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.
