Joe Rudko from Seattle brings Photorealism.
"Rudko’s paintings begin with fragmented pieces of found photography. Collaged snippets of flowers, skies, hands, and snapshots of friends are continued with oil pigment sticks, extending their edges so they cross over one another creating new, geometric images in the center. These works seek to merge the factual, functional purpose of photography with the more tactile, cerebral qualities of drawing and painting."
At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 1825 NW Vaughn Map 3PM-5
Level Head by Douglas Burns are children's art collaged onto the namesakes illustrations.
It is https://www.wellwellprojects.com/level-head at Well Well Projects www.wellwellprojects.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Drift Slip Lapse by Russell Borne and Drew Laughery are 2d works.
At www.carnationcontemporary.com in the Disjecta building 8371 N Interstate. 5PM-8 Free
Gons: The Pictures, Mechanisms, and Camera Works of Doug Wing https://www.northpolestudio.org/gons-doug-wing
is a show North Pole Studios. Thought Forms is https://www.oregoncontemporary.org/thought-forms-open-studio.
At Oregon Contemporary nee Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.oregoncontemporary.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 5PM-8 Free
Anarchaic Movement: New Works in Fabric and Animation by Wilcox, Rice, and Co. It a self-describing show.
Included are forks from recent residencies.
"Anarchaic is a little neologism (Anarchic + Archaic) that has been rolling around in my head to describe the animation-embroidery work that I feel compelled to make. Anarchic, because of the unruly nature of fabric under the eye of the camera and because of the unruled nature of animation that seeks a truly collective approach to creation that circumvents certain hierarchies of production, exploring intuitive and open-ended collaborations between human, non-human, and environmental contributors. Archaic, because the handmade nature of these embroideries emphasize a slower and more intentional form of artistic labor that pushes against the sleekifying nature of modern convenience, instead reveling in the vibrant discrepancies of the human hand. Archaic, also for the fascination in earlier technologies of seeing and sensing that changed our relationship to the world around us, whether that by Muybridge’s motion photography, the panorama, celluloid film strips, advertising gimmicks, or piano rolls."
At studio Mudd Palace 1731 SE 10th upstairs 5PM-8 Free
Photographer Keith Z has photographs, Outside. They are portraits on Portland's streets of homeless individuals. It is also a book, launching tonight.
At Franklin Foto https://www.franklinfoto.org/ 8953 N Lombard 5PM-8 Free
