February 22 PICA Curates and Designers Create

This week PSU's Monday Night Lecture Series hosts Kristan Kennedy, artist and visual curator for PICA, which is also a sponsor of the series. Kennedy knows the Portland art community in depth, developing her own practice amidst it. She is a powerful curator, with the possibility to mix international artists from PICA's network with capable locals. Hear her thoughts in the Shattuck Hall Annex out front, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30PM Free



Portland is a literary city. We have an endless appetite for talks too. And we are creative. An instance combining the three vectors is the New Oregon Interview Series, the evolution of cultural presenters 2GQ. Ultimately the interviews with Portland culture workers will be cast in book form. You can hear the live version, tonight, in the focus area of urban design. Mayor Sam Adams, Portland Monthly editor Randy Gragg and Portland's most renowned living architect Brad Cloepfil provide their thoughts. At Urban Grind Cafe, 2214 NE Oregon St. Doors 6:30PM, talk 7. $5

February 21 Disquieted Talk and Melody Owen Opening

We are fortunate the chief curator at the Portland Art Museum has a strong background in contemporary art. It fits well with today's art making practice in Portland. Chief curator Bruce Guenther has worked for several years assembling a survey, Disquieted, which hits some important high points in the Pantheon of contemporary art. Shows have a theme, what is more interesting to me are the artists who have been selected. This is a big show for the Museum, an opportunity for you, the viewer, to catch up on what art has brought us here. Today Guenther explains his thought process in selecting the artists and the work. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 2PM $12, $5 members.


Melody Owen, UO and Alfred schooled, never fails to take a surprising view at whatever she undertakes, in a good way. She is subject to a welcome review at the Marylhurst Art Gym this month. Recommended. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Check the campus map to find it. 3PM-5 Free

February 20 Caldera

Caldera is expanding its visibility. It started as a summer art program for kids that otherwise wouldn't otherwise have opportunities to explore art. It combines an environmental dimension to contemporary art making. That fits well with it's location, nestled in the woods near Sisters, Oregon. Caldera added studio residencies in the off season. Sometimes artists are virtually snowed in, a perfect quiet opportunity for intense studio practice. They are holding open studios for the current art residents today. Artists Jessica Burton, Kevin Cooley, Wendy Given, Rafael Oses and Jason Perter, lead the tour. At Camp Caldera, www.calderaarts.org Sisters, Oregon (see the web site for directions) 1PM-3 Free

February 19 Sculpture, 100 Bones, Hungry Eyeball

Disjecta is hosting a happy hour and discussion with sculptor Jenene Nagy, her work fills the space. Her explanations of her work are fascinating, there is a tremendous amount of planning from every angle that goes into them. At Disjecta www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate 7PM Free


Breezeblock Gallery is a local gallery focused on urban and graffiti art, think Upper Playground, they branch out from that too. They had a space on Alberta, then Burnside, now they are virtual. Tonight they materialize with their annual 100 Bones show. All artwork is $100, or eless, and you can take it home for instant gratification. Music by DJ Wu. Champagne and gummy bears. At Ecdysiast Studio 326 SE Madison 6PM-10 Free


The Hungry Eyeball are local champions of lowbrow and outsider art. Those are actual terms in the canon of art history! They have their own periodicals, such as Juxtapoz and Raw Vision. There are successful galleries devoted to them, here and in Europe. Every so often institutions like the Whitney even dip their toes in the water. It's not a personal interest now, but it is always interesting. Tonight Hungry Eyeball curates a show including Jason Graham, Klutch, Eatcho and J. Shea. Portlander Klutch originated the Vinyl Killers project, art painted on old disks. Opening at Lyrik 2035 SE 39th 7PM-10 Free

February 18-20 BodyVox-2

I have an affection for select abstract dance. Locals BodyVox have started a second unit, BodyVox-2. It's a chance for a new group of young dancers to try on the choreography of the main unit going back over 12 years. How interesting to see how someone new "gets" a personal thing you have made, by doing it. It's an important step forward, in light of the half-life of dance. At BodyVox Studios, www.bodyvox.com 1201 NW 17th 7:30PM (&2 Saturday) $16-20

February 18 Art Spark and AIGA SHIFT

This month Someday Lounge hosts Art Spark. There will be a ten minute presentation at 6 by local arts presenter Young Audiences. The rest of the time is valuable networking in the art world of Portland! At Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th 5PM-7 Free



Portland has an active chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Designers. They have a periodic sustainability salon, SHIFT, organized around invited speakers. This month includes varied presentations: "Don’t be square! : From parent sheet to final printed item", by Austin Whipple, Creative Director, Pinball Publishing; "Propelling a movement: Design, technology, and cooperation to support the local economy", Katrina Scotto di Carlo, Supportland; "SCRAP", Elaine Volpe, marketing manager, Slate Technologies; "Pros & cons of materials in large format printing", Dallas Roemelling, OBP Signs & Graphics; "CMYG: Projecting authenticity in a crowd of Greenie McFakersons", Daniel Eckhart, Numerosign; "Utilizing water-based inks for apparel & textile graphics", PJ Portlock, Designer, Prolabro; "What is normal? And why?", Jonathan Bean; "Shave the world", David Vanadia, Interdisciplinary Artist; "re:active, and the sustainability of design professionals’ demographics", Michael Etter, Senior Art Director, Ziba Design; and "A journey in sustainable product & packaging design", Ken Tomita, TomitaDesigns & Grove. Bring your own cup for free beverages. At Ziba Design www.ziba.com 810 NW Marshall. 7PM. Doors 6:45, doors close at 7:15 sharp. AIGA Members, free, else $5.

February 12 Voice Music Art

Ethan Rose is an accomplished electronic composer with contributions in ensemble, Adellade and Small Sails; film scoring, Paranoid Park; installation art, Player Piano and Transference. As a long enthusiast of mixing vocals and electronic music, I'm a big fan of tonight's project with the composer and singer-songwriter Laura Gibson. You can hear it at Holocene. Early $7



Nationale is moving and this is the last chance to see a show at their founding location. They are moving to the 811 block! This month it's collage work by Morgan Ritter. Nationale's curator has shown a savvy eye towards Portland-related artists, which we complement. At NATIONALE nationaleportland.blogspot.com 2730 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free



Alpern Gallery seems so far on a theme similar to the very successful Tilt Gallery, showing minimal smart sculpture and idea-based art. This month they show Deker Faust. At Alpern Gallery www.alperngallery.com 2552 NW Vaughn 6PM-9

February 12-14 206 Zulu 6th Epic Jam

This blog is primarily Portland focused and art focused. But we are interested in many diverse branches of cultural evolution. Hip hop culture is a vital evolutionary force, worldwide. The Zulu Nation is an international focus point. Portland's hip hop culture is challenged for a variety of reasons, but we are connected to Seattle which has a vibrant scene. This is an example.

The 206 Zulu celebrates their 6th anniversary with an international battle and massive events. Peace, Love, Unity & Having Fun is the creed. OK. One event is a 2-on-2 battle, international lineup, with a $2000 prize, cash money, Sunday. All of the events are free. Free is good. Check the rundown. Various locations, Seattle Center, Vera, Cirque, more. Friday 8AM-late, Saturday 3PM-8, Sunday 6M-11 Battle, 11-late After Party. Free

February 9 China, Grandin, Dance

Portland filmmaker Ivy Lin is focused on Chinese history in Portland. It's an important vector, for Chinese, Chinese Americans and Portlanders, and for obvious reasons. She screens her film Come Together Home, Death. Disinterment. Reburial., documenting the travel of graves from SE Portland to Hong Kong. The land where they once were buried is proposed for home development. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch. Reception 5:30PM, film 6, Q&A after. Free



I do not usually track events outside Portland, I'm an in person person, but sometimes one catches my eye. Temple Grandin stops at UO for a free talk on her way to the TED Talks. Grandin is autistic. She has directed her prescience to the science of the manufacture of meat, proposing changes, which have been adopted, in slaughterhouses. Someone has to do it. She is a prolific writer on autism as well as what humans can learn from animal behavior. She speaks as guest lecturer in a religion department class at University of Oregon by Professor Mark Unno. Sponsored by the University's Oregon Humanities Center, which will later have the event on line. 282 Lillis. Eugene 7:30PM Free



Valentines is a cafe that, more than most, operates successfully in the nexus of art and remix culture in the form of music. Tonight they push their own boundaries to present dance movement art. Danielle Ross has curated a beautiful and challenging evening of work based on the idea of found movement, movement sampling, by Paige McKinney and the Performers, Linda Austin + rhiza A+D, Tahni Holt, Future Death Toll, Little Friction Dance and Suniti Dernovsek. at Valentines myspace.com/valentineslifeblood 232 SW Ankeny Art 9PM, Free

February 8 Time to Art, Art to Alberta, Advertising to Art

Artist Paul Ramirez Jonas creates sculpture, installation and performance by sampling society and transforming it to another dimension. Sometimes his inspiration has been text, but he's not limited to that. His 15+ year career is available at his website. Food for thought. Talk in the Shattuck Hall Annex out front, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30PM Free



My personal interest is art travels together with the idea that artists develop economically sustainable careers. Nonetheless, there is an important role for DIY, outsider art, emerging artists, craft and craft-based art. There is a huge value in cultural exploration - I'm a believer in an evolutionary model of culture, diversity and natural selection. But diversity may be about to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

NE Alberta Street between about 8th and 30th attracted a legion of creative people seeking low rent beginning about 15 years ago. Meanwhile artists selling on the street on First Thursday were pushed out of the Pearl District by businesses there. Some return under the umbrella of the Urban Arts Network, which collects money from artists and pays the City to close NW 13th for individual artists and craftspeople. Businessman Magnus Johannesson purchased several blocks of Alberta storefronts when no one wanted to live in the neighborhood. About 10 years ago he conceived the idea of Last Thursday to activate the street and has nurtured it behind the scenes.

