October 1
Holocene presents T. Raumschmiere, Glass Candy and The Chromatics: a night of sleazy electro-fried glam/punk/electronic hybrids -
t.raumschmiere.com/front/index.php
myspace.com/glasscandy
www.goldstandardlabs.com/chrom...s.html
From their press release: T. Raumschmiere's notable skill is this: "his line-so-far of joybanging singles and especially remixes (of Goldfrapp, KomÎit, 2raumwohnung): Monstertruckdriver, the track one imagines led the New York Times itself to compare his music to "a monster truck rolling through a rave." (And this was even after they resumed double-checking to make sure their stories were, like, true: you can't argue with that.)"
October 1-2
The Portland Art Museum opens their contemporary wing in the old Masonic Temple. www.pam.org is a small art museum with a collection that is patchy broad and of varying depth, but they sure can raise money! The director's passion for French realism and impressionalism of the 18th and 19th century is somewhat tempered by the realization that contemporary art is where it is now in Portland. The contemporary curator, Bruce Guenther, has a strong eye for photography, our left coast flavor of painting, and occasional diversions into installation and sculpture. Right now with the demise of PICA's art programs, they are filling a needed role. If you are a member of the museum, tour the new wing Saturday, it's open to everyone Sunday. The primary value of any museum is to preserve and contectualize the past in art, useful, but never on the front edge. They do run a biennial art contest which greatly benefits local artists who often gain gallery representation as a result. They also collect local artists on a small scale.
The art museum has free admission October 2-16
October 2
On Sunday, Oct. 2 from 10-11:30am, PNCA, in conjunction with the Affair at Jupiter Hotel, hosts Wayne Koestenbaum who will give a talk about poetry, art writing, desire, and hotels. Koestenbaum is the author of 4 books of poetry, a new novel, and numerous articles about contemporary art and culture. His writing on Andy Warhol, Jackie Onassis, opera, identity politics, and fashion is some of the most intelligent and passionate criticism around. Koestenbaum is a professor of English at the City University of New York and a visiting professor at the Yale School of Art. Free and open to the public at PNCA.
October 5
Holocene presents the short films of Portland filmmaker Chel White. Chel White www.skysociety.com/chelwhite.html will be celebrating the release of a DVD compilation of many of those films "Fever Dreams and Heavenly Nightmares" tonight. The event is free.
Pacific Switchboard at Albina Press reprises Rose McCormick's Dovetail project in which she delivered 800 hand drawn and painted postcards to neighbors in North Portland. 7-10. 4637 N Albina
Preopenings at the usual suspects.
October 6 First Thursday
Mark Woolley Gallery presents "The Politics of Experience" by Tom Cramer. Cramer is known for his murals and painted vehicles www.tomcramer.net/pages/jungle1.htm - oh that guy. His recent body of lushly pigmented abstract low relief carvings in wood www.tomcramer.net/pages/redwood.htm was developed in collaboration with the late Portland artist and traveler Cassie Wright. Tom's aesthetics could loosely associate him with visionary artists, you decide. Opening 1st Thursday 120 NW 9th, and Saturday Oct 8 noon-8 in the Wonder Ballroom Woolley space.
Viewers may be interested in John Mace's installation at the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky Gallery NW Hoytx13th. Mace's ambitious installation combines water and video projection. He is also known for his installatons at the Portland Art Center, themed on the medical travails of his family. Mace is about 85% there, putting him ahead of most other Portland installationalists. Judge for yourself.
Motel presents Megan Whitmarsh's ( tinyindustries.com ) Crystal Logic - sparse compositions of tiny characters.
Compound presents Monster - an international take on the theme - with work by Charles Glaubitz, Gordon Wiebe, Jon Burgerman, David Barneda, David Lee, Kristian Olson, Saiman Chow, Teriyaki Tagashira, Rokutaku Sakamoto and Gen ( justbedesign.com )
Visage presents drawings by Kendra Larson ( kendralarson.com ) of Oregon forests cleansed by fire. Larson's work represents a nascent forest fire meme including Chandra Bocci's "blaze - celebrity hair" in Fresh Trouble ( freshtrouble.com ) and Justine Kurland/Jonathan Raymond's "Old Joy ( www.artbook.com/1891273051.html )
Gallery 500 presents an emergency replacement show - installations by Portland's fashion community, and, on first Thursday, a fashion show at 8:30
The Everett Station Lofts should be highly variable, but will never be dull. Some I know of: Trish Grantham at Genuine Imitation, Dan Ness at Pause
Pulliam Deffenbaugh and PDX open their new spaces at 925 NW Flanders
Kim Hamblin shows her collaborations with street kids at p:ear
Fashion mavens may sample fashion shows at 7 and 8PM at Urbaca 120 NW 9th themed on pink - see ultrapdx.com for details.
October 7 First Friday
The usual suspects Fix, NAAU and Newspace photo present evening openings.
Laurel Gitlen opens her new gallery space, Small A Projects. "Adopting a strategy that combines the best attributes of commercial galleries with the experimental attitude of alternative exhibition spaces, Small A Projects will present exhibitions and projects with emerging and underrecognized artists as well as more established artists." Her first show is ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING, "a group show celebrating the transcendental, transformative and humorous aspects of heavy metal and rock and roll" featuring Michael Bise (Houston), Barb Choit (Vancouver/NY), Zoe Crosher (LA), Craig Doty (New Haven), Erik Hanson and Josh Mannis (Chicago). www.smallaprojects.com
The Portland Art Center www.portlandart.org/ ) presents an artist talk with James Jack on his current show Natura Naturans, an ephemeral installation and print study. Artist talk—6:30 pm, reception follows 7-10 with drinks and Japanese snacks. Portland Art Center, 2045 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214
October 7-9
HP Lovecraft Film Festival materializes at the Hollywood Theater Friday-Sunday October 7th- 9th.
The festival features films, panel discussions and artwork on Lovecraftian themes.
Author Lovecraft (1890-1937) is considered to be the father of modern horror, more focused on dark occult themed stories than what passes today for horror in cinema. Afflicted with childhood disease, he suffered from poikilothermism leaving his body cold to the touch. He also suffered insomnia and is reported to have written for 60 hours without sleep to complete one story. His prolific letter writing, over 87 thousand letters in his lifetime, qualifies him as the first blogger. His father was hospitalized for psychosis when Lovecraft was 3 and remained so for the rest of his life, later his mother was committed to the same asylum. He suffered a nervous breakdown at age 18, never completing high school. Many of his stories were inspired by his nightmares.
There will be a live performance by Patti Smith OG buddhist-punk-poet-rocker 11:30 Saturday at the festival.
www.hplfilmfestival.com/schedule.htm
also October 7,8,9
"the edge of the fell" a dance piece by Linda Austin w/ Cidney Wilkes, Karla Betts, Lilly Chamberlain, Anne Furfey, Rebecca Harrison, Kathleen Keogh, Paige McKinney & Emily Stone. I have not seen this work, but includes visual design by Portland artist Linda Hutchens. Oct 7,8 8PM Oct 9 2, 8 $15/12 students - performanceworksnw.org
October 8,9,15,16
The Portland open studios presents this proposition: artists pay $160 to apply to a jury for selection. If not selected, $150 is returned. Portlandopenstudios.com displays an image on their website and sells a guide for $12 with a map to the studios of artists selected admitting 2. See the website for details.
October 12
TJ Norris opens at the Chambers Gallery - chambersgallery.org
October 13
Intelligent Design officially opens their new store filled with seductive minimalist design, international style from 5-8 at 537 SE 12. The store is in the vintage building rehabed by Portland architect, Jeff Kovel, designer of the Doug Fir/Jupiter Hotel. Thx Lisa at ultrapdx.com for the tip.
Gus VanZant's first film, Male Noche, celebrates its 20th anniversary with a screening to benefit Outside In and the Social Justice Fund.
"An independent film in the truest sense, Van Sant financed Mala Noche after saving $25,000 from his tenure at a New York advertising agency. Based on Walt Curtis’ novella, Mala Noche is a tale of doomed love between a gay liquor store clerk and a Mexican immigrant. Filmed in Portland’s Old Town and starring Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge and Nyla McCarthy, Mala Noche features some of the director's hallmarks, notably the sensitive portrayals of societal outcasts, an unfulfilled romanticism, a dry sense of the absurd, and the refusal to treat homosexuality as something deserving of judgment.
Shot in black-and-white, Mala Noche earned its director almost overnight acclaim on the festival circuit, with the Los Angeles Times naming it the year's Best Independent Film. Over the past two decades Van Sant has gone on to wider acclaim with a filmography that includes Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Last Days."
Mala Noche takes place Thursday, Oct. 13 at 8pm at Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell Street in Portland. Tickets (subject to service charges) are $15 general admission or $75 for patron tickets (which includes a catered pre-screening reception with Van Sant at the Mark Woolley Gallery, downstairs from the Wonder Ballroom
Local 35 hosts its Hawthorne Second Thursday, October 13th 6-10PM
Local painters Brett and Whitney Superstar, who represent regularly at 1st Thursday's Urban Art Network on NW 13th street as well as Alberta's Last Thursday open their show at Local 35. Their often figurative or landscape themed work is characterized by heavy black outlines and an off saturated palette. These hardworking artists and their faithful dog have traveled widely, working hard to self represent themselves as artists. (Note another Portland artist, Trish Grantham, who has done the same, has been able to quit her day job, showed in September at Local 35, has been signed by a NY/London-based gallery)
Dj Barrett Ryker from Portland's PGE provides sounds. 10% off the entire store during show, 6-10p that night...
October 18
Saving the world from mass production, Portland craft superheroes Susan Beal, Torie Nguyen, Rachel O'Rourke and Cathy Pitters host a book release party for "Super Crafty" st the Doug Fir Lounge. Doors 8, show 9, MC'd by Andrew Dickson and including Olympia softrocker Rebecca Pearcy, Millions of Birds and Roy Tinsel. FREE
More info and a host of craftactivism information at www.pdxsupercrafty.com/
October 19
An experimental participatory movement experience, Axolotl, will occur Wednesday. October 19 at the Mississippi Rising Ballroom at 8PM. It is presented by Seattle movers with backgrounds including contact improv dance.
In Axolotl, you are invited to place a blindfold over your eyes and spend two hours interacting and exploring with each other and a group of actors, dancers, and musicians. There are no rules per se, other than that you are asked to keep your blindfold on until asked to remove it. The piece is not a singular event on a stage, but a multiplicity of events occurring simultaneously in the minds of the members of the audience... an experience of movement, touch, theater, conversation, soundscape, environment and interpersonal interaction. The performers come to the space with a shared culture of investigation, rather than a specific pattern of experiences to give the audience. The audience interacts with each other while the performers offer possibilities and challenges, kinesthetic and psychological. One could call it an improvisation with an intuitively apprehended search for meaning. What arises is a co-creation amongst those present…
$12 advance/$15 door, more background including reviews at www.toishou.org/Axolotl.html
October 20 Thinking about art school?
California College of the Arts CCA (nee CCAC) presents an open house Saturday afternoon at the Kennedy School. As the balance of aesthetics shifts West, CCA has become a major player along with UCLA, Art Center and Cal Arts. The graduate program in studio arts allows students to use a chunk of their weighty private school tuition to hire any named artist they can recruit as a mentor. Larry Rinder, enfant terrible curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and curator of some Portland artists into that biennial (Miranda July, Harrell Fletcher), is dean of grad studies. Graduate programs presentation noon, undergrad 2PM. Details on art programs at www.cca.edu RSVP for the presentations and discussions with admissions and financial aid at 415-703-9523
October 27
Ryan McGinness, an artist whose stenciled sensibilities cross to very non commercial installation and very commercial graphic design speaks Thusday October 27 at 7PM. McGinness' work www.ryanmcginness.com combines two of my favorite aesthetic vectors, clean lines- bright colors- pop and maddening complexity. McGinness will sign copies of a new book Installationview ryanmcginness.com/pdf/insta...onview.pdf after the talk. Talk sponsored by the Art Institute and PICA. $10/ $8 AI students,PICA members. PICA/ W+K atrium 224 NW 13th
Pacific Switchboard est mort, yet may rise again...
Last Thursday at Pacific Switchboard October 27
"take my life, please"
Help commerorate the end of our time with The Albina Press Cafe by
joining in the destruction of Jennifer Gleach's installation "altar
ego". This incredible labyrinth of ephemera is comprised of the
artist's entire collection of collage materials including fabric,
metal, wood, and x-rays.
"altar ego" will be on view as a whole on October 9th, 16th, and 23rd
from 12-4 pm.
last Thursday hours will be 6-10pm on October 27th. All visitors this
evening will be encouraged to steal this art.
Pacific Switchboard is located at 4637 N. Albina Ave.
for more info please call 503-515-7319
October 29, 30
Studio 333 stages its annual studio open house and sale. This long time artists' studio has survived speakeasy, Russian disco and now ultra hipster downstairs neighbors plus the travails of the fire martial to produce a lot of great art. 333 NE Hancock St Saturday 4-9, Sunday noon-4
And
The new Portland Modern catalog #3 is out and available free about town. This instance includes excellent work by two recent PSU MFA grads. Holly Andres - working in installation and video ( www.marylhurst.edu/artgym/i...ndres.jpg ) has a great DVD, Brave New Girl. Mariana Tres, photographer, installation artist and performer makes work that would be at home in the Museum of Jurassic Technology, but focused on her discoveries of the lost work of creative women in a faux performance that works. Also included is TJ Norris, known for his sound art gallery, making loose minimalist abstractions. Norris has a show later in the month at the Chambers Gallery. Though some have been critical of the application fees for artists submitting work to Portland Modern, the free publication is not breaking even. They did distribute 1000 copies at the Jupiter Affair art show to gallerists and collectors, including out of towners.
