October 7 Westside Art Openings

Mmm Halloween. Valentines has a Halloween show with Cody Brant, Liz Harris, Jo Jackson, Josh Kermiet, Jeff Kriksciun, Pete LaVigne-Chalek, Corey Lunn, Linda McAllister, Adam Sorensen, Brighid Thomas, and Jay Winebrenner. Should be interesting. E*Rock plays later. Valentines valentineslifeblood.blogspot.com 232 SW Ankeny



Compound has Illustrious with Jade Klara Marting Hsu. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th



Compound curator Matt Wagner has his own new space Hellion Gallery. Stop by to see if it's open. www.helliongallery.com 323 NW 6th



Grass Hut has Brent Wick and Lori D. Grass Hut is in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 20 NW 5th




Unnatural History is a sort of imaginary museum of natural history as interpreted by artists Aaron Trotter, Jenny Fillius, Patrick Smith, Alison Foshee, Ryan Jennings, Nicole Linde and Brin Levinson. At Cravedog Music Loft Gallery cravedogloftgallery.wordpress.com 412 NW Couch St. #203 6PM-9



Grassy Knoll has Geosketching patterns. They are the maps made as we travel by the GPS units in our phones. Usually they are conveniently residing on a cloud server, here they are printed. At Grassy Knoll Gallery www.grassyknollgallery.com 123 NW 2nd



Fantasy Basketball by Anna Fidler a continuation of her Disjecta work. No surprise the copywriting award of the month:

"Energy has been the overarching theme in Anna Fidler work for the past ten years referencing topics such as photosynthesis, electricity, binaural rhythm patterns and their relationship to lucid dreams.

Her body of work Fantasy Basketball depicts vibrant basketball scenes inspired by the Portland Trail Blazers. She makes large-scale, labor-intensive works rendered in glittery micaenriched acrylic washes and pastels, colored pencils and airbrush. She captures the raw and uninhibited spirit of the game and portray the physical energy through pulsating color, unconventional shapes and the combination of paint and pencil.

While these monumental pieces emphasize the energy of the game, they also explore the hero status and god-like worship bestowed upon these athletes turning a critical eye toward such unabashed fanaticism. This adroit social commentary is inspired by historical painters like Jacques-Louis David and takes formal cues from Impressionists such as Monet".

At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 6PM-8



Reading Frenzy presents Forget Me Not, work by gallery artists relating to memories of the dearly departed. Quite a list of artists - see their website. At Reading Frenzy www.readingfrenzy.com 921 SW Oak



Hungry Eyeball is a Portland resource for lovers of outsider art. They also operate an online gallery for some artists. They have picked a few favorites for this show, Buzz: Wesley Younie, Amy Ruppel, Kinoko, Chelsea Fletcher and Rebecca Artemesia. At Tender Loving Empire www.tenderlovingempire.com 412 SW 10th



Jerry Badger has photos of urban Berlin made in 2007-2008, which is some time ago in Berlin time. Also Stella Johnson with photos of countryside life in Mexico, Cameroon, and Nicaragua. Blue Sky is 35 this year and has a whole series of events Friday and Saturday. Check their website. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th



The Everett Lofts, NW Broadway and Everett are recommended, as always for your viewing pleasure.

October 6-30 ShowPDX Furniture Designs

We have a strong Portland object design community. ShowPDX is a show of their furniture at points along the industrial design-craft continuum. ShowPDX has been used in the past by Design Within Reach to scout designs. Interested to see examples of green, new materials and new fabrication techniques such as laster, water jet and computerized routers. At 2030 N Williams.

Continues Monday, Wednesday, Friday Noon-2, 4PM-6 and Saturdays noon-2 Free. Opening reception October 6, 6PM $10.

October 4 PSU Monday Night Talks Resume

The always engaging Monday art lectures at Portland State University resume. There have been many stellar talks by noted artists. The focus has been contemporary, idea-driven artists with a substantial helping of social practice or open source participation. Tonight Christina Olsen speaks. She is director of education and public programs at the Portland Art Museum, where PSU social practice artists crack open the Museum in the second Shine a Light Program October 16. Many people would love to visit the Museum, but never get around to it. That event reaches them. It's a sparkley night event with DJ's, drinks, socializing and exhibitional Greco-Roman wrestling. You can hear Olsen's plans for connecting museum to community in Portland tonight. 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

October 2 Undead Art Center and Spooky Violin

Last evening there seemed a sudden dramatic shift to black clothing, Halloween arrives early. So in that vein...


There has been a longtime alliance between real estate developers and Portland visual arts. Developers provide inexpensive temporary exhibition space to market the space long term to the networks of exhibition attendees, and get low cost publicity. Such was the case for the Portland Art Center which occupied a building in Old Town, now coincidentally home to the too undead 24 Hour Church of Elvis. So in the old Portland Art Center space rises the Share show, curated by Chris Haberman. It's visual artists, writers and performers. Details at sharepdx.blogspot.com NW 5th and Couch 6PM-10 Free



Meanwhile there will be a concert of carnatic violin by father and son Dr. L. Subramaniam and Ambi Subramaniam (Turn off sound, highly annoying sound logo). Accompanied by K. Sekar on thavil, Tripunithoora N. Radhakrishnan on ghatam and Satya Sai Ghantasala on moorsing. Spooky because Indian music scales are different, and can sound that way. www.rasika.org At the PCPA Winningstad Theater 1111 SW Broadway 7PM $25-45

October 1-3 The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival

We have written on this before. Suffice it to say, it's an opportunity to visit the dark and spooky side. Consult their website and schedule for the details on feature and short films, talks and even a dance party. Events centered around the Hollywood Theater on NE Sandy

October 1 Eastside Art Openings

What a perfect place for an art installation: an historic cemetery. Adventurous clay and media mixing sculptors Jacomijn Schellevis and Micki Skudlarczyk have worked together in Mexico, Europe and now in Southeast Portland. Her previous work captured the butchering of a cow in the small Mexican village of her art residency. That was followed by a stunning installation using the delicate tracery of the blood vessels defining our bodies' membranes, dried and preserved. All have touched the endless cycle of life and death. The work this evening are sugar sculptures installed in the cemetery. There is a group of boats, sailing West, in the part of the cemetery thought to have once held Chinese graves. The remains were likely disinterred and moved to China. Elsewhere in the cemetery is a tangle pile of coiled DNA model forms. They are offered to be broken by the audience into pieces to be consumed, or taken home. Very smart work, outstanding network of supporters, international, the perfect setting. More of this please, Portland. Park respectfully in the neighborhood, no parking in the cemetery. In collaboration with the Alicia Blue Gallery www.aliciabluegallery.com At Lone Fir Historic Cemetery, enter at the corner of SE 20th and Morrison. 5PM-10 Free


The Image is Invisible is a collaboration by Rebecca Steele and Posie Currin in sculpture, photography and video. At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny 6PM-9ish Free



Newspace Photo is one of Portland's important gathering places for photographers. They have a rental studio for shooting, equipment, classes and a gallery. They are supported by members who have a chance this evening to show their work. It's at Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Free



Paula Keyth opens a perfect spooky dream October show of painting. At Golden Rule Gallery www.goldenruleportland.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 122 in the back Free



REDUX hosts their second annual Halloween show, Skulls and Crossbones. Artists include: Erin Jane Laroue, Johnny Murder, Brett Superstar, Penny Nickels, Barbara Feathers, Mary Tapogna, Pamela Davis, Beau Berkley, Ryan Berkley, Adam Burke, Beth Myrick, Richard Fox, Molly Wolfe, Cathy Pitters, Alea Bone, Juanita and D.R. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside Free



Car Hole continues combining smart curation with matching writing. This month is …ships passing in the night that neither signal nor recognize each other by Patricia No and Andrea Glaser. It's a rich metaphor presented in a dark intimate space.

"What must art works say, at night, moored to the walls of a gallery, facing one another? Some kind of discourse, some dialogue takes place between works when we are present, but can we imagine these romantic relationships to exist on the occasion of our absence? For these events, we are no longer the medium through which these interactions occur, rather, replaced by the darkened atmosphere that must transmit a visual communication. Or, must works of art rest and wait for someone to receive them? And what kind of reception will they receive when they are no longer solitary, but at home?

The title of October's programming at Car Hole Gallery derives from chapter 318 of Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet. Calling attention to the solitary nature of oceanic voyages, the single sentence chapter not only recalls human relations, but an epistemological solitude in the midst of objects and of time. Andrea Glaser's installation, Mick Eez(2010) takes as its focus the haunting and joyous countenance of Mickey Mouse. A project that began several months ago, Glaser developed Mick Eez by asking her friends to draw the cartoon mouse from memory. The collection, displayed as wallpaper, framed originals, fractals and fleshy, painted beer bottles, creates a mnemonic environment at the heart of advertising and influence, marking with humorous misrepresentations, the portrait of originality that remains a valuable commodity in our commercial culture. And, despite the archetypal Mickey to which the millions of reproductions aspire, they only create a Platonic library of off-products, always downstream from the face of Disney's promotional Frankenstein.

