The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ - has Sue Taylor presenting Alice Neel and the Politics of Figure Painting.
"An occasional painter of expressive city- scapes and still lifes, Neel (1900-1984) remained passionately dedicated in her practice to the human figure. Her portrait subjects ranged from family members to the socialists and labor activists she admired, art-world and literary cognoscenti, and the down-and-out denizens of her upper West-side New York neighborhood. Working doggedly yet unrecognized for decades, Neel became her own publicist, armed with an entertaining personality and a repertory of slide lectures stressing the remarkable originality of her pictures. The feminist movement of the 1970s brought the by-then grandmotherly Neel a renown she had so long deserved. In this presentation, Taylor will focus on the artist’s unique approach to portraiture and the nude, with special attention to Neel’s anti-sentimental concepts of motherhood and female identity."
Talk at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
The Tweed Ride is a little later and drier this year. Wear vintage-y clothing, tweeds, fancy hats, fancy socks, and if you like, fancy shoes and gloves. Bring a picnic. Bring tea. Bring fancy drinkware.
The Portland Tweed Ride 2024 https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-18647 starting at Brooklyn Park near SE 10th and SE Haig. Ending in NE Portland. 3PM gather, 4PM ride, 12 miles. Free
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
April 13 Pedal Pedal Medium Mother Parentheses Wonder
A good first stop today is the 7th first annual Ladd's 500. It's like a non-competitive alley cat in a circle. Form a team, 500 laps acound Ladd Circle is 100 miles, a century. In the planted part of the circle is a party and a place for your other team members to recharge. Costumes are A-OK. https://www.shift2bikes.org/pages/ladds-500/ 10AM all day Free
Today and tomorrow is the Synth and Pedal demo-show. Portland is the smallest town for this show. You can audition and experiment with all the sound makers and modifiers through headphones. It is the https://delicious-audio.com/upcoming-synth-pedal-expos/ at https://briq.studio/ 209 NW 4th Noon Free tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-portland-synthmodular-expo-2024-tickets-858414539997
Ricky Bearghost, Gemma Browne, Mike Paré open their show Mediums. "These three artists are mediums, conduits of “what’s trying to force its way through”. Not hiding. Reverberating agents attuned to the spheres and what’s oozing out. Intoxicated by the material as much as the subject “I am merely the instrument”, the fuzzy pumper barber shop, an apparatus ignited by color. This show will feature new weavings by Bearghost and works on paper by Browne and Paré." Meow!
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 2PM-5 Free
Francesca Capone brings A Mother’s Discourse. She is a RISD & Brown-minted writer and textile artist. Writer Dave Hickey opined on beauty as an ingredient in art. To me, some materials take over the work. Textiles, and highly finished glass, wood, even electronic arts, we're looking at you, teamLab, can fall into this trap. Capone's words on textile bring possibilities of more contemporary experience. Francesca Capone https://www.francescacapone.com.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 3PM-5 Free
Math Pearl Bass brings Full Body Parentheses. It is painting and murals in a graphic art style, alomg with sculpture. Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg performs as Pure O at 6.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/em-nona-faustine-em 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Free
I expereinced some of the earliest pop surealist / lowbrow art at La Luz de Jesus, then much later at Roq La Rue. It's a broad field and my interests in it are very narrow. So I have never vibed with Brassworks, though they deserve respect for their show schedule. That said, I have followed the work of Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. Their paintings, to me, are more outsider impressionism. Monroe has added a new ingredient, tufted tapestry. They bring their whole family of works in show Automatic Wonder. Also showing is Legendary Stature by Oronde Kairi and Jeanne Steffan with Shranimals. At Brassworks Gallery 3022 NE Glisan Ave 5PM-9 Free
Today and tomorrow is the Synth and Pedal demo-show. Portland is the smallest town for this show. You can audition and experiment with all the sound makers and modifiers through headphones. It is the https://delicious-audio.com/upcoming-synth-pedal-expos/ at https://briq.studio/ 209 NW 4th Noon Free tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-portland-synthmodular-expo-2024-tickets-858414539997
Ricky Bearghost, Gemma Browne, Mike Paré open their show Mediums. "These three artists are mediums, conduits of “what’s trying to force its way through”. Not hiding. Reverberating agents attuned to the spheres and what’s oozing out. Intoxicated by the material as much as the subject “I am merely the instrument”, the fuzzy pumper barber shop, an apparatus ignited by color. This show will feature new weavings by Bearghost and works on paper by Browne and Paré." Meow!
At Helen's Costume https://www.costumeintl.com/ 7706 SE Yamhill Street 2PM-5 Free
Francesca Capone brings A Mother’s Discourse. She is a RISD & Brown-minted writer and textile artist. Writer Dave Hickey opined on beauty as an ingredient in art. To me, some materials take over the work. Textiles, and highly finished glass, wood, even electronic arts, we're looking at you, teamLab, can fall into this trap. Capone's words on textile bring possibilities of more contemporary experience. Francesca Capone https://www.francescacapone.com.
At Nationale
Math Pearl Bass brings Full Body Parentheses. It is painting and murals in a graphic art style, alomg with sculpture. Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg performs as Pure O at 6.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2023/em-nona-faustine-em 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map 4PM-7 Free
I expereinced some of the earliest pop surealist / lowbrow art at La Luz de Jesus, then much later at Roq La Rue. It's a broad field and my interests in it are very narrow. So I have never vibed with Brassworks, though they deserve respect for their show schedule. That said, I have followed the work of Jesse Reno and Melissa Monroe. Their paintings, to me, are more outsider impressionism. Monroe has added a new ingredient, tufted tapestry. They bring their whole family of works in show Automatic Wonder. Also showing is Legendary Stature by Oronde Kairi and Jeanne Steffan with Shranimals. At Brassworks Gallery 3022 NE Glisan Ave 5PM-9 Free
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
April 9 If we had 9.1 ears ATMOS(TM) would make sense
Music never sleeps. In a hall or a bar, multiple insruments fill the space with echoes, our head+ear transfer function allows us to localize and construct a soundstage, and we enjoy the music.
L&C College has art and music programs. They have created an outdoor 16 channel listening environment, the Experimental Art Research Forest - EAR Forest. https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/
Annie Sprinkle + Beth Stephens https://sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu/ have been doing a Spring arts residency at the school. This evening they are reading out their 16 channel composition in the woods.
The EAR Forest is seeking artists, so listen up sound healers, ambient composers, hardware synthers, and sound artists.
EAR Forest installation at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 5PM-6:30 Free
L&C College has art and music programs. They have created an outdoor 16 channel listening environment, the Experimental Art Research Forest - EAR Forest. https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/
Annie Sprinkle + Beth Stephens https://sprinklestephens.ucsc.edu/ have been doing a Spring arts residency at the school. This evening they are reading out their 16 channel composition in the woods.
The EAR Forest is seeking artists, so listen up sound healers, ambient composers, hardware synthers, and sound artists.
EAR Forest installation at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 5PM-6:30 Free
Saturday, April 06, 2024
April 6 Northside and Westside Openings+
Most of the shows on the Westside which opened Thursday are open today.
The Circus and the Beach is a show of the work of intellectually disabled artists Tess Bidelspach, Elmeater Morton, and Mohamed Omar, working at the Elbow Room. It is curated by Kristan Kennedy. Omar will perform at 2:30.
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 2PM-4 Free
A&O opens landscape paintings by Joan Nelson https://adamsandollman.com/Joan-Nelson-New-Works and schematic botanical illustrations by Kinke Kooi https://adamsandollman.com/Kinke-Kooi-The-Male-Part-of-the-Flower.
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 3PM-5 Free
Arthur Pierson https://www.arthurpierson.net/ died in Portland at age 76, 6 years ago. He lived in the Alberta neighborhood. So Masks: A Retrospective is at Souvenir Arts https://souvenirartspdx.org 1233 NE Alberta 4PM-8 Free
Bill Rebholz has Earthly Offers. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Outer Voice closes Kinds of Time. At 6 they have performances. One involves you walking in mismatched shoes.
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Intergalactic/ Planetary/ Planetary/ Intergalactic is a show by Andrea Alonge, Brian Knowles. "Alonge’s textile works evoke portals, wormholes, spirals, microcosms, and spiritual symbols, while Knowles’ work plays on the geological forms of space, molecular structures, chemical reactions, and topographical maps."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Atras do Pensamento / Behind Thought are paintings on plywood by Quinha Faria with collaboration by Tatiana Godoy-Betancur and Ryan Windus. The Carnation website explains it all.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
For your +1, classical Indian music vocalist Michael Stirling and Joss Jaffe, tabla perform ragas. Stirling is a disciple of the late Pandit Pran Nath (1918 – 1996) and a student of Nathji’s senior disciple Terry Riley. At intimate temple setting Nritya Mandala Mahavihara - Dance Mandal. 1405 SE 40th 7:30PM $15
For your +2 local electronic musicans Pigeon Milk perform their live score to Kubrick's 2001. At Kelly's Olympian 8PM $10 advance $12 door
The Circus and the Beach is a show of the work of intellectually disabled artists Tess Bidelspach, Elmeater Morton, and Mohamed Omar, working at the Elbow Room. It is curated by Kristan Kennedy. Omar will perform at 2:30.
At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 2PM-4 Free
A&O opens landscape paintings by Joan Nelson https://adamsandollman.com/Joan-Nelson-New-Works and schematic botanical illustrations by Kinke Kooi https://adamsandollman.com/Kinke-Kooi-The-Male-Part-of-the-Flower.
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 3PM-5 Free
Arthur Pierson https://www.arthurpierson.net/ died in Portland at age 76, 6 years ago. He lived in the Alberta neighborhood. So Masks: A Retrospective is at Souvenir Arts https://souvenirartspdx.org 1233 NE Alberta 4PM-8 Free
Bill Rebholz has Earthly Offers. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Outer Voice closes Kinds of Time. At 6 they have performances. One involves you walking in mismatched shoes.
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Intergalactic/ Planetary/ Planetary/ Intergalactic is a show by Andrea Alonge, Brian Knowles. "Alonge’s textile works evoke portals, wormholes, spirals, microcosms, and spiritual symbols, while Knowles’ work plays on the geological forms of space, molecular structures, chemical reactions, and topographical maps."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Atras do Pensamento / Behind Thought are paintings on plywood by Quinha Faria with collaboration by Tatiana Godoy-Betancur and Ryan Windus. The Carnation website explains it all.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
For your +1, classical Indian music vocalist Michael Stirling and Joss Jaffe, tabla perform ragas. Stirling is a disciple of the late Pandit Pran Nath (1918 – 1996) and a student of Nathji’s senior disciple Terry Riley. At intimate temple setting Nritya Mandala Mahavihara - Dance Mandal. 1405 SE 40th 7:30PM $15
For your +2 local electronic musicans Pigeon Milk perform their live score to Kubrick's 2001. At Kelly's Olympian 8PM $10 advance $12 door
Friday, April 05, 2024
April 5-6 Floor Lords
Breaking makes its Olympic debut August 9 in Paris. Here is one version of the story https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/genesis-of-competitive-breaking.
Hip Hop dance had its day in Portland but it's fading. It seems like the Melbourne shuffle, easier, is rising. Seattle tho, has a more solid situation with the long-running Zulu 206.
This weekend they represent their crews to a Red Bull-sponsored competition bringing world crews in Lords of the Floor, 2 on 2.
