This show has three bodies. 2 1/2d glyphs are sand-cast aluminum wall hangings. There are watercolors on mirrors. Paintings layered with wax complete this show.
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 1PM-4 Free
The Quick by Diedrick Brackens & D'Angelo Lovell Williams includes weavings, photographs, and objects. Bracken is a West coast artist working in tapestry. Williams is an East coast artist working on paper. Both are queer African American artists. This collaboration is inspired by love and intimacy. The show was arranged by local curator Ashley Stull Myers. The artists are visiting and giving a talk at 2 tomorrow at PNCA.
At The Lumber Room lumberroom.com 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Free
If you are in Eugene, Ditch Projects opens a new show. Julieta Gil from Mexico City and now UO, has Field Recordings. The description on the DP website is better than I can recreate. Eric Ramos Guerrero has drawings, Age Of Majority, also explained on the DP website. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 6PM-8 Free
Dana Robinson is a SVA-minted artist in NYC who has been participating in an impressive number of shows. Fuller Rosen is one, which is impressive too, with Second Honeymoon. They are large impressionistic portraits derived from vintage Ebony Magazine on transparent silk with accompanying sound loops. The FR web site has a more articulate writeup. Portland artists could take inspiration in the energy of the artist's accomplishments: https://danarobinsonstudio.com/CV At Fuller Rosen Gallery www.fullerrosen.com 1928 NW Lovejoy Map 6PM-8 Free
To Dog a Portal is a group show by the Well, Well family: Andrea Alonge, Ben Buswell, Erik Geschke, Jeremy Le Grand, Morgan Rosskopf, Katherine Spinella, Jessie Rose Vala, Jessie Weitzel Le Grand, and John Whitten.
"Through pattern, pixelation, and repetition in action or motif, artists in To dog a portal observe the natural world through scientific data, human interaction, and magical thinking. Emboldened by the possibility of science and magic coexisting, this exhibition engages in a willful suspension of disbelief. Balancing these works on the horizon of time through careful precision in the making process, these artists cultivate a field for observing the super-natural qualities in seemingly everyday occurrences."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 2PM-5 Free
Rachael Zur and Heather Lee Birdsong have Told and Untold.
"Can we be content with the fragmented stories that will be told about our lives? Between what is said and unsaid, people create narratives about those they have loved and lost. Domestic objects and uninhabited rooms also give accounts of a life, allowing for those no longer with us to be felt as being simultaneously present and absent. Heather Lee Birdsong’s paintings of Pacific Northwest forests and architectural elements reflect on grief: how we hold it and, variably or simultaneously, fail to hold it. Rachael Zur’s expanded paintings of objects from living rooms give form to the residue of lives lived held in domestic spaces. Together the artists use place as a narrator to recall the absent."
At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 2PM-5 Free
Oregon Comtemporary has their fundraising auction dance party tonight. All the information is at https://event.gives/oregoncontemporary.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11ish $40-100
Portland is fortunate because Seattle is fortunate to have some very talented performers of butoh, Japan's contribution to contemporary dance. Joan Laage studied and performed in Japan with a small group created by the founder of the genre. In that lineage, the improvised movement is inspired by images from nature. Laage is giving a workshop Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday evening is a performance.
Laage performs Rivers Running Red and Cosmo Rapaport & Sophia Solano perform their own works too.
"Rivers Running Red has a haunting commissioned score by Seattle musicians. The piece is greatly inspired by an article exposing the practice of sending women off to the mountains to remain in huts and, often not surviving the harsh conditions, fueled by the belief that women are unclean while menstruating. It is also a reflection on this monthly cycle being celebrated as a sacred passage in other cultures. RRR was performed as a duet in Milan, and a solo in Pontedera (Italy), Frankfurt and most recently in Seattle Butoh Festival 2021: FemAlchemy produced by DAIPANbutoh Collective last November.
Tickets can be purchased in advance through Venmo @interartistmotion for a suggested sliding-scale cost of $10-20.
Three works https://www.witd.org/butoh at Headwaters Theater 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7:30PM $10-20