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Thursday, September 01, 2005
September's big bang
This September illustrates Portland's critical mass of artistic energy. School is in session...
September 1
PNCA presents the work of 5 artists from Rio de Janeiro. Portland is
sending the work of 5 artists to Brazil in exchange! Ernesto Neto
produces installations of soft stretchy fabric and was featured in the
49th Venice Bienniale. For opening night, the Lions of Batucada perform
- dancing encouraged. This looks like one of the events of the evening.
www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php
Augen presents prints by well known minimalist artists Ellsworth Kelly,
Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold and Frank Stella who established their
careers in the 60's and 70's. This is a good opportunity for an art
history museum-type outing.
Liz Leach presents poppy collage painter Mark Smith www.elizabethleach.com/Shows-Detail.cfm Smith is known for his sculptural work with vacuum packed found clothing (hard to describe). Organic sculptor Christine Bourdette www.elizabethleach.com/Shows-Detail.cfm shows her work and curator-artist Christy Edmunds shows photos.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents a group show of 50 SF bay artists curated
on the basis of each of the artists having worked with one or more of
the others.
Laura Russo presents the paintings of Jay Backstrand
www.laurarusso.com/exhibits/index.html , a Portland artist of
the 70's and 80's who successfully sells his work in NYC. Maybe ask him
for hints...
Motel Gallery presents the illustrations of Carson Ellis www.motelgallery.com/gallery...ain.html who has created artwork for local musicians, The Decemberists.
Gallery 500 presents a group show of artists from the US points N,S,E&W curated by Jeff Jahn, local arts writer, artist and curator. Jahn had the challenge of curating an open call, publicized in Art in America, from slides, and we'll see the effects, live. Plenty of artists from everywhere want to show here, so Portlanders, get ready to compete!
Blue Sky Gallery presents photos by Pedro Lobo of the cells in an infamous Brazilian prison, since demolished, illustrating the inmates attempts at domesticity and individuality amidst the institution's pressures in opposition. Also showing are the photos of Brigitte Grignet of the domestic environment - the people and their echoes - of Chile.
Compound at Just Be/toys-Design present "Digital Beauty" riffing on a book with a similar name, illustrating electronic characters. While the challenge of creating three dimensional electroactors for film continues to be met by ever more lifelike characters each year, the aesthetics are still Barbie. I'm not sure if that is due to the otaku-nature of the animators or whether it is inevitably inherent in the film industry itself. See also www.softimage.com/Products/...e_info.asp
The Everett Lofts are always varied and always recommended.
Sometimes the workings of the Portland City Hall seem remote at best.
Perhaps their activities are so subtley pervasive, or needed only when really needed, or the reverse. That's why the idea of art in City Hall sounds perfect.Enen though the art itself may not be interesting to you, here is your chance to lay claim to some Portland art identity by showing up as you are, mix it up with a different crowd, tell them what artists in Portland need! This is an EARLY event. Details:
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Commissioner Sam Adams invites you to City Hall First Thursday on September 1, 2005 5pm-7pm at Portland City Hall, 1221 SW Fourth Avenue, featuring:
:::::The Susan Komen Foundation UP CLOSE in PINK Art Show:::::
KomenUP CLOSE in PINK is a body of works exploring the artistic and creative expressions of those affected by breast cancer. This event is part of the Paint Portland Pink! Campaign of the Komen Portland Race for the Cure to further Komen's mission of eradicating breast cancer as a life-threatening disease.The UP CLOSE in PINK show will be on display in the North Atrium of City Hall for the entire month of September.
:::::A special performance by Oregon Public Broadcasting's Live Wire!:::::
Live Wire isn’t just a show, it’s a happening. It’s a place where you’re never quite sure what might happen next. From radical cheerleaders popping in at unexpected moments, to audience members dressed as giant evil bunnies, to on-air head shavings, it’s Talk Show meets Sketch Show meets Side Show. And it’s something you truly need to see/hear to believe.
Live Wire will be performing throughout the evening in the South Atrium and will be featuring some City Hall surprise guests.
:::::"Mind States" paintings by Megan Scheminske:::::
Megan's work deals with a clash between controlled construction and random occurrence, and the internal struggle between the two she observes in her daily and artistic life. "I pay attention to my mind as I paint, observing the tension that arises when I force myself to accept a messy, 'unexplainable' or unintended brushstroke instead of perfecting it by molding it into something deliberate. In this way, my paintings are exercises in meditation and expressions of mind states. I can only hope they'll get simpler as time passes…"
Megans work will be on display in Commissioner Adams office for the entire month of September.
:::::Also joining the City Hall 1st Thursday activities:::::
Works by Shu-Ju Wang
PomegranateBorn and raised in Taiwan, Shu-Ju Wang settled in Oregon after stays in Saudi Arabia, California, and New Jersey. Trained as a Software Engineer, she started taking classes at Oregon College of Art & Craft in the late 80’s (then Oregon School of Arts & Crafts), and had her first solo show in 1996 at the school’s Centrum Gallery. In 2000, she left the high tech industry to become a full time studio artist. With one foot firmly rooted in her adopted home in the Silicon Forest and the other in the artistic traditions of East & Central Asia and the Middle East, Shu-Ju paints a portrait of her sometimes wonderful, sometimes unsettling, first generation American life. Whether it's a bird in winter or a chrysanthemum in full bloom, there are always layers of meaning waiting to be discovered.
Shu-Ju's work will be on display in Commissioner Saltzman's office for the entire month of September.
Photography by Tony Sibley will be featured in Commissioner Leonard's office.
September 2
Rake, the art collective, enters its terrible two's with another Space Ambulance. "rake is a post nuclear flying fortress of robot dropouts, messianic criminals, and red eyed cosmonauts. regardless of any organization, members of rake suffer from the compulsion to break things down and rebuild them which ultimately makes us happy. Rake's experienced cosmonauts join with additional artists culled from an open call in a show of music, art and ethanol fueled talk. The show is up for a month and the works are for sale. www.rakeart.com This is a great example ofPortland's DIY attitude, no idea on the art but it should be fun. Voleur restaurant Sw 1st & Ash 6pm-4am.
Newspace Photo continues its neo-retro theme from the looks of these photos by Bootsy Holler
Fix opens the collage screenprint paintings of Dan Ness 7-10
Portland Art Center opens installations Natura Naturans on paper using
materials from nature arranged in circular forms by James Jack and an
installation by Kelly Rauer. www.portlandart.org 7-10
September 7
The Wonder Ballroom megaplex opens: concert hall, restaurant, bar and two art galleries - with an ALL AGES Dance Party with Anjali
Gala opening in the the gallery * free * 6-9pm * refreshments
In the Ballroom :
9pm Wade Mccollum performing from the rock musical “One”
10pm-1am DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
$5 cover at the door
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell
503-284-8686
www.wonderballroom.com
September 7 and 8
Fix Studios, Portland furniture and interior space makers, and Design Within Reach, the SF-based purveyor of modern furniture present Show2005, a juried show of Portland furniture, conceptual or concrete. The selected work will be displayed at the DWR store at the corner of NW 12th and Everett. On September 7 a reception for the artists and jurors will open the show, the $10 admission provides hors d’oeuvres and beverages (early only likely) and supports ShowArchive, promoting local designers. The show will continue one day, September 8, free.
The show was juried by Jeff Kovel of skylab design, Bill Fritz of Intelligent Design, Pete McCracken of Crack Press and Plazm, Stella Farina nee of PDX Fashion Incubator, David Boyd of Studio Alloy, Michael Hebberoy of ripe, and Craig Olson of DWR.
September 9
The Oak Street building is reviving art shows at their location, no idea on the quality, but plenty earnest, I'm sure. Photo show featuring Flint Jamison, and Jake Longstreth, closing of “AMERICAN LANDSCAPES” art show with photos by Cody Cloud, Andy Cross. Music Thanksgiving and Dirty Projectors 425 SE 3rd Ave. 1st Floor gallery 8pm. $5
September 8-18 PICA TBA Festival
There are too many items to list for this. Thursday at 8, there will be a free performance on Pioneer Square of the acrobatic dancers of STREB. Look at the schedule and pick your own events. In the past years, the warehouse cabarets late have been a great place to talk to other artists and dance if you are so inclined, plus way better than average not too expensive late food. The Dada ball has been a great place to show your most imaginative costuming skills, no limits, none.
www.pica.org/himages/TBA05_Guide.pdf
September 7,8, 17 and points between: Some Dueling (early/late? established/upstart?) Portland Fashion Events:
Out of the ashes of the Fashion Incubator Portland Fashion week rise two series: "The Collections" organized by Elizabeth Dye featuring established Portland designers and and Semper Fashion's "FW05", a large collaboration of designers spanning 2 weeks, and, in part, benefiting the Oregon Food Bank and the Maiti Nepal Organization www.maitinepal.org. Many Semper events are hosted by Palas, who have been supportive of the local DJ community. The Dada costume ball caps it all Saturday September 17. Thanks to Lisa Radon and her fashion
ultra blog pdxultra.com for the 411 on this.
September 7
Emily Ryan and Liza Rietz will show their new fashions at Peter Bro's new Clinton Street nightspot, the Savoy Tavern and Bistro, 2500 Clinton on Wednesday, September 7, 8 PM. Rietz' show at Seaplane earlier this year showed a singular vision while Emily's work is romantically avant-garde.
September 8
Collections presents Kate Towers and Holly Stalder, powerhouses of the independent fashion scene in Portland who not only were among the forward-guard of those who locally employed reconstruction in their designs, they also provided THE platform and showcase for designers of
a similar aesthetic first at their Belmont boutique, Seaplane--now on 23rd--as well as through years of fashion shows--will show on the Wieden + Kennedy rooftop (224 NW 13th) on Thursday September 8. The show, entitled "Victorian Forest", begins at 7 PM. Free, but tickets in advance at the Seaplane store.
Semper Fashion presents Opening night. Shows on the hour till midnight. 8:00 PM Pala Fashion Lounge 105 NW 3rd Tickets $10.00, 300 general admission available at the door.
September 9
Collections presents one of Portland's finest, Adam Arnold, who will show in his lower Morrison Studio (727 SE Morrison) on Friday September 9 at 7 PM.
Semper Fashion presents Men's wear at Crush Bar tentatively 2 shows 20 minutes each, 9PM and 11:00PM. Followed by Purple Passion Party, dress in purple, RIBBONS AWARDED. FREE 250 SRO
September 10 Saturday
Fix Studios (E Burnside) present the new fall lines of the three resident designers 5-8 PM (just before the 8 PM fashion show at YES down the street). As an open studio event, it will be casual--no models, just the work. Interestingly, fix co-owner (and Jackie-O Motherfucker member) Genevieve Dellinger says that while browsing and trying on, you may be called to take part in an impromptu photo shoot. The designers catalogues will feature photos taken during the event.
Semper Fashion presents an Industry after party for the NW Regional apparel buyers association conference. 9:00 PM Pala Fashion Lounge Featuring an invitational fashion show from Saffrona, WeMa, Sizzle, Rocket, and the DoubleCross Belt Co. Very limited availability $10.00 tickets at the door.
Collections presents the machine-embroidered art garments of Bonnie Heart Clyde (by Emily Katz and Shaun Deller) and embroidered and appliqued work by TRex in a show at YES Clothing (628 E Burnside) at 8 PM.
September 11
The Collections wrap at clarklewis (1001 SE Water) with Elizabeth Dye's smart and elegant designs in fine fabrics and Jess Beebe's lovely dresses showing Sunday, September 11 at 8 PM.
Semper Fashion presents "I Want To Be Feared" Fierce Fashions, Full On! 8:30 PM Dante's Inferno 3 SW 3rd and Burnside. Tickets $5.00 at the door.
September 13
Semper Fashion presents "Its still summer and still hottt!" Swimwear and lingerie show" 8PM Pala Fashion Lounge Tickets $5.00 at the door.
September 14
Semper Fashion presents "Hot Ice" Winter Fashions 8:00 PM at Greek Cusina Minoan Room 404 SW Washington. Tickets $5.00 at the door. 150 person seating.
September 15 Thursday
Semper Fashion presents "Laid Back": Casuals and Urban Chic 8:00 PM Voodoo Lounge/OHM . Tickets $5.00 at the door, 250 available.
Semper Fashion presents Men's Wear Re Dux, just in case you missed something. 7:00 PM Crush Bar Tix: $5.00 at the door.
September 16 Friday
Semper Fashion presents Finale "Black and White" show, dress to impress. 9:00 PM at Pala Fashion Lounge-Shows on the hour until midnight. Jewelry and accessories.
September 17
PICA:TBA presents the Dada Ball, an anything goes costume party.
Saturday September 24
Curator-critic-artist Jeff Jahn opens his new group show "Fresh Trouble" Saturday September 24 at 4246 S.E. Belmont Street 5-9PM
Some are critical of the Blond Viking for "spoiling art in Portland" by suggesting that artists can support themselves as a career by sales of their art work, but I say yeah - go for it! This show offers a perfect example of pairing local artists who are making good work with out of town artists further in their career.
