For your +1 Good Wood Wood Goods has a talk about cabins. There is a local Cabin Club, with their first meeting tonight. Later Patrick Hutchison talks his book Cabin: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman.
At Good Wood https://goodwoodportland.com/ 205 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. 5:30PM Club, 7 Book Talk Free
End of Therapy is a new show by Bruce Conkle. He is prolific with daily drawings and his work is always a joy. Tonight includes the unveiling of a Conkle bronze sculpture in the referencing his climate themes in the median.
"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."
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6PM-9 Free
Vicinity Hounds are photographers Joy Harris, Blake Andrews, Rob Brown, Nick Garcia, Frank Martinez, James Han, Claire Evans, and Jordan Monloire imaging the urban and suburban landscapes, West Coast and Arizona.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 4PM-8 Free
Maria Lux https://marialux.net/ brings Heart and Mind, Blood and Nerves, a show themed on venomous snakes.
"Snakes have a persistent association with both healing and harm. Their venom contains risk and remedy, pain and potential. From antidotes made out of venom itself, to modern bioprospectors searching for the next billion-dollar drug—snakes and their venom have been used as healing agents for millenia—and cause hundreds of thousands of human deaths each year. Since the beginning, our intertwined relationship with snakes has been marked by a quest for knowledge, whether it’s the evolutionary theory that the avoidance of venomous snakes was instrumental in the development of human intelligence itself, or studies that show our fears and preconscious reactions to snakes are uniquely built into our very DNA. Recently, news outlets reported on the promising story of a snake-enthusiast who methodically allowed himself to be bitten by venomous snakes over 200 times in the hope that his own blood would create a universal anti-venom, but he is just one person in a long line who have sought invincibility to venoms through self-immunization. Whether these sacrifices and experiments lead to life-saving drugs or not, scientists all over the world look to the complexity and mystery of venom to unlock new understandings of medicine, immunology, physiology, and pharmacology. True to their many legends, snakes today can still be seen as guardians of ancient knowledge as well as yet-undiscovered secrets, and teach us things about who they and we are. Heart and Mind, Blood and Nerves considers the convergence of myth and medicine, storytelling and science, and caution and curiosity coiled around snakes."
Personally I don't care for them, I'll go with Lux's genetic theory.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Well Well has their member show by Andrea Alonge, Erik Geschke, Hyun Jung Jung, Colin Kippen, Jeremy Le Grand, Ondrea Bell Levey, Pete Hoffecker Mejia, Anthony Roberto, Claire Frances Spaulding, Katherin, and John Whitten.
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