The event has grown with legions of artists and craftsmakers competing to set up shop in prime spots, tall bikes, clowns, baby carriages, dogs, street DJ's, live musicians, playing with fire, food carts and actually a few art galleries. The event has brought a downside for neighbors and, of course, an upside in property values, rental prices and business income.

As the event has grown, the City has closed the street, rerouted buses, provided police, ambulance services stand by, there are portapotties and trash collection. The City is trying to find an owner and someone to pay those expenses. The City has been spending over $10,000 a month on Last Thursday. Everyone involved wants the benefits, and none, the costs.

Tonight is a public meeting to explore the evolution of the event. My bias is to preserve the unregulated arts market free to artists for as long as possible. There's no guarantee of that. If you would like to listen or give your opinion, you can join the meeting hosted by Mayor Adams, with a strong creative economy business development staff, and Commissioner Fritz, who helms the Office of Neighborhood Associations.

Meeting at the Acadian Ballroom, 1829 NE Alberta Street 6PM-8 Free



Bright Lights is an irregular interview series of high quality where creatives meet movers and shakers. It's primarily focused on architecture and development, an instance of creatives meeting movers and shakers. Tonight, host Randy Gragg, photographer and writer, interviews Dan Wieden, cofounder of an advertising agency that has grown into much more. Wieden has more plans yet. He founded Caldera, an arts project engaging both artists and youth underserved by arts opportunity, with an environmental bent. Wieden has expansive plans for Caldera and you can learn of them tonight. Part of a series sponsored by the City Club of Portland and Portland Spaces Magazine, it's at Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10, 6PM Free

February 6 Installation and Visual Sampling

The South Waterfront development has used art as a branding strategy. They have an artist residency and a quarterly installation series. The current installation, Blueprints, Anchors, Ambitions, by Fae Young-Scherling, closes today with a reception. At 3660 SW River Parkway, 3PM-6 Free


Cafe The Hop and Vine embraces an art space 19Ten which is opening a show by Portland artist Dan Ness this evening. 1910 N Killingsworth 6PM-9 Free

February 5-March 6 20th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films

For 20 years little Portland has hosted the Cascade Festival of African Films. It's a month long affair with 23 films this year, from, or exploring, Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. The films are being shown at PCC Cascade, the Kennedy School and at the Hollywood theater. The opening film tonight is from Ethopia, the director will be in attendance. All the films in the festival's history are also housed in the PCC library. The website has the full schedule. Best of all, every film is free! www.africanfilmfestival.org

February 5 Eastside Art Openings+

Kendra Larson and Kurtiss Lofstrom show at Gallery Homeland. Larson is a Northwest native inspired by our dark forests. She channels that in pencil and charcoal drawings that have overlaid brightly colored geometric images - very mystical! Lofstrom works in collage of found image, particularly brightly printed magazines. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th x Division



Fourteen30 Gallery has a show themed on Winter. It includes artists Sebastian Gogel, Leipzig; Matthew Green, Portland; Frank Haines & Francis Heinzfeller, Brooklyn; Alex Hubbard, Brooklyn; Arnold Kemp, Portland; Alicia Love McDaid, Portland; Thomas Moecker, Leipzig; Jo Nigoghossian, NYC; Sven Stuckenschmidt, Berlin; and Portland's Molly Vidor. At Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1430 SE 3rd 6PM-9



Pop painter Corey Smith relocated from Portland to Los Angeles. He's back with the copywriting award of the month: "We’ve seen the future, and it only looks good in hardware specs. Amid famine, collapse, and massacre, we dream of freedom. From the pyramid to the moon shuttle, man’s greatest endeavor has always been to subjugate death and the dreams of sleep—to own them, control them, escape there—to paint our own new futures onto the blank slate of unfilled coordinates.

In Obsolete Dreams, artist Corey Smith confronts the hulking physicality of these useless masters of dreams and death: Cold-War stealth bombers, moon shuttles, astronauts, the unholy engine fueled by the American flag. But Smith remakes them according to their own dream logic, that alien symbolism of deflective curve and angle that is both perfect and perfectly incomprehensible to the life that is always right here in front of us.

So in Smith’s work, silent death comes in the bright colors of advertising, and bombers swing lovely as children’s models on wires. The grim, grey haze of a satellite photo takes on a more intense reality than the one you know, because it comes from that high, floating future. Even if the art of science is war and escape, there’s nothing more romantic than chasing the zero all the way down. And space is where you dream, when you dream on empty.

Corey Smith’s Obsolete Dreams calls out to the primal dreams themselves: Long live the dead dreams, long after their masters have forgotten how to dream." At Worksound 820 SE Alder



Grass Hut has a group show of prints by some familiar artists including Studio Folk, Scrappers, Shawn Wolfe, Chris Johanson, Tim Biskup, Little Friends Of Printmaking, Ian Lynam, Yellena James, APAK, Brad Simon and Mauro Gatti. At Grass Hut www.grasshutcorp.com 811 E Burnside



Newspace has a annual themed show, curated from international submissions. This year the theme is Carnival. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th



Pushdot has Traci French, Sarah Kamsler, Nicole Linde, Mulysa Melco, Kim Oanh Nguyen, Ann Ploeger, Georgia Stylou, and Tatiana Wills. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 1021 SE Caruthers



Down and Out is an international group show of photography curated by the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego. It's a large contemporary cross section, including Portland photographers Chris Bennett, Heidi Bertman, Jeffrey Krolick and Duc Ly. At 23Sandy www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy 5PM-8



Nemo Design has a big bike event this evening. There is a show of bike themed photos, custom frames, roller sprint races and a tricks competition in the parking lot. There is a fee to compete and prizes, but otherwise it's all free! The event continues Saturday at Liberty Hall. At Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont 6PM-10 Free



Artists like fun. And they organize it themselves in the most creative way possible. Artists Jenny Hoyston and Sarah Gottesdiener are starting a regular wind up to First Friday openings. There will be video art by Melanie Valera, music by TJO and Marisa Anderson, and a dance performance by Allison Halter. There will be DJ's and dancing. At Branx 320 SE 2nd 9PM-2 $5

February 4 Westside Art Openings+

The Everett Lofts and associated spaces are recommended, as always, for your viewing pleasure. See them in the block bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th.



Seattle painter Jaq Chartier shows her bright paintings which have always reminded me of the results of gene sequencing. The patterns she makes with paint are very mysterious and beautiful, burning with cool passion. She is an art scientist too, with her "sun test" experiments of controlled fading. This is my favorite form of abstract, bright and subtly enigmatic. The gallery is also showing work by Pat Boas, Adam Chapman, Isaac Layman, Joe Park and Xiaoze Xie. At Elizabeth Leach www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th



Bean Finneran makes bright fragile sculptures. They resemble sea anemones, bristling spines. At PDX Contemporary Gallery www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders



Pulliam Gallery has a small group show including Yoshihiro Kitai, Jerry Iverson and Jeffry Mitchell. At Pulliam Gallery www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 929 NW Flanders early close 8PM



Made in California is a show of drawings, paintings and prints including Chris Ballantyne, Marcel Dzama, Caio Fonseca, Sam Frances, David Hockney, Chris Johanson, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Richard Sera and Frank Stella. It's a good art history lesson. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis



Always curiously entertaining The Oregon Painting Society has an installation at PNCA in the Manuel Izquierdo Gallery 825 NW 13th 6:30PM-9ish



Falling Whistles is not exactly a contemporary art show. It's a campaign for peace in Congo. Congo's history is detailed in Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost, a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa. Independent of Belgium beginning in 1960, a new government survived less than 12 weeks before dictator Mobutu Sésé Seko was installed. Michela Wrong relates the Mobutu era: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. In 1994 the Rwandan genocide unleashed another terror on Congo, one from which it has not recovered. After Mobutu's death, Rwandan fighters became the catalyst for a war to control Congo's resources. Diamonds, gold, copper, tin, tungsten, oil, tantalum, uranium and tropical hardwood were the prize of misery. In Eastern Congo low level war persists and vast refugee camps are commonplace. The Falling Whistles project is a small NGO working on education and direct aid to children in Eastern Congo. If you need a whistle, you can buy them tonight and other purchases also benefit the project. At Lizard Lounge 1323 NW Irving 7PM-10



BodyVox is a Portland modern dance group that performs nationally. They are comprised of dancers with many years experience spanning nationally known companies. They are well known for their humor and for incorporating film into their work. They have even collaborated with Zoobombers. They have created a new second unit: BodyVox-2. BodyVox-2 is a company of young dancers performing the repertory of BodyVox with flash. This evening BodyVox-2 holds an open rehersal and mini-performance, presaging their debut February 18. At BodyVox Studios, www.bodyvox.com 1201 NW 17th 6:30PM-8 Free

February 3 Development & Creativity

Writer and MacArthur grant recipient Lewis Hyde speaks on The Gift and the Commons: Creativity and the Public Good. Hyde is author of The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in a Modern World, a classic exploration and resource to artist readers for 25 years. Tonight he expands his original thesis in light of the Creative Commons movement and debates on digital rights. This is the subject of a new book he is developing. He speaks at Lewis and Clark College on the same topic Thursday at 4PM. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson 6:30PM-8 Free



Randy Rapaport is a developer of contemporary mixed use spaces. His projects have attained architectural significance while quietly doing their job as residences. Rapaport has also gone a good job at curating the sidewalk side businesses filling his projects. Tonight he discusses his process, projects and plans. It is part of an irregular series on design at Design Within Reach. At DWR Portland Studio 1200 NW Everett. Doors 6:00PM, program 6:30 Free

January 31 The Cult of Arduino Induction

The Arduino project was founded by artist Massimo Banzi of the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea and the graduate school of design Domus in Milan, now merged. The phrase Cult of Arduino may have been coined here at Portland Dorkbot, which makes a minimalist and thrifty prototyping kit, the Dorkboard.

