The Xhurch is for sale. This year the Xhurch NTVTY is at the mall.
This year is NTVTY XI, the first was 2010. The format this year is a sculpture garden and votive shrine with artist collaborators. Many of the set pieces are nativity scenes with computers or technology as the baby messiah.
Xhurch and NTVTY have set up at the Mall. Find it "in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic," by Animal.Plant.Mineral.
In past years there have been musical collaborators.
Check their socials for hours ongoing, more interactive art, and more experimental music into the new year.
NTVTY XI https://www.xhurch.net/photomatrix.html at Lloyd Mall Suite B216. It is in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic. For now, check their socials. The mall doors are locked at 7, mall cleared around 8:30. Saturday 3PM-7+, Sunday 11PM-7+ Free
Friday, December 22, 2023
Monday, December 11, 2023
December 14 Neuroscience and Dance
I'm analytical so I need things to balance life in direct experience which resists analysis. I fell into the Portland modern dance crowd early. Modern dance girlfriend and all. After a few years, it lost its newness to me.
Then I discovered butoh through Sankai Juku and a Montreal performer with Zoviet France.
That Montreal performer combined butoh, Hindu temple dance and Hawaiian dance in her own style. It was a big impact on me. I had to speak to her and did. Her first language was French, and I have no French. But backstage she told this story I relate as shorthand for the koan that is butoh. Her teacher had this image. Imagine your body as only its bones. The bones are made of glass. In each joint is a flower. Improvise on that.
To Sankai Juku, unbeknownst to me, a friend was the producer of Sankai Juku in Pioneer Square, Seattle. My exposure to Sankai Juku was the second in their comeback post-Pioneer Square. At the end of the performance I felt an imediate visceral response across my scalp of chills and sparks; the entire audience was up in a standing ovation. It was not the usual few and checking to see if you should join the ovation. There was a collective rise by everyone. Somehow Pioneer Square was subliminally encoded in their performance. I did not even know that story at the time.
I always try to see Sankai Juku in Seattle because the audience has a strong emotional relationship. You feel it in the audience. I went on to study butoh in the flesh in Seattle, Japan, Portland, and San Francisco and see performances in each adding NYC and Denver.
Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ is a French butoh player in NYC. She has written a book on feminism, neuroscience https://www.vangeline.com/research, and butoh. It is a good read and complement to my discussion with Kazuo Ohno in Kyoto.
He said that the male originators were so engrossed in creation, they could not comprehend how women performers would bring their body experience to it. They were discovering butoh in their own male bodies.
Women did and do, ongoing. Many of us know trans persons who will bring their own to movement.
Even in the early days women such as Nakajima Natsu who works with intellectually disabled performers today; Yoko Ashikawa who brought a warm tone to butoh - she suggested an image our senile grandmother; Hiroko Tamano, who brings the darkest images to cute; Eiko Otake from NYC, who had a live-work in the World Trace Center and made free commemorative performance from that - she also suggests, with family, teach them to pretend to be sleeping to get them to sleep, then in butoh, dance as if you are asleep; Yumiko Yoshioka bringing butoh to a castle in Japan. I've studied with each. There are many American and international women in butoh. The Tamano legendary sushi restaurant, I patronzed in the Mission, and their home, was creative cradle to many female butoh friends.
One of my favorates, Dairakudakan is half women performers. I will travel to see them, have done, and have taken a workshop with Maro which challened me. I was also Portland host to Akira Kasai.
For whatever reason, Portland dance producers have been allergic to butoh. Bringing a group from Japan is expensive, but Seattle, SF, LA, Denver, NYC, and Vancouver BC do it.
Today Vangeline gives a free Internet talk - "Where the arts meet neuroscience - A virtual expert talk with Prof. Dr. Judith Revers and artist Vangeline."
"What happens inside our bodies and minds while performing and participating in the arts, and what are the mental and psychological benefits of it? In this last virtual lecture of the year, Prof. Dr. Judith Revers, Medical School Hamburg, dives into the field of performance art and dance with New York-based artist Vangeline, who’s involved in artistic research with neuroscientific methods around the Japanese artform Butoh. Together, they will be investigating interdisciplinary research in Arts and Neurosciences and its implications for the Arts Therapies."
"The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain is an art-science performance-research study. This new study investigates the brain dynamics of dancers while they are performing Butoh, a postmodern dance style that originated in Japan, through the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to record the participants’ brain waves. The study is a collaboration between the New York-based Vangeline Theater dance company, the Laboratory for Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems, IUCRC BRAIN Center, The Rockefeller University, and the Neurobiology of Social Communication Lab (funded by the City University of New York, Rockefeller University and New York University). In collaboration with neuroscientists Sadye Paez and Constantina Theofanopoulou, neuro engineer Jose ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal, and composer Ray Sweeten, Vangeline choreographed a 60-minute ensemble butoh piece, which is uniquely informed by the protocol established for a scientific pilot study researching the impact of butoh on brain activity. For the groundbreaking art-science study, dancers' brain activity will be recorded at the University of Houston, Texas, with real-time visualization by multimedia artist Badie Khaleghian of the dancers' neural activity. Results will then be disseminated in scientific journals.
Vangeline and Sweeten have built on a 20-year history of creative collaboration with a soundscape that is informed by techniques of brainwave entrainment (techniques that affect consciousness through sound). The Slowest Wave investigates through the use of scalp EEG how brain waves during butoh dancing compare to those emitted during other conscious or unconscious motor behaviors, such as speaking or meditating. Moreover, the study will elucidate the functional neural networks of the dancers and the neural synchrony within and between them. This project is meant to foster connections and understanding between dancers, artists, scientists, engineers, and audiences from around the world."
Butoh is not for everyone to like. The Blackwood Productions documentary Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis is an accessible introduction. Portland's Mizu at Headwaters theater is retiring. Seattle's Daipan Butoh has events several times a year.
Modern dance and neuroscience talk online. It is https://www.arts-and-social-change.de/virtuelle-kurzvortraege/ which your browser can translate. They are using Microsoft Team viewer. Teams Meeting-ID: 388 741 885 184 Code: yC9wdR.. 8:30AM Pacific time. Free
Then I discovered butoh through Sankai Juku and a Montreal performer with Zoviet France.
That Montreal performer combined butoh, Hindu temple dance and Hawaiian dance in her own style. It was a big impact on me. I had to speak to her and did. Her first language was French, and I have no French. But backstage she told this story I relate as shorthand for the koan that is butoh. Her teacher had this image. Imagine your body as only its bones. The bones are made of glass. In each joint is a flower. Improvise on that.
To Sankai Juku, unbeknownst to me, a friend was the producer of Sankai Juku in Pioneer Square, Seattle. My exposure to Sankai Juku was the second in their comeback post-Pioneer Square. At the end of the performance I felt an imediate visceral response across my scalp of chills and sparks; the entire audience was up in a standing ovation. It was not the usual few and checking to see if you should join the ovation. There was a collective rise by everyone. Somehow Pioneer Square was subliminally encoded in their performance. I did not even know that story at the time.
I always try to see Sankai Juku in Seattle because the audience has a strong emotional relationship. You feel it in the audience. I went on to study butoh in the flesh in Seattle, Japan, Portland, and San Francisco and see performances in each adding NYC and Denver.
Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ is a French butoh player in NYC. She has written a book on feminism, neuroscience https://www.vangeline.com/research, and butoh. It is a good read and complement to my discussion with Kazuo Ohno in Kyoto.
He said that the male originators were so engrossed in creation, they could not comprehend how women performers would bring their body experience to it. They were discovering butoh in their own male bodies.
Women did and do, ongoing. Many of us know trans persons who will bring their own to movement.
Even in the early days women such as Nakajima Natsu who works with intellectually disabled performers today; Yoko Ashikawa who brought a warm tone to butoh - she suggested an image our senile grandmother; Hiroko Tamano, who brings the darkest images to cute; Eiko Otake from NYC, who had a live-work in the World Trace Center and made free commemorative performance from that - she also suggests, with family, teach them to pretend to be sleeping to get them to sleep, then in butoh, dance as if you are asleep; Yumiko Yoshioka bringing butoh to a castle in Japan. I've studied with each. There are many American and international women in butoh. The Tamano legendary sushi restaurant, I patronzed in the Mission, and their home, was creative cradle to many female butoh friends.
One of my favorates, Dairakudakan is half women performers. I will travel to see them, have done, and have taken a workshop with Maro which challened me. I was also Portland host to Akira Kasai.
For whatever reason, Portland dance producers have been allergic to butoh. Bringing a group from Japan is expensive, but Seattle, SF, LA, Denver, NYC, and Vancouver BC do it.
Today Vangeline gives a free Internet talk - "Where the arts meet neuroscience - A virtual expert talk with Prof. Dr. Judith Revers and artist Vangeline."
"What happens inside our bodies and minds while performing and participating in the arts, and what are the mental and psychological benefits of it? In this last virtual lecture of the year, Prof. Dr. Judith Revers, Medical School Hamburg, dives into the field of performance art and dance with New York-based artist Vangeline, who’s involved in artistic research with neuroscientific methods around the Japanese artform Butoh. Together, they will be investigating interdisciplinary research in Arts and Neurosciences and its implications for the Arts Therapies."
"The Slowest Wave/Butoh and The Brain is an art-science performance-research study. This new study investigates the brain dynamics of dancers while they are performing Butoh, a postmodern dance style that originated in Japan, through the use of electroencephalography (EEG) to record the participants’ brain waves. The study is a collaboration between the New York-based Vangeline Theater dance company, the Laboratory for Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems, IUCRC BRAIN Center, The Rockefeller University, and the Neurobiology of Social Communication Lab (funded by the City University of New York, Rockefeller University and New York University). In collaboration with neuroscientists Sadye Paez and Constantina Theofanopoulou, neuro engineer Jose ‘Pepe’ Contreras-Vidal, and composer Ray Sweeten, Vangeline choreographed a 60-minute ensemble butoh piece, which is uniquely informed by the protocol established for a scientific pilot study researching the impact of butoh on brain activity. For the groundbreaking art-science study, dancers' brain activity will be recorded at the University of Houston, Texas, with real-time visualization by multimedia artist Badie Khaleghian of the dancers' neural activity. Results will then be disseminated in scientific journals.
Vangeline and Sweeten have built on a 20-year history of creative collaboration with a soundscape that is informed by techniques of brainwave entrainment (techniques that affect consciousness through sound). The Slowest Wave investigates through the use of scalp EEG how brain waves during butoh dancing compare to those emitted during other conscious or unconscious motor behaviors, such as speaking or meditating. Moreover, the study will elucidate the functional neural networks of the dancers and the neural synchrony within and between them. This project is meant to foster connections and understanding between dancers, artists, scientists, engineers, and audiences from around the world."
Butoh is not for everyone to like. The Blackwood Productions documentary Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis is an accessible introduction. Portland's Mizu at Headwaters theater is retiring. Seattle's Daipan Butoh has events several times a year.
Modern dance and neuroscience talk online. It is https://www.arts-and-social-change.de/virtuelle-kurzvortraege/ which your browser can translate. They are using Microsoft Team viewer. Teams Meeting-ID: 388 741 885 184 Code: yC9wdR.. 8:30AM Pacific time. Free
Thursday, December 07, 2023
December 7 Westside Art Openings+
Leach continues shows. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Russo-Lee has a group show. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Paul Missal and Eddie Reed have paintings. Missal was a cofounder of blackfish and trained generations of painters at PNCA; they have two group shows too. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Ada Trillo has La Caravana Del Diablo, documenting the Honduran exmigration to Texas. She gives a gallery talk at 6 tonight. The late Zaharia Cușnir left a film archive exposed in Moldova 1950-1980. Moldova is South and West of Ukrane and North of Romania. Most countries relished independence from the Soviet Union, including Moldova. It is bordered by the wierd proxy immaginary country of Transnistria.
Bill Will os a great sculptor installationis provocateur at the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has Marci Marsden bright impressionist plant paintings. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
There is a group show at www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Arless Day has paintings of interior settings. Ad-man turned artistic provocateur has Two Wars in One. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
What the Crow Knows is an archive show from the late Native American artist Rick Bartow. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
After/Time has paintings by Gina Herrera, After Image. At After/Time Collective www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
It is strange to me when competing events schedule against well established events events by their friends. You can look up the next cycle Precipice Fund announcement and party on the PICA website.
Russo-Lee has a group show. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Paul Missal and Eddie Reed have paintings. Missal was a cofounder of blackfish and trained generations of painters at PNCA; they have two group shows too. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Ada Trillo has La Caravana Del Diablo, documenting the Honduran exmigration to Texas. She gives a gallery talk at 6 tonight. The late Zaharia Cușnir left a film archive exposed in Moldova 1950-1980. Moldova is South and West of Ukrane and North of Romania. Most countries relished independence from the Soviet Union, including Moldova. It is bordered by the wierd proxy immaginary country of Transnistria.
Bill Will os a great sculptor installationis provocateur at the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has Marci Marsden bright impressionist plant paintings. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
There is a group show at www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Arless Day has paintings of interior settings. Ad-man turned artistic provocateur has Two Wars in One. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
What the Crow Knows is an archive show from the late Native American artist Rick Bartow. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
After/Time has paintings by Gina Herrera, After Image. At After/Time Collective www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
It is strange to me when competing events schedule against well established events events by their friends. You can look up the next cycle Precipice Fund announcement and party on the PICA website.