Patricia No's How to make a book (2010) is an ongoing series of works reconfiguring the production, distribution and insinuation of books. Cardboard box tops pasted with their photocopied surfaces or painted completely white displace a
viewer's initial recognition of an object, pairing the process of signification with the object itself. These works address a state of becoming, a simple mythology of self-recognition that comes from the process of representation and artifice, rather than the solitude of one's own reflection. ...ships passing in the night that neither signal nor recognize each other. finds within objects and images the constant, painful and humorous renegotiation required in the generation of new knowledge, a process of understanding that many do not seek, but all are subject to. " - Sam Korman

At Car Hole Gallery 114 SE 12th x Ankeny Free



I'm not deep into book arts and this blog doesn't focus on them. But how interesting to discover there is an international society dedicated to pop up books. It's the Movable Book Society. They cosponsor a show of pop up books at 23 Sandy this month, Pop-Up Now! With Portland's paper art madness, it could be a good research stop for people interested in making in this medium. At 23Sandy www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy 5PM-8 Free



Nemo Design has a motorcycle themed photo show Heavy Metal Heart. The photographers include Mark Welsh, Scott Pommier, Jon Humphries, Benji Wagner, Molly Quan, Jake Stangel, Phil Stern, Roger Seliner, Ray Gordon, Wez Lundry and Pasha. At Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont 6PM-10 Free

Saptember 30-October 29 Portland Architecture and Design Festival

The Portland chapter of the American Institute of Architects organizes a month of events: lectures, films, tours and exhibitions, many in partnership with other design concerns. You can see the whole program at legacy.aiaportland.org/ad10/events.

September 30 Last Thursday

Adrift Aloft is a project in this garage gallery by Nowhere, a Portland art collective. You know them by their travel trailer gallery that's been seen at many art events around town. They have also been residents at the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Given our unique position on the less settled left coast, where there is more land than people, they have a rich vein of inspiration to tap. Personally, I would like to see more art on the land and art inspired by land coming out of Portland. At Appendix Project Space. On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. www.appendixspace.com Map 6-10ish Free

Terence Duvall has a performance installation. He is using the little garage gallery to write letters on actual paper an read actual books! At Little Field Gallery, on the alley between 28th and 29th North of Alberta. www.appendixspace.com Map 6-9ish Free



Portland artist Vanessa Calvert offers Residue: an installation based on reused objects. PSU MFA minted Calvert has made a good run of installations at Worksound. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 6-10 Free



Timothy Karpinsky makes illustration style drawings. Bright Eyed & Bushy Tailed is his latest show at the gallery he founded. Also work by James Mitchell aka Nas Chompas aka Charlie Good-vibes and live music by Ocean Age. At Together Gallery www.togethergallery.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste A Map



Ampersand specializes in vintage things of paper. This month they hew to a Halloween theme with a show of morgue photographs from the 1930's. Not sure if it is the best of strategies to keep your eyes closed for this show, or keep them open all night after seeing it. Amersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free



There is also a large show at the Goodfoot: I Am, Therefore I Think 4. The list of artists is varied and large: Abigail Vanghan, Adam Ciresi, Adam Sheppard, Ania Palinska, Anna Todaro, Ashley Costa, Azad Sadjadi, Ben Wilson, Beth Myrick, Brad Hamers, Brent Wick, Casey Rae Wickum Olsen, Chris Haberman, Chuck Bloom, Dan Ness, Derek Olsen, EMEK, Erin Nations, Furturtle, Gary Hirsch, Gary Houston, Guy Burwell, Harry Moritz, Heidi Elise Wirz, Hunter Armstrong, Ian Rodger, Icky A., J. Shea, Jason Grahm, Jason Wells, Jennifer Mercede, Jeremy e Schultz, Jesse Reno, Joel Barber, John Gajowski, John Graeter, John Howard, Johnny Tragedy, Jon Smith, Jonathon Hill-Jacquard, Justin Hampton, Kendra Binney, Kerisene Rose, Kevin Fitz, Larry Christensen, Lea “Luna” Littleleaf, Luke Dolkas, Mario Robert, Matt Schlosky, Michael Costello, Mike fields, Mike Klay, Nate Luna, Neil Perry, New Colony, Nicholas Orr, Richard Schemmerer, Ronni J, Sam Arneson, Sandy Fields, Scott Chase, Summer Hatfield, Tessa Hulls, Tim Combs, Todd Hinchman, Tripper Dungan III, Zach Baltzly, Zag Adams, some names you might recognize and others not. Same night as the Drink and Draw showcase. At the Goodfoot www.thegoodfoot.com/gallery 2845 SE Stark Map 5PM-11 Free

September 26 Researching Art Movement

The always interesting Research Club holds one of their signature pot luck brunch lectures. These small gatherings are an opportunity to meet other artists over a meal and hear short and interesting talks on a variety of subjects. Speakers include Lisa Radon, (art writer and artist), Wynde Dyer (from Golden Rule Gallery), Tory Abernathy (from Recess Gallery), and Kelly and Meredith from the Art Department. This event will be at the Art Department space. research-club.org 1315 SE 9th Noon-3 Free



Garages are a rich creative meme. In tech, HP, Apple and Google were started in garages. Garage band? Ever heard of that? Garages are home to movement too. An example is Brooklyn's MGM Grand: modern garage movement. MGM Grand makes site specific movement. They have performed in traditional dance spaces, galleries, museums, farms, libraries, nightclubs and retreats. How apropos after the Halpern visit. Tonight MGM Grand wraps a Portland tour. It's at Performance Works Northwest www.performanceworksnw.org 7PM $5-15



Former Portlander Eliza Fernand touches down in Portland at Nationale. Fernand is a sculptor, animator, musician and performer and combines them, too, in costumed interactive performances. Always an experience. It is part of the gallery's performance series for members, there might be a small charge. At Nationale thenewnationale.com 811 E Burnside Map 6PM

September 25 Qawwali قوٌالی at Yoga Shala

Qawwali is Sufi devotional music. A qawwali ensemble is called a "qawwali party", a perfect description of the transcendent state of the musicians and the audience. It is very old, but became popular in the West through the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has a connection here, he was a resident artist at the University of Washington. Breaking through in the UK in the 1980's, he came to UW in 1993, became known in the US and has been extensively remixed by world DJ's since his passing in 1997. This has created a new generation of Americans studying and performing qawwali, including women. Tonight's concert is that branch of new West qawalli. Tahir Qawwal, Ankush Vimawala & Barbi Joffe perform. Tahir Qawwali also performs as Fanna-fi-Allah. At Yoga Shala North www.yogashalapdx.com 3808 N Williams Doors 7PM, performance 8. $13 advance, $18 door

September 24-30 Mathew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Films

This is one of the most surreal films in the history of filmmaking. It was made over 8 years by artist Mathew Barney and sold by Barbra Gladstone Gallery in a limited edition of 20. All were sold, and subsequently reached high multiples of the original price at auction. The series is five films, made in the order of 1, 2, 4, 5, and lastly 3, totaling about 7 hours. They are not available commercially, they can only be seen at rare showings like this or by filesharing.

Barney was interested in sports in college days, the series starts with references to that. The rest ranges so far as to be indescribable; unbelievable these scenes were committed to film. The sets, costumes and cinematography are stunning. There is a lush cinematic soundtrack and little dialog. There is certainly no plot, it is more like a dream.

Strongly recommended. Cremaster 3 is 182 minutes, quite long. http://www.cinema21.com/prognotes10a.html#thecremastercycle At Cinema 21 616 NW 21st Consult the website for times and admission

September 24, 25 Some History of Experimental Film

Jonas Mekas was a Lithuanian refugee of WWII German labor camps who came to New York in 1949. The rest is history. Part of the New York creative community from then forward, Mekas documented his life obsessively, presaging many current filmmakers and the Youtube-Facebook culture, if not the sure to come videoTwitter. His work and influence is traced in the film, Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (mostly) American Avant-Garde; including comments by very important experimental filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, David Lynch and Andy Warhol. Mekas is also founder of the Anthology Film Archives, prolific writer, and still active today at 88. The film was developed and edited by Chuck Workman, well known for the Academy Award in memoriam montages. Film at the Art Museum Whitsell Auditorium, www.nwfilm.org-cinemaproject.org 1219 SW Park, Friday 7PM, Saturday 2&7 $8

September 17 SE Rules

Swedish Portlander Sanna-Lisa Gesang-Gottowt continues her exploration of borders with Exclusion/Inclusion, apropos as she is leaving our visa policy behind to greener Europastures. Gesang-Gottowt showed work on the same theme in Worksound's Berlin Wall show of last November. We wish her the best in representing the Portland art community in Europe! At Bamboo Grove bamboogrovesalon.com/Bamboo_Grove_Salon/Home.html 134 SE 2nd 6PM-9



Over at Nationale, there is a book signing and talk by Carson Ellis on Dillweed’s Revenge: A deadly Dose of Magic, her latest book illustration project. The illustrator has captured the author's darkness effectively. At Nationale thenewnationale.com 811 E Burnside Map 6PM