The artists include Cao Fei (2003 Venice Biennale, China - see below), Lee Walton (sculptor in residence Socrates sculpture park, and no stranger to big works, New York), Douglas Holst (installation INOVA & Art Chicago 2004, Milwaukee Wisconsin, in attendance), Hildur Bjarnadottir (Iceland, who bends traditional Icelanic craft into sublime minimalist works), Jack Daws (Seattle’s trouble maker), Scott Patt (Boston, recently of Portland, now director of design Converse, who combines urban graphics with weighty concepts), Patrick Rock (Portland, recent Headlands show), Matthew Picton (Oregon’s fastest rising star, LA, SF, London next - Mathew samples seemingly random patterns of the built and natural environments), Ellen George (Portland, fresh off her Dallas show, who constructs sweet shapes in polymer), Chandra Bocci (Portland, whose works of recycled materials put the serious in cute), Jacqueline Ehlis (smart painter grad student of McArthur grant recipinet Dave Hickey, Portland), Matt McCormick (Portland film maker, with a major show in Olso coming up), Laura Fritz (Portland, creator of trange instalations which touch vaguely on scinece, fresh off her critically lauded Seattle show), Sean Healy (Portland, with shows in Germany and Houston), Dan Fagereng (Portland, straight off his Art Center MFA), Bruce Conkle (Portland, ORLO arts/environment curator and Bigfoot afficianado, with shows in Iceland and Brazil in 2006), TJ Norris (Portland,sound artist, with a recent show in Montreal), Joe Thurston (Portland, painter of disturbing portraits), Katherine Bovee & Philippe Blanc (Portland, husband and wife duo and creators of smart installation work), Brendan Clenaghen (Portland), Paige Saez (Portland, see the HOMELAND listing), Mark Smith (Portland, see last month's gallery openins listing for E. Leach), Joe Macca (Portland), Marne Lucas (Portland erotic activist) and Horia Boboa (Portland)
See for example the resume of one of the artists in the show, who is taking life threatening political risks, at www.courtyard-gallery.com/artis...cv.htm .
regular hours saturday & sunday 12;00-5:00PM ... through Oct 9th
special hours September 30th 6:00-9:00 PM
September 25
Spare Room, Portland Art Center & Nestucca Spit Press present a publication party & reading for Salt: A Collection of Poetry on the Oregon Coast with short readings by poets featured in the anthology, music by John Berendzen & the Parametric Orchestra, food & drink.
Sunday 7:00 - 10:00 pm free Portland Art Center 2045 SE Belmont Street 503-239-5481
www.portlandart.org
September 29
HOMELAND opens Thursday September 29 with a show by Portland artists Zak Margolis, Charles Moss and Amy Steele.
"Zak Margolis has been making a reputation for himself in Portland for
quite some time, with haunting yet beautiful animation and stunning
music. His work has been featured in the PDX Experimental Film
Festival, PDX Film Exchange in Chicago and is founding member of the
much loved Pacific Switchboard Gallery. Charles Moss is a Portland
newbie, bringing us a series of process-based experimental paintings
from New Jersey. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Moss has shown work in upstate New York, Chicago and Miami
with Lifeboat. Moss presents us with an exciting series of mono-prints
and organic landscapes. Amy Steele, an Art Institute grad herself, and a
Pacific Switchboard staple is the missing link of the Familiar. While
teaching at Pacific Northwest College of Art, she has still managed to
exhibit around the US. Amy’s work explores issues of gender, desire, and
sexuality". Amy is planning graduate work at the California College of
the Arts where Larry Rinder is dean.
Artists Paul Mittendorff and Paige Saez are behind Homeland, a new space
for genre bending projects in the visual and performing arts.
Paige is known for her work in painting, installation and performance.
She is capable of out Boltoning James Bolton as evidenced by some large
scale abstracts auctioned at the Disjecta auction; installations,
including a Core Sample work of thrift store afghans, unknit to their
kinky constituent; and lately performance with Sam Gould of Red 76 and
Mr Mittendorff including a tatoo roadtrip roadfilm project.
Paul curated many excellent shows for Disjecta but now attracting
attention in collaboration with Mary Mattingly, PNCA grad, with his
art-world-politics performance installations. These include
constructing a liferaft carrying the works of Portland artists and
landing it Cuban refuge-style on the beach at Art Basel-Miami as well
as constructing a hot tub for gallerist and collector interviews at
SCOPE Hamptons. ( www.marymattingly.com/html/miamiweb.html )
The opening night includes particapatory happenings involving stuffed
animals and live music by Squish and the Tim DuRoche Trio with Doug
Theriaul and Jonathan Sielaffand.
HOMELAND doors open up at 7pm , with live music starting at 8pm. 926 SE
34th Avenue located at the intersection of 34th and Belmont in the old
scooter building.
September 30
The second Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, ( www.affair-jupiterhotel.com/ ) a Portland art weekend of in town and out of town galleries and educational panel talks opens with 2 parties. The first, a benefit for the Portland Art Museum's new contemporary wing (see Oct 1,2) is 6-9 and costs $100. From 10-1, the artists party, much more fun, features music Deep Throats and Barr, and DJ P Disco at $10. Pleease, hope this DJ is better than every PICA DJ's! There are a bunch of other talks - check the website. As for the art - this is a mini version of large art fairs all over the world that allow you to see a lot of work in one place and check the artist resumes for career directions.
Many of the SE galleries will also be open this evening including a group show at the New American Art Union, SE 9th and Ankeny, and ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING, a group show themed on metal [music] at Small A Projects, Laurel Gitlin's new gallery in the old Savage space, 1430 SE 3rd under the Hawthorne Bridge.
September 30-October 1
NWEAMO, the Northwest Electro Acoustic Music Organization presents it's annual festival themed "Ancient Knowledge and The Future: Neolithic Roots in the 21st Century" Friday and Saturday at PSU. NWEAMO promotes exploration of the fusion of electronica and acoustic music modes. Their past festivals have also featured quality visual accompanianist-collaborators such as Pirate TV. www.nweamo.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi
September 1
PNCA presents the work of 5 artists from Rio de Janeiro. Portland is
sending the work of 5 artists to Brazil in exchange! Ernesto Neto
produces installations of soft stretchy fabric and was featured in the
49th Venice Bienniale. For opening night, the Lions of Batucada perform
- dancing encouraged. This looks like one of the events of the evening.
www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php
Augen presents prints by well known minimalist artists Ellsworth Kelly,
Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold and Frank Stella who established their
careers in the 60's and 70's. This is a good opportunity for an art
history museum-type outing.
Liz Leach presents poppy collage painter Mark Smith www.elizabethleach.com/Shows-Detail.cfm Smith is known for his sculptural work with vacuum packed found clothing (hard to describe). Organic sculptor Christine Bourdette www.elizabethleach.com/Shows-Detail.cfm shows her work and curator-artist Christy Edmunds shows photos.
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents a group show of 50 SF bay artists curated
on the basis of each of the artists having worked with one or more of
the others.
Laura Russo presents the paintings of Jay Backstrand
www.laurarusso.com/exhibits/index.html , a Portland artist of
the 70's and 80's who successfully sells his work in NYC. Maybe ask him
for hints...
Motel Gallery presents the illustrations of Carson Ellis www.motelgallery.com/gallery...ain.html who has created artwork for local musicians, The Decemberists.
Gallery 500 presents a group show of artists from the US points N,S,E&W curated by Jeff Jahn, local arts writer, artist and curator. Jahn had the challenge of curating an open call, publicized in Art in America, from slides, and we'll see the effects, live. Plenty of artists from everywhere want to show here, so Portlanders, get ready to compete!
Blue Sky Gallery presents photos by Pedro Lobo of the cells in an infamous Brazilian prison, since demolished, illustrating the inmates attempts at domesticity and individuality amidst the institution's pressures in opposition. Also showing are the photos of Brigitte Grignet of the domestic environment - the people and their echoes - of Chile.
Compound at Just Be/toys-Design present "Digital Beauty" riffing on a book with a similar name, illustrating electronic characters. While the challenge of creating three dimensional electroactors for film continues to be met by ever more lifelike characters each year, the aesthetics are still Barbie. I'm not sure if that is due to the otaku-nature of the animators or whether it is inevitably inherent in the film industry itself. See also www.softimage.com/Products/...e_info.asp
The Everett Lofts are always varied and always recommended.
Sometimes the workings of the Portland City Hall seem remote at best.
Perhaps their activities are so subtley pervasive, or needed only when really needed, or the reverse. That's why the idea of art in City Hall sounds perfect.Enen though the art itself may not be interesting to you, here is your chance to lay claim to some Portland art identity by showing up as you are, mix it up with a different crowd, tell them what artists in Portland need! This is an EARLY event. Details:
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Commissioner Sam Adams invites you to City Hall First Thursday on September 1, 2005 5pm-7pm at Portland City Hall, 1221 SW Fourth Avenue, featuring:
:::::The Susan Komen Foundation UP CLOSE in PINK Art Show:::::
KomenUP CLOSE in PINK is a body of works exploring the artistic and creative expressions of those affected by breast cancer. This event is part of the Paint Portland Pink! Campaign of the Komen Portland Race for the Cure to further Komen's mission of eradicating breast cancer as a life-threatening disease.The UP CLOSE in PINK show will be on display in the North Atrium of City Hall for the entire month of September.
:::::A special performance by Oregon Public Broadcasting's Live Wire!:::::
Live Wire isn’t just a show, it’s a happening. It’s a place where you’re never quite sure what might happen next. From radical cheerleaders popping in at unexpected moments, to audience members dressed as giant evil bunnies, to on-air head shavings, it’s Talk Show meets Sketch Show meets Side Show. And it’s something you truly need to see/hear to believe.
Live Wire will be performing throughout the evening in the South Atrium and will be featuring some City Hall surprise guests.
:::::"Mind States" paintings by Megan Scheminske:::::
Megan's work deals with a clash between controlled construction and random occurrence, and the internal struggle between the two she observes in her daily and artistic life. "I pay attention to my mind as I paint, observing the tension that arises when I force myself to accept a messy, 'unexplainable' or unintended brushstroke instead of perfecting it by molding it into something deliberate. In this way, my paintings are exercises in meditation and expressions of mind states. I can only hope they'll get simpler as time passes…"
Megans work will be on display in Commissioner Adams office for the entire month of September.
:::::Also joining the City Hall 1st Thursday activities:::::
Works by Shu-Ju Wang
PomegranateBorn and raised in Taiwan, Shu-Ju Wang settled in Oregon after stays in Saudi Arabia, California, and New Jersey. Trained as a Software Engineer, she started taking classes at Oregon College of Art & Craft in the late 80’s (then Oregon School of Arts & Crafts), and had her first solo show in 1996 at the school’s Centrum Gallery. In 2000, she left the high tech industry to become a full time studio artist. With one foot firmly rooted in her adopted home in the Silicon Forest and the other in the artistic traditions of East & Central Asia and the Middle East, Shu-Ju paints a portrait of her sometimes wonderful, sometimes unsettling, first generation American life. Whether it's a bird in winter or a chrysanthemum in full bloom, there are always layers of meaning waiting to be discovered.
Shu-Ju's work will be on display in Commissioner Saltzman's office for the entire month of September.
Photography by Tony Sibley will be featured in Commissioner Leonard's office.
September 2
Rake, the art collective, enters its terrible two's with another Space Ambulance. "rake is a post nuclear flying fortress of robot dropouts, messianic criminals, and red eyed cosmonauts. regardless of any organization, members of rake suffer from the compulsion to break things down and rebuild them which ultimately makes us happy. Rake's experienced cosmonauts join with additional artists culled from an open call in a show of music, art and ethanol fueled talk. The show is up for a month and the works are for sale. www.rakeart.com This is a great example ofPortland's DIY attitude, no idea on the art but it should be fun. Voleur restaurant Sw 1st & Ash 6pm-4am.
Newspace Photo continues its neo-retro theme from the looks of these photos by Bootsy Holler
Fix opens the collage screenprint paintings of Dan Ness 7-10
Portland Art Center opens installations Natura Naturans on paper using
materials from nature arranged in circular forms by James Jack and an
installation by Kelly Rauer. www.portlandart.org 7-10
September 7
The Wonder Ballroom megaplex opens: concert hall, restaurant, bar and two art galleries - with an ALL AGES Dance Party with Anjali
Gala opening in the the gallery * free * 6-9pm * refreshments
In the Ballroom :
9pm Wade Mccollum performing from the rock musical “One”
10pm-1am DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid
$5 cover at the door
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell
503-284-8686
www.wonderballroom.com
September 7 and 8
Fix Studios, Portland furniture and interior space makers, and Design Within Reach, the SF-based purveyor of modern furniture present Show2005, a juried show of Portland furniture, conceptual or concrete. The selected work will be displayed at the DWR store at the corner of NW 12th and Everett. On September 7 a reception for the artists and jurors will open the show, the $10 admission provides hors d’oeuvres and beverages (early only likely) and supports ShowArchive, promoting local designers. The show will continue one day, September 8, free.
The show was juried by Jeff Kovel of skylab design, Bill Fritz of Intelligent Design, Pete McCracken of Crack Press and Plazm, Stella Farina nee of PDX Fashion Incubator, David Boyd of Studio Alloy, Michael Hebberoy of ripe, and Craig Olson of DWR.
