Modular On The Spot has a four channel program tonight.
At Pier Park, 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free
Saturday, August 30, 2025
Friday, August 29, 2025
August 29 Surrogates
Richardo Nagaoka opens Surrogates.
At Nationale www.nationale.us 15 SE 22nd Map 6PM-8 Free
011668 / First International Church of Toyota + Dr. Slimer (tape release) + Billy + Danky welcome you to Virtua.
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 $10-15 at the door
011668 / First International Church of Toyota + Dr. Slimer (tape release) + Billy + Danky welcome you to Virtua.
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 $10-15 at the door
Friday, August 22, 2025
August 26 Storywork
Marie Watt is a local artist whose career was greatly helped by RACC grants early. RACC invested in an artist through its peer panel process. It is a good program that produced many successful exits.
Marie Watt https://mariewattstudio.com/, from the Seneca Native American Tribe, makes many one-of-a-kind pieces. She masters multiples too. Opening today is a show of prints curated in San Diego. The prints are from the Jordan Schnotzer Collection of multiples based here
Storywork https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/jsma-at-psu/storywork-the-prints-of-marie-watt at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway Free
Marie Watt https://mariewattstudio.com/, from the Seneca Native American Tribe, makes many one-of-a-kind pieces. She masters multiples too. Opening today is a show of prints curated in San Diego. The prints are from the Jordan Schnotzer Collection of multiples based here
Storywork https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/jsma-at-psu/storywork-the-prints-of-marie-watt at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/museum-of-art/ 1855 SW Broadway Free
Thursday, August 21, 2025
August 23 Talent of Writing
Society is the public space of a group of artist studios above Mother Foucalt's Bookstore.
Christian Alborz Oldham, all the way from Berlin, brings Having No Talent is Not Enough. He was art-schooled in the NW. He will visit in person in November.
Society has writers in the house and they wrote this.
"Having no talent is not enough is a concise edit of works in print, sculpture, painting, and publication, including Moon High School, a new 200,000-word florilegium published by SOCIETY on the occasion of the exhibition.
Each of these works is a double: bootleg, replication, edition, pair. Some are artifacts of research of a connoisseurial nature that additionally attends to the historical. One is reminded of another thread of Oldham’s work that traced the trans-Pacific reciprocal flow of historical cultural influence through the works of an avant-garde fashion designer. But there are also here images of that category of casual observational or representational catch-and-release that one once found on tumblr and are now a social media commonplace.
It’s not the questions of authorship, appropriation, fabrication, replication raised by these works that preoccupy us. These questions have been well and properly wrung out after a century of their exercise in modern and contemporary art practices and discourses although taken together they do say something about the practice of contemporary art in 2025. Rather, SOCIETY is interested in the social dimensions of Oldham’s works to include reception and its delays, assertions of a genealogy, the auto-production of discourse, modes and means of circulation of image and text through which social forms may be constructed.
SOCIETY posits additionally that attention to these vertical and horizontal temporal axes is the underpainting, as it were, of art history, taking up the question Seth Siegelaub posed in 2011 through a poster edition recently made again by Oldham in their exhibition at Kunstverein München: 'How is Art History Made?'
Christian Alborz Oldham’s practice presents a ludic approach to the politics surrounding production, re-production, and reception with a particular interest in garments and textiles, technology, copy, transaction, and economics. These concepts are explored in a dedicated practice of ikebana, an art form resistant to permanent exhibition, sale, and preservation. Oldham holds an MFA from University of Washington, a BA in Art History and MBA from Willamette University, and has certification as a freestyle sensei from the Ryusei school of ikebana."
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 5PM-7 Free.
Christian Alborz Oldham, all the way from Berlin, brings Having No Talent is Not Enough. He was art-schooled in the NW. He will visit in person in November.
Society has writers in the house and they wrote this.
"Having no talent is not enough is a concise edit of works in print, sculpture, painting, and publication, including Moon High School, a new 200,000-word florilegium published by SOCIETY on the occasion of the exhibition.
Each of these works is a double: bootleg, replication, edition, pair. Some are artifacts of research of a connoisseurial nature that additionally attends to the historical. One is reminded of another thread of Oldham’s work that traced the trans-Pacific reciprocal flow of historical cultural influence through the works of an avant-garde fashion designer. But there are also here images of that category of casual observational or representational catch-and-release that one once found on tumblr and are now a social media commonplace.
It’s not the questions of authorship, appropriation, fabrication, replication raised by these works that preoccupy us. These questions have been well and properly wrung out after a century of their exercise in modern and contemporary art practices and discourses although taken together they do say something about the practice of contemporary art in 2025. Rather, SOCIETY is interested in the social dimensions of Oldham’s works to include reception and its delays, assertions of a genealogy, the auto-production of discourse, modes and means of circulation of image and text through which social forms may be constructed.
SOCIETY posits additionally that attention to these vertical and horizontal temporal axes is the underpainting, as it were, of art history, taking up the question Seth Siegelaub posed in 2011 through a poster edition recently made again by Oldham in their exhibition at Kunstverein München: 'How is Art History Made?'