Friday is the prelims and workshops. Saturday has workshops, the finals, and an afterparty. It appears Saturday's main event streams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-i3HcA_olU; sold out in person now.
Lords of the Floor https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events/lords-of-the-floor/event-info-2024 at W Hotel, Washington Hall, and WAMU Hall. Seattle
Hip Hop dance had its day in Portland but it's fading. It seems like the Melbourne shuffle, easier, is rising. Seattle tho, has a more solid situation with the long-running Zulu 206.
This weekend they represent their crews to a Red Bull-sponsored competition bringing world crews in Lords of the Floor, 2 on 2.
Friday is the prelims and workshops. Saturday has workshops, the finals, and an afterparty. It appears Saturday's main event streams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-i3HcA_olU; sold out in person now.
Lords of the Floor https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events/lords-of-the-floor/event-info-2024 at W Hotel, Washington Hall, and WAMU Hall. Seattle
April 5 Friday Garden Mushroom Stomp
Portland's Butoh connection rode off into the New Mexico sunset. But there are still butoh players here. Tonight they do a sprawling event in a small place. Paige Starling Sorvillo from Oakland, Alexander Freilich, Nicole Walters, and Carl Annala perform with music by Eric Jordan, Jason Hovatter, & The Ice Queen. Tickets and more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-butoh-festival-tickets-864030627867. At Portland Arts Collective 120 SW Harvey Milk 7PM $20
Cluster 2 is the mushroom show. Have we reached peak mushroom? Not yet. Artists in the Nucleus stable have painted and modded 5" tall wood mushrooms. Artists are Adam Alaniz, Andrew DeGraff, Bill Mayer, Briana Hertzog, Bryce Wymer, Caleb Sinchok, Cheyenne Barton, Claire Merchlinsky, Dusty Ray, Edward Kinsella III, Ego, Eli McMullen, Ellen Surrey, Faunwood, Gina Matarazzo, Graham Franciose, Helice Wen, Jamie Green, Jim Houser, Josh Keyes, Julian Callos, Kamryn Tulare, Kelly Malka, Kevan Hom, Kim Slate, Kimera Wachna, Krissta Passanante, Kyler Martz, Lachlan Herrick, Meadow & Fawn, Makoto Chi, Marisa Aragón Ware, Matt Schu, Michael Camarra, Nicole Gustafsson, Nicomi Nix Turner, Otiswoods, Paper Puffin, Parakid, Patrick Mathews, Rachel Bensimon, Shoko Ishida, Stephanie Brown, Stevie Shao, T. Dylan Moore, Taryn Knight, Teagan White, Vasilisa Romanenko, Veronica Steiner, Tegan Bellitta, The Creeping Moon, The Obanoth, and Willie Real.
At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Ori has been consumed with buying their building, rehab plans, and operating the late Headwaters Theater. Tonight they resume public programming with a show and talk by artist Lucky Frances. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 5PM Free
Holly Osbrne has Gardens, paintings. www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
More at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times.
Cluster 2 is the mushroom show. Have we reached peak mushroom? Not yet. Artists in the Nucleus stable have painted and modded 5" tall wood mushrooms. Artists are Adam Alaniz, Andrew DeGraff, Bill Mayer, Briana Hertzog, Bryce Wymer, Caleb Sinchok, Cheyenne Barton, Claire Merchlinsky, Dusty Ray, Edward Kinsella III, Ego, Eli McMullen, Ellen Surrey, Faunwood, Gina Matarazzo, Graham Franciose, Helice Wen, Jamie Green, Jim Houser, Josh Keyes, Julian Callos, Kamryn Tulare, Kelly Malka, Kevan Hom, Kim Slate, Kimera Wachna, Krissta Passanante, Kyler Martz, Lachlan Herrick, Meadow & Fawn, Makoto Chi, Marisa Aragón Ware, Matt Schu, Michael Camarra, Nicole Gustafsson, Nicomi Nix Turner, Otiswoods, Paper Puffin, Parakid, Patrick Mathews, Rachel Bensimon, Shoko Ishida, Stephanie Brown, Stevie Shao, T. Dylan Moore, Taryn Knight, Teagan White, Vasilisa Romanenko, Veronica Steiner, Tegan Bellitta, The Creeping Moon, The Obanoth, and Willie Real.
At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Ori has been consumed with buying their building, rehab plans, and operating the late Headwaters Theater. Tonight they resume public programming with a show and talk by artist Lucky Frances. At Ori Gallery, little with a big vision, www.oriartgallery.com 4038 N Mississippi 5PM Free
Holly Osbrne has Gardens, paintings. www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
More at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times.
Thursday, April 04, 2024
April 4 Westside Art Openings +
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Leach, Froelick, The Black Gallery, continue. No idea on Landdd, or the Everett Lofts.
For your +1, Grapefruits Gallery opens a group show, The Old Art Show. In the Mother Foucalt's Bookstore 523 SE Morrison 5PM-8 Free
It must be trying to be Spring, so for your +2 you can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
Kayla Marie Carlson has Natural Coundations, large color blocks on a brown background. Brown is back everywhere! At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-8 Free
In the Nine Gallery has Observations, by Trude Parkinson. It relates well with the last month moon show. It's paintings based on photographs made at the Goldendale Observatory.
Toni Pepe has Mothercraft, fround photos, rephotographed.
The Critical Mass show this year is André Ramos-Woodard, with Black Snaf.
Seeing Time is a group show by PNCA students.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
They Said No Dancing is a show by artist and poet Kristen Diederich. At After/time Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 5PM-8
Margot Voorhies Thompson has Letters from a Remote Landscape and Gabe Fernandez has Liminal Space. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. There are too many shows to list inside, there are outdoor projections, and DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid spin.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Ekphraestivalpdx is a group show of visual word art at Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Waterstone has Ruth Armitage with Blame It on the Moon: Abstract Nocturnes. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-78 Free
Blackfish has Gilding the Lily by Alice Christine Walker, photography and media on women's bodies. Philip Stork has Reimagining, pastel and ink. Ekphraestival, word art is at Balckfish too. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Roger Kukes has Hanford and the American West. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
RACC has an open house with works from the substantial public collection they manage. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
William Park has Retrospective Hiccup. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
States of Being ia a group show by Rita Alves, Sam Case, Melissa Jones, Raven Lloyd, Matt Seavers, Cassie Tompkins, and Gia Whitlock. At Erickson Gallery 9 SW 2nd 5PM-8
The Urban Art Network is back with their sprawling carfts and art show on 13th.
Leach, Froelick, The Black Gallery, continue. No idea on Landdd, or the Everett Lofts.
For your +1, Grapefruits Gallery opens a group show, The Old Art Show. In the Mother Foucalt's Bookstore 523 SE Morrison 5PM-8 Free
It must be trying to be Spring, so for your +2 you can experience Flamenco music with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
Kayla Marie Carlson has Natural Coundations, large color blocks on a brown background. Brown is back everywhere! At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-8 Free
In the Nine Gallery has Observations, by Trude Parkinson. It relates well with the last month moon show. It's paintings based on photographs made at the Goldendale Observatory.
Toni Pepe has Mothercraft, fround photos, rephotographed.
The Critical Mass show this year is André Ramos-Woodard, with Black Snaf.
Seeing Time is a group show by PNCA students.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
They Said No Dancing is a show by artist and poet Kristen Diederich. At After/time Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 5PM-8
Margot Voorhies Thompson has Letters from a Remote Landscape and Gabe Fernandez has Liminal Space. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. There are too many shows to list inside, there are outdoor projections, and DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid spin.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Ekphraestivalpdx is a group show of visual word art at Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Waterstone has Ruth Armitage with Blame It on the Moon: Abstract Nocturnes. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-78 Free
Blackfish has Gilding the Lily by Alice Christine Walker, photography and media on women's bodies. Philip Stork has Reimagining, pastel and ink. Ekphraestival, word art is at Balckfish too. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Roger Kukes has Hanford and the American West. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
RACC has an open house with works from the substantial public collection they manage. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
William Park has Retrospective Hiccup. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
States of Being ia a group show by Rita Alves, Sam Case, Melissa Jones, Raven Lloyd, Matt Seavers, Cassie Tompkins, and Gia Whitlock. At Erickson Gallery 9 SW 2nd 5PM-8
The Urban Art Network is back with their sprawling carfts and art show on 13th.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
March 30 Poetics of Sun
B. Wurtz has Organic Yogurt and the Poetics of a Sock. They will perform their music from Under the Sky along with Ann Bobco. The artist from NY is in their late career and has used discarded material for their art.
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-5 Free
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th 1PM-5 Free
Saturday, March 23, 2024
March 23 - 24 Sextet Closes
Sextet is a show of queer artists, Daniel Peabody, Molly Alloy, David Eckard, Andrzej Jank, Michael Espinoza, and Pepper Pepper. 608 NW 13th, #102 Noon-4 Free
Friday, March 15, 2024
March 17 Nevelson
The Oregon Alliance for the National Museum of Women in the Arts - https://nmwa.org/ - has Bruce Guenther presenting Hand and Eye: Louise Nevelson and a Bricolage Future.
Talk at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
Talk at PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 2PM-4 Free
March 16 Partake in Silence Knowing Doors Wake Modulation
PDX Contemporary has present and past employee art. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com3-5 Worker art
Glen Baldridge & Louise Sheldon have Doors in Floors along with Martha Daghlian The Great Art of Knowing. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 5PM-7 Free
Nathan Paul Rice and Ellen Robinette have Modulations. At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 4PM-7
One Grand has Partake in Me, a group aniversary show. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Ambient musician Steve Roach has Structures From Silence, a 2 hour show with projection-mapped visuals. Their ticketing link is insecure, so no idea the price. At the First Congregatioional Church 1126 SW Park. 8PM
Neal Kosaly-Meyer reads Part II, Chapter 2 of Finnegans Wake in honor of St Patrick's Day. The reading will be in darkness and 2 1/2 hours without a break. At Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660. 5:30PM Doors, 6 Lecture, 7 Reading, $5-20 No late entry
There is also flamenco at Artichoke, always fun.
The yearly CAP Art Auction and afterparty are tonight. More at https://www.capartauction.org/.
Glen Baldridge & Louise Sheldon have Doors in Floors along with Martha Daghlian The Great Art of Knowing. At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 5PM-7 Free
Nathan Paul Rice and Ellen Robinette have Modulations. At Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 4PM-7
One Grand has Partake in Me, a group aniversary show. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Ambient musician Steve Roach has Structures From Silence, a 2 hour show with projection-mapped visuals. Their ticketing link is insecure, so no idea the price. At the First Congregatioional Church 1126 SW Park. 8PM
Neal Kosaly-Meyer reads Part II, Chapter 2 of Finnegans Wake in honor of St Patrick's Day. The reading will be in darkness and 2 1/2 hours without a break. At Passages Bookshop 1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660. 5:30PM Doors, 6 Lecture, 7 Reading, $5-20 No late entry
There is also flamenco at Artichoke, always fun.
The yearly CAP Art Auction and afterparty are tonight. More at https://www.capartauction.org/.
March 15-17 Go Sou'west, young person
The Sou'wester is a vintage trailer motel and lodge in Seaview, Washington. It is a short walk to the sea and adjacent to a wild native forest. They have arts and crafts events throughout the year. For a week the last few years, it is taken over by mostly Portland contemporary artists and musicians. They have a week of residency and a weekend of unfolding the work.
