Saturday, June 01, 2024

June 1 Northside Art Openings+

Rob Lyon from the UK has Also Votives, paintings and drawings. His theme is transcendentalist landscapes. 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


A Sometimes Gallery has Bow, a show themed on bows. At A Sometimes Gallery https://asometimesgallery.com/ 3601 SE Division 6PM-9 Free


MSHR https://www.mshr.info/ is an offshoot of the Oregon Painting Collective. The duo Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper perform with sculptural analog synths that include sculptural light elements in the analog feedback loops. https://www.mshr.info/MSHRperformances.html Now they travel the world for residencies. They each have their individual art practices worth a look. They are back in Portland for a few performances.

Important instructions. Enter mall parking off NE Halsey and park by Barnes and Noble. At 7 the mall closes so we need to stay in Virtua after 7. No wandering the mall after 7. Set times: MSHR 6:30, Maier 7:30, Neolith 8:30.

At Virtua Gallery nee Xhurch in the in Lloyd Center Mall. They are on the mid level next to Animal. Plant. Mineral. The mall locks the doors at 7PM, so get inside before the doors are locked. Tickets https://ra.co/events/1922946 6PM-9 $13.70


Alyson Provax is a word artist in 2D. She writes the words then prints them in patterns. In To Know What We Say We know is centered on "limitations of language to express our individual perceptions. Words cannot hold all of a feeling: we’re always on the island of momentary perception." These works are small with fine type, it is an accomplishment to print these with letterpress. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map  5PM-8 Free


Maria Lux brings Noah’s Out-of-Order Ark-ade and Reliquary: a defunct arcade repurposed as a shrine for lost and revived animals.

"Part holy site, part roadside attraction, visitors can pay their respects, or indulge their morbid curiosity, with real(!) replicas of what remains of the saintly animal martyrs of the Anthropocene. Raised with an appreciation of Catholic visual culture, Lux continues her exploration of the religious narratives surrounding species loss, de-extinction science, and cryogenic conservation, offering strange, irreverent, and darkly humorous ways of coping with the absurdity of both the problem of extinction, and its possible solutions."

At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free


Oregon Contemporary continues the Oregon Biennial. https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/2024oregoncontemporaryartistsbiennial They have events around the biennial artists through August. They have shows of art on loan including a Richter. Tonight there is a performance by the social practice artists Yelling Choir at 6, and Methods Body movement artists at 7.

At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free