The Boathouse Microcinema is back. It is a live-work studio in the Unkles artist warehouse portfolio. It is very small.
Tonight Matt McCormick Revisits Old Portland. He is a filmmaker and lived and had his studio in the boathouse for a long time. It was a social center in the local movie community. He is now based in Spokane.
McCormick is known for quiet films and slow reveals. Tonight he brings his famous The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, Vyrotonin Decision, The Deepest Hole, and other shorts from the 2004 Core Sample.
It is in an industrial area. Do not park on, or overhanging the width of a train, the railroad tracks. They are active. Your car will either be smashed to bits, towed, or both.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
April 18-19 Burnout
Building 5 at the NW Marine Art Works welcomes resident artists. Look at what they have done and bring your proposals to fill the large space.
Burnout is a colorful installation of tufted yarn by Felicia Murray https://www.feliciajmurray.com/. I first came across her work at the late Gallery Go Go child of the Jailbreak Collective. Burnout has a soundscape by Mikey Rogers.
Murray uses tufting guns, a medium I'm noticing other friends and artists I follow adopting. You can think of it as 2½D embroidery, and some apply it to 3d stuffed shapes. Acrylic yarns in bright colors are a common magnet.
The show is up a night and a day.
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Friday 5PM-8, and Saturday 12-5 Free
Burnout is a colorful installation of tufted yarn by Felicia Murray https://www.feliciajmurray.com/. I first came across her work at the late Gallery Go Go child of the Jailbreak Collective. Burnout has a soundscape by Mikey Rogers.
Murray uses tufting guns, a medium I'm noticing other friends and artists I follow adopting. You can think of it as 2½D embroidery, and some apply it to 3d stuffed shapes. Acrylic yarns in bright colors are a common magnet.
The show is up a night and a day.
At NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th Friday 5PM-8, and Saturday 12-5 Free
Thursday, April 17, 2025
April 17 Glean
The modern American waste stream is epic. That cuts both ways. I remember that solid waste was the first environmental issue I became aware of and thank my parents for supporting me exploring that concern. I have a vivid memory much later of an unintended detour in the aftermath of a coup into a neighborhood in Lagos were people were hand sorting a giant heap of waste. Across the world, landfills are similarly mined by the poorest in society. There is a lot of plastic waste escaping from them, ultimately into the environment, and subsequently into our bodies too.
In Portland, the Oregon Metro is responsible for solid waste. And here, as in many other cities, artists mine the waste stream to make art. Artist Chris Jordan http://www.chrisjordan.com/ is another artist documenting waste, and in his wide shot photographs and movie Albatross. http://www.albatrossthefilm.com/
This year's GLEAN artists are Epiphany Couch, Mai Ide, Diane Jacobs, Chris Lael Larson, and Marsha Mack. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 322 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free.
In Portland, the Oregon Metro is responsible for solid waste. And here, as in many other cities, artists mine the waste stream to make art. Artist Chris Jordan http://www.chrisjordan.com/ is another artist documenting waste, and in his wide shot photographs and movie Albatross. http://www.albatrossthefilm.com/
This year's GLEAN artists are Epiphany Couch, Mai Ide, Diane Jacobs, Chris Lael Larson, and Marsha Mack. Their show of the result opens this evening.
GLEAN artists www.gleanportland.com at 322 NW 8th 5PM-8 Free.
Friday, April 11, 2025
April 11 God Life Body
Peter Gallo, all the way from Vermont, brings Gods, Sluts & Martyrs. It is outsider-syle mixed media with oil paint. 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 5PM-7 Free
Betsy Walton brings Wheel of Life, 12 paintings on metaphysical themes. At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Clay Bodies is a ceramics show with James Alby, Savannah Baker, Miranda Karson, and Calvin Wong. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
After/Time reprises their dance performance with the current show.
Lewis & Clark opens their graduating student show by Sophie Abbassian, Stuti Behari, Knicaid H.G. DeBell, Elly Encell, Allison Gabelman, Elias Guerrero-Reach, Ella Jones, Nuria Nimue Kiesebrink-Pareick, Will Merchant, Josephine Parker, Elliot Pfieffer, Eliza Roberts, LIla Roehr, Ella Ruark, Hollis Sansing, Emilie Schaefer, Grace Schurtz-Ford, Sam Starks, Zoë Steele, Aiden Wilkson, Astea Yajoda, and Siana Sweetpea Yohai.
Betsy Walton brings Wheel of Life, 12 paintings on metaphysical themes. At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Clay Bodies is a ceramics show with James Alby, Savannah Baker, Miranda Karson, and Calvin Wong. At One Grand Gallery www.onegrandgallery.com 1000 E Burnside 6PM-9 Free
After/Time reprises their dance performance with the current show.
Lewis & Clark opens their graduating student show by Sophie Abbassian, Stuti Behari, Knicaid H.G. DeBell, Elly Encell, Allison Gabelman, Elias Guerrero-Reach, Ella Jones, Nuria Nimue Kiesebrink-Pareick, Will Merchant, Josephine Parker, Elliot Pfieffer, Eliza Roberts, LIla Roehr, Ella Ruark, Hollis Sansing, Emilie Schaefer, Grace Schurtz-Ford, Sam Starks, Zoë Steele, Aiden Wilkson, Astea Yajoda, and Siana Sweetpea Yohai.
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
April 10-13 Portland Butoh Festival
Butoh is a postmodern improvised dance form from Japan, and now established worldwide in niches.
Some say it is inspired by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Its initial founding was not, though some later performers taped that source. Portland performer Meshi Chavez and artist Yukiyo Kawano are examples.
In fact, it was founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, age 31 at the time, in 1959. 1959 and 1960 was a great public rebelion against the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty. The protests drew one third of the entire population to the streets. With that, the generation who had never served in the armed forces, particpated in street theater and the arts. It was a movement like Paris and the US in 1968, BLM, or the Arab Spring.
In that crucible, Hijikata with collaborator Kazuo Ohno created a new dance form in opposition to Western ballet and modern dance. He gathered collaborators who formed the root of the butoh family tree. Toward the end of his life, Hijikata founded Hakutobo, an all women group.
Seattle is rich in its own butoh family tree with Joan Lagge working with Hakutobo's second unit, then training many in the West. San Francisco is also rich with Koichi Tamano, an early Hijikata collaborator. He is retired, his wife Hiroko Tamano still does workshops. They operated the famous Country Station https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/country-station-sushi-san-francisco in the Mission where anything could and did happen after hours.
Seattle has an annual butoh festival and performances throughout the year under the umbrella of Daipan Butoh https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/. NYC has a butoh festival organized by Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ who has been collaborating with neuroscientists to study the brain while performing. Portland had a butoh node and festivals with Mizu Deserto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DuLsbcnbcQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVxjHA5b2JA. Good for her, she closed shop and literally rode off into the sunset following love.
You find workshops in LA under Min Tanaka's student Oguri under the Body Weather Laboratory. One of my favorites, Akaji Maro with his Dairakudikan, 大駱駝艦, is active performing and with a week long workshop. There is always a new generation of performers, like Kana Kitty, self-taught, independent of the butoh family tree, https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/dancing-with-death-kana-kittys-anarchic-transcendent-butoh-dance/ and her unit Wozme, though their work is a bit pop-y to me. Several of the surviving members of Sankai Juku are active active teaching. Workshops may be found in Germany and Sweden.
Now comes the Portland Art Collective with its second annual Portland Butoh Festival.
It has 4 nights of performance and 4 days of workshops.
Performence are:
Thursday April 10th
Nicole Walters with musician Eric Jordan
Rachel Goldman
Salty Xi Jie Ng & Crystal J Sasaki with musician Brian Pfeiffer
Vanessa Skantze with musician Matt Hannfin
Friday April 11th
Minja Mertanen with musician Carl Annala
Emily Haygeman
Aida Miró video screening
Paula Helen with musician Michael Perry
Saturday April 12th
Carl Annala with musician Ice Queen
Hank Logan Peterson
Carlos Cruz - video screening
Helen Thorsen
Sunday April 13th
Ash Pillar with musician Andrew Anderson
Wicking Ground with musician Green Heron
Vicky Filippa - video screening
Amapola with musician Vanessa Skantze
Worshops are Thursday & Friday by Vanessa Skantze from Seattle, and Saturday and Sunday with Minja Mertanen https://www.minjamertanen.net/cv from Finland.
The performances are $25 per night and the workshops are $25 per day, which is inexpensive for a dance workshop.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch Tickets and schedule https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-portland-international-butoh-festival-tickets-1273197862079 Performances 7:30 each night $25
Some say it is inspired by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Its initial founding was not, though some later performers taped that source. Portland performer Meshi Chavez and artist Yukiyo Kawano are examples.
In fact, it was founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, age 31 at the time, in 1959. 1959 and 1960 was a great public rebelion against the renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty. The protests drew one third of the entire population to the streets. With that, the generation who had never served in the armed forces, particpated in street theater and the arts. It was a movement like Paris and the US in 1968, BLM, or the Arab Spring.
In that crucible, Hijikata with collaborator Kazuo Ohno created a new dance form in opposition to Western ballet and modern dance. He gathered collaborators who formed the root of the butoh family tree. Toward the end of his life, Hijikata founded Hakutobo, an all women group.
Seattle is rich in its own butoh family tree with Joan Lagge working with Hakutobo's second unit, then training many in the West. San Francisco is also rich with Koichi Tamano, an early Hijikata collaborator. He is retired, his wife Hiroko Tamano still does workshops. They operated the famous Country Station https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/country-station-sushi-san-francisco in the Mission where anything could and did happen after hours.
Seattle has an annual butoh festival and performances throughout the year under the umbrella of Daipan Butoh https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/. NYC has a butoh festival organized by Vangeline https://www.vangeline.com/ who has been collaborating with neuroscientists to study the brain while performing. Portland had a butoh node and festivals with Mizu Deserto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DuLsbcnbcQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVxjHA5b2JA. Good for her, she closed shop and literally rode off into the sunset following love.
You find workshops in LA under Min Tanaka's student Oguri under the Body Weather Laboratory. One of my favorites, Akaji Maro with his Dairakudikan, 大駱駝艦, is active performing and with a week long workshop. There is always a new generation of performers, like Kana Kitty, self-taught, independent of the butoh family tree, https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/dancing-with-death-kana-kittys-anarchic-transcendent-butoh-dance/ and her unit Wozme, though their work is a bit pop-y to me. Several of the surviving members of Sankai Juku are active active teaching. Workshops may be found in Germany and Sweden.
Now comes the Portland Art Collective with its second annual Portland Butoh Festival.
It has 4 nights of performance and 4 days of workshops.
Performence are:
Thursday April 10th
Nicole Walters with musician Eric Jordan
Rachel Goldman
Salty Xi Jie Ng & Crystal J Sasaki with musician Brian Pfeiffer
Vanessa Skantze with musician Matt Hannfin
Friday April 11th
Minja Mertanen with musician Carl Annala
Emily Haygeman
Aida Miró video screening
Paula Helen with musician Michael Perry
Saturday April 12th
Carl Annala with musician Ice Queen
Hank Logan Peterson
Carlos Cruz - video screening
Helen Thorsen
Sunday April 13th
Ash Pillar with musician Andrew Anderson
Wicking Ground with musician Green Heron
Vicky Filippa - video screening
Amapola with musician Vanessa Skantze
Worshops are Thursday & Friday by Vanessa Skantze from Seattle, and Saturday and Sunday with Minja Mertanen https://www.minjamertanen.net/cv from Finland.
The performances are $25 per night and the workshops are $25 per day, which is inexpensive for a dance workshop.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch Tickets and schedule https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-annual-portland-international-butoh-festival-tickets-1273197862079 Performances 7:30 each night $25
Tuesday, April 08, 2025
April 10 Ode to the Ecobaroque
We don't review every college gallery show and the greater the distance the lower the probability.
Bruce Conkle https://bruceconkle.com/ is a long time Portland artist in installation, sculpture, and 2d work. His work has a sense of wry humor. He is artist in residence at the Clark College Archer Gallery and the work has a reception today.
"Bruce Conkle declares an affinity for mysterious natural phenomenon such as snow, fire, rainbows, crystals, volcanos, tree burls, and meteorites. He examines contemporary attitudes toward the environment, including deforestation, climate change, and extinction. Conkle's work often deals with man's place within nature, and frequently examines what he calls the "misfit quotient" at the crossroads."
The opening reception is today and there are workshops and a talk over a month you can find on the gallery website.
At Archer Gallery www.clark.edu/campus-life/arts-events/archer/index.php, Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA Noon-4 Free
Bruce Conkle https://bruceconkle.com/ is a long time Portland artist in installation, sculpture, and 2d work. His work has a sense of wry humor. He is artist in residence at the Clark College Archer Gallery and the work has a reception today.
"Bruce Conkle declares an affinity for mysterious natural phenomenon such as snow, fire, rainbows, crystals, volcanos, tree burls, and meteorites. He examines contemporary attitudes toward the environment, including deforestation, climate change, and extinction. Conkle's work often deals with man's place within nature, and frequently examines what he calls the "misfit quotient" at the crossroads."
The opening reception is today and there are workshops and a talk over a month you can find on the gallery website.