Why?

We live in a magical world where a single electronic touch can trigger a cascade of events indistinguishable from magic. Artists are incorporating the electronic magic into their work by figuring out Arduino and writing or finding on the Internet small software programs for it, intimate spells that make the magic.

This is one of the regular, affordable, Portland workshops where artists can gain an introduction and leave the same day with a working project. No experience necessary!

Details and registration at Learn Scandinavian Voodoo at Arduino Cult Induction. Workshop at PNCA www.pnca.edu Room 205 1PM-5 $35

January 27 Union Pacific

Portland is a photography town of many. Perhaps it was the residence of Minor White for a time, forests felled in service of photographic paper, maybe it is the light, or that transcendental Western landscape. A certain factor is the Blue Sky Gallery, a gathering place for the photography community since 1975 and of which Craig Hickman was one founding member.

Union Pacific is Hickman's project as artist in residence at the South Waterfront. He launches it with a talk tonight about his photography and his physical computing projects. At the South Waterfront art projects office 3623 SW River Parkway x Gaines in the John Ross Building. See the website for details. 6PM-8 Free

January 25 Contemplating the End of Privacy

Hasan M Elahi is a media artist working themes of surveillance and privacy; his subject, himself. And he has a great sense of humor. After false accusations of terrorism, he created the Tracking Transience project www.tacckingtransience.net. The website tracks his location. He documents every quotidian moment of his life in photographs which he sends to the FBI and posts on the web site.

His project is wry comment on self surveillance and surveillance by institutions. He replaces security by obscurity with security by ubiquity.

While logic proposes that government and industrial institutions can perfect decision making with ever more information, even Hoovered illegally, data has time and time shown that acting on existing information is the problem.

Meanwhile we are in a love affair with self surveillance as personal brand: Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, web sites and blogs. In fact, we place tremendous value on discovering and exploiting each emerging channel. It's an example of signalling theory in psychology.

In the words of Eric Schmidt “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

There are many excellent public interest organizations working on privacy issues including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Hear Elahi speak about this and other projects at the nexus of technology and art for which electronic media is the raw material. It's part of the PSU Art Department Monday Night Lecture Series, your best entertainment value for the dollar!

Talk in the Shattuck Hall Annex out front, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30PM Free

January 24 $5 Stock

Stock is sold out. They didn't sell out, but they are sold out. Though they do have standing room tickets.

Stock is an open source funding vehicle for Portland artists modeled after Chicago's Sunday Soup granting project. The social practice art organizers prepare a simple meal involving soup and salad. Diners, you, dine upon it in conversation for the price of $10, while discussing a handful of artist proposals with the artists and your fellow diners. The diners vote to award one artist a grant of the proceeds of the night. The artist then reports back at a future dinner the results of their project.

This month, artists Vanessa Renwick, Eric Steen, Forrest Martin, Marshall Berg, Nicole Lavelle, the Research Club and Chris Haberman present proposals for funding. Previous grant recipients Public Social University and Dafna Margalit report back.

The "standing room" tickets, a vote but no food for $5 are still available by mail: portlandstock at gmail. Event 6PM-8.

January 23 Not Photo Op

This is Not a Photo Op is a collection of photographs from Alaska, California, Brazil, Japan and Ireland by Mark Whiteley. Whiteley, longtime editor at SLAP, chronicles in artful psychological collage, his personal journey over years through the subcultures of the skate ecosystem. Local skater Chris Johanson provides music. Whiteley signs books recording the exhibition. At Cal’s Pharmacy www.departmentofskateboarding.com 11 Ne Hancock 7PM-10 Free

January 22 Free PAM, Tidal, Fontanelle Swan Song, Objectified

Every fourth Friday, the Portland Art Museum is free for all, in the evening. Free is good! At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free


Jenene Nagy is a Portland sculptor who excels at idea-driven minimal sculpture and installation. Pure thought shape. For many years she was half the great Tilt Gallery in the Everett Station lofts. For this show she has lebensraum at Disjecta to go big with Tidal. She takes full advantage of one of Portland's largest spaces with subtle lighting and overlapping planes spilling from the ceiling, floors and walls. Nagy engages a thoughtful process in planning each irregular shape from every viewer angle. At Disjecta. www.disjecta.org 8371 N Interstate near Paul Bunyon. All the time 6PM-10. Free


Fontanelle has been an earnest purveyor of art by emerging artists, book arts and musical performance by friends. They made an elegant thing and left a path of beauty and community in the Portland art thicket. It is time for them to wrap up their successful experiment, and they do so tonight. The last show, Julianna Bright, is up and there will be music. At Fontanelle www.fontanellegallery.com 205 SW Pine 7PM-9 Free


Objectified is a documentary by Gary Hustwit, also behind Helvetica. Objectified is an examination of industrial design, through interviews with designers and thinkers across the globe. I've seen it it is a gentle and engaging introduction to the behind the scenes thinking that goes into everyday manufactured products. The film focuses on Chris Bangle, BMW; French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec; design curators Paola Antonelli and Andrew Blauvelt at MOMA the Walker, respectively; IDEO founders Bill Moggridge and David Kelley, creative director Jane Fulton Suri and current leader Tim Brown; Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby designers and professors at London's RCA; designer Davin Stowell and Dan Formosa of Smart Design; noted Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa; Apple VP of design Jonathan Ive; Dutch designer Hella Jongerius; Australian jelly bean-style superstar Marc Newson; Braun design giant Dieter Rams; versatile designer of just about anything, Karim Rashid; as well as international design journalists Alice Rawsthorn and Rob Walker. Helvetica and Objectified are part of a planned design film trilogy. Perhaps for the third film, Hustwit will take on designers working on the design challenges of developing countries, the theme of the Design for the Other 90% show, out of Cooper Hewitt. Sponsored by the Industrial Design Department, a welcome addition to creative education in Portland. At the Art Institute of Portland, 1122 NW Davis, 7In the main space on the second floor, 7PM Free

January 15 Eliza Fernand at Nationale

Eliza Fernand combined sculputure and performance at PNCA. She has continued, including working in costume, fabric construction and animation. Her work has a feel of playful oddity. "Fernand is inspired by the human body and its functions; craft supplies; eating; the effects of gravity; and changes in weather, seasons, and climates." For this show, Clad, she has crafted wall pieces from fabric, fabric of her high school clothes and the last clothes of a late grandmother. The pieces were made with her grandmother's house as studio. Music opening evening on clarinet, 6:30. At NATIONALE nationaleportland.blogspot.com 2730 E Burnside 6PM-8 Free

January 11 PSU+Portland Future?

Portland State University has a new president, Wim Wiewel from the Netherlands. With degrees in urban planning and sociology, he is in a great position to expand the impact of two of the school's strongest programs, Urban Planning and Social Work. He is visible in the university and the community, for instance addressing the smart grid conference. He even may be found bicycling to the campus. PSU has a significant impact on planning too, controlling dozens of SW Portland blocks, interwoven by major transportation facilities. Hear Wiewel's thoughts on PSU and Portland as America's most European city. It is part of the Bright Lights series sponsored by the local architecture magazine Portland Spaces and the City Club, a thoughtful public interest group. At Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10th. Doors 5:30PM, discussion 6. Free

January 10 The Dregs of Actual Things

The Marylhurst Art Gym repurposes a gym at a university to a large flexible art gallery, how sensible! In the past they have specialized in Portland mid career artists. They have expanded their vision as Portland's art world has expanded. This show is an example. The Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things is an installation by Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen documenting the remains and results of house fire where they lived. A more expansive piece is The Dregs by Brandy Cochrane and Paul Middendorf. Cochrane's grandparents passed away with a lifetime household of actual things, some of which were not sold in the estate sale. Cochrane and Mittendorf have arrayed them and used them as materials in a series of fantastic globes and references to family secrets. We all have old relatives, the interesting question is what will be in the future the digital dregs. At the Marylhurst College Art Gym. 17600 Pacific Highway (Hwy 43-McAdam Blvd.) The gallery is in the top floor of building A. Reception 3PM-5 Free

January 8 Eastside Art Openings+

The art is resting in January. Many galleries are continuing shows from December. A few are not opening this evening.


I am excited about the socially conscious branch of social practice art. It's artists working with others to create social or political change. There are plenty of challenges we face as a society which can benefit from those positive changes. An outstanding example is Project Grow, of which we've written. The vegetable beds are sleeping. The goats, chickens, yogis, artists and clients are not. Tonight will be one of their irregular events for the art community and those interested. Founder Natasha Wheat speaks on the "The Tensions Between Utopic and Dystopic Constructions". It is a heady question for humans and artists. The Sprockettes, Portland's choreographed bike dance team, founders of the genre which has spread to several other cities, perform. At the Port City Development Center. 2124 N Williams Ave at Tillamook. Enter in the back of the building on either Tillamook or Thompson. 6PM-10 Free


Liz Obert is an idea-based photographer. She shows Mapping Marnay-sur-Seine tonight at a gallery sited in a long running Portland studio for photographers. It has a similarity to a project in which she collected artifacts at a North Portland intersection. At Alpern Gallery www.alperngallery.com 2552 NW Vaughn


23 Sandy, which specializes in photography-based art, and the book arts, hosts a closing show this evening. The show is The Assignment, co-organized with the College Book Art Association. So that would be books. At www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy 5PM-8


The Grass Hut has bright cartoon-style illustrations by lowbrow artist Skinner. At Grass Hut www.grasshutcorp.com


Nemo is a branding concern, so their art events often have a tie-in. That would be the case tonight for a snow/skate-themed art show and fundraiser. At Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont

January 7 Westside Art Openings

The Everett Lofts and associated spaces are recommended, as always, for your viewing pleasure. See them in the block bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th.