Nemo design is a branding and promotion creative business. They occasionally have art shows connected to their clients or client work. Some have been quite good. Tonight they have snowboarder photos: How Many Dreams In The Dark? by Chris Brunkhart. Brunkhart has boarded the world, but moved here for our year round mountain. His work is included in a boarding image book by Mike Parillo, Carl E. Smith, Dan Peterka, Alex Bacon, Matt Donahue and Zach Egge launching tonight at Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont 6PM-10 Free



And if you need more there is an art opening organized by the Art Department www.artdeptpdx.com 6PM-late

September 15 On Collecting Photography

The Portland Art Museum is a Portland big thing. On the inside it is organized into special interest councils. One is the Photography Council. They have lunchtime presentations open to the public sometimes. Today they host a panel discussion on valuing photography. Ostensibly oriented to collectors, it's valuable to artists. The panel includes the new curator of photography, Julia Dolan, dealer Charles Hartman, appraiser Jennifer Stoots and collector Jim Winkler. The talk is in the Masonic Temple building, ask at the desk for directions to the room. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park. Noon Free

September 11 Worksound Triple Header Disjecta Double Header

Worksound has a triple header of Kim Donaldson, Michael Zheng and Laura Fritz. It continues Worksound's program of international artists mixed with Portland. Donaldson works in what could be Portland's sister city, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. There has been an interchange of artists between Portland and about four times larger Melbourne for a few years. Chinese artist Michael Zheng makes work in San Francisco. Portlander Laura Fritz makes sculpture and installation that's vaguely scientific and enigmatic. At Worksound At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 6PM-10



Disjecta shows paintings by Dutch Portland artist Henk Pander. Pander is known for a large body of large scale figurative oils with a dark to light tonal range and a serious, even dark tone. This show is no different; it is portraits, made between 1998 and 2010, of Mary Alice, a close granddaughter, raised by Pender and his late wife. Recommended. Also showing are patterns of rust on silk by Portland artist Rio Wrenn. Wrenn collects small pieces of steel turning to rust, often falling from speeding vehicles, too small to recycle but large enough to yet be consumed by oxidation. Wrenn has been making these rust marks in wall pieces and as pattern on clothing, poignantly mixing high and low, beauty and time's ravages. So in a way, it's a poetic pairing with Pander. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free

September 10 Second First Friday

Many galleries have taken a break, this month only. from First Friday, honoring Labor Day, but are back with a leisurely vengeance tonight.



Homeland has Dutch artist Marko de Kok, working in residency at Homeland. That little Homeland makes international residencies happen is f'n rad. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th x Division



Nationale has an awesome new body of work from Portland fave Carson Ellis: illustrations for a little dark Dillweed’s Revenge: A deadly Dose of Magic, by writer Florence Parry Heide. Ellis taps current illustration currents, but with a lens on detail, sometimes a muted grey/brown/black palate, and quality. Her illustrations are quiet and focused. At Nationale thenewnationale.com 811 E Burnside Map



Land is the Portland instance of Buy Olympia. They have a gallery space upstairs and open tonight illustrations by Tae Won Yu. NoPo Mississippi, Killingsworth and others are figuring out their opening art strategy. Confirm to Portland First Friday or prototype a 1st, 2nd, 3rd. last, Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday? At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8

September 9 PNCA Talks & Father-Son Artists

Jane Bebee is a Portland gallerist. Her gallery, PDX Contemporary, is one of Portland's smartest. They have a consistent minimalist-quiet vibe. They participate in out of town art fairs, exporting Portland gallery artists to the big art world. Bebee worked as assistant for years at the Jameson-Thomas gallery, bridging Portland-NW regionalism with New York collectors. With the death of William Jameson from AIDS, Bebee established her own gallery.

Today she provides her thoughts to artists and gallerists on how to do it. From someone who has done it, that counts. At PNCA NW 13th and Johnson Noon-1:30PM Free



Later British graphic designer designer Jonathan Barnbrook speaks. Barnbrook is known for collaborations with Damien Hirst. His style is provocative and effective. He explains tonight his belief in graphic design as a tool for social change. At 421 NE 10th. Reception 5:30PM, talk 6:30 Free



Meanwhile over at Black Wagon, the father-son duo Martin Ontiveros and Felix Ontiveros show work together. The Ontiveros' have long shown at Grass Hut. At Black Wagon blackwagon.com 3964 N Mississippi Map 5PM-7

September 8-19 The Uncanny Valley

The Uncanny Valley is new. It's the evolution of an experimental theater work created by its actors. After months of work in residence at Reed College, it's back. It's a schematic space exploration of an unknown planet, that of memory. At Reed College Theater academic.reed.edu/theatre/productions/directions.html. More information at www.hand2mouththeatre.org September 8,9,10,16,17,19 7:30PM 18,19, 2PM. $8 advance, 10 door

September 4-6 Kumoricon

Kumoricon is Portland's small amime festival. It has a full program including late night items. Sure to be surreal. Full details at www.kumoricon.org.

September 4 The Boat Show: Watersports

Boats, especially big boats, are outside my experience. So anything involving them has an air of exoticism. But they can make great low rent platforms for art, floating free and sometimes moorage free, certainly outside some land based strictures. Former Portland artist Mary Mattingly has done a great job in NY aquaenvirons with her nomad Waterpod. There was a performance on a rented barge a few years ago, we need more. 12128 is an example. It's a working artist studio and sometime showspace at the confluence of the Willamette and Multnomah Channel. They are having a show of some noted artists including the studio collaborators: Matt Green, Philip Iosca, Chase Biado, Jeffry Mitchel, Carl Klimt, Justin Swinburne and Alex Felton tonight. Their press release, on the website, is copywriter of the month material. At 12128 Labrador Project www.labradorproject.com It's moored by Fred's Marina 12900 NW Marina Way, Portland. More detailed directions, don't get lost, on the website. 6PM-9 Free

September 3 Sun Wu-Kong

Portland has a small animation concentration, particularly in stop action. So it's not out of the blue that an animated opera, Sun Wu-Kong, The Monkey King, would be created here by Alexis Gideon. Sun Wu-Kong is based on the famous Ming Dynasty Chinese novel Journey to the West. The novel is fantastic and fascinating. One character is Sun Wu-Kong, who accompanies a Buddhist monk, the protagonist, in a quest for ancient sūtras on the Silk Road, from China to present day Afghanistan.

Gideon's musical and visual collaborators include Portland creatives Becca Taylor, Cynthia Star, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Rachel Blumberg, Cory Gray and Shelley Short.

It's an epic tale, through a Portland frame, tapping Chinese culture. We need much more of this given China's history and importance. World premiere, with the "making of" artifacts on display through September 5. At Disjecta www.disjecta.org 8371 N Interstate 8PM all ages $5

September 3 Eastside Art Openings

First Friday is split by venue between openings tonight and next Friday the 10th owing the Labor Day holiday and audience travel plans.



Golden Rule has a very interesting show, Making Sense, by Delphine Bedient. Bedient is working well across mediums, sometimes mixing them. She has a good eye for interior and exterior landscape photography; work involving thread and embroidery, including installation; found-reused materials; and a zine life as editor of Peep!. Some of this month's work is made from teabags of tea consumed and stains on paper of daily coffee grounds. Her work is part of a unique experiment in retail and family culture in that it is paired with a specific collection of vintage clothing in a shop that is gallery to both. At Golden Rule Gallery www.goldenruleportland.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 122 in the back



Carhole has Terminal Examination, by Liam Drain and Carmen Denison. This show examines formal education. Though we debate around the edges, formal education and its strictures are tightly woven into culture, from imperial China and ancient Greece, onward. Drain questions logic itself with book art and ceramics incorporating the symbol ≠, not equal. Denison infiltrates academia with textbooks and black/white boards of her own lessons, questioning education's foundations. At Car Hole Gallery 114 SE 12th x Ankeny 6PM-9:30ish



Mike Bray opens It Was Never About The Audience at Fourteen30. Bray makes sculpture, photographs and video. He is also a curator and arts organizer, cofounder of Springfield, Oregon's Ditch Projects, arguably the best thing that ever happened to Springfield since Matt Groening; and expertly tapping Northwest Twin Peaks mysticism. At Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1430 SE 3rd 6PM-9



Kelly Rauer's Shaping Sequence continues at New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny



Redux has a charming show of fairy tale-inspired illustration by Julianna Swaney At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside



The Art Department has a show of PSU graphic design graduates, Keeping It Together. Designers include Tally Gunstone, Rachel Yoakum, Crystal Peck, Kyla Tom, Jesse Matz, Marsha Lindsey, Sylvia Dihn, Jordan Lessler, Linda Lee, Kristina Morris and Amanda Benson. Music by Wild Hog in the Woods and Drunk on Pines. At the Art Department http://www.artdeptpdx.com/ 1315 SE 9th Avenue