Saturday, December 02, 2023
December 3 Heaven Earth Sand
Nona Faustine has photographs She was a culmination of all things in Heaven and Earth. They are from her series White Shoes spanning 2012 to 2021 and her series Mitochondria.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/em-nona-faustine-em 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 2PM-5 Free
Naoshi https://nao-shi.com/ is a Japanese artist in LA. She came to Portland with the always excellent Hellion Gallery. She makes sunae, sand paintings. You can think of them as Tibetian sand mandallas with kawai themes and the colorful sand glued down. She brings a book, and offers a sand art workshop. Details - nucleusportland.com.Everything you need will be provided. You can choose 1 of 3 designs at the event.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/em-nona-faustine-em 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 2PM-5 Free
Naoshi https://nao-shi.com/ is a Japanese artist in LA. She came to Portland with the always excellent Hellion Gallery. She makes sunae, sand paintings. You can think of them as Tibetian sand mandallas with kawai themes and the colorful sand glued down. She brings a book, and offers a sand art workshop. Details - nucleusportland.com.Everything you need will be provided. You can choose 1 of 3 designs at the event.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 1PM-4 Free
December 2 On A Journey After Outer
Of course we need small works of arts and crafts by Shelley Turley, Alison Jean Cole, Chanel Conklin, Midori Hirose, Erica Eyres, Jackie Stewart, Stephanie Simek, Elmeater Morton, Julia Barbie, Jake Deering, Anne Greenwood, Martha Daghlian, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Olga Soft, Jessica Hickey, Beck Alfaro, Noah Greene, Andy Heck Boyd, Petra Poffenberger, Lena Lutz, Ruby Webb and more.
They have them at Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 11AM-4PM Free
Neo baroque ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell opens Elefant Medium. It's at PDX Contemporary. They require an email RSVP to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
On Kawara is a Japanese minimal conceptual artist who lived from 1932 to 2014, including New York in the 1960s. https://www.guggenheim.org/video/on-kawara-date-paintings is an example. Julie Perini https://julieperini.com/ is a local filmmaker minted at Cornell and SUNY Buffalo. She has a special focus on social justice; she got to see it not working up close in the tragic Critical Art Ensemble case. The Critical Art Ensemble came across the Northwest radar as part of the Henry Gene(sis) show https://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/henry_art_gallery_case_study.pdf curated by the excellent Robin Held who posted a few years at the Schnitzer Collection at Washington State University Pullman.
It all comes home with an event presented by Zena Zezza - Sandra Percival. She is an international curator who came to Portland to lead the Yale Union https://yaleunion.org/ pre-the building being gifted to the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/center-for-native-arts-and-cultures.
Perini will speak about On Kawara at the Zena Zezza collection today at 4, followed by a reenactment of Kawara's One Million Years (Future) performance at 5. Perini does daily videos as Kawara made daily paintings.
Probably the art event today with the most protein, Perini on On Kawara at Zena Zezza zenazezza.org, 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-6, talk 4, performance 5. Free
Ralph Pugay has new paintings, The Longest Journey, opening today.
They definitely wins the copywriting award of the day: "From vampires pumping iron to ravers being airlifted to safety by helicopters, to a group of meditators battling each other at a meditation competition, Pugay paints his errant thoughts and draws his non-linear narratives to extreme ends. The title of the exhibition, The Longest Journey, is a metaphor for self-discovery and has been referenced in literature and in movies, as well as in a video game from the late 1990s where the protagonist maneuvers between realities. In this exhibition, Pugay considers the tropic quality of the phrase with its range of meaning and use—something that, for Pugay, is critical to understanding the interplay between the flow of information and human perception as he considers the effects of the external world and its technologies on our internal world, our daydreams, and our relationships.
Pugay’s painted propositions are the result of the artist’s careful study of the human condition—particularly religion, specifically Catholicism, and history; his curiosity with contemporary culture as filtered through TikTok and other social media; and his critical engagement with ideas of class, race, gender and queer culture. The resulting works are characterized by bright colors, playful compositions, and patterning. Our popular trends, viral news stories, consumer fads, and all other manner of social phenomena are poignantly examined with great clarity and humor, locating the moments of tension in the collective unconscious."
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free
Josh Stover, Portland artist and sign painter of studio Variety opens After Hours. They are Portland nightscapes after closing. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Oregon Contemporary has musical performances along with their currently-running shows. Jamondria Harris brings project Meroitic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8NtfKba7Os and Christi Denton brings a 4 channel project. They will be emplaced with Marcus Fischer's What Was Lost and What Remains themed on mass shootings and the Nat Turner Project: Drinking Gourd Fellowship 2.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8, performance 6 Free
Jessi DiTillio has curated a group show, A Very Queer Thing. They are competing for the copywriting award you can read at https://www.wellwellprojects.com/a-very-queer-thing.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Carnation has a group show. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is new arriver to the space, and have gathered a node of artists to watch. They have a performance and video in the Platform space nee Marie Watt's studio from 3PM-4. Their gallery space in Studio 4 will be open their regular hours with Show 01 by Claire Barrera, Roland Dahwen, Erin Boberg Doughton, Rubén García Marrufo, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, and Qi You.
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . Noon-5 Free
If after that, if you have the capability for more visal stimulation, Blue Moon has their annual customer show. Blue Moon is a mecca for vintage film photography. They sell film, old cameras, and they develop and print film. They also have typewriters. From their developing flow, they print images they like and display hundreds at this show.
It is spread across 45th Parallel Wines, Revolutions Bookshop, and Leisure Public House. 45th Parallel Wines 8527 N Lombard, Revolutions Bookshop 8713 N Lombard; and Leisure Public House. The show is 7PM-9, and 45th Parallel Wines goes to 11. Free
They have them at Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 11AM-4PM Free
Neo baroque ceramicist Jeffry Mitchell opens Elefant Medium. It's at PDX Contemporary. They require an email RSVP to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
On Kawara is a Japanese minimal conceptual artist who lived from 1932 to 2014, including New York in the 1960s. https://www.guggenheim.org/video/on-kawara-date-paintings is an example. Julie Perini https://julieperini.com/ is a local filmmaker minted at Cornell and SUNY Buffalo. She has a special focus on social justice; she got to see it not working up close in the tragic Critical Art Ensemble case. The Critical Art Ensemble came across the Northwest radar as part of the Henry Gene(sis) show https://www.americansforthearts.org/sites/default/files/henry_art_gallery_case_study.pdf curated by the excellent Robin Held who posted a few years at the Schnitzer Collection at Washington State University Pullman.
It all comes home with an event presented by Zena Zezza - Sandra Percival. She is an international curator who came to Portland to lead the Yale Union https://yaleunion.org/ pre-the building being gifted to the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/center-for-native-arts-and-cultures.
Perini will speak about On Kawara at the Zena Zezza collection today at 4, followed by a reenactment of Kawara's One Million Years (Future) performance at 5. Perini does daily videos as Kawara made daily paintings.
Probably the art event today with the most protein, Perini on On Kawara at Zena Zezza zenazezza.org, 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-6, talk 4, performance 5. Free
Ralph Pugay has new paintings, The Longest Journey, opening today.
They definitely wins the copywriting award of the day: "From vampires pumping iron to ravers being airlifted to safety by helicopters, to a group of meditators battling each other at a meditation competition, Pugay paints his errant thoughts and draws his non-linear narratives to extreme ends. The title of the exhibition, The Longest Journey, is a metaphor for self-discovery and has been referenced in literature and in movies, as well as in a video game from the late 1990s where the protagonist maneuvers between realities. In this exhibition, Pugay considers the tropic quality of the phrase with its range of meaning and use—something that, for Pugay, is critical to understanding the interplay between the flow of information and human perception as he considers the effects of the external world and its technologies on our internal world, our daydreams, and our relationships.
Pugay’s painted propositions are the result of the artist’s careful study of the human condition—particularly religion, specifically Catholicism, and history; his curiosity with contemporary culture as filtered through TikTok and other social media; and his critical engagement with ideas of class, race, gender and queer culture. The resulting works are characterized by bright colors, playful compositions, and patterning. Our popular trends, viral news stories, consumer fads, and all other manner of social phenomena are poignantly examined with great clarity and humor, locating the moments of tension in the collective unconscious."
At Adams and Ollman Gallery, the second of four members of the New Art Dealers Alliance newartdealers.org/members, www.adamsandollman.com 418 NW 8th 1PM-4 Free
Josh Stover, Portland artist and sign painter of studio Variety opens After Hours. They are Portland nightscapes after closing. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Oregon Contemporary has musical performances along with their currently-running shows. Jamondria Harris brings project Meroitic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8NtfKba7Os and Christi Denton brings a 4 channel project. They will be emplaced with Marcus Fischer's What Was Lost and What Remains themed on mass shootings and the Nat Turner Project: Drinking Gourd Fellowship 2.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8, performance 6 Free
Jessi DiTillio has curated a group show, A Very Queer Thing. They are competing for the copywriting award you can read at https://www.wellwellprojects.com/a-very-queer-thing.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Carnation has a group show. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is new arriver to the space, and have gathered a node of artists to watch. They have a performance and video in the Platform space nee Marie Watt's studio from 3PM-4. Their gallery space in Studio 4 will be open their regular hours with Show 01 by Claire Barrera, Roland Dahwen, Erin Boberg Doughton, Rubén García Marrufo, Sarah Rushford, Ash Stone, and Qi You.
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . Noon-5 Free
If after that, if you have the capability for more visal stimulation, Blue Moon has their annual customer show. Blue Moon is a mecca for vintage film photography. They sell film, old cameras, and they develop and print film. They also have typewriters. From their developing flow, they print images they like and display hundreds at this show.
It is spread across 45th Parallel Wines, Revolutions Bookshop, and Leisure Public House. 45th Parallel Wines 8527 N Lombard, Revolutions Bookshop 8713 N Lombard; and Leisure Public House. The show is 7PM-9, and 45th Parallel Wines goes to 11. Free
December 2-3 Marine Art Layer
The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons for renting space for artist studios.
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 10AM-4 Free
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 10AM-4 Free
Friday, December 01, 2023
December 1 The Fridays
Back from Covid readers may enjoy open studios at the Falcon Art Community. 5415 N Albina 5:30PM-9:30 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; 1FPDX is their insta, there are many possibilities. Chefas and Pushdot are some. Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; 1FPDX is their insta, there are many possibilities. Chefas and Pushdot are some. Free
Thursday, November 30, 2023
November 30 NEside Art Openings+
On the plus side, PSU is coming out of Covid with open studios. In the art building 2000 SW 5th. 4PM-6 Free
Blind insect has a group show by Jaimee Lee, Julie Forbes, Wyatt Pottorff, Stephanie Hatch, Staci Gundry, Cambria Kasten, Joan Callaway, Marina, Soumya Jayaraman, Anna Hothai, John Seng, Sheeja Ranjit, Christopher DeGon, Marieke Mertz, Claire Roig, Orquidia Violeta, Levant Karayalim, Amy Daileda, Antonia Gustaitis, Carol Armstrong-Iovanovici, and Carol Raphael. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 6PM-8
Jesus Benitezf from Mexico has a print show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta Noon-5 Free
Stephanie Brown has a show along with local tattoo artists Lo Gonsalves, David Tattselhoff, Spectral Gardens, and Meg Adamson. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-8 Feee
Blind insect has a group show by Jaimee Lee, Julie Forbes, Wyatt Pottorff, Stephanie Hatch, Staci Gundry, Cambria Kasten, Joan Callaway, Marina, Soumya Jayaraman, Anna Hothai, John Seng, Sheeja Ranjit, Christopher DeGon, Marieke Mertz, Claire Roig, Orquidia Violeta, Levant Karayalim, Amy Daileda, Antonia Gustaitis, Carol Armstrong-Iovanovici, and Carol Raphael. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 6PM-8
Jesus Benitezf from Mexico has a print show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta Noon-5 Free
Stephanie Brown has a show along with local tattoo artists Lo Gonsalves, David Tattselhoff, Spectral Gardens, and Meg Adamson. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-8 Feee
Friday, November 17, 2023
November 19 Sampling the Style of a Continent
Africa is a continent, not a country. Within there are over three thousand ethnicities. Whenever you see straight line on a map, it's a mistake. That doesn't even take into account nomadic people.
America ammuses itself to death in its own media bubble. African countries have journalists and observers of the local culture; our media deems them unreliable or uninteresting; so we see and hear little. Even if we had that, you have to put your feet on the ground, open your eyes and ears, smell the smells, and feel the weather. Listen and ask open-ended questions. Listen to people's dreams.
One outstanding example of Portlanders doing the work is Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. He has traveled that region collecting music people carry on their feature phones. He did a great show collecting posters on the Azawad independence movement people make in the graphics editors on those phones for the Portland Museum of Modern Art. He did a remake of the Film Purple Rain with local actors and musicians. See it, you can find it in the African Films collection at PCC Cascade.
The Portland Art Museum has done a good job the last few years updating its mojo. An example is a new show sampling African Fashion.
The curator gives a talk this afternoon. She is Christine Checinska, joining us from the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. Details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/making-africa-fashion/. You can reserve a ticket from that link that includes museum admission to see the show. At the Portland Art Museum in the Masonic Temple Building ballroom 1219 SW Park 2PM-3:30
America ammuses itself to death in its own media bubble. African countries have journalists and observers of the local culture; our media deems them unreliable or uninteresting; so we see and hear little. Even if we had that, you have to put your feet on the ground, open your eyes and ears, smell the smells, and feel the weather. Listen and ask open-ended questions. Listen to people's dreams.