PDX has three exhibitions this month. Megan Murphy shows quiet abstract landscapes combining photography and painting. Murphy is also founder of Artocracy, a website making artists prints available directly to collectors. Next door, John Mann shows mixed media sculptures made with maps and photos of map-based sculptures. The world of maps is in flux. Mann's maps are of the paper type, crafted by cartographers with the luxury of detailed print resolution and color. The resolution enables great information density, requiring the cartographer to artfully place each legend and symbol to fit unambiguously. The world of digital maps does this without art, by machine; the problem of detail and limited resolution solved by zoom and layers. It changes our relationship with maps. In the window, Shawn Records shows a sequence of travel photos titled Stupid People Love High Places: Recent Photographs of the World. At PDX Contemporary Gallery www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders



Christopher Rauschenberg has been making street photographs in Paris for many years, including a project rephotographing Atget. For many years too, his subject has been the flea markets of Paris where the material culture of the French empire accumulates, like charmed dustbunnies. This is the work he shows this month. The markets have more the feel of antique shops with a bewildering array of glass bell jars, Belle Époque objects and design artifacts of the 1960's and '70's, near antique. Longtime Portland sculptor and PNCA professor Lee Kelly known for large scale works, shows small sculptures, paintings and prints. We discussed last evening if we near the extinction of large metal sculpture. It reached its zenith with Chicago's Picasso and the minimal monuments of Serra. Today it's in the sights of a fractious culture war and target of criminal scrappers. At Elizabeth Leach www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th



Transference, the installation by Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose closes Saturday. It's a collaboration with Paiko contributing blown glass objects Rose has made into ambient instruments. Tonight Joe Cunningham and Reed Wallsmith accompany the sculpture on live instruments. Performance 6:30PM-7. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft 724 NW Davis



Rom'n Times is a show of work by Portland artists who visited Italy in the past summer on an art retreat. See the response of the participating artists Horia Bobia, Vanessa Calvert, Cassandra Dorsey, Lori Gilbert, Bethany Hays, William LePore, Stuart Mayer, Bridget Murphy, Cassie Neth, Jennifer Norton, Ralph Pugay, Rebecca Shelly, Miles Sprietsma and Cody Thomas. It is in the Autzen Gallery, Neuberger Hall (2nd Floor) PSU 725 SW Harrison. Opening 4PM-6



Chambers continues to leverage its video show space with Scott Wolniak's Patterning. The show includes sculpture, drawings and video. At Chambers Gallery www.chambersgallery.com 916 NW Flanders



Froelick has a group show themed Interiors in its broad definition. The show includes Vito Acconci, Marco Buti, Isabelle Scurry Chapman, Joe Deal, Matthew Dennison, Raymond Depardon, Walker Evans, Benny Fountain, Jeremiah Goodman, Shelly Jordan, Kevin Kadar, Andre Kertesz, Ralph Meatyard, Susan Seubert, Jeff Stuhr and Lili Wilburn. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis



From the Northern worlds of threatened ice and snow world come two shows at Blue Sky. Céline Clanet has made portraits of the indigenous Máze people of Lappland, North of the Arctic Circle. Meanwhile Olaf Otto Becker has made large format landscape photos in Greenland. Clanet speaks st the gallery Saturday at 3PM. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th



I usually don't make it over to the coop Gallery 114, but this month they have a group show by writers at the art blog PORT. It is a large show with Megan Driscoll showing Mysterpants, Nicky Kriara, Alex Rausch showing An Implied "Untitled" with Rhetoric, Arcy Douglass, Jeff Jahn's Asymmetrical and Minty, Gary Wiseman's Fear of getting Caught (Actaeon and Artemis), Sarah Henderson's Still Standing, Ryan Pierce, Jenene Nagy's Level, Amy Bernstein's I love You II and Jascha Owens' Strange Attractor and Mother Unit_03. All the work is recent. At Gallery 114 www.gallery114.org 1100 NW Glisan



Compound Gallery has After Hours, evening hour themed photographs from Arian Stevens, Kimi Kolba, Brian Reynolds, Thuy Duong Le, Sam Brosnan, Mike Crocker and Dominik Kruger At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th

December 19 Rocking Rocksbox

Mr Patrick Rock's Rocksbox is taking a winter hibernation for remodeling. Before, tonight, will be a show and Icelandic rock. It's 9-11/12ish. Michael Reinsch presents A Celebration of Sloth and there will be choice Icelandic punk by Veltias. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate

Dec 12 RocksBox PICA Prints

Yearly PICA invites artists, novice to skilled printmakers to take over the presses, primarily working in monotype. It's messy, get inky, fun. Printmaking is a corner of art mediums. We have a concentration in Portland because of the late Gordon Gilkey. But the opportunity for non-printmakers to experiment with all the equipment, assistants and experienced printmakers supporting is extremely rare. Artists Abra Ancliffe, Dan Attoe, Ray Barrett, Amy Bernstien, Pat Boas, Christine Bourdette, Nathan Bowser, John Brandsberg, John Brodie, Christopher Buckingham, Wayne Bund, Ben Buswell, Sidonie Caron, Clare Carpenter, Ann Carstensen, Bruce Conkle, David Corbett, Matthew Courtway, Shawn Creedon, Dennis Cunningham, Wayne Curry, Nan Curtis, Nanda Dagastino, Tim Dalbow, Dana Dart Mclean, Diedrich Dasenbrock, Luther Davis, Shelby Davis, Melia Donovan, David Eckard, Karen Esler, Jenn Feeney, Anna Fidler, Daryah Fohoodyi, Derek Franklin, Glen Galdridge, Scott Gellaty, Damien Gilley, Emily Ginsburg, Jax Gise, Daniel Glendening, Justin Gorman, Matt Green, Jef Gunn, Rob Halverson, Bryson Hansen, Stephen Hayes, Yuji Hiratsuka, Midori Hirose, Alex Hirsch, Joe Hockett, Deborah Horrell, Linda Hutchins, Marie Inocencio, Philip Iosca, Johanna Jackson, Jorg Jakoby, Chris Johansen, Marilyn Joyce, Arnold Kemp, Josh Kermitt, Sydney Kim, Yoshihiro Kitai, Jessica Klien, Cark Klimt, Tina Lange, Ruth Lantz, Chris Larson, Kendra Larson, Cynthia Lathi, Oriana Lewton Leopold, Gabriel Liston, Patrick Long, Israel Lund, Corey Lunn, Elizabeth Malaska, Ademar Matinian, Mack McFarland, Melanie McLain, Heather McLaughlin, Sarah Meadows, Montana Merida, Leslie Miller, Cris Moss, Amber Moss-Jensen, Jenene Nagy, Noah Nakell, TJ Norris, Jenevive Nykolak, Darren Orange, Justin Oswald, Bonnie Paisley, Michael Parich, Bill Park, Trude Parkinson, Rachel Pederson, Meg Peterson, Ryan Pierce, Mel Ponis, Brittany Powell, Nathaniel Price, MaryAnn Puls, Andrea Raijer, Vanessa Renwick, Kent Richardson, Rita Robillard, Patrick Rock, Catherine Rondthaler, Ben Rosenberg, Rainbow Ross, Jack Dingo Ryan, Paige Saez, Blair Saxon-Hill, Crystal Shenk, Steven Slappe, Josh Smith, Adam Sorensen, Stephanie Speight, Anya Spielman, Amy Steel, Blake Stellyes, Storm Tharp, Joe Thurston, Elise Wagner, Samantha Wall, Annie Warnock, Heather Watkins, Marie Watt, Brandon Wilkinson, Christy Wyckoff, Wesley Younie, and Renee Zangara make prints priced by size, $100-250. At 539 NW 10th x Hoyt 5:30PM-9



Rocksbox shows work tonight by Sean Patrick Carney and Alicia Mcdaid, a potentially fun performance. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Opening 9PM-~11

December 11 The Fourth Estate and Value Priced Art

The Fourth Estate is a printmaking studio in New York working with contemporary artists, often employing unusual printing processes. Some of their artists, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Will Yackulic, Eddie Martinez, Glen Baldridge, Joseph Hart, Phil Sanders and Ruby Sky Stiler visit their work upon Portland. At Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1430 SE 3rd 6PM-9



With a background of the recovery of the contemporary art market in Miami Portland throws its own sensory overload event, the Big 100. It's work curated by Portland City Art. Each of the ~100 artists has made 20 pieces, 8x8 inches, all priced at $30.