At Archer Gallery www.clark.edu/campus-life/arts-events/archer/index.php, Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA Noon-4 Free
April 10 Meet Arab Grandma
The big ad agency has an art event tonight, Why Haven’t You Called, Habibi? in the frame of meet Arab Grandma.
Since humans emerged in Africa, we have been moving around the world. A illuminating account is by Bruce Chatwin in The Songlines, his last book. It has a brief segment too, set in Arab North Africa.
There is a great struggle between modernism and traditionalism in the world. Traditionalism is immediate family first, then extended family, then tribe, often nation does not register at all. Less focus on amusing ourselves to death and material consumption. Modernism is the opposite. Margaret Mead said she did not mourn the passing of the nuclear family because the nuclear family required everyone to like each other. Of course each approach has its extremes, and the ideas can be combined. An ad agency has a self interest in exploring how to communicate in every country to sell sugar water and shoes, so like ethnographers, they have the resources and mission to study culture.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Since humans emerged in Africa, we have been moving around the world. A illuminating account is by Bruce Chatwin in The Songlines, his last book. It has a brief segment too, set in Arab North Africa.
There is a great struggle between modernism and traditionalism in the world. Traditionalism is immediate family first, then extended family, then tribe, often nation does not register at all. Less focus on amusing ourselves to death and material consumption. Modernism is the opposite. Margaret Mead said she did not mourn the passing of the nuclear family because the nuclear family required everyone to like each other. Of course each approach has its extremes, and the ideas can be combined. An ad agency has a self interest in exploring how to communicate in every country to sell sugar water and shoes, so like ethnographers, they have the resources and mission to study culture.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Sunday, April 06, 2025
April 6 & April 11 Homeless Prints
Gather Make Shelter https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/ is a homeless and poor persons art project by Dana Lynn Louis founded in 2017.
Another similar long-running project is Hospitality House founded in San Francisco in 1967. One homeless research project is the podcast interview series the Outsiders https://www.knkx.org/podcast/outsiders. Recorded in 2019 and 2020 it seems quaint today. It was before COVID, before BLM, and before fentanyl. If you look at the history of the Opium Wars, China may see fentanyl and precursers as payback. The episode Inside Outsiders encapsulates the series, it's a good start point for listening. Gather Make Shelter runs parallel to P:ear Mentor https://www.pearmentor.org/ doing art and job training for homeless youth in Portland since 2002.
Impressions from the Collective is a show by Gather Make Shelter artists Aileen, Blue, Faera, Fahd, Fawn, Gloria, Jaycaob, Madrone, Marz, Tonnisha, and Violet. The artists worked with Mullowney Printing printmakers over a year to develop their art and learn printmaking. The prints are on display at Sator Projects Sunday April 6 and at the Gather Make Shelter space in NW on April 11.
Gather Make Shelter prints. https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/news/qgq4jh7rh8oiv2l34mmnyw4fthhye9
On April 6 at Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 1PM-3 Free
On April 11 Gather:Make:Shelter Gallery https://www.gathermakeshelter.org 1335 NW Kearney 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Another similar long-running project is Hospitality House founded in San Francisco in 1967. One homeless research project is the podcast interview series the Outsiders https://www.knkx.org/podcast/outsiders. Recorded in 2019 and 2020 it seems quaint today. It was before COVID, before BLM, and before fentanyl. If you look at the history of the Opium Wars, China may see fentanyl and precursers as payback. The episode Inside Outsiders encapsulates the series, it's a good start point for listening. Gather Make Shelter runs parallel to P:ear Mentor https://www.pearmentor.org/ doing art and job training for homeless youth in Portland since 2002.
Impressions from the Collective is a show by Gather Make Shelter artists Aileen, Blue, Faera, Fahd, Fawn, Gloria, Jaycaob, Madrone, Marz, Tonnisha, and Violet. The artists worked with Mullowney Printing printmakers over a year to develop their art and learn printmaking. The prints are on display at Sator Projects Sunday April 6 and at the Gather Make Shelter space in NW on April 11.
Gather Make Shelter prints. https://www.gathermakeshelter.org/news/qgq4jh7rh8oiv2l34mmnyw4fthhye9
On April 6 at Sator Projects https://www.satorprojects.com/ 1709 SE 3rd 1PM-3 Free
On April 11 Gather:Make:Shelter Gallery https://www.gathermakeshelter.org 1335 NW Kearney 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Saturday, April 05, 2025
April 5 Northside Art Openings+
Amanda Wojick, professor at UO, brings sculptures, Higashiyama Spring. The work of canvas, maple, paper, and paint was developed at her residency in a 200 year old house in Kyoto. Briar Marsh Pine brings Rare Earth. "Rare Earth explores the material consequences of our digital age. The term ‘rare earth’ refers to the mineral elements used to make electronics, magnets, and US military weapons systems. This project investigates the extraction of rare earth material from Mountain Pass Mine, the only rare earth mine in the United States."
At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Synth Library is a beautiful example of DIY hospitality open to all. They have found a nice home in the Lloyd Center Creative Mall. They have an open house today. Synth Library open house at the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in Llovd Center 2nd floor by Dicepool. RSVP required at https://withfriends.co/event/23016204/synth_library_open_house. 2PM-5 Free, donations accepted
Anya Roberts-Toney has The Echoing Green, impressionistic landscapeish printings. At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free
Jamin London Tinsel https://www.jaminlondontinsel.com/ has ceramic sculpture Homemades. It is more personal than the domestic projects of, for instance. Andrea Zittel. There is a better explanation at https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2025/03/28/jamin-london-tinsel-homemades/. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 2PM-5 Free, parking on weekends at PCC is Free
A new photography gallery and darkroom, Franklin Foto, opens Our Streets by Sai Stone. It images the Black Lives Matter movement in Portland. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Davor Gromilović, Heartslob, and Taegan Treichel bring varied work
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/3-person at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ondrea Bell Levey & Madeline Staurseth bring Signal Fire. It is inspired by progressive survivalist bunkers. Of course the oligarchs are building bunkers. In an article on them, the question of guards and servants was raised. A security consultant for one of the projects commented "I'm not worried about an army at the gate, I'm worried about a starving mother and baby at the gate." Then there is the case of the tomb of Ghenghis Kahn. The story is that the people that built the tomb were executed, and the people who executed them were executed. So the tomb has never been found. Strange days.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Megita Denton, Sarah Pagliaro, and Jeremy Rotsztain bring Bodies in Blotter. It is all explained at https://carnationcontemporary.com/Bodies-in-Blotter-Megita-Denton-Sarah-Pagliaro-and-Jeremy-Rotsztain.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is a performance residency. Tonight, Trajectories includes performances by Marcus Fischer and KT Kusmaul/Body Home Fat Dance at 6PM and 7. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Free
Oregon Contemporary has Ben Buswell with This Land. "This Land presents new work by Ben Buswell which continues his inquiry into place and self, in part, as a response to the notions of both American Manifest Destiny and Exceptionalism. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an expansive floor piece, a mirrored landscape that despite its reflective surface disallows the viewer to catch sight of their own image. As in the artist’s past work, reflection, or more specifically, the denial of reflection, creates a metaphorical space questioning the relationship between location and how one sees oneself." Timely.
In the Special Art on Loan Gallery are Reggie Burrows Hodges, Kieth Haring, Manoucher Yektai, and Josef Albers.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
Erin Espelie all the way from UC Boulder, where she teaches, has curated a collection of movies by Anna Kipervaser, Kamila Kuc, Madison McClintock, Emma Piper-Burket, Stacey Steers, and her own on a theme of From the Sweat of the Spider. Recommended.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
The yearly CAP Art Auction and afterparty are tonight. They are encouraging creative clothing. I think it sold out. More at https://www.capartauction.org/.
If you are down in LA, Suzanne Ciani performs live in Doug Aitkin's Lightscape. https://www.lightscapeart.org/events/lightscape-activation-by-doug-aitken-workshop-kcrw-suzanne-ciani at the Marciano Art Foundation 2PM sold out
At Ditch Projects https://ditchprojects.com/ 303 S. 5th Ave #165, Springfield OR Map 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Synth Library is a beautiful example of DIY hospitality open to all. They have found a nice home in the Lloyd Center Creative Mall. They have an open house today. Synth Library open house at the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in Llovd Center 2nd floor by Dicepool. RSVP required at https://withfriends.co/event/23016204/synth_library_open_house. 2PM-5 Free, donations accepted
Anya Roberts-Toney has The Echoing Green, impressionistic landscapeish printings. At Nationale
Jamin London Tinsel https://www.jaminlondontinsel.com/ has ceramic sculpture Homemades. It is more personal than the domestic projects of, for instance. Andrea Zittel. There is a better explanation at https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2025/03/28/jamin-london-tinsel-homemades/. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 2PM-5 Free, parking on weekends at PCC is Free
A new photography gallery and darkroom, Franklin Foto, opens Our Streets by Sai Stone. It images the Black Lives Matter movement in Portland. At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
Davor Gromilović, Heartslob, and Taegan Treichel bring varied work
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/3-person at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ondrea Bell Levey & Madeline Staurseth bring Signal Fire. It is inspired by progressive survivalist bunkers. Of course the oligarchs are building bunkers. In an article on them, the question of guards and servants was raised. A security consultant for one of the projects commented "I'm not worried about an army at the gate, I'm worried about a starving mother and baby at the gate." Then there is the case of the tomb of Ghenghis Kahn. The story is that the people that built the tomb were executed, and the people who executed them were executed. So the tomb has never been found. Strange days.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Megita Denton, Sarah Pagliaro, and Jeremy Rotsztain bring Bodies in Blotter. It is all explained at https://carnationcontemporary.com/Bodies-in-Blotter-Megita-Denton-Sarah-Pagliaro-and-Jeremy-Rotsztain.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Outer Voice is a performance residency. Tonight, Trajectories includes performances by Marcus Fischer and KT Kusmaul/Body Home Fat Dance at 6PM and 7. At Outer Voice https://www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Free
Oregon Contemporary has Ben Buswell with This Land. "This Land presents new work by Ben Buswell which continues his inquiry into place and self, in part, as a response to the notions of both American Manifest Destiny and Exceptionalism. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an expansive floor piece, a mirrored landscape that despite its reflective surface disallows the viewer to catch sight of their own image. As in the artist’s past work, reflection, or more specifically, the denial of reflection, creates a metaphorical space questioning the relationship between location and how one sees oneself." Timely.
In the Special Art on Loan Gallery are Reggie Burrows Hodges, Kieth Haring, Manoucher Yektai, and Josef Albers.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
Erin Espelie all the way from UC Boulder, where she teaches, has curated a collection of movies by Anna Kipervaser, Kamila Kuc, Madison McClintock, Emma Piper-Burket, Stacey Steers, and her own on a theme of From the Sweat of the Spider. Recommended.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
The yearly CAP Art Auction and afterparty are tonight. They are encouraging creative clothing. I think it sold out. More at https://www.capartauction.org/.
If you are down in LA, Suzanne Ciani performs live in Doug Aitkin's Lightscape. https://www.lightscapeart.org/events/lightscape-activation-by-doug-aitken-workshop-kcrw-suzanne-ciani at the Marciano Art Foundation 2PM sold out
Friday, April 04, 2025
April 4 Eastside Art Openings+
For your +1, After/Time has their opening tonight of Jeff by Ahuva S. Zaslavsky. It is video having to do with the sea, a golum, and a laviathan.
Later in the month are Leviathan, a dance performance, Friday, April 11 7PM, Washed Ashore, a Cento poetry workshop led by Ash Good, Sunday, April 13 2PM-4, a poetry reading, Sunday, April 13 4PM-5, an artist talk hosted by V Maldonado, Saturday, April 19 6PM-8, and life drawing, Sunday, April 27 1PM-4.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
For your +2 The Reser center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Tonight they open two shows.
Infinite Possibilities is a show by Mika Aono, Isami Ching, Yoonhee Choi, Menka Desai-Crawford, Sabina Haque, Yuji Hiratsuka, Sandra Honda, Helen Liu, Tien-chu Loh, Kanani Miyamoto, and Satoko Motouji. More at https://thereser.org/gallery/infinite-possibilities/
(UN) Belonging by Sabina Haque https://thereser.org/event/infinite-possibilities-opening-reception-un-belonging-live-performance/ is a performance by Sitara Razaqi Lones and Jordan Isadore within a projection installation.
There are events throughout the month at the link above.
Infinite Possibilities at the Patricia Reser Center Gallery. 12625 SE Crescent Street, Beaverton. See the parking suggestions on their website or go by train on the TriMet MAX. 6PM Free
Nucleus has a big mushroom show, Cluster 3. By Andrea Guzzetta, Bill Mayer, Bird Cvlt, Briana Hertzog, Candie Bolton, Cheyenne Barton, Deb JJ Lee, Dusty Ray, Gina Matarazzo, Kimera Wachna, Maggie Chiang, Matt Schu, Michael Camarra, N.C. Winters, Paper Puffin, Stevie Shao, and Taryn Knight.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/cluster-3 at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Later in the month are Leviathan, a dance performance, Friday, April 11 7PM, Washed Ashore, a Cento poetry workshop led by Ash Good, Sunday, April 13 2PM-4, a poetry reading, Sunday, April 13 4PM-5, an artist talk hosted by V Maldonado, Saturday, April 19 6PM-8, and life drawing, Sunday, April 27 1PM-4.