One outstanding example of Portlanders doing the work is Chris Kirkley, DJ Sahel Sounds. He has traveled that region collecting music people carry on their feature phones. He did a great show collecting posters on the Azawad independence movement people make in the graphics editors on those phones for the Portland Museum of Modern Art. He did a remake of the Film Purple Rain with local actors and musicians. See it, you can find it in the African Films collection at PCC Cascade.
The Portland Art Museum has done a good job the last few years updating its mojo. An example is a new show sampling African Fashion.
The curator gives a talk this afternoon. She is Christine Checinska, joining us from the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK. Details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/making-africa-fashion/. You can reserve a ticket from that link that includes museum admission to see the show. At the Portland Art Museum in the Masonic Temple Building ballroom 1219 SW Park 2PM-3:30
November 18 Applied Entangled Design
In addition to their regular show, Nationale has a project room pop-up by Irina Flore and Bilge Nur Saltik, Entangled Dimensions: Shape of Connection. It's functional sculptures, textiles, and design objects.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 3PM-5 Free
PNCA Willamette opens their Visual Studies and Applied Craft + Design MFA studios for a mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
At Nationale
PNCA Willamette opens their Visual Studies and Applied Craft + Design MFA studios for a mid-program readout. It's always fun to see artist studios, even when they have been cleaned up for visitors!
Open Studios at the Albina glass factory 2139 N Kerby. 5PM-8 Free
November 17 Time Cloud
It Is Our Time by Latoya Lovely opens. At 6 Latoya Lovely and Amenta Abioto perform. At Souvenier Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Cloud X, collage, painting, and textiles. It's "off kilter realities laced with social commentary," themed on "warped experiences regarding relationships, home, pleasure, excess, falsehood, jealousy, and the engrained and naive ways in which we compare ourselves to those around us." Perfectly post pandemic mass media crisis? Let's hope Alpha avoids this and solves all the world problems. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Leslie Vigeant has Cloud X, collage, painting, and textiles. It's "off kilter realities laced with social commentary," themed on "warped experiences regarding relationships, home, pleasure, excess, falsehood, jealousy, and the engrained and naive ways in which we compare ourselves to those around us." Perfectly post pandemic mass media crisis? Let's hope Alpha avoids this and solves all the world problems. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
November 17-19 Seattle Butoh Festival
Butoh is a strange dance performance style. Up in Seattle they are having a 3 day festival of performance and workshops. Events https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/seattlebutohfestival at Yaw Theaterin Seattle Georgetown 6520 5th Ave S 8PM $20-25
Friday, November 10, 2023
November 11 Bones Moan Glint Still Life
The show I Am A City of Bones opens. It is Dylan Beckman, Morgan Buck, Corinne Hamilton, Timothy Yanick Hunter, Juliana Huxtable, Mona Kowalska, Jenine Marsh, Martin Soto Climent, Pace Taylor, and Isabel Yellin.
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-4 Free
Erika Warhus brings Glint. At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 5PM-8 Free
Hickory Mertsching has oil painted still lifes with early 20th Century midwest themes.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 1PM-4 Free
Erika Warhus brings Glint. At A Sometimes Gallery 687 N Tillamook 5PM-8 Free
Hickory Mertsching has oil painted still lifes with early 20th Century midwest themes.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, November 04, 2023
November 4 Northside Eastside Westside Openings+
No excuses of sun to see art today.
Anya Roberts-Toney has Water Witch Moon Mother. At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 1PM-3 Free
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of the Sibyl. She had a pink altspace and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free (postponed)
James Lavadour brings Planet Waves, landscape works on paper. Along with Elemental Things, 2d, by Heather Watkins. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
Illustrator Eliza Ivanova is back with painter Sean Mahan. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Nat Turner Project’s Drinking Gourd Fellowship has a readout. Sound artist Marcus Fischer has an installation themed on mass shootings, Mass, part of a larger retrospective What Was Lost and What Remains, and is doing a live performance at 6. Their website has more detail.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Seattle has lovely art spaces. Tyna Onkto, Mel Carter, Sara Osebold, Stefan Gonzales, Peter Christenson, and Francesca Lohmann visit from the Vestibule space in far Ballard. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Kyle Adam Kalev Peets and Matthew Earl Williams have Earthbound, conceptual landscapes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Anya Roberts-Toney has Water Witch Moon Mother. At Nationale
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of the Sibyl. She had a pink altspace and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 2PM-4 Free (postponed)
James Lavadour brings Planet Waves, landscape works on paper. Along with Elemental Things, 2d, by Heather Watkins. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free
Illustrator Eliza Ivanova is back with painter Sean Mahan. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Nat Turner Project’s Drinking Gourd Fellowship has a readout. Sound artist Marcus Fischer has an installation themed on mass shootings, Mass, part of a larger retrospective What Was Lost and What Remains, and is doing a live performance at 6. Their website has more detail.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Seattle has lovely art spaces. Tyna Onkto, Mel Carter, Sara Osebold, Stefan Gonzales, Peter Christenson, and Francesca Lohmann visit from the Vestibule space in far Ballard. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Kyle Adam Kalev Peets and Matthew Earl Williams have Earthbound, conceptual landscapes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, November 03, 2023
November 3 Eastside Art Openings
There is a large annual show of post card size art. 5"x7" $110. Artist list and links https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/power-in-numbers-8-postcard-show. Collect them all and win! At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; there are many possibilities. Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials; there are many possibilities. Free
Thursday, November 02, 2023
November 2 Westside Art Openings
Portland artists Malia Jensen and Stephen Hayes represent. Malia Jensen is known for 3d works from salt licks to bronze with ceramics in between. She is also known for the plywood stack giant beaver in the W+K lobby. Hayes is known for bucolic landcsape paintings. Melody Owen has collages based on bio-themes. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Lisa Jarrett has paintings and mixed media on black hair, It Cut A Sky, along with impressionistic figure paintings by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Te Busca Mi Corazon by Angennette Escobar are mythical-folklore-themed paintings; Sounds from Tom and Neko are prints by Gene Flores; What It Is is a group show of Blackfish artists complementing their studio clearing popup November 5. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
En Foco is a long-running curatorial and residency project in NYC that Blue Sky ias joined as collaborator. This month has artist guested from En Foco. Danny Aros-Aguilar has Sandunga Nunca Muere. Carmen Lizardo has To Swallow a River. M.O.E. is a photographer out of Portland's outstanding KSMOCA. Yes!
Influencers is a show of loose landscape paintings by Renée Zangara. She had a large landscape in the Biomass show. At the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block had Jess Hope Curran with bright abstract paintings Tales of the Sea and Ancestors. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Tender Paths is a four artist residency redout at Stello tonight. The artists speak at 6PM so you can know who they are and what they do. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
The Black Gallery closes their Hip Hop Lives The Remix! At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com 5PM-8 Free
Christian Burchard has sculptures, A Case of Bibliophilia. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Photohrapher Stu Levy has Once in a You Get Shown the Light. Hibiki Miyazaki has prints and drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Love Letter From A Shapeshifter is paintings by Orlando Almanza. at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
Lisa Jarrett has paintings and mixed media on black hair, It Cut A Sky, along with impressionistic figure paintings by Elizabeth Malaska. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Te Busca Mi Corazon by Angennette Escobar are mythical-folklore-themed paintings; Sounds from Tom and Neko are prints by Gene Flores; What It Is is a group show of Blackfish artists complementing their studio clearing popup November 5. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
En Foco is a long-running curatorial and residency project in NYC that Blue Sky ias joined as collaborator. This month has artist guested from En Foco. Danny Aros-Aguilar has Sandunga Nunca Muere. Carmen Lizardo has To Swallow a River. M.O.E. is a photographer out of Portland's outstanding KSMOCA. Yes!
Influencers is a show of loose landscape paintings by Renée Zangara. She had a large landscape in the Biomass show. At the Nine Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block had Jess Hope Curran with bright abstract paintings Tales of the Sea and Ancestors. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Tender Paths is a four artist residency redout at Stello tonight. The artists speak at 6PM so you can know who they are and what they do. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
The Black Gallery closes their Hip Hop Lives The Remix! At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com 5PM-8 Free
Christian Burchard has sculptures, A Case of Bibliophilia. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Photohrapher Stu Levy has Once in a You Get Shown the Light. Hibiki Miyazaki has prints and drawings. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Love Letter From A Shapeshifter is paintings by Orlando Almanza. at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Some Everett Station spaces were open last month.
Friday, October 27, 2023
October 27 Family
Joe Feddersen opens Extended Family mixed media graphic works on paper. 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 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
October 26 Landscape
Painter Lisa Yuskavage speaks with Jarrett Earnest and Christian Viveros-Fauné
as part of the Converge 45 project. Earnest and Yuskavage curated the paintings of Jesse Murry (1948–1993) at the Cooley Gallery now. He is an abstract landscape painter and writer. Yuskavage was one of the artists curated by Linda Ferris into the Seattle Contemporary Art Project, now in the Seattle Art Museum collection. Portland Art Museum is behind with only 2 works on paper. In the 1980s, some of the art world rebelled against the Reagan Wall Street inorganic art boom by bringing outsider art into the American gallery and museum world. In that movement, Murry wrote a seminal essay on artist Howard Finster and curated his work for a show at the New Museum. https://d2b8urneelikat.cloudfront.net/media/collectiveaccess/images/6/3/59637_ca_object_representations_media_6333_original.pdf
See the show in the Cooley at 5PM, talk at the Reed chapel, Eliot Hall 6, refreshments after. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
See the show in the Cooley at 5PM, talk at the Reed chapel, Eliot Hall 6, refreshments after. At Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
October 25 Shriek
Shriek of Color is a show opening today. For the opening feel free to channel color!
At the Lobby At Ellen Browning https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/the-lobby/ 2871 SE Division Street. 6PM-8 Free
At the Lobby At Ellen Browning https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/the-lobby/ 2871 SE Division Street. 6PM-8 Free
Saturday, October 21, 2023
October 21 Harvest Lone Vampire Meta Mural Psych Water
Cemetaries hold stories for time. Portland's Lone Fir Cemetary holds many families streets were named after. Block 14 is a city block size part of Lone Fir with the saddest history.
It held unnamed graves of people who died at the Hawthorne Hospital, predecessor to the State Hospital. It's debatable which is sadder, the buried there or the unclaimed remains left at the State Hospital in the library of dust. https://davidmaisel.com/works/library-of-dust/ It also holds the sad story of Chinese laborers. Solo men who did not fit into the mercantile class of the last dynasty journeyed East to work in the West in mines, building railroads, farming, and in professions like laundry. When they passed, they were buried in Lone Fir. Filmmaker Ivy Lin documented attempts to return the remains to families in China post facto in Come Together Home https://vimeo.com/6226018. Proper burial is important in Chinese culture and this was not that.
At a point Multnomah County disinterred some of Block 14's remains and built a maintenance building over it. As the building decayed, the county planned to auction the land for apartments. Now it is the "empty" section of the cemetary. There have been several artist residencies including Micki Skudlarczyk's cast sugar boats referencing the Chinese remains traveling back home.
A memorial and contemplative garden is being designed for Block 14. Your participation is welcome in person https://www.oregonmetro.gov/events/information-session-cultural-heritage-and-healing-garden-lone-fir-cemetery/2023-10-21 11AM-1 Free
Camp Caldera was the project and passion of the late Dan Wieden. They have public open houses sometimes. This one is a Fall festival - https://www.calderaarts.org/hearthfestival - at Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 11AM – 6PM Free
Bébé Vampire is paintings by Erica Eyres, Camila Oliveria Fairclough and Noah Greene plus collages by Jackie Stewart.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 2PM-5 Free
Emily Ginsburg has Metabolic, colorful put together ceramic forms. She is known for her longtime video work.
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free
Steven Paul Judd is Kiowa and Choctaw. He is a multiartist, film, writing, amd visual art. He is making a coda of his residency with an afternoon in conversation and collaboration with youth artists to make a mural, then an all ages talk. You have to register in advance for the thing at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-afternoon-with-steven-paul-judd-tickets-737584845127. At Bodecker Foundation https://bodeckerfoundation.org/ 2360 N.W. Quimby Map Youth collaboration 1PM-3, all ages talk and reception 4PM-6 Free
Auxart is a project by Philip Krohn nee behind the Bear Deluxe. He is back with large scale sculptures plus experimental soundscape collaborations. A raft of collaborators build them with reused and reusable materials. High Water fills the Building Five space for about a month. It has regular open times to just experience and musical collaboration events, some ticketed. Check their socials fo hours until November 12. High Water https://www.auxart.net/high-water at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th various times mostly free
Neolith, Starchild, Bloom Offering and Tengger bring music in an intimate space. Tengger is a family of ambient experimental psych musicians with harmonium, voice, synth and toy instruments. They travel to little Portland all the way from Seoul for their first North American Tour. Tengger.net and friends at Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map Doors 7PM, musics 7:30 $5-20
It held unnamed graves of people who died at the Hawthorne Hospital, predecessor to the State Hospital. It's debatable which is sadder, the buried there or the unclaimed remains left at the State Hospital in the library of dust. https://davidmaisel.com/works/library-of-dust/ It also holds the sad story of Chinese laborers. Solo men who did not fit into the mercantile class of the last dynasty journeyed East to work in the West in mines, building railroads, farming, and in professions like laundry. When they passed, they were buried in Lone Fir. Filmmaker Ivy Lin documented attempts to return the remains to families in China post facto in Come Together Home https://vimeo.com/6226018. Proper burial is important in Chinese culture and this was not that.