Artists include Adam Ciresi, Ashley Costa, Adam Sheppard, Amy Stoner, Andy Kennedy, Angela Gay, Anawanitia Petty, Anna Magruder/Keen Creative, Anna Todaro, April O’Connor, Ashley McGinnis, Beth Myrick, Brenda Dunn, Brent Wear, Brett Superstar, Brin Levinson, Casey Rae Wickum, Chelsea Fletcher, Chris Gaslin, Chris Haberman, Chuck Bloom, Constance St.Clair Jackson, Dan Ness, Danielle Kirby, David Cordray, Derek Olsen, Dizzy Lavery, Elephant Smiley, EMEK, Erika Lee Sears, Erica T. Melville, Erin Nations, Flora S. Bowley, Gabe Flores, Grant Johnson, Greg Pitters, Heather MacKenzie, Heidi Elise Wirz, Heather Nichols, Hugh Newell, Hunter Armstrong, Jaik Faulk, Jamie Graeter, Jason Brown, Jason Edward Davis, Jason Graham, Jason Prouty, Jeff Fontaine, Jeni Lee, Jenn Feeney, Jennifer Mercede, Jeremy Nicols, Joanne Licardo, Joel Barber, John Fragale, John Gajowski, John Graeter, John Hoar, John Wray, Jonny Tragedy, Jolyn Fry, Jonathan Hill-Jacquard, Julie Jetton, Karah Bruce-Larkin, Kelly Williams, Kendra Binney, Kerosene Rose, Kirk Charlton, KMF Illustration, Lana Guerra, Lea Keohane, Leeanne Young, Levi Pitters, Liana Norton, Luna Littleleaf, Malynda Shook, Matt Schlosky, Matthew Delbello, Michael Fields, Micah Krock, Michelle Ramin, Michelle Tuffias, Misty Ray, Mona Superhero, Natasha Liegel, Nicole Linde, P:EAR artists collective, Rai Villanueva, Robin Carlile, Roscoe Hall II, Rob Pellicer, Ronni J, Ryan Kennelly, Sam Arneson, Sarah Cruse, Shawn Demarest, Summer Hatfield, Suzanne Elizabeth, Stephany Swanson, Tanya Herrera, Tara Gelien, Taylor Cass Stevenson, Terence Healy, Teresa Garber, Theresa Andreas-O’Leary, Tia, Tim Combs, Tyler Corbett, Tyson Stanger and Zak Gere.

Sales benefit KBOO and the Oregon Food Bank who welcome your contribution of canned fod at the event. At the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, 107 SE Washington. 6PM-11

December 6 Landscape Rocks

Lawrence Halpern is one of America's great landscape architects. You can see for yourself at the fountains he designed in Portland like a string of pearls from the block outside the Civic at Clay between 3rd and 4th and extending South in the other park blocks. Halpern is responsible for projects spanning geographies including one spanning I5 in Seattle by the Convention Center. Seattle-Portland architecture-planning writer-editor and photographer Randy Gragg became fascinated with Halpern and his collaborator-wife Anna, who developed landscape-based modern dance. The result is a book tracing the Halperns' creative projects, with a focus on the Portland fountains. This afternoon there is a celebration of the book release, with dance performances and the working edit of a film documenting musical and movement performances at Portland's fountains. Book details at www.halprinlc.org Event at the Ziba offices 1044 NW 9th 2PM Free


Artist-curator Patrick Rock makes art work, has brought much needed organization to PSU's myriad galleries and runs Portland's most edgy gallery on improbable North Interstate Avenue. Tonight he shows work from Matthew Green and Sarah Johnson in a series of 3 consecutive Saturday events. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Opening 9PM-~11

December 5 Eastside Art Openings

For your first Friday pleasure there are a few events. In the 811 E Burnside block, Redux, Grass Hut, Sword and Fern and up the street Lille all host openings. Meanwhile 23 Sandy opens a new show. Gallery Homeland opens early and Worksound later. If you are a dramatic singer, Hand to Mouth is hosting karaoke. There you have it!

December 3 Westside Art Openings

Dill Pickle Club, with roots in the zine community, presents actvites as varied as film series and bike trips. They are holding an art show-event series-zine shop, WORK | PROGRESS. Artists include: Icky A, Brad Adkins, Moe Bowstern, Carye Bye, Bill Daniel, Dyslexxis, Harrell Fletcher, Sarah Gottesdiener, Sam Gould, Anna Gray, MK Guth, Ariana Jacob, Kendra Larson, Ian Lynam, Eric Mast, Justin Scrappers Morrison, Michael Parich, Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Brittany Powell, Khris Soden, Bwana Spoons, Matthew Stadler, Nim Wunnan and Pete Yahnke. Opening night has music by Cape Perpetua and the Niekrasz Jenkins Duet. Two special books join the offering: Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago and Art for the Millions: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA. The show-store-happening will be open Wednesday – Sunday 12PM-6 until January 3 with interim events as noted at www.dillpickleclub.com/events/. At the Eyeful Gallery in the Everett Lofts, NW 6th and Everett. Opening 6PM-9 tonight



The Oregon Painting Society sets the controls for the heart of the sun with their new installation, Radiant Dream Face. They are recipients of the copywriting award of the month: "Radiant Dream Face is a control room on board a starship fashioned from the dreams and detritus of late-20th century West Coast America... We're not looking at a UFO from the outside; we're inviting the public to come inside the ship. The general aesthetics of our shows reflect the group's ongoing fascination with the look and philosophies behind the new age and human potential movements, mass-produced consumer goods, DIY home improvement trends, suburban utopianism, and psychedelic transcendentalism. ...Radiant Dream Face finds our collective vision skewed away slightly from the rough, pagan feel of past efforts toward a more elegant, sci-fi inspired sensibility. The objects and the method of their arrangement in the gallery willfully distort, defy and establish lines between a number of different interior spaces - intimate domestic setting, office workspace, house of worship, and performance stage are all evoked. There is a feeling of a community space, a shared harmonious reality. The interactive aspect of the show (feel free to touch!) is an invitation not just to take a tour of the ship, but also to try flying it."

In the Autzen Gallery. Neuberger Hall, Room 205, 725 SW Harrison. Opening 4PM-6

Additional group shows in the MK Gallery, PSU Art Building, Room 207, 2000 SW 5th. Opening 4PM-6 and the Video Gallery, 24x7 in the same building street side.



Compound presents Neither Here Nor There work by Portlander Ren Sakurai, with some work resembling the great Japanese designer Yokoo Tadanori. He shows with bright impressionist Taka Sudo. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th



DJ and fashion designer Genevieve Dellinger presents 4/4, blankets of tapestry inspired by random visual patterns in the world mashing up with the strict structure of dance music. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd



Portland sculptor and PNCA professor Manuel Izquierdo recently passed and Russo is mounting a retrospective. Izquierdo's sculptures will be immediately familiar, from the world of Portland public art. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st



Continuing its animal theme Mary Frey shows taxidermy photos at Blue Sky. She received her MFA in photography from Yale pre-Crewdson, most of her other work does involve people. For this series, she uses an archaic chemical photo process, fragile ambrotypes, as a metaphor for the decay of formerly wild life in natural history museum displays. With ironic photos of amusement parks by Reiner Riedler. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th



Julianna Bright shows Our Songs of Experience, illustration style work. Opening night, her band, the Golden Bears, play songs from their new recording by the same name, at 7:30. At Fontanelle www.fontanellegallery.com 205 SW Pine



The Everett Lofts and associated spaces, bounded by NW Broadway, Everett, 6th and Flanders are always recommended for your viewing pleasure. It takes less time for you to see them all, than for me to research them all. Enjoy!

November 22 Stock

Stock is a homemade dinner of local ingredients enabling small scale grants to artists. The results are immediate, one month, the diners select an artist, the next month they see the results. It's a project of artists who have been part of the social practice art program at PSU. This month's candidate artist projects are from Rachel Peddersen & Mia Nolting, Hannah Jickling and Lori Gilbert, Jolyn Fry, Nicole Lavelle, Public Social University, Michael Reinsch, Lisa Schonberg and Shawn Creeden, Sea Change Gallery, Shelby Davis and Crystal Schenk, Working Theatre Collective and Pete Yahnke. It's at PNCA 6PM-8 $10 but it is at capacity. Regrets only to portlandstock at gmail dot com.

November 21 Ethan Rose, BBoy-BGirl Battle, Monster Trucks, Scratch

Sound artist and sound designer Ethan Rose is equally at home making installations that stand on their own visually. He has a new one based on glass harmonicas as the sound making element in collaboration with Portland glass artist Andy Paiko. The installation is up at the PNCA Museum of Contemporary Crafts now. Today, Rose, Piako and the curator discuss the work. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft 724 NW Davis 1PM-2 Free



Pay your Dues 3 is a 2x2 battle with a top prize of $300 cash money. Wheels of steel, DJ Wicked, judges Tip Toe - 96' SUB-C/ Portland Street Rockers, Thomas Oragami - Soul Felons and King Reds - Soul Felons. At the Montavilla Community Center, 8219 NE Glisan. 5:30PM - 10:30, $7


West Coast Turnaround is an installation in a small room of elements suggesting a long haul tractor trailer, at full scale, by artists in residence Shelby Davis and Crystal Schenk. Their artist statement has all kinds of Freudian associations from which you may draw your own. It opens at Milepost5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 6PM-9 Free


Gallery Homeland is throwing a bakesale for your edification, Scratch, homemade yummy items. There will be small edibles, jar goods, whole pies and cakes, perfect for Thanksgiving, or spot eating. Quantities are strictly limited, early arrival recommended. At the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, corner SW 10th and Stark, 11AM-2PM

November 20-22 Indigenous NY Butoh Festival Performances

The New York Butoh Festival is part of an international celebration of the 50th year of butoh, a modern dance form that originated in the Tokyo avant-garde of the time. The festival has hosted Japanese and other international performers. This weekend, they present New York butoh performers Erin Ellen Kelly, Stephanie Lanckton, Bill Mullen, Irem Calikusu, Denisa Musilova, Morgan von Pecelli, Megan Nicely, Steven Carlino ,Tanya Calamoneri and Ximena Garnica. All the details may be found at the NY Butoh Festival website. At CAVE www.caveartspace.org in Brooklyn. Various times. $15

November 19 Ignite China Spark About

Ignite is sort of an entertaining Toastmasters for the web set. It happens irregularly including tonight. www.igniteportland.com At the Bagdad Theater General admission doors 6:30PM, Program 7. Free