September 9
The Oak Street building is reviving art shows at their location, no idea on the quality, but plenty earnest, I'm sure. Photo show featuring Flint Jamison, and Jake Longstreth, closing of “AMERICAN LANDSCAPES” art show with photos by Cody Cloud, Andy Cross. Music Thanksgiving and Dirty Projectors 425 SE 3rd Ave. 1st Floor gallery 8pm. $5
September 8-18 PICA TBA Festival
There are too many items to list for this. Thursday at 8, there will be a free performance on Pioneer Square of the acrobatic dancers of STREB. Look at the schedule and pick your own events. In the past years, the warehouse cabarets late have been a great place to talk to other artists and dance if you are so inclined, plus way better than average not too expensive late food. The Dada ball has been a great place to show your most imaginative costuming skills, no limits, none.
www.pica.org/himages/TBA05_Guide.pdf
September 7,8, 17 and points between: Some Dueling (early/late? established/upstart?) Portland Fashion Events:
Out of the ashes of the Fashion Incubator Portland Fashion week rise two series: "The Collections" organized by Elizabeth Dye featuring established Portland designers and and Semper Fashion's "FW05", a large collaboration of designers spanning 2 weeks, and, in part, benefiting the Oregon Food Bank and the Maiti Nepal Organization www.maitinepal.org. Many Semper events are hosted by Palas, who have been supportive of the local DJ community. The Dada costume ball caps it all Saturday September 17. Thanks to Lisa Radon and her fashion
ultra blog pdxultra.com for the 411 on this.
September 7
Emily Ryan and Liza Rietz will show their new fashions at Peter Bro's new Clinton Street nightspot, the Savoy Tavern and Bistro, 2500 Clinton on Wednesday, September 7, 8 PM. Rietz' show at Seaplane earlier this year showed a singular vision while Emily's work is romantically avant-garde.
September 8
Collections presents Kate Towers and Holly Stalder, powerhouses of the independent fashion scene in Portland who not only were among the forward-guard of those who locally employed reconstruction in their designs, they also provided THE platform and showcase for designers of
a similar aesthetic first at their Belmont boutique, Seaplane--now on 23rd--as well as through years of fashion shows--will show on the Wieden + Kennedy rooftop (224 NW 13th) on Thursday September 8. The show, entitled "Victorian Forest", begins at 7 PM. Free, but tickets in advance at the Seaplane store.
Semper Fashion presents Opening night. Shows on the hour till midnight. 8:00 PM Pala Fashion Lounge 105 NW 3rd Tickets $10.00, 300 general admission available at the door.
September 9
Collections presents one of Portland's finest, Adam Arnold, who will show in his lower Morrison Studio (727 SE Morrison) on Friday September 9 at 7 PM.
Semper Fashion presents Men's wear at Crush Bar tentatively 2 shows 20 minutes each, 9PM and 11:00PM. Followed by Purple Passion Party, dress in purple, RIBBONS AWARDED. FREE 250 SRO
September 10 Saturday
Fix Studios (E Burnside) present the new fall lines of the three resident designers 5-8 PM (just before the 8 PM fashion show at YES down the street). As an open studio event, it will be casual--no models, just the work. Interestingly, fix co-owner (and Jackie-O Motherfucker member) Genevieve Dellinger says that while browsing and trying on, you may be called to take part in an impromptu photo shoot. The designers catalogues will feature photos taken during the event.
Semper Fashion presents an Industry after party for the NW Regional apparel buyers association conference. 9:00 PM Pala Fashion Lounge Featuring an invitational fashion show from Saffrona, WeMa, Sizzle, Rocket, and the DoubleCross Belt Co. Very limited availability $10.00 tickets at the door.
Collections presents the machine-embroidered art garments of Bonnie Heart Clyde (by Emily Katz and Shaun Deller) and embroidered and appliqued work by TRex in a show at YES Clothing (628 E Burnside) at 8 PM.
September 11
The Collections wrap at clarklewis (1001 SE Water) with Elizabeth Dye's smart and elegant designs in fine fabrics and Jess Beebe's lovely dresses showing Sunday, September 11 at 8 PM.
Semper Fashion presents "I Want To Be Feared" Fierce Fashions, Full On! 8:30 PM Dante's Inferno 3 SW 3rd and Burnside. Tickets $5.00 at the door.
September 13
Semper Fashion presents "Its still summer and still hottt!" Swimwear and lingerie show" 8PM Pala Fashion Lounge Tickets $5.00 at the door.
September 14
Semper Fashion presents "Hot Ice" Winter Fashions 8:00 PM at Greek Cusina Minoan Room 404 SW Washington. Tickets $5.00 at the door. 150 person seating.
September 15 Thursday
Semper Fashion presents "Laid Back": Casuals and Urban Chic 8:00 PM Voodoo Lounge/OHM . Tickets $5.00 at the door, 250 available.
Semper Fashion presents Men's Wear Re Dux, just in case you missed something. 7:00 PM Crush Bar Tix: $5.00 at the door.
September 16 Friday
Semper Fashion presents Finale "Black and White" show, dress to impress. 9:00 PM at Pala Fashion Lounge-Shows on the hour until midnight. Jewelry and accessories.
September 17
PICA:TBA presents the Dada Ball, an anything goes costume party.
Saturday September 24
Curator-critic-artist Jeff Jahn opens his new group show "Fresh Trouble" Saturday September 24 at 4246 S.E. Belmont Street 5-9PM
Some are critical of the Blond Viking for "spoiling art in Portland" by suggesting that artists can support themselves as a career by sales of their art work, but I say yeah - go for it! This show offers a perfect example of pairing local artists who are making good work with out of town artists further in their career.
The artists include Cao Fei (2003 Venice Biennale, China - see below), Lee Walton (sculptor in residence Socrates sculpture park, and no stranger to big works, New York), Douglas Holst (installation INOVA & Art Chicago 2004, Milwaukee Wisconsin, in attendance), Hildur Bjarnadottir (Iceland, who bends traditional Icelanic craft into sublime minimalist works), Jack Daws (Seattle’s trouble maker), Scott Patt (Boston, recently of Portland, now director of design Converse, who combines urban graphics with weighty concepts), Patrick Rock (Portland, recent Headlands show), Matthew Picton (Oregon’s fastest rising star, LA, SF, London next - Mathew samples seemingly random patterns of the built and natural environments), Ellen George (Portland, fresh off her Dallas show, who constructs sweet shapes in polymer), Chandra Bocci (Portland, whose works of recycled materials put the serious in cute), Jacqueline Ehlis (smart painter grad student of McArthur grant recipinet Dave Hickey, Portland), Matt McCormick (Portland film maker, with a major show in Olso coming up), Laura Fritz (Portland, creator of trange instalations which touch vaguely on scinece, fresh off her critically lauded Seattle show), Sean Healy (Portland, with shows in Germany and Houston), Dan Fagereng (Portland, straight off his Art Center MFA), Bruce Conkle (Portland, ORLO arts/environment curator and Bigfoot afficianado, with shows in Iceland and Brazil in 2006), TJ Norris (Portland,sound artist, with a recent show in Montreal), Joe Thurston (Portland, painter of disturbing portraits), Katherine Bovee & Philippe Blanc (Portland, husband and wife duo and creators of smart installation work), Brendan Clenaghen (Portland), Paige Saez (Portland, see the HOMELAND listing), Mark Smith (Portland, see last month's gallery openins listing for E. Leach), Joe Macca (Portland), Marne Lucas (Portland erotic activist) and Horia Boboa (Portland)
See for example the resume of one of the artists in the show, who is taking life threatening political risks, at www.courtyard-gallery.com/artis...cv.htm .
regular hours saturday & sunday 12;00-5:00PM ... through Oct 9th
special hours September 30th 6:00-9:00 PM
September 25
Spare Room, Portland Art Center & Nestucca Spit Press present a publication party & reading for Salt: A Collection of Poetry on the Oregon Coast with short readings by poets featured in the anthology, music by John Berendzen & the Parametric Orchestra, food & drink.
Sunday 7:00 - 10:00 pm free Portland Art Center 2045 SE Belmont Street 503-239-5481
www.portlandart.org
September 29
HOMELAND opens Thursday September 29 with a show by Portland artists Zak Margolis, Charles Moss and Amy Steele.
"Zak Margolis has been making a reputation for himself in Portland for
quite some time, with haunting yet beautiful animation and stunning
music. His work has been featured in the PDX Experimental Film
Festival, PDX Film Exchange in Chicago and is founding member of the
much loved Pacific Switchboard Gallery. Charles Moss is a Portland
newbie, bringing us a series of process-based experimental paintings
from New Jersey. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Moss has shown work in upstate New York, Chicago and Miami
with Lifeboat. Moss presents us with an exciting series of mono-prints
and organic landscapes. Amy Steele, an Art Institute grad herself, and a
Pacific Switchboard staple is the missing link of the Familiar. While
teaching at Pacific Northwest College of Art, she has still managed to
exhibit around the US. Amy’s work explores issues of gender, desire, and
sexuality". Amy is planning graduate work at the California College of
the Arts where Larry Rinder is dean.
Artists Paul Mittendorff and Paige Saez are behind Homeland, a new space
for genre bending projects in the visual and performing arts.
Paige is known for her work in painting, installation and performance.
She is capable of out Boltoning James Bolton as evidenced by some large
scale abstracts auctioned at the Disjecta auction; installations,
including a Core Sample work of thrift store afghans, unknit to their
kinky constituent; and lately performance with Sam Gould of Red 76 and
Mr Mittendorff including a tatoo roadtrip roadfilm project.
Paul curated many excellent shows for Disjecta but now attracting
attention in collaboration with Mary Mattingly, PNCA grad, with his
art-world-politics performance installations. These include
constructing a liferaft carrying the works of Portland artists and
landing it Cuban refuge-style on the beach at Art Basel-Miami as well
as constructing a hot tub for gallerist and collector interviews at
SCOPE Hamptons. ( www.marymattingly.com/html/miamiweb.html )
The opening night includes particapatory happenings involving stuffed
animals and live music by Squish and the Tim DuRoche Trio with Doug
Theriaul and Jonathan Sielaffand.
HOMELAND doors open up at 7pm , with live music starting at 8pm. 926 SE
34th Avenue located at the intersection of 34th and Belmont in the old
scooter building.
September 30
The second Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, ( www.affair-jupiterhotel.com/ ) a Portland art weekend of in town and out of town galleries and educational panel talks opens with 2 parties. The first, a benefit for the Portland Art Museum's new contemporary wing (see Oct 1,2) is 6-9 and costs $100. From 10-1, the artists party, much more fun, features music Deep Throats and Barr, and DJ P Disco at $10. Pleease, hope this DJ is better than every PICA DJ's! There are a bunch of other talks - check the website. As for the art - this is a mini version of large art fairs all over the world that allow you to see a lot of work in one place and check the artist resumes for career directions.
Many of the SE galleries will also be open this evening including a group show at the New American Art Union, SE 9th and Ankeny, and ALL I WANT IS EVERYTHING, a group show themed on metal [music] at Small A Projects, Laurel Gitlin's new gallery in the old Savage space, 1430 SE 3rd under the Hawthorne Bridge.
September 30-October 1
NWEAMO, the Northwest Electro Acoustic Music Organization presents it's annual festival themed "Ancient Knowledge and The Future: Neolithic Roots in the 21st Century" Friday and Saturday at PSU. NWEAMO promotes exploration of the fusion of electronica and acoustic music modes. Their past festivals have also featured quality visual accompanianist-collaborators such as Pirate TV. www.nweamo.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi
Monday, August 01, 2005
Friday, July 01, 2005
July
Friday July 1
Newspace presents the portraits of LA photographer Josh Sanseri.
For me now, photography is too large a topic so I'm refraining
from aesthetic pronouncements on photography unless it is something that really impacts me. Newspace offers darkroom and studio space by the hour and in addition to mixing out of towners into their exhibitions is a great place to meet other photographers. More at newspacephoto.com
NAAU hosts a show by Joe Manca. This work, collage, mail art and
a performance video are examples of Joe's wildly varied works.
Holocene continues to return to its roots in the art world while
the hipsters have moved on. Aspiring installationists may consider
programming the seperate smoking room. This Friday they present the photos of NY artist Gavin Stevens documenting "Mr Bling Bling" a
chain of stores specializing in gold dentures.
(massappealmag.com/archives/000033.php) Opening 6-9.
If you happen to be there, Camas Washington is initiating a first
Friday, Alberta style art walk, free for artists and craftspersons
to set up on the street 4-8PM (after registering, it is Camas...
Info at 360-834-7175 or 360-833-2393 www.downtowncamas.com)
Wednesday July 6
Pacific Switchboard/Albina Press presents a group show "Dedicated To You, a show for ex-lovers" - A night art themed on rememberance, catharsis, and awkwardness dedicated to those with which we have been so intimate.
Besides the new gallery work, PS will present movies, love songs,
mix tapes, and random bodily performances. And for those of you
who are still burning from a recent or distantly past heart break,
we offer an anonymous confessional booth.
Let's all hang out! It's time we got on with our lives!
