September 24 Fox Spirits

Performances and films by Midori Hirose, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Julie Perini, Allie Hankins, and Eva Knowles are tonight. At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 7PM Free

September 24 Xenocore and Soft-tribalism

Holding is doing something unusual hosting a design show. It is complicated to explain, probably better to read about it on their site and socials. Maybe something something https://sourcingjournal.com/denim/denim-trends/fashion-cores-staples-trends-cottagecore-normcore-gorpcore-edited-trendalytics-337148/. At Holding Contemporary www.holdingcontemporary.com 916 NW Flanders 6PM-8 early close Free

September 17 Sand Mile Letters

The earth is made of rock. The rock is made of elements birthed by the Big Bang a long time ago. Each element is different but the same elemental particles. But they have different weight and color. And for a long time, the weather powered by the sun has been breaking down the rock. Big pieces break, then smaller, then they wash down the streams, rounding. They break into sand, then further into the tiny particles making clay.

Kate Malone Kimmich photographs the beach. The sand sifts by weight arranged by water in different colors. She captures the patterns along with other beach elements.

Her show is Tidal Breaths: Wakonda Beach in Winter.

It is an endless story captured by a poem in the Tang Dynasty:

A wave of sand comes
Another pulls it back
One cycle dies
Another is born
Mutually stirring each other
Endlessly
It can teach the mountain and seas
To eventually be one

At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8 Free


It is a bit far out for art geographically; the photography show by Larry Cwik, The Visitor, Walking 1000 Miles through Mexico, is in far Multnomah Village. He works in large prints of images gathered throughout Mexico. The opening this afternoon is quite the sprawling event. There is a new short film by Cwik, screened, a book released, for signing, and poetry read by Walt Curtis. Curtis remains active with https://kboo.fm/program/talking-earth, a poetry podcast over 45 years. The PCC North View Gallery is in that area, so you could link trips.

At Multnomah Arts Center www.multnomahartscenter.org 7688 SW Capitol Highway 1PM-3 Free


Learn but the letters forme(d) by heart, Then soon you’l gain this noble art, is a group show by Alex Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Katherine Bernhardt, Joy Feasley, Raque Ford, Peter Gallo, Jesse Harrod, Abe Lampert, Maia Ruth Lee, Mirco Marchelli, Ryan McLaughlin, Molly Metz, Jeffry Mitchell, Erin Jane Nelson, Borna Sammak, Patricia Treib with fraktur by Unknown Artist, Christian Bamberger, "Flying Angel" Artist, and "School of Weiss" Artist. It is an opportunity to see the gallery interests.

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

September 17 - 18 All the Zines are Belong to You

Portland is a paper-based town, maybe it's all the trees? We once had a huge paper-making factory in Oregon City marooned on a rock in the middle of the falls. There is still one in Washougal but no one likes the smell today.

Portland embraced the zine zeitgeist, DIY and open source, in the 1980s and 1990s. They were distributed from niches in book stores and music stores. They were passed by hand, friend to friend. The 1998 IPRC helped makers, rebirthed antique printing, and collected a zine library. Reading Frenzy was a zine Mecca.

As a result, zines never died in Portland. One of their continuous reanimators is the Portland Zine Symposium, since 2001. It is this weekend at PSU. The format is tables of zines with the actual maker. There is a different mix of zine creators each day.

Outlet PDX is a shop-gallery preserving a new antique printer, the mighty Risograph from Japan. It is an all in one master maker and offset printer with ink cartridges of many colors. Like multi-color woodblock printing, paper can be sent through with different image layers of different color. Outlet is helmed by illustrator Kate Bingaman-Burt. Saturday Outlet hosts a post Symposium meetup in their studio.

Pre-pandemic, both were creative community hive nodes, so check them now to see what's up. Many Portland art events are mask-y, so bring one.

Portland Zine Symposium https://www.portlandzinesymposium.org/ at Portland State University Smith Ballroom 1825 SW Broadway Saturday and Sunday 11AM-5 Free

Zine social at Outlet https://www.outletpdx.com/ 2500 NE Sandy Blvd E Saturday, September 17th from 6PM-9 Free, Registration Required https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zine-social-pzs-2022-afterparty-tickets-418382351877.

September 11 Knob Spot

Modular on the Spot resumes sound making. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.

Knob twisters include RHA Laws, James Staub, Kenny’s Login, Woke-Ass Messiah, Life Agent, Max Myriad, and Robert Downey Dangerfield.

At Rocky Butte Park, 6PM Free

September 10 - 11 At Last!

Portland's Deaf film Festival is Saturday and Sunday. It includes Portland's first annual art and craft show by deaf artists and makers on Sunday. There is also an evening social at another location. Saturday films from Noon to 2:30 are family-friendly. Sunday films are all documentaries. There are many breaks for socializing.