Christian Alborz Oldham’s practice presents a ludic approach to the politics surrounding production, re-production, and reception with a particular interest in garments and textiles, technology, copy, transaction, and economics. These concepts are explored in a dedicated practice of ikebana, an art form resistant to permanent exhibition, sale, and preservation. Oldham holds an MFA from University of Washington, a BA in Art History and MBA from Willamette University, and has certification as a freestyle sensei from the Ryusei school of ikebana."
At https://societysocietysociety.com/ 711 SE Grand upstairs above Mother Foucault’s. 5PM-7 Free.
August 22 Imaginary Language
John Vitale brings abstract paintings Imaginary Language.
At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
At Stephanie Chefas gallery www.stephaniechefas.com 134 SE Taylor, Ste 203. Map. 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, August 16, 2025
August 16 Mono Seek
Mono Space has a listening session today. At 1, Channel Orange from Frank Ocean spins. Passenger Seat programs the experience 2-3 with cosmic and tropical.
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 11AM-5PM Free (ring buzzer for entry)
Portland has several art galleries with family-friendly art openings because the gallerists have families of children and grandchildren. PDX Contemporary, Nationale, and SE Cooper come to mind. And there are quite a few children's hands-on projects ranging from Splendorporium to Ily2.
Of course kids like clay; adults too!
Maxim Seisler living in New York and aunt Nicole Seisler in Oregon have collaborated on clay projects since Maxim was born. He is now 13. Maxim says they would welcome meeting creative youths and their parents at the show.
They show their individual work and their collaborations.
At Hide & Seek Gallery, a gallery in an apartment, 2638 N. Interstate Unit B 3PM-6 Free
At Mono Space https://mono-space.org/ 608 NW 13th Ave Ste 102. 11AM-5PM Free (ring buzzer for entry)
Portland has several art galleries with family-friendly art openings because the gallerists have families of children and grandchildren. PDX Contemporary, Nationale, and SE Cooper come to mind. And there are quite a few children's hands-on projects ranging from Splendorporium to Ily2.
Of course kids like clay; adults too!
Maxim Seisler living in New York and aunt Nicole Seisler in Oregon have collaborated on clay projects since Maxim was born. He is now 13. Maxim says they would welcome meeting creative youths and their parents at the show.
They show their individual work and their collaborations.
At Hide & Seek Gallery, a gallery in an apartment, 2638 N. Interstate Unit B 3PM-6 Free
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
August 15-17 VideoSync
VideoSync is a 3 day program of creative video art and performance in the Lloyd Mall sponsored by the Synth Library.
Each day runs 11:30AM to 5 or 8 and each day is ticketed. There are opportunities for hands-on adventures and a lot of 1:1 exchange.
Friday
11:30 doors
1 Synopsis Video Art Video artist Denise Gallant presents the background of the the Synopsis video system, which they designed nearly 40 years ago in collaboration with Rob Schafer.
2 Creative Entropy: Harnessing Uncertainty in Video Art Aaron F. Ross, aka Dr. Yo, presents a conceptual overview of randomness and chaos as creative tools in video art.
3 Processing the Female Form: Co-opting NSFW Online Platforms with Experimental Video Streams Sarah Sarah Turner Turner nee half the Portland Mobile Projection Unit, went to MFA school. She is back with a talk on not safe for work online distribution sites as a way to bypass censorship on traditional platforms.
4 ISI VP-8: Image Processing with 1970s Analog Computers Thomas Fang and Matthew Rempes demonstrate the Interpretation Systems Inc. VP-8 Image Analyzer, an analog computer used for realtime raster and vector image processing in the 1970s.
5-8 Art Gallery Opening Party With Sean Russell Hallowell performing audiovisual music for the medieval hermitage, and talks on their custom designed Video Synthesis System
Hypnogenesis: A Video Synthesis Arcade Game from Allen Riley
Live Glitch Video Portraits from Kit Young
Glitch Artists Collective Pavillion with R D Klinc, Jon Cates, & Trizzytrunks
The Retina Video Synthesizer, a hand-built, one-of-a-kind, analog modular video synthesizer designed and built by Madonno Productions
Liquid Lightscape from Lia Coleman
Surface Tension, a multi channel audio reactive CRT sculpture from Alex Pelly
And more interactive installations from Shana Palmer, Los Datos, Gork_online, Schwaaa, Aaron F. Ross (Dr Yo), Dr. Rek, Cyclop Toad, and Adam Sladek
Saturday
11:30 doors
Noon Painting with Polygons - a dive into DRUGS™’s circuit bent PS2 Colston Byrd explores the possibilities of a familiar and alien device, the circuit bent PS2 developed by the DRUGS™ team.
1 Vsynth Show & Tell Developer Kevin Kripper presents a show and tell of the latest updates to the Vsynth visual programming toolkit for MAX/Jitter.
2 History and Process of Liquid Light Shows Steve Pavlovsky discusses the history of liquid light shows and analog visuals from the 1960’s to today
3Analog Operators for Video Synthesis Lars Larsen of LZX Industries discusses their pursuit of reusable analog building blocks for video synthesis.