The show includes the distinctive work of Jen Kruch, Charles Salas-Humara,
Alicia McDaid, Mike Miller, Anna Simon, Cynthia Star, Paige Saez, Zak
Margolis, Matthew Yake, Ruby Fitch, Elina Tuhkanen, Amy Steel, Ashley
Shabo, Tara Jane Oneil, Matthew Hein, Jennifer Gleach, Thandi
Rosenbaum, Tracy Olson, Emily Henderson, Daphna Kohn and Jeff Brown,
Michelle Klein, Courtney Nyman, Gretchen Hogue, Molly Roth, Emily
Henderson, Gretchen Vaudt, Fred Nemo, and many more!
4637 N Albina opening 7-11
Starting July 1 the film "Me, You, and Everyone
We Know" by former Portland performance artist
Miranda July at Cinema 21 and the large theaters
afterwards. July focused on her art, did it well,
made some friends who promoted her career, on its
merits, the result is this film.
Wednesday July 6
Pacific Switchboard/Albina Press presents a group show "Dedicated To
You, a show for ex-lovers" - from their announcement: "A night art themed on rememberance,
catharsis, and awkwardness dedicated to those with which we have
been so intimate.
Besides the new gallery work, PS will present movies, love songs,
mix tapes, and random bodily performances. And for those of you
who are still burning from a recent or distantly past heart break,
we offer an anonymous confessional booth.
Let's all hang out! It's time we got on with our lives!"
The show includes the distinctive work of Jen Kruch,
Charles Salas-Humara, Alicia McDaid, Mike Miller,
Anna Simon, Cynthia Star, Paige Saez, Zak Margolis,
Matthew Yake, Ruby Fitch, Elina Tuhkanen, Amy Steel,
Ashley Shabo, Tara Jane Oneil, Matthew Hein, Jennifer
Gleach, Thandi Rosenbaum, Tracy Olson, Emily Henderson,
Daphna Kohn and Jeff Brown, Michelle Klein, Courtney
Nyman, Gretchen Hogue, Molly Roth, Emily Henderson,
Gretchen Vaudt, Fred Nemo, and many more!
4637 N Albina opening 7-11
July 7 - 1st Thursday
Pushdot Studio presents the photographic work
of Liz Obert. Obert's urban visual anthropology
of Portland buildings may be the last record
of a world lost to rapid development, the
PDCification of Portland. We do not seem
seem to be able to do the charming decay
of Europe, we just landfill it. Pushdot
operates a scanning and printing business
focused on color management.
830 NW14th
Blue Sky Gallery presents the photographs
of Nina Berman who has been making portraits
and conducting interviews with Americans
wounded in the Iraq War. “An image of a
wounded American soldier is one of the few
pieces of documentary evidence the American
public can see to begin a process of separating
propaganda—that war is quick and bloodless—
from truth.”
Also at Blue Sky are photographs from Cuba by
Jeffry Milstein: “Wandering alone with a hand
held camera and an open mind, I found beauty
and order in the chaos of the old streets.
I met many warm and generous Cubans who allowed
me to photograph them and invited me into
their homes and places of Work.”
1231 NW Hoyt
Mark Woolley presents the paintings of outsider
insider Walt Curtis. Curtis was the author of
Male Noche, inspiration for Gus Van Zant's first
film about homeless kids hustling for a life on
the street. He's a poet and Portland's closest
analog to Kerouac. The question for readers, is
this you then?
Upstairs 120 NW 9th
Blackfish Gallery presents a group show of
recent art school graduates.
420 NW 9th
Michael Brophy, longtime Portland painter, known for
his logging landscapes and more in oil, exhibits new
work in sumi ink at Lux Lighting
1333 NW Glisan
Print Arts Northwest presents a group show of prints.
The artists involved are Portland's who's who of
printmaking and for good reason. If you are interested
in printmaking, this show will be worth the stop.
416 NW 12th
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents the small wall sculptures
of David French. French is known for his simple but
refined forms with subtle painted surfaces. "With
this new body of work, I've imposed a new set of
rules on myself, a kind of discipline to create
a working process that focuses on the interplay
of color and the painted surface. In this body
of work, I attempt to inject a rich, vibrant
palette that harkens back to modernism as well
as to my work of the early nineties. I also
find myself revisiting a field of endeavor
that I associate with such artists as Kasimir
Malevich, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, as well
as more contemporary figures like Agnes Martin,
Sean Scully, and Richard Diebenkorn. Within
this structure, I give myself free reign to
spontaneity, intuition, and creativity. With
a sense of discovery and playfulness, I try
to create works that are beautiful, immediate,
and intriguing."This gallery closes early
at 8:30.
522 NW 12th
Everett Lofts
I do not often get advance notice of Everett Loft
but I always recommend a look. Here you will find
affordable original art and a great place to talk.
Except for Ogle, which closes early shows there
are winding down about 10, maybe a little
later.
Lyubov Samogonina and Dan Ackerman present
"Misunderstanding" a multimedia media show
at NUE. Both are great artists and creative
instigators. NUE is Portland's unofficial
Russian and E Europe embassy as well.
625 NW Everett
And...
Just Be Design/Compound hosts its latest Digmeout
group show of illustrative style work from Osaka.
The Digmeout model could and should be emulated
in Portland - but by whom?
Several of the artists will be visiting from
Japan for the opening.
corner NW 5th and Couch
Backspace presents a 2 year retrospective of art
for their anniversary. 200 Artists, 400+ Pieces
of Art. The show starts at 6:00pm and runs until
midnight. There should be something to please most,
or something, if not hanging out with the artists.
115 NW5th
Gallery 500 presents Divorce - by Daniel Kaven
- a film and multimedia exploration of the artist's
childhood family impressions. For the opening,
Brede Rorstad will conduct a string quartet
featuring the scoring music for Kaven's film.
Till midnight 420 SW Washington
July 8 alternate reality first friday
Portland Art Center presents Psychogeographical
Maps by Jason Frank & Andy Brownwhich which explores
the transient ambiance of certain physical locations.
All geographical locations can generate profound
memories and feelings. The locations used for this
project vary from the brackish currents of 82nd
Avenue to the lush green calmness of Forest Park.
Video art aesthetics in Portland need work, no idea
on this in advance.
7-10ish
2045 SE Belmont
July 14
Eva Lake and Wid Chambers open the Chambers Gallery
So they would be looking for artists.
207 NW Pine
July 21
Full moon reading from (by) The Land of Ch'i - Walt
Curtis' new book at the Mark Woolley Gallery.
It is a full moon...
7:30PM
July 27
Portland artist damali ayo reads from her book
"how to rent a negro" 7:30 Powell's with an
afterparty at the Mark Woolley Gallery. "Bring
your camera and take a photo with the author
as your new black friend" More info at
rent-a-negro.com and damaliayo.com. damali
is a Portland artist that operates on a national
scale, essential.
July 28
Katherine Bovee and Philippe Blanc present
"legacy:boxed version" at the Northview Gallery at
PCC Sylvania. Info 503-977-8017 Hours: M-F 8AM-4PM
on view 7-18 to 9-16 with a reception and talk by
the artists July 28 at 2PM
Newspace presents the portraits of LA photographer Josh Sanseri.
For me now, photography is too large a topic so I'm refraining
from aesthetic pronouncements on photography unless it is something that really impacts me. Newspace offers darkroom and studio space by the hour and in addition to mixing out of towners into their exhibitions is a great place to meet other photographers. More at newspacephoto.com
NAAU hosts a show by Joe Manca. This work, collage, mail art and
a performance video are examples of Joe's wildly varied works.
Holocene continues to return to its roots in the art world while
the hipsters have moved on. Aspiring installationists may consider
programming the seperate smoking room. This Friday they present the photos of NY artist Gavin Stevens documenting "Mr Bling Bling" a
chain of stores specializing in gold dentures.
(massappealmag.com/archives/000033.php) Opening 6-9.
If you happen to be there, Camas Washington is initiating a first
Friday, Alberta style art walk, free for artists and craftspersons
to set up on the street 4-8PM (after registering, it is Camas...
Info at 360-834-7175 or 360-833-2393 www.downtowncamas.com)
Wednesday July 6
Pacific Switchboard/Albina Press presents a group show "Dedicated To You, a show for ex-lovers" - A night art themed on rememberance, catharsis, and awkwardness dedicated to those with which we have been so intimate.
Besides the new gallery work, PS will present movies, love songs,
mix tapes, and random bodily performances. And for those of you
who are still burning from a recent or distantly past heart break,
we offer an anonymous confessional booth.
Let's all hang out! It's time we got on with our lives!
The show includes the distinctive work of Jen Kruch, Charles Salas-Humara,
Alicia McDaid, Mike Miller, Anna Simon, Cynthia Star, Paige Saez, Zak
Margolis, Matthew Yake, Ruby Fitch, Elina Tuhkanen, Amy Steel, Ashley
Shabo, Tara Jane Oneil, Matthew Hein, Jennifer Gleach, Thandi
Rosenbaum, Tracy Olson, Emily Henderson, Daphna Kohn and Jeff Brown,
Michelle Klein, Courtney Nyman, Gretchen Hogue, Molly Roth, Emily
Henderson, Gretchen Vaudt, Fred Nemo, and many more!
4637 N Albina opening 7-11
Starting July 1 the film "Me, You, and Everyone
We Know" by former Portland performance artist
Miranda July at Cinema 21 and the large theaters
afterwards. July focused on her art, did it well,
made some friends who promoted her career, on its
merits, the result is this film.
Wednesday July 6
Pacific Switchboard/Albina Press presents a group show "Dedicated To
You, a show for ex-lovers" - from their announcement: "A night art themed on rememberance,
catharsis, and awkwardness dedicated to those with which we have
been so intimate.
Besides the new gallery work, PS will present movies, love songs,
mix tapes, and random bodily performances. And for those of you
who are still burning from a recent or distantly past heart break,
we offer an anonymous confessional booth.
Let's all hang out! It's time we got on with our lives!"
The show includes the distinctive work of Jen Kruch,
Charles Salas-Humara, Alicia McDaid, Mike Miller,
Anna Simon, Cynthia Star, Paige Saez, Zak Margolis,
Matthew Yake, Ruby Fitch, Elina Tuhkanen, Amy Steel,
Ashley Shabo, Tara Jane Oneil, Matthew Hein, Jennifer
Gleach, Thandi Rosenbaum, Tracy Olson, Emily Henderson,
Daphna Kohn and Jeff Brown, Michelle Klein, Courtney
Nyman, Gretchen Hogue, Molly Roth, Emily Henderson,
Gretchen Vaudt, Fred Nemo, and many more!
4637 N Albina opening 7-11
July 7 - 1st Thursday
Pushdot Studio presents the photographic work
of Liz Obert. Obert's urban visual anthropology
of Portland buildings may be the last record
of a world lost to rapid development, the
PDCification of Portland. We do not seem
seem to be able to do the charming decay
of Europe, we just landfill it. Pushdot
operates a scanning and printing business
focused on color management.
830 NW14th
Blue Sky Gallery presents the photographs
of Nina Berman who has been making portraits
and conducting interviews with Americans
wounded in the Iraq War. “An image of a
wounded American soldier is one of the few
pieces of documentary evidence the American
public can see to begin a process of separating
propaganda—that war is quick and bloodless—
from truth.”
Also at Blue Sky are photographs from Cuba by
Jeffry Milstein: “Wandering alone with a hand
held camera and an open mind, I found beauty
and order in the chaos of the old streets.
I met many warm and generous Cubans who allowed
me to photograph them and invited me into
their homes and places of Work.”
1231 NW Hoyt
Mark Woolley presents the paintings of outsider
insider Walt Curtis. Curtis was the author of
Male Noche, inspiration for Gus Van Zant's first
film about homeless kids hustling for a life on
the street. He's a poet and Portland's closest
analog to Kerouac. The question for readers, is
this you then?
Upstairs 120 NW 9th
Blackfish Gallery presents a group show of
recent art school graduates.
420 NW 9th
Michael Brophy, longtime Portland painter, known for
his logging landscapes and more in oil, exhibits new
work in sumi ink at Lux Lighting
1333 NW Glisan
Print Arts Northwest presents a group show of prints.
The artists involved are Portland's who's who of
printmaking and for good reason. If you are interested
in printmaking, this show will be worth the stop.
416 NW 12th
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents the small wall sculptures
of David French. French is known for his simple but
refined forms with subtle painted surfaces. "With
this new body of work, I've imposed a new set of
rules on myself, a kind of discipline to create
a working process that focuses on the interplay
of color and the painted surface. In this body
of work, I attempt to inject a rich, vibrant
palette that harkens back to modernism as well
as to my work of the early nineties. I also
find myself revisiting a field of endeavor
that I associate with such artists as Kasimir
Malevich, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, as well
as more contemporary figures like Agnes Martin,
Sean Scully, and Richard Diebenkorn. Within
this structure, I give myself free reign to
spontaneity, intuition, and creativity. With
a sense of discovery and playfulness, I try
to create works that are beautiful, immediate,
and intriguing."This gallery closes early
at 8:30.
522 NW 12th
Everett Lofts
I do not often get advance notice of Everett Loft
but I always recommend a look. Here you will find
affordable original art and a great place to talk.
Except for Ogle, which closes early shows there
are winding down about 10, maybe a little
later.
Lyubov Samogonina and Dan Ackerman present
"Misunderstanding" a multimedia media show
at NUE. Both are great artists and creative
instigators. NUE is Portland's unofficial
Russian and E Europe embassy as well.
625 NW Everett
And...
