Saturday, February 29, 2020

February 29 Soft Resident Interaction Wave

Myles de Bastion brings act two of his Ikigai Machine Experience. It involves interaction, a score by the artist, and limited edition multichannel SubPacs. Because the SubPacs are limited in number, there are hourly sign up time slots you can find linked at the PICA website. At PICA, 15 NE Hancock 11AM-10PM $35



Caldera holds 3 Saturday readouts of its resident artists. The residents get snowed in to work in a good year for global warming, and the buildings are used for youth art programs warm months. This resident readout is by Maura García, Lawrence, KS; Daniel Granias, Portland; Sabina Haque, Portland; Shin Yeon Jeon, Bend; Dan Lau, Queens; and Nitin Mukul, New York.

At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 12:30PM-3:30 Free



Wave Contemporary has a show with Marcelo Fontana, Hannah Newman, Alan Page, Midgray Studio, and Murphy Welch. At Wave Contemporary 425 SE 3rd (Oak Street Building) 8PM-late $10



Alexis E. Mabry has Static Age, a soft sculpture. At the Third Room Project www.thirdroom.net 717 NE Broadway #205 6PM-9 Free

Friday, February 28, 2020

February 28 Failing Into Paradise

The Forest For The Trees was created by Gage Hamilton and Matt Wagner. Tips on Failing is the clubhouse and organizing spot for FFTT paint and visiting artists each year. Tonight Hamilton brings his own art in show Remember Paradise. The TOF openings are recommended. At Tips on Failing www.failing.exposed 3903 N Michigan Map
7PM-10 Free

Thursday, February 27, 2020

February 27 Elephants in the Gallery

Sam Noel has fiber works, But How Does One Eat an Elephant, inspired by the body. It's at 1122 Gallery 1122gallery.com 1122 SE 88th. 6PM-10 Free

Saturday, February 22, 2020

February 22 Dialectic Parallel Memories

Lindsay August-Salazar from LA has New Dialectic Memories. She makes colorful abstract paintings by alternative brush methods. Colorful is what we need in Portland this time of year! Accompanying are animations by K-26. At Private Places www.privateplaces.us 2400 Holliday (bell by door) 5PM-8 Free



Portland painter Mia Farrington has big abstracts, Parallels. 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

Sunday, February 16, 2020

February 16 Bridge Border

Put your warmies on and enjoy some projection art tonight!

The Mobile Projection Unit presents Nacer by Juracán and Rubén García Marrufo. It's a remix of border crossing material.

You can see it on the Eastbank Esplanade projected on the Burnside Bridge pier. 7PM-8:30 Free

Saturday, February 15, 2020

February 15 Ase - The Thing You Live For

Year Of Ase 2020 is an about 6 week exhibition opening with a party this evening. Artists are Lisa Jarrett, Melanie Stevens, Emma Rust, Jainai Jeffries, Kenn Amethyst, Celeste Noche. Ase is the Yoruba word meaning conceiving the power to make things happen and produce change. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-9 Free



Power In Numbers is a periodic show of post card size art. Each piece is $75 cheap! A portion of the proceeds is donated to a charity announced at the event, so buy early and often. It is an invitational with over 170 artists. At Nucleus Portland nucleusportland.com 1445 SE Hawthorne Blvd 5PM-8 Free



Ikigai, from Japanese, is the thing you live for.

The Ikigai Machine: Sensory-Immersion Installation preview is a one night ticketed event and all the free tickets are sold. But don't worry, as the piece is completed, it will be at PICA and Open Signal.

Artist and principal at Cyma Space, Myles de Bastion, has created an immersive science fiction work about an inventor born into a world without sound. The artist is a deaf musician and Cyma is responsible for projects like Push Play and other sound interactive light sculptures that allow people to hear with their eyes. This project has some gifted collaborators.

Thanks to Bodecker Foundation for hosting Myles as a resident artist and for hosting this preview. At the Bodecker Foundation, 2360 NW Quimby 6PM-9 sold out

Saturday, February 08, 2020

February 8 Sweet Situ

Amy Ruppel has In Situ: Refigia, illustrations of glaciers, icebergs, whales, and land animals. It has to do with small reservoirs of life that outwit ice ages. At Land Gallery 3925 N Mississippi 3PM-5 Free



The PSU Hip Hop Club n the Morpheus Youth Project hosts the Sweet 16 qualifier that rolls up to Seattle. It's got a 1 on 1 open - you; and a 1 on 1 invite. Invited is Motorman, the returning champion, JuanHunnid, Detailz, Bulletz, Jrip, Rona,Token, n Digz. Judgez are Tim Chips (Fraggle Rock) Seattle, One8Kevin (Moon Patrol Crew) Portland, n Kilam Fresh (Portland City Rockers) Portland. MC is Merk (New Birth Crew) n DJ is Magicsean (Raw Mindz.) At the PSU Native American Student and Community Center 3PM-9 Free

Friday, February 07, 2020

February 7 Eastside Art Openings

Probably missing some, but the Winter Light Festival tonight and tomorrow is the star.