Longtime Portland photographer Stewart Harvey shows I Am What I Need To Be, The Odyssey of Identity in New Orleans. New Orleans is a unique place. Even in the law, it is different than the country in incorporating French law. It has its Creole - Krio language, shared with West Africa. Harvey likens New Orleans' uniqueness to Portland's, which is quite a complement. This show is his photographic exploration of the people of New Orleans. At 23Sandy www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy 5PM-8



Bside6 continues with its installation series in the form of BIG shirt / little TOP by Elisa Linda Saethe At bSIDE6 524 E Burnside



Milepost 5 opens their latest, Hidden Among the Leaves, paintings by Stephen Plount At Milepost5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 6PM-9 Free

September 2 Westside Art Openings

Justine Kurland is a brilliant photographer. Her career launched as part of the infamous 1999 Yale-school show, Another Girl, Another Planet. While shocking to some critics in the day, Kurland taps some pretty transcendent memes: childhood, utopia, wilderness, mythology. Her breakthrough work featured girls on a plucky and lighthearted Huckleberry Finn adventure sometimes on the broken margins of contemporary society. Subsequent work, such as Old Joy, utilizes Oregon's bold wilderness as a background for her characters. Her work documenting present day utopian communes is compelling. She has continued her Western expeditions with This Train is Bound for Glory. It captures the lonely travels of freight trains in the middle of a beautiful nowhere, sometimes with a glimpse of the trainriders. The work will be released in book form. Also at Leach, Stephen Hayes has very excellent abstract landscape monoprints inspired by Terry Toedtemeier’s Wild Beauty. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com map 417 NW 9th



Adam Sorenson has some new stunning schematic landscapes. They tap the patterns and illumination styles of Japanese design while being a strong extension of his previous mystical landscape themes. Many illustrate the dramatic mountains and waterfalls in traditional Japanese and Chinese landscape illustration of the last 1000 years. Chinese and Japanese culture holds mountains and the landscape sacred, in different traditions. They are a mystical place of enightenment and home to spirits. Recommended. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com map 925 NW Flanders early close 8PM


Blue Sky continues with contemporary themes in the work of London RCA grad Danny Treacy. Treacy makes self portraits in mashups of discarded clothing. Carl Corey presents interior landscapes of Wisconsin bars. Many are elaborate and breathe historical artifact. It would make a great diptych with an earlier show of Mississippi Delta juke joints by Birney Imes, work pioneered by Blue Sky. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th



Augen has former Portlander Dharma Strasser Maccoll, known for pattern-based work of organic elements contributing to abstract illustrations of nature. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis



Chris Hornbecker has his 1 Millimeter Project, constructed around slightly more than a year of daily photographs. The conceit is that they were made at lens focal lengths of 14mm through 400mm, incrementing 1mm in each step. Krista Connerly & Mark Shepherd, exhibiting as Luvers, has Waterfall: A Torrential Love Story. They are the artifacts of Luver's broken superhero Black Diamond, waterfall hunter. A perfect theme for our water myth infused Northwest. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th 5PM-9 Free



xyxx is a 200 page book composed from iPhone images and with phone apps. It's a love letter of sorts between lovers Kimberly Warner and David McLaughlin, including conversations in image. We'll see more of this with the HDR app for the iPhone. In associaton with Publication Studio www.publicationstudio.biz/ At Lizard Lounge www.lizardloungepdx.com 1323 NW Irving 7PM-10



Don't forget the Everett Station Lofts. They are trying to have an up to date Internet presence at everettstationgalleries.com. I find it easier to just scan them all. In the block bounded by NW Broadway, Flanders, 6th and Everett. Usually to about 10, but sometimes earlier.



Compound has Idealistically Hypocritical: a mash up art by Ryuichi Ogino and collaborators Jun Oson, Taka Sudo, Junpei Inoue, Kei Morita, Shinya Mizuno, Nekonoko, Tamu, Loose end, Yuji Oda, Y Okuda, Dominik Kruger, Geneva Smith, Jason Graham, Sam Brosnan, Michelle Yamamoto, Alex Lamm and Matt Dye. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th



Cravedog Loft Gallery has paintings, drawings and prints by Nicole Linde and Mimi Williams. At Cravedog Music Loft Gallery cravedogloftgallery.wordpress.com 412 NW Couch St. #203 6PM-9



Kendra Larsen, inspired by growing up with the Oregon forests, presents 'Tracking Wilderness'. With live Music by The Tanner Cundy Band. At Pints Brewing www.pintsbrewing.com 412 NW 5th 7PM-10



Tender Loving Empire continues its lively first Thursday events with the mad stuffed objects Kelly Rundle: Things That Don't Belong To Me. Music by Woodwinds and Love Always. At Tender Loving Empire www.tenderlovingempire.com 412 SW 10th



Chambers has Arcy Douglass, "Cloud," 2010, digital work, resembling QR patterns channeled through Charles Harper. 916 NW Flanders



Reading Frenzy connects up with new print and zine outlet Together Gallery for tonight's show. The show includes small works by Timothy Karpinski, David Wien, Seth Neefus, Doodles AKA Nick Mann, Mia Nolting, Julianna Swaney, Betsy Walton and Mia Christopher. They are making more expansive use of the window with an installation by Nicole Lavelle, Sarah Baugh and Justin Flood. Details at Reading Frenzy www.readingfrenzy.com 921 SW Oak


In other landscape news, Michael Brophy shows realistic large format oil landscapes along with old master influenced portraits with enigmatic dream themes by Eric Stotic. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st



alteración is an installation collaboration involving light, maybe projection, between filmmaker Laura Di Trapani, painter-installationist Susan Harlan, painter-media artist Rachel Hibbard and architect-sculptor Jeff Schnabel. It's at PSU's Autzen Gallery, opening tonight. Room 205 Neuberger Hall. 6PM-9 Free



More landscape art news: Liz Haley has landscapes with geometric digital elements added. It's a nice spot to wind down the evening, though better to see the work with the lights up earlier. Musical stylin' by DJ OBGYN and DJ Gordon Organ. At Valentines valentineslifeblood.blogspot.com 232 SW Ankeny 6PM-late

September 2 Thoughts on the World Court

The International Criminal Tribunal sits in The Hague, Netherlands. The Court operates by treaty, its signatories creating its authority. A current case involves warlord president Charles Taylor, on trial for promulgating a brutal civil war in Sierra Leone to gain control over the country's diamond resources. Taylor is thought to have traded diamonds for arms provided by Victor Bout. As reported by Washington Port correspondent Doug Farah, Taylor's diamonds were also used by al Qaeda to convert bank assets to untracable diamonds before 9/11.

Journalist Judith Armatta and lawyer Norm Sepenuk debate an early World Court case, that of Slobodan Milošević, who died in the midst of a five year trial. Armatta is a human rights activist and author of a book on the trial. Sepenuk is a defense lawyer who defended Dragoljub Ojdanic against charges of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

This should be a fascinating, though probably depressing, discussion of the World Court, its effectiveness, or lack thereof, and its applicability to current conflicts. Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon. www.worldoregon.org Advance tickets on their website are required. At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st 7PM $10

August 29 Brunch Research

Can you give a Powerpoint presentation on a whiteboard? Can you pay attention in class when it's outside? Research Club takes advantage of Summer's end within our event horizon. The August Research Club Brunch is outside in PSU's South Park Blocks while the Portland Zine Symposium rages inside. Talks include Tinkering in (and with) Education, Medicinal Plant Identification, The 21st century in Five Minutes, Engineering Urban Survival and No More Batteries! Bring brunch stuff, a plate and utensils would be helpful. In the PSU Park Blocks or near the Gym. Details at Research Club research-club.org 1PM-4 Free

August 28 Painting and Graffiti Art

Lyric Cafe continues its curated shows with Life After Death by Natalie Phillips & Jessamyn Patterson. They met in the cafe as artists customizing the space and vowed to show together. This is the result. At Lyrik Cafe www.lyrikpdx.com 2035 SE 39th at Lincoln Map 7PM-10 Free



Art Not Crime celebrates Love, Life & Art with graf-style art by Sektr 1, Antonio Alcocer, Rudy Rolon, Josh Evans & Matt West. Music by Will West, DJ Mel, Kimosabe and the Love Loungers. All ages. At Provenance Gallery artnotcrime.blogspot.com 4943 NE Martin Luther King Blvd. Map 5PM-2AM $5

August 26 Last Thursday on Alberta

Light art, art involving light, is a rare and beautiful medium. It is magical and almost weightless. Plus it takes place in the dark. If you have ever seen a large scale Turrell, you know. He did a spectacular walk in work, Spread, at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. The Henry also has a permanent Turrell light room.