At a point Multnomah County disinterred some of Block 14's remains and built a maintenance building over it. As the building decayed, the county planned to auction the land for apartments. Now it is the "empty" section of the cemetary. There have been several artist residencies including Micki Skudlarczyk's cast sugar boats referencing the Chinese remains traveling back home.
A memorial and contemplative garden is being designed for Block 14. Your participation is welcome in person https://www.oregonmetro.gov/events/information-session-cultural-heritage-and-healing-garden-lone-fir-cemetery/2023-10-21 11AM-1 Free
Camp Caldera was the project and passion of the late Dan Wieden. They have public open houses sometimes. This one is a Fall festival - https://www.calderaarts.org/hearthfestival - at Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR Map 11AM – 6PM Free
Bébé Vampire is paintings by Erica Eyres, Camila Oliveria Fairclough and Noah Greene plus collages by Jackie Stewart.
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street Opening today. 2PM-5 Free
Emily Ginsburg has Metabolic, colorful put together ceramic forms. She is known for her longtime video work.
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-4 Free
Steven Paul Judd is Kiowa and Choctaw. He is a multiartist, film, writing, amd visual art. He is making a coda of his residency with an afternoon in conversation and collaboration with youth artists to make a mural, then an all ages talk. You have to register in advance for the thing at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-afternoon-with-steven-paul-judd-tickets-737584845127. At Bodecker Foundation https://bodeckerfoundation.org/ 2360 N.W. Quimby Map Youth collaboration 1PM-3, all ages talk and reception 4PM-6 Free
Auxart is a project by Philip Krohn nee behind the Bear Deluxe. He is back with large scale sculptures plus experimental soundscape collaborations. A raft of collaborators build them with reused and reusable materials. High Water fills the Building Five space for about a month. It has regular open times to just experience and musical collaboration events, some ticketed. Check their socials fo hours until November 12. High Water https://www.auxart.net/high-water at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th various times mostly free
Neolith, Starchild, Bloom Offering and Tengger bring music in an intimate space. Tengger is a family of ambient experimental psych musicians with harmonium, voice, synth and toy instruments. They travel to little Portland all the way from Seoul for their first North American Tour. Tengger.net and friends at Xhurch xhurch.net 4550 NE 20th. Map Doors 7PM, musics 7:30 $5-20
Saturday, October 14, 2023
October 14 Gnew What
Addie Roanhorse is an Osage artist and graphic designer. She designed a blanket for Gnew, a Portland-based clothing and accessoris brand. Today she discusses that work. Her family is artists, she brings examples of blankets she has made by traditionally embroidering ribbon applique. She negotiated on behalf of the tribe with the producer and director of a new film Killers of the Flower Moon filmed on Osage land.
Marie Watt's neon piece, Chords to Other Chords (Relative), in a show curated by Converge 45, closes tomorrow. It has been acquired, so maybe we will see it again. Hopefully it will be open and powered this evening.
Talk https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/addie-roanhorse-event at the Center for Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 5PM-6:30 RSVP in the link Free
Wait what, by Matthew Li is functional art. It opens tonight at Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Marie Watt's neon piece, Chords to Other Chords (Relative), in a show curated by Converge 45, closes tomorrow. It has been acquired, so maybe we will see it again. Hopefully it will be open and powered this evening.
Talk https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/addie-roanhorse-event at the Center for Native Arts & Cultures https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/ 800 SE 10th (old YU building with a waterfall in the basement) 5PM-6:30 RSVP in the link Free
Wait what, by Matthew Li is functional art. It opens tonight at Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, October 07, 2023
October 7 Northside Art Openings+
The Lobby at the Ellen Browning is doing a kids and faimily event. At the Lobby At Ellen Browning https://ellenbrowningbuilding.com/the-lobby/ 2871 SE Division Noon-2 Free
Zena Zezza is back downtown. They are doing an archive show of visual and audio visual materials from Chantal Akerman, Ed Atkins, John Cage, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Ravon Chacon, Hanne Darboven, Tacita Dean, Constance De Jong, Stan Douglas, Fischli & Weiss, Theaster Gates, Rodney Graham, Sky Hopinka, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Paci, Allen Ruppersberg, Pipilotti Rist, Frances Stark, and others. See their website for more viewing times. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-5 Free
Amjad Faur has prints A Spell for Letting Go. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 2:30PM-4:30, Talk 3 Free
Kyu-Tae Lee has travel illustrations along with charcoal portraits by Sena Adjovi. Adjovi has a reception October 29. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Though OCAC suffered an untimely death, its artists survived. The last OCAC gallery curator Sam Hopple has 30 OCAC artists in a show. At X Gallery & Art Storage xgalleryart.com 815 SE Grant 6PM-9 Free
Oregon Contemporary and Converge 45 have Te Moana Meridian by Sam Hamilton from New Zealand. It proposes the prime meridian of longitude at Greenwich, UK be relocated to the sea at approximately the International Date Line 180 degrees longitude. There is a more elegant explanation on the Oregon Contemporary/Converge 45 websites. There will be an august panel discussing it at 6PM today local time, 1AM tomorrow GMT and 1PM tomprrow at the International Date Line West. The panel with the artist should be good.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Hyun Jung Jung has mixed media Emotions of Home. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Wild Peninsula: Color and Sound in North Portland is by collaborating textile artist Carolyn Hazel Drake, photographer Michael Brooks, and musician Eric Jordan. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Zena Zezza is back downtown. They are doing an archive show of visual and audio visual materials from Chantal Akerman, Ed Atkins, John Cage, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, Ravon Chacon, Hanne Darboven, Tacita Dean, Constance De Jong, Stan Douglas, Fischli & Weiss, Theaster Gates, Rodney Graham, Sky Hopinka, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Paci, Allen Ruppersberg, Pipilotti Rist, Frances Stark, and others. See their website for more viewing times. Zena Zezza zenazezza.org at 1857 Hallock McMillan building. It is the red door on SW Oak by SW Naito Parkway. 1PM-5 Free
Amjad Faur has prints A Spell for Letting Go. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 2:30PM-4:30, Talk 3 Free
Kyu-Tae Lee has travel illustrations along with charcoal portraits by Sena Adjovi. Adjovi has a reception October 29. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Though OCAC suffered an untimely death, its artists survived. The last OCAC gallery curator Sam Hopple has 30 OCAC artists in a show. At X Gallery & Art Storage xgalleryart.com 815 SE Grant 6PM-9 Free
Oregon Contemporary and Converge 45 have Te Moana Meridian by Sam Hamilton from New Zealand. It proposes the prime meridian of longitude at Greenwich, UK be relocated to the sea at approximately the International Date Line 180 degrees longitude. There is a more elegant explanation on the Oregon Contemporary/Converge 45 websites. There will be an august panel discussing it at 6PM today local time, 1AM tomorrow GMT and 1PM tomprrow at the International Date Line West. The panel with the artist should be good.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Hyun Jung Jung has mixed media Emotions of Home. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Wild Peninsula: Color and Sound in North Portland is by collaborating textile artist Carolyn Hazel Drake, photographer Michael Brooks, and musician Eric Jordan. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, October 06, 2023
October 6 Eastside Art Openings+
Sator Projects has disability artists Torea Frey, Teague N., Alexis Neumann, and Marie Conner. They have events scheduled until November 4. At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 5PM-8 Free
One Grand has Timme Lu from Portland with painting, prints and sculpture. Benjamin Ewig opens When We Met, bulbous sculptures and paintings. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
There is a cat themed show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials and for a beautiful night there are many possibilities. Free
The Republic Cafe has made a comeback as a cross between Hung Far Low and Satyricon. Tonight it's the monthly Satyricon Felini with Color and Sound in the Ming Lounge. Art, DJs, performance. 8PM-midnight $5-20
One Grand has Timme Lu from Portland with painting, prints and sculpture. Benjamin Ewig opens When We Met, bulbous sculptures and paintings. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
There is a cat themed show. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
The First Friday events are populated on their socials and for a beautiful night there are many possibilities. Free
The Republic Cafe has made a comeback as a cross between Hung Far Low and Satyricon. Tonight it's the monthly Satyricon Felini with Color and Sound in the Ming Lounge. Art, DJs, performance. 8PM-midnight $5-20
Thursday, October 05, 2023
October 5 Westside Art Openings+
Sean Healy has a new body of autobiographical monochrome painting-drawings, Lifer. Along with The Teckivy Nazdack, impressionist landscape paintings by Shane McAdams. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Kim Osgood has schematic botanical landscapes along with landscapes by Gabriel Liston. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Remembering, mixed-media paintings, by Clint Brown; In and Out of Darkness by Barbara Black and Linda Neufer are mixed media with text; Los Caprichos, something something BarbieTM, is by Monica Mitchell. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
In their building Garabatos is by Rodrigo Valenzuela and part of Converge45. Also part of Converge45 is work by Adriene Cruz, Jeremy Okai Davis, Patrick Hamilton, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Brian Maguire, and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. Claire Frances Spaulding has Quip n’ Craft: Bless this Niche "craft, kitsch, critique, and permanence." Fragmented Cantos//Returning Ensueño is mixed-media by Amoqiix-Araceli. Rosie Hebert & Eva Younkman have We Are All Made of Stars. High Stakes are oil stick drawings with a soundtrack by Bryce Frimming. Rotary 5 is a show by Megita Denton, Mychelle Moritz, Liz Borowski, Angel O’Brian, and Jolyn Fry themed on the telephone game.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge45.
Trude Parkinson has Plea, text-based work, accompanied by Terri Hopkins poetry at the Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has a band photography retrospective by Jason Quigley, with a DJ and acoustic. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
That would pair well with The Black Gallery, in the former Holding Contemporary space, retrospective on hip hop. You can contact them to RSVP to view. At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com and www.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ffirst-thursday-hip-hop-50-paint-and-sip-at-the-black-gallery-tickets-728574424717 916 NW Flanders. 6PM-9 $25
Stelo continues its Converge 45 show, ending Saturday. at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has schematic climate-themed paintings. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
You Ni Chae has paintings and Brad Mildrexler has sculptures 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 Free
Morgan Walker has mistical figurative paintings Watermelon Song and David Schell has geometric abstracts Casual Plans. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a 28th anniversary group sow, and opportunity to see their entire corpus. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
I believe PSU's Litman and White is has an event too tonight. W+K guests a market and event.
Plus, in the North, PCC Cascade's Paragon gallery has Volcano by Jen Sova. Reading 6:30PM At Paragonn Gallery 815 N Killingsworth 4PM-8 Free
Kim Osgood has schematic botanical landscapes along with landscapes by Gabriel Liston. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Remembering, mixed-media paintings, by Clint Brown; In and Out of Darkness by Barbara Black and Linda Neufer are mixed media with text; Los Caprichos, something something BarbieTM, is by Monica Mitchell. The whole show is on the website. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
PNCA-Willamette is reasserting its space in the First Thursday ecosystem. They are doing cross-promotions with other spaces throughout the month.
In their building Garabatos is by Rodrigo Valenzuela and part of Converge45. Also part of Converge45 is work by Adriene Cruz, Jeremy Okai Davis, Patrick Hamilton, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Brian Maguire, and Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen. Claire Frances Spaulding has Quip n’ Craft: Bless this Niche "craft, kitsch, critique, and permanence." Fragmented Cantos//Returning Ensueño is mixed-media by Amoqiix-Araceli. Rosie Hebert & Eva Younkman have We Are All Made of Stars. High Stakes are oil stick drawings with a soundtrack by Bryce Frimming. Rotary 5 is a show by Megita Denton, Mychelle Moritz, Liz Borowski, Angel O’Brian, and Jolyn Fry themed on the telephone game.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-9 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge45.
Trude Parkinson has Plea, text-based work, accompanied by Terri Hopkins poetry at the Nine Gallery
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 6PM-8 Early Close Free
Writers Block has a band photography retrospective by Jason Quigley, with a DJ and acoustic. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
That would pair well with The Black Gallery, in the former Holding Contemporary space, retrospective on hip hop. You can contact them to RSVP to view. At the Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com and www.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ffirst-thursday-hip-hop-50-paint-and-sip-at-the-black-gallery-tickets-728574424717 916 NW Flanders. 6PM-9 $25
Stelo continues its Converge 45 show, ending Saturday. at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has schematic climate-themed paintings. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
You Ni Chae has paintings and Brad Mildrexler has sculptures 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 Free
Morgan Walker has mistical figurative paintings Watermelon Song and David Schell has geometric abstracts Casual Plans. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a 28th anniversary group sow, and opportunity to see their entire corpus. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
I believe PSU's Litman and White is has an event too tonight. W+K guests a market and event.
Plus, in the North, PCC Cascade's Paragon gallery has Volcano by Jen Sova. Reading 6:30PM At Paragonn Gallery 815 N Killingsworth 4PM-8 Free
Sunday, October 01, 2023
October 1 Window Pomes
One of Portland's unique pandemic hapenings continues tonight. The weather is appropos. The street closes to listen to poems by Anis Mojgani Oregon’s Poet Laureate spoken from his apartment window. Bring warmies and something to sit on if you like. Sometimes you find similar outdoor neighborhod performances.
Livestream @themoraledept. In person at 3425 SE Yamhill 6:28PM Free
Livestream @themoraledept. In person at 3425 SE Yamhill 6:28PM Free
Sunday, September 24, 2023
September 24 Floating 'Trane
Feels Like Floating is a multi-city presenter of ambient and slow music. In LA they present Laraj. In Portland they send out music through the Leach Botanical Garden trees.
Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group Present: Turiya Loka inspired by the music of Alice Coltrane.
They will have a tent for rain rather than the tree bridge. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like, and rainwear for wandering the garden.
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recWSXibbimb0X41S At Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4PM-8 $22
Roman Norfleet and Be Present Art Group Present: Turiya Loka inspired by the music of Alice Coltrane.
They will have a tent for rain rather than the tree bridge. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like, and rainwear for wandering the garden.
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recWSXibbimb0X41S At Leach Botanical Garden 6704 SE 122nd 4PM-8 $22
Sunday, September 17, 2023
September 17 Sensation and Color
Many know the name Museum Art School, that changed to Pacific Northwest College of Art after a divorce. After a marriage it is now PNCA | Willamette - https://pnca.willamette.edu/. The Hallie Ford Museum at the Willamette Salem campus opens a 25 year retrospective of regional artists which is recommended.
The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ is launching four lectures, Women and Art in the 20th Century.
First is Prudence Roberts, noted local curator, formerly senior curator at the Portland Art Museum, consultant to marque collectors and a professor.
Her topic is We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Sonia Delaunay’s Multifaceted Career. Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was born in Odessa, Ukraine and lived in France as an artist. She was the first living female artist with a retrospective in the Louvre in 1964. Delaunay was part of the "avant-garde circles in the early 20th century" and recieved the French Legion of Honor at age 95. Delaunay participated in the Orphist movement influenced by French avant writers and forming a bridge between Cubism and Abstract Expresionism.
Talk https://events.willamette.edu/e/5169 at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ is launching four lectures, Women and Art in the 20th Century.
First is Prudence Roberts, noted local curator, formerly senior curator at the Portland Art Museum, consultant to marque collectors and a professor.
Her topic is We Will Go Right Up to the Sun: Sonia Delaunay’s Multifaceted Career. Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was born in Odessa, Ukraine and lived in France as an artist. She was the first living female artist with a retrospective in the Louvre in 1964. Delaunay was part of the "avant-garde circles in the early 20th century" and recieved the French Legion of Honor at age 95. Delaunay participated in the Orphist movement influenced by French avant writers and forming a bridge between Cubism and Abstract Expresionism.
Talk https://events.willamette.edu/e/5169 at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Saturday, September 09, 2023
September 9 Rewind
Rewind is a show of clothing art by Martha Daghlian and Jen LaMastra.
""History is slippery like satin. We wear stories of the past like a uniform, a costume, a suit of armor, or a disguise. Timelines unravel and are stitched together as memory or custom dictates.
LaMastra’s meticulously constructed garments are as playful as they are assertive, evoking the lineage of feminist art and pop cultural artifacts, in alignment with her ongoing practice of political “craftivism.”
In Daghlian’s haphazardly sewn pieces, European archetypes like the fool and the scholar are reanimated before a backdrop of patchworked historical imagery, encouraging a poetic disassembly of the past.
Both artists take unique approaches to transform soft and discarded materials into adornments for acts of resilience, resistance, and reimagination.""
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8, short performance 5:30 sharp Free
""History is slippery like satin. We wear stories of the past like a uniform, a costume, a suit of armor, or a disguise. Timelines unravel and are stitched together as memory or custom dictates.
LaMastra’s meticulously constructed garments are as playful as they are assertive, evoking the lineage of feminist art and pop cultural artifacts, in alignment with her ongoing practice of political “craftivism.”
In Daghlian’s haphazardly sewn pieces, European archetypes like the fool and the scholar are reanimated before a backdrop of patchworked historical imagery, encouraging a poetic disassembly of the past.
Both artists take unique approaches to transform soft and discarded materials into adornments for acts of resilience, resistance, and reimagination.""
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 5PM-8, short performance 5:30 sharp Free
September 9 - March 17 Black Artists of Oregon
Intisar Abioto is a multiartist in an art family. https://creativemornings.com/talks/intisar-abioto She is curator of a large exhibition of black visual artists, https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/.
She will speak at the museum today in a panel entitled Keeping Our Story with artists Adriene Cruz, Bobby Fouther, Richard Brown, and Isaka Shamsud-Din.
There is a talk September 14, black curator and art adminitrator panel: " Black Artists of Oregon curator Intisar Abioto will be in conversation with Elisheba Johnson of Wa Na Wari; Maya Vivas and Roux Haile of Ori Gallery; and Tai Carpenter of Black Gallery PDX about their practices of place-making for Black healing and communion."
Keep an eye on the museum website for more events.
Black Artists of Oregon at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park. Talk 2PM-3:30 Museum admission probably applies
She will speak at the museum today in a panel entitled Keeping Our Story with artists Adriene Cruz, Bobby Fouther, Richard Brown, and Isaka Shamsud-Din.
There is a talk September 14, black curator and art adminitrator panel: " Black Artists of Oregon curator Intisar Abioto will be in conversation with Elisheba Johnson of Wa Na Wari; Maya Vivas and Roux Haile of Ori Gallery; and Tai Carpenter of Black Gallery PDX about their practices of place-making for Black healing and communion."
Keep an eye on the museum website for more events.
Black Artists of Oregon at the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park. Talk 2PM-3:30 Museum admission probably applies
Friday, September 08, 2023
September 8 Zymoglyphic
The Zymoglyphic Museum has one of Portland's underground art residencies. Compatible artists are invited to make work inspired by the museum and its principal. In Museum as Muse III, the third cohort presents their work this evening. The Zymoglyphic artists are Lyndsay Hogland, Shelly Smith, Shannon Amidon, Laura Carrera, Shelly Caldwell, Joe Harris, and Jim Stewart.
The Zymoglyphic residency readout Museum as Muse III http://zymoglyphic.org/about/residency2023.html at Experiment PDX https://www.experimentpdx.com/ 1421 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
The Zymoglyphic residency readout Museum as Muse III http://zymoglyphic.org/about/residency2023.html at Experiment PDX https://www.experimentpdx.com/ 1421 SE Stark 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, September 07, 2023
September 7 Westside Art Openings
Fine Art Fruit, a creative clothing store, Seaplane 2.0 opens Hadley A Clark with fabric collage. At Fine Art Fruit 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8 Free
W+K has a new campaign expressed as a mural, Portland Is What We Make It, at SE 3rd and Yamhill. They have a show of related material and a reception. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 6PM-8 Free
ILY2 continues its Converge 45 show. https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Painter Terrell James continues at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Augen Pop Art - Past and Present is a group show at Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Painters Pat Bopas and Willy Heeks are at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge 45.
Gary Boswell has Variations, minimalist paintings at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has its part of Converge 45 and five student shows. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ginna Wilson and Sherrie Wolf have paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Blackfish has Carol Benson and Michael Knutson have contrasting geometric and flowariffic abstract paintings. Essence of Oregon are landscape paintings by Lori Latham. Color Forms are abstract paintings by Ellen Goldschmidt. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Antifragility : Obsessions with Stress and Randomnessare sculptures by Kristy Kún and Greg Wilbur are at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
W+K has a new campaign expressed as a mural, Portland Is What We Make It, at SE 3rd and Yamhill. They have a show of related material and a reception. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 6PM-8 Free
ILY2 continues its Converge 45 show. https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Painter Terrell James continues at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Augen Pop Art - Past and Present is a group show at Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Painters Pat Bopas and Willy Heeks are at Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Blue Sky continues Richard Mosse as part of Converge 45.
Gary Boswell has Variations, minimalist paintings at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has its part of Converge 45 and five student shows. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ginna Wilson and Sherrie Wolf have paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Blackfish has Carol Benson and Michael Knutson have contrasting geometric and flowariffic abstract paintings. Essence of Oregon are landscape paintings by Lori Latham. Color Forms are abstract paintings by Ellen Goldschmidt. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Antifragility : Obsessions with Stress and Randomnessare sculptures by Kristy Kún and Greg Wilbur are at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, August 26, 2023
August 27 Garage Convergence
Favorite garage galleries Helen's Costume and SE Cooper have openings today under the Converge45 umbrella.
August 25 Sixth Sculptures
The independent Biomass pop-up curated by Jeff Jahn hosts its sixth artist talk with participating artists Erik Geschke, Brian Borrello and Gabriel Liston. Biomass at 608 NW 13th, #102 3:30PM talk Free
Jennifer Wilkinson has ‘Depo(t)asis’!, ceramic sculptures. At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Jennifer Wilkinson has ‘Depo(t)asis’!, ceramic sculptures. At Fisk Projects 3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. 6PM-9 Free
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
August 24 - Social Forms
Converge45 is a successor to PICA as PICA was successor to Art on the Edge. It mixes local and international with an out-of-town currator.
It spans venues. It opens this weekend. The component exhibitions start closing in October and persist through December. Almost all of it is free.
It is more efficient to refer you to the Converge45 website and socials than to catalog it here. I doubt anyone would be disappointed by any of the program. Personally I'm excited about Richard Mosse's work.
https://www.converge45.org/opening-weekend covers events Thursday August 24 - Sunday August 27.
https://www.converge45.org/ is the whole program and links to socials.
It spans venues. It opens this weekend. The component exhibitions start closing in October and persist through December. Almost all of it is free.
It is more efficient to refer you to the Converge45 website and socials than to catalog it here. I doubt anyone would be disappointed by any of the program. Personally I'm excited about Richard Mosse's work.
https://www.converge45.org/opening-weekend covers events Thursday August 24 - Sunday August 27.
https://www.converge45.org/ is the whole program and links to socials.
August 20 Floating Sank
Feels Like Floating is a multi-city presenter of ambient and slow music. In LA they present Laraj. In Portland they send out music through the Leach Botanical Garden trees.
This afternoon you can tap the deep vibes of Carley Barton. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like.
Unfortunately Leach Botanical Garden is closed today and the event canceled because of wildfire smoke.
This afternoon you can tap the deep vibes of Carley Barton. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like.
Unfortunately Leach Botanical Garden is closed today and the event canceled because of wildfire smoke.
Sunday, August 20, 2023
August 19 Fifth Mass
The independent Biomass pop-up curated by Jeff Jahn hosts its fifth artist talk with participating artists V. Maldonado, Buq Corvidae-Schulte and Jeffry Mitchell. Biomass at 608 NW 13th, #102 3:30PM talk Free
Saturday, August 19, 2023
August 19, 20, 26, 27 Sticks and Stones
Land art is a thing with a history, even before recorded history. Some residencies emphasize it like the Djerassi Foundation. Light artists James Turrell is a man with a plan in Roden Crater. The Seattle Horsehead weekend ran for a few years. Scott Wayne Indiana did an art on land at Mt Scott Park.
A new group is doing ticketed shows on private land. They did one last year with bus service. This one is in Troutdale with DIY transportation and limited street parking. More https://variablewest.com/event/other-terra-incognita/.
Terra Incognita at the Verdency Project https://www.verdancyproject.com/terra-incognita 10AM-4PM $10-25
A new group is doing ticketed shows on private land. They did one last year with bus service. This one is in Troutdale with DIY transportation and limited street parking. More https://variablewest.com/event/other-terra-incognita/.
Terra Incognita at the Verdency Project https://www.verdancyproject.com/terra-incognita 10AM-4PM $10-25
Thursday, August 17, 2023
August 17 Moon Obscura
Blue Moon Camera presents employee images they processed, selected for what they like. It is a unique and social show. This year they add an about 15 minute documentary, Blue Moon - Your First Last Camera Store. It was shot on 16mm to promote a Blue Moon.
Blue Moon documentary at St. Johns Twin Cinemas, 8704 N Lombard. 7PM, 7:30, 8, 8:30 Free
Show 45th Parallel Wines, 8527 N Lombard. 7PM-9 Free
Blue Moon documentary at St. Johns Twin Cinemas, 8704 N Lombard. 7PM, 7:30, 8, 8:30 Free
Show 45th Parallel Wines, 8527 N Lombard. 7PM-9 Free
Saturday, August 12, 2023
August 12 Massive Love Pipes
The independent Biomass pop-up curated by Jeff Jahn hosts its fourth artist talk with participating artists Malia Jensen, Ralph Pugay and Bruce Conkle. Biomass at 608 NW 13th, #102 3:30PM talk Free
Rigmarole Elizabeth Arzani, Ahuva Zaslavsk opens.
"Pipes deliver and receive as conductors; they flow all sorts of materials to both of their ends. But what happens when the pipe clogs?
In this exhibition, Portland based artists Elizabeth Arzani and ahuva s. zaslavsky meet in a rambling garden to conduct a dialogue about the concept of ends and the spaces in between, discussing the role of pipes and tubes as mechanisms for transporting materials and connecting contrasting spaces.
The tunnels connect the functional and metaphorical: the inside and outside, the pleasant and repulsive and the vulgar and refined. These unseen intermediate spaces act as mediators between senders and recipients but can also cause disruptions and misunderstandings, similar to language and communication channels.
The audience is encouraged to wander through the forking paths of the garden, engaging in a dialogue about the visible and hidden, artificial and natural elements, in order to untie dysfunctional knots and foster new connection. "
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 4PM-8 Free
ILY2 Too closes their women annimation show with a party. It is part of the DARPA residency. At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls. 6PM-9 Free
Rigmarole Elizabeth Arzani, Ahuva Zaslavsk opens.
"Pipes deliver and receive as conductors; they flow all sorts of materials to both of their ends. But what happens when the pipe clogs?
In this exhibition, Portland based artists Elizabeth Arzani and ahuva s. zaslavsky meet in a rambling garden to conduct a dialogue about the concept of ends and the spaces in between, discussing the role of pipes and tubes as mechanisms for transporting materials and connecting contrasting spaces.