Just Be Design/Compound hosts its latest Digmeout
group show of illustrative style work from Osaka.
The Digmeout model could and should be emulated
in Portland - but by whom?
Several of the artists will be visiting from
Japan for the opening.
corner NW 5th and Couch
Backspace presents a 2 year retrospective of art
for their anniversary. 200 Artists, 400+ Pieces
of Art. The show starts at 6:00pm and runs until
midnight. There should be something to please most,
or something, if not hanging out with the artists.
115 NW5th
Gallery 500 presents Divorce - by Daniel Kaven
- a film and multimedia exploration of the artist's
childhood family impressions. For the opening,
Brede Rorstad will conduct a string quartet
featuring the scoring music for Kaven's film.
Till midnight 420 SW Washington
July 8 alternate reality first friday
Portland Art Center presents Psychogeographical
Maps by Jason Frank & Andy Brownwhich which explores
the transient ambiance of certain physical locations.
All geographical locations can generate profound
memories and feelings. The locations used for this
project vary from the brackish currents of 82nd
Avenue to the lush green calmness of Forest Park.
Video art aesthetics in Portland need work, no idea
on this in advance.
7-10ish
2045 SE Belmont
July 14
Eva Lake and Wid Chambers open the Chambers Gallery
So they would be looking for artists.
207 NW Pine
July 21
Full moon reading from (by) The Land of Ch'i - Walt
Curtis' new book at the Mark Woolley Gallery.
It is a full moon...
7:30PM
July 27
Portland artist damali ayo reads from her book
"how to rent a negro" 7:30 Powell's with an
afterparty at the Mark Woolley Gallery. "Bring
your camera and take a photo with the author
as your new black friend" More info at
rent-a-negro.com and damaliayo.com. damali
is a Portland artist that operates on a national
scale, essential.
July 28
Katherine Bovee and Philippe Blanc present
"legacy:boxed version" at the Northview Gallery at
PCC Sylvania. Info 503-977-8017 Hours: M-F 8AM-4PM
on view 7-18 to 9-16 with a reception and talk by
the artists July 28 at 2PM
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Junely
When students attack!
We now find what mayflowers bring: thesis shows!
Anna Fidler, known for her meticulous paper cutout fantasies, animated at www.mumbleboy.com/anna/gardenscape.html and her Stereobab-ish musical unit the Sensualists, shows her thesis work. The shift to more white space and saturated watercolor washes will open her work to more serious audiences while still preserving her work's dual arrows of beauty and sensuality straight to the heart. Not sure about the high contrast dots though..... A performance installation video documents her sculptural work outdoors. PSU Littman Gallery, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 250 Monday - Friday, 12-4pm, Thursday 12-7pm
PNCA's BFA graduates pack a warren-like exhibition space with a wide variety of work at 1432 NW Johnson.
PNCA BFA Shawna Fererra, unable to be fenced in by the small spaces of the thesis studios, mounted a 1000+sf installation incorporating painting, drawing, sculpture, soundscape and video, themed on how we deal with the inevitable passing between life and death in our society. The project was ambitious, keep an eye on this artist's sensibility with video which can be seen in the abovementioned BFA exhibition space. Another artist's video involving aircraft in the back left corner downstairs is also excellent.
The UofO intermedia BFA show "Trans:express global culture" www.expressculture.com opens at 6 PM first Thursday with a party at 9. Why a state funded intermedia art department is in Eugene, rather than Portland, I've no idea. Anyway see what they are up to at 1875 SE Belmont
Galleries not open first Thursday or with unknown hours
A group show at PDX includes Malea Jensen's soap purse and new work by Brad Adkins made of common materials including water bottles, currency and tape - it works. James Lavador, a Native American artist gestures abstract landscapes of paint with plenty of emotion and perhaps a touch of his native sensibility just under their skin.
Plazm puts a distributed creative network to work, using "mass communication and problem-solving skills for the forces of good. And to inspire and assist others in creating more selfless, random acts of kindness". Hear, hear! Project Hello www.projecthello.org brings the abstraction of "the homeless" to ground zero now with individual portraits. See at 1640 NW Johnson not sure of the hours on this.
First Thursday events
Mary Mattingly's installation and strange/good artist's book is still on exhibit at the PNCA Feldman gallery. Contrast Mattingly's work with this month's show at Gallery 500.
The Everett Station lofts are often filled with great surprises of a good kind, go for yourself and see! Corner NW Everett and Broadway
Just be - Compound presents the drawings of Kenichi Hoshine. Sometimes Richter-like, but processed through that unique Japanese lens of constrained elegance and emotion, Hoshine's drawings are a inspiration for illustrators looking for a new direction. www.justbedesign.com/JBD03/main.html
Backspace Coffee www.backspace.bz presents "Line Forms" Arnold Pander's drawings and live painting with a DJ beginning at 8PM. Pander a well known graphic novel illustrator, prolific artist and independent filmmaker: www.pandermedia.com/bio.html 115 NW 5th
Gallery 500 presents Habitat: Human Life and Shelter as Installation. Organized by Portland artist Katrina Scotto Di Carlo it includes Di Carlo and 5 other UC Berkeley art grads who have been living for a week in the space and making installations with only materials brought with them from the Bay Area. Mayhem ensues. 420 SW Washington
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents the paintings of Ken Kelly www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/, compare these though to Ryan McGinness who has the cover of the current Giant Robot 36. 522 NW 12th Avenue
Froelich Gallery presents "First Person" a juried exhibition of self portraits". www.froelickgallery.com/ Marne Lucas' cover shot is easily one of the most successful pieces in the show. Whether Van Gogh's famous self portrait is representative of the genre can be debated, or whether you need to know the artist to feel the work, I don't know - but see for yourself. 817 SW 2nd
At Augen, the miniature paintings of Ajay Garg appear prosaic, but perhaps less so,when you learn they have been painted by a deaf Rajistani savant who often paints with a single haired brush. 817 SW 2nd
Friday
Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.com presents a group show curated by Terry Toedtemeier, Mariana Tres and Chris Bennett, brilliant points on a compass with three directions. See the newspace website for group crit gettogethers.
NAAU presents paintings by its cofounder Rose McCormick
The Hall Gallery presents a group show "Thrill of it All" Candice Lin, Ryan Boyle, Tim Sullivan, Claudia Mendoza, Jeff Kriksciun, Maggie Foster and Zachary Reno. Pot luck here as I haven't seen the show. 630 Se 3rd
Savage presents the new work of painter Jacqueline Ehlis who is experimenting with alternate painting processes including photographic and sculptural.
June 7,10,15,16,17 and points between
Like a Japanese monster that can never be killed, despite the best efforts of the OLCC, the church downstairs, developers, kung fu boomerangs and jazz, Disjecta embarks on its next quest for world domination. The organization has optioned a whole building to be developed as an art center right at ground zero across the street from the Burnside Bridgehead Project and Portland's guerilla skatepark: 230 E Burnside. For 2 weeks they throw open the doors to the raw space with art shows, music, performance and beer fuel. The event will surely be fun and raise money for the space as art center rather than shopping mall adjunct. Also it's a great opportunity to meet with other artists. Spend a little money if you can and say later "my art center" - if they don't earn the bucks, they loose their contract and no art center! Details at www.disjecta.org
Sat. June 4 Opening art show compiled by some kick ass curators FREE 6-10,
Tue June 7 K and Kill Rock Stars flavored rock plus some sort of dark diva band $6 8PM
Fri June 10 Hot performance jumprope girls, Double Dutchess vs hot perfromance jumprope girls, On the Double jump rope toe to toe with a DJ soundtrack. Act 2: a performance by Aviator - hot aerial dance troupe - a must see if you have ever wanted to fly.You would pay twice this to see them elsewhere, but Disjecta keeps it affordable. Get there on time $8 9PM
Fri June 17 Music meets art meets film with some giant locals (really giant) $5 9PM
Sat June 18 Art auction hosted by Power EBay Seller Andrew Dickinson and some of Portlands power indy artists, with music. A good opportunity to see some of the best of Portland art. FREE (it's OK to buy something if you can) 7-10PM
What is PICA? Ten years ago they were the Portland contemporary art rabblerousers dising museums and government art money with strings attached to the religious right. They specialized in bringing out of town artists, visual and performing, who were early in their careers and tearing up the art world. The dot com bust caused them to chop their visual arts programs and focus all their efforts on a 10 day performance festival called TBA in September. They are putting on a show of work by visual artists they have worked with in the past - valuable to see what work has been made by many now mid career artists.
June 10 - July 16 Open Wed - Sat, 12-6 pm FREE to PICA Members, $2 General NW 13th & Flanders
Lecture by Erika Blumenfeld, artist-in-residence at the Ballroom in Marfa, Texas. Blumenfeld was granted the rare opportunity to work in an astronomer's house at the McDonald Observatory's main peak. During her two-month stay, Blumenfeld created the video work Moving Light: Lunation 1011.Her piece explores the waxing and waning moonlight of a single 30-day lunation period using minimalist photosensitive materials Thursday, June 16, 7 pm NW 13th & Flanders FREE to PICA Members / $5 General Admission
Using Web technologies as their catalyst, the Portland nonprofit Born has been bringing together artists and writers to create experimental storytelling projects for almost a decade. Join editor Anmarie Trimble and art director Gabe Kean as they trace the evolution of Born's ideas. Bornmag.org will eat your computer but it sure is pretty, hmm...
June 15, 2005 - 6:00 to 8:00 pm $10 pre-registration / $15 at the door Details 2005.webvisionsevent.com/prese...ideas/
Portland State University, School of Business Auditorium, 631 SW Harrison, Room 190
Not art, but sustainability, June 8 brings a lecture by the city mayor of a model sustainable city in Brazil. $15 Details at illahee.org. It would probably be possible to view the videotape of the talk for free after the fact.
We now find what mayflowers bring: thesis shows!
Anna Fidler, known for her meticulous paper cutout fantasies, animated at www.mumbleboy.com/anna/gardenscape.html and her Stereobab-ish musical unit the Sensualists, shows her thesis work. The shift to more white space and saturated watercolor washes will open her work to more serious audiences while still preserving her work's dual arrows of beauty and sensuality straight to the heart. Not sure about the high contrast dots though..... A performance installation video documents her sculptural work outdoors. PSU Littman Gallery, Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 250 Monday - Friday, 12-4pm, Thursday 12-7pm
PNCA's BFA graduates pack a warren-like exhibition space with a wide variety of work at 1432 NW Johnson.
PNCA BFA Shawna Fererra, unable to be fenced in by the small spaces of the thesis studios, mounted a 1000+sf installation incorporating painting, drawing, sculpture, soundscape and video, themed on how we deal with the inevitable passing between life and death in our society. The project was ambitious, keep an eye on this artist's sensibility with video which can be seen in the abovementioned BFA exhibition space. Another artist's video involving aircraft in the back left corner downstairs is also excellent.
The UofO intermedia BFA show "Trans:express global culture" www.expressculture.com opens at 6 PM first Thursday with a party at 9. Why a state funded intermedia art department is in Eugene, rather than Portland, I've no idea. Anyway see what they are up to at 1875 SE Belmont
Galleries not open first Thursday or with unknown hours
A group show at PDX includes Malea Jensen's soap purse and new work by Brad Adkins made of common materials including water bottles, currency and tape - it works. James Lavador, a Native American artist gestures abstract landscapes of paint with plenty of emotion and perhaps a touch of his native sensibility just under their skin.
Plazm puts a distributed creative network to work, using "mass communication and problem-solving skills for the forces of good. And to inspire and assist others in creating more selfless, random acts of kindness". Hear, hear! Project Hello www.projecthello.org brings the abstraction of "the homeless" to ground zero now with individual portraits. See at 1640 NW Johnson not sure of the hours on this.
First Thursday events
Mary Mattingly's installation and strange/good artist's book is still on exhibit at the PNCA Feldman gallery. Contrast Mattingly's work with this month's show at Gallery 500.
The Everett Station lofts are often filled with great surprises of a good kind, go for yourself and see! Corner NW Everett and Broadway
Just be - Compound presents the drawings of Kenichi Hoshine. Sometimes Richter-like, but processed through that unique Japanese lens of constrained elegance and emotion, Hoshine's drawings are a inspiration for illustrators looking for a new direction. www.justbedesign.com/JBD03/main.html
Backspace Coffee www.backspace.bz presents "Line Forms" Arnold Pander's drawings and live painting with a DJ beginning at 8PM. Pander a well known graphic novel illustrator, prolific artist and independent filmmaker: www.pandermedia.com/bio.html 115 NW 5th
Gallery 500 presents Habitat: Human Life and Shelter as Installation. Organized by Portland artist Katrina Scotto Di Carlo it includes Di Carlo and 5 other UC Berkeley art grads who have been living for a week in the space and making installations with only materials brought with them from the Bay Area. Mayhem ensues. 420 SW Washington
Pulliam Deffenbaugh presents the paintings of Ken Kelly www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/, compare these though to Ryan McGinness who has the cover of the current Giant Robot 36. 522 NW 12th Avenue
Froelich Gallery presents "First Person" a juried exhibition of self portraits". www.froelickgallery.com/ Marne Lucas' cover shot is easily one of the most successful pieces in the show. Whether Van Gogh's famous self portrait is representative of the genre can be debated, or whether you need to know the artist to feel the work, I don't know - but see for yourself. 817 SW 2nd
At Augen, the miniature paintings of Ajay Garg appear prosaic, but perhaps less so,when you learn they have been painted by a deaf Rajistani savant who often paints with a single haired brush. 817 SW 2nd
Friday
Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.com presents a group show curated by Terry Toedtemeier, Mariana Tres and Chris Bennett, brilliant points on a compass with three directions. See the newspace website for group crit gettogethers.