Hughes is experimenting with similar and we are looking forward to that evolution. An ephemeral mark in light on the way will be her installation tonight at Appendix Project Space. On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. www.appendixspace.com Map 6-10ish Free



Portland artist Midori Hirose has a beautiful Portland history of work. Earlier it incorporated touches of kawaii. Her evolving work still incorporates bright elements, but the geometries are more complex. Hirose is comfortable in 2d and 3d, interesting to see how she occupies this garage space. At Little Field Gallery, on the alley between 28th and 29th North of Alberta. www.appendixspace.com Map 6-9ish Free



Together has Jay Howell's I Understand, and I wish to continue; Mission style vibe. Also, from LA, Hannah Staufer's Ritual Magick. It mixes bright chaos with landscape and animal illustration samples in a neo-mythology. Together Gallery www.togethergallery.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste A Map



Amersand Vintage Printed Material continues last month's show. www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10



Printmaking can be heavy lifting. Though the result is often on the lightest of paper, the machinery, the press is often something you never want to move. That makes it perfect for sharing. Flight 64 is one of the Portland shared printmaking presses. Tonight they have a group show of Flight 64 residents: Jemila Hart, Joel Frank, Wiley Hickson, Anna Hurtado-Gonzalez, Michelle McKay, Andrew McReynolds, Anne Cote, Sean O'Connor, Sara Pavado, Roger Peet, Sarah Landwehr, Garret Price and Heather McLaughlin. At Flight 64 Print Studio www.flight64.org 2934 NE Alberta Behind Bella Faccia Pizza on the NE 29th-30th Alley. Map



Monograph Bookwerks is always worth a stop for your art book fix. monographbookwerks.com 5005 NE 27th x Alberta Map

August 24,25,26,27 Grand Detour Summer Blowout

Grand Detour is busy this week! Tuesday is Ben Popp, Happy Accidents: the work is simply part of the process. It's an exploration of in camera filmmaking. Wednesday Martha Early presents the world premiere of Devotion. Thursday is Pure Cinema with John Behrens. Friday is Vincent Moon. All very impressive. At Grand Detour - the Research Club grand-detour.org 215 SE Morrison, Suite 2020. Map Arrive in the first half hour, the door may be locked after that

August 19 Art Spark, Vanessa Renwick, Mise en Abyme

Art Spark this month touches on the TBA Festival, September 9-19. Tonight Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, a movement performance ensem, previews work destined for TBA on September 14. www.portlandartspark.com at Mississippi Studios' BarBar, 3939 N. Mississippi 5PM-7, performance 6. Free



Vanessa Renwick is a Portland punk rock filmmaker. Punk rock in the sense of ignoring boundaries in making film, and promoting it, diy-style, on road trips to college towns, often showing in rock venues, basements and coffee houses. And it's working. Who can argue with the name of her production unit, Oregon Department of Kick Ass. At Grand Detour grand-detour.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. 8PM Arrive within 15 minutes of start for admission due to building security.



Mise en abyme is Emily Hyde's light bending art work, viewable this month from sunset to sunrise. The title is a rich metaphor. Tonight is an opening with the artist, early, unlikely the work will be in operation. Later it's viewable nighttimes through the glass windows of the installation space. Presented by the Heidi McBride Gallery and Consultancy www.heidimcbridegallery.com. Installation at SW River Pkwy & SW Gaines St in the South Waterfront development. Opening 7PM-9 Free

August 17 Negating, Novelizing, Navigating Redundancy

Dustin Zemel a principal of Grand Detour, shows his own work. He had a great video installation using the mas television's Glee as source material, so this is a chance to see more of his work. You can't go wrong with the combination of words "Negating, Novelizing, Navigating Redundancy at Grand Detour"! At Grand Detour grand-detour.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. 8PM Arrive within 15 minutes of start for admission due to building security.

August 15 August Stock and Foreman Flavored Theater

The STOCK art grant dinner takes up residency at PNCA this month. Artists produce project proposals that could use a little cash to realize. The diners, you, sup on a simple meal, and vote on the proposals. It's your heady responsibility to select one proposal, through a two round cycle of secret voting, to receive the net proceeds of the evening. Grants have been in the neighborhood of $700 cash money. Each month, the previous month's winner reports on their project.

RSVP by email, portlandstock at gmail dot com, the meal reservations, limited by logistics, fill quickly. Details: www.portlandstock.blogspot.com At PNCA 12 NW Johnson 6PM-8 $10 cash only



Richard Foreman is a NY-based modern American phenomenon. Very challenging and densely constructed material. Portland fans with NY connections have been throwing a festival based on his work, the Richard Foreman Mini-Festival, now in the eighth year. The early show has David Abel + Sam Miller, Chuck Barnes + Lois Leveen, Jin Camou, Anthony Christy + Surprise Guest, Lisa DeGrace, Georgia Luce + Co., Our Shoes Are Red/The Performance Lab and Theo Wilson. The late show has Action/Adventure, Gregg Bielemeier, Tiffany Lee Brown, Mizu Desierto, Tim DuRoche + Lisa Radon, Formspace, Danielle Ross + Future Death Toll and Doug Theriault + Cyndy Chan. Both shows have the organizer Linda Austin and her Boris & Natasha Dancers. Each performer has had ten days to prepare a work based on passages assigned to them from Foreman's voluminous notebooks. All this takes place at Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th 5PM and 7 $15 on up

August 13 Papergirl PDX and Worksound Wears It

Wearable art is a concept that bubbles below the surface of academic definitions of art, but has its own infinite vibrancy as a branch of everyday expression. Especially true in Portland, where long time craft traditions meet new art grads, meet the concentration of clothing and volume footwear manufacturers.

Many artists push art with a clothing element far beyond the craft realm with idea based clothing art, art clothing incorporated into performance and clothing art never intended to be worn. Some fabricate work from whole cloth, others sample vintage, tapping a sustainability and reuse idea. For instance see the work of Lucy Orta.

This is Worksound's take on what's happening in wearable art here. Artists include Katie Behel, making jewelry, cuffs, collars and neckties from cloth and rubber; Deanna Bredthauer, whose PNCA thesis was a tribute to her mother in the form of heroic dresses from vintage materials; Palma Corral, forming art from iconic and material language; Alex Dolan, and his reverse shoplifting program at Urban Outfitters (See RTMark for famous history in reverse shoplifting art); Abraham Ingle, who uses art as urban lens; Hoyun Son, noted for her performances; Aaron Terry, with work inspired by magical urban myth; Devon Maldonado; and Iris Stevenson,from Germany. It's an ambitious show of early and early-mid career artists pushing some boundaries.

At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder 6PM-10



PaperGirl is a project hat started in Berlin. It replicated to Portland last year, and continues tonight. Artists contribute works on paper, which will be shown this evening. After, they are rolled and the Papergirl Posse webs out into Portland on bikes, distributing the work, free. Hosted by the Art Department www.artdeptpdx.com 1315 SE 9th 6PM-10 Free

August 12 Stephen Slappe at Grand Detour

Grand Detour continues its summer screening series with the films of Stephen Slappe. Local art prof Slappe reprises his Shelter In Place, an ambitious three screen memoir of the mediasphere of his youth, using vintage footage of the time. The work could only have been made possible by Ruth Ann Brown's Couture series of installation commissions, where the work showed first. Slappe is easily the most successful Portland artist working in multi-screen video. Smart work. At Grand Detour grand-detour.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. 8PM Arrive within 15 minutes of start for admission due to building security.

August 9 Front Line Photography & Fish Extinction

It's your worldchanging Monday.

Tonight is a little different for the Bright Light series of planning, architecture and sustainability talks. In some ways it is the polar opposite: disrupted planning, destroyed architecture, tenuous sustainability transformed to raw survival.

Cassandra Nelson presents photographs and stories from ten years of Mercy Corps projects, as member of the very first teams to arrive at large scale disasters. Not for the faint of heart. Her primary role in each case has been to be the field spokesperson for Mercy Corps, shaping the narrative to focus on human needs. She is also the lead Mercy Corps field photographer.

It is part of the Bright Lights series sponsored by the local architecture magazine Portland Monthly and the City Club, a thoughtful public interest group.

At Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10th. Doors 5:30PM, discussion 6. Free



Three blocks away, author Paul Greenberg speaks at Powell's. Greenberg is the author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food. We eat little wild food. We've changed the land and changed the environment sufficiently to make it impossible. Our population density works against it too. The only exception is fish. Huge factory ships, up to 475 feet long, can capture as much as 100 tons of fish per hour, fillet and freeze it at sea. But even small boats are capable of destroying a fishery.