At After/Time Collective https://www.aftertimecollective 735 SW 9th Ave #110 6PM-9 Free
For your +2 The Reser center in Beaverton has an art gallery. Tonight they open two shows.
Infinite Possibilities is a show by Mika Aono, Isami Ching, Yoonhee Choi, Menka Desai-Crawford, Sabina Haque, Yuji Hiratsuka, Sandra Honda, Helen Liu, Tien-chu Loh, Kanani Miyamoto, and Satoko Motouji. More at https://thereser.org/gallery/infinite-possibilities/
(UN) Belonging by Sabina Haque https://thereser.org/event/infinite-possibilities-opening-reception-un-belonging-live-performance/ is a performance by Sitara Razaqi Lones and Jordan Isadore within a projection installation.
There are events throughout the month at the link above.
Infinite Possibilities at the Patricia Reser Center Gallery. 12625 SE Crescent Street, Beaverton. See the parking suggestions on their website or go by train on the TriMet MAX. 6PM Free
Nucleus has a big mushroom show, Cluster 3. By Andrea Guzzetta, Bill Mayer, Bird Cvlt, Briana Hertzog, Candie Bolton, Cheyenne Barton, Deb JJ Lee, Dusty Ray, Gina Matarazzo, Kimera Wachna, Maggie Chiang, Matt Schu, Michael Camarra, N.C. Winters, Paper Puffin, Stevie Shao, and Taryn Knight.
https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/cluster-3 at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Thursday, April 03, 2025
April 3 Westside Art Openings+
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Adams & Ollman, Stelo, Froelick, Ily2, and Leach continue.
For your +1 Lewis and Clark College has a 16 speaker performance venue, Experimental Art Research Forest - EAR Forest, in a forest on campus. https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/
Drumer John Niekrasz performs their composition Civilipoli for percussion and 16 channels. It reminds Stockhausen's Kontakte.
Civilipoli at EAR Forest space at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 5:30PM-6:30 Free
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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
+5 Painter Aldo Valdez opens Transfigurations. He started his career in LA and is now based in Portland. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey, 1995-2023 is strongly recommended at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê attracted attention upon completing his BFA at UCSB in 1989, and maintained trajectory through his MFA at SVA and beyond. Leach brought him to PICA's founding art show in 1996. He was an excellent gentlemen who passed of a stroke.
Lê has many eloquent artist obituaries. He left Vietnam in 1978 in the great diaspora, and later in his career worked in Vietnam supporting contemporary artists there.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Kristen Diederich has energetic colorful paintings Special French Blue. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8
Nykelle DeVivo brings Tha Crossroads, photos with manipulated highlights. The artist statement is a fantastic read. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/nykelle-devivo
The Critical Mass curatorial project brings Laura Beth Reese with #influenced. She prints 2d cutouts of influencers, arranges them in a still life tableau, glams and accessorizes them, then photoraphs that in a collage-like treatment.
Nines LeBrie Rich https://www.lebrie.com/ brings 2- and 3-D sculptures, Crackers (& Cookies) - they are brand snacks and their packaging magnified into quilted, embroidered and felted objects. https://lebrie-rich.square.site/ Giant snacks in the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
The Edge of Eden are paintings in a new direction by G. Lewis Clevenger. He previously did geometric abstracts, these are landscapes in a variety of styles.
Stephen O’Donnell brings 95 / 25: A Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition. A self-taught painter he brings luminous realist approach to a range of subjects: portraits, still-life, and wildlife.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Sally Cleveland brings landscape printings.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Philip Stork has pastel and pencil drawings, Connections. Hannah Theiss has mixed media collages, Qualia. Noah Alexander Isaac Stein has abstract paintins with a fire theme in Luminous Fire from a Broken Machine. In collaboration with 2025 Ekphraestival, Blackfish artists have reimagined book covers from existing books.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
2025 Ekphraestival is an art project combining poetry and visual art. Intertwined are the resulting collaborations between poets and visual artists. At Writers Block Studio curatingthewriterblock.studio 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has The New Abnormal 2.0, collage, painting, and video themed on climate disaster. www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Love is the Power is a show of dense graphic patterns in the Tom Cramer style by Saleam. The artist moved here from Atlanta. He would easily fit in with Fisk and is bringing his murals here too.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Clive Knights has abstracts combining color with slashes of black in show Incomplete Paperwork. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guests. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Arts Collective has a group show of nude figures. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Adams & Ollman, Stelo, Froelick, Ily2, and Leach continue.
For your +1 Lewis and Clark College has a 16 speaker performance venue, Experimental Art Research Forest - EAR Forest, in a forest on campus. https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/
Drumer John Niekrasz performs their composition Civilipoli for percussion and 16 channels. It reminds Stockhausen's Kontakte.
Civilipoli at EAR Forest space at Lewis and Clark College https://college.lclark.edu/departments/art/ear-forest/directions/ (and parking) 615 S Palatine Hill 5:30PM-6:30 Free
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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
+5 Painter Aldo Valdez opens Transfigurations. He started his career in LA and is now based in Portland. At Souvenir Gallery https://souvenirartspdx.org/ 1233 NE Alberta 5PM-8 Free
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey, 1995-2023 is strongly recommended at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê attracted attention upon completing his BFA at UCSB in 1989, and maintained trajectory through his MFA at SVA and beyond. Leach brought him to PICA's founding art show in 1996. He was an excellent gentlemen who passed of a stroke.
Lê has many eloquent artist obituaries. He left Vietnam in 1978 in the great diaspora, and later in his career worked in Vietnam supporting contemporary artists there.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
Kristen Diederich has energetic colorful paintings Special French Blue. At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 6PM-8
Nykelle DeVivo brings Tha Crossroads, photos with manipulated highlights. The artist statement is a fantastic read. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/nykelle-devivo
The Critical Mass curatorial project brings Laura Beth Reese with #influenced. She prints 2d cutouts of influencers, arranges them in a still life tableau, glams and accessorizes them, then photoraphs that in a collage-like treatment.
Nines LeBrie Rich https://www.lebrie.com/ brings 2- and 3-D sculptures, Crackers (& Cookies) - they are brand snacks and their packaging magnified into quilted, embroidered and felted objects. https://lebrie-rich.square.site/ Giant snacks in the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
The Edge of Eden are paintings in a new direction by G. Lewis Clevenger. He previously did geometric abstracts, these are landscapes in a variety of styles.
Stephen O’Donnell brings 95 / 25: A Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition. A self-taught painter he brings luminous realist approach to a range of subjects: portraits, still-life, and wildlife.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Sally Cleveland brings landscape printings.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Philip Stork has pastel and pencil drawings, Connections. Hannah Theiss has mixed media collages, Qualia. Noah Alexander Isaac Stein has abstract paintins with a fire theme in Luminous Fire from a Broken Machine. In collaboration with 2025 Ekphraestival, Blackfish artists have reimagined book covers from existing books.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
2025 Ekphraestival is an art project combining poetry and visual art. Intertwined are the resulting collaborations between poets and visual artists. At Writers Block Studio curatingthewriterblock.studio 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Free
Sabina Haque has The New Abnormal 2.0, collage, painting, and video themed on climate disaster. www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Love is the Power is a show of dense graphic patterns in the Tom Cramer style by Saleam. The artist moved here from Atlanta. He would easily fit in with Fisk and is bringing his murals here too.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
Clive Knights has abstracts combining color with slashes of black in show Incomplete Paperwork. At Laura Vincent Design and Gallery www.lvdesignandgallery.com/ 824 NW Davis 5PM-8 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guests. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
The Portland Arts Collective has a group show of nude figures. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, March 22, 2025
March 22 Stone Field
The Lumber Room has a group show from their collection, and are open this afternoon. They did not do a big opening because some of the sculptures would not do well with a crush of people. Otherwise check their website and make an appointment to see it.
A Stone in a Field includes Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Braman, Mary Corse, Moira Dryer, Suzan Frecon, Luchita Hurtado, On Kawara, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Mangold, Anna Maria Maiolino, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, K.R.M. Mooney, Betty Parsons, Sarah Rapson, Dorothea Rockburne, Michelle Stuart, Stefanie Victor, Erika Vogt and Evelyn Taocheng Wang.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2024/549 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map Noon-5 Free
A Stone in a Field includes Jo Baer, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Braman, Mary Corse, Moira Dryer, Suzan Frecon, Luchita Hurtado, On Kawara, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Mangold, Anna Maria Maiolino, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, K.R.M. Mooney, Betty Parsons, Sarah Rapson, Dorothea Rockburne, Michelle Stuart, Stefanie Victor, Erika Vogt and Evelyn Taocheng Wang.
At The Lumber Room https://lumberroom.com/exhibitions/2024/549 419 SW 9th, above Liz Leach Map Noon-5 Free
Saturday, March 15, 2025
March 16 Modulating Mystic Radiant Gourd
It's apropos that Susan Ciani, https://www.sevwave.com/gallery?pgid=j9dy07n9-5efc3014-6871-4538-a329-d85a413ba514 https://www.sevwave.com/bio veteran synth musician, played Berghain Friday, at age 78. This afternoon, Modulations: Cinema for the Ear shows at the Synth Library.
It is a 1998 documentary on electronic music including EDM. The topic is vast and this is a good introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4df3YTGfV9s.
The Synth Library was started by Felisha Ledesma after her Multiplex Gallery in the Everett Lofts. Originally S1, it was driven from place to place by Portland Fire Department regulations. It has operated since as a collective, bringing hands-on synth opportunities, and hosting Portland's instance of the worldwide Modular on the Spot free concerts.
Modulations https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events/synth-cinema-modulations-1998 at the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in Llovd Center 2nd floor by Dicepool. Tickets are required: https://withfriends.co/event/22903580/synth_cinema_modulations_1998 4PM $0-10
The Oregon Painting Society, an artist collective http://oregonpaintingsociety.org/about.html was birthed in 2007. MSHR, Mission Statement Human Radiance, performing on electro-optical synths of their own design, evolved from that in 2011. Today they perform worldwide. They just completed a tour of China, and touch down for an intimate performance tonight, releasing recording Live In Wuhan.
The evening includes White Gourd (Psychic Sounds | Belfast, Maine), Trigger Object (EMS/Sige Records/An Out Recordings), and Kelli Frances Corrado (Grimalkin Records mystic songstress).
Arrive promptly at Virtua_Gal nee Xhurch at Lloyd Mall Suite B216. Park, bike, or walk, entering from the Halsey Street side by Barnes and Noble, the mall is locked to the outside after 7PM. Virtua is in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic. 6PM-9 $15 at the door
It is a 1998 documentary on electronic music including EDM. The topic is vast and this is a good introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4df3YTGfV9s.
The Synth Library was started by Felisha Ledesma after her Multiplex Gallery in the Everett Lofts. Originally S1, it was driven from place to place by Portland Fire Department regulations. It has operated since as a collective, bringing hands-on synth opportunities, and hosting Portland's instance of the worldwide Modular on the Spot free concerts.
Modulations https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/events/synth-cinema-modulations-1998 at the Synth Library Portland https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in Llovd Center 2nd floor by Dicepool. Tickets are required: https://withfriends.co/event/22903580/synth_cinema_modulations_1998 4PM $0-10
The Oregon Painting Society, an artist collective http://oregonpaintingsociety.org/about.html was birthed in 2007. MSHR, Mission Statement Human Radiance, performing on electro-optical synths of their own design, evolved from that in 2011. Today they perform worldwide. They just completed a tour of China, and touch down for an intimate performance tonight, releasing recording Live In Wuhan.
The evening includes White Gourd (Psychic Sounds | Belfast, Maine), Trigger Object (EMS/Sige Records/An Out Recordings), and Kelli Frances Corrado (Grimalkin Records mystic songstress).
Arrive promptly at Virtua_Gal nee Xhurch at Lloyd Mall Suite B216. Park, bike, or walk, entering from the Halsey Street side by Barnes and Noble, the mall is locked to the outside after 7PM. Virtua is in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic. 6PM-9 $15 at the door
Friday, March 14, 2025
March 15 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Secret Water Memory
Donald Lloyd Morgan is the cofounder of Ditch Projects and professor at the UofO. If you know Ditch, his usually abstract drawings would fit right in there and he does playful sculpture too.
The show: "Tomorrow was Yesterday includes recent drawings and a sculpture that create a visual language of corroborating evidence, pulled from the overflowing storage locker of information that lives behind our eyes. Morgan often starts drawings by tracing the outlines of the cover of a paperback book, providing a familiar form to anchor viewers. Tools, shapes and signs, known to the artist, accumulate like notes or a tune in an improvisational context. They are then let loose on the page, like giving over to the impulse of just doing without overthinking. In this compressed time frame, there are often forms that have a visual connection to the structure of short-form stories, poems or three-minute songs. In other instances, a more imaginary and chaotic adaptation is applied to the pieces.
Drawings not intentionally responding to the structure of poems or emphasizing visual alignment with the mood of a short story develop in ways where such connections to the source material are less evident. These works explore figure-ground relationships, creating contrasts between different patterns and textures, and the interplay of flatness and illusory depth. This consistent push-and-pull builds a lyrical quality or syntax into the compositions, leaving viewers questioning how they perceive the page.