The tunnels connect the functional and metaphorical: the inside and outside, the pleasant and repulsive and the vulgar and refined. These unseen intermediate spaces act as mediators between senders and recipients but can also cause disruptions and misunderstandings, similar to language and communication channels.
The audience is encouraged to wander through the forking paths of the garden, engaging in a dialogue about the visible and hidden, artificial and natural elements, in order to untie dysfunctional knots and foster new connection. "
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 4PM-8 Free
ILY2 Too closes their women annimation show with a party. It is part of the DARPA residency. At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls. 6PM-9 Free
Friday, August 11, 2023
August 11 Cutewood
Faunwood https://www.faunwood.com/ travels the stream of Northwest illustrators inspired by Northwest flora and fauna. Based in Eugene, Miranda Zimmerman is a professional illustrator, in her art she touches on the surreal while maintaining some kawaii. She has a stable print difusion arrangement with Nucleus. This show includes illustration outlines set slightly out from the wall, a small carpet in creature shape, and small, under 6 inch creature sculptures. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, August 05, 2023
August 6 Synthetic Biomass
The independent Biomass pop-up curated by Jeff Jahn hosts its second artist talk with participating artists talk with Susan Seubert, Justin L'Amie and Laura Fritz. Biomass at 608 NW 13th, #102 3:30PM talk Free
Modular on the Spot #3 for 2023 occupies Kelley Point. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.
Synthers are Hemadaxis, Loner [with EMA], Abraham Ingle, Everything is Circles, Blaix, and Transients [sryforthe_delaney + Heather Knopf].
At Kelley Point Park, N Kelley Point Park Road 6PM sharp Free
Modular on the Spot #3 for 2023 occupies Kelley Point. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.
Synthers are Hemadaxis, Loner [with EMA], Abraham Ingle, Everything is Circles, Blaix, and Transients [sryforthe_delaney + Heather Knopf].
At Kelley Point Park, N Kelley Point Park Road 6PM sharp Free
August 5 Northside Art Openings+
Many of the Pearl galleries are favoring the Saturday after first Thursday.
Cross Quarters Merry Meet by Paul Swenbeck from Boston is an installation with cactus-like shapes, abstract animals, flower motifs, and relief blocks. All fantastical. It is much more eloquently explained on the gallery website. 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
You can get your soft cute with Cat Rabbit all the way from Melbourne or Naarm in the Woiworung language. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Lull is Sarah Umles from LA and and Jenn Sova from here. The "exhibition explores themes of loss, grief, and the weight of expectations. With overlapping interests in the materiality of death and the emotionality of life, Umles and Sova carve out moments of pause and provocation, wherein rituals of resistance and healing can take place. Their respective works strike a delicate balance between overwhelm and absence, the corporal and the cerebral, the ceremonial and the everyday." At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 4PM-8 Artist talk 5 Free
Oregon Contemporary has an art picnic on their lawn, so bring it. The rest of the space has some loan works. At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Books 2PM-8 Free
Tyler Stoll has Greased explained on the website. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Michael Espinoza has self-referental imagry and Allan Pichardo has something to do with media & tech. Their website explains it. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Cross Quarters Merry Meet by Paul Swenbeck from Boston is an installation with cactus-like shapes, abstract animals, flower motifs, and relief blocks. All fantastical. It is much more eloquently explained on the gallery website. 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
You can get your soft cute with Cat Rabbit all the way from Melbourne or Naarm in the Woiworung language. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Lull is Sarah Umles from LA and and Jenn Sova from here. The "exhibition explores themes of loss, grief, and the weight of expectations. With overlapping interests in the materiality of death and the emotionality of life, Umles and Sova carve out moments of pause and provocation, wherein rituals of resistance and healing can take place. Their respective works strike a delicate balance between overwhelm and absence, the corporal and the cerebral, the ceremonial and the everyday." At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 4PM-8 Artist talk 5 Free
Oregon Contemporary has an art picnic on their lawn, so bring it. The rest of the space has some loan works. At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Books 2PM-8 Free
Tyler Stoll has Greased explained on the website. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Michael Espinoza has self-referental imagry and Allan Pichardo has something to do with media & tech. Their website explains it. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, August 04, 2023
August 4 Friday Enchantment
Pushdot has Erinn Kathryn, Lands of Enchantment. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8 Free
ADX Has their colaboration show, works by 2 or more artists. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 4PM-8 Free
More at 1FPDX FB, their FirstFridayPDX Insta and individual space socials.
The interesting event is a variety show at the Republic. Great DJ too on 34th by Stumptown for an outdoor with admission.
ADX Has their colaboration show, works by 2 or more artists. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 4PM-8 Free
More at 1FPDX FB, their FirstFridayPDX Insta and individual space socials.
The interesting event is a variety show at the Republic. Great DJ too on 34th by Stumptown for an outdoor with admission.
Thursday, August 03, 2023
August 3 Westside Art Openings+
The art world in The City and here usually closes for the dog days of August. Not here now though. And at the end of the month, Converge 45 starts.
Storm Tharp has Ensemble / Variable, prints. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Blanchard House provides homleless services with private money, not Multnomah County or Metro money. They have an art show this evening at the Honey Late Cafe, a low key cultural mecca. Artists include Ali Yacina, Julie Lopez, Amy Howard, Olivia Serril, Beth Kerschen, Daren Todd, Eric Gendron, Charles Moody, Preston Gravitt, Cole Lyons, Katie Reim, Keelan Booth, Carola Penn, Madeline Ford, Tamara Lion, Ryan Bubnis, Maho Garner, ZoB, Bryan Aptekar, Jeremy Okai Davis, Elaine Daggett Aye, Neeraj Narayan, Latoya Lovely, Susan Seubert, and Sarah Landwehr. https://www.bhontheledge.com/exhibitions-2023 at Honey Late Cafe 1033 SE Main 6PM-8 Free
ILY2, usually on their own opening cycle, continues And Down Below The Earth Shown Bright by Rae Davis, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Eve Fowler, Sidony O’Neal, Nicole Ondre, Paige Powell, Ido Radon, Sara Rahmanian and Davina Semo. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 11AM-7 Free
Painter Terrell James is at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
George Johanson (1928-2022) has paintings and works on paper includinghis last. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:30 Free
Peter Gronquist brings Manifest and Ed Bereal, Wanted: Ed Bereal for Still Disturbing the Peace. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Continuing is Rebecca Marimutu from Baltimore brings Portraits, Adhered, multi-image portraits and Erik Östensson all the way from Norway, brings surreal framings, Tjärnen. Later in the month, Blue Sky brings Richard Mosse as part of Converge 45.
Pour the Water as I Leave: Installation, Vol II: Film in Progress by Daniela Repas and Simone Fischer is at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery)
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has closes their low residency in visual studies show. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ghosts in the Machine by Modoc artist Ka’Ila Farrell-Smith, monochromatic abstracts including pigmants made from Southern Oregon soil. Willie Little has moved to Russo-Lee for his first show, I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got, with them. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Ash Stone and Tom Manzanarez collaborated to make Home as a Hole. At After / Time gallery, located at 735 SW 9th #110 6:30PM-8 Free
Blackfish has Aaron Johanson Points of Interest, exposed between 1980 and 2007, the show is monochrome photographic prints modified in the darktoom. Sphere of Influence from The Artist Union, ia a group photo show. Merridawn Duckler has Object/Text inspired by AI. She has long been active in book and word art. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Susan Harrington has botanical paintings, Our Attention Creates The World, at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Coworking space the Writers' Block has Francisca Lauren Carrera 3d, oil and encaustic. At Writers Block Studio curatingthewriterblock.studio 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
In their Mind's Eye by Molly Mendoza and Matty Newton is way up on Alberta. At Walk-In Gallery 4946 NE 13th #104 5PM-8 Free
Storm Tharp has Ensemble / Variable, prints. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Blanchard House provides homleless services with private money, not Multnomah County or Metro money. They have an art show this evening at the Honey Late Cafe, a low key cultural mecca. Artists include Ali Yacina, Julie Lopez, Amy Howard, Olivia Serril, Beth Kerschen, Daren Todd, Eric Gendron, Charles Moody, Preston Gravitt, Cole Lyons, Katie Reim, Keelan Booth, Carola Penn, Madeline Ford, Tamara Lion, Ryan Bubnis, Maho Garner, ZoB, Bryan Aptekar, Jeremy Okai Davis, Elaine Daggett Aye, Neeraj Narayan, Latoya Lovely, Susan Seubert, and Sarah Landwehr. https://www.bhontheledge.com/exhibitions-2023 at Honey Late Cafe 1033 SE Main 6PM-8 Free
ILY2, usually on their own opening cycle, continues And Down Below The Earth Shown Bright by Rae Davis, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Eve Fowler, Sidony O’Neal, Nicole Ondre, Paige Powell, Ido Radon, Sara Rahmanian and Davina Semo. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 11AM-7 Free
Painter Terrell James is at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
George Johanson (1928-2022) has paintings and works on paper includinghis last. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:30 Free
Peter Gronquist brings Manifest and Ed Bereal, Wanted: Ed Bereal for Still Disturbing the Peace. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Continuing is Rebecca Marimutu from Baltimore brings Portraits, Adhered, multi-image portraits and Erik Östensson all the way from Norway, brings surreal framings, Tjärnen. Later in the month, Blue Sky brings Richard Mosse as part of Converge 45.
Pour the Water as I Leave: Installation, Vol II: Film in Progress by Daniela Repas and Simone Fischer is at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery)
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has closes their low residency in visual studies show. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ghosts in the Machine by Modoc artist Ka’Ila Farrell-Smith, monochromatic abstracts including pigmants made from Southern Oregon soil. Willie Little has moved to Russo-Lee for his first show, I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got, with them. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Ash Stone and Tom Manzanarez collaborated to make Home as a Hole. At After / Time gallery, located at 735 SW 9th #110 6:30PM-8 Free
Blackfish has Aaron Johanson Points of Interest, exposed between 1980 and 2007, the show is monochrome photographic prints modified in the darktoom. Sphere of Influence from The Artist Union, ia a group photo show. Merridawn Duckler has Object/Text inspired by AI. She has long been active in book and word art. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Susan Harrington has botanical paintings, Our Attention Creates The World, at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Coworking space the Writers' Block has Francisca Lauren Carrera 3d, oil and encaustic. At Writers Block Studio curatingthewriterblock.studio 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
In their Mind's Eye by Molly Mendoza and Matty Newton is way up on Alberta. At Walk-In Gallery 4946 NE 13th #104 5PM-8 Free
August 3-9 Sneaks
Portland Sneaker Week is a week of ticketed events. You can get it all at https://www.sneakerweekpdx.com/.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
July 30 Wandering Floating
The Daipan Butoh Collective in Seattle present their annual outdoor, Wandering & Wondering, in Seattle's Kubota Gardens.
Kubota is the original family home and nursery of Fujitaro Kubota. https://kubotagarden.org/fujitaroremembered.html It is now a city park and free. If you are in Portland, the Portland Japanese Garden curator has been advising them and his rock work is identifiable by sytle.
The butoh players have a favorite spot and usually signs to guide you to it. Parking can be fierce, so share those rides. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, sunscreen and a hat.
The companion performance is August 3 in the Seattle Japanese Garden in Washington Park.
Daipan Butoh present Wandering and Wondering https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/wandering-wondering-by-kogut-butoh-at-kubota-garden at the Kubota Garden https://kubotagarden.org/ 55th Avenue South, Seattle, WA Map 12:20PM-3 Free
Feels Like Floating is a multi-city presenter of ambient and slow music. In LA they present Laraj. In Portland they send out music through the Leach Botanical Garden trees.
This afternoon you can tap the deep vibes of Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks alongside noted Portland music curator Jed Bindeman of Tunnels. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like.
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recniee2StQxGex83
Kubota is the original family home and nursery of Fujitaro Kubota. https://kubotagarden.org/fujitaroremembered.html It is now a city park and free. If you are in Portland, the Portland Japanese Garden curator has been advising them and his rock work is identifiable by sytle.
The butoh players have a favorite spot and usually signs to guide you to it. Parking can be fierce, so share those rides. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, sunscreen and a hat.
The companion performance is August 3 in the Seattle Japanese Garden in Washington Park.
Daipan Butoh present Wandering and Wondering https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/wandering-wondering-by-kogut-butoh-at-kubota-garden at the Kubota Garden https://kubotagarden.org/ 55th Avenue South, Seattle, WA Map 12:20PM-3 Free
Feels Like Floating is a multi-city presenter of ambient and slow music. In LA they present Laraj. In Portland they send out music through the Leach Botanical Garden trees.
This afternoon you can tap the deep vibes of Spencer Doran of Visible Cloaks alongside noted Portland music curator Jed Bindeman of Tunnels. Bring a blanket or lawnchair and a picnic if you like.
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recniee2StQxGex83
July 29-30 Lumber Rose
Photographer Justine Kurland is a strong protagonist in the Yale School.
Gregory Crewdson was a Yale photography grad who returned to teach. He gracfully narrated his arc in an art talk arranged by Matthew Stadler in collaboration with Stephanie Snyder and the late Ripe Family dinner. From that talk, you can understand the Yale School of observation and fiction. Crewdson has continued to build elaborate sets and scenes as would a movie, making momentary images suggesting a narrative before and after that time zero.