Author Greenberg traces the commercial history of the wild salmon, tuna, bass and cod; and their depletion. Salmon, for instance, are no longer viable in most of the North Atlantic, here, seriously depleted in the Sacramento River basin. Mediterranean tuna, which return to their birthplace to spawn, the same. He looks at fish farming, the inevitable future, though not entirely desirable, from the standpoint of the fish ground into fish meal to raise them. His conclusion is sustainable, industrial farming of species with a lighter impact on the seas, and allowing wild fish to again thrive. I'm a fish eater. This is food for thought. Greenberg speaks at Powell's Books www.powells.com 1005 W Burnside 7:30PM Free

August 6 Eastside Art Openings

Kelly Rauer continues her exploration of video art with a new piece, Shaping Sequence. At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny



In the always exciting 811 block:


Nightwave Catalog is the latest installation of mysterious objects created by the epic Oregon Painting Society. They are also giving a talk Sunday as part of the Nationale subscription series. At Nationale thenewnationale.com


Howard Gillam has bright mythological marker paintings with animal characters at Golden Rule in the back of the building. At Golden Rule Gallery www.goldenruleportland.com


Adam Burke has photocollage on wood at Redux www.reduxpdx.com


Not visual art, but fashion art: Holly Stalder and Laura Irwin's new store Haunt is open. Holly Stalder and Kate Tower started Portland's independent fashion community as we know it in 2000. Laura Irwin is Portland's most accomplished art and fashion knitter. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com


All 811 East Burnside



Homeland is 5! The hardest working gallery collective in Portland easily has the most impact, including international impact, for the most modest budget. Exporting art to larger art cities is the only viable way to make a Portland art career. Tonight they gave a cross section of exportable, and in some cases, successfully exported artists: Bruce Conkle, Philip Iosca, Paige Saez, Ashley Sloan, Stephen Slappe and Vicki Lynn Wilson. Recommended. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th x Division



Newspace takes a chance with a late career photographer, Linda Connor. Connor works at the intersection of landscape, cultural landscape and spiritual landscape. This is an exciting move for Newspace in establishing their reputation beyond Portland. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th



Julie Perini is an activist artist with East Coast roots, now in Portland. Her latest is Experiments With Fact & Fiction, video interviews with neighbors and imagined neighbors. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 1021 SE Caruthers



Placement Product is a take by recent PNCA MFA's Laura Hughes and Michael Reinsch on commercial windows. It will evolve over the month. Bside6 is a great spot for installations, many active at night, viewable through windows. At bSIDE6 524 E Burnside



The Globe takes the space formerly Jace Gace and the Portland Art Center. It's a cafe eatery with big walls. They are filled by urban influenced work and photography for their first First Friday art celebration party. At The Globe www.globepdx.com 2045 Southeast Belmont

August 5 Westside Art Openings

Data visualization is all the rage. That's good. It can be a big help understanding the world's problems with a view to a solution. Perhaps it is the result of a few aesthetic generations' exposure to the great work of Edward Tufte. Maybe in a few years, these 2d visualizations will have the feel we have today for Eames or Charles Joseph Minard. That's because data visualization is continually improving on the way to full moving 3d immersion. Tonight is an opportunity to sample the current state. Noted data-vis designer Aaron Koblin shows examples tonight. Koblin's work is in MOMA's permanent collection and he received a first place award from the NSF for his work. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th 5PM-9 Free



The Everett Lofts, bounded by NW Broadway, Flanders, 6th and Everett are always recommended for your viewing pleasure. Breeze Block is a new occupant. Tonight is their annual rooftop show - head upstairs from the Everett side.



Relative Picnic is a group show by staff, family and friends of PDX Gallery, including Midori Hirose, Monica Angle, Graham Bell, Greg Bell, Lillian Kingery, Peter Gronquist, Silas Beebe, Montana Maurice, Nell Warren, Wendy Burden, Jarrod McCann, Greg Misarti, Dieta von Matthiessen and Tina Beebe. Very varied. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com map 925 NW Flanders early close 8PM



Next door the group Richard Hoyen, Adam Silverman, Mara Baldwin, Doron Fishman and Julianna Bright of the Golden Bears have a show too. This is an exciting move for both the gallery and Bright, her last Portland show was at the lovely Fontanelle. Bright also shows extensively outside Portland, an essential strategy for Portland artists. At Pulliam Deffenbaugh www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com until 8



Getting into group think is an unusual triple bill: Antonio Martinez, Near the Egress - video installation and frame by tintypes; Jim Vecchi, so much depends...; and Lori Waselchuk, Grace Before Dying. Near the Egress was shot at a circus. We all have childhood memories of circuses and zoos; as adults, we have mixed emotions owing captive wild animals. Waselchuk has documented maximum security prisoners caring for fellow terminally ill prisoners at Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Most of the prisoners are serving life with no possibility of parole. They will die there. Weighty material, but the program has greatly improved the prison community. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th



Paper Cuts is a group show with Apricot Mantle, David Stein, Bryce Flynt Somerville, Mary Syring, Sonya Fu, Meg Hasegawa, Yasutaka Matsumoto, Meyoko and Sherry Delorme. A great Summer-y show. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th



The Lizard Lounge has music and art amidst smart clothing. Arsenio Torres painter, displays work while his father Bobby Tores, provides perfect Summer-y music. At Lizard Lounge www.lizardloungepdx.com 1323 NW Irving 7PM-10



Over by the PNCA MFA studios there is a new space that's been open for a few months, The Canvas Art Bar. You just have to go to understand what they are up to. They open a show of abstract paintings by Crae Hasler-Elliott with downtempo DJ Devon. At Canvas Art Bar www.thecanvaspdx.com 1800 NW Upshur 6PM-9

August 3 India Ink

Portland painter David Kilpatrick had the opportunity to work in an artist colony in Jaipur. It's a center for miniature painting, an India-specific genre, with some brushes a single squirrel hair. His fine india ink illustrations of India's varied ancient buildings share the feel of fine Chinese ink paintings. It's also a record of the personal impact of India's intensity, vastness, rapid change and long history. At Stumptown Belmont www.stumptowncoffee.com 3356 SE Belmont Street 5PM-7

August 2 Body Habitat Readout

Migration and exploration are our twin romances as a species. From the origins of life there has been migration. But the emergence of bipeds with a beefy neocortex in Africa brings us to Portland today. Somewhere in Africa over 200 thousand years ago we find fossil evidence of homo sapiens. A more detailed genetic analysis finds a mitochondrial "Eve" about that time and a Y-chromosomal "Adam" about 60 thousand years ago incorporating the L2 genetic unit, which is associated in some theories with a great leap forward in human creativity. From Africa, our ancestors migrated by foot to cover Earth, excepting Antarctica, before the age of fossil fuels.

Central to human creativity is exploration. Between twin reward systems, one for familiarity and one for the novel, exploration rewards novel. We have records of explorers from the first recorded history, the Egyptians, Chinese, Greeks. We have a romance with exploration. We study the history of the names that survived. Names like Marco Polo, Columbus, Stanley, the first astronauts and cosmonauts.

The definition of contemporary art evolves continually. It firmly includes exploration by artists walking such as Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff and Lone Twin. Lone Twin inspired Portland and Corvallis artists Lily Gael & Lisa Wells to walk from Corvallis to Portland, recording their experience in their blog Body Habit. They arrive in Portland to report in person on their project tonight. It's at At Performance Works Northwest www.performanceworksnw.org 6:30PM Free

July 31 Car Couture

In time, fascination and fetishization of petroleum powered personal cars will seem as quaint as that with coal powered steam trains. Hope it won't take the form of a Mad Max movie. The Past is Present, by photographer Larry Mills, is part of that process, documenting the custom car mod and race culture of Southern California. At Lyrik Cafe, which has a smart art program www.lyrikpdx.com 2035 SE 39th at Lincoln 7PM-10

July 30(-August 1) Gaudi Sea Change

SEA Change Gallery, one of the larger Everett Station lofts, has presented a consistent program of art related to sustainability and social change, what they smartly term "Social Environmental Art". They are now taking their vision on the road as a bicycle tour to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which begins November 29 in Cancún, Mexico. On they trip they will film a documentary on global warming, one of the largest challenges to earth's plants and animals, with whom we travel and upon which we depend. To celebrate the trip they will hold a gettogether this evening. At SEA Change Gallery, 625 NW Everett, 5PM Free



Antoni Gaudí is one of the world's most individualistic architects. That says a lot in a risk-adverse business that makes large, long lasting and expensive things. The closest might be Hundertwasser. This weekend is a rare opportunity to see on the big screen a Gaudí documentary. Famed Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara has made a meditative document of the work, with little narration. The 5th Avenue Cinemas is a great bargain, free for PSU, cheap for others, and free popcorn! At 5th Avenue Cinema, www.5thavenuecinema.org. 501 SW Hall. 7PM and 9:30, Friday and Saturday, 3PM Sunday. Free PSU students and faculty, $2 other students, $3 everyone



Make The Air Thick is the latest project of Danielle Ross: dancer, choreographer, producer and organizer. Performers are Richard Decker, Michelle Rogers, Vanessa Vogel and Lucy Yim. The piece "examines the quirks, discomforts, honesty, and awkwardness of necessity. Do we truly require or is it an illusion? The evening will examine how structure, control, consistency, inconsistency, lust, progress, approval, and more have seeped into our shared understanding of what we need to feel full". At 534 SE Oak. Reservations 503-449-4373. Friday 8PM, Saturday 4PM & 8, Sunday 8PM. $12-15

July 29 Last Thursday Alberta Art Events

If a Tree Falls... is a perfect koan for art. It's also the title of a show Abraham Ingle. Ingle has created or collaborated on some great social practice projects: Neighborhood Diaries, Portland Papergirl I am Awesome Because, It's OK I Love You and Pants Exchange. This show considers the art-social-personal impact of an always connected network world. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd 6-10 Free