NAAU presents paintings by its cofounder Rose McCormick
The Hall Gallery presents a group show "Thrill of it All" Candice Lin, Ryan Boyle, Tim Sullivan, Claudia Mendoza, Jeff Kriksciun, Maggie Foster and Zachary Reno. Pot luck here as I haven't seen the show. 630 Se 3rd
Savage presents the new work of painter Jacqueline Ehlis who is experimenting with alternate painting processes including photographic and sculptural.
June 7,10,15,16,17 and points between
Like a Japanese monster that can never be killed, despite the best efforts of the OLCC, the church downstairs, developers, kung fu boomerangs and jazz, Disjecta embarks on its next quest for world domination. The organization has optioned a whole building to be developed as an art center right at ground zero across the street from the Burnside Bridgehead Project and Portland's guerilla skatepark: 230 E Burnside. For 2 weeks they throw open the doors to the raw space with art shows, music, performance and beer fuel. The event will surely be fun and raise money for the space as art center rather than shopping mall adjunct. Also it's a great opportunity to meet with other artists. Spend a little money if you can and say later "my art center" - if they don't earn the bucks, they loose their contract and no art center! Details at www.disjecta.org
Sat. June 4 Opening art show compiled by some kick ass curators FREE 6-10,
Tue June 7 K and Kill Rock Stars flavored rock plus some sort of dark diva band $6 8PM
Fri June 10 Hot performance jumprope girls, Double Dutchess vs hot perfromance jumprope girls, On the Double jump rope toe to toe with a DJ soundtrack. Act 2: a performance by Aviator - hot aerial dance troupe - a must see if you have ever wanted to fly.You would pay twice this to see them elsewhere, but Disjecta keeps it affordable. Get there on time $8 9PM
Fri June 17 Music meets art meets film with some giant locals (really giant) $5 9PM
Sat June 18 Art auction hosted by Power EBay Seller Andrew Dickinson and some of Portlands power indy artists, with music. A good opportunity to see some of the best of Portland art. FREE (it's OK to buy something if you can) 7-10PM
What is PICA? Ten years ago they were the Portland contemporary art rabblerousers dising museums and government art money with strings attached to the religious right. They specialized in bringing out of town artists, visual and performing, who were early in their careers and tearing up the art world. The dot com bust caused them to chop their visual arts programs and focus all their efforts on a 10 day performance festival called TBA in September. They are putting on a show of work by visual artists they have worked with in the past - valuable to see what work has been made by many now mid career artists.
June 10 - July 16 Open Wed - Sat, 12-6 pm FREE to PICA Members, $2 General NW 13th & Flanders
Lecture by Erika Blumenfeld, artist-in-residence at the Ballroom in Marfa, Texas. Blumenfeld was granted the rare opportunity to work in an astronomer's house at the McDonald Observatory's main peak. During her two-month stay, Blumenfeld created the video work Moving Light: Lunation 1011.Her piece explores the waxing and waning moonlight of a single 30-day lunation period using minimalist photosensitive materials Thursday, June 16, 7 pm NW 13th & Flanders FREE to PICA Members / $5 General Admission
Using Web technologies as their catalyst, the Portland nonprofit Born has been bringing together artists and writers to create experimental storytelling projects for almost a decade. Join editor Anmarie Trimble and art director Gabe Kean as they trace the evolution of Born's ideas. Bornmag.org will eat your computer but it sure is pretty, hmm...
June 15, 2005 - 6:00 to 8:00 pm $10 pre-registration / $15 at the door Details 2005.webvisionsevent.com/prese...ideas/
Portland State University, School of Business Auditorium, 631 SW Harrison, Room 190
Not art, but sustainability, June 8 brings a lecture by the city mayor of a model sustainable city in Brazil. $15 Details at illahee.org. It would probably be possible to view the videotape of the talk for free after the fact.
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Mayish
May[be]456 [th]
May - sorry this is so long, but just when it looks like nothing is going on, sweet surprises manifest themselves!
Wednesday May 4
Pre openings at the usual suspects, which still have free wine, how anachronistic. It is OK to tip the bartender!
Lecture at PICA on the work of Willem de Kooning by the authors of a new biography. An interview with the authors is available at www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php de Kooning was a leading abstract expressionist who did not self destruct at an early age. 7PM Weiden and Kennedy SW 13th St and Everett. $10
Opening by the Pacific Switchboard at Albina Press: Jennifer Gleach, Courtney Nyman, and Hayley Barker 4637 N Albina at Blandena 8-10PM
Thursday May 5
Excellent people watching and art talk, talk, talk at the Mark Woolley Gallery and later Gallery 500
At Holocene, a Hush Records soundcase, the sound of Hush is so onomatopoeia, with soft sweet singer songwriters, their eyes on their shoes and their hearts on their sleeves.
At Augen, a chance to see an Albers print. Josef Albers was a founder of the Bauhaus then later fled the Nazis, coming to the US to teach, launching the careers of many artists of the 50's and 60's. He is the author of a classic text on the interaction of color, illustrated by the prints.
Simon Norfolk shows large photographic landscape prints, with varying scale, from intimate to medium - beautiful, until you find they hide graves of the Bosnian civil war from the text accompanying each. Blue Sky Gallery
Everett Lofts are always a surprise, often pleasant, Check the Pause gallery for an installation involving sod and porn and a brilliant installation composed entirely of random lists at the Residence gallery, both by Harvest Henderson. Hope to see more from this artist. David Candler, also a force in the local DJ and electronica community, has constructed large collages of candy wrappers and small obsessive collections of related printed objects at Starling. Shows may be seen by appointment throughout the month - phone the gallery or see if they answer if you knock on the door!
Mary Mattingly, PNCA graduate, now in NY presents her photographs, videos and installations. 'While in residence at Duende in Rotterdam, Mattingly delved into art prophesy as a comment on contemporary society. Developing a new rationale for mobility and convenience, she introduced the world to wearable homes as an abstract concept and a modern reality. "In my work, as a result of a build-up of homogenization among products, architecture, leisure activities, and even thought, there is a return to primal man," says Mattingly. "I begin the process by creating wearable-houses; sculptures that are portrayed as being a necessity in the future, as our environment crumbles around us. People will have the ability to be completely nomadic."' Mary Mattingly is also infamous with Paul Mittendorf for their art hijack performance at Art Basel Miami. Amidst a high end international art show, Paul and Mary constructed a pirate liferaft filled with artists' works, many from Portland, and landed on Miami Beach. High end galleries, collectors and artists, assuming their project was part of the show pitched in to help! A NY dealer has decided to finance a repeat performance in New York City and Venice, Italy of Liferaft. Opening 6-9 PNCA Feldman Gallery NW 13th and Johnson
Just Be Toys/Design shows a new crop of young Japanese manga-anime illustrators, many of them women.
Send your Seattle friends to see Portland artist Laura Fritz's vaguely disturbing laboratory experiments (www.laurafritz.net) at the Soil Gallery all month. Opens Thursday May 5
Friday May 6
SE art gallery openings. The _Hall Gallery presents a group show "The Personality Test" 7-10:30, Newspace Photo opens Liz Haley, Eric McCormack and Video Installation by Patrick Halm and the New American Art Union shows the collage - paintings of Lisa Dejohn. Other spaces may be open as well, look for fliers at any of the aforementioned spaces. Locations at www.seportlandartwalk.com/ there is a rumor of some sort of art bus touring some of the spots.
PICA lecture and booksigning by Justine Kurland and Jon Raymond. Kurland's career was launched by the show "Another Girl, Another Planet" curated in 1999 by Yale's Gregory Crewdson. It was roundly criticized as representing an unholy admixture of art, fashion and pornography by the New York arts establishment and dubbed "panty photography", but that did not stop Kurland from producing more landscapes with unclothed women. Her latest work combines landscape and figure, shot in a post fire forest. The work illustrates a short story set in Oregon environs by arts writer Jon Raymond, cofounder of Plazm Magazine. Kurland's work has evolved from illustrating a fictional Tom Sawyer runaway adventure, with all girl protagonists and set in our time. Later she photographed unclothed women in the landscape living fictional utopian lives together. Her latest work documents real life intentional communities, modern tribes and Renaisance fairs in the Victorian style of early photographers such as Julia Margret Cameron. 7PM Weiden and Kennedy SW 13th St and Everett. $10
Book reading and signing by Richard Speer, Willamette Week arts critic, and gonzo arts journalist, of his new bibliography of the painter Matt Lamb. Lamb rose from the mean streets of South Chicago to great success in business until a near death experience caused him to liquidate all of his holdings and pursue outsider art-style painting. Powell's Downtown 7:30PM FREE, Reception after and viewing of some of Lamb's work at the Mark Wooley gallery
Talk by Mary Mattingly "The New Breed" - ' How will people make due in nomadic conditions? Mattingly will chart how a neoliberal ideology is bringing us closer to this future-present reality and how we can combat this through creative types of resistance. Followed by, in conjunction with Red76, participatory Little City building - magic markers, knives and cardboard, and free beer, have at it! Talk 5, building after - PNCA Stevens Studios 1432 NW Johnson FREE
(More on Little Cities: With more questions than answers we set out on our project, Little Cities. Designed as a series of parties Little Cities is a project set in place to try to investigate these complicated questions through simplistic, childlike actions. While at the same time, a process designed to create new homes, new communities, and new ways and situations for people to think about what a home is.
Little Cities Build Your Own House parties are pretty simple. Guests are greeted by a room filled with cardboard and various supplies, markers, paint, glue, etc, etc...And, for the rest of the night we make houses out of cardboard, listen to music, have some drinks. That's that. The following morning we ask that party guests return to the site of the previous night's party. We'll have some coffee, sit around and talk. Try to figure out a place that we all agree on that is a special place, a place that we, collectively, would like to homestead. Taking our homes in hand we venture out onto the streets taking the trek towards our new homeland. Placing our homes in this newly homesteaded area we are all the new stewards of this land. There to look over it, see that everything is okay, watch out for it.
As time goes on, and more and more people get together for these parties, an invisible community of Little Cities will start to grow across the country, linked by the people and ideas that came to the parties, sat down, cut up some card board, listened to some music and maybe drank a beer with someone they hadn't met before. Invisible communities of Little Cities comprised of people who spotted an outcropping of discarded cardboard, junk and trash strewn across the grass or pavement, who realized upon a closer look that it wasn't trash at all.
Mattingly would make a great collaborator for City Repair Project activities)
And sight unseen, an A+ for spirit, no doubt: at Reed Vitamin A, a student art organization dedicated to promoting art and creative boondoggle among the Reed College community, presents "Danger and Safety". Work in the exhibition explores the delicate and sometimes disturbing relationship between vulnerability and security that permeates our lives both locally, nationally, and beyond.9 a.m. - 9 p.m., weekdays, Hauser Memorial Library. This event is free and open to the public. For gallery information call 503/777-7790.
May 14 Events
Holding Hands - an benefit art sale for Andrea U'Ren - will be Saturday May 14 6-9PM at 207 SW Pine in downtown Portland. Andrea's yet undiagnosed medical problems have resulted in large medical bills without insurance coverage. Join an outstanding group of local artists in supporting Andrea's health care needs in a silent auction of their work. Have a drink, hug a friend, sing a song, snuggle up to a special craft table where you can create a beautiful momento for your lapel. All of the proceeds go directly to Andrea's medical fund.
Artists include Brad Adkins, Paul Arnsmeyer, Chandra Bocci, James Boulton, Inge Bruggeman, Clearcut Press, Bruce Conkle, Nan Curtis, David Eckard, Harrell Fletcher, Emily Ginsburg, Sam Gould, MK Guth, Sean Healy, Stuart Horodner, Kristan Kennedy, Horatio Law, Chris Moss, Melody Owen, Chris Rauchenberg, John Ryzcek, Wilder Schmaltz, Mungo Thomson, Joe Thurston, Andrea U'ren, Heather Watkins.
Later at the CenterRing, from 8PM until dawn, join many beautiful Portland DJ's musicians and healing sound artists in Legacy, a benefit for Phenix's mother's medical bills. Info Line 503-282-2616.
May - sorry this is so long, but just when it looks like nothing is going on, sweet surprises manifest themselves!
Wednesday May 4
Pre openings at the usual suspects, which still have free wine, how anachronistic. It is OK to tip the bartender!
Lecture at PICA on the work of Willem de Kooning by the authors of a new biography. An interview with the authors is available at www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php de Kooning was a leading abstract expressionist who did not self destruct at an early age. 7PM Weiden and Kennedy SW 13th St and Everett. $10
Opening by the Pacific Switchboard at Albina Press: Jennifer Gleach, Courtney Nyman, and Hayley Barker 4637 N Albina at Blandena 8-10PM
Thursday May 5
Excellent people watching and art talk, talk, talk at the Mark Woolley Gallery and later Gallery 500
At Holocene, a Hush Records soundcase, the sound of Hush is so onomatopoeia, with soft sweet singer songwriters, their eyes on their shoes and their hearts on their sleeves.