The themes in Morgan’s work—including humor, mortality, and superstition—are extensive but have a unique ecology that shepherd us toward exploration. This sense of discovery and uncertainty is part of understanding what it means to be human while acknowledging that human-ness is ever shifting and never gospel."
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th Map 1PM-5 Free
Lowell is a shop with art shows. Today Water Memory, paintings, by Jesi Jordan & Nick Carter, opens.
"Nick Carter approaches his work from a fiber, craft, & sculpture background, using traditional methods like Shibori dyeing & machine embroidery as a framework for abstract painting. Nick hand-works familiar materials into vibrant, patterned pieces that are at once comforting & psychedelic, balancing between object & image.
Jesi Jordan creates surreal, figurative paintings through a process of automatism & metamorphosis. Jesi’s works connect vivid imagery of the cosmos & nature with emotional introspection & psychic transformation in repeating forms of women, celestial bodies, fruit, & flowers.
shown together, Nick & Jesi’s divergent mediums continually shift our perspective & vision, while reciprocating color & form in delightful & surprising ways."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
Secret Room Press is a zine, small press, and Riso shop. They are having their aniversery celebration and a book release and reading of Sleepy's Delay by Erin Tanner. At Secret Room Press 3225 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
The show: "Tomorrow was Yesterday includes recent drawings and a sculpture that create a visual language of corroborating evidence, pulled from the overflowing storage locker of information that lives behind our eyes. Morgan often starts drawings by tracing the outlines of the cover of a paperback book, providing a familiar form to anchor viewers. Tools, shapes and signs, known to the artist, accumulate like notes or a tune in an improvisational context. They are then let loose on the page, like giving over to the impulse of just doing without overthinking. In this compressed time frame, there are often forms that have a visual connection to the structure of short-form stories, poems or three-minute songs. In other instances, a more imaginary and chaotic adaptation is applied to the pieces.
Drawings not intentionally responding to the structure of poems or emphasizing visual alignment with the mood of a short story develop in ways where such connections to the source material are less evident. These works explore figure-ground relationships, creating contrasts between different patterns and textures, and the interplay of flatness and illusory depth. This consistent push-and-pull builds a lyrical quality or syntax into the compositions, leaving viewers questioning how they perceive the page.
The themes in Morgan’s work—including humor, mortality, and superstition—are extensive but have a unique ecology that shepherd us toward exploration. This sense of discovery and uncertainty is part of understanding what it means to be human while acknowledging that human-ness is ever shifting and never gospel."
At at SE Cooper Contemprary https://www.secoopercontemporary.com/ 6901 SE 110th Map 1PM-5 Free
Lowell is a shop with art shows. Today Water Memory, paintings, by Jesi Jordan & Nick Carter, opens.
"Nick Carter approaches his work from a fiber, craft, & sculpture background, using traditional methods like Shibori dyeing & machine embroidery as a framework for abstract painting. Nick hand-works familiar materials into vibrant, patterned pieces that are at once comforting & psychedelic, balancing between object & image.
Jesi Jordan creates surreal, figurative paintings through a process of automatism & metamorphosis. Jesi’s works connect vivid imagery of the cosmos & nature with emotional introspection & psychic transformation in repeating forms of women, celestial bodies, fruit, & flowers.
shown together, Nick & Jesi’s divergent mediums continually shift our perspective & vision, while reciprocating color & form in delightful & surprising ways."
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
Secret Room Press is a zine, small press, and Riso shop. They are having their aniversery celebration and a book release and reading of Sleepy's Delay by Erin Tanner. At Secret Room Press 3225 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
Thursday, March 13, 2025
March 14-16 Coastal Art Weekend
Sou'Wester Lodge is a vintage trailer hotel. In Seaview, Washington, they are on the fault line and wipeout by tsunamis from the Really Big One https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one. Friends of mine survived the 2004 tsunami in Asia, many did not. Friends provided relief Tohoku 3-11.
A long time ago, friends created Spaceness at Sou'wester, a week for artists to make work themed on aliens and the paranormal. The last three years a new curtorial team has moved from that theme, and this year are curating in Seattle artists.
The Sou'wester Lodge art weekend has expanded to support an art space in Ilwaco, a very low budget hamlet in the Southern Long Beach penninsula by the bridge.
For this project a curatorial committe on the project website collects artist residency applications. You could be one!
The artists work for a week at a minimal hotel fee. They guest you me and everyone we know to experience the work and meet the artists. It is family friendly. Some events are children workshops.
Sou'Wester Art Weekend https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2025/. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/arts-week-2025-program-draft/ March 14th at Ilwaco Artworks 109 1st Ave N, Ilwaco, March 15th at The Sou’wester 3728 J Place, Seaview, March 16th at Wave Preschool | 1306 39th Pl, Seaview. Free
A long time ago, friends created Spaceness at Sou'wester, a week for artists to make work themed on aliens and the paranormal. The last three years a new curtorial team has moved from that theme, and this year are curating in Seattle artists.
The Sou'wester Lodge art weekend has expanded to support an art space in Ilwaco, a very low budget hamlet in the Southern Long Beach penninsula by the bridge.
For this project a curatorial committe on the project website collects artist residency applications. You could be one!
The artists work for a week at a minimal hotel fee. They guest you me and everyone we know to experience the work and meet the artists. It is family friendly. Some events are children workshops.
Sou'Wester Art Weekend https://www.souwesterlodge.com/artsweek2025/. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/arts-week-2025-program-draft/ March 14th at Ilwaco Artworks 109 1st Ave N, Ilwaco, March 15th at The Sou’wester 3728 J Place, Seaview, March 16th at Wave Preschool | 1306 39th Pl, Seaview. Free
March 14 You Me and Everyone We Know
Miranda July is known to many Portlanders. I met her at Tidbit and promoted her to PICA. Her artistic track is a deserved triumph of lady DIY. If you are not familiar she has many books and videos. Tonight she has a showing and talk at the Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater.
Carte Blanche: Miranda July https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/carte-blanche-miranda-july/ at the Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater 3530 SE Division 7PM $65 Sold Out
Carte Blanche: Miranda July https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/carte-blanche-miranda-july/ at the Portland Art Museum Tomorrow Theater 3530 SE Division 7PM $65 Sold Out
Monday, March 10, 2025
March 12 Dolphin Love
The Boathouse Microcinema is back. It is a live-work studio in the Unkles artist warehouse portfolio. It is very small, and Willamette Week, unwisely in my opinion, promoted it. Over promoting small events breaks the natural process of gradual face-to-face community building. An example was the Pander studio show in the Modish Building. There will be a line and only a few will get in, think 60. Maybe in the Summer they can move outside.
Tonight is a program of shorts: Roland Dahwen – TBA, Leslie Hickey – Phone / Memory, Lily King – November 20, 2024, Brandon Marcoux and Mariana Mora – Two, Fernand Rudolph – music videos, Matthew Nash – Leaving it Behind, Kai Nealis – Queen and Sarah Turner – But… You’re a Dolphin.
Sarah Turner was half of the Mobile Projection Unit, went to grad school, and is producing unique humorous work with the online sex industry as an ingredient. Her dolphin short relates to John Lilly's famous dolphin love projects.
It is in an industrial area. Do not park on, or overhanging the width of a train, the railroad tracks. They are active. Your car will either be smashed to bits, towed, or both.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
Tonight is a program of shorts: Roland Dahwen – TBA, Leslie Hickey – Phone / Memory, Lily King – November 20, 2024, Brandon Marcoux and Mariana Mora – Two, Fernand Rudolph – music videos, Matthew Nash – Leaving it Behind, Kai Nealis – Queen and Sarah Turner – But… You’re a Dolphin.
Sarah Turner was half of the Mobile Projection Unit, went to grad school, and is producing unique humorous work with the online sex industry as an ingredient. Her dolphin short relates to John Lilly's famous dolphin love projects.
It is in an industrial area. Do not park on, or overhanging the width of a train, the railroad tracks. They are active. Your car will either be smashed to bits, towed, or both.
At the Boathouse Microcinema www.boathousemicrocinema.com 822 N River Doors 7:30PM show 8 Free
March 12 - September 7 Dissident Art
Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei is a retrospective in Seattle. He has taken many risks in his work, and has arguably been the most effective modern art activist.
Portland's Contemporary Craft Gallery had early the Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 in 2010. The Film Center brought fimmaker Alison Klayman with Ai Weiwei Never Sorry in 2015. That film is not hard to stream today. That was adjacent to a loan to the museum under the Oregon sandwich tax scheme of Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold. Weiwei is probably out of Portland's price range now.
Weiwei's autobiography 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows is encyclopedic in its sadness and injustice. It is well worth a read. The artists has continued his activist art project with a focus on refugees. That has been much more intense in Europe than the US with the foolish and expensive "Axis of Evil" wars. It has brought down several European governments, and more may yet fall.
The Seattle Art museum mounts a retrospective of Ai Weiwei's work. It includes 130 works and spans the downtown museum, the Volunteer Park Asian Art Museum, and in the Olymic Sculpture Garden, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze, from May 17, 2025–May 17, 2027.
Throughout the show, the museum shows just about every film on the topic of the artist, many free.
Ai Weiwei at the Seattle Art Museum https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/ai-weiwei Timed tickets required in advence. $37.50, lesser price tiers, Free for members
Portland's Contemporary Craft Gallery had early the Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, 1995 in 2010. The Film Center brought fimmaker Alison Klayman with Ai Weiwei Never Sorry in 2015. That film is not hard to stream today. That was adjacent to a loan to the museum under the Oregon sandwich tax scheme of Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold. Weiwei is probably out of Portland's price range now.
Weiwei's autobiography 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows is encyclopedic in its sadness and injustice. It is well worth a read. The artists has continued his activist art project with a focus on refugees. That has been much more intense in Europe than the US with the foolish and expensive "Axis of Evil" wars. It has brought down several European governments, and more may yet fall.
The Seattle Art museum mounts a retrospective of Ai Weiwei's work. It includes 130 works and spans the downtown museum, the Volunteer Park Asian Art Museum, and in the Olymic Sculpture Garden, Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Bronze, from May 17, 2025–May 17, 2027.
Throughout the show, the museum shows just about every film on the topic of the artist, many free.
Ai Weiwei at the Seattle Art Museum https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/ai-weiwei Timed tickets required in advence. $37.50, lesser price tiers, Free for members
Saturday, March 08, 2025
March 8 Fragile Secret
Susan Seubert came from PNCA and has charted a solid career including idea-based art photography. https://www.sseubert.com/ Today she opens photographs Fragile Beauty: Images of icebergs from the last decade (2014-2024.) They were exposed in the Arctic and Antarctic. Though scenic, they have serious conceptual layer today.
Fragile Beauty https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/fragile-beauty at PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Bring Me the Head of Susan Lamond is a comic set in high school by Connor Brown. It is also the title of a new show opening by Sophie Danner, Aaron Fairchild, Delta Vasquez, Sabine Rear, and Connor Brown.
Commic and Zine show at Secret Room Press 3225 SE Division 7PM Free
Fragile Beauty https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/fragile-beauty at PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Bring Me the Head of Susan Lamond is a comic set in high school by Connor Brown. It is also the title of a new show opening by Sophie Danner, Aaron Fairchild, Delta Vasquez, Sabine Rear, and Connor Brown.
Commic and Zine show at Secret Room Press 3225 SE Division 7PM Free
Friday, March 07, 2025
March 7 Strange Pastimes
Jodie Cavalier brings Strange Overtones, found object assemblages.
At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free
At PPSTMM 323 NE Wygant #203. 6PM-8 Free
March 7 Eastside Art Openings
Info at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Thursday, March 06, 2025
March 6 Westside Art Openings+
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
Adams & Ollman continues.
For your +1 Daniellea Gatt is a Stumptown employee and new recipient of the Stumptown art fellowship. The show is True Happiness Will Find You in the End energetic gestural abstracts. 5PM
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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey, 1995-2023 is strongly recommended at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê attracted attention upon completing his BFA at UCSB in 1989, and maintained trajectory through his MFA at SVA and beyond. Leach brought him to PICA's founding art show in 1996. He was an excellent gentlemen who passed of a stroke.
Lê has many eloquent artist obituaries. He left Vietnam in 1978 in the great diaspora, and later in his career worked in Vietnam supporting contemporary artists there.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The big ad agency brings show and nonprofit fundraiser, PDX Loves LA, for the LA fires. Proceeds will be distributed to nonprofits. 100 artists exposed 100 images and they are printed in editions of 5 for sale at $100 each.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guests. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
Mary Luzycki https://www.marygluczycki.com/ is a photographer and stylist. Her photography stands on its own and fits well with the shop.
At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-7
Stelo has a participatory story making project for a week in collaboration with P:ear. That takes place their normal hours and tonight. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org/ 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-7 Free
Lost Landscapes is a show of manipulated and collaged landscape photographs by Debra Achen and Charlotta María Hauksdóttir.