Multiartist Chas Bear opens Corporate Solutions, colorful blob paintings. He is known for murals, music, clothing and graphic design. At Fisk Gallery 3613 MLK 7PM-10 Free



Vintage Vandals is a new show by Haley Dixon, Courtney Hiersche, and Tyler Spencer. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free



Someday This Will All Be Gone is Mike Vos' interpretation of a world without humans using double exposures of postindustrial landscapes. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free



Jerilyn Verdin, Margaret Bohls, and Lisa Conway Have Across the Divide. At Eutectic Gallery www.eutecticgallery.com 1930 NE Oregon 6PM-9

Wednesday, February 05, 2020

February 6 Westside Art Openings

Marlon Mullen is an intellectually disabled artist with bright paintings. Many reference art world magazine covers. He developed his works at Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development, Richmond, California; a program similar to Portland's original Project Grow and Oakland's Creative Growth. 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 early close 5PM-7:30 Free



Friedensreich Hundertwasser, though trained in art, produced work that today would be considered outsider. He was an architect too, with work that today would on the cusp of postmodern and deconstructionism. His buildings have been compared to Gaudi's baroque sculpture buildings, but I think he is more connected to Venturi, Brown, and Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas' "decorated shed." He was an environmental activist as well. Some of his prints will be on show, along with Tallmadge Doyle. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



Adam Sorenson has paintings Skeleton. He makes luminous impressionistic landscapes, what water flowing over rock in the Northwest could be as a rainbow. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM Free



Dana Lynn Louis opens a show of new work, Weave. She is known for her sculptural installations, including those in the four story inside light courts of City Hall, and her social practice project to make ceramics in the homeless community. There is survey show of work by Jay Backstrand, a PNCA-minted Portland artist who cofounded PCVA with Mel Katz and Michele Russo. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st early close 5PM-8 Free


The Quiet Show includes Judy Cooke, Russell Crotty, Richard Gruetter, Ann Hamilton, Jessie Henson, John Houck, Isaac Layman, Sol LeWitt, Emilio Lobato, Julia Mangold, Helen Mirra, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, Joseph Park, Gregg Renfrow, Edda Renouf, Robert Ryman, Kate Shepherd, Joan Waltemath. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9 Free



Sara Bennett has The Bedroom Project. They are portraits of women at home after long prison sentences. Natan Dvir has Platforms made in the NY subway, illustrating the personal spaces within the shared space. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



C3:initiative releases Class Set 4. They are contemporary political posters, printed on the Risograph. The designs are by Tannaz Farsi, Anna Fidler, Midori Hirose, Johanna Jackson, Chris Johanson, Nina Montenegro, Dylan Muldrew, Tara Murino-Brault, Ralph Pugay, and Samantha Wall, with an equal set of contributors of words. Jessalyn Aaland and Anne Greenwood Rioseco were the artist curators of this edition. The project has a prong helping students design their own posters. Poet Kim Stafford and there will be music by Zoo. This is a one night show. At c3:initiative ​www.c3initiative.org 412 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free



Froelick has a group show, worth a look to see the gallery's range. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 8PM Free



Upfor and Holding continue shows.


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. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map closing ranges from 8PM - 10:30ish, earlier in Winter 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

February 6, 7, 8 Light

The Portland Winter Light Festival is this Thursday, Friday and Saturday from dusk to 11, though many pieces will be on view all night, particularly those in businesses.

The event is concentrated at OMSI and the Portland General Electric offices-Salmon Springs Waterfront Park. Saturday Open Signal hosts Perception, a video projection evening.

There are talks, and an illuminated bike parade, perfect for children. Of course visitors are encouraged to illuminate themselves!

Best of all, it is all free!

The Portland Winter Light Festival www.pdxwlf.com Various locations in central Portland 6PM-11 Free

Saturday, February 01, 2020

February 2 for a year Future Voice

Futel are artist technologists who repurpose old pay phones into a free phone service and a host for social practice art projects.

HoldThePhone by artists Emily Fitzgerald, Molly Sherman, Machado Mijiga and Sailor Winkleman meditate on North and Northeast Portland cultural history. You can make regular old voice calls too. More at opensignalpdx.org/holdthephone2020 The future phone is installed on the side of Open Signal by the Graham door.

At Open Signal www.opensignalpdx.org 2766 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. All hours Free

February 2 Yes Rainbow Prairie

Outsider artist Larry Yes is back with more words. At Union Knott 2726 ML King Blvd. 3PM-6 Free



A new experimental pop space inspired with Portland weird opens. It's Rainbow City. Their RainbowCityFanClub socials have the deets. At Rainbow City 21 SE 11th (around the corner from Hippo Hardwire) 7PM-11 Free



More music, Future Prairie with Church of Film launches their first concert with live visuals, Channel One, this evening. Music by Jonathon Mooney, Casey Marx, Onry, Dashenka, Amenta Abioto, and a special guest; visuals by Church Of Film; projections by Sarah Sarah Turner Turner; installations by Cody Acevedo, Talia Gordon, and Clamber; poetry by Joni Renee Whitworth; and tea ceremony by Brianna Sas. Recommended. Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/future-prairie-and-church-of-film-present-channel-one-tickets-87779457721. At the First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7:30PM $10

February 1 Unit Imbolic Tropical Hex Ritual

Caldera reads out its residencies over 3 months, usually at Camp Caldera. Today they are reading out their first batch at the Bend Public Library. They have a percussion group, Unit Souzou, performing and artists Intisar Abioto, Timme Zhiyun Lu, Tristan Irving, Theresia Munywoki and Emma Rust, all from Portland. Caldera at the downtown Bend public library, 601 NW Wall St, Bend, OR 12:30PM-3, performance 1 Free



Christine Miller and Brittany Vega have their show American Hex opening tonight. At Fuller Rosen Gallery in the Ford Building. www.fullerrosen.com 2505 SE 11th #106 Map 6PM-9 Free



Tropical Contemporary an arts collective from Eugene opens their show tonight. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 6PM-9



Nierika is a show by Santuario Somático and Edgar Fabián Frías. They are also doing a workshop at C:3 Sunday. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free



It's a musical event; the Imbolic Sleep Concert is a bring your own blanket sleepover tonight. Details on their Facebook. Pegasus Project is is having one of their last confabs at their space in Montavilla.