Here is the full rundown:

Saturday 12PM-8PM 12pm-1PM Festival Opening and Family Friendly Films 12-12:30 Intersectional Souls Project (30:00) 12:30-12:35 Mouth Language Device (4:57) 12:36-12:37 Solir The Alien (10:00) 12:38-12:48 The Gingerbread Witch (10:00) 12:49-1:06 Dimensions (17:00)

1:15-2:25 Changer A Handtelling (70:00)

2:45-3:30PM ADULT FILMS - SHORTS USA

2:45-2:50 A New man (music video) (4:45) 2:50-2:56 So It Goes (5:55) 2:57-3:03 REAL (5:00) 3:03-3:13 The Participant (9:35) 3:14-3:16 Bent (1:23) 3:16-3:31 Hamburger Airplane (16:09)

3:40-4:30pm ADULT SHORTS CONT’D

3:40-3: The Word Factory (18:00) 3:45-4:00 Elevated (15:00) 4:02-4:15 The Last Words (12:00)

4:45-5:10PM Adult Films - Asia

4:45-5:10 Let The Chips Fall (23:00)

5:30-6:55PM Adult Films- Shorts Europe and Eastern Europe

5:30-5:37 Scotland Forgive Me (6:14) 5:37-5:43 Assassin (5:05) 5:45-5:52 Duplicitous (5:32) 5:53-5:57 Breaking Point (4:01)

6:15-6:20 Guilty Conscience (4:28) 6:20-6:26 Faith (6:20) 6:27-7PM House (30:00)

Sunday 12pm-8pm

Documentaries

12PM- 12:40PM With Capital D (37:20)

1PM-2:20PM Glittering Hands (80:00)

2:40-3:15PM Deaf Kilmarnock (34:18)

3:25-4:35PM The Time is Right for Us (70:00)

5PM-5:20 Between Two Worlds (17:53) 5:20-5:26 Mister Michel (16:00)

5:45-7:45 Tazza Superstar (116mins)

Artists and makers include:

Cymaspace, Brad James Thornberry, painting; Fred Gravatt, painting; Aimee, painting; Thorne Davis tarot card reading; Lesli Holderby, crafts; Kali Doubletree, painting; Hannah Wheatcroft, paintings; Lennox Zer Art, painting, Heather Anderson, crafts, and with information, Open Hand Health and Bridges Oregon.

At the Holiday Inn 8439 NE Columbia Holiday Inn Noon-7 Free

Saturday night from 8pm to close we are collaborating with POP for a special night of social at HI-TOP, located on 5015 NE Fremont Free

September 10 - October 15 Cairn Nan Interviews

Nan Curtis https://www.nancurtis.com/ is one of Portland's arch conceptualists. After her MFA she taught at PNCA influencing a generation. She has a show, Cairnapopia, at Sator Projects now. As part if the show Curtis talks 2PM over coffee and donuts with some Portland guests. Guests are 9/10 - Grace Kook-Anderson, 9/17 - Kristan Kennedy, 9/24 - Mack McFarland, 10/1 - Ashley Gifford, 10/8 - Tiff Harker, and 10/15 - MK Guth.

At Sator Prokects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd. Open Thursday - Sunday 12PM-5 Free

September 10 Unknown Riff

Dreams of Unknown Islands by Sasha Wortzel opens in the Cooley. At noon, the artist speaks in the Reed Chapel, thence there is a reception in the gallery 1PM-3. Her films show at the Hollywood Theater Sunday at 2. At the Cooley Gallery Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free


Tanner Lind Riff has a show and there is a reception for it this afternoon. At www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 4PM-6 Free

September 9 Robin Faun Dream

The intrepid Jennifer Robin is a longtime Portland writer via New York. Sean Croghan is a longtime Portland musician and painter. Croghan accompanies Robin reading from her latest book, You Only Bend Once with a Spoonful of Mercury. She is a fierce observer of people from her travels and a good spoken word reader, you can find many videos of her online. I'm really looking forward to the musical collaboration, perhaps akin to the famous Steve Fisk work with Steven Jesse Bernstein. Bernstein is more a poet and much darker than Robin. But music and spoken word collaborations are always welcome. The bookstore has revved up its readings in its small space with limited seating. Recommended.

At Mother Foucault https://www.motherfoucaultsbookshop.com/ 523 SE Morrison 7PM, doors 6


Miranda Zimmerman is Faunwood. It is kawaii illustration of flora and fauna. She has her own direct channels, and illustrations exclusinve to Nucleus. The Nucleus show includes mostly 3D. Her show there opens today. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free


Sa’rah Melinda Sabino opens Dream Girl, graphic work themed on her heritage. At One Grand 1001 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free

September 7 Delicious Psychedelic Landscapes

Oregon is on the front edge of plants as an aid for professional psychiatric treatment. If you can't wait, Adam Sorensen is well known for his psychedelic landscapes. He opens a new show of them, Water Color, with a reception today.

"Drawing from a wealth of influences, including references to the Hudson River School painters of the American West, the Romanticism of Caspar David Friedrich, animation aesthetics, and the ukiyo-e traditions of Japanese woodcuts, Adam Sorensen’s paintings are deeply tied to the reality of the landscape, but are imbued with enough imagination to make them otherworldly.