I Dream Animal is loose a theme show by artists Caryn Baumgartner, making loose mixed media figurative work; Karen Klorek, some of whose work is based on x-rays; and Christine Nguyen who makes some pretty lush and luminous work - landscapes, animal scapes and seemingly scientific-photo paintings. They also have a reception Saturday. At the Alicia Blue Gallery aliciabluegallery.com 1468 NE Alberta 6PM-8 Free



Gail Pine shows The Black Pictures, night photography inspired by Edgar Allen Poe. They are small format editioned silver prints. Pine also collects vintage photographs making her a perfect partner with Ampersand. At Amersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. 6PM-10 Free



Together continues its drawing style with Elemental, collaborative works by Apak - Aaron and Ayumi Piland, Jill Bliss, Yellena James and Betsy Walton. And they also have a show of laser cut wood. At Together Gallery www.togethergallery.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste A

July 29 Stumptown Division Employee Art Show

Stumptown Coffee has quite a few artists on staff. They are creative and well networked, hiring artists is good for business. Today they open their annual Employee Art Show with work by: Bruce Paulson, Jason Overby, Matt Lounsbury, Tim Root, Carrie Lind, Keia Booker, Tim Wenzel, Shannon Hildenbrand, Aimee Foster, Mackenzie Courtney, Ty Ennis and May Juliette Barruel. At Stumptown Coffee Roasters 4525 SE Division 6PM-8 Free

July 27 Arts Town Hall Grand Detour

Portland loves public process. The mayor's office has been, and continues to be, a strong advocate for Portland arts. The arts make Portland a great place to live, a great place for business, and the arts themselves are a business. Portland has launched many internationally known musicians and visual artists. The arts inspire our creative industries and bring creative thinking to all businesses through employee pursuits of arts. When the region recruits new business to locate here, the arts are a factor to attracting them. The Regional Arts and Culture Commission hosts a town hall tonight with the mayor, discussing the arts in the context of Portland's 25 year long term planning process. There will also be a report on a proposed regional funding project for the arts. Whey come? Local office holders decide what to work on based on how many people show up at public meetings. If you want the City to work on art, show up. Details at www.racc.org At Gerding Theatre, 128 NW 11th 6PM-8



Grand Detour continues its summer screening series with the films of Allison Halter. At Grand Detour grand-detour.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. 7PM-9 Arrive within 15 minutes of start for admission due to building security. Free

July 24 Chicken Brain Research Coop

Brain Party is an event supporting the Right Brain Initiative, a project of the Regional Arts and Culture Commission. The Right Brain Initiative hires artists to teach in schools. Hey, we all have a right brain, so who can argue with that! The event includes art installations, games, music, a DJ, brain massage and a brain sprinkler as well as food and drink. affär at 3001 NE Ainsworth 5PM



Portland is a design town filled with chickens. The city allows each home three, but where are they going to live? They thrive with a spot out of the rain, and safe from coyotes, where they can hide their eggs from you. That would be a chicken coop. Portland designers have flocked to design fancy chicken coops. You can see some today in this self guided tour of Portland's most designer-y coops. It's sponsored by Growing Gardens which helps families start Victory Gardens, healthy and inexpensive food gardens modeled on WWII-era conservation gardens. A guide book to the coops is the ticket and is available at Concentrates, Garden Fever!, Livingscape, Naomi's Farm Supply, People's Co-op, Urban Farm Store and the Hollywood Whole Foods Market. Sponsored by Growing Gardens www.growing-gardens.org/portland-gardening-resources/chickens.php In N, NE, SE Portland. 11AM-3PM. Tickets available until the day before, $15



Research Club has a full day of events for your research pleasure. First is Study Hall #2, short entertaining talks. Mike Robinson tells you everything you ever wanted to know about telling jokes. The Every Country Club presents their project to learn the location, name, and capital of every place in the world. Nim Wunnan presents the History of Applause, reprising a lecture from Nationale in May. After Study Hall there is an open visual art crit. Sign up by email at the Research Club website. At Research Club research-club.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. Study Hall 11AM-3PM. Crit 3:30PM-6. Arrive within a half hour of start of each for admission due to building security. Free

The Research Club launches its ten week survivalist series with a few few free lectures. GTFO (the ABCs of Survivalism): "If you're not an artsy type, but you WOULD like to know how to deal with the worst-case scenarios (2012! nuclear holocaust! riots! zombie apocalypse!)... Taught by the captain of my apocalypse team, former Navy Electronics Technician and current Field Service Engineer Matthew Geiger, this class will focus on the basics: supplies to keep in your home and vehicle to protect yourself and successfully get to safety in the event of [[insert disaster here]], where and how to get them, and how to know what supplies you need (like iodide tablets), and what to skip (like colloidal silver). Be prepared."

Research Club Survival 101 first class at the Waypost 3120 N Williams 4PM-5:30 Free

July 23 Battles Free Museum

Free is good. The Art Museum usually charges admission, but not the fourth Friday of the month, 5PM-9, thanks to a business donation to keep the doors open. It's also a rare time in the evening for the Museum to be open. The big exhibits are in transition. Hopefully the upper floors of the contemporary wing will be open, they were closed recently for filming. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-9 Free



Hippoh Project Dance Studio presents Jam Part III, a night of 1on1 and 3on3 bboy/bgirl battles. Computer Fam, aka Jyant of Moon Patrol, on the wheels of steel.

1on1 is all style: popping, locking, breaking, krumping, hip hop, whatever, and is judged by you, the audience. Movers include: Rakishi (Soul Phase), Doe Rock (Portland City Rockers), Blasian (Vandle Squad), Ben Vo (LDT), B Rippr (Rudeboiiz), Paul, Jeelani (New Zoo Boyz/H2A), Naoto, Yen Boogie, Bboy~Eklypse, BaoNgoc (Rip City Monsters), Chris (Soul Phase), Fligh (Tru Roots), JessHu, AB, Jovi (Motion Monsters), Typewriter, Charlie Chheath, Ka Lok One (Hillside Funk), Don Flo (Moveo), Thizz (A10tion) and Ron.

3on3 is judged by Mightee Mooves (Def Con 5), ThomasOragami (Soul Felons) and Mikey (Flexible Flave). Crews include: Floor Invaders 1, Soul Phase, Vandle Squad, Tru Roots, Rhythm Bandits, Def Con 5, New Era, THE UCHIA CLANC, Floor Invaders 2, Heart Crew and The Evil Aliens Of The Intergalactic Cyber Nation. The judge's decision is not final - the loosing crew in each round can call out the judges and battle them to reverse the decision. Wear those judges down!

Sponsored by Art Goes Everywhere (AGE) and OG producers Amplified Techniques. At Hippoh Project Dance Studio, www.hippohproject.com, 1306 NW Hoyt St. B-1. Doors 6PM, Battles 7. $5

July 17 Joblab Caldera Launch Benefit and Cut and Run

Caldera Arts is well known for work with creative youth, artist studio retreats and an expanding visiting art-visionary program. Tonight they team with a new creative job service Joblab for a party and fundraiser. It's at Sandbox Studio 420 NE 9th. Doors 6:30PM $20 advance/25 door



Meanwhile Grand Detour presents a traveling collection of experimental films, Cut and Run collected by Brenda Contreras and Mallary Abel from San Francisco. Pot luck - the list of films is on the Cut and Run website. At Grand Detour grand-detour.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. 8PM Arrive within 15 minutes of start for admission due to building security. Free

July 15, 18 McBride Groundfloor Gallery

Galleries are the great aesthetic educators in art. They occupy a space between art schools and museums. Art school process is relatively closed to the public, though less so in Portland. Galleries are relatively open to the public, but banker's hours, excepting openings. Museums are completely dedicated to the public.

Galleries' openness comes at a huge cost, none in Portland are wildly successful financially, unlike the few superstar galleries in major art cities. Galleries' enemies are rent and staffing costs. Many gallery sales are conducted by personal, phone or email contact with collectors whose interests are known by the best gallerists. Many Portland sales are out of town.

One response is the private gallery and consultancy. It is unburdened by keeping doors open to a space vacant of customers. It can focus its energy on client collectors, rather than educating the public. The Internet, to an extent, fills some of the education role.

Private galleries can fulfill many of the roles of conventional galleries. They can help artists price their work. They can advise on career planning. They can supplement the artist's own media relations. They could theoretically bring work to art fairs. That's a very expensive proposition. In Portland about 1-2 galleries do it, but the result are sales for single pieces in the tens of thousands for select Portland artists. While the conventional gallery focuses on the supply chain, the artists, you could argue the private gallery-consultancy focuses on the customer.

One Portland private gallery is open from time to time. The Heidi McBride Gallery has moved from a condo to a storefront space in the South Waterfront. McBride has expanded her artist clients with the addition of the Mark Woolley group. McBride has done a great job at connecting with realtors to display art in condos for sale.