Crewdson, with collaboration by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, famously promoted some students in the Another Girl Another Planet show in 1999. In that show, Kurland launched her narrative of women in landscape. We all know the Mark Twain story of Tom Sawyer and Huckeberry Fin, young vagabonds living freely and having adventures. What if women did the same with no fear?
Kurland was part of the late Linda Ferris' Seattle Contemporary Art Project. Kurland has shown in Portland galleries, most recently the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. She collaborated with Jon Raymond on a small book Old Joy in 2004 and was guested by old PICA in 2005. In the pandemic, she created a new body of work, SCRUM Manifesto, sutting up photo books in her personal collection. It's a peowerful observation worth reader's look. Today she generously has curated a show, The Rose, with the Lumber Room.
"The Rose considers collage as a subversive action and a feminist strategy. The title borrows its name from Jay DeFeo’s seminal painting and refers to her iterative practice, where one thing turns into something else, gathering rotational gravity as it orbits."
The artists include Ruth Asawa, Natalie Ball, Lee Bontecou, Vija Celmins, Philo Cohen, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson, Tatiana Florival, Vanessa German, Bean Gilsdorf, Janice Guy, K8 Hardy, Leslie Hewitt, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, AK Jenkins, Baseera Khan, Kiki Kogelnik, Tarrah Krajnek, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jacky Marshall, Aspen Mays, Qiana Mestrich, Helina Metaferia, Shala Miller, Joiri Minaya, Rachelle Mozman-Solano, Wangechi Mutu, Yamini Nayar, B. Ingrid Olson, Frida Orupabo, Gina Osterloh, Olivia Reavy, Deborah Roberts, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Sally Saul, Keisha Scarville, Gwen Smith, Pamela Sneed, Lorna Simpson, Lau Wai, Della Wells, Hannah Wilke, and Francesca Woodman. Strongly recommended.
Sunday Kurland speaks with artist Keisha Scarville and gallery director of Higher Pictures https://higherpictures.com/ Kim Bourus. Higher Pictures, operating since 2007, is now in Brooklyn.
They are friends in the art world and real life with a strong perspective on photography now.
Seating is limited. The event will be recorded and available for viewing on the Lumber Room website in due time.
Talk at 2 Sunday. Opening Saturday 4-7.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/the-rose 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Saturday 2PM-3 Sunday Free
Gregory Crewdson was a Yale photography grad who returned to teach. He gracfully narrated his arc in an art talk arranged by Matthew Stadler in collaboration with Stephanie Snyder and the late Ripe Family dinner. From that talk, you can understand the Yale School of observation and fiction. Crewdson has continued to build elaborate sets and scenes as would a movie, making momentary images suggesting a narrative before and after that time zero.
Crewdson, with collaboration by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, famously promoted some students in the Another Girl Another Planet show in 1999. In that show, Kurland launched her narrative of women in landscape. We all know the Mark Twain story of Tom Sawyer and Huckeberry Fin, young vagabonds living freely and having adventures. What if women did the same with no fear?
Kurland was part of the late Linda Ferris' Seattle Contemporary Art Project. Kurland has shown in Portland galleries, most recently the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. She collaborated with Jon Raymond on a small book Old Joy in 2004 and was guested by old PICA in 2005. In the pandemic, she created a new body of work, SCRUM Manifesto, sutting up photo books in her personal collection. It's a peowerful observation worth reader's look. Today she generously has curated a show, The Rose, with the Lumber Room.
"The Rose considers collage as a subversive action and a feminist strategy. The title borrows its name from Jay DeFeo’s seminal painting and refers to her iterative practice, where one thing turns into something else, gathering rotational gravity as it orbits."
The artists include Ruth Asawa, Natalie Ball, Lee Bontecou, Vija Celmins, Philo Cohen, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson, Tatiana Florival, Vanessa German, Bean Gilsdorf, Janice Guy, K8 Hardy, Leslie Hewitt, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, AK Jenkins, Baseera Khan, Kiki Kogelnik, Tarrah Krajnek, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jacky Marshall, Aspen Mays, Qiana Mestrich, Helina Metaferia, Shala Miller, Joiri Minaya, Rachelle Mozman-Solano, Wangechi Mutu, Yamini Nayar, B. Ingrid Olson, Frida Orupabo, Gina Osterloh, Olivia Reavy, Deborah Roberts, Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Sally Saul, Keisha Scarville, Gwen Smith, Pamela Sneed, Lorna Simpson, Lau Wai, Della Wells, Hannah Wilke, and Francesca Woodman. Strongly recommended.
Sunday Kurland speaks with artist Keisha Scarville and gallery director of Higher Pictures https://higherpictures.com/ Kim Bourus. Higher Pictures, operating since 2007, is now in Brooklyn.
They are friends in the art world and real life with a strong perspective on photography now.
Seating is limited. The event will be recorded and available for viewing on the Lumber Room website in due time.
Talk at 2 Sunday. Opening Saturday 4-7.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/the-rose 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Saturday 2PM-3 Sunday Free
July 29 Massive Projects
The independent Biomass pop-up curated by Jeff Jahn hosts its second artist talk with participating artists Eva Lake, Epiphany Couch and Kendra Larson. Biomass at 608 NW 13th, #102 3:30PM talk Free
Sator Projects has a big day today in collaboration with Wave Contemporary, Walk In Gallery, Stelo Arts, and Aftertime Collective.
3PM-4 there is a panel discussionfollowed by a paper mache workshop. From 5PM-10 is a party. Deets on their socials including insta credit drops.
At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd. 5PM-8 Free
Sator Projects has a big day today in collaboration with Wave Contemporary, Walk In Gallery, Stelo Arts, and Aftertime Collective.
3PM-4 there is a panel discussionfollowed by a paper mache workshop. From 5PM-10 is a party. Deets on their socials including insta credit drops.
At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd. 5PM-8 Free
July 29-30 Mermaid Croquet
Una the Mermaid presents the Portlandia Mermaid Parade. It starts at Noon at Poet's Beach and travels along the waterfront to the Japanese memporial in Waterfront Park. Mermaids are very intelligent and they like to be close to the water, especially on heated days! Family friendly. Mermaid Parade https://www.portlandiamermaidparade.com/ Noon Free
The 26th annual Croquet World Championships and Mad Hatter Picnic brings its wonderland to the Park Blocks. The croquet is played with sledgehammers and bowling balls. The costune theme is proper whites, light colors of steampunk, or Alice themed. Think tea and cucumber sandwiches. The Croquet World Championships and Mad Hatter Picnic https://mondocroquet.com/2022/09/2023-mondo-croquet-world-championships-and-mad-hatter-picnic-july-30th-2023/ NW Park and Everett Noon-5 Free
The 26th annual Croquet World Championships and Mad Hatter Picnic brings its wonderland to the Park Blocks. The croquet is played with sledgehammers and bowling balls. The costune theme is proper whites, light colors of steampunk, or Alice themed. Think tea and cucumber sandwiches. The Croquet World Championships and Mad Hatter Picnic https://mondocroquet.com/2022/09/2023-mondo-croquet-world-championships-and-mad-hatter-picnic-july-30th-2023/ NW Park and Everett Noon-5 Free
Thursday, July 27, 2023
July 27 Northeast Art Openings+
Antler hosts Just Like Honey, a group painting show on hexagonal panels. Ceramic works by Corinne Lent and painters Herb Smith and Anthony Solano fill the space. Talon has Chicago paintern Pizza in the Rain, folky urban landscapes and message realism printings by Ariel Parrow. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Blind Insect has a group show Stories Untold. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 6PM-9
Nucleus continues their current show. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 3PM-8:50 Free
Pianofarm drops another Poems at sunset out a window. Israel Nebeker joins from Astoria. Bring chairs and blankets. Livestream @themoraledept. At 3425 SE Yamhill 7:58PM Free
Blind Insect has a group show Stories Untold. At Blind Insect 2841 NE Alberta 6PM-9
Nucleus continues their current show. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 3PM-8:50 Free
Pianofarm drops another Poems at sunset out a window. Israel Nebeker joins from Astoria. Bring chairs and blankets. Livestream @themoraledept. At 3425 SE Yamhill 7:58PM Free
July 27-30 Seattle Art Fair
Seattle has more money so it has more art. They are far down on the great art chain of being. But they have their own art fair child of the Allen family.
Seattle galleries, some Portland ones, and a few national/international galleries present. It is privatey curated by the individual for-profit galleries, unlike a nonprofit group show.
Portland galleries Atler, PDX Contemporary, Russo-Lee are there. Portland artist Sharita Towne has an offsite event. Forest For the Trees has a residency in Seattle so they are hosting an after party. Converge 45 is hosting an event. That and more is at https://seattleartfair.com/2023-around-town/.
Many of our Portland projects offer free passes on request. If you want to experience a commercial art fair, this is probably the closest. It's about a quarter mile walk from Amtrak.
The Seattle Art Fair https://seattleartfair.com at Lumen Field Event Center, 800 Occidental Ave S, Seattle Thurs 6PM-9, Fri/Sat 11AM-7, Sun 11-6 $65 to Free
Seattle galleries, some Portland ones, and a few national/international galleries present. It is privatey curated by the individual for-profit galleries, unlike a nonprofit group show.
Portland galleries Atler, PDX Contemporary, Russo-Lee are there. Portland artist Sharita Towne has an offsite event. Forest For the Trees has a residency in Seattle so they are hosting an after party. Converge 45 is hosting an event. That and more is at https://seattleartfair.com/2023-around-town/.
Many of our Portland projects offer free passes on request. If you want to experience a commercial art fair, this is probably the closest. It's about a quarter mile walk from Amtrak.
The Seattle Art Fair https://seattleartfair.com at Lumen Field Event Center, 800 Occidental Ave S, Seattle Thurs 6PM-9, Fri/Sat 11AM-7, Sun 11-6 $65 to Free
Sunday, July 23, 2023
July 23 Tomorrowland Yesterday
Nam June Paik, 1932-2006, is a revolutionary gentleman of the neo-Dada Fluxus and a world citizen of Seoul, Tokyo, many cities in Germany, New York, and Miami. He studied 20th Century music, and applied that aesthetic to video as art.
He remixed content, circuit bent the box, built sculptures of TVs, incorporated television into performance, and built TV art robots. He was in the downtown art crowd of the 1960s; influenced, influencer, and collaborator.
Paik's Robot K-456 participated in many performances. https://cyberneticzoo.com/robots-in-art/1964-robot-k-456-nam-june-paik-korean-shuya-abe-japanese/
Based on the Intergalactic Network idea of J.C.R. Licklider in 1962, the concept of the Internet emerged. Portlander Ivan Sutherland, seminal in computer graphics, was in that mix at MIT. Sutherland was advisor to Alan Kay, originator of the Dynabook concept we use today. In 1969, the first 3-location Internet was completed by a small team; a friend of mine made the hardware. Contemporaneouly, Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema, published in 1970, included Paik as an influence. In turn, Youngblood's ideas were an influence on thinking of the Internet, pre-its scale-out, as a cultural and artistic, medium and force. If you can find it, Youngblood's Mass Media and the Future of Desire, 1977, is a read on the topic. That essay mentions a book, never completed, in collaboration with Maturana and Varela who incluenced Flores. Flores collaborated with Winnograd, AI pioneer. Winnograd was the faculty advisor of Larry Page. As a coda, Paik is credited with coining the phrase "electronic superhighway."
Unfortunately post-his death, a split developed between the estate and Paik's gallery, the Carl Solway Gallery. Fortunately his works have been cradled by museums, he has been the subject of many retrospectives, and has been reprised in documentaries.
A new one, 2023, is Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV .
It is in the collection of Movie Madness and the Hillsboro Library. It's on the big screen tonight too https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/21795/ at Hollywood Theater 7:30PM unfortunately Sold Out
He remixed content, circuit bent the box, built sculptures of TVs, incorporated television into performance, and built TV art robots. He was in the downtown art crowd of the 1960s; influenced, influencer, and collaborator.
Paik's Robot K-456 participated in many performances. https://cyberneticzoo.com/robots-in-art/1964-robot-k-456-nam-june-paik-korean-shuya-abe-japanese/
Based on the Intergalactic Network idea of J.C.R. Licklider in 1962, the concept of the Internet emerged. Portlander Ivan Sutherland, seminal in computer graphics, was in that mix at MIT. Sutherland was advisor to Alan Kay, originator of the Dynabook concept we use today. In 1969, the first 3-location Internet was completed by a small team; a friend of mine made the hardware. Contemporaneouly, Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema, published in 1970, included Paik as an influence. In turn, Youngblood's ideas were an influence on thinking of the Internet, pre-its scale-out, as a cultural and artistic, medium and force. If you can find it, Youngblood's Mass Media and the Future of Desire, 1977, is a read on the topic. That essay mentions a book, never completed, in collaboration with Maturana and Varela who incluenced Flores. Flores collaborated with Winnograd, AI pioneer. Winnograd was the faculty advisor of Larry Page. As a coda, Paik is credited with coining the phrase "electronic superhighway."
Unfortunately post-his death, a split developed between the estate and Paik's gallery, the Carl Solway Gallery. Fortunately his works have been cradled by museums, he has been the subject of many retrospectives, and has been reprised in documentaries.
A new one, 2023, is Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV .
It is in the collection of Movie Madness and the Hillsboro Library. It's on the big screen tonight too https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/21795/ at Hollywood Theater 7:30PM unfortunately Sold Out
Saturday, July 22, 2023
July 22 Massive Bio
Biomass is an indepentently curated pop up. It includes direct animal themes. It opened as the international Animal Behavior Sociaty conference closed here. Artists Sean Healy, Morgan Buck and Renee Zangara speak there today. Curated by Jeff Jahn and Lark Lo Sontaghe, the show runs July 12 - August 27 and open 12:30PM - 5 Saturdays or otherwise noted on the Jahn Insta. Unique, no roster, no labels, direct experience. Biomass at 608 NW 13th, #102 3:30PM talk Free
One Grand opens their Gardent Gates show. 6PM-9
One Grand opens their Gardent Gates show. 6PM-9
Sunday, July 09, 2023
July 9 Mod Butte
Modular on the Spot #2 for 2023 occupies Rocky Butte. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.
Trust Anchor, Production Unit Xero, Jill and Thomas Fang, Meagan Jane Marron, Limanjaya and Akemie.
No reatrooms or water. Parking can be a challenge. At Rocky Butte summit, 6PM Free
Trust Anchor, Production Unit Xero, Jill and Thomas Fang, Meagan Jane Marron, Limanjaya and Akemie.
No reatrooms or water. Parking can be a challenge. At Rocky Butte summit, 6PM Free
Saturday, July 08, 2023
July 8-9 Marine Art
The Unkles family is one of Portland unsung art patrons for renting space for artist studios.
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 10AM--4 Free
Today is a rare opportunity to look inside one, the NW Marine Art Works. For these events, the artists usually straighten their studios. And, for this one, guest artists will bring work from the Seed Building, River Studios and Carton services deemed not suited for large events by the City. Of course you are encouraged to buy art direct and experience the narratives of each artist. It's family friendly with live music, food and drink. Open studios at NW Marine Art Works 2516 NW 29th. 10AM--4 Free
Friday, July 07, 2023
July 7 Eastsdte Art Openings
Dan Lam opens drippy sculptires along side abstract pintings by Emily Wise. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
All the other First Friday are on their respective social media.
All the other First Friday are on their respective social media.
Thursday, July 06, 2023
July 6 Westside Art Openings
Leach, The Writers' Block, and A&O continue.
Cuban painter, Orlando Almanza, has his first show here, along with painter, Andrew Alba, from Salt Lake. At Froelick Gallerywww.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Eric Rue has abstract paintings, Immersive Echoes. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:30 Free
Notes for Tomorrow, is an international show by ICI - https://curatorsintl.org/learning/categories/59-curatorial-intensive. 30 curators in 25 countries bring it. At Parallax Art 516 NW 14th 5PM-9 Free
Rebecca Marimutu from Baltimore brings Portraits, Adhered, multi-image portraits and Erik Östensson all the way from Norway, brings surreal framings, Tjärnen
Painter Laura Ross-Paul has the the Breast show. At the NINE Gallery (inside Blue Sky Gallery) 122 NW 8th Avenue She is at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has openings and talks. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ko Kirk Yamahira has The Front to the Reverse to What is in Between and James Allen Has Human / Nature. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
WAVE Contemporary and After / Time gallery have Generative Performance System by Nicholas Moler-Gallardo and Chris Ticas having to do with mobile phone location services. At After / Time gallery, located at 735 SW 9th #110 6PM-8 Free
Blackfish Drawing The Line a group show of line. Hot Pink Justice Gia Whitlock is mixed media on family stuff. ’s searing portrayal of an acutely painful childhood seduces with vibrant color and collaged childhood artifacts, including Teddy bears, dollhouses and balloons, that belie her serious subject matter. Corey Pressman has Dusk, waxed powder paintings. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Ephemera by Angelita Surmon, landscpae paintings, are at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Cuban painter, Orlando Almanza, has his first show here, along with painter, Andrew Alba, from Salt Lake. At Froelick Gallery
Eric Rue has abstract paintings, Immersive Echoes. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:30 Free
Notes for Tomorrow, is an international show by ICI - https://curatorsintl.org/learning/categories/59-curatorial-intensive. 30 curators in 25 countries bring it. At Parallax Art 516 NW 14th 5PM-9 Free
Rebecca Marimutu from Baltimore brings Portraits, Adhered, multi-image portraits and Erik Östensson all the way from Norway, brings surreal framings, Tjärnen
Painter Laura Ross-Paul has the the Breast show. At the NINE Gallery (inside Blue Sky Gallery) 122 NW 8th Avenue She is at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-7:30 Early Close Free
PNCA has openings and talks. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Ko Kirk Yamahira has The Front to the Reverse to What is in Between and James Allen Has Human / Nature. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
WAVE Contemporary and After / Time gallery have Generative Performance System by Nicholas Moler-Gallardo and Chris Ticas having to do with mobile phone location services. At After / Time gallery, located at 735 SW 9th #110 6PM-8 Free
Blackfish Drawing The Line a group show of line. Hot Pink Justice Gia Whitlock is mixed media on family stuff. ’s searing portrayal of an acutely painful childhood seduces with vibrant color and collaged childhood artifacts, including Teddy bears, dollhouses and balloons, that belie her serious subject matter. Corey Pressman has Dusk, waxed powder paintings. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Ephemera by Angelita Surmon, landscpae paintings, are at Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, July 01, 2023
July 1 Bunnies are everywhere
Guava is a group show with Bunny Presse! reading poetry. Artists Zach Ozma, Kristen Diedcrich, Robert Fernandez & Ashley Yang Thompson. Are there with readings from Jessie Carver, Kristen Diedcrich, Ashley Yang Thompson and Arda Collins. At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-10 Readings 7 Free
July 1 Northside Art Openings
Oregon Contemporary has an art book fair Form.a. Many bookshops are tabling, check the Oregon Contemproary socials. Friends of noise bring the Noche Libre DJ collective. Stello brings a satellite screening of their Una Palabra de Lucha project. At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Books 2PM-8, DJs 4PM-8 Free
Ondrea Bell Levey has drawings and sculptures. Sally Jablonsky has paintings. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Friend of a Friend is a group exhibition by members of Wave Contemporary and their friends. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Jeanne Steffan has paintings opening. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 4PM-7 Free
Ondrea Bell Levey has drawings and sculptures. Sally Jablonsky has paintings. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Friend of a Friend is a group exhibition by members of Wave Contemporary and their friends. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Jeanne Steffan has paintings opening. At the Red-e Cafe 1006 North Killingsworth 4PM-7 Free
Sunday, June 25, 2023
June 25 Garden Music
Patricia Wolf, Francisco Botello, and Cyrus perform ambient and downtempo in the Leach Botanical Garden. It is the first of a Summer series. Bring a blanket and picnic if you like.
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recEaWx1zmqlBZgTN
Music at Leach Botanical Garden https://www.leachgarden.org/ 6704 SE 122nd 3PM $22 Advance
Tickets & more: https://www.feelslikefloating.com/rsvp?recordId=recEaWx1zmqlBZgTN
Music at Leach Botanical Garden https://www.leachgarden.org/ 6704 SE 122nd 3PM $22 Advance
Saturday, June 24, 2023
June 24 Labyrinth Below Music
ILY2 opens show And Down Below the Earth Shown Bright by Rae Davis, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Eve Fowler, Sidony O’neal, Nicole Ondre, Paige Powell, Ido Radon, Sara Rahmanian, and Davina Semo. Recommended. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 2PM-5 Free
Lowell has settled into a large space around the corner from Nationale. They open Labyrinth This Way by Momo Gordon. The show includes graphite drawings on handmade paper & custom furniture paired with vintage metalwork & objects. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-7 Free
If you would like some music, PlaygroundPDX is free at Cathedral Park Noon-9.
Future Museums, Pulse Emitter, Eltond and New Frontiers perform at Leven Community Center 5431 NE 20th Doors 7:30PM show 8 $10-25
Lowell has settled into a large space around the corner from Nationale. They open Labyrinth This Way by Momo Gordon. The show includes graphite drawings on handmade paper & custom furniture paired with vintage metalwork & objects. At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-7 Free
If you would like some music, PlaygroundPDX is free at Cathedral Park Noon-9.
Future Museums, Pulse Emitter, Eltond and New Frontiers perform at Leven Community Center 5431 NE 20th Doors 7:30PM show 8 $10-25
Saturday, June 17, 2023
June 17-18 Synth Pedal
Portland brings its second synth expo and adds pedals. It's https://delicious-audio.com/portland-synth-and-pedal-expo. At Briq Studios 209 NW 4th Ave #3 Saturday 12PM-6, Sunday 11AM-5 RSVP requested https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-portland-synthmodular-expo-2023-tickets-622162764577 Free
June 17 Fighting
Una Palabra de Lucha is a group show by Latino artists, local and beyond. It is happening in multiple locations. Show https://www.steloarts.org/pb-present-events/una-palabra-de-lucha-exhibition-opening at Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 Northwest 8th Avenue 2PM-6 Free
Sunday, June 11, 2023
June 11 Coasting
Salut! 8 is the Nucleus small works on coasters. Their website links all the artists. $70 each makes them easy to collect.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 3PM-6 Free
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 3PM-6 Free
Saturday, June 10, 2023
June 10 Predux
This is a preview for Richard Mosse's Broken Spectre. It is a continuation of his connection to Portland.
Mosse presented Enclave in the 2013 Venice Biennale. PAM Director Ferriso brought it soon after for an installation at the museum. A first for the artist. It tells part of the story of the war of warlords terrorizing Eastern Congo. It is a continuation of the Rwandan war of 1994. I was in Eastern Congo in about July 1994.
The Congo warlords are fueled by primitive mining including tantalum. The tantalum is smuggled to China where it is made into an electronic component, a tantalum capacitor. They are an electrical shock absorber to make the bit signals electronic systems actually work. Every electonic device uses large numbers of them.
Mosse is a product of the Yale School. Many graduates of that program do great work in the Arbus gaze. Mosse puts Yale's documentary approach to much more potent use.
Mosse is now engaged with the Converge 45, presenting art this Summer. Converge 45 was a response to the decline of PICA. PICA was a response to disinterest by the Portland Art Museim in Art on the Edge.
As a preview, the NYT talks Broken Spectre. There are many articles and videos on the project you can find. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/arts/design/richard-mosse-film-amazon-brazil.html
Brazil also has a mining problem, leading to a violence problem, and a pollution problem as outside miners use cyanide to separate gold from mud. The cyanide is, of course, poured in the river.
Mosse is articulate, passionate, and humble. Don't miss his work.
Mosse presented Enclave in the 2013 Venice Biennale. PAM Director Ferriso brought it soon after for an installation at the museum. A first for the artist. It tells part of the story of the war of warlords terrorizing Eastern Congo. It is a continuation of the Rwandan war of 1994. I was in Eastern Congo in about July 1994.
The Congo warlords are fueled by primitive mining including tantalum. The tantalum is smuggled to China where it is made into an electronic component, a tantalum capacitor. They are an electrical shock absorber to make the bit signals electronic systems actually work. Every electonic device uses large numbers of them.
Mosse is a product of the Yale School. Many graduates of that program do great work in the Arbus gaze. Mosse puts Yale's documentary approach to much more potent use.
Mosse is now engaged with the Converge 45, presenting art this Summer. Converge 45 was a response to the decline of PICA. PICA was a response to disinterest by the Portland Art Museim in Art on the Edge.
As a preview, the NYT talks Broken Spectre. There are many articles and videos on the project you can find. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/arts/design/richard-mosse-film-amazon-brazil.html
Brazil also has a mining problem, leading to a violence problem, and a pollution problem as outside miners use cyanide to separate gold from mud. The cyanide is, of course, poured in the river.
Mosse is articulate, passionate, and humble. Don't miss his work.
Friday, June 09, 2023
June 9-11 Assembly
The Assembly social practice event is distributed and free! See psuartandsocialpractice http://psusocialpractice.org/assembly/
Thursday, June 08, 2023
June 8 Grief
Derek Franklin, principal at SE Cooper, presents his own work tonight. They are vaguely plant like sculptures and paintings entitled Grief is on my calendar everyday at 2:00 p.m. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Sunday, June 04, 2023
June 4 Electronic Overlook
Modular on the Spot begins 2023 sound making. It is one of informal series of modular synth concerts outdoors en plein air.
Knob twisters include Casual Decay, Musique Mystique, Enzo Caselnova, Molly Miner and Yunsumz.
At Overlook Park, 6PM Free
Knob twisters include Casual Decay, Musique Mystique, Enzo Caselnova, Molly Miner and Yunsumz.
At Overlook Park, 6PM Free
Saturday, June 03, 2023
June 3 Always Lost Alchemical Magic Future Flow Omens
They Always Have, and Still Do are bright paintings on a floral theme by Amy Bay. At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Masks required 3PM-5 Free
False Front is back. Ryan T. Riss has Do you believe in magic? At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
Lost on Purpose is paintings and installation by Ree Artemisa. At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd. 5PM-8 Free
Alchemical Transformations by Brian Bartz, Blue McCall x Proof of Body, Kelley O’Leary are at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Chris Lael Larson has colordul Product Flows. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8
The Smalltalk Collective finishes their gallery run with Old Futures Gone. The collective continues. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
Omens of Capacity continues. At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
False Front is back. Ryan T. Riss has Do you believe in magic? At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
Lost on Purpose is paintings and installation by Ree Artemisa. At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd. 5PM-8 Free
Alchemical Transformations by Brian Bartz, Blue McCall x Proof of Body, Kelley O’Leary are at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Chris Lael Larson has colordul Product Flows. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8
The Smalltalk Collective finishes their gallery run with Old Futures Gone. The collective continues. At the Small Talk Collective Strange Paradise Gallery www.smalltalkcollective.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate#1 Map 5PM-8 Free
Omens of Capacity 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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