5-8 Live Audio Visual Performances Eva Aguila performing eurorack synthesizers and field recordings gathered from rural Michoacán
Knob Fondler performing Intelligent Bootyshakin’ Music
Sarah Sarah Turner Turner performing Dolphin Connectin
Eric Schlappi + Bastien Lavaud performing semi-improvised modular electronics
Alex Pelly, Andrei Jay & Lia Coleman performing live video & audio synthesis with liquid lights and cymatics
Sunday
11:30 doors
Noon-4 Let's try to make a giant feedback loop!
5 close
VideoSync at the PDX Synth Library https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in the Lloyd Center Mall see schedule for details and price
Each day runs 11:30AM to 5 or 8 and each day is ticketed. There are opportunities for hands-on adventures and a lot of 1:1 exchange.
Friday
11:30 doors
1 Synopsis Video Art Video artist Denise Gallant presents the background of the the Synopsis video system, which they designed nearly 40 years ago in collaboration with Rob Schafer.
2 Creative Entropy: Harnessing Uncertainty in Video Art Aaron F. Ross, aka Dr. Yo, presents a conceptual overview of randomness and chaos as creative tools in video art.
3 Processing the Female Form: Co-opting NSFW Online Platforms with Experimental Video Streams Sarah Sarah Turner Turner nee half the Portland Mobile Projection Unit, went to MFA school. She is back with a talk on not safe for work online distribution sites as a way to bypass censorship on traditional platforms.
4 ISI VP-8: Image Processing with 1970s Analog Computers Thomas Fang and Matthew Rempes demonstrate the Interpretation Systems Inc. VP-8 Image Analyzer, an analog computer used for realtime raster and vector image processing in the 1970s.
5-8 Art Gallery Opening Party With Sean Russell Hallowell performing audiovisual music for the medieval hermitage, and talks on their custom designed Video Synthesis System
Hypnogenesis: A Video Synthesis Arcade Game from Allen Riley
Live Glitch Video Portraits from Kit Young
Glitch Artists Collective Pavillion with R D Klinc, Jon Cates, & Trizzytrunks
The Retina Video Synthesizer, a hand-built, one-of-a-kind, analog modular video synthesizer designed and built by Madonno Productions
Liquid Lightscape from Lia Coleman
Surface Tension, a multi channel audio reactive CRT sculpture from Alex Pelly
And more interactive installations from Shana Palmer, Los Datos, Gork_online, Schwaaa, Aaron F. Ross (Dr Yo), Dr. Rek, Cyclop Toad, and Adam Sladek
Saturday
11:30 doors
Noon Painting with Polygons - a dive into DRUGS™’s circuit bent PS2 Colston Byrd explores the possibilities of a familiar and alien device, the circuit bent PS2 developed by the DRUGS™ team.
1 Vsynth Show & Tell Developer Kevin Kripper presents a show and tell of the latest updates to the Vsynth visual programming toolkit for MAX/Jitter.
2 History and Process of Liquid Light Shows Steve Pavlovsky discusses the history of liquid light shows and analog visuals from the 1960’s to today
3Analog Operators for Video Synthesis Lars Larsen of LZX Industries discusses their pursuit of reusable analog building blocks for video synthesis.
5-8 Live Audio Visual Performances Eva Aguila performing eurorack synthesizers and field recordings gathered from rural Michoacán
Knob Fondler performing Intelligent Bootyshakin’ Music
Sarah Sarah Turner Turner performing Dolphin Connectin
Eric Schlappi + Bastien Lavaud performing semi-improvised modular electronics
Alex Pelly, Andrei Jay & Lia Coleman performing live video & audio synthesis with liquid lights and cymatics
Sunday
11:30 doors
Noon-4 Let's try to make a giant feedback loop!
5 close
VideoSync at the PDX Synth Library https://www.synthlibraryportland.org/ in the Lloyd Center Mall see schedule for details and price
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
August 14-24 Terrain Art
Terrain is a sprawling installation occupying the NW Marine Artworks Building Five.
The Northwest has related projects outdoors, the Verdency Project, ongoing, In Clover 2006 by Scott Wayne Indiana, Horsehead in the Seattle area running from 1987 to 2008, later years in Seattle proper, by Matthew Lennon, others. Many Northwest artists residencies make use of the local lands. Where there is land, there is art.
In addition to seeing the project, there are quite a few panel discussions and performances.
There are three curators and artists Rose Covert, Beth Wilson, Alice Christine Walker, Amanda Triplett, Clairissa Stephens, Philip A Robinson Jr, Jocelyn Rice, Daniela Naomi Molnar, Erinn Kathryn, Pamela Hadley, Sapata Fofana-Dura, Santigie Fofana-Dura, F. L. Carrera, Intisar Abioto and Midnite Abioto. Each has an area of the space to make and their artist statements are https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f5906ba05cd3d6fdb0cfab7/t/689a720acf7efa7092708a81/1754952202417/7.+Digital+Map+Artist+Statements_Terrain+%40+Building+5+%282%29.pdf
Terrain at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th. Tickets required https://www.tickettailor.com/events/terrainlandartexhibition/1662944 $5-85
The Northwest has related projects outdoors, the Verdency Project, ongoing, In Clover 2006 by Scott Wayne Indiana, Horsehead in the Seattle area running from 1987 to 2008, later years in Seattle proper, by Matthew Lennon, others. Many Northwest artists residencies make use of the local lands. Where there is land, there is art.