Zeinab Saab has Girls Just Wanna Lay the Smackdown, screen prints. The narrative is documented on the Nine website, https://www.blueskygallery.org/nine-gallery. In the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
After Image 003 is a large group show curated by Luiza Lukova. Artists include Andrea Bagdon, Megan Bainbridge, Brooks Cashbaugh, A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Bryce H. Frimming, Häsler Gómez, Thomas Huston, Viktor Kobylianski, Eso Malfor, Isaac McKenna, Ruth Meijer, S. Proski, Sydney Milan Roberts, Jacob Romero, John Walker, Nicole Williford, Ahnika Wood + Karina Rovira, Wang Yiming, and Yuyang Zhang
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
René Rickabaugh has schematic still lifes of flora and fauna, Mementos. Chris Russell has landscape and interior paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
George Johanson who passed in 2022 has a show of saturated color paintings City Rhythms / The Art of City Life.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Adventures in Abstraction are paintings by Carol Benson. Forms Open or Dense - Spaces Variable is by Stephan Soihl. Cosmic Leaves - Miniatures and Giants is by Kanetaka Ikeda. Longtime Portland artist Michael Knutson continues a retrospective.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Rebecca Boraz, new artist to the gallery, has flat schematic paintings and ceramic works. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Don Gray, Nanette Wallace, and Liz Borowski have monotypes. At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Intact is a show by MF of collaged photographs. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Adams & Ollman continues.
For your +1 Daniellea Gatt is a Stumptown employee and new recipient of the Stumptown art fellowship. The show is True Happiness Will Find You in the End energetic gestural abstracts. 5PM
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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
Dinh Q. Lê: A Survey, 1995-2023 is strongly recommended at Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Lê attracted attention upon completing his BFA at UCSB in 1989, and maintained trajectory through his MFA at SVA and beyond. Leach brought him to PICA's founding art show in 1996. He was an excellent gentlemen who passed of a stroke.
Lê has many eloquent artist obituaries. He left Vietnam in 1978 in the great diaspora, and later in his career worked in Vietnam supporting contemporary artists there.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The big ad agency brings show and nonprofit fundraiser, PDX Loves LA, for the LA fires. Proceeds will be distributed to nonprofits. 100 artists exposed 100 images and they are printed in editions of 5 for sale at $100 each.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guests. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
Mary Luzycki https://www.marygluczycki.com/ is a photographer and stylist. Her photography stands on its own and fits well with the shop.
At Fine Art Fruit https://fine-art-fruit.square.site/ 925 NW 19th Ave Suite A 5PM-7
Stelo has a participatory story making project for a week in collaboration with P:ear. That takes place their normal hours and tonight. At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org/ 412 NW 8th Avenue 5PM-7 Free
Lost Landscapes is a show of manipulated and collaged landscape photographs by Debra Achen and Charlotta María Hauksdóttir.
Zeinab Saab has Girls Just Wanna Lay the Smackdown, screen prints. The narrative is documented on the Nine website, https://www.blueskygallery.org/nine-gallery. In the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
After Image 003 is a large group show curated by Luiza Lukova. Artists include Andrea Bagdon, Megan Bainbridge, Brooks Cashbaugh, A.J. Cincotta-Eichenfield, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Bryce H. Frimming, Häsler Gómez, Thomas Huston, Viktor Kobylianski, Eso Malfor, Isaac McKenna, Ruth Meijer, S. Proski, Sydney Milan Roberts, Jacob Romero, John Walker, Nicole Williford, Ahnika Wood + Karina Rovira, Wang Yiming, and Yuyang Zhang
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
René Rickabaugh has schematic still lifes of flora and fauna, Mementos. Chris Russell has landscape and interior paintings.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
George Johanson who passed in 2022 has a show of saturated color paintings City Rhythms / The Art of City Life.
The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Adventures in Abstraction are paintings by Carol Benson. Forms Open or Dense - Spaces Variable is by Stephan Soihl. Cosmic Leaves - Miniatures and Giants is by Kanetaka Ikeda. Longtime Portland artist Michael Knutson continues a retrospective.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Rebecca Boraz, new artist to the gallery, has flat schematic paintings and ceramic works. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Don Gray, Nanette Wallace, and Liz Borowski have monotypes. At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Intact is a show by MF of collaged photographs. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, March 01, 2025
March 1 Northside Art Openings Semi 404
Pete Hoffecker Mejía brings material collages Semi-Learned Borrowings.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
File Not Found is a collaboration in painting, print, and sculpture between Quinha Faria and Elizabeth Arzani.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free
Oregon Contemporary contunues its shows. At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
File Not Found is a collaboration in painting, print, and sculpture between Quinha Faria and Elizabeth Arzani.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free
Oregon Contemporary contunues its shows. At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
March 1 Old Fashioned
Old Fashioned is often used as a dimunitive adjective. I'm missing old fashioned rule of law, an indepensent judiciary, separation of powers, an educated populace, and science. Old fashioed bodily autonomy is always good. Old fashioed honesty. The problem with lies is that they are always discovered. An instructive film is The Nasty Girl. It may take time, but the lies are always found.
Jodie Cavalier and Alley Frey open a new independent space, Old Fashioned Gallery. Their first show is Dina No. No crafts tablewear. For this show she has ceramic artworks.
Old Fashioed Gallery makes future history in the past history of garage galleries, in the context of current garage galleries, in Portland. The past, not exhaustive, have been Car Hole Gallery, Appendix, Little Field, Surplus Space, Cherry & Lucic, Homebase, and 1122 1.0. Current garage galleries inlcude Helen's Costume and SE Cooper, now Old Fashioed Gallery.
It is a residence. They don't want their address published. Look them up and follow the directions to message them for the address, or go with a friend already going, or later message them for an appointment.
Old Fashioed Gallery opening show 2PM-5 Free
Jodie Cavalier and Alley Frey open a new independent space, Old Fashioned Gallery. Their first show is Dina No. No crafts tablewear. For this show she has ceramic artworks.
Old Fashioed Gallery makes future history in the past history of garage galleries, in the context of current garage galleries, in Portland. The past, not exhaustive, have been Car Hole Gallery, Appendix, Little Field, Surplus Space, Cherry & Lucic, Homebase, and 1122 1.0. Current garage galleries inlcude Helen's Costume and SE Cooper, now Old Fashioed Gallery.
It is a residence. They don't want their address published. Look them up and follow the directions to message them for the address, or go with a friend already going, or later message them for an appointment.
Old Fashioed Gallery opening show 2PM-5 Free
Friday, February 28, 2025
February 28 Paintings
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue is a large group show. Artists are Katherine Bradford, Gina Fischli, Alfred Jensen, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Ingrid Yi-Chen Lu, Ian Miyamura, Marlon Mullen, Ralph Pugay, and Bill Traylor.
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 5PM-7 Free
Nate Ethington has abstract paintings Book of Matches and Kyle Lee has narrative figurative paintings New Moon.
At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
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 5PM-7 Free
Nate Ethington has abstract paintings Book of Matches and Kyle Lee has narrative figurative paintings New Moon.
At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, February 27, 2025
February 27 Pubic Nature
Public Nature is a performance series. Each event is a collaboration between a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, working together for the first time, one time. This one is Katherine Longstreth, mover; Carolyn Supinka, poet; and Stephanie Lavon Trotter, a singer and looping artist.
At Flock www.flockpdx.com in the Marine Art Works Studios Building 5 2516 NW 29th Map Doors at 7PM Show 7:30 By donation cash, venmo, and paypal
At Flock www.flockpdx.com in the Marine Art Works Studios Building 5 2516 NW 29th Map Doors at 7PM Show 7:30 By donation cash, venmo, and paypal
Saturday, February 22, 2025
February 22 Summoning Seattle
If you are in Seattle, you can see the first work-in-progress showing of a butoh dance performance movie.
Butoh is an abstract modern dance form from Japan. There are many videos online, each different.
The Degenerate Art Ensemble, at its core, is a couple, a mover, and a composer, with collaborators. Degnerate Art, Entartete Kunst, was a derogative coined by Nazis. Modern and contemporary art continually pushes its boundaries, so in this case, it is a superlative.
Movie The Summoning is the story of the dynamic between wantering Miko and god Yatagarasu who conjure one another.
https://youtu.be/2AI0GpNkBoc
The Summoning https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-special-free-film-screening-tickets-1249034960189 at Japanese Cultural & Community Center 1414 S Weller St. Seattle 7PM Free
Butoh is an abstract modern dance form from Japan. There are many videos online, each different.
The Degenerate Art Ensemble, at its core, is a couple, a mover, and a composer, with collaborators. Degnerate Art, Entartete Kunst, was a derogative coined by Nazis. Modern and contemporary art continually pushes its boundaries, so in this case, it is a superlative.
Movie The Summoning is the story of the dynamic between wantering Miko and god Yatagarasu who conjure one another.
https://youtu.be/2AI0GpNkBoc
The Summoning https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-special-free-film-screening-tickets-1249034960189 at Japanese Cultural & Community Center 1414 S Weller St. Seattle 7PM Free
Sunday, February 16, 2025
February 16 Echoes
False Front is back in the flow. They are one of a small handful of notably-curated Portland home-based galleries.
Karl Burkheimer, https://www.karlburkheimer.com, painter, sculptor, art professor, and architectural fabricator, brings Echoes of Futility.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 2PM Free
Karl Burkheimer, https://www.karlburkheimer.com, painter, sculptor, art professor, and architectural fabricator, brings Echoes of Futility.
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 2PM Free
Saturday, February 15, 2025
February 15 Things+
Dennis Foster brings flat abstracts Same Thing Twice.
Dennis Foster at https://www.nationale.us/dennis-foster-same-thing-twice-2025 at Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map Recommended 2PM-4 Free
For your plus.
"Like you, many folks across our state have questions about what's going on in the federal government, and how they can get involved.
During my time serving Oregon, I've held over 1100 open-to-all town halls.
I'm writing today to invite you to two more town halls I will be hosting on Saturday, February 15, in Columbia and Washington Counties.
Washington County Town Hall: February 15, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Poynter Middle School 1535 NE Grant St. Hillsboro, OR
Columbia County Town Hall: February 15, 2025, at 3:30 PM
Scappoose Middle School 52265 Lower Columbia River Hwy (Hwy 30) Scappoose, OR
If you live in these counties and have questions, I encourage you to attend and make your voice heard.
I look forward to seeing you on Saturday." Oregon Senator Ron Wyden
Dennis Foster at https://www.nationale.us/dennis-foster-same-thing-twice-2025 at Nationale
For your plus.
"Like you, many folks across our state have questions about what's going on in the federal government, and how they can get involved.
During my time serving Oregon, I've held over 1100 open-to-all town halls.
I'm writing today to invite you to two more town halls I will be hosting on Saturday, February 15, in Columbia and Washington Counties.
Washington County Town Hall: February 15, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Poynter Middle School 1535 NE Grant St. Hillsboro, OR
Columbia County Town Hall: February 15, 2025, at 3:30 PM
Scappoose Middle School 52265 Lower Columbia River Hwy (Hwy 30) Scappoose, OR
If you live in these counties and have questions, I encourage you to attend and make your voice heard.
I look forward to seeing you on Saturday." Oregon Senator Ron Wyden
Friday, February 07, 2025
February 8 Microdose Pixel Company Somatics Too
"In a culture that often puts emphasis on getting all things bigger or in large amounts beholds a surprising truth that an emotion or physiological reaction can come from something so tiny."
That is the thesis of the annual nucleus Microdose show of miniature works of art. They are easy to move with!
The artists are Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Beachghost, Briana Hertzog, Cat Rabbit, Corinne Lent, Creature Creature, Cuddly Rigor Mortis, Ego, Eun-Ha Paek, Evah Fan, Felicia Chiao, Gentle Thrills, Hanna Jaeun, Helice Wen, Iryna Khymych , Itoyo, Jackie Brown, Jaime Soto, JP Neang, Juliet Schreckinger, Laura K Sayers, Lia Tin, Lizzy Gass, Marjolaine Roller, Matt Schu, Meadow & Fawn, Naoshi, Paper Puffin, Patrick Mathews, Perro y Arena, Po Yan Leung, Teagan White, Tintist, and Zach Meyer.
Microdose https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/microdose-5 at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ním Daghlian and Grapefruits host a participatory experimental website jam.
"Tired of the algorithm? Sick of posts and posting? Want to own your own pixels? Wanna make a zine, but online? Make Websites! Radical Web Art Workshop is an all-levels crash course in making web-based creative projects. This is a beginner-friendly, FREE workshop on making independent websites as a creative medium. No coding experience required--as long as you have a laptop that can connect to wifi and are comfortable online, you will leave with your own cool website and the skills to keep building on it.
WHAT TO BRING: A laptop that can connect to wifi, some images/text/other content you want to use for your website, a willingness to try things and be silly online together!"
At Virtua_Gal at Lloyd Mall Suite B216. It is in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic. 1PM-4 Free RSVP by email or socials
Storm Tharp brings a new show of portraits, Company. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Ori Art Gallery is usually by appointment, but tonight they open Digital somatics: To Breathe as Stars Do by Hiba Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQ20sK3pKQ.
"Digital somatics connects the body to technology through immersion and practices of slowness in relation to our bodies and technology. How can we use technological mediums such as VR, AR, and immersive technologies to slow down time? Ali inquires, how can we use technology to heal and connect somatically to our bodies? As a world builder and digital storyteller, Ali uses the framework of digital somatics, a term they developed, where they use technology to connect back to our bodies and to call forth a more loving world. In their digital art practice, they use principles of game design with 3D animation, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) and immersive installations to create liminal spaces where they engage in world building, storytelling and digital somatics. Digital technology is often coupled with instant gratification and speed, this can create an environment of anxiety and overconsumption of our precious resources and digital somatics invites us to be guided by slowness and corporal sensation."
