Portland has a history of galleries in private homes, their outbuildings, and in live-work spaces. It's like Manhattan's apartment gallery popups. Painter curator Srijon Chowdhury has his own Chicken Coop Gallery. Today he has a show at SE Cooper Contemprary. His Groundhog Day show "resonates with solitude and repetitiveness that has become ordinary. Subject matter fluctuates between still life, portraits, and floral imagery, communicating intimate domestic stories that might not entirely be what they seem. Subjects' interior lives are intertwined with fantastical objects often seen in a film, folklore, and religious story. The emotive work in the exhibition displays striking moments of hope and possibility" according to the show writer. The opening was in February. It's at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 11AM-5 Saturdays Free
Blue Sky and the Nines move their first Thursday opening to Saturday day today. It gives the space a little more tempral breathing room. Abendlied (Evening Song) are photographs of her family's home as her mother ages out in dementia by German-Canadian photographer Birthe Piontek. In a way, it relates to the Kabakov's Treatement with Memories. I have a friend in this now. After several successful careers, including writing a book about genetics and male calicos, they set out to write a book on the entire history of written language intertwined with watching a neighbor child grow up manufesting dislexia. The dementia lost the book with their long term memory. HeadStrong: The Women of Rural Uganda is a photo essay by Dan Nelkin with narratives by Beatrice Lamwaka. The Nines Gallery has to touch, to touch, drawings and etchings by Linda Hutchins. It is her longtime minimal work. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9 Free
Fixed-format low-priced art shows have been in Portland since at least Charm Bracelet. The Alberta Street Gallery is back in year 3 of their 6x6x6 open call show. Each work on a 6x6 wood panel is limited to 6 in freespace, all inch. Works are $100 or less. Cash and carry, so arrive early. The show opened March 3. Reception today. At Alberta Street Gallery 1829 NE Alberta 2PM Free
The Brassworks Gallery took the Recess space. Then they moved. Dark City is their urban surrealist - lowbrow show. At Brassworks Gallery 3022 NE Glisan Ave 5PM Free
The big show today is at the Oregon Contemporary megaplex in Kenton. They close early at 8.
System as Object is a generative installation by Crystal Cortez, Francisco Botello, General QU, and Benjamin Johnson. It will be evolving for the next 3 weeks with a coda in the form of a live ticketed performance by the Third Angle musical ensemble on March 20. System as Object will be performatively unveiled tonight at 7.
The Hallie Ford Fellowships select noted regional mid-career to even late-career artists. Corey Arnold, Avantika Bawa, Pat Boas, Bruce Burris, Julie Green, James Lavadour, Niraja Cheryl Lorenz, Elizabeth Malaska, Demian DinéYazhí, Harrell Fletcher, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Flint Jamison, Jess Perlitz, Sharita Towne, and Marie Watt, slected between 2017 and 2019, show.
Bill Will, wry political sculptor, has If the Virus Could Talk, a talking Coronavirus!
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-9 Free
The Extended Ear: An Artist Book Fair is at Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8
On the Verge of Recognition, curated by Jeremy Le Grand and Kelda Van Patten is at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
Small Talk Collective has a new space shared with the offices of Photolucida which is double exciting news. Afterword is a show by Brittney Cathey-Adams, Tracy Chandler, Panos Charalampidis + Mary Chairetaki, Buzzy Sullivan, Yuyang Zhang and Muscle Memory Collective. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