In addition to seeing the project, there are quite a few panel discussions and performances.
There are three curators and artists Rose Covert, Beth Wilson, Alice Christine Walker, Amanda Triplett, Clairissa Stephens, Philip A Robinson Jr, Jocelyn Rice, Daniela Naomi Molnar, Erinn Kathryn, Pamela Hadley, Sapata Fofana-Dura, Santigie Fofana-Dura, F. L. Carrera, Intisar Abioto and Midnite Abioto. Each has an area of the space to make and their artist statements are https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f5906ba05cd3d6fdb0cfab7/t/689a720acf7efa7092708a81/1754952202417/7.+Digital+Map+Artist+Statements_Terrain+%40+Building+5+%282%29.pdf
Terrain at NW Marine Art Works https://www.nwmarineartworks.com/ Building5 https://www.buildingfive.org/ 2516 NW 29th. Tickets required https://www.tickettailor.com/events/terrainlandartexhibition/1662944 $5-85
Saturday, August 09, 2025
August 10 Knobs
Modular On The Spot is OK with heat.
Blond-Noise, Spines, Casual Decay, Trust Anchor, EZBot, and CJA perform.
At Pier Park, 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free
Blond-Noise, Spines, Casual Decay, Trust Anchor, EZBot, and CJA perform.
At Pier Park, 10325 N Lombard 6PM-9 Free
Friday, August 08, 2025
August 9 Really Can't Title This
The US West Coast has many Japanese communities. Seattle does. Nihonmachi Alley in the ID has artworks referencing that history. Sadly in the news of hate for destruction lately. Today dancer Kaoru Okumura http://kaoruokumura.com/ performs. Her mode is Butoh, a modern Japanese dance form, often super slow. It's notable on the 80th anniversary of the Nagasaki bomb.
Modern dance performance in Nihonmachi Alley, Seattle. 1PM-6 Free
Your big thing may be backyard gallery show What Happens Before You Die? Not because of the title or existentialism. Because it is a backyard gallery with good curation and a fine community!
Sommer Browning and Carin Rodenborn, making it, are both visual artist-writers.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
The big Nucleus has a solo and a group. Josh Stover, all the way from Richmond, Virgina is solo. Erika Strohecker, Ippei Matsui, Itoyo, Jackie Brown, Jeffrey Sincich, Jordan Metcalf, Joshua Minnich, Kahoko Sodeyama, Keita Miyairi, kidtofer, Misato Sano, Nathan McKee, Raf Spielman, Takahiro Moriki, Takuma Suzuki, and The Tiny Spoon are group.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ori is an indivudalistc black focus gallery in a small vintage house built in 1903. It remains on Mississippi Avenue. African Americans migrated to Portland for the Kaiser shipyards of WW2. Many workers lived in Vanport in the area of the Portland Raceway today. It was wiped out in the Flood of 1948. Subsequently many flood control dams on the Columbia-Snake were built which produce carbon-free energy. Some people want to tear them down so they can have the privilege of rafting the rivers. Portland African Americans then relocated within Red Line neighborhoods, including Mississippi and Alberta displacing Germans, who moved to Parkrose and Argay Terrace.
Ori has traced its own path in its small community; many art shows open by appointment. I think I can announce this without blowing it out and glad to remove it at their request.
Oregon has a strong bill of rights in its constitution. One of the strongest among states, and stronger than the US Constitution. The courts in Henry and Nyssa affirmed exotic dancing as free expression. In the 1990s dancer-activists Dulce and Mona Superhero created Danzine. Dulce went on to do noted AIDS work, worldwide. Portland artist Marne Lucas organized dancer art shows. PICA did sex worker art shows including a large retrospective.
Now Ori in collaboration with the Oregon Safer Workers Coalition, brings show The Oldest Profession. Look up Mary Magdalene. This show is not the first in the world or Portland on the topic.
Show at 4PM-9 under 18 must be accompanied by parents. Free
I'm very selective in my interest in lowbrow and pop surrealsim. I would not have it in my home. I viewed La Luz de Jesus Gallery from the begining. I rarely list the genre here. That said, Brassworks sells and packs out openings. They have one at 5.
Modern dance performance in Nihonmachi Alley, Seattle. 1PM-6 Free
Your big thing may be backyard gallery show What Happens Before You Die? Not because of the title or existentialism. Because it is a backyard gallery with good curation and a fine community!
Sommer Browning and Carin Rodenborn, making it, are both visual artist-writers.
At 1122 Outside Gallery www.1122gallery.com 7629 SE Harrison 6PM-9 Free
The big Nucleus has a solo and a group. Josh Stover, all the way from Richmond, Virgina is solo. Erika Strohecker, Ippei Matsui, Itoyo, Jackie Brown, Jeffrey Sincich, Jordan Metcalf, Joshua Minnich, Kahoko Sodeyama, Keita Miyairi, kidtofer, Misato Sano, Nathan McKee, Raf Spielman, Takahiro Moriki, Takuma Suzuki, and The Tiny Spoon are group.