At www.oriartgallery.com, Ori Gallery, little with a big vision 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-8 Free
Elanor Randl and Jens Pettersen open Open Marriage. At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall Suite G113, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls 3PM-6 Free
That is the thesis of the annual nucleus Microdose show of miniature works of art. They are easy to move with!
The artists are Amy Earles, Andi Soto, Beachghost, Briana Hertzog, Cat Rabbit, Corinne Lent, Creature Creature, Cuddly Rigor Mortis, Ego, Eun-Ha Paek, Evah Fan, Felicia Chiao, Gentle Thrills, Hanna Jaeun, Helice Wen, Iryna Khymych , Itoyo, Jackie Brown, Jaime Soto, JP Neang, Juliet Schreckinger, Laura K Sayers, Lia Tin, Lizzy Gass, Marjolaine Roller, Matt Schu, Meadow & Fawn, Naoshi, Paper Puffin, Patrick Mathews, Perro y Arena, Po Yan Leung, Teagan White, Tintist, and Zach Meyer.
Microdose https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/microdose-5 at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ním Daghlian and Grapefruits host a participatory experimental website jam.
"Tired of the algorithm? Sick of posts and posting? Want to own your own pixels? Wanna make a zine, but online? Make Websites! Radical Web Art Workshop is an all-levels crash course in making web-based creative projects. This is a beginner-friendly, FREE workshop on making independent websites as a creative medium. No coding experience required--as long as you have a laptop that can connect to wifi and are comfortable online, you will leave with your own cool website and the skills to keep building on it.
WHAT TO BRING: A laptop that can connect to wifi, some images/text/other content you want to use for your website, a willingness to try things and be silly online together!"
At Virtua_Gal at Lloyd Mall Suite B216. It is in the former Lady Foot Locker, second level, above Zumiez and Hot Topic. 1PM-4 Free RSVP by email or socials
Storm Tharp brings a new show of portraits, Company. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Ori Art Gallery is usually by appointment, but tonight they open Digital somatics: To Breathe as Stars Do by Hiba Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qQ20sK3pKQ.
"Digital somatics connects the body to technology through immersion and practices of slowness in relation to our bodies and technology. How can we use technological mediums such as VR, AR, and immersive technologies to slow down time? Ali inquires, how can we use technology to heal and connect somatically to our bodies? As a world builder and digital storyteller, Ali uses the framework of digital somatics, a term they developed, where they use technology to connect back to our bodies and to call forth a more loving world. In their digital art practice, they use principles of game design with 3D animation, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) and immersive installations to create liminal spaces where they engage in world building, storytelling and digital somatics. Digital technology is often coupled with instant gratification and speed, this can create an environment of anxiety and overconsumption of our precious resources and digital somatics invites us to be guided by slowness and corporal sensation."
At www.oriartgallery.com, Ori Gallery, little with a big vision 4038 N Mississippi 6PM-8 Free
Elanor Randl and Jens Pettersen open Open Marriage. At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall Suite G113, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls 3PM-6 Free
February 7 Eastside Art Openings
Info at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Matt Schu brings his own art, Ruins, and curatates a show Houses, including Andrew James McKay,Betsy Walton, Josh Minnich, Kim Slate, Paper Puffin, Lia Tin, Mike Howat, Rachel Murray, Sam Kalda, and Sean Lewis.
Https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/matt-schu at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Matt Schu brings his own art, Ruins, and curatates a show Houses, including Andrew James McKay,Betsy Walton, Josh Minnich, Kim Slate, Paper Puffin, Lia Tin, Mike Howat, Rachel Murray, Sam Kalda, and Sean Lewis.
Https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/matt-schu at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Thursday, February 06, 2025
February 7, 8, 14, 15 Light Art
The 10th Portland Winter Light Festival is upon us. It's family friendly. It is concentrated at Pioneer Square and the PGE World Trade Center downtown Westside, and in the Electric Blocks on the Eastside in the industrial district. It is also throughout the city and many light sculptures will be illuminated in the evening throughout the week.
Last year had stellar weather. This year the 7th & 8th evenings will be cold but unlikely to rain. The 14th and 15th, maybe not.
All the info is at https://pdxwlf.com/. Free!
Last year had stellar weather. This year the 7th & 8th evenings will be cold but unlikely to rain. The 14th and 15th, maybe not.
All the info is at https://pdxwlf.com/. Free!
February 7-9 Things'll Be Great When You're Downtown
Downtown. New York. 1970s-80s cusp. Not safe. A revolution in hip hop and art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g
Downtown '81 is a casualy scripted movie and downtown scenescape with Basquiat playing himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6qzDnQzGI
The movie ran out of money for completion. In 1999 it was revived, the sound dubbed, and the result is what we have.
At PSU 5th Avenue Cinema www.5thavenuecinema.org 510 SW HallFriday & Saturday 6PM, 8:30, Sunday 3 Free PSU, $6 other students, $7 everyone else
Downtown '81 is a casualy scripted movie and downtown scenescape with Basquiat playing himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6qzDnQzGI
The movie ran out of money for completion. In 1999 it was revived, the sound dubbed, and the result is what we have.
At PSU 5th Avenue Cinema www.5thavenuecinema.org 510 SW HallFriday & Saturday 6PM, 8:30, Sunday 3 Free PSU, $6 other students, $7 everyone else
February 6 Westside Art Openings+
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
ILY2, Adams & Ollman, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, and The Black Gallery continue. Stelo does have community art making this evening.
For your +1 Hollywood Theater is showing Kelly Reichart's Old Joy. It is a Northwest film made in 2006, her 3rd film, amd first major film. The story was written by Jon Raymond, and there is a book collaboration with Justine Kurland. The two protagonists are traveling to a remote hot spring on a journey of purification. The original soundtrack was by Yo La Tengo, and the occasion of this film experience is the release of the soundtrack on vinyl by Mississippi Records. Old Joy https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/old-joy/ at Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12
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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
Derek Franklin brings paintings Between the Time of the Dog and the Wolf, entre chien et loup. There is a longer explanation on the gallery website. Also on is a group show Everyday Alchemy by Hunter Braithwaite, Bonnie Bronson, Ann Hamilton, Malia Jensen, Isaac Layman, Don Nice, Jess Perlitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark R. Smith, and Donald Sultan
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The Russo Lee Gallery is reopening after a fire in the restaurant next door. Fay Jones has Stills, implied narrative instants, Roll Hardy has landscapes, and Rene Rickabaugh has paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Portland Arts Collective has moved. In their new spot, they have installation Rain by Dave Meeker. It is part of the Portland Winter Lights Festival, and on their schedule the next two weekends.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
American photographer Colton Rothwell brings Pearl Road. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/colton-rothwell. Hyun-taek Cho has Vacant Room, camera obscura projections into vacant homes slated for urban renewal in his home town in Korea. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/hyun-taek-cho.
In the Nine Gallery, Jess Perlitz has Shell of Body, sculptural shapes.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Roots & Recipes: A black Food Experience should bring good vibes and smells.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Fans Only shows it residents along with guests from the PSU art world, alumni, students, and teachers. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
Phil Bard has American Desert, monochrome landscape photographs in the 19th Century Western tradition. The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has open studios and a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Berlin artist Marcus Sendlinger brings paintings and drawings Power Plants. There is an elequent description on the gallery socials. At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Wave Contemoporary brings returns their Orbit series of short movies. Tonight they are by Diana Marcela Cuartas, Jamie Isenstein, Radu Jude, and Tyler Stoll. At Chess Club Art https://chessclub.art/ 435 NW 6th 6PM-9 $5 suggested donation
Aurora is a Blackfish member group show. It includes a light art piece which is part of the Portland Winter Art Festival this weekend and next evening hours. Laura Swingen has paintings Composing Myself. Longtime Portland artist Michael Knutson has a retrospective, Recollections.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
There is a gallery Winter group show at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Waterstone guests North Pole Studio artists Adam Richards, Adolph Bastendorff, Davis Wolford, Deanna Wiessenhaus, Doug Wing, James Enos, Nathan Ueno, and Tyla Parsons. They are disabled artists. After Project Grow was destroyed then digested by its parent nonprofit, it proceeded for a while. Between 2016 and 2020 federal policy reversed and directed those projects to be strictly job training. After about 2020, the policy allowed more creative projects. See it while you can.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
ILY2, Adams & Ollman, Stelo, Laura Vincent Design, and The Black Gallery continue. Stelo does have community art making this evening.
For your +1 Hollywood Theater is showing Kelly Reichart's Old Joy. It is a Northwest film made in 2006, her 3rd film, amd first major film. The story was written by Jon Raymond, and there is a book collaboration with Justine Kurland. The two protagonists are traveling to a remote hot spring on a journey of purification. The original soundtrack was by Yo La Tengo, and the occasion of this film experience is the release of the soundtrack on vinyl by Mississippi Records. Old Joy https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/old-joy/ at Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $12
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
+3 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+4 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events. At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
Derek Franklin brings paintings Between the Time of the Dog and the Wolf, entre chien et loup. There is a longer explanation on the gallery website. Also on is a group show Everyday Alchemy by Hunter Braithwaite, Bonnie Bronson, Ann Hamilton, Malia Jensen, Isaac Layman, Don Nice, Jess Perlitz, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark R. Smith, and Donald Sultan
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5:30PM-7:30 Free
The Russo Lee Gallery is reopening after a fire in the restaurant next door. Fay Jones has Stills, implied narrative instants, Roll Hardy has landscapes, and Rene Rickabaugh has paintings. At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Portland Arts Collective has moved. In their new spot, they have installation Rain by Dave Meeker. It is part of the Portland Winter Lights Festival, and on their schedule the next two weekends.
At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
American photographer Colton Rothwell brings Pearl Road. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/colton-rothwell. Hyun-taek Cho has Vacant Room, camera obscura projections into vacant homes slated for urban renewal in his home town in Korea. https://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibitions/archives/2025/hyun-taek-cho.
In the Nine Gallery, Jess Perlitz has Shell of Body, sculptural shapes.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Roots & Recipes: A black Food Experience should bring good vibes and smells.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Fans Only shows it residents along with guests from the PSU art world, alumni, students, and teachers. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-7 Free
Phil Bard has American Desert, monochrome landscape photographs in the 19th Century Western tradition. The Opening reception is Saturday, 1:30. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis 5PM-7:45 Free
PNCA has open studios and a myriad of shows. It is easier for you to just go than to list them all. At PNCA | Willamette University www.pnca.wilamette.edu 511 NW Broadway Map 5PM-8 Free
Berlin artist Marcus Sendlinger brings paintings and drawings Power Plants. There is an elequent description on the gallery socials. At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Wave Contemoporary brings returns their Orbit series of short movies. Tonight they are by Diana Marcela Cuartas, Jamie Isenstein, Radu Jude, and Tyler Stoll. At Chess Club Art https://chessclub.art/ 435 NW 6th 6PM-9 $5 suggested donation
Aurora is a Blackfish member group show. It includes a light art piece which is part of the Portland Winter Art Festival this weekend and next evening hours. Laura Swingen has paintings Composing Myself. Longtime Portland artist Michael Knutson has a retrospective, Recollections.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
There is a gallery Winter group show at Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Waterstone guests North Pole Studio artists Adam Richards, Adolph Bastendorff, Davis Wolford, Deanna Wiessenhaus, Doug Wing, James Enos, Nathan Ueno, and Tyla Parsons. They are disabled artists. After Project Grow was destroyed then digested by its parent nonprofit, it proceeded for a while. Between 2016 and 2020 federal policy reversed and directed those projects to be strictly job training. After about 2020, the policy allowed more creative projects. See it while you can.
At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Sunday, February 02, 2025
February 2 Twenty-Four Seasons
I first saw Qiu Zhijie's Copy Orchard Pavilion Preface 1000 Times 邱志杰 书写兰亭序一千遍 at the Inside/Out show organized by the Asia Society. https://www.galerieloft.com/en/gallery/photography/one-thousand-time-copy-of-langtingxu/ It is exhibited as a multtych, each successive piece a stopping point. The final piece is entirely black, with parts of strokes on white at the edge. The carbon particles in the ink glint, so there is a faint record of the last strokes, black on black. Two were made. It is a work and a performance. In China, copying classics was a big part of the curriculum. I have an interest in classical Chinese philosophy and poetry, and the 1000 Times work combines those with my interest in contemporary art.
Some of Zhijie's work is inspired by calligraphy. He has worked on that theme for over 30 years. He has other themes. He continues to work safely in Beijing, while Ai Wei Wei does not.
Zhijie founded the first AI art school in China and is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary work between art and technology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
JSMA has a show of two bodies of Zhijie's work, including photos in which the artist made characters with a light pen in a long exposure.
This afternoon, Chinese art scholars Jane DeBevoise, Johnson Chang, Nancy Lin, and Mia Yinxing Liu, join the artist in person, in a discussion moderated by Anne Rose Kitagawa in little Eugene. It will likely be produced out in a public video on the JSMA YouTube.
In this video, he relates he would not be a good artist without teaching and with out being a good artist he would not be a good father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q25LonRJC0.