The plan is:
Friday, 6PM-10 Ilwaco Art Works
Saturday, Noon-2 Wave of the Future Preschool and 2PM-10 at Sou'wester proper
Sunday, 11AM-1PM Ilwaco Art Works
More at https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/ and a flipbook of the detailed schedule, projects, and a map https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/#flipbook-df_25976/1/
It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby. The weather this year is stellar.
At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA Recommended. Free
The plan is:
Friday, 6PM-10 Ilwaco Art Works
Saturday, Noon-2 Wave of the Future Preschool and 2PM-10 at Sou'wester proper
Sunday, 11AM-1PM Ilwaco Art Works
More at https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/ and a flipbook of the detailed schedule, projects, and a map https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2024/#flipbook-df_25976/1/
It is an about 2 1/2 hour drive each way, consider lodging on the coast nearby. The weather this year is stellar.
At the Sou'wester hotel trailer park at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA Recommended. Free
March 15 Secret Creature
Secret Room Press is part of the Portland Riso revival along with Outlet, PSU, and the IPRC. The Risograph is a Japanese color printer that uses stensels and ink. The ink is in a large cartridge. To change the color, you change the cartridge. It's lo-rez.
Tonight they open with a show Creature Comforts by Adam De Souza, Arantza Peña Popo, Chris Koelling, Cole Pauls, Eileen Chavez, Eleonora Simeoni, Erin Tanner, Jensine Eckwall, Kirsten Hatfield, Molly Lecko Herro, Patrick Kyle, Ryan Cook, Sean Christensen, and Victor Bizar Gómez. They are all printed with Sunflower, Aqua, Bubblegum, and Brown Riso ink.
At Secret Room Press https://www.secretroompress.com/ 3325 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
Tonight they open with a show Creature Comforts by Adam De Souza, Arantza Peña Popo, Chris Koelling, Cole Pauls, Eileen Chavez, Eleonora Simeoni, Erin Tanner, Jensine Eckwall, Kirsten Hatfield, Molly Lecko Herro, Patrick Kyle, Ryan Cook, Sean Christensen, and Victor Bizar Gómez. They are all printed with Sunflower, Aqua, Bubblegum, and Brown Riso ink.
At Secret Room Press https://www.secretroompress.com/ 3325 SE Division 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, March 14, 2024
March 14 Getting Stronger Every Day
I met Miranda July in the late 1990s at the Tidbit Gallery. The gallery had a storied short run. We struck up a conversation involving her red polkadot boots and patterned Summer shift, then ongoing about her writing that became Me, You, and Everyone We Know.
She had been doing zines with Johanna Fateman, then spoken word, and spoken word with images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J419epd_oJA, performing venues like 17 Nautical Miles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA8E7Zb9P9c She collaborated on shows with Olympia and its diaspora Riot Girl bands including Cadallaca. She released several recordings of her stories on Kill Rock Stars and K records you can find. I suggested her to PICA, who commissioned Love Diamond, and PICA suggested her to The Kitchen. She has since built a sustainable career in social practice art, including Learning to Love You More, movies, and writing.
Along the way some of her short performances became short movies. Tonight you can see a few.
From CST:
"Atlanta (1996) — A 12-year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother speak to the public about going for the gold.
The Amateurist (1998) — A captivating video about surveillance, identity, watching, and being watched, which slides along the edges of horror and satire to create an unsettling portrait of a woman on the brink of technologically-driven madness.
Nest of Tens (1999) — Four alternating stories which reveal mundane yet personal methods of control, linked by a quasi-academic lecturer revealing the phobias and queasy strangeness that lies behind the everyday.
Getting Stronger Everyday (2001) — A dark and disturbing mystical tale about two boys who were taken from their families and then returned to them years later."
You can probably find most of them, but it will be more fun to see them with friends!
They encapsulate her slightly disturbing jumping narrative style and her unique voice on a DIY canvas.
Around that time she started her Big Miss Moviola / Joanie 4 Jackie video chain letter project. https://www.joanie4jackie.com/chainletter-tapes/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KJw7icQjk Lady movie makers would send in their DIY shorts and a letter to viewers, they would be combined into as many as would fit on a VHS, and then sent out to the makers and subscribers.
July once explained, "The innocent woman is only innocent because she knows that if she shows what she knows nobody will like her and she won't be able to do all the important things she needs to do. Innocence is like an art form."
Vintage Miranda July on screen at the Clinton Street Theater. 2522 SE Clinton 7PM $10
She had been doing zines with Johanna Fateman, then spoken word, and spoken word with images https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J419epd_oJA, performing venues like 17 Nautical Miles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA8E7Zb9P9c She collaborated on shows with Olympia and its diaspora Riot Girl bands including Cadallaca. She released several recordings of her stories on Kill Rock Stars and K records you can find. I suggested her to PICA, who commissioned Love Diamond, and PICA suggested her to The Kitchen. She has since built a sustainable career in social practice art, including Learning to Love You More, movies, and writing.
Along the way some of her short performances became short movies. Tonight you can see a few.
From CST:
"Atlanta (1996) — A 12-year-old Olympic swimmer and her mother speak to the public about going for the gold.
The Amateurist (1998) — A captivating video about surveillance, identity, watching, and being watched, which slides along the edges of horror and satire to create an unsettling portrait of a woman on the brink of technologically-driven madness.
Nest of Tens (1999) — Four alternating stories which reveal mundane yet personal methods of control, linked by a quasi-academic lecturer revealing the phobias and queasy strangeness that lies behind the everyday.
Getting Stronger Everyday (2001) — A dark and disturbing mystical tale about two boys who were taken from their families and then returned to them years later."
You can probably find most of them, but it will be more fun to see them with friends!
They encapsulate her slightly disturbing jumping narrative style and her unique voice on a DIY canvas.
Around that time she started her Big Miss Moviola / Joanie 4 Jackie video chain letter project. https://www.joanie4jackie.com/chainletter-tapes/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7KJw7icQjk Lady movie makers would send in their DIY shorts and a letter to viewers, they would be combined into as many as would fit on a VHS, and then sent out to the makers and subscribers.
July once explained, "The innocent woman is only innocent because she knows that if she shows what she knows nobody will like her and she won't be able to do all the important things she needs to do. Innocence is like an art form."
Vintage Miranda July on screen at the Clinton Street Theater. 2522 SE Clinton 7PM $10
Friday, March 08, 2024
March 9 Venerable Showers of Awakening Content
Hotels can be mini art galleries. In my memory it's been done in Eugene and in Portland on Interstate Avenue. The Ace Hotel did a version connected to the Portland independent fashion and stylist world. Now the Society Hotel has revived it.
Content 2024 has artists Rain Ezra, Dandy Gal, Arbor House, Brady Lange, Madre Linen + Camille Shu, Carolina Dulanto, Chris Lael Larson, Danielle Delceppo, Elouise Elliott, Father Fannie, Francesca Lohmann, Gili Rappaport, Holly Stalder, Hyun Jung Jung, i. max. miller, Nishimoto Is The Mouth, Spacelab, Kate Towers, Kristen Diederich, Making Earth Cool, Martie Kilmer: Space Design, Mary Luczycki, Megan Sinclair, Melissa Monroe, Michelle Freedman, Nami Hall, Rachael Modrcin, Sam Kalafat, Savina Monet and Outsrc.
Tickets are going to be needed in advance. There are two sessions, Noon-4 and 6-11. All ages. Tickets https://www.merctickets.com/events/148440551/content-a-multi-discplinary-fully-immersive-art-take-over. Content https://www.wearecontentpdx.com/ at the Society Hotel 203 NW 3rd Noon-4 and 6-11 $25-30
Pythagoras was wrong. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2419442-pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music/#:~:text=An%20ancient%20Greek%20belief%20about,appreciate%20harmony%2C%20researchers%20have%20found. People like Western music and Eastern music with different rhythms and scales.
That brings us to the gamelan. It is back in public in Portland.
A gamelan is an Indonesian percussion symphony with added instruments, no conductor, and the possibility of improvisation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWCCSuHsuQ It has existed about two millennia. Lewis and Clark College, with it's excellent ethnomusicology program, has a gamelan.
Tonight is a gamelan concert and a documentary Goong: Sound Through Fire on forging and tuning a large bronze Gamelan gong.
At Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis & Clark College, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road. 7:30PM Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gamelan-music-film-goong-sound-through-fire-tickets-826739960477?aff=oddtdtcreator $20, discounts for students
Tatsumi Hijikata was born 96 years ago in Northern Japan. At age 31 he created the first Butoh dance work a new form of modern dance. He died at age 57 leaving a family tree of performers though it is still a niche few see live.
Tonight Hiroko Tamano from San Francisco and Kaoru Okumura from Seattle perform a piece entitled Awakening of Insects on Hijikata's birthday.
Awakening of insects https://www.sfzc.org/calendar/events/city-center/kei-chitsu-awakening-insects-butoh-performance-cc-39 at the San Francisco Zen Center 308 Page Street $35 Sold Out
Content 2024 has artists Rain Ezra, Dandy Gal, Arbor House, Brady Lange, Madre Linen + Camille Shu, Carolina Dulanto, Chris Lael Larson, Danielle Delceppo, Elouise Elliott, Father Fannie, Francesca Lohmann, Gili Rappaport, Holly Stalder, Hyun Jung Jung, i. max. miller, Nishimoto Is The Mouth, Spacelab, Kate Towers, Kristen Diederich, Making Earth Cool, Martie Kilmer: Space Design, Mary Luczycki, Megan Sinclair, Melissa Monroe, Michelle Freedman, Nami Hall, Rachael Modrcin, Sam Kalafat, Savina Monet and Outsrc.
Tickets are going to be needed in advance. There are two sessions, Noon-4 and 6-11. All ages. Tickets https://www.merctickets.com/events/148440551/content-a-multi-discplinary-fully-immersive-art-take-over. Content https://www.wearecontentpdx.com/ at the Society Hotel 203 NW 3rd Noon-4 and 6-11 $25-30
Pythagoras was wrong. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2419442-pythagoras-was-wrong-about-the-maths-behind-pleasant-music/#:~:text=An%20ancient%20Greek%20belief%20about,appreciate%20harmony%2C%20researchers%20have%20found. People like Western music and Eastern music with different rhythms and scales.
That brings us to the gamelan. It is back in public in Portland.
A gamelan is an Indonesian percussion symphony with added instruments, no conductor, and the possibility of improvisation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWCCSuHsuQ It has existed about two millennia. Lewis and Clark College, with it's excellent ethnomusicology program, has a gamelan.
Tonight is a gamelan concert and a documentary Goong: Sound Through Fire on forging and tuning a large bronze Gamelan gong.
At Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis & Clark College, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road. 7:30PM Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gamelan-music-film-goong-sound-through-fire-tickets-826739960477?aff=oddtdtcreator $20, discounts for students
Tatsumi Hijikata was born 96 years ago in Northern Japan. At age 31 he created the first Butoh dance work a new form of modern dance. He died at age 57 leaving a family tree of performers though it is still a niche few see live.
Tonight Hiroko Tamano from San Francisco and Kaoru Okumura from Seattle perform a piece entitled Awakening of Insects on Hijikata's birthday.