At Nucleus Portland http://www.nucleusportland.com 2916 NE Alberta 4PM-6 Free
Ori is an indivudalistc black focus gallery in a small vintage house built in 1903. It remains on Mississippi Avenue. African Americans migrated to Portland for the Kaiser shipyards of WW2. Many workers lived in Vanport in the area of the Portland Raceway today. It was wiped out in the Flood of 1948. Subsequently many flood control dams on the Columbia-Snake were built which produce carbon-free energy. Some people want to tear them down so they can have the privilege of rafting the rivers. Portland African Americans then relocated within Red Line neighborhoods, including Mississippi and Alberta displacing Germans, who moved to Parkrose and Argay Terrace.
Ori has traced its own path in its small community; many art shows open by appointment. I think I can announce this without blowing it out and glad to remove it at their request.
Oregon has a strong bill of rights in its constitution. One of the strongest among states, and stronger than the US Constitution. The courts in Henry and Nyssa affirmed exotic dancing as free expression. In the 1990s dancer-activists Dulce and Mona Superhero created Danzine. Dulce went on to do noted AIDS work, worldwide. Portland artist Marne Lucas organized dancer art shows. PICA did sex worker art shows including a large retrospective.
Now Ori in collaboration with the Oregon Safer Workers Coalition, brings show The Oldest Profession. Look up Mary Magdalene. This show is not the first in the world or Portland on the topic.
Show at 4PM-9 under 18 must be accompanied by parents. Free
I'm very selective in my interest in lowbrow and pop surrealsim. I would not have it in my home. I viewed La Luz de Jesus Gallery from the begining. I rarely list the genre here. That said, Brassworks sells and packs out openings. They have one at 5.
August 8 Narrative
Kana Miyamoto https://www.nucleusportland.com/collections/kana-miyamoto-prints from Hokaido via Tokyo brings her illustrations of girlhood to Nucleus House. They are narratives, many incorporating the dark/odd Nucleus vector.
At Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
At Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
Wednesday, August 06, 2025
August 7 Westside Art Openings+
The Urban Art Network occupies 13th with all their booths of stuff.
Elizabeth Leach, Illy2, Adams and Ollman, Augen, and PDX Contemporary continue.
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
For your +2 the Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
For your +3 If you are in Seattle, their first Thursday art walk is tonught too. Portland duplicated the process in 1986.
Add this afternoon, the Daipan Butoh Collective brings their annual performance to the Japanese Garden. This is the Kogut Butoh unit. The principal is Joan Laage. She famously studied with Hakutobo, the last project of the founder of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata. Hakutobo is entirely female performers. Laage is among less than a handful of early teachers in the US and she has a PhD in butoh.
Wandering and Wondering by Kogut Butoh, https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/wandering-and-wondering-seattle-japanese-garden, at Seattle Japanese Garden, 1075 E Lk Washington Blvd, Seattle 3:30PM-6 $10 garden admission
Cristina Velásquez from Columbia brings collages, Somos Animales Poéticos. She is known for slightly surreal compositions incorporating staged portraits with the inspiration of the New World's colonial history. If you are interested in that, The Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb explains a lot. Barbara Strigel has A Space becomes an Entry, collaged urban landscapes. Rae Davis has illustration-style work in the Nine.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Longtime painter and faculty at PNCA/Willamette, Lucinda Parker, has a show incpired by her 53 year marriage. She accompanies a show of late Northwest artist estates represented by the gallery, Louis Bunce, William H. Givler, Sally Haley, Manuel Izquierdo, Hilda Morris, Carl Morris, and Michele Russo.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Myra Clark has Poustania, mixed media paintings. She traveled to Antarctica; now her work is focused on climate and the earth. Amy Turnbull has May All Your Little Plants Take Root and Thrive, botannically-inspired paintings. Hannah Theiss has Specimen. It is mixed media constructions of ink, glass, and wood with perhaps an association with microscope slides, and a palette similar to Jaq Chartier, whose work reminds chromatography.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Grizzly Grizzly https://www.grizzlygrizzly.com/ is an artist collective in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Which is weird, because there are no grizzly bears in Philadelphia. Oregon used to have them, but we killed the last one in 1937. They ranged all the way through California which has one on their flag. Even Mexico. https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-04-02/timeline-a-history-of-grizzly-bear-recovery-in-the-lower-48-states Our cililized neighbor to the North, Canada, has them, Alaska, and a few other Rocky spots.
Grizzly Grizzly has been running an exchange with the After | Time Collective here. Tonight is -voir | ver-, title referencing French, by unnamed artists from Grizzly Grizzly. If the gallery wants to keep the names of the artists secret, or not in plain text, that is their business.