Join the artist, the panel, and the work in show Twenty-Four Seasons: Critical Temporality and Qiu Zhijie’s Light Writing https://jsma.uoregon.edu/twenty-four-seasons & https://jsma.uoregon.edu/events/exhibition-talk-twenty-four-seasons-critical-temporality-and-qiu-zhijies-light-writing. At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene. 2PM Free
Some of Zhijie's work is inspired by calligraphy. He has worked on that theme for over 30 years. He has other themes. He continues to work safely in Beijing, while Ai Wei Wei does not.
Zhijie founded the first AI art school in China and is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary work between art and technology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.
JSMA has a show of two bodies of Zhijie's work, including photos in which the artist made characters with a light pen in a long exposure.
This afternoon, Chinese art scholars Jane DeBevoise, Johnson Chang, Nancy Lin, and Mia Yinxing Liu, join the artist in person, in a discussion moderated by Anne Rose Kitagawa in little Eugene. It will likely be produced out in a public video on the JSMA YouTube.
In this video, he relates he would not be a good artist without teaching and with out being a good artist he would not be a good father. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q25LonRJC0.
Join the artist, the panel, and the work in show Twenty-Four Seasons: Critical Temporality and Qiu Zhijie’s Light Writing https://jsma.uoregon.edu/twenty-four-seasons & https://jsma.uoregon.edu/events/exhibition-talk-twenty-four-seasons-critical-temporality-and-qiu-zhijies-light-writing. At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, 1430 Johnson Lane, Eugene. 2PM Free
Saturday, February 01, 2025
February 1 Northside Art Openings+
For your +1. We enjoy music, but we rarely list it here. Others are better sources. That being said, we are attracted to a concert of Portland Jazz Legends here tonight. It is in honor of vocalist Shirley Nanette. The black church is a never-ending font of talent and joy in music. Portland's Cotton Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Club_(Portland,_Oregon) was another in its time. Many now-elder Portland jazz musicians jammed there at middle school age. It fell to urban renewal if you know what I'm saying.
Shirley Nanette gifted Portland many gospel jazz Christmas concerts. I remember one with a duet between Nanette and her teen daughter in call and response. You could see the mutual admiration and rivalry. You could also see the question if the daughter would proceed into the maw of the star-making machinery behind the popular song that claimed Whitney Houston who started in gospel. I don't know the rest of the story.
Nanette will be accompanied by Ron Steen, Vince Frates, and Phil Baker, with guests Ural Thomas , Norman Sylvester, Brad Bleidt, Steve Christopherson, and Mel Brown, in a show of jazz, soul, blues, R&B, and funk.
PDX Legends, a Tribute to Shirley Nanette https://www.albertaabbey.org/eventcalendar/c5xjf7phsgpepxpscvhdeg5o7wjmz3, at Alberta Abbey 126 NE Alberta Doors 7PM, show 8 PM $ 20 or $45 with a creole dinner and reserved seating
Of related interest, the Albina Music Trust is a label and an archive. https://www.albinamusictrust.com/. They have a thing today too. Pointing forward in your calendar, they drop Our Soul Assembly at Bodecker on the 22nd. Lou Rawls said it https://youtu.be/K26vTCqOprE?si=yoZ8UZyJBWOP1bCL, thankfully we have the Trust.
For your +2. A Secret Room Press is a Risograph studio with zines, art shows and movies. They are open rarely. Violet Reed brings Flower Tower, risograph prints, miniature models, and toys illustrating her dream worlds.
Flower Tower at A Secret Room Press 3225 SE Division 6PM-8 Free
Man on the Land is a show by Tyler Stoll. It "reimagines iconic land artist Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements, swapping the mirrors with homemade cardboard cutouts of John Travolta as Danny Zuko from the 1978 musical film Grease." Personally I'm not a fan of pop culture sampling. For one it is easy, for two it has a narrow swath of viewers who might ne interested. Up to you though. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Michael Espinoza has curated a group show Brief Encounters: Queer Instant Photography. There is a curator statement on the gallery website. Artists are Ryan Rudewicz, Wayne Bund, Ian Lewandowski, Soft Butch, Catalina Bulgach, Nate Francis, Tom Kay, Jamieson Edson, Chris Moody, José Tinoco, Shadows Gather, Kareem Michael Worrell, C Meier, Christian Rogers, Michael Espinoza, Jackson Fader, Stuart Sandford, and Carlos Enfedaque.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free
Outer Voice hosts Open Hours. "Share your video, audio, or performance work under 5 minutes. WIP, excerpts, old work, new work, anything! This is not a critique, it’s a less formal showcase of time-based works (dance, performance-art, video, audio, music, reading aloud) by us and our community, plus time to hang out with fellow artists."
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues. That includes installation Sea of Vapors by Emily Counts, Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales with Waste Scenes, and museum-quality loans of paintings by Manoucher Yektai and Josef Albers.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
Shirley Nanette gifted Portland many gospel jazz Christmas concerts. I remember one with a duet between Nanette and her teen daughter in call and response. You could see the mutual admiration and rivalry. You could also see the question if the daughter would proceed into the maw of the star-making machinery behind the popular song that claimed Whitney Houston who started in gospel. I don't know the rest of the story.
Nanette will be accompanied by Ron Steen, Vince Frates, and Phil Baker, with guests Ural Thomas , Norman Sylvester, Brad Bleidt, Steve Christopherson, and Mel Brown, in a show of jazz, soul, blues, R&B, and funk.
PDX Legends, a Tribute to Shirley Nanette https://www.albertaabbey.org/eventcalendar/c5xjf7phsgpepxpscvhdeg5o7wjmz3, at Alberta Abbey 126 NE Alberta Doors 7PM, show 8 PM $ 20 or $45 with a creole dinner and reserved seating
Of related interest, the Albina Music Trust is a label and an archive. https://www.albinamusictrust.com/. They have a thing today too. Pointing forward in your calendar, they drop Our Soul Assembly at Bodecker on the 22nd. Lou Rawls said it https://youtu.be/K26vTCqOprE?si=yoZ8UZyJBWOP1bCL, thankfully we have the Trust.
For your +2. A Secret Room Press is a Risograph studio with zines, art shows and movies. They are open rarely. Violet Reed brings Flower Tower, risograph prints, miniature models, and toys illustrating her dream worlds.
Flower Tower at A Secret Room Press 3225 SE Division 6PM-8 Free
Man on the Land is a show by Tyler Stoll. It "reimagines iconic land artist Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements, swapping the mirrors with homemade cardboard cutouts of John Travolta as Danny Zuko from the 1978 musical film Grease." Personally I'm not a fan of pop culture sampling. For one it is easy, for two it has a narrow swath of viewers who might ne interested. Up to you though. At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Michael Espinoza has curated a group show Brief Encounters: Queer Instant Photography. There is a curator statement on the gallery website. Artists are Ryan Rudewicz, Wayne Bund, Ian Lewandowski, Soft Butch, Catalina Bulgach, Nate Francis, Tom Kay, Jamieson Edson, Chris Moody, José Tinoco, Shadows Gather, Kareem Michael Worrell, C Meier, Christian Rogers, Michael Espinoza, Jackson Fader, Stuart Sandford, and Carlos Enfedaque.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free
Outer Voice hosts Open Hours. "Share your video, audio, or performance work under 5 minutes. WIP, excerpts, old work, new work, anything! This is not a critique, it’s a less formal showcase of time-based works (dance, performance-art, video, audio, music, reading aloud) by us and our community, plus time to hang out with fellow artists."
At Outer Voice www.outervoicepdx.com/ in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate Map . 5PM-8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues. That includes installation Sea of Vapors by Emily Counts, Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales with Waste Scenes, and museum-quality loans of paintings by Manoucher Yektai and Josef Albers.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
Friday, January 31, 2025
January 31 - March 17 City of Tomorrow Yesterday
Architecture can be art. The great movements in architecture often have a conceptual ingredient and represent a zeitgeist. Religious architecture often has been designed to invoke trance and awe. Classical styles sampled Greek and Roman elements to lend grandeur and legitimacy.
Sullivan's buildings, derived from classical forms with a base, a rise, and a cap, and ornamented with geometric organic designs, nonetheless set a direction with his maxim "form follows function." Wright was a student of Sullivan and followed with his Mayan period and the Imperial Hotel before his prairie style and site sculptures, like Falling Water.
The Bauhaus, birthed as a response to poverty in Germany to make beautiful inexpensive household items, exited Germany as Hitler rose. The Bauhaus architects in America birthed the ranch house.
The International Style from Germany and France was enabled by new materials, float glass and steel. It represented aspiration and modernism in its minimalism. Of course, every action produces a reaction, postmodern architecture.
Postmodern architecture proposed by Brown and Venturi samples disparate elements into a whole as an affront to modernism. The Portland Building, with many haters, is a key building in postmodern architecture. The City of Portland posed a competition of architects for a building with requirements of footprint, square footage, and cost. Architect Robert Graves won. That year the AIA conference sported many buttons on participants, "I Don't Dig Graves." Amid a great hue and cry against the design, the competition was reopened and Graves won again. Between the program and the budget, Graves had to minimize the size of the windows and design a squat building in mass. The ornamentation, the ribbon near the top, and the colors, the blue base and yellow cladding disguise the mass.
Later came the deconstructionist architecture movement. I once heard Eisenman, an architect and professor, say that the comfort of the building occupants, including their psychological comfort, is not the responsibility of the architect. Personally I enjoy deconstructionist architecture and all the movements above. But deconstructionist architecture has a lot of problems with weather leaks and its long term durability goes against sustainability objectives. Of course, architecture continues to evolve.
Portland is architecture-poor because we are cheap. And today it is Asia with the great budgets and experimental forms. As a fan of Brown and Venturi's Learning From Las Vegas, I'm especially interested in whole-building LED screens.
One of the tools of architects are physical scale models. Today they are supplemented by VR, but there is still a pleasure in models. Allied Works is known for its artistically crafted models. They have a book of them, Case Work.
City of Possibility is a show of architectural models, including city planning models. It was arranged by Oregon architecture schools and collaborators. Curated by Justin Fowler, Elisandra Garcia, Anna Goodman, Randy Gragg, Juan Manuel Heredia, and Will Smith. Many events, some with fees, unfold over the time of the exhibition detailed on their website. January 31 is the public opening. It would be good for parents with family interested in architecture.
City of Possibility, https://cityofpossibility.net/ Opening at the Expensify Building 401 SW 5th and the JK Gill Building 408 SW 5th 6PM-9 Free
Sullivan's buildings, derived from classical forms with a base, a rise, and a cap, and ornamented with geometric organic designs, nonetheless set a direction with his maxim "form follows function." Wright was a student of Sullivan and followed with his Mayan period and the Imperial Hotel before his prairie style and site sculptures, like Falling Water.
The Bauhaus, birthed as a response to poverty in Germany to make beautiful inexpensive household items, exited Germany as Hitler rose. The Bauhaus architects in America birthed the ranch house.
The International Style from Germany and France was enabled by new materials, float glass and steel. It represented aspiration and modernism in its minimalism. Of course, every action produces a reaction, postmodern architecture.
Postmodern architecture proposed by Brown and Venturi samples disparate elements into a whole as an affront to modernism. The Portland Building, with many haters, is a key building in postmodern architecture. The City of Portland posed a competition of architects for a building with requirements of footprint, square footage, and cost. Architect Robert Graves won. That year the AIA conference sported many buttons on participants, "I Don't Dig Graves." Amid a great hue and cry against the design, the competition was reopened and Graves won again. Between the program and the budget, Graves had to minimize the size of the windows and design a squat building in mass. The ornamentation, the ribbon near the top, and the colors, the blue base and yellow cladding disguise the mass.
Later came the deconstructionist architecture movement. I once heard Eisenman, an architect and professor, say that the comfort of the building occupants, including their psychological comfort, is not the responsibility of the architect. Personally I enjoy deconstructionist architecture and all the movements above. But deconstructionist architecture has a lot of problems with weather leaks and its long term durability goes against sustainability objectives. Of course, architecture continues to evolve.
Portland is architecture-poor because we are cheap. And today it is Asia with the great budgets and experimental forms. As a fan of Brown and Venturi's Learning From Las Vegas, I'm especially interested in whole-building LED screens.
One of the tools of architects are physical scale models. Today they are supplemented by VR, but there is still a pleasure in models. Allied Works is known for its artistically crafted models. They have a book of them, Case Work.
City of Possibility is a show of architectural models, including city planning models. It was arranged by Oregon architecture schools and collaborators. Curated by Justin Fowler, Elisandra Garcia, Anna Goodman, Randy Gragg, Juan Manuel Heredia, and Will Smith. Many events, some with fees, unfold over the time of the exhibition detailed on their website. January 31 is the public opening. It would be good for parents with family interested in architecture.
City of Possibility, https://cityofpossibility.net/ Opening at the Expensify Building 401 SW 5th and the JK Gill Building 408 SW 5th 6PM-9 Free
January 31 - March 2 Cascade Festival of African Films
The 35th 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 14 are at the Hollywood Theater, and one is at the PAM Cut Tomorrow Theater on Division February 6. February 22 has a matinee suited for children.
The schedule and film synopses are at https://www.africanfilmfestival.org/. Some films, like the Tommorow Theater may benefit from advance free ticketing. All the films are free
Thursday, January 30, 2025
January 30 Birds Aren't Real Too Often
Last Thursday on Alberta continues to have some of the remaining galleries open in cold Winter.