China is big. They need big buildings in new places and Portland architects sometimes design them. Find out how that goes tonight. The Designs on Portland series presents Rick Potestio, Jeff Lamb, Gary Reddick and Bob Packard speaking on their experiences designing for Chinese clients. At DWR Portland Studio 1200 NW Everett. Doors 6:00PM, program 6:30 Free



Meanwhile Art Spark focuses tonight on performance booking with the Portland-based Western Arts Alliance which operates over the West Coast and inland. Art Spark These events are great for creative, free ranging conversation and are free! www.portlandartspark.com at Holocene 5PM-9 Free



Heidi McBride is a new model art dealer and consultant. Her specialty is helping collectors explore their interests in a different atmosphere than a gallery. Tonight she expand that program, opening "about space" a 24x7 window gallery in the South Waterfront neighborhood. Artist Fae Young-Scherling’s shows an installation, BLUEPRINTS, ANCHORS, AMBITIONS. It's at 3660 SW River Parkway, at the corner of SW Gaines in the Atwater Place building. Reception 5:30PM-7 Free

November 13 Nobel Dreams Nationale Meadows

False Front Studios near Alberta is one of a handful of neighborhood galleries that are contemporary. This month they have paintings that started as photocollage by Lynda Frese. Frese revisits the pantheon of Hindu gods upon the Gulf Coast as have visited fierce hurricanes, revenge for climate and environmental change. Frese's work may also be seen on book covers for the English translations of Nobel literature prize winner Herta Müller. At the False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd


Sarah Meadows, who studied at PNCA, operates surely in the realms of fashion photography, landscape and creatively framed portraits. Tonight she uses light to selectively frame landscapes. Opening at NATIONALE nationaleportland.blogspot.com 2730 E Burnside 6PM-9

November 12 Design for Developing Countries

Mercy Corps is host to a design exhibition curated by Cooper Hewitt design museum: Design for the Other 90%. This show of appropriate technology has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center and the offices of the CDC, it's headed to the offices of National Geographic. You can stop by Mercy Corps new offices by Saturday Market to see it. Tonight they host Dr. Paul Polak speaking on his nonprofit of 28 years, International Development Enterprises. He is author to Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, alternatives to traditional international aid programs. An important project they undertake is producing pumps to draw clean water for household use and agriculture in Africa and Asia. From water, they work to develop sustainable businesses that build communities. In the new Mercy Corps office - the building next to Saturday Market at Ankeny and SW 1st. 7:30PM Free

November 11 China in Art

Xu Bing is an established Chinese artist, resident in the US since 1990. He has specialized in works commenting on language, including work made up of otherwise authentic looking fabricated and meaningless characters. He has made brilliant works mixing Zen and 9/11, mixing breeding pigs with nonsense English and Chinese words, works with silkworms and calligraphy lessons in the West with Chinese character-like English. Chinese society is controlled in different ways than that of the US. Political criticism in particular is constrained in many ways, but the art world either is overlooked or considered too marginal to tightly control. Thus art has been a refuge for discussion of the evolution of Chinese society. Bing has spoken only once before in Portland under PICA auspices in 2001. A rare chance for a look into worlds of Chinese art. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org Fields Ballroom (1st floor Masonic Temple Building) 1219 SW Park 5:30PM $12, $5 members

November 9 Photographer-Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate Speaks

Laurel Nakadate, represents the Yale school of photography: strong portraits, enmeshing the personal and fictional, unsettling the viewer. It is art's response to our modern situation of panopticon voyeurism. Yale school photographers often create cinematic situations and Nakadate circled back on cinema, producing a film Stay The Same Never Change, with similar subject matter. In between photography and cinema, she has also produced videos, essentially performances with herself and sometimes strangers. A bold photographer to watch. Talk in the Shattuck Hall Annex out front, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30PM Free

November 7 Disjecta Art Center Auction and Binary Beatdown

Disjecta benefits artists and audience with a myriad of programs, including reviving the Oregon biennial curated show of artists. Tonight they have a party auction in which art, donated by artists, can be purchased by you, audience. They have assembled a great collection including David Anderson, Holly Andres, Mark Andres, Josh Arseanu, Meagan Atiyeh, May Juliette Barruel, Rick Bartow, Horia Bobia, Inge Bruggeman, Ryan Burghard, Heather Burkhalter, Ben Buswell, Lisa Conway, Shelby Davis, Matthew Denison, Geoff Dorn, Alec Egan, Karen Esler, Nigel Fenton, Eduardo Fernandez, Anna Fidler, Harrell Fletcher, Stephen Funk, Damien Gilley, Justin Gorman, Peter Gronquist, Sean Healy, Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson, Liz Knight, Christopher Knight, James Lavadour, Joe Macca, Weird Fiction, Jenene Nagy, Brad Nelson, Dan Ness, Paintallica, Miel-Margarita Paredes, Ryan Pierce, Ann Ploeger, Tom Prochaska, Mylan Rakish, Mike Rea, Ben Rosenberg, Crystal Schenk, Amanda Schroer, Nicole Eriko Smith, Josh Smith, David Stein, Morgan Walker, Heather Watkins, Darrell Williamson and Amanda Wojick. No doubt many are familiar names, in any event, seeing this cross section of current Portland is well worth the admission. DJ, good conversation and the auction will be MC'd by the inimitable Andrew Dickson, the new Mad Man (in a good way)! At Disjecta www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Doors 7PM, live auction 8, $20



Binary Beatdown is 2on2 b-boy, b-girl battle, with the winner taking $500. Originally limited to 32 crews, there may be twice that. Judges are Soucide -Defcon 5, Portland, Cha Cha -AOM/TheM team, Seattle and Daniel the Lion -Transitions crew, California with DJ Deff Ro. At 14523 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton, by the MAX. Doors 6PM $7

November 6 Eastside Art Openings

NAAU opens Oaks Park Pentimento by photographer Jim Lommisson, documenting beautiful paintings, hidden in plain sight, within the decaying amusement park's carousel. The paintings were done by two generations of artists, in 1912, and then painted over in 1944. Over the interviening years including floods, completely submerging the paintings, the old images emerged from behind the newer, making a beautiful accidental composite.

Lommison is an accomplished mid-career artist who has done outstanding idea-driven work, such as Exit Wounds, Iraq veteran portraits, stories and their own snapshots, his Katrina series, Heaven and Earth and Shadow Boxers, American Fight Clubs.

At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny



Kunsthalle: Deutschland nach Portland is a show in Portland of artists in Berlin, and artists here who have worked there. Artists include Wolfgang Fütterer, Sanna-Lisa Gesang-Gottowt, Terrell James, Bo Joseph, Marte Kiessling, Sandra Preston, Per Schumann, Ole Ukena and Malte Zacharias. The show is a complemet to EAST/WEST Berlin:: RECONSTRUCTION, organized by Homeland to show Portland artists in Berlin. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th x Division



Nemo is participating in the China-art-design theme now happening in Portland with Reflecting China, photographs by Shen Wei and Jane Tam, both based in the US. The show themes Chinese identity, in its scattered geography, amidst a rapidly changing world. At Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont



Trish Grantham's illustration collage is instantly recognizable, she has collaborated with many Portland creative businesses to excellent effect. Her characters combine a sense of pathos with kawaii, the modern predicament. At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8



We live in an era of epic change, with a richly connected communication system to allow ut to be aware of it. 20yrs After Berlin Wall...Girls Doing Girl Thing! Artists Sanna-Lisa-Gesang-Gottowt, Alyssa Noches, Emily Lazar, Chloe Richard and Krystyn Strother show work. Tu Fawning performs at 9:30. At WorksoundPDX www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder 7-late



PNCA is programming the Lodge Gallery from time to time at the architecture firm. Tonight Cark Klimt and Daniel Glendening show Communication Breakdown. At the Lodge Gallery 1532 SW Morrison 6PM-8



Alex Steckly shows abstract paintings and sculpture. At Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1430 SE 3rd



Local Goods is a new store focused on sustainable products. Tonight they open Polaroids by Amaren Colosi, collaging retro advertising photos and landscapes; and Sarah Cruse, illustration style paintings and prints. At Local Goods www.localgoodsllc.com 2136 E Burnside 5:30PM-8:30



Breeseblock Has Group Hug, Portland and San Francisco artists. At Breezeblock www.breezeblockgallery.com Gallery 1847 E. Burnside



In the 811 E Burnside Block

Grass Hut shows Its Out There - In Here, geometric abstractions by Mark Warren Jacques. At Grass Hut www.grasshutcorp.com

Redux has Muertos, Day of the Dead-inspired art. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com

November 5 Westside Art Openings

Dianne Kornberg is a photographer with whom I've had the privilege of studying. She is a master printmaker in silver and digital-based media. She has taken an Arbus-like gaze, cool, but enigmatic, at biological specimens, bugs, birds, bones, butterflies and seaweeds, isolated from their natural environment. Continuing the theme, India Tigers, are butterflies, loosely wrapped in paper folds, like diamonds, as they have traveled by air post. As children, we delighted in magical flying beasts, they seem now fewer; how is it we must import them from far India? At Elizabeth Leach www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th



Scott Peterman, known for his portraits of ice fishing houses, is back with a collection of urban and natural landscapes. Not as odd as Misrach's, they are straightforward in the mode of 19th century explorer photographers, unlikely from the Yale school of his MFA. At Charles Hartman Gallery www.hartmanfineart.com 134 NW 8th



Jim Riswold was an ad man. Turning hitting communication style to art, he produces wry comment on culture as art, though not quite as cynical as Adbusters. At Augen www.augengallery.com 817 SW 2nd 8:30PM close