Awakening of insects https://www.sfzc.org/calendar/events/city-center/kei-chitsu-awakening-insects-butoh-performance-cc-39 at the San Francisco Zen Center 308 Page Street $35 Sold Out
March 8 Microdose or bachata? Both!
Microdose 4 is the 4th Nucleus group show of tiny works. They would be perfect for a tiny home! And for apertments they are easy to move - just put it in your pocket! Artists this year are Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Cat Rabbit, Creature Creature, Chloe Niclas, Deth Sun, Diego Penuela, Erick Martinez, Felicia Chiao, Hanna Jaeun, Heather Birdsong, Heidi Moreno, Helice Wen, Jessica So Ren Tang, JP Neang, Juliet Schreckinger, Kanako Abe, Katie Gamb, Kim Baise, Kime, Kozy Kitchens, Laura Catherwood, LIFO, Lily Seika Jones, Marjolaine Roller, Matt Schu, Mizna Wada, Molly Mendoza, Nana Williams, Naoshi, PaperPuffin, Po Yan Leung, Samantha Mash, Sibylline Meynet, Yu Maeda, and Zach Meyer. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 (no early sales) Free
Landdd has new rugs and textiles from Mexico and visiting artists from Dominicana. They have mezcal and mini Coronas. They are playing cumbia and bachata vinyls and cassettes on their vintage art speakers. At Landdd Gallery https://www.landdd.org 7PM-9ish
The Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater has Afro-Futurist costume designer Ruth E Carter tonight at 7:30PM $75
Landdd has new rugs and textiles from Mexico and visiting artists from Dominicana. They have mezcal and mini Coronas. They are playing cumbia and bachata vinyls and cassettes on their vintage art speakers. At Landdd Gallery https://www.landdd.org 7PM-9ish
The Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater has Afro-Futurist costume designer Ruth E Carter tonight at 7:30PM $75
Thursday, March 07, 2024
March 7 Westside Art Openings +
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Illy2, Adams and Ollman, and After/Time continue. No idea on Landdd, or the Everett Lofts.
For your +1, Soil Gallery in Seattle opens Sleepless Nights by artists Marcelo Fontana, Pamela Hadley, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Hannah Newman, Jessie Rose Vala, Morgan Rosskopf, and Katherine Spinella. It's curated by Hannah Newman at Portland's Wave Contemporary and who has shown at Carnation.
They win the copywriting award today:
""Sleepless Nights explores the anxieties that keep us awake at night. In the transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep, the unconscious comes alive, quickening our thoughts to the realities and fears we suppress in waking hours. Doomscrolling, insomnia, and poor mental health are the results of carrying the uncertainties that litter our contemporary social, political, and physical landscapes.
To cope with our anxieties, we stay busy in our waking lives. Busyness in contemporary life is not simply a response to inflation or grind culture, but ultimately, a survival tactic. The moment we slow down, our worries catch up - we will be overcome by the weight of the unknown. Instead, we distract ourselves, focusing on consuming and creating beauty - the survival strategies of an artist. The anxiety waits, patiently anticipating our return to the twilight zone between waking and sleeping.
Recreating this liminal space, the exhibition Sleepless Nights unfolds in a dark room via blacklights, nightlights, phone screens, and projectors. The room is infused with a continuous stream of audio, a background score of current events, news updates, podcasts, and other data. The exhibition features work by artists working in a wide variety of media and methods, but connected by their anxieties, drive to create, and hope for the future. The artists display their work within an environment of the unease within which it is created. Each artwork becomes a talisman to hold our anxieties at bay.
Sleepless Nights is a space for reflection and introspection, where visitors can engage with their own cares and concerns as well as the uncertainties of the wider world. It is an invitation to look beyond the veil of busyness and productivity to confront the deeper fears that lie within us all.""
At Soil 112 3rd Ave S. Seattle 5PM-8
For your +2, Julie Rall opens installation Ghosts Ship. It includes large fabric sailing sails, encrusted anchor chain, and salt. At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 5PM-8 Free
It must be trying to be Spring, so for your +3 you can experience Flamenco msic with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
Kirsten Blair has Found and Foraged. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8 Free
The big ad agency brings Draw the Good, a group show connected with their Portland Is What We Make It campaign.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 4PM-7 Free
In the Nine Gallery has Moons, by Susan Weil. It is a body of work from 1980 to now inspired by the moon on paper, canvas, plexiglas, mixed-media sculpture ans as artist book.
Fazilat Soukhakian has Queer in Utah. The artist was born in Iran, then moved to the US in their 20s. After school, they now teach in Logan.
Sarah Malakoff from Boston has Personal History, lush individualistic American domestic interiors sans occupants.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Walt Curtis was Portland's real multiartist: poet, painter, author, radio host, naturalist, historian, gay icon, and legend, in the words of the show organizers. All true and more. He made it to age 82! Walt was a big part of the Portland 80s & 90s creative world, inspiring Gus Van Sant's feature film breakout when Gus was in his early 30s. His mythic dream paintings, Moveable Feast, are up tonight. Dan Ness on the decks. At Portland Arts Collective 120 SW Harvey Milk 6PM-9 Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. There are too many shows to list inside, there are outdoor projections, and DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid + DJ Timothy Bee spin.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Weather Patterns by Barb Burwell is at Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Will a flower grow inside me if I eat soil and seeds? is a group show. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-8 Free
Waterstone has impresionistic figurative painter Ruth Hunter. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free
The Black Gallery is open with Adriene Cruz: Power Prayer for the Community. It is textile work. She is in the Oregon Black Artists show at the Portland Art Museum. Curated by Teena Wildero of Art Bridges Community Partnerships. https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7
Blackfish has their 45th Anniversary founding members show. The Unseen is clay sculptures by Ruri. Jana Demartini has prints. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
The Fables are primitive-style paintings by the late Michael C. Spafford. Approaching the Still Point of Turbulence are abstract apintings by Audrey Tulimiero Welch. At Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Sally Cleveland has paintings With the River. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has Tom Prochaska paintings Another Go. Kevin Kadar has paintings Landscapes and Townscapes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
The late Lee Kelly has Bennington Suite & Color Studies, works on paper. Anna Von Mertens has drawings Elements and Objects. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
RACC has an open house with works from the substantial public collection they manage. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
Paul Xavier Rutz has Small Forwards: Paintings of Girlhood in Basketball, based on coaching their daughter's elementary school basketball team. Get on that W+K. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Beatriz Alcaraz has bright busy schematic illustrations. At Erickson Gallery 9 SW 2nd 5PM-8
Illy2, Adams and Ollman, and After/Time continue. No idea on Landdd, or the Everett Lofts.
For your +1, Soil Gallery in Seattle opens Sleepless Nights by artists Marcelo Fontana, Pamela Hadley, Nicholas Moler-Gallardo, Hannah Newman, Jessie Rose Vala, Morgan Rosskopf, and Katherine Spinella. It's curated by Hannah Newman at Portland's Wave Contemporary and who has shown at Carnation.
They win the copywriting award today:
""Sleepless Nights explores the anxieties that keep us awake at night. In the transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep, the unconscious comes alive, quickening our thoughts to the realities and fears we suppress in waking hours. Doomscrolling, insomnia, and poor mental health are the results of carrying the uncertainties that litter our contemporary social, political, and physical landscapes.
To cope with our anxieties, we stay busy in our waking lives. Busyness in contemporary life is not simply a response to inflation or grind culture, but ultimately, a survival tactic. The moment we slow down, our worries catch up - we will be overcome by the weight of the unknown. Instead, we distract ourselves, focusing on consuming and creating beauty - the survival strategies of an artist. The anxiety waits, patiently anticipating our return to the twilight zone between waking and sleeping.
Recreating this liminal space, the exhibition Sleepless Nights unfolds in a dark room via blacklights, nightlights, phone screens, and projectors. The room is infused with a continuous stream of audio, a background score of current events, news updates, podcasts, and other data. The exhibition features work by artists working in a wide variety of media and methods, but connected by their anxieties, drive to create, and hope for the future. The artists display their work within an environment of the unease within which it is created. Each artwork becomes a talisman to hold our anxieties at bay.
Sleepless Nights is a space for reflection and introspection, where visitors can engage with their own cares and concerns as well as the uncertainties of the wider world. It is an invitation to look beyond the veil of busyness and productivity to confront the deeper fears that lie within us all.""
At Soil 112 3rd Ave S. Seattle 5PM-8
For your +2, Julie Rall opens installation Ghosts Ship. It includes large fabric sailing sails, encrusted anchor chain, and salt. At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th 5PM-8 Free
It must be trying to be Spring, so for your +3 you can experience Flamenco msic with guitarist Brenna McDonald and guitarist/vocalist Yeshe Wingerd. A project of Espacio Flamenco, it repeats on first Thursdays. At Bar Botellón 606 NE Davis 7PM-9 Free
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
Kirsten Blair has Found and Foraged. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8 Free
The big ad agency brings Draw the Good, a group show connected with their Portland Is What We Make It campaign.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 4PM-7 Free
In the Nine Gallery has Moons, by Susan Weil. It is a body of work from 1980 to now inspired by the moon on paper, canvas, plexiglas, mixed-media sculpture ans as artist book.
Fazilat Soukhakian has Queer in Utah. The artist was born in Iran, then moved to the US in their 20s. After school, they now teach in Logan.
Sarah Malakoff from Boston has Personal History, lush individualistic American domestic interiors sans occupants.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Walt Curtis was Portland's real multiartist: poet, painter, author, radio host, naturalist, historian, gay icon, and legend, in the words of the show organizers. All true and more. He made it to age 82! Walt was a big part of the Portland 80s & 90s creative world, inspiring Gus Van Sant's feature film breakout when Gus was in his early 30s. His mythic dream paintings, Moveable Feast, are up tonight. Dan Ness on the decks. At Portland Arts Collective 120 SW Harvey Milk 6PM-9 Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. There are too many shows to list inside, there are outdoor projections, and DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid + DJ Timothy Bee spin.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Weather Patterns by Barb Burwell is at Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8
Will a flower grow inside me if I eat soil and seeds? is a group show. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-8 Free
Waterstone has impresionistic figurative painter Ruth Hunter. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free
The Black Gallery is open with Adriene Cruz: Power Prayer for the Community. It is textile work. She is in the Oregon Black Artists show at the Portland Art Museum. Curated by Teena Wildero of Art Bridges Community Partnerships. https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7
Blackfish has their 45th Anniversary founding members show. The Unseen is clay sculptures by Ruri. Jana Demartini has prints. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
The Fables are primitive-style paintings by the late Michael C. Spafford. Approaching the Still Point of Turbulence are abstract apintings by Audrey Tulimiero Welch. At Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Sally Cleveland has paintings With the River. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has Tom Prochaska paintings Another Go. Kevin Kadar has paintings Landscapes and Townscapes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
The late Lee Kelly has Bennington Suite & Color Studies, works on paper. Anna Von Mertens has drawings Elements and Objects. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
RACC has an open house with works from the substantial public collection they manage. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
Paul Xavier Rutz has Small Forwards: Paintings of Girlhood in Basketball, based on coaching their daughter's elementary school basketball team. Get on that W+K. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Beatriz Alcaraz has bright busy schematic illustrations. At Erickson Gallery 9 SW 2nd 5PM-8
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
March 6 Papa Bear
Caldera Arts has always had a Portland office to go along with their artist residency on Blue Lake in Sisters. They open their doors this afternoon for a group show Origin Story. It will be an intimate opportunity to share stories of the late Dan Wieden on his birthday. At Caldera Gallery www.calderaarts.org, 1227 NW Davis. 3PM-5 Free
Saturday, March 02, 2024
March 2 Northside Art Openings
Hide & Seek Gallery has Donyel Ivy-Royal with Ceremony.