Antler+Talon has a bird group show of illustration-style work. It benefits the Bird Alliance Of Oregon, nee the Audubon Society. The focus is endangered and extinct birds of a feather.
Artists include Emily Furr, Ernesto Maranje, Rhea O’Neill, Christina Keith, Michael Bailey, Jason Borders, Teagan White, Tripper Dungan, Natalie Erickson, Michelle Mitchell, Keith Carter, Rachel Sabin, Matt Linares, Juliet Schreckinger, Jeff Sheridan, Brin Levinson, Hickory Mertsching, Rialenga, Ryan Bubnis, Zoe Chigi, Lo Gonsalves, Lilah Mcghee-Stinson, Kristin Bell and Elise Toublanc.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Antler+Talon has a bird group show of illustration-style work. It benefits the Bird Alliance Of Oregon, nee the Audubon Society. The focus is endangered and extinct birds of a feather.
Artists include Emily Furr, Ernesto Maranje, Rhea O’Neill, Christina Keith, Michael Bailey, Jason Borders, Teagan White, Tripper Dungan, Natalie Erickson, Michelle Mitchell, Keith Carter, Rachel Sabin, Matt Linares, Juliet Schreckinger, Jeff Sheridan, Brin Levinson, Hickory Mertsching, Rialenga, Ryan Bubnis, Zoe Chigi, Lo Gonsalves, Lilah Mcghee-Stinson, Kristin Bell and Elise Toublanc.
At Antler & Talon Gallery www.antlerpdx.com 2714 NE Alberta 6pm-9 Free
Saturday, January 25, 2025
January 25 Mug
Mugs can be functional art. So Lowell brings Ed Hill, Emily Sher, Eunice Luk, Harry Kuttner, Heather Hankins, James Alby, Jessica Hans & Logan Ross, Kelly Schirmann, Matilda Alair, Nick Norman, Rocki Swiderski, Shiela Laufer, Shino Takeda, & Zoe Dering making the show's namesake, shown in the context of the gallery curator's personal collection.
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
At Lowell https://www.lowellshopgallery.com/ 2136 E Burnside 4PM-6 Free
Thursday, January 23, 2025
January 25 Seek Leave
Leave the Porchlight is a show by Molly Bernstein, Libby Rosa, both from Philadelphia, and Nick Norman from Portland. At Hide & Seek Gallery, a gallery in an apartment, 2638 N. Interstate Unit B 3PM-6 Free
January 24 The Wave
Jay Heikes brings Second Wave, an installation of sculpture and sound. The website has an explanation.
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 5PM-7 Free
Guest curator Danielle Krysa brings Witches of the West, Alexis Mixter, Jennifer Ament, Meghan Hildebrand, Shannon Taylor, and Stephanie Chefas. The artists are homed in BC, Washington, Oregon, and California.
At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
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 5PM-7 Free
Guest curator Danielle Krysa brings Witches of the West, Alexis Mixter, Jennifer Ament, Meghan Hildebrand, Shannon Taylor, and Stephanie Chefas. The artists are homed in BC, Washington, Oregon, and California.
At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
January 23 Play
Just Playin’ Around is a show themed on play by Derrick Adams, Calvin Chen, Jeremy Okai Davis, Latoya Lovely, Jillian Mayer, Takashi Murakami, Jeremy Rotsztain, Heidi Schwegler, Joshua Sin, Matthew Earl Williams, and Erwin Wurm. It was curated by Nancy Downes-Le Guin and Theo Downes-Le Guin. Downes–Le Guin was the founder of the late Upfor Gallery https://upfor.gallery/, missed.
RSVP requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-just-playin-around-tickets-1116009357029
At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
RSVP requested at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-just-playin-around-tickets-1116009357029
At the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
January 23, February 6 March 13, March 20 Social Practice
In America, the degrees of separation, popularized by Milgram at Yale, to gun violence, is probably about 2. We don't usually do workshops, but we have much respect for socially conscious social practice art going back to Project Grow.
The Lewis and Clark art gallery and curator were defunded. The school has an art therapy program, outside our regular content. The art therapy program is doing community workshops on gun violence in association with a national project. They will have a readout show in May.
"Examine the underlying factors contributing to gun violence and envision a safer, more equitable society. Design a Vision Quilt panel that embodies your dreams. Participate in the national VQ Project with the opportunity for your panel to be displayed at the LC Community Counseling Center Art Therapy Gallery from May - November 2025.
Art for Social Change and Vision Quilt invite members of Lewis & Clark and anyone in the Portland Community to join us in a collective community art response to gun violence. This free program is held over two Thursdays with optional art making at the Community Counseling Center to work on your panel.
Addressing Gun Violence through Art & Activism (Choose one Part 1 date & one Part 2 date) Part 1: January 23 or Feb 6 Part 2: March 13 or March 20 3PM-6"
See the lcarttherapy insta.
In the Hoffman Gallery on the Lewis and Clark Campus, 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road. Campus Map Please park in the Fir Acres lot. Parking Map Enter gate 2 off Palatine, proceed down the hill to the very end to find the Fir Acres Lot "E." Map 3PM-6 Free
The Lewis and Clark art gallery and curator were defunded. The school has an art therapy program, outside our regular content. The art therapy program is doing community workshops on gun violence in association with a national project. They will have a readout show in May.
"Examine the underlying factors contributing to gun violence and envision a safer, more equitable society. Design a Vision Quilt panel that embodies your dreams. Participate in the national VQ Project with the opportunity for your panel to be displayed at the LC Community Counseling Center Art Therapy Gallery from May - November 2025.
Art for Social Change and Vision Quilt invite members of Lewis & Clark and anyone in the Portland Community to join us in a collective community art response to gun violence. This free program is held over two Thursdays with optional art making at the Community Counseling Center to work on your panel.
Addressing Gun Violence through Art & Activism (Choose one Part 1 date & one Part 2 date) Part 1: January 23 or Feb 6 Part 2: March 13 or March 20 3PM-6"
See the lcarttherapy insta.
In the Hoffman Gallery on the Lewis and Clark Campus, 0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road. Campus Map Please park in the Fir Acres lot. Parking Map Enter gate 2 off Palatine, proceed down the hill to the very end to find the Fir Acres Lot "E." Map 3PM-6 Free
Saturday, January 11, 2025
January 11 Moonlight Place
I Know This Place by Heart continues Stelo creative show naming. It is a distance collaboration by artists Ahnika Wood and Karina Rovira. It involves cyanotype printing on fabric.
At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th Avenue Noon-5 Free
Moonlight, Starlight, Sunlight, Twilight, Rain is the Lines of Light show by Nancy Lorenz. https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/lines-light at PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Nucleus has Irene Saputra. Inspired by her graphic design work, Saputra mixes illustration with embroidery. With Dadu Shin, a gifted pointillist. Shin would benefit from getting an MFA to refine their subject matter and narrative. They have the collector network.
Irene Saputra and Dadu Shin https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/dadu-shin-2025 at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
As previously noted, Aftertime has their official opening 6PM-9
At Stelo Arts https://www.steloarts.org 412 NW 8th Avenue Noon-5 Free
Moonlight, Starlight, Sunlight, Twilight, Rain is the Lines of Light show by Nancy Lorenz. https://pdxcontemporaryart.com/lines-light at PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5 Free RSVP by email to info at pdxcontemporaryart.com
Nucleus has Irene Saputra. Inspired by her graphic design work, Saputra mixes illustration with embroidery. With Dadu Shin, a gifted pointillist. Shin would benefit from getting an MFA to refine their subject matter and narrative. They have the collector network.
Irene Saputra and Dadu Shin https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/dadu-shin-2025 at Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
As previously noted, Aftertime has their official opening 6PM-9
Friday, January 10, 2025
January 10 Color for Winter
Molly Mendosa https://www.mollymendoza.com/ is a PNCA-minted Portland illustrator comfortable across a variety of styles from hard-edge classic comic to softer watercolor styles and the space between. She has a show tonight.
https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/molly-mendoza at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
https://nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/molly-mendoza at Nucleus House Gallery 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Saturday, January 04, 2025
January 4 Northside Art Openings
Jodie Cavalier has Figured That You, sculptures and photograms. L.W.D., Little Walt Dog, Victor Grandy, has paintings, North Country.
At Nationalewww.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 2PM-4 Free
Echoes of Passage is a show by Chinese artists immigrants Melanie Tsang and Jia Jia. Tsang, art-schooled in the US, is a multiartist based in Seattle. Her poems in English inform her installation. Jai Jai, Seattle, is UW BFA minted and is part of SOIL.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Ex SOIL, now Portlander, Epiphany Couch brings Strong Spirits Carry Us Forward formed around family photographs. At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues Sea of Vapors by Emily Counts. They add Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales with Waste Scenes, work made from materials destined for the landfill. Both continue into February.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
At Nationale
Echoes of Passage is a show by Chinese artists immigrants Melanie Tsang and Jia Jia. Tsang, art-schooled in the US, is a multiartist based in Seattle. Her poems in English inform her installation. Jai Jai, Seattle, is UW BFA minted and is part of SOIL.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Ex SOIL, now Portlander, Epiphany Couch brings Strong Spirits Carry Us Forward formed around family photographs. At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. Noon - 5 or 8 Free
Oregon Contemporary continues Sea of Vapors by Emily Counts. They add Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales with Waste Scenes, work made from materials destined for the landfill. Both continue into February.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Noon-8 Free
Friday, January 03, 2025
December 3 Eastside Art Openings
Info at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
Ily2 Too is a storefront residency in the Lloyd Center Mall. Today they are being programmed by Grapefruit Arts. The Grapefruits Art Space was active pre-pandemic, it reemerged at Mother Foucault's Bookshop, and is now here. Tonight they bring a visual show Blossom to Blossom by Amy Bay, and Friendship Castle by Rose Lewis and Ellen Blazich.
At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall Suite G113, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls 5PM-7 Free
Ily2 Too is a storefront residency in the Lloyd Center Mall. Today they are being programmed by Grapefruit Arts. The Grapefruits Art Space was active pre-pandemic, it reemerged at Mother Foucault's Bookshop, and is now here. Tonight they bring a visual show Blossom to Blossom by Amy Bay, and Friendship Castle by Rose Lewis and Ellen Blazich.
At I Love You 2 Too - ILY2 https://ily2online.com/ In the Lloyd Mall Suite G113, lower level far East down the hall by the abandoned Marshalls 5PM-7 Free
Thursday, January 02, 2025
January 2 Westside Art Openings +
First Thursday also includes the Saturday following in the afternoon.
ILY2, The Black Gallery, Adams & Ollman, Laura Vincent Design, and Waterstone continue. PNCA and Froelick are on Winter break.
For your +1 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
+2 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+3 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
Moviemaker Ken Paul Rosenthal has In Light, In! https://www.kenpaulrosenthal.com/films/in-light-in/, social hygine movies from the US 1950s recontextualized with looped cello music from former Portlander Zoe Keating. Ford Gilbreath has Our Town After Dark, landscape town photography from Eastern Washington.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Residency space Fans Only has a show of resident artists and guests. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 6PM-9 Free
Judy Cooke brings Following Form 2024 and Christine Bourdette brings Cumulus.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Not visual art but Gabrielle Civil reads poems at Stelo arts. 412 NW 8th Avenue 6PM Free
Blackfish has a show of new members Mae Al-Jiboori, Pomegranate Doyle, Dede Lucia, Christa Nye, and Robert Shepard.
At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
After/Time has more irregular schedules. Tonight they do a "soft opening" of King Tide in Empty Spaces by self-taught painter Nate Orton. At After/Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 5PM-8 Free
Augen continues Jim Dine and shows many from their print archive.
https://www.augengallery.com/exhibitions/a-month-of-prints-a-group-exhibition-of-contemporary-prints-by-over-40-different-artists/ at Augen Gallery
ILY2, The Black Gallery, Adams & Ollman, Laura Vincent Design, and Waterstone continue. PNCA and Froelick are on Winter break.
For your +1 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
+2 The Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
+3 The Schnitzer Collection is open First Thursday and other limited hours. They have long running theme shows and occasional events.
At the Schnitzer Family Collection https://www.jordanschnitzer.org/schnitzer-collection/ 3033 NW Yeon 3PM-8 Free
Moviemaker Ken Paul Rosenthal has In Light, In! https://www.kenpaulrosenthal.com/films/in-light-in/, social hygine movies from the US 1950s recontextualized with looped cello music from former Portlander Zoe Keating. Ford Gilbreath has Our Town After Dark, landscape town photography from Eastern Washington.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Residency space Fans Only has a show of resident artists and guests. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 6PM-9 Free
Judy Cooke brings Following Form 2024 and Christine Bourdette brings Cumulus.
At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 5PM-7 Free
Not visual art but Gabrielle Civil reads poems at Stelo arts. 412 NW 8th Avenue 6PM Free
Blackfish has a show of new members Mae Al-Jiboori, Pomegranate Doyle, Dede Lucia, Christa Nye, and Robert Shepard.
At Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
After/Time has more irregular schedules. Tonight they do a "soft opening" of King Tide in Empty Spaces by self-taught painter Nate Orton. At After/Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 5PM-8 Free
Augen continues Jim Dine and shows many from their print archive.
https://www.augengallery.com/exhibitions/a-month-of-prints-a-group-exhibition-of-contemporary-prints-by-over-40-different-artists/ at Augen Gallery
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