Mottled prismatic skies, misty waterfalls, and chromatic vistas mingle with emptiness and desolation. These uninhibited landscapes allude to places that have come before us or to those that will come after us. The paintings become a lens in which to view our ever changing, yet continuously sublime natural world."

Sara Krajewski, the Portland Art Museum contemporary curator will interview Sorenson at 6.

At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 5:30PM - 7 Free Masks and RSVP required info@pdxcontemporaryart.com

September 3 Smart Nirvana Paradise

Well Well Projects has Smart Objects and Flattened Images. It is "51 predominately lens-based artists from different parts of the country, who all, in varying degrees, reflect on the overlapping of the artificial and the real within this hyper-digital age. These works either create a sense of confusion as they move from one reality or plane to another and/or bring to mind the fading distinction between our physical and corporeal experiences and our digital, cerebral ones." So bring your magic glasses! ⁠

Artists are: Jen Bacon, Kris Blackmore, Heather Boyd, Tyler Brumfield, Thomas Bugarin, Lesley Bunch, Sarah Cabbell, Teresa Christiansen, Brita d'Agostino, Myra Day, Brian Doody, Travis Flack, Pete Fleming, Melanie Flood, Kristina Gerig, Cynthia Greig, Tom Grill, Ash Hagerstrand, Megan Hansen, Tarja Harney, Robert Harrington, Stephanie Hatch, Ben Herbert, Justine Highsmith, Rebecca Horne, Melinda Hurst Frye, Colin Kippen, Jacob Lahah, Yi Hsuan Lai, Christopher Larson, Haley Lauw, Amanda Lee, James Long, Lisa Maione, Philippe Mazaud, Forrest McGarvey, Harold McNaron, Muscle Memory, Michael Meyer, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Todd Molinari, Clare Parry, Kim Smith Claudel, William Mark Sommer, Dain Susman, Jennifer Trail, Danielle Troy, Kelda Van Patten, Jose Velazco, Marilyn Waligore, Chloe Wilwerding, and Yuyang Zhang.

At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free



Carnation Contemporary has Jeremy Le Grand and Matt Bennett Laurents with Nirvanamatopoeia. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8



Strange Paradise Gallery continues its group show Collective Rage themed on the SCOTUS Roe v Wade nullification. It is a benefit art sale for abortion funds too!

At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary opens by Elmeater Morton and Doug Wing. Willie Little continues.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
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September 3 Foxes Have Two Front Gloves

Foxgloves is new work by Midori Hirose and Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson. Many people know Hirose's work, so we are interested in the paring. Strongly Recommended.


At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today 2PM-5 Free

September 3 Pearl

Pearl galleries are open, and there is a show of independent artists in tents for the weekend Pearl Art Festival.


The continuing show to see is at Stello Arts. Gather has Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger as part of their residency program. The show is up until November 25 and strongly recommended. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th Avenue 2PM-5


Blue Sky has made a curatorial relationship with EnFoco in New York. They find and launch emerging POC artists. They do a show a year for Blue Sky. Nene Sin Patria (Our mother's hands became our homes) is by Amarise Carreras and Nā́rī - Threads of Identity is by Spandita Malik. The artists speak today between noon and 3. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th Noon-5 Free



Pamela Green has Observation and Reflection, finely detailed landscape and tree drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 1:30PM-4 Free

September 2 Eastside Art Openings +

All of the usual FB 1FPDX spots will be happening.


ADX is back, tonight with a skate deck art show. Artist reception from 4PM-5:30, IGTV from 6PM-7, live music from 7PM-8:30ish Free


Nia Musiba's graphic paintings have their closing show tonight with a zine. At One Garnd Gallery 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free


Way out North, there is a Glass Blower open house. It's at The Pickle Factory 866 N Columbia, entrance off Albina into the fenced lot. 7PM-9 Free

September 1 Westside Art Openings +

Westside art openings are reviving slightly, though others focus on Friday and Saturday openings.


Mathew Picton https://matthewpicton.com/ opens The opens Age of Kali, Age of Belief. They are detailed mixed media works remixing "historical, religious, and spiritual symbology intertwined with newspaper headlines." This follows his human-built city pattern work. I'm an fan of his early work including the candy sprinkles and mud crack works. His subsequent city works offer more touchpoints. He has engaged Leach and the noted Carl Solway Gallery.

Jeremy Okai Davis http://work.jeremyokaidavis.com/ presents A Good Sport, acrylic portraits of black Americans in sports and academia, in a watercolor style. He was featured by Stumptown: http://stumptowncreative.com/episode-27-jeremy-okai-davis. His representational work reaches many touchpoints in culture.

At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7 Early Closing Free


Benny Fountain has drawings - Landscapes: Palouse and Provence. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis 5PM-8 Early Closing Free


Don Bailey and Sue Tower have paintings, with Stephan Soihl, kinetic sculptures. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 420 NW 9th 6PM-9 Free


The map is not the territory: The man is not the face are portraits by Mark Danley. At 114 Gallery www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 6PM-9 Free


Waterstone has Provocation/Amendment by Micah Kassell. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Early Closing Free