At 2638 N. Interstate Unit B Noon-3 Free
Kim Slate https://www.kimslate.com/ has schematic animals. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Georgie Friedman from Boston has video piece Breathing-Light. There is also a preview until March 10 of donations to the CAP auction.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Well Well has Meteorite Mama, sculpture and video, by Jessie Rose Vala. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Hours After Winter by Rachael Zur are mixed medial paintings referencing domestic spaces and processes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Kim Slate https://www.kimslate.com/ has schematic animals. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Georgie Friedman from Boston has video piece Breathing-Light. There is also a preview until March 10 of donations to the CAP auction.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Well Well has Meteorite Mama, sculpture and video, by Jessie Rose Vala. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Hours After Winter by Rachael Zur are mixed medial paintings referencing domestic spaces and processes. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, March 01, 2024
March 1 Mending Protean Jaunt
After/Time has Mending, paintings by Sarah Peters. At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
Daniela Repas has Protean. She has an animation and illustration background. At Souvenir Arts https://souvenirartspdx.org 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free Portland, Oregon
Joseph is a group show curated by the Jaunt arts residency in Joseph, Oregon. They are Tim Biskup, Jillian Evelyn, William LaChance, Macarena Luzi, and Stevie Shao. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
More at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times.
Daniela Repas has Protean. She has an animation and illustration background. At Souvenir Arts https://souvenirartspdx.org 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free Portland, Oregon
Joseph is a group show curated by the Jaunt arts residency in Joseph, Oregon. They are Tim Biskup, Jillian Evelyn, William LaChance, Macarena Luzi, and Stevie Shao. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
More at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
February 24 Mélange Void Scrapbook
Stillness of the Seeming Void is a group show with Bettina, Lee Bontecou, Cynthia Carlson, Abigail DeVille, Covey Gong, Nina Hartmann, Heidi Lau, Kate Newby, Lynne Woods Turner, Stefanie Victor and Stella Zhong. 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 2PM-4 Free
Jeremy Okai Davis, https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2024/02/jeremy-okai-davis-elizabeth-leach-nationale-self-portrait-interview, is guest curator for the group show Mélange. It is in the small back room gallery. Artists include Rebecca Boraz and Chris Lael Larson, Portland, Maria Britton, Carrboro, NC, and Anthony R. Grant, SF Bay Area. The colorful Pace Taylor in the main space closes tomorrow. At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 4PM-6 Free
Joe Rudko from Seattle has Scrapbook, collage work. The reception is today toward the end of the show.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Jeremy Okai Davis, https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2024/02/jeremy-okai-davis-elizabeth-leach-nationale-self-portrait-interview, is guest curator for the group show Mélange. It is in the small back room gallery. Artists include Rebecca Boraz and Chris Lael Larson, Portland, Maria Britton, Carrboro, NC, and Anthony R. Grant, SF Bay Area. The colorful Pace Taylor in the main space closes tomorrow. At Nationale
Joe Rudko from Seattle has Scrapbook, collage work. The reception is today toward the end of the show.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
February 24-25 Oregon Black Artists Talks
The Portland Art Museum has a major show of Black Oregon visual artists. Saturday and Sunday they have talks and demonstrations. Saturday is ticketed. It appears Sunday in the large Masonic temple ballrooms is not, you can inquire if museum admission is required.
All the details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon-convening/#sunday-february-25-2024%c2%a0
At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Saturday 10AM Sunday 9:30AM
All the details are https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon-convening/#sunday-february-25-2024%c2%a0
At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Saturday 10AM Sunday 9:30AM
Thursday, February 22, 2024
February 23 - May 19 Change in Art Institution Context
Social change is in the air. With instant Internet self-curated information sources people and artists naturally ask how they can change the world. It is a good form of self-actualization. Policing Justice is PICA's attempt to catch some of those winds. The whole program is on their website.
February 22 Ingredients
I have a theory of contemporary artwork ingredients. They may include beauty-anti-beauty, color, form, the title, the artist statement, the artist narrative, and emotional carriers.
Carriers can take many forms. The skill of an artist is to balance the ingredients. Too much beauty is not playing fair. Too much emotion is not playing fair, in my opinion. For instance, an artist can insert images of the Holocaust or similar. It is guaranteed to get a response from the audience.
I have followed the work of Alfredo Jaar for some time. He does socially conscious art. His causes are fine. I love much of the work, but I think he crosses over into exploiting too obvious emotional ingredients in some works. I have heard him speak twice. His ego does not admit the possibility of audience exploitation. Some of his audience like it. Hey, if you want to collect triggers into your living space, go for it! Personally I think artists Ai Weiwei and Banksy ply the same waters better.
Here is an exercise as an art-maker or in an art-making group, do a crit of Jaar's works.
To me, that question is an ongoing discussion for art makers and art audiences. He has certainly been successful in the art-making machinery.
Jaar speaks free tonight.
At PNCA www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM Free
Carriers can take many forms. The skill of an artist is to balance the ingredients. Too much beauty is not playing fair. Too much emotion is not playing fair, in my opinion. For instance, an artist can insert images of the Holocaust or similar. It is guaranteed to get a response from the audience.
I have followed the work of Alfredo Jaar for some time. He does socially conscious art. His causes are fine. I love much of the work, but I think he crosses over into exploiting too obvious emotional ingredients in some works. I have heard him speak twice. His ego does not admit the possibility of audience exploitation. Some of his audience like it. Hey, if you want to collect triggers into your living space, go for it! Personally I think artists Ai Weiwei and Banksy ply the same waters better.
Here is an exercise as an art-maker or in an art-making group, do a crit of Jaar's works.
To me, that question is an ongoing discussion for art makers and art audiences. He has certainly been successful in the art-making machinery.
Jaar speaks free tonight.
At PNCA www.pnca.willamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM Free
Saturday, February 17, 2024
February 17 California Seen
Eastern curator Cornelia Stokes stops by to talk about ther show Seen they made at L'Atelier Yaffe. Artists are Samantha Wall, AN Wallace, James Stoval, Alim Ringgold, Ibrahem Hasan, and Christopher Paul Jordan. At https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE MLK BLVD, Suite 104. 2PM-4 Free
Ido Radon opens California. It includes bold abstract sculptures, some reminding of Louise Nevelson. She was born here, showed in many of our well-curated alt spaces, then nationally. internationally and recently recieved her MFA at UBC. She writes too. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 4PM-6 Free
Ido Radon opens California. It includes bold abstract sculptures, some reminding of Louise Nevelson. She was born here, showed in many of our well-curated alt spaces, then nationally. internationally and recently recieved her MFA at UBC. She writes too. At I Love You 2 - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ 925 NW Flanders 4PM-6 Free
Thursday, February 15, 2024
February 15 Grapefruit
Grapefruits, originally in industrial Albina, is back. They are not resident in Mother Foucault's Bookshop and open with a show of paintings and drawings by Ním Daghlian. 523 SE Morrison 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, February 10, 2024
February 10 New Space is the Place
L'Atelier Yaffe is a new space with Samantha Wall, AN Wallace, James Stoval, Alim Ringgold, Ibrahem Hasan, and Christopher Paul Jordan. They are curated by Cornelia Stokes and are https://www.atelieryaffe.com/ 111 NE MLK BLVD, Suite 104. 3PM-8 Free
Monday, February 05, 2024
February 9 - June 15 Sea
Damien Hirst is a polarizing artist. He was minted at Goldsmiths, forged the YBA with Freeze, and won a Turner. That momentum produced his shark at age 26. Few people know a former Portland collector was instrumental in his work. They lived in Texas, Hirst visited, he was in a challenging life period, they had a houseful of free physician pharmaceutical samples. That was the inspiration for Pharmacy, age 27.
Everyone hates taxes, including art collectors. Just like there is an Irish Sandwhich for reducing corporate taxes, there is an Oregon equivalent for art US collectors. After buying, if you loan your artwork to a museum in Oregon (and several other states,) you are excused from sales taxes. Bruce Guenther at the Portland Art Museum tapped it bringing significant works. Those included Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon. Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossoms was also brought by the Oregon sandwich to the Portland Art Museum in 2019.
Cherry Blossoms came after his Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, widely considered a failure, though it funded numerous studio assistants and fabricators. Cherry Blossoms are large canvases painted in daubs of bright pigments. The floor of Hurst's very large studio was floored with grey canvas to catch the drips; Hirst seems to relish getting pigments all over himself. Blossoms out the door, Hirst stretched the drippy canvas and began his Where the Land Meets the Sea works.
The body has monochrome almost photorealistic images of surf, Sea Paintings; Coast Paintings and Seascapes. Hirst placed those canvases against the wall, flung paint at them, and added more paint, brush and stick in hand. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvJ-xPJIuGf/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CvwaM1oopGl/. The pieces were named by found tourism post cards, now afixed to the back of the canvases.
Hirst has a new direct sales model through Philips and HENI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCG93Vh7h3U.
The Halle Ford Museum in Salem is part of Willamette University which absorbed PNCA. It is an Oregon private school with generous alumni. The museum is small with a good collection and some rotating shows.
The Halle Ford Museum has on loan Rhossili Beach, Colwyn Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea, 2019.
At the Willamette University Halle Ford Museum https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/index.html, across from the backside of the Capitol 700 State St, Salem museum hours $8
Everyone hates taxes, including art collectors. Just like there is an Irish Sandwhich for reducing corporate taxes, there is an Oregon equivalent for art US collectors. After buying, if you loan your artwork to a museum in Oregon (and several other states,) you are excused from sales taxes. Bruce Guenther at the Portland Art Museum tapped it bringing significant works. Those included Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon. Damien Hirst's Cherry Blossoms was also brought by the Oregon sandwich to the Portland Art Museum in 2019.
Cherry Blossoms came after his Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, widely considered a failure, though it funded numerous studio assistants and fabricators. Cherry Blossoms are large canvases painted in daubs of bright pigments. The floor of Hurst's very large studio was floored with grey canvas to catch the drips; Hirst seems to relish getting pigments all over himself. Blossoms out the door, Hirst stretched the drippy canvas and began his Where the Land Meets the Sea works.
The body has monochrome almost photorealistic images of surf, Sea Paintings; Coast Paintings and Seascapes. Hirst placed those canvases against the wall, flung paint at them, and added more paint, brush and stick in hand. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvJ-xPJIuGf/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CvwaM1oopGl/. The pieces were named by found tourism post cards, now afixed to the back of the canvases.
Hirst has a new direct sales model through Philips and HENI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCG93Vh7h3U.
The Halle Ford Museum in Salem is part of Willamette University which absorbed PNCA. It is an Oregon private school with generous alumni. The museum is small with a good collection and some rotating shows.
The Halle Ford Museum has on loan Rhossili Beach, Colwyn Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea, 2019.
At the Willamette University Halle Ford Museum https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/index.html, across from the backside of the Capitol 700 State St, Salem museum hours $8
Sunday, February 04, 2024
February 4 Different Walkabout
Outer Voice, a curatorial project by Sarah Rushford, has a physical space in the old Disjecta building but operates on its own schedule. The focus is on time-based art. We do miss the old PSU time-based art club.