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Profusion is a show of landscapes by Angelita Surmon in paint and glass. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Graffiti As Resistance documents the murals painted on the blackboard black canvas over the downtown Portland Apple Store, and all the crowd sourced signs, in response to the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
We dont do sports art. Or pop surrealsim/lowbrow mostly. Portland is in industrial design sneaker week. From previews, the big ad agency for their sneaker week has art variations on shoes.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Bad Ideas is a fashion show in Y2K mode by Alison Pinetti and Colin Nehring. Walk at 7:30. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 5PM-9 Free
Holly Osborn is a local painter doing both abstract and landscapes. Benny Fountain is based in Spokane and does schematic landscapes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trembling Touch is a show of paintings by retired rugby player Maurice Aljiboori now in Portland.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Karen Christie Fisher, Claudia Hollister, and F L Carrera have a painting show, abstracts and still lifes.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guest photographers Sahar al-Sawaf, Taravat Talepasand, and Maryam Tahririha. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Elizabeth Leach, Illy2, Adams and Ollman, Augen, and PDX Contemporary continue.
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
For your +2 the Portland Art Museum, through a private grant, is open free first Thursdays. They are free the whole day 10AM-8PM.
For your +3 If you are in Seattle, their first Thursday art walk is tonught too. Portland duplicated the process in 1986.
Add this afternoon, the Daipan Butoh Collective brings their annual performance to the Japanese Garden. This is the Kogut Butoh unit. The principal is Joan Laage. She famously studied with Hakutobo, the last project of the founder of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata. Hakutobo is entirely female performers. Laage is among less than a handful of early teachers in the US and she has a PhD in butoh.
Wandering and Wondering by Kogut Butoh, https://www.daipanbutohcollective.com/event-details/wandering-and-wondering-seattle-japanese-garden, at Seattle Japanese Garden, 1075 E Lk Washington Blvd, Seattle 3:30PM-6 $10 garden admission
Cristina Velásquez from Columbia brings collages, Somos Animales Poéticos. She is known for slightly surreal compositions incorporating staged portraits with the inspiration of the New World's colonial history. If you are interested in that, The Great Frontier by Walter Prescott Webb explains a lot. Barbara Strigel has A Space becomes an Entry, collaged urban landscapes. Rae Davis has illustration-style work in the Nine.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org Map 122 NW 8th 5PM-9 Free
Longtime painter and faculty at PNCA/Willamette, Lucinda Parker, has a show incpired by her 53 year marriage. She accompanies a show of late Northwest artist estates represented by the gallery, Louis Bunce, William H. Givler, Sally Haley, Manuel Izquierdo, Hilda Morris, Carl Morris, and Michele Russo.
At Laura Russo Lee Gallery www.russoleegallery.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-7 Early Close Free
Myra Clark has Poustania, mixed media paintings. She traveled to Antarctica; now her work is focused on climate and the earth. Amy Turnbull has May All Your Little Plants Take Root and Thrive, botannically-inspired paintings. Hannah Theiss has Specimen. It is mixed media constructions of ink, glass, and wood with perhaps an association with microscope slides, and a palette similar to Jaq Chartier, whose work reminds chromatography.
All at Blackfish Gallery https://www.blackfish.com/ 938 NW Everett Map 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Grizzly Grizzly https://www.grizzlygrizzly.com/ is an artist collective in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Which is weird, because there are no grizzly bears in Philadelphia. Oregon used to have them, but we killed the last one in 1937. They ranged all the way through California which has one on their flag. Even Mexico. https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-04-02/timeline-a-history-of-grizzly-bear-recovery-in-the-lower-48-states Our cililized neighbor to the North, Canada, has them, Alaska, and a few other Rocky spots.
Grizzly Grizzly has been running an exchange with the After | Time Collective here. Tonight is -voir | ver-, title referencing French, by unnamed artists from Grizzly Grizzly. If the gallery wants to keep the names of the artists secret, or not in plain text, that is their business.
At After | Time Collective Gallery 730 SW 10th (enter on 9th) 6PM-9 Free
Profusion is a show of landscapes by Angelita Surmon in paint and glass. At Waterstone Gallery www.waterstonegallery.com 124 NW 9th 5PM-8 Free
Graffiti As Resistance documents the murals painted on the blackboard black canvas over the downtown Portland Apple Store, and all the crowd sourced signs, in response to the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
At The Black Gallery https://www.theblackgallerypdx.com/ 916 NW Flanders 5PM-7 Free
We dont do sports art. Or pop surrealsim/lowbrow mostly. Portland is in industrial design sneaker week. From previews, the big ad agency for their sneaker week has art variations on shoes.
At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-8 Free
Bad Ideas is a fashion show in Y2K mode by Alison Pinetti and Colin Nehring. Walk at 7:30. At the Portland Arts Collective https://www.portlandartscollective.org/ 122 NW Couch 5PM-9 Free
Holly Osborn is a local painter doing both abstract and landscapes. Benny Fountain is based in Spokane and does schematic landscapes. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis early close 5PM-8 Free
Trembling Touch is a show of paintings by retired rugby player Maurice Aljiboori now in Portland.
At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7 Free
Karen Christie Fisher, Claudia Hollister, and F L Carrera have a painting show, abstracts and still lifes.