PNCA has a large array of galleries supporting its expanding program. In the 13th and Johnson building there should be interesting work in the MFA gallery - the old media gallery off the North end of the artium - a light art installation, media rarely seen in Portland, by Laura Hughes. Meanwhile the Feldman Gallery + Project Space has Depravities of War, large woodcut prints by Sandow Birk breaking down the process of our current warmaking. In the Room 214 gallery, Amanda Langston, Alfredo Lettenmaier, Yiu-Hong Leung, Jane Schiffauer and Allison Woodin show work inspired by their China residency as part of PNCA's Global Studios: China program. Meanwhile Little Gods involves animation by Chris Bodven, Katie Harral, Liz Harris, Chad Hinman, Shelley Jordon, Tabitha Knight, Alison Loader, Joey Lusterman, Akira Nakamura, Jeff Richardson, Jessie Weitzel and Cecilia Westerberg in the new office building twelve|west's Hybrid Gallery, 430 SW 13th



Kendra Larson shows mystical landscapes at Valentines myspace.com/valentineslifeblood 232 SW Ankeny Art 6PM, party 9:30


Blue Sky Gallery has "animal focused street photography" by Giacomo Brunelli made with his father's 1960's era 35mm SLR and developed in a low tech apartment darkroom. Joni Sternbach shows portraits of surfers made on finely detailed tintypes, a positive process using dangerous chemicals and developed on the exposure site. In the Nine Gallery, Jerry Mayer and Ellen George have collaborated on Scape. It will be interesting to see if they reconfigure it throughout the month. At Blue Sky Gallery. www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th



The Everett Station Galleries are recommended as always for your viewing pleasure.

November 2 (+3) Film, Asethetics, Protest

Tonight, the PSU Monday night lecture series presents members of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest collective. The journal, now in issue 6, presents a wide range of writing on political protest, social practice projects and extending artist engagement in culture. As related by the speaker, they take an anarchist approach to protest globalization as artists, wraping it in a blanket Situationist theory and ultra academic language. Not effective enough for me. They are also publishers of related works such as "An Atlas of Radical Cartography", a comic "Fashion 2012", "Public Phenomena by Temporary Services", and "Call to Farms!" Talk in the Shattuck Hall Annex out front, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30PM Free


Meanwhile tonight and tomorrow the Cinema Project presents films by Stephen Connolly, British filmmaker. Connolly makes impressionistic films which incorporate documentary footage. You can see the work for yourself. Presented by the Cinema Project, with the artist in attendance. At the Cinema Project www.cinemaproject.org space 11 NW 13th Ave, top floor. Elevator access is provided, please come to the door to request. Leave some extra time to find it. 7:30PM $6 (cash/check)

October 30 SoMe and Halloween

Today marks the last day of a program exploring social media - SoMe - tools in connecting artists, organizations and patron/collector/audience. There are events at 4 and 7, check the website and SoMe feeds for info! thenewcommunicators.com



"Whimsically disturbing", you cannot beat that as Halloween inspiration. It's a description of performances by the Degenerate Art Ensemble, mixing purpose made 21st century music with butoh, the challenging-enigmatic modern dance form from Japan. Tonight and tomorrow, the Degenerate Art Ensemble performs at the Moore in Seattle. Sonic Tales, the latest collaboration between Haruko Nishimura and Joshua Kohl plus their art army, culminates with a Halloween party after the Saturday performance for an extra $20. Performance by the Degenerate Art Ensemble www.degenerateartensemble.com At the Moore Theater 1932 2nd Ave. Friday and Saturday October 30, 31. 8PM $22

October 29 Contemporary Architecture in China and Painting on Vinyl

Yung Ho Chang is a world architect, spanning a practice in Beijing and role as head of the architectural design department at MIT. He was the designer of the China Design Now installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum (Ziba was the designer for Portland). That China is undergoing an unprecedented building boom is no secret. That has created an opportunity for Chinese architects. Chinese in large cities are experiencing firsthand first rate architecture by international firms, the process of experience that informs aesthetics. Over time it will be interesting to see new aesthetic streams emerging China and diffusing into the rest of the world. Chang's designs relate strongly to the Mies, Kahn and Cloepfil branches of contemporary architecture while incorporating current green and sustainable vectors. Chang speaks at the Portland Art Museum auditorium www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 7PM-midnight $5 members



Vinyl Killers is a project to reuse vinyl music discs as visual art canvas. Founded in the Everett Station Lofts in 2003, it returns with a vengeance to Goodfoot tonight. Goodfoot has a ton of wallspace, especially in relation to small affordable works - it can be visually overwhelming. Luckily the opening is from 5PM to 2AM, though art judgement through beer goggles can be suspect. The works will be online for sale at the Goodfoot website after November 1. At Goodfoot 2845 SE Stark 5PM-2AM Free

October 28 OfficePDX PopUp on China

OfficePDX is now virtual, but from time to time does events in real space. An example is tonight. OfficePDX presents a panel: Greg Stobbs, Nike Retail Director; Doug Cooke, Tinder Design Research Co-Founder and Greg Mitchell, LRS Architects Project Manager; each speaking on their experiences working in China. OfficePDX events have been consistently compelling and draw a great design audience. At Froelick Gallery www.froelickgallery.com 714 NW Davis 7PM-9 Free

October 24 What is a Publication Studio?

Books. In the words of Cradle to Cradle author William McDonough: "Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy as fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes colors with the seasons and self-replicates. Well, why don't we knock that down and [print on it]" We turn that most elegant of design objects, a tree, to a book. In fact, we print large numbers, ship them around the world using a ton of energy, then discard most.

Our print economy is wasteful and inelegant. Carbon negative.

The Kindle offers a newly evolving possibility when we live in cloud libraries. Until then, print on request is an alternative: print only what you need. It is like a bakery, starting early, then selling out all those fresh items. Repeat.

That is a publication studio.

Creative writer, editor, publisher, organizer Matthew Stadler and Tin House writer, designer Patricia No have created an itinerant book printing project, operating from 6AM to noon in the Ace Hotel Cleaners.

There, purchase a few titles exclusively sourced and printed daily, including Lawrence Rinder's cynical novel of NY's art world, resembling too many real world, potentially ultralitigious, figures to see publishing inc.'s light of day.

The low tech content machine, printer and binder is used to print a fresh day's worth of books, or bring your own file and leave with a book!

The Publication Studio solicited Portland creators to bring content and 25 made 19 books which are being shared at the Amsterdam Biennale.

Saturday, 11AM, Patricia and many of the artist-writers in the Publication Studio at the Ace will Skype in to Stadler in Amsterdam for a cross pond joint presentation of the books.

The artists and books are: Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Thomas Fisher, Convivium; Arnold Kemp, Surface Space Prosthetic; M Blash, no. 1; Israel Lund, Some, But Not All, of my Clothes; Sarah Meadows, 47 Oceans; Shawn Records, Owner of This World; Sarah Gottesdeiner, Yoko & Moon; Philip Iosca, Blush; Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, (untitled); Vanessa Renwick, Optical Soundtrack; Aaron Flint Jamison, (untitled); Alex Felton, Touched by an Email; Dana Dart-McLean and Ashby Collinson, Catalogue of Variable Essence; Curtis Knapp, Grayscale; Justin Gorman and Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Bodies; Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropology; Gary Wiseman and Meredith Andrews, I Love Urban Outfitters and Urban Outfitters Loves Me; and Kristan Kennedy, S.W.P.C.Y. and Marc Moscato, The Dill Pickle Club.

They will also have available the Etherpad collaborative writing environment to author live a document to be printed and bound then, there, now by the Publication Studio.

It all happens at the Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz, in the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, corner SW 10th and Stark, 11AM Free

October 21 Magnificent Obsessions

Magnificent Obsessions is a 2005 film tracing the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan. First traveling to Japan in 1905, Wright resided in Tokyo between 1915 and 1922, having an influence on Japanese architects, noted in the film. Wright was also a very active art dealer in ukiyo-e prints. He introduced them to America and often sold to his architectural clients. Wright's most known work was magnificent Imperial Hotel, near the Imperial Palace, not only beautiful, but incorporating innovative structural design which allowed it to survive a magnitude 8.3 earthquake undamaged. Ultimately the building was demolished in 1968 to build a bigger hotel on the site; the facade may be found today in Meiji Mura, a building collection in Nagoya. It's at the AIA Center for Architecture 403 NW 11th. Doors 5:30PM, film 6 Free

October 18 Soup+Artists

Time for the excellent monthly meetup of artists seeking project funding, people who can pay $10 for a home cooked dinner, food and thought. It's based on a program started in Chicago, by InCUBATE and a project of Portland social practice artists Katy Asher, Ariana Jacob and Amber Bell. Tonight the eaters will select one of six proposals and last month's funded artists will report on their project. The number of eaters has grown rapidly, so it is suggested you RSVP at portlandstock at gmail dot com and arrive early if you would like to eat though of course, you are welcome to contribute $10 and vote for a proposal without eating. STOCK at Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th x Division 6PM-8 $10

October 16 Moses v Jacobs

Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs represent competing visions of the American city. Robert Moses was a master freeway planner epitomizing the automobile world of tomorrow. Jacobs was champion of the new urbanism, street scapes where people walked and communed with each other and pedestrian-scaled small business. Little Portland rejected Moses' vision, handed down on consultant tablets in 1943 and embraced a Jacobs plan in 1972. The rest is history, with Portland mandated mixed use development, activating streets and community.

New York is different, with dense community neighborhood. Moses planned modern New York, in particular enabling vast suburbs to the East and West. He also controlled public housing and recreation, which could have turned out much differently.