Today Outer Voice brings Year of the Dragon, 2024, The American Standard by Qi You. She is doing a workshop and performance Sunday at 1. You are requested to wear two different shoes in your pair. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 1PM Free
Today Outer Voice brings Year of the Dragon, 2024, The American Standard by Qi You. She is doing a workshop and performance Sunday at 1. You are requested to wear two different shoes in your pair. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 1PM Free
Saturday, February 03, 2024
February 3 Northside Art Openings
Shintaro Kago brings his illustrations of deconstructed heads. They are very wild and instantly recognizable. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Kelda Van Patten brings If I Had a Flower for Every Time I Think of You. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Raphael Arar brings Value(s). At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues shows.
Kelda Van Patten brings If I Had a Flower for Every Time I Think of You. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Raphael Arar brings Value(s). At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues shows.
Friday, February 02, 2024
February 3 Learning from Land
The Japan Institute is the visionary cultural arm of the Portland Japanese Garden. This afternoon, in their Living Traditions series, they bring Yuko Hasegawa, Shohei Shigematsu, Dorothée Imbert, and moderator Ken Tadashi Oshima to discuss the aspirational role of the built environment.
The American relationship with land and building is framed by the great frontier, manifest destiny, Transcendentalism, and landscape as a manifestation of a god. I often recommend the Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb to explain it. Those ideas informed the great Western expeditions, including photographers like Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and others. Law and land ownership are prime. With so much land, inspiration and care is confined to islands and instances, parks. The dark side is represented by Interior Secretary Watt. His belief in the pending apocalypse required maximum exploitation at maximum speed of all public lands.
Japan has a different vibe. Shinto spirits inhabit the land. Japanese care and aesthetics inform building and placemaking on land. Small farms are supported. There are, of course, industrial sacrifice zones. Maybe America can learn from Japan.
Thus, A Conversation on Art, Architecture, and Landscape unfolds this afternoon https://japanesegarden.org/events/living-traditions-2024-creative-forum-pdx/ at W+K 224 NW 13th. Doors 3PM, talk 3:30, reception 5. Free (Sold out, wait for the video)
The American relationship with land and building is framed by the great frontier, manifest destiny, Transcendentalism, and landscape as a manifestation of a god. I often recommend the Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb to explain it. Those ideas informed the great Western expeditions, including photographers like Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and others. Law and land ownership are prime. With so much land, inspiration and care is confined to islands and instances, parks. The dark side is represented by Interior Secretary Watt. His belief in the pending apocalypse required maximum exploitation at maximum speed of all public lands.
Japan has a different vibe. Shinto spirits inhabit the land. Japanese care and aesthetics inform building and placemaking on land. Small farms are supported. There are, of course, industrial sacrifice zones. Maybe America can learn from Japan.
Thus, A Conversation on Art, Architecture, and Landscape unfolds this afternoon https://japanesegarden.org/events/living-traditions-2024-creative-forum-pdx/ at W+K 224 NW 13th. Doors 3PM, talk 3:30, reception 5. Free (Sold out, wait for the video)
February 2-3 Dark Sleep Concert
Imbolic is a traditional festival marking the transition between Winter and Spring. The Portland Imbolic Sleep Concert returns. It reminds an historic all night planetarium series with music and visuals in another city. The Portland one is dark music for dreaming. The lineup is Adriene Arwen, Pansophia, Operafication, Anastasia Darkwater, Soriah, Wicking Ground, Proqxis, and Shifting Harbor. Bring something to sleep on and things keep warm. At Azoth 10PM-7AM $30 Sold Out
February 2 Eastside Art Openings
http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times.
February 2 Kowaii is not Kawaii
Nuceus House brings Japanese illustrator Mizna Wada https://miznaw.com/. She has been making horror-themed illustrations and sometimes 3D fgures for 20 years, showing worldwide. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
February 2 - March 2 34th African Film Festival
The 34th annual Cascade Festival of African Films begins tonight. Films show Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Most are in the PCC Cascade auditorium. The opening film and one February 16 are at the Hollywood Theater, one is at the PAM Cut Tomorrow Theater on Division and one at PCC Sylvania. February 24 has a matinee suited for children.
The schedule and film synopses are at https://www.africanfilmfestival.org/. All the films are Free
February 2-10 Light Art
The Portland Winter light Festival, https://pdxwlf.com/, is a festival of light art viewed after dark. It is distributed throughout the city over ten days It is concentrated on two Friday-Saturdays Downtown at Pioneer Square, around the Portland General offices and in the Eastside Industrial District. Most works are powered on from 6PM to 10. It is all ages and it is all free.
Thursday, February 01, 2024
February 1 Westside Art Openings+
February is Black History Month and many shows have that theme.
With all that is going on, you will need running shoes, dancing shoes, not ice cleats.
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Leach and Adams and Ollman continue. No idea on Stelo, Writers Block, Landdd or the Everett Lofts.
You have two+ today.
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM. This Sunday is the Miller Family free day too.
There are two notable shows now, African Fashion curated by Christine Checinska from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum ends February 18. It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/africa-fashion/. Black Artists of Oregon is curated by Intisar Abioto - https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/. She is a polymath artist and photographer of The Black Portlanders - https://theblackportlanders.com/.
This afternoon and evening unfolds these events -
1PM-2 Artists Arvie Smith, Christine Miller and Julian Gaines talk about their work.
4PM-5 Artist Bukola Koiki explores the fabric of the Africa Fashion show.
For your plus2 Ily2 Too in the Lloyd Mall opens the residency of Father Fannie. For the opening he has a poppy program of installation, image and music by local Afrofuturist Keeks and Kymil Jeneé. Planet Loveship has one of a kind clothing and accessories. It's a perfect too to the Africa Fashion show at the museum. They announce happenings throughout the residency on their insta, I can't list them all.
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. 4PM-8 Free
Chris Lael Larson has colorful paintings, Beginner Nudes. He deconstructed discarded "student figure paintings into immersive installations and still-life photographs that continue the original creative idea of painting - taking abandoned impulses and giving them new life, meaning, and value." Sounds provided by eRock. Seaplane 2.0 Recommended. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-8 Free
The big ad agency brings The Soul Shop. Combine art, music, an immersive barbershop + beauty salon. Art by Jeremy Oka, Bre DePriest, The Omni Q, and more, like Trap Kitchen.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
In the Nine Gallery is Sidewalk Stories - Japan by Christopher Rauschenberg. First trip.
Terra Fondriest has Ozark Life, tender documentation of life where she and her family live.
Sage Sohier has everyday life photos from negatives made between 1979 and 1985 in show Passing Time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. Emergence is an MFA program readout with printmakers Ebony Frison, Sarah Huttner, Jess O’Farrell, Salem Shinn, Genesis Turris, and Ray Zill; and visual studies artists Ryan-Ashley (Ray) Anderson, Charli Beck, Myra Crane, Erin Fox, Mai Ide, Pearl Lockwood, Ella Martini, Liz Medina, KP Phoebus, Annika Rausch, Adelina Ruvalcaba, Cynthia Souderm Danielle Van Dam, and Mallary Wilson.
Mai Ide x PCP + Kyoko Hasegawa + Steven Gosvener perform live in the Atrium at 5.
There is a community printmaking event with Don't Shoot PDX. Screenprint signs and posters to take home free. All ages.
DJ Mami Miami/author of Funeral for Flaca/PNCA professor/Emilly Prado provides music, dancing is A-OK.
And there is a photobooth with photographer and artist Ash Stone.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Waterstone has a group wood show by Kevin Jesequel, Masamichi Nitani, Jim Piper, John Strohbehn, Marjin Wall, Elizabeth Weber, Rebecca Welti, and David Williams. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free
The Black Gallery is open with still life oil paintings Still Life of Lives Made Still by Malique Pye. Participants may leave small memorials of their own. https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7
Ouroboros/Leviathan is a light installation by Noah Alexander and Isaac Stein. It alongside a group show Illuminations. All are part of Portland Winter Light Festival. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 6PM-10 extended hours Free
At Variance, by Whiting Tennis, are primitive mark-making style paintings and collage. Michael Dailey (1938-2009) worked and taught in Seattle, he is also represented by the Greg Kucera Gallery. He was known for abstract color in minimalsim with edge making similar to fellow Northwest artist Carl Morris. This show is titled Landscape Journey. Continuing is mid-career Portland artist Laura Domela. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Chris Kelly has A Wandering Wondering/Work from Then and Now. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a Winter group show. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
RACC has an open house including arts, crafts and zines for sale. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
Street are abstract acrylic and pastel canvases by Erik Reel. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Jeffrey Fuchs has colorful abstract paintings along with Jennifer Fernandez and Joshua Peters. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5:30PM-7:30 Early Closing Free
With all that is going on, you will need running shoes, dancing shoes, not ice cleats.
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Leach and Adams and Ollman continue. No idea on Stelo, Writers Block, Landdd or the Everett Lofts.
You have two+ today.
The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM. This Sunday is the Miller Family free day too.
There are two notable shows now, African Fashion curated by Christine Checinska from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum ends February 18. It's https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/africa-fashion/. Black Artists of Oregon is curated by Intisar Abioto - https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/. She is a polymath artist and photographer of The Black Portlanders - https://theblackportlanders.com/.
This afternoon and evening unfolds these events -
1PM-2 Artists Arvie Smith, Christine Miller and Julian Gaines talk about their work.
4PM-5 Artist Bukola Koiki explores the fabric of the Africa Fashion show.
For your plus2 Ily2 Too in the Lloyd Mall opens the residency of Father Fannie. For the opening he has a poppy program of installation, image and music by local Afrofuturist Keeks and Kymil Jeneé. Planet Loveship has one of a kind clothing and accessories. It's a perfect too to the Africa Fashion show at the museum. They announce happenings throughout the residency on their insta, I can't list them all.
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. 4PM-8 Free
Chris Lael Larson has colorful paintings, Beginner Nudes. He deconstructed discarded "student figure paintings into immersive installations and still-life photographs that continue the original creative idea of painting - taking abandoned impulses and giving them new life, meaning, and value." Sounds provided by eRock. Seaplane 2.0 Recommended. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-8 Free
The big ad agency brings The Soul Shop. Combine art, music, an immersive barbershop + beauty salon. Art by Jeremy Oka, Bre DePriest, The Omni Q, and more, like Trap Kitchen.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
In the Nine Gallery is Sidewalk Stories - Japan by Christopher Rauschenberg. First trip.
Terra Fondriest has Ozark Life, tender documentation of life where she and her family live.
Sage Sohier has everyday life photos from negatives made between 1979 and 1985 in show Passing Time.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
PNCA/Willamette has First Thursday this month. Emergence is an MFA program readout with printmakers Ebony Frison, Sarah Huttner, Jess O’Farrell, Salem Shinn, Genesis Turris, and Ray Zill; and visual studies artists Ryan-Ashley (Ray) Anderson, Charli Beck, Myra Crane, Erin Fox, Mai Ide, Pearl Lockwood, Ella Martini, Liz Medina, KP Phoebus, Annika Rausch, Adelina Ruvalcaba, Cynthia Souderm Danielle Van Dam, and Mallary Wilson.