At Writers Block. 818 NW Flanders 5PM-8 Early Close Free
Fans Only shows its residents along with guest photographers Sahar al-Sawaf, Taravat Talepasand, and Maryam Tahririha. It's an artist residency in an office building with First Thursday readouts. At Fans Only https://www.fansonly.studio/ 1010 SW 11th 5PM-8 Free
Saturday, August 02, 2025
August 2 Northside Art Openings+
For your lovely Summer Saturday you may find beautiful things.
Stephanie Simek is a sculptor. At False Front, she showed her famous vinyl record player in which the record was a stack, decreasing in diameter bottom, to top, with each platter having its own tone arm, played symultaneously. I think in that show was a vintage video of synchronized swimmers where light sensors across the projection screen triggered a synthesizer. Today brings Binnenstebuiten (whole #33), 33 of a series of sculptures. 1-32 were a pattern of cross sections presented as one work. For this, Jordan Dykstra provides a soundtrack.
Be sure to notice Bruce Conkle's Killing Me Softly sculpture
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 8PM-10 Free
Korean artist in Portland Hyun Jung Jung brings The Way Home 집으로 가는 길.
"Hyun Jung Jung reflects on how she is learning to embrace the grey areas of becoming an immigrant by visualizing the uncertain belongings and blurred memories.
While living in America, Jung was often in denial of the interwoven self that she was becoming, because it felt like she was giving up on the Korean identity. But over time, she has learned the fluidity of how these cultures merge and coexist to inform one another in her.
Living far from her motherland, Jung often ponders what Korean-ness means to her. In this search, she has been continuously revisiting her childhood moments, the years she lived in Korea. One example includes learning about her past through looking at old photographs from her childhood. Although she does not have memories from some of these early days, the images bring emotional reactions, reminding her that these moments are still at her core, grounding her."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Sobre o anseio, o gesto, o grito. Regarding the wish, the gesture, the shout… opens.
The artist is Marcelo Fontana from Brazil, now Portland, with collaborator Gian Gigi Spina and text by Chris Ticas.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Katherine Spinella and John Whitten present Windblown, Sand, and Sun. It is their account of visiting Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt. They are part of the Thunderstruck Collective. Their travelogue is 6. The 26 minute "making of Sun Tunnels" from 1978 is on loop.
Sun Tunnels https://umfa.utah.edu/sun-tunnels is a remote work on the land from the era of land art. It is in the region of the Spiral Jetty, I have visited, by her partner Robert Smithson https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/robert-smithson-spiral-jetty. Both are conserved by the Dia Foundation. They are a remote road trip. You can camp there.
Friend, many know, Matt McCormick, visited Sun Tunnel,s and related his story. He was a longtime volunteer with the animal shelter, walking dogs on days when no one came. He traveled there with one of the shelter dogs he adopted. Let out of the vehicle, the dog took off running. It was an intense moment, but the dog came back.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
For your +1 I have an interest in modern dance, and unusual dance like butoh. There is a big anniversary happening at the famous Performance Works Northwest you should look up. Of interest to me is Public Nature project by Danielle Ross https://www.daniellerossperformance.com/about. Three artists who have not previously worked together, a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, collaborate for a one time performance.
Tonight it is Tom DeBeauchamp (text), Juniana Lanning w/ special guest dancer (sound), and Midnight Variety Hour (performance).
Public Nature at Performance Works NW 4625 SE 67th 5:45PM doors, show 6 believe $15/donation
Stephanie Simek is a sculptor. At False Front, she showed her famous vinyl record player in which the record was a stack, decreasing in diameter bottom, to top, with each platter having its own tone arm, played symultaneously. I think in that show was a vintage video of synchronized swimmers where light sensors across the projection screen triggered a synthesizer. Today brings Binnenstebuiten (whole #33), 33 of a series of sculptures. 1-32 were a pattern of cross sections presented as one work. For this, Jordan Dykstra provides a soundtrack.
Be sure to notice Bruce Conkle's Killing Me Softly sculpture
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 8PM-10 Free
Korean artist in Portland Hyun Jung Jung brings The Way Home 집으로 가는 길.
"Hyun Jung Jung reflects on how she is learning to embrace the grey areas of becoming an immigrant by visualizing the uncertain belongings and blurred memories.
While living in America, Jung was often in denial of the interwoven self that she was becoming, because it felt like she was giving up on the Korean identity. But over time, she has learned the fluidity of how these cultures merge and coexist to inform one another in her.
Living far from her motherland, Jung often ponders what Korean-ness means to her. In this search, she has been continuously revisiting her childhood moments, the years she lived in Korea. One example includes learning about her past through looking at old photographs from her childhood. Although she does not have memories from some of these early days, the images bring emotional reactions, reminding her that these moments are still at her core, grounding her."
At Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Sobre o anseio, o gesto, o grito. Regarding the wish, the gesture, the shout… opens.
The artist is Marcelo Fontana from Brazil, now Portland, with collaborator Gian Gigi Spina and text by Chris Ticas.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Katherine Spinella and John Whitten present Windblown, Sand, and Sun. It is their account of visiting Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt. They are part of the Thunderstruck Collective. Their travelogue is 6. The 26 minute "making of Sun Tunnels" from 1978 is on loop.
