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

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

Saturday, September 16, 2023

September 16 Bloomfall

Ty Ennis has new paintings, Innerbloom.

At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 3PM-5 Free

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

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

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

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