Mai Ide x PCP + Kyoko Hasegawa + Steven Gosvener perform live in the Atrium at 5.
There is a community printmaking event with Don't Shoot PDX. Screenprint signs and posters to take home free. All ages.
DJ Mami Miami/author of Funeral for Flaca/PNCA professor/Emilly Prado provides music, dancing is A-OK.
And there is a photobooth with photographer and artist Ash Stone.
At PNCA www.pnca.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5-9 Free
Waterstone has a group wood show by Kevin Jesequel, Masamichi Nitani, Jim Piper, John Strohbehn, Marjin Wall, Elizabeth Weber, Rebecca Welti, and David Williams. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 4PM-7 Free
The Black Gallery is open with still life oil paintings Still Life of Lives Made Still by Malique Pye. Participants may leave small memorials of their own. https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7
Ouroboros/Leviathan is a light installation by Noah Alexander and Isaac Stein. It alongside a group show Illuminations. All are part of Portland Winter Light Festival. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 6PM-10 extended hours Free
At Variance, by Whiting Tennis, are primitive mark-making style paintings and collage. Michael Dailey (1938-2009) worked and taught in Seattle, he is also represented by the Greg Kucera Gallery. He was known for abstract color in minimalsim with edge making similar to fellow Northwest artist Carl Morris. This show is titled Landscape Journey. Continuing is mid-career Portland artist Laura Domela. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Chris Kelly has A Wandering Wondering/Work from Then and Now. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
Froelick has a Winter group show. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
RACC has an open house including arts, crafts and zines for sale. At RACC.org 411 NW Park. 5PM-7 Free
Street are abstract acrylic and pastel canvases by Erik Reel. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Jeffrey Fuchs has colorful abstract paintings along with Jennifer Fernandez and Joshua Peters. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5:30PM-7:30 Early Closing Free
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
January 31 Known Legos
Industry is an ad agency here - https://www.adweek.com/agencies/can-a-creative-agency-reshape-portland/. They are in Dick Singer's 60's international style LEGO building where polychrome panels randomly inhabit a curtain wall exterior. The building was once home to PICA and Poler. Last February Industry opened a gallery in their offices. This evening, they open their second show, Let It Be Known. It includes Portland artists Rob Lewis, Milan Davis, James Bullock, Naomi Likayi, Christine Miller, Nia Musiba and Paola de la Cruz; Mikey Coleman, from Chicago, and Barry Johnson from Seattle. Opening at IndustryOneGallery www.industry1.org 415 SW 10th 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, January 27, 2024
January 28 Slip Bonds; Embrace Inspiration, Act With Grace
Space is the Place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sOIs1u8iwg Afro-futurist Sun Ra made in 1974. The earliest humans, and maybe other creatures, look up and wonder. The sky and space was projected as the home of gods and now we have become them.
Traveling up and out, beyond terra firma, is the realm of birds we wondered. Myth was made real by the Wright Brothers. It is poetically memorialized by John Gillespie Magee Jr. in his poem High Flight. Magee crashed at age 19. Risk is real. We were taken beyond the atmosphere by Sputnik, Laika, and President Kennedy.
We love the frontier as explored by Walter Prescott Webb's the Great Frontier. We have always projected utopia on that new frontier.
The United States asymptotically aspires to utopia. We have work to do in the spirit of continuous improvement. We can be much better gods.
You can see an inspiring move on NASA and African American pilots, scientists and engineers making Afro-futurism real.
They sought to slip the surly bonds of racism and be their maximum selves. The movie, The Space Race, https://films.nationalgeographic.com/the-space-race documents their experience.
To Afro-futurism, world population dynamics make it inevitable.
Movie The Space Race https://thereser.org/event/the-space-race/ at the Reser. Reservations required. 3PM Free
January 27 Eyes Closed
Music, like visual art, is always evolving and branching. It is not the shock of the new but love of the new. Through the magic of technology, a single individual can command a virtual orchestra with tools like Spitfire. That being said, the branches of 20th Century "classical" music and acoustic performers continue laying down new branches. Small ensembles playing expressive acoustic instruments for years achieve a mind meld you can hear. One is the Kronos. Tonight they perform, including with butoh player Eiko from New York. Eiko now moving solo, performed many years, including in Portland, with her partner Koma https://eikoandkoma.org/. They met studying with Hijikata and Ohno in Japan. They have performed together since they were 20 and 24 respectively and have a family. They had an art grant for a quarter floor on the 92nd floor for the year 2000 of the World Trade Center as a studio. Throughout their career, they have done idea-based work. Tonight Eiko performs Eyes Closed with the Kronos. After, there will be a panel discussion Artists Respond to Climate Change and Nuclear Disaster. The Kronos at Stanford Live https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/january-2024/kronos-quartet-five-decades in Palo Alto 7:30PM $32+
Friday, January 26, 2024
January 26 Folks
Modern Folk is a group show by Jess Ackerman, Luke Forsyth, Esther Pearl Watson, Godeleine de Rosamel, Betsy Walton, Lisa Congdon, Gina Contreras, and Justin Scrppers Morrison.
At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, January 25, 2024
January 25 Talons Out
Antler and Talon has a large group show by Peter Bakacs, Heather Lee Birdsong, Eli McMullen, Chris Mrozik, Lisa Golightly, Stevie Shao, Pizza in the Rain, Nicole Gustafsson, Brin Levinson, Kristin Bell, Neil Perry, Juliet Schreckinger, Faunwood, Allison May Kiphuth, and Caitlin McCormack with each artist making 3 works. On talons, the ultimate is in eagle mating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JiLlNTpJE. At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
January 25 Life Experience
KSMOCA is situated in a pre-K/K-5school. It is the other arts magnet school. It's too cool. It started with art parents, adopted by social practice professors, it engages students with working artist residencies. Every child is an artist. The goal is not to lose that in doubt.
Richard Brown https://www.richardjbrown.me/ speaks there this morning. He is a photographer too https://www.richardjbrown.me/photography, presaging Insitar Abioto's Black Portlanders https://theblackportlanders.com/. In turn, Richard Brown is curated into the Portland Art Museum https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/#artists-featured-in-black-artists-of-oregon by Abioto. Mr Brown has been artist in residence this Fall working with the students.
Please stop by the Main Office to sign in and receive a visitor pass to the school. At KSMOCA in the King K-8 School 4906 NE 6th. 10AM Free
Richard Brown https://www.richardjbrown.me/ speaks there this morning. He is a photographer too https://www.richardjbrown.me/photography, presaging Insitar Abioto's Black Portlanders https://theblackportlanders.com/. In turn, Richard Brown is curated into the Portland Art Museum https://portlandartmuseum.org/event/black-artists-of-oregon/#artists-featured-in-black-artists-of-oregon by Abioto. Mr Brown has been artist in residence this Fall working with the students.
Please stop by the Main Office to sign in and receive a visitor pass to the school. At KSMOCA in the King K-8 School 4906 NE 6th. 10AM Free
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
January 23 Japan Society Engages Ai Weiwei in NYC
Ai Weiwei is a contemporary artist exiled from China. A fav is a documentary by Alison Klayman - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. His autobiography, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, is a review of Chinese history he experienced. He is present on social media and archived video. He has recent focus on refugees.
If you are in New York City, Ai Weiwei speaks. He has a new project in the form of a graphic novel. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir. He's touring the book release.
He has a project in London, Ai vs. AI with CIRCA - https://circa.art/artist/ai-weiwei-ai-vs-ai/. Each day he asks a question.
You can look up the book and hear. At https://thetownhall.org/event/pen-out-loud-ai-weiwei-with-mira-jacob shame on using Ticketmaster 123 West 43rd Street 6PM $27+
Saturday, January 20, 2024
January 21 Moths
Many musician friends have evolved their practice to the ambient - sound healing continuum. Even dedicated rockers. They inhabit small venues and intimate audience experiences. Alcohol which fuels local music, or really any other alterants, are not part of the equation.
Analog modular synths have resurged too. Musique concrète used vacuum tube electronics and magnetic tape. The next generation was epitomized by builders Robert Moog, Don Buchla, and others. They built small solid state synthesizers with large patches. Those modular synthesizers were akin to analog computers of the time used in solving calculus in science.
Trans musician Wendy Carlos provided Moog extensive user experience design feedback and subsequently was awarded multiple Grammys for her synthesizer performances. From there, purpose-built keyboard synths dominated. Now composition, tracking, mixing and mastering music is "in the box" - software.
But the kids rediscovered analog modules and built them on the inexpensive Eurorack ecosystem.
Live performance is popular, and the S1/Portland Synth Library, created by Felicia Ledesma, post her electronic media gallery Multiplex, is nestled in that world. We do mourn the sunset of Alisa Akay's Volt Divers synth+video performance series.
Some events combine synths, voice, and common sound healing acoustic instruments. Events can be lay down, some are sit down, and some are free improvised movement by all.
Tonight is MOTHS | Modular On The (Human) Spot: Movement to Modular Synthesis. It will be a small event, be nice, become part of the ecosystem, do not destroy it. It's a meditation with movement and community. Performer facilitators are Cave Cricket, Dashkasounds, and Wilder Rose. Presented in collaboration with the Portland Synth Library.
January 20 Opening Thaw
Kenji Ide from Japan has his second show in Portland. He was curated by founder Matt Jay into the Portland Japanese Garden contemporary art program with Poems of Perception. Ide’s Garden work is a contemporary interpretation of Japanese death rituals in minimalist sculpture.
Ruined Windows by Jessica Jackson Hutchins with Marley Freeman making glass shares the opening.
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 2PM-4 Free
Pace Taylor has colorful bulbous paintings, Before the Doors Open. Perfect bright for grey.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-5 Free Masks are highly encouraged
The Schnitzer Collection is a foundation continuing the work of Fountain Gallerist Arleen Schnitzer. Their exhibition space hosts the first of their Art Fit events ~ "wear your art swag and art-inspired outfits" if you like. The show up, which you should see, is curated for the Converge 45 project. The signature piece celebrated today is a large silk screen authorized reproduction of Phooey, a Basquiat painting.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-5 Free
Out of Salem: D.E May & Friends, has D.E. May and contemporaries Brad Ford, Bonnie Hull, Craig Klyver, Natalie Laswell, Bryan Null, Dan Schmidt, Terry Schneider, Monte Shelton, and John Van Dreal.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-4:30 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of The Sibyl. She had a pink altspace, her own writing and art event/spaces newsletter, and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video.
"Leaves of The Sibyl is an installation of intricate embroidery, soft sculpture, cast metal, & analog video. stitching a through line between the Romantic Period & present day, a transformative & coded imagery emerges between mediums: cherubs, black cats, crescent moons, flowers & plants, human skulls/bones, & poems which require a special tool to be read. Martha’s work possesses a contemplative reverence for magic & beauty, while acknowledging the confusion, fear, death, & rebirth which accompany moments of change."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
Ruined Windows by Jessica Jackson Hutchins with Marley Freeman making glass shares the opening.
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 2PM-4 Free
Pace Taylor has colorful bulbous paintings, Before the Doors Open. Perfect bright for grey.