Sun Tunnels https://umfa.utah.edu/sun-tunnels is a remote work on the land from the era of land art. It is in the region of the Spiral Jetty, I have visited, by her partner Robert Smithson https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/robert-smithson-spiral-jetty. Both are conserved by the Dia Foundation. They are a remote road trip. You can camp there.
Friend, many know, Matt McCormick, visited Sun Tunnel,s and related his story. He was a longtime volunteer with the animal shelter, walking dogs on days when no one came. He traveled there with one of the shelter dogs he adopted. Let out of the vehicle, the dog took off running. It was an intense moment, but the dog came back.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
For your +1 I have an interest in modern dance, and unusual dance like butoh. There is a big anniversary happening at the famous Performance Works Northwest you should look up. Of interest to me is Public Nature project by Danielle Ross https://www.daniellerossperformance.com/about. Three artists who have not previously worked together, a mover, a writer, and a sound artist, collaborate for a one time performance.
Tonight it is Tom DeBeauchamp (text), Juniana Lanning w/ special guest dancer (sound), and Midnight Variety Hour (performance).
Public Nature at Performance Works NW 4625 SE 67th 5:45PM doors, show 6 believe $15/donation
Friday, August 01, 2025
August 1 Eastside Art Openings+
For your +1 Artspace is the Lake Osewgo Arts Council gallery. They are ably curated now by Morgan Ritter. They are a bit far afield, we don't like their every show. They open a show tonight Spectra. It is opern until October 17.
At the Arts Council of Lake Oswego https://artscouncillo.org/artspace 380 A Avenue, Suite A, Lake Oswego 5:30PM-7:30 Free
For your +2 exploration, a new Riso Gallery has opened.
Portland has a history of printmaking. A strong force was Gordon Gilkey, 1912-2000. He was a Monuments Man, suggesting the program to President Roosevelt who made it so. The Monuments, Fine Art and Archives project in WWII recovered art stolen by Nazis and returned it to owners. As a result, he met many artists and dealers in Europe, after, and built a collection. In 1993 he donated over 10,000 prints to the Portland Art Museum establishing the Gordon Gilkey Print Center. In its early days, anyone could view any print in person. Gilkey was a much loved professor at PNCA as a coda to a distinguished career - you can look up his bio.
Gilkey was an inspiration to Jordan Schnitzer and his philosophy of collecting multiples. Multiples have less of a problem of irratoinal auction prices, and they are more easily loaned between institutions for public viewing, which is the point. A multimillion dollar work locked in a freeport vault is not the point of life.
Portland was a center for high end commercial color printing, and has many art print making concerns.
Enter the Risograph. The Risograph is a printer from Japan resembling a photocopier which uses an instantly made plate to print one color ink in a pass. They are a shared press because of the maintenance and the ink cartridges. There are several Riso print studios in Portland.
Then enter Riso Studio Arts. They are a studio where you can print, a store of printed materials, and a gallery.
They are the US distributor for Riso branching out from Los Angeles. They have the new Riso silk screen maker, very unique. They do workshops and have print time.
They opened last month with a large group show. Tonight Madison Michiko Inman has a solo show with phrase art, think Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holtzer, as Riso.
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
At the Arts Council of Lake Oswego https://artscouncillo.org/artspace 380 A Avenue, Suite A, Lake Oswego 5:30PM-7:30 Free
For your +2 exploration, a new Riso Gallery has opened.
Portland has a history of printmaking. A strong force was Gordon Gilkey, 1912-2000. He was a Monuments Man, suggesting the program to President Roosevelt who made it so. The Monuments, Fine Art and Archives project in WWII recovered art stolen by Nazis and returned it to owners. As a result, he met many artists and dealers in Europe, after, and built a collection. In 1993 he donated over 10,000 prints to the Portland Art Museum establishing the Gordon Gilkey Print Center. In its early days, anyone could view any print in person. Gilkey was a much loved professor at PNCA as a coda to a distinguished career - you can look up his bio.
Gilkey was an inspiration to Jordan Schnitzer and his philosophy of collecting multiples. Multiples have less of a problem of irratoinal auction prices, and they are more easily loaned between institutions for public viewing, which is the point. A multimillion dollar work locked in a freeport vault is not the point of life.
Portland was a center for high end commercial color printing, and has many art print making concerns.
Enter the Risograph. The Risograph is a printer from Japan resembling a photocopier which uses an instantly made plate to print one color ink in a pass. They are a shared press because of the maintenance and the ink cartridges. There are several Riso print studios in Portland.
Then enter Riso Studio Arts. They are a studio where you can print, a store of printed materials, and a gallery.
They are the US distributor for Riso branching out from Los Angeles. They have the new Riso silk screen maker, very unique. They do workshops and have print time.
They opened last month with a large group show. Tonight Madison Michiko Inman has a solo show with phrase art, think Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holtzer, as Riso.
At Riso Studio Arts and RSA Projects gallery https://pdx.risostudioarts.com/ and https://rsa-projects.com/ 1327 SE Division 6PM-9 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
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