At Augen, a chance to see an Albers print. Josef Albers was a founder of the Bauhaus then later fled the Nazis, coming to the US to teach, launching the careers of many artists of the 50's and 60's. He is the author of a classic text on the interaction of color, illustrated by the prints.
Simon Norfolk shows large photographic landscape prints, with varying scale, from intimate to medium - beautiful, until you find they hide graves of the Bosnian civil war from the text accompanying each. Blue Sky Gallery
Everett Lofts are always a surprise, often pleasant, Check the Pause gallery for an installation involving sod and porn and a brilliant installation composed entirely of random lists at the Residence gallery, both by Harvest Henderson. Hope to see more from this artist. David Candler, also a force in the local DJ and electronica community, has constructed large collages of candy wrappers and small obsessive collections of related printed objects at Starling. Shows may be seen by appointment throughout the month - phone the gallery or see if they answer if you knock on the door!
Mary Mattingly, PNCA graduate, now in NY presents her photographs, videos and installations. 'While in residence at Duende in Rotterdam, Mattingly delved into art prophesy as a comment on contemporary society. Developing a new rationale for mobility and convenience, she introduced the world to wearable homes as an abstract concept and a modern reality. "In my work, as a result of a build-up of homogenization among products, architecture, leisure activities, and even thought, there is a return to primal man," says Mattingly. "I begin the process by creating wearable-houses; sculptures that are portrayed as being a necessity in the future, as our environment crumbles around us. People will have the ability to be completely nomadic."' Mary Mattingly is also infamous with Paul Mittendorf for their art hijack performance at Art Basel Miami. Amidst a high end international art show, Paul and Mary constructed a pirate liferaft filled with artists' works, many from Portland, and landed on Miami Beach. High end galleries, collectors and artists, assuming their project was part of the show pitched in to help! A NY dealer has decided to finance a repeat performance in New York City and Venice, Italy of Liferaft. Opening 6-9 PNCA Feldman Gallery NW 13th and Johnson
Just Be Toys/Design shows a new crop of young Japanese manga-anime illustrators, many of them women.
Send your Seattle friends to see Portland artist Laura Fritz's vaguely disturbing laboratory experiments (www.laurafritz.net) at the Soil Gallery all month. Opens Thursday May 5
Friday May 6
SE art gallery openings. The _Hall Gallery presents a group show "The Personality Test" 7-10:30, Newspace Photo opens Liz Haley, Eric McCormack and Video Installation by Patrick Halm and the New American Art Union shows the collage - paintings of Lisa Dejohn. Other spaces may be open as well, look for fliers at any of the aforementioned spaces. Locations at www.seportlandartwalk.com/ there is a rumor of some sort of art bus touring some of the spots.
PICA lecture and booksigning by Justine Kurland and Jon Raymond. Kurland's career was launched by the show "Another Girl, Another Planet" curated in 1999 by Yale's Gregory Crewdson. It was roundly criticized as representing an unholy admixture of art, fashion and pornography by the New York arts establishment and dubbed "panty photography", but that did not stop Kurland from producing more landscapes with unclothed women. Her latest work combines landscape and figure, shot in a post fire forest. The work illustrates a short story set in Oregon environs by arts writer Jon Raymond, cofounder of Plazm Magazine. Kurland's work has evolved from illustrating a fictional Tom Sawyer runaway adventure, with all girl protagonists and set in our time. Later she photographed unclothed women in the landscape living fictional utopian lives together. Her latest work documents real life intentional communities, modern tribes and Renaisance fairs in the Victorian style of early photographers such as Julia Margret Cameron. 7PM Weiden and Kennedy SW 13th St and Everett. $10
Book reading and signing by Richard Speer, Willamette Week arts critic, and gonzo arts journalist, of his new bibliography of the painter Matt Lamb. Lamb rose from the mean streets of South Chicago to great success in business until a near death experience caused him to liquidate all of his holdings and pursue outsider art-style painting. Powell's Downtown 7:30PM FREE, Reception after and viewing of some of Lamb's work at the Mark Wooley gallery
Talk by Mary Mattingly "The New Breed" - ' How will people make due in nomadic conditions? Mattingly will chart how a neoliberal ideology is bringing us closer to this future-present reality and how we can combat this through creative types of resistance. Followed by, in conjunction with Red76, participatory Little City building - magic markers, knives and cardboard, and free beer, have at it! Talk 5, building after - PNCA Stevens Studios 1432 NW Johnson FREE
(More on Little Cities: With more questions than answers we set out on our project, Little Cities. Designed as a series of parties Little Cities is a project set in place to try to investigate these complicated questions through simplistic, childlike actions. While at the same time, a process designed to create new homes, new communities, and new ways and situations for people to think about what a home is.
Little Cities Build Your Own House parties are pretty simple. Guests are greeted by a room filled with cardboard and various supplies, markers, paint, glue, etc, etc...And, for the rest of the night we make houses out of cardboard, listen to music, have some drinks. That's that. The following morning we ask that party guests return to the site of the previous night's party. We'll have some coffee, sit around and talk. Try to figure out a place that we all agree on that is a special place, a place that we, collectively, would like to homestead. Taking our homes in hand we venture out onto the streets taking the trek towards our new homeland. Placing our homes in this newly homesteaded area we are all the new stewards of this land. There to look over it, see that everything is okay, watch out for it.
As time goes on, and more and more people get together for these parties, an invisible community of Little Cities will start to grow across the country, linked by the people and ideas that came to the parties, sat down, cut up some card board, listened to some music and maybe drank a beer with someone they hadn't met before. Invisible communities of Little Cities comprised of people who spotted an outcropping of discarded cardboard, junk and trash strewn across the grass or pavement, who realized upon a closer look that it wasn't trash at all.
Mattingly would make a great collaborator for City Repair Project activities)
And sight unseen, an A+ for spirit, no doubt: at Reed Vitamin A, a student art organization dedicated to promoting art and creative boondoggle among the Reed College community, presents "Danger and Safety". Work in the exhibition explores the delicate and sometimes disturbing relationship between vulnerability and security that permeates our lives both locally, nationally, and beyond.9 a.m. - 9 p.m., weekdays, Hauser Memorial Library. This event is free and open to the public. For gallery information call 503/777-7790.
May 14 Events
Holding Hands - an benefit art sale for Andrea U'Ren - will be Saturday May 14 6-9PM at 207 SW Pine in downtown Portland. Andrea's yet undiagnosed medical problems have resulted in large medical bills without insurance coverage. Join an outstanding group of local artists in supporting Andrea's health care needs in a silent auction of their work. Have a drink, hug a friend, sing a song, snuggle up to a special craft table where you can create a beautiful momento for your lapel. All of the proceeds go directly to Andrea's medical fund.
Artists include Brad Adkins, Paul Arnsmeyer, Chandra Bocci, James Boulton, Inge Bruggeman, Clearcut Press, Bruce Conkle, Nan Curtis, David Eckard, Harrell Fletcher, Emily Ginsburg, Sam Gould, MK Guth, Sean Healy, Stuart Horodner, Kristan Kennedy, Horatio Law, Chris Moss, Melody Owen, Chris Rauchenberg, John Ryzcek, Wilder Schmaltz, Mungo Thomson, Joe Thurston, Andrea U'ren, Heather Watkins.
Later at the CenterRing, from 8PM until dawn, join many beautiful Portland DJ's musicians and healing sound artists in Legacy, a benefit for Phenix's mother's medical bills. Info Line 503-282-2616.
Friday, April 01, 2005
April __ bring __. What do __ bring?
Bill Will shows you can make a living as an installation artist and art teacher in Portland, though maybe at yesterday's housing prices. See his work at the Nine Gallery NW Hoyt and 13th and a retrospective opening Sunday afternoon at the Marylhurst Art Gym.
Liz Haley's photographs seem as if captured from a lush cinematic narrative, but only one frame, leaving an emotional echo of what came before and what is after. Visage Eyewear 11th and NW Johnson
Jaq Chartier's bright work relates to electrophoresis plates used in laboratories to sequence DNA. Perhaps it can be thought too of a color test of the viewers feelings. (www,jaqbox.com) You decide at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery new location NW 9th between Glisan and Flanders
Eva Lake, local Artstar, shows her op art inspired geometric paintings at Augen Gallery. Don't leave without a look at the top of the stairs at prints by Takashi Murakami who successfully moved the creative side projects of Japanese commercial animators into the art world, leveling high art and low, with his Superflat show.
Bonnie Paisley makes cakes. See them at Ogle (www.ogleinc.com)
Also in the Everett Lofts, Josh Arseneau explores the world of child soldiers in Africa, far away, so close at Milk Studio.
DC Cooper makes abstract organic illustrations which look like they could be machines or urban landscapes. Decode them for yourself in the back right side room of Backspace.
PSU has been turning out some good MFA work - see a group show "Stone Soup" of MFA students at their 1 year point: Rebekah Miles, Maryetta Jacques, Scott Mazariegos, Steven Beatty, Rita deKelaita and Damali Ayo. Autzen Gallery, Neuberger Hall, PSU
Bored Saturday? You can go to the Cascade Aids Project auction, only $100 admission (free if your work is in it though) or you can go to a free art auction at the B&O warehouse. No idea of the work involved, but it's 8-10PM with downtempo provided by Bluechris, then perhaps avail yourself of the various afterparties.
Film Here Now April 20-24
Matt McCormick, the Magic Johnson of shoegazer cinema presents Portland's very own film festival with a look that is not Hollywood. The Peripheral Produce Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival samples the films that establish a meditative rhythm or are quirky, often non narrative. You can scan the details at peripheralproduce.com and in the local weekly papers. Some highlights include Miranda July's Me, You, and Everyone We Know, Sunday 8PM, film from a local performance artist who dedicated herself completely to her art in Portland to get to the point of writing, directing and acting in her own feature, well reviewed at Sundance (www.mirandajuly.com/). Also Saturday, the Experimental World Cinema Chamionship in which last year's champion Vladimir, who makes Viewmaster narratives faces challengers Harrell Fletcher, social performance artist and a raft of other fierce experimental filmmakers. The winner will be decided by audience ballot - you!
Meet, talk and hang events include
Wed Opening night party - Slow Dance Recyttal, a conglomeration of digital animation, inflatable glowing objects, live electronic jams and clarinet music plus Jackie-O-Mother-fucker, who will be collaborating with Detroit video artist David Dinnell in creating a live multi-projector and sound performance. Free with ticket stub or festival pass Holocene 9:30
Sat post indy film Battle Royale party Gallery 500 late
Sun closing party Masu Sushi 9:30, film tix stub gets you a PBR free
Liz Haley's photographs seem as if captured from a lush cinematic narrative, but only one frame, leaving an emotional echo of what came before and what is after. Visage Eyewear 11th and NW Johnson
Jaq Chartier's bright work relates to electrophoresis plates used in laboratories to sequence DNA. Perhaps it can be thought too of a color test of the viewers feelings. (www,jaqbox.com) You decide at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery new location NW 9th between Glisan and Flanders
Eva Lake, local Artstar, shows her op art inspired geometric paintings at Augen Gallery. Don't leave without a look at the top of the stairs at prints by Takashi Murakami who successfully moved the creative side projects of Japanese commercial animators into the art world, leveling high art and low, with his Superflat show.
Bonnie Paisley makes cakes. See them at Ogle (www.ogleinc.com)
Also in the Everett Lofts, Josh Arseneau explores the world of child soldiers in Africa, far away, so close at Milk Studio.
DC Cooper makes abstract organic illustrations which look like they could be machines or urban landscapes. Decode them for yourself in the back right side room of Backspace.
PSU has been turning out some good MFA work - see a group show "Stone Soup" of MFA students at their 1 year point: Rebekah Miles, Maryetta Jacques, Scott Mazariegos, Steven Beatty, Rita deKelaita and Damali Ayo. Autzen Gallery, Neuberger Hall, PSU
Bored Saturday? You can go to the Cascade Aids Project auction, only $100 admission (free if your work is in it though) or you can go to a free art auction at the B&O warehouse. No idea of the work involved, but it's 8-10PM with downtempo provided by Bluechris, then perhaps avail yourself of the various afterparties.
Film Here Now April 20-24
Matt McCormick, the Magic Johnson of shoegazer cinema presents Portland's very own film festival with a look that is not Hollywood. The Peripheral Produce Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival samples the films that establish a meditative rhythm or are quirky, often non narrative. You can scan the details at peripheralproduce.com and in the local weekly papers. Some highlights include Miranda July's Me, You, and Everyone We Know, Sunday 8PM, film from a local performance artist who dedicated herself completely to her art in Portland to get to the point of writing, directing and acting in her own feature, well reviewed at Sundance (www.mirandajuly.com/). Also Saturday, the Experimental World Cinema Chamionship in which last year's champion Vladimir, who makes Viewmaster narratives faces challengers Harrell Fletcher, social performance artist and a raft of other fierce experimental filmmakers. The winner will be decided by audience ballot - you!
Meet, talk and hang events include
Wed Opening night party - Slow Dance Recyttal, a conglomeration of digital animation, inflatable glowing objects, live electronic jams and clarinet music plus Jackie-O-Mother-fucker, who will be collaborating with Detroit video artist David Dinnell in creating a live multi-projector and sound performance. Free with ticket stub or festival pass Holocene 9:30
Sat post indy film Battle Royale party Gallery 500 late
Sun closing party Masu Sushi 9:30, film tix stub gets you a PBR free
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