranbrook-minted Kristin Miller has has minimal mixed media works inspired by time spent in Northern Finland. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free
Rodrigo Valenzuela has photographs Past/Present. At UpFor Gallery www.upforgallery.com 929 NW Flanders early close 6PM-8 Free
The First Years by Josh Smith and Testament by Jennifer Thoreson are at Blue Sky Gallery. In Situ, photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg are in the Nine Gallery. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Kaiju Hobo is small sculpture by Bwana Spoons mixing scrap materials, beach trash, and sofubi elements. At Grass Hut in Floating World 400 NE Couch 6PM-8 Free
Jaine Lowe, Arturo Villasenor, Alex Valle and Alvero Terrago have Borderline Stories at Newmark Theater Lobby 1111 SW Broadway early close 5PM-7 Free
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
September 5, 9, 12-14 Eiko
For ballet, the body begins its decline through a cascade of injuries for most in their early 20s. All the while emotional expressiveness is on the rise. So there is a small window where they are balanced at their combined maximum. Modern dance can be more tolerant of aging. Butoh, the slow, ultra-modern style from Japan, and originated by Hijikata at age 31, is one of the most celebrating of age, with performers into their early 90s and beyond. Eiko is 67.
Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake began dancing together in their early 20’s in Japan. They are partners with a family and have only performed together for 38 years. They studied political science in college, and many of their works respond to environmental and social concerns we all share.
They are MacArthur Fellows, the first couple to receive that award.
New York City residents since 1976, they had a studio residency, an over 6000 square feet quarter floor, where they developed work and hosted performances in 1999 and 2000 in the World Trade Tower. Post the attacks, they adapted their work Offering to be performed for free throughout New York City parks.
In 2003 they brought Offering to Reed College, outdoors, and performed River in the Jamison Park fountain. It was a great privilege to work with them to stage the Portland events.
Eiko returns to Portland with work including some made in response to the TÅhoku earthquake tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
From September 5 to October 24 photos from her project A Body in Places are on display at PNCA. Free
Thursday September 5 Eiko performs at PNCA amidst the photos 6PM-8 Free
September 9 the film version of A Body in Fukushima is at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium. It ia a montage of stills of her Body in Fukushima with an original soundtrack. 7PM $10
Thursday September 12-Saturday September 14 Eiko performs Distance is Malleable, duets with Ishmael Huston-Jones, Mark Mccloughan, and Alexis Moh at 15 NE Hancock 8:30PM $20
Eiko Otake and Takashi Koma Otake began dancing together in their early 20’s in Japan. They are partners with a family and have only performed together for 38 years. They studied political science in college, and many of their works respond to environmental and social concerns we all share.
They are MacArthur Fellows, the first couple to receive that award.
New York City residents since 1976, they had a studio residency, an over 6000 square feet quarter floor, where they developed work and hosted performances in 1999 and 2000 in the World Trade Tower. Post the attacks, they adapted their work Offering to be performed for free throughout New York City parks.
In 2003 they brought Offering to Reed College, outdoors, and performed River in the Jamison Park fountain. It was a great privilege to work with them to stage the Portland events.
Eiko returns to Portland with work including some made in response to the TÅhoku earthquake tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
From September 5 to October 24 photos from her project A Body in Places are on display at PNCA. Free
Thursday September 5 Eiko performs at PNCA amidst the photos 6PM-8 Free
September 9 the film version of A Body in Fukushima is at the Portland Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium. It ia a montage of stills of her Body in Fukushima with an original soundtrack. 7PM $10
Thursday September 12-Saturday September 14 Eiko performs Distance is Malleable, duets with Ishmael Huston-Jones, Mark Mccloughan, and Alexis Moh at 15 NE Hancock 8:30PM $20
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