At Nationale
The Schnitzer Collection is a foundation continuing the work of Fountain Gallerist Arleen Schnitzer. Their exhibition space hosts the first of their Art Fit events ~ "wear your art swag and art-inspired outfits" if you like. The show up, which you should see, is curated for the Converge 45 project. The signature piece celebrated today is a large silk screen authorized reproduction of Phooey, a Basquiat painting.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-5 Free
Out of Salem: D.E May & Friends, has D.E. May and contemporaries Brad Ford, Bonnie Hull, Craig Klyver, Natalie Laswell, Bryan Null, Dan Schmidt, Terry Schneider, Monte Shelton, and John Van Dreal.
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-4:30 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Martha Daghlian has Leaves of The Sibyl. She had a pink altspace, her own writing and art event/spaces newsletter, and has worked in message idea textile imagery. For this show, she adds casting and video.
"Leaves of The Sibyl is an installation of intricate embroidery, soft sculpture, cast metal, & analog video. stitching a through line between the Romantic Period & present day, a transformative & coded imagery emerges between mediums: cherubs, black cats, crescent moons, flowers & plants, human skulls/bones, & poems which require a special tool to be read. Martha’s work possesses a contemplative reverence for magic & beauty, while acknowledging the confusion, fear, death, & rebirth which accompany moments of change."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
January 20 It's Tomorrow Today in Tokyo
Today is a performance in Seattle commemerating the death of the founder of butoh dance in Japan. The first performance by a young dancer unfolded in 1959 amidst a fertile creative period for young people. That generation were children in the war. The Anpo protests of the time could be compared to the May 68 in France, depicted in the Bertolucci-esque The Dreamers movie, and events in the US on the continuum of the Civil Rights - anti-Vietnam War - Womens Rights transformations.
Butoh is an improvised branch of modern dance using body intuition and images, often from nature, to create movement.
That founder, Hijikata, broke from his ballet and Euro-modern dance training and launched a faimily tree of butoh players which extends to Seattle. Joan Laage, there, studied and performed in Japan, with the Western unit, Gnome, of Hijikata's last ensemble with Yoko Ashikawa, Hakutobo. That last period for Hijikata was with an all-women ensemble. The work is quite beautiful as seen in this documentary excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBNi4oFvhrY.
From his wife on his death at 57:
"Usually in Japan people die quietly. They hide the last moments of life. But Hijikata wanted to share his moment of death with each and every person. And so everyone surrounded his death bed. Hijikata sat up straight in bed, and for a long time thanked us all expressing his gratitude through dance. His body was all entangled in intravenous tubes but he still performed this dance of death. Tears were streaming down the faces of everyone watching. I finally asked him to stop. And he said 'you should applaud, applaud, I want to go out amidst cheers and applause.'"
Tonight Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Aoi Lee, Kaoru Okumura and Vanessa Skantze perform. RSVP and details https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/tatsumi-hijikata-memorial-2024-in-seattle At Teatro de la Psychomachia 1534 1st Ave S, Seattle 7PM Free
Butoh is an improvised branch of modern dance using body intuition and images, often from nature, to create movement.
That founder, Hijikata, broke from his ballet and Euro-modern dance training and launched a faimily tree of butoh players which extends to Seattle. Joan Laage, there, studied and performed in Japan, with the Western unit, Gnome, of Hijikata's last ensemble with Yoko Ashikawa, Hakutobo. That last period for Hijikata was with an all-women ensemble. The work is quite beautiful as seen in this documentary excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBNi4oFvhrY.
From his wife on his death at 57:
"Usually in Japan people die quietly. They hide the last moments of life. But Hijikata wanted to share his moment of death with each and every person. And so everyone surrounded his death bed. Hijikata sat up straight in bed, and for a long time thanked us all expressing his gratitude through dance. His body was all entangled in intravenous tubes but he still performed this dance of death. Tears were streaming down the faces of everyone watching. I finally asked him to stop. And he said 'you should applaud, applaud, I want to go out amidst cheers and applause.'"
Tonight Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Aoi Lee, Kaoru Okumura and Vanessa Skantze perform. RSVP and details https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/tatsumi-hijikata-memorial-2024-in-seattle At Teatro de la Psychomachia 1534 1st Ave S, Seattle 7PM Free
Saturday, January 13, 2024
January 13 Snow Day
As of now, check their Insta before going, Pace Taylor opens Before the Doors Open large pencil aand pastels.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-5 Free masks required
Stelo Arts planned Unfolding, a book project with Pulp and Deckle, to drop today over home-made soup. That's perfect! Check their Insta to see if it's on.
At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 30000 S Camp Colton DriveColton, OR https://www.google.com/maps/place/30000+S+Camp+Colton+Dr,+Colton,+OR+97017/@45.172119,-122.433292,16z 1-4
At Nationale
Stelo Arts planned Unfolding, a book project with Pulp and Deckle, to drop today over home-made soup. That's perfect! Check their Insta to see if it's on.
At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 30000 S Camp Colton DriveColton, OR https://www.google.com/maps/place/30000+S+Camp+Colton+Dr,+Colton,+OR+97017/@45.172119,-122.433292,16z 1-4
Friday, January 12, 2024
January 13 Mauve Fog Pastime
A new space PPSTMM - Pastime opens Mauve Fog by Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun. He has been bopping around the world and many galleries in Portland. This is a visual show and performance. In the same building tonight, Black Whole Press opens too. At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8, performance 6:30 Free
Saturday, January 06, 2024
January 6 Northside Art Openings+
Bric-A-Brac is a group show of small works alongside Ellen Surrey's Small Show inspired by thrift stores.
Bric-A-Brac artists are Alexander Vidal, Alyn Smith, Ana Serrano, Ann Shen, Bijou Karman, Drake Brodahl, Ellen Surrey, Erick Martinez, Hayden Evans, Ian Truong, James Heimer, Jared Andrew Schorr, Julia Walck, Juliette Toma, Kevin Chan, Krista Perry, Lesley Barnes, Libby VanderPloeg, Lydia Nichols, Marisol Ortega, Nellie Le, Monica Garwood, Sam Kalda, and The Little Friends of Printmaking. At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Turn Me Over is drawings and ceramic sculptures by artists Molly LeckoHerro and Alim Ringgold. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Covered up in Dailiness is cermic sculpture and drawings by Elizabeth Arzani and Renee Couture. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Turn Me Over is drawings and ceramic sculptures by artists Molly LeckoHerro and Alim Ringgold. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Covered up in Dailiness is cermic sculpture and drawings by Elizabeth Arzani and Renee Couture. At Carnation Contemporary www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Friday, January 05, 2024
January 5 Eastside Art Openings+
Mississippi Records has been a champion at bringing unusual music to the Hollywood theater, such as Sun Ra's Arkestra. We can't bring back New York's Moondog, but tonight you can have East and West Coast street musician Space Lady. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrEcJMWRNT0. The Portland Museum of Modern Art showed the work of self-taught artists and drew Space Lady here - https://portlandmuseumofmodernart.com/SPACE-LADY. The PMOMA curator went on to helm the Lumber Room. BTW, Sun Ra's movie Space is the Place is a classic of Afrofuturism worth the time. Space Lady at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12 Sold Out
One Grand has Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days by UK-based designer Another Department - Bo Matteini). They made a work a day for a year, all here now. They will be pulling prints for early arrivers. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Shoko Ishida https://shoko-ishida.com/ from Detroit has figuative work, alongside similar, Stella Im Hultberg https://www.stellaimhultberg.com/ from California via Korea. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times. Hey, all the kids are doing https now.
One Grand has Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days by UK-based designer Another Department - Bo Matteini). They made a work a day for a year, all here now. They will be pulling prints for early arrivers. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
Shoko Ishida https://shoko-ishida.com/ from Detroit has figuative work, alongside similar, Stella Im Hultberg https://www.stellaimhultberg.com/ from California via Korea. At Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials list many shows and their times. Hey, all the kids are doing https now.
Thursday, January 04, 2024
January 4 Westside Art Openings
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Gallery 114 is a coop like Blackfish. Several galleries are artist-curated and run, though not purely coops. That is A-OK. This month they have a group show by Linda Austin in the modern dance world. They are with Noah Beckham, Fernanda D'Agostino, many know for her video work, and Maximiliano in show Imprints, Objects in Performance. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5PM-7 Early Closing Free
In the Nine Gallery, Veteran Obsolete is a show by Geoffrey R. Bowton of an "indispensable exploration of war, post-traumatic stress, and mental wellness." Photographer Jim Lommasson has touched on that material in Exit Wounds.
Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future are photographs of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire along the McKenzie River in the Oregon Cascades. Photographer David Paul Bayles and scientist Fred Swanson working together are handing the project to a forest research group to continue the study for a generation.
Ebenezer Galluzzo a trans man. As a Home Changes are portraits made when he was a resident artist at Sitka.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Chris Chandler has prints, Elemental Forms. The estate of Deborah Horrell has glass work Vessels and Forms. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Early Close 5PM-7 Free
Blackfish has new member painters Noah Alexander Isaac Stein and Amy Turnbull. More: photo collages Aphelion by Hannah Theiss and What We Abandon images of train locomotives and cars by Chris Steinken. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Northwest Masters is a group show by classic modern artists Louis Bunce, Sally Haley, Frederick Heidel, Manuel Izquierdo, Hilda Morris, and Michele Russo. It is accompanied by Laura Domela with In the Office, abstracts. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
The Black Gallery is focused on events, other exhibition partners, and appointments. They are closing out their show at Expensify. You can follow their socials and connect with their shows that way.
Ily2, Aftertime Collective, Adams and Olman, Waterstone, Augen, Parallax, Laura Vincent seem to be continuing. No idea if they are open tonight.
PNCA and Frolick are on break
No idea on proof of life at the Everett Station.
Gallery 114 is a coop like Blackfish. Several galleries are artist-curated and run, though not purely coops. That is A-OK. This month they have a group show by Linda Austin in the modern dance world. They are with Noah Beckham, Fernanda D'Agostino, many know for her video work, and Maximiliano in show Imprints, Objects in Performance. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114pdx.com 1100 NW Glisan 5PM-7 Early Closing Free
In the Nine Gallery, Veteran Obsolete is a show by Geoffrey R. Bowton of an "indispensable exploration of war, post-traumatic stress, and mental wellness." Photographer Jim Lommasson has touched on that material in Exit Wounds.
Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future are photographs of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire along the McKenzie River in the Oregon Cascades. Photographer David Paul Bayles and scientist Fred Swanson working together are handing the project to a forest research group to continue the study for a generation.
Ebenezer Galluzzo a trans man. As a Home Changes are portraits made when he was a resident artist at Sitka.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Chris Chandler has prints, Elemental Forms. The estate of Deborah Horrell has glass work Vessels and Forms. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map Early Close 5PM-7 Free
Blackfish has new member painters Noah Alexander Isaac Stein and Amy Turnbull. More: photo collages Aphelion by Hannah Theiss and What We Abandon images of train locomotives and cars by Chris Steinken. At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Free
Northwest Masters is a group show by classic modern artists Louis Bunce, Sally Haley, Frederick Heidel, Manuel Izquierdo, Hilda Morris, and Michele Russo. It is accompanied by Laura Domela with In the Office, abstracts. www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
The Black Gallery is focused on events, other exhibition partners, and appointments. They are closing out their show at Expensify. You can follow their socials and connect with their shows that way.
Ily2, Aftertime Collective, Adams and Olman, Waterstone, Augen, Parallax, Laura Vincent seem to be continuing. No idea if they are open tonight.
PNCA and Frolick are on break
No idea on proof of life at the Everett Station.
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