This evening Carl Abbott from PSU and Anthony Flint, author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City, provide their interpretation of the clash of these titans in the context of Portland as it it today and where they see it going. The inimitable Randy Gragg moderates this instance of the Bright Light series sponsored by the City Club of Portland and the Portland Spaces Magazine.

At Powell's Books, 10th and W Burnside 7PM Free

October 14 Gaudi on Film

While architecture struggled with the neoclassical to modernist transition, a few architects laid down very personal styles: Gaudi and Hundertwasser. Tonight if you cannot go to Barcelona, you can see a documentary on Gaudi's work by Hiroshi Teshigahara. It's at the AIA Center for Architecture 403 NW 11th. Doors 5:30PM, film 6 Free

October 13 The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalyitcal Society

Coney Island is a fantasy, make believe in all senses, sight, sound, smell, taste and the visceral sense of motion. Umberto Eco in his Travels in Hyperreality, Faith in Fakes, notes America's fascination with fabrication and synthetic environments from Coney Island to Disneyland, and all that lies between.

This is the work of Zoe Beloff, artist, in her project, Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Its Circle, 1926-1972. Dreamland is a collection of documents, drawings, photographs and films, artifacts representing the Society.

In 1909, Sigmund Freud made his only trip to the United States and visited Coney Island. Inspired by Freud and Jung, Beloff notes the Society was formed by one Albert Grass. Working class New Yorkers, over a period of years, recorded and reenacted their dreams, filming them, in an effort to psychoanalyze the American experience. Note another Albert Grass was also a pioneer in electroencephalography at Harvard beginning in the '30's.

Beloff presents the lost films this evening, in person. Films include:
Coney Island by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle [1917, 16mm, b&w, silent, 25 min.]
The Midget Crane by Albert Grass [1926, 16mm, b&w, silent, 2 min.]
The Praying Mantis by Charmion de Forde [1931,16mm, b&w, sound, 6 min.]
The Bear Dream by Arthur Rosenzweig [1937, 16mm, b&w, silent, 4 min.]
Chasing Louis Schnekowitz by Molly Lippman [1945, 8mm, b&w, silent, 4 min.]
The Lion Dream by Teddy Weisengrund [1947, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min.]
The Lonely Chicken Dream by Beverly d’Angelo [1954, 16mm, color, sound, 3 min.]
The Abandoned Ark by Stella Weiss [1958, 16mm, color/ b&w, silent, 4 min.]
My Dream of Dental Irritation by Bobby Beaujolais [1964, 8mm, color, sound, 5 min.]
The Bobsled: A Recurring Dream by Eddie Kammerer [1972, 16mm, color/b&w, sound, 2 min.]

Beloff, Whitney Biennial artist, produces poetic and enigmatic work, similar to Josiah McElheny in calling to question authorship and history in his installation of artifacts from lost Roman glass blowers. While McElheny is cool, Beloff taps history, nostalgia and surrealism.

If you miss the films, Beloff has a book of documentation for the project, with a DVD. Sweet dreams!

Presented by the Cinema Project, with the artist in attendance, www.cinemaproject.org. At the Cinema Project space 11 NW 13th Ave, top floor. Elevator access is provided, please come to the door to request. Leave some extra time to find the space. 7:30PM $6 (cash/check)

October 12 Mel Ziegler Monday Night

The Portland State Art Department Monday Night Lecture Series is in swing. Tonight it's Mel Ziegler, an interesting public art maker. This series has been consistently captivating, and you can't beat the price! Talk in Shattuck Hall, Room 212 or the Annex out front, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 7:30PM Free

October 10 The World and China

The Mercy Corps Action Center in their new offices is open today to you. Mercy Corps does human-centered self help projects around the world and operates a local social entrepreneur network. The Action Center is based on the idea that world problems are solvable and that it is an individual burden on each of us that those problems have not yet been solved. The Center asks, What can I do, if I have one minute, if I have one hour, if I have one day, if I have one month, if I have one lifetime? Everyone has one minute, so let's get started, and you can do it in the Action Center. The center is filled with interactive videos, particularly three minute videos filmed in Mercy Corps field stations; and projects like the homes and classrooms Mercy Corps makes possible in countries worldwide. There is also a Google Earth-driven navigator to their projects. In the new Mercy Corps www.mercycorps.org office - the building next to Saturday Market at Ankeny and SW 1st. 10-5 Free


China. The diversity is incomprehensible. Zoom in to the youth and creative culture in cities like Shanghai and Beijing and you have some thing to dig in to. That is your opportunity tonight as John Jay, executive creative director of the ad agency Weiden+Kennedy shares his insights on China Youth Now. He has a keen professional and personal interest in China, he opened the W+K creative office in Shanghai. Jay speaks at the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 7PM $12, $5 members.

October 9 Soft Floating Jelly Sound

Soft sculptor, jewelry maker, painter and puppet creator Anna Weber has made beautiful and strange costumes for sometime Portland musicians Hoolganship and Mirah. Tonight see her paintings and necklaces opening at NATIONALE nationaleportland.blogspot.com 2730 E Burnside



China Design Now opens to the public tomorrow at the Portland Art Museum. It was curated by Lauren Parker and Hongxing Zhang at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Portland has many creatives deeply immersed in the emerging Chinese youth culture including John Jay who has facilitated the Portland exhibition: the Jelly Generation and Floating World Comics who curated a show of underground comix from China including 54boy, Menz, Zao, Guo Qi, Leng Leng, Jiu Haoming, Er Dong, Ann and Wo Wo. Opens tonight in the Goldsmith Building 32 NW 5th



Meanwhile over at Worksound is an instance of the PNCA graduates and instructors show that is going on all over town. Carl Diehl, Tracey Cockrell, Lennie Pitkin present sculptures, sound, video, photographs themed Memory / Frequency. At 9:30 is a live performance by Weird Fiction: Carl Diehl, Mack McFarland, jeff Richardson, Zack Benfinld and Vihn Manson. "They employ an array of obsolete video mixers, recursive digital devices, live percussion and assorted cine-molecular interventions, exploding and exploring vidsonic trajectories in real-time. A nebulous ensemble of artists and musicians." At Worksound 820 SE Alder

October 8 Schlossberg on Interaction Design

Dr. Edwin Schlossberg has been designing interactions in museums and exhibits since 1977. He is responsible for one in the new Mercy Corps headquarters explaining their projects, where he speaks tonight. Experience design is an interest of mine from mobile devices to interactive architecture. This lies somewhere in between. Should be an interesting talk. RSVP to rsvp@portlandspaces.net with subject RSVP+for+Edwin+Schlossberg
+Interacts. In the new Mercy Corps office - the building next to Saturday Market at Ankeny and SW 1st. Doors 5:30PM, talk 6. Arrive early. Free

October 2 Eastside Art Openings

The Eastside artspace defies singular description. It is geographically diverse too.

There is a giant show at Goodfoot, maybe even too large to absorb in one sitting, by 100 artists, which opened last week. It has a heavy dose of lowbrow, and well executed within that genre. The prices are affordable. Art has no intrinsic monetary value aside from that set by buyers. The value accrues by narrative and the personal brand of the artist; I would argue beauty is important, but not to everyone. This art is making its own market on a small scale, there are commercial galleries, for instance Roq la Rue in Seattle, who have been involved for many years and have benefited from the rise in prices by artists such as Mark Ryden. Goodfoot times its grand openings for the last Thursday of the month. At Goodfoot 2845 SE Stark



Fourteen30 is participating in the reprise of PNCA artists at 100. Nan Curtis, Portland artist provocateur and Nicolaii Dornstauder show work. Curtis taught at PNCA and was an instigator of the intermedia program which broke down the strict conservatory structure of painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and graphic design. She activated the Feldman Gallery in the Johnson Street building and inspired artist friend MK Guth towards the path that has resulted in her Whitney biennial selection. Work worth thinking about. At Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1430 SE 3rd



Arnold Pander is known as illustrator of graphic novels, aka comics, and son of Dutch painter Henk Pander. He also paints on velvet. It is more practical than it seems, black velvet in low light, is the perfect featureless and reflectionless surround for pigment. It provides, in effect, almost infinite contrast ratio. Arnold shows new velvet paintings, themed Gods and Mortals, at Aalto Lounge. 3356 SE Belmont



Homeland shows Josh Arseneau's Sword of Light, his interpretation of the anxiety of tragic world events. The art opening corresponds to the conference opening for WhereCampPDX. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th x Division



Grande Ronde is a meditative installation and big diving board jump for artist Rose McCormick. It works, keep it up. At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny



Off the Clock is a just that, collaboration between designer Andrea Paustenbaugh and photographer Nate Silverstein. Some of their creative product are books. An always interesting opening event. At Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont



Nationalle presents Anna Weber: "paintings and drawings inspired by geometry, architecture, maps, textiles, sign painters, symmetry, balance, falling, and floating." This gallery shop has a good eye and a good vibe. Often live music too. Opening at NATIONALE nationaleportland.blogspot.com 2730 E Burnside 6PM-9



In the 811 Block

Grass Hut shows illustration style work, In the Mend by Mel Kadel and Lori D.. They work separately and in collaboration. Poignant, fun accessible.

Papergirl is a collaborative project with a social practice vibe. Referencing delivery of actual paper news(papers) as it once was done by bike! A variety of artist work is on display in Emily Katz and Heather Treadway's shop and studio in the back of 811. Later it will be distributed to friends and strangers by bike. At Second Nature.

REDUX shows sculpture, illustration and paintings by Haley Ann Robinson.

Some spots up Burnside toward 11th, on the same side of the street, also have art including Lille and Report.

811 East Burnside, North side of the street, on up to 11th.