You can see examples of her unusually wide range of aesthetics at a rare open house. Private galleries are also open by appointment. It's the Heidi McBride Gallery and Consultancy www.heidimcbridegallery.com In the South Waterfront Atwater Place Townhome Building, 0841 SW Gaines No. 117 5PM-7 Thursday, Noon-4 Sunday. Free

July 14 Social Net Works

Artistery brings Artistery energy to art, and the reverse. Great! This month they present a group show, Social Net Works, by Tori Abernathy, Amber Case, Alicia Gordon, JP Huckins, Dane Overton and Aaron Parecki. At RECESS recesspdx.blogspot.com 4315 SE Division 6:00PM Free

July 14 Tarkovsky's Fin de Cinema

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is a filmmakers' filmmaker. His poetic features incorporate long shots, the opposite of current style, spiritual themes and metaphysical imagery. (As a side note, long shots return in 3d cinema) American audiences may be aware of his work by way of the remake (2002) of Solaris, originally filmed by Tarkovsky in 1972. Tonight Holocene presents Tartovsky's Stalker (1979) with a live score performed by Grouper, Golden Retriever, Ghosting and DJ Yeti. They are well matched to this film. Stalker is the story of three men's grappling with "The Zone". in the film, The Zone is a forbidden and abandoned overgrown landscape of miles, fenced and guarded by the government. Is it contaminated by radiation or industrial waste? The site of an alien visit? No one knows. The Professor and The Writer hire the guide, Stalker, to elude the guards and take them into the zone. They believe there is a room there which can grant any wish. Stalker is reluctant because of the danger. The previous Stalker, Porcupine, who taught Stalker the way, met a tragic end along with his family. But he is drawn to accept, to satisfy his own metaphysical needs. It is a very slow film, with wandering dialog, presented tonight in subtitles. The film uses black and white and color, color for shots in The Zone suggesting the characters' heightened awareness. 163 minutes long, so think of it as a dream. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison Doors and Yeti, 8PM; film commences 9. $3

July 13 Phenomenon as Revelation

Portland artist, curator and professor Mack McFarland presents some of his videos as part of the Grand-Detour experimental media program. McFarland currently directs PNCA's Feldman Gallery which primarily draws international artits into the school's orbit. He has made many brainy projects, some with subtle wry commentary. At Grand Detour grand-detour.org, 215 SE Morrison Street, Suite 2020. 7PM-9 Arrive within 15 minutes of start for admission due to building security. Free

July 10 Disjecta's Stray Fires

It's the half way point for PSU's MFA students and they mount a group show, Stray Fires. It's artists Lindsay Aucoin, Ray Anthony Barrett, Eryck Boucher, Katie Dunbar, Daniel J. Glendening, Gia Goodrich, Bryson Hansen, Carl Klimt, Elizabeth Malaska, Ruta M. Perzynska, Tyler Stuart, Samantha Wall and Michael Welsh. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate 6PM-10 Free

July 9 Second First Friday

Worksound opens a show of installation and drawing, Ask the Lonely: an exploration of love and power. Artists are: Troy Briggs, Casey Lee Brown, Courtney Gates, Tony Hix, Rachel Mulder and Brittney Taylor.

Performing music, the sound part of Worksound events, is Nam Jun Psyche. Drummer and artist Valerie George's Mercedes biodesel station wagon land yacht roams America's lonely highways. It's not filled with Holly Andres' families shuttling between baseball games and backyard birthday parties. No, Nam Jun Psyche's The Car Kit is a nomadic recording studio and PA, gathering inspiration from the road trip's regional collaborators, here, distilling it into rock with Portland's Are You Gone.

At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder 6PM-10, music 8:30 Free



Meanwhile Fourteen30 Contemporary opens a summer show comprising Jesse Durost, Grier Edmundson, Devon Oder, Blair Saxon-Hill, John Sisley, Alex Steckly, Jesse Sugarmann, Nick van Woert and Bobbi Woods. Later in July and August the gallery hosts an innovative series of discussions over Skype with subsets of the artists. Way of the future. At Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1430 SE 3rd 6PM-9

July 9-11 Live After Five

I have always found operas and musicals strange. They are a world where people sing instead of talking. Performance brought into the real world. Live After Five is something like that. It's a work a day story where office workers are hip hop dancers - bboys and bgirls. Their office world is their playground.

Live After Five is a production of Unseen Hip Hop, directed by Josh Burns. The company includes Liz Aguila, Akela Auler, Sarah Gomez, Meagan Madson, Michelle Metzler, Paula Metzler, Lauren O'Brien, Vivi Zacharias, Josh Burns, Josh Metzler, Michael Munday, Jon Sadony and Will Ylvisaker. They are joined by Chris Moua, Niko Cataby, Sher Her, Jessica Hu and Alex Panyounavath from Soul Phase and Huy Pham, Andrey Pakhnyuk, Patrick Valdefiera, Alex Phanphackdy and Colin Quill from Moon Patrol. Details and tickets at www.unseenhiphop.com. Performances at Imago Theater 17 SE 8th, 2PM and 6:30 each day $12-15

July 2 Eastside Art Openings

This first Friday has a split personality. Owing the July 4th holiday, some galleries are opening Friday the 9th.


Portland artist Megan Scheminske is a smart Portland painter, most recently making location-based work from the large search company's maps. She sometimes rephotographs the work at the map point, or draws participation from people at the location, in her series: You are Here and Wish You Were Here. This show, I Want To Feel At Home Here, is a show spanning (states) including John Berry (IN), Joey Borovicka (MO), Michelle Daly (OR), Rachel Eckstein (NY), Jaik Faulk (OR), Jason Greene (OR), Grant Hottle (OR), Julienne Hsu (CA), Steve Kim (CA), Chris Knight (OR), Elizabeth Malaska (OR), Jane Mount (NY), Nathan Orton (OR), James Olley (ON), Shannon Rankin (ME), Chris Russell (CA), Allyson Smith (IN), William Swanson (CA) and Amy Talluto (NY). Home is where the heart is, so the show should resonate. It's at Milepost5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 6PM-9 Free



Art polymath Jeff Jahn has a show, Vection. Jahn has a good knowledge of contemporary art and has curated a series of notable shows. His curatorial practice is ready to expand beyond Portland. This is his personal art work, entwined with words, another Jahn forte; he is the motive force behind Portland art blog PORT:portlandart.net. The space is always challenging to fill, it's medium large. Looking forward to seeing how this artist does so. At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny Free



Sarah Gottesdiner is also an art polymath and cultural activist. For this show she takes a step into performance. Four artist friends provided Gottesdiner a week's worth of instruction for living her life. The work on display is her response to each. She also throws and art dance party afterwards, just ask for the details. Nationale runs a performance and talk series for a very reasonable monthly subscription, ask in the store. Recommended. At Nationale thenewnationale.com 811 E Burnside Free



Next door, Redux has collage artist Staphanie Meininger. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside Free



Newspace Photo has an annual international juried show, with any art form, seeing more is eye training. It's curated by Darren Ching of Klompching Gallery. Such outside influence keeps Portland fresh. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Free



23 Sandy, Portland champions of photography, book arts and mystical or romantic flavored mixed media constructions, has a mixed media show, Bowing to Paradox, by Diane Jacobs involving poems laser cut into magnolia leaves and other work. The artist is the gallery's annual installation artist. At 23Sandy www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy 5PM-8 Free



Merge Studio Lab, architecture and design studio, takes over the bSIDE6 project room with an installation involving lumber and bicycle tubes. 524 East Burnside 6PM-10 Free

July 1 Westside Art Openings

The Everett Lofts, bounded by NW Broadway, Flanders, 6th and Everett are always recommended for your viewing pleasure.



We are getting very confused about education and it will get worse before better. There is no guarantee that this month's show by conceptualists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson, In the Classroom, will provide the key insight to untangle our confusion, but it should be a fun show. One suggestion, let's remove the word pedagogy from vocabulary. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders early close 8PM



Jack Davidson, Laurie Reid, John Zurier have a show of watercolors, the perfect summer medium at Pulliam Deffenbaugh www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com until 8



Pedaling: Bicycle Photographs from Then to Now, includes classic photographers Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Antonin Gribovsky, Shinsaku Izumi, André Kertész, Nathan Lerner, Herbert List, Wayne Miller, Sabine Weiss, Corey Arnold, Mark Steinmetz and Issei Suda. One wonders how 2010 images of Portland's bicycle romance will play in say 90 years, the vintage of some of these exposures. I guess well. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th



From the studio of Roy Lichtenstein is a sure to be entertaining show documenting the work of the world's most popular pop painter. Photographer Laurie Lambrecht worked as a studio assistant to Lichtenstein between 1990 and 1992, providing an opportunity to capture mundane studio details and Lichtenstein's idea board which appear almost monochromatic against his bold and colorful pop pieces. Melbourne artist Emidio Puglielli shows part of his collection of found photographs, presenting the front image and notations from the obverse, superimposed. In the Nines Gallery, an installation space within Blue Sky, Nines cofounder Jerry Mayer collaborates with partner Ellen George on Lightly, a large field patterned by tiny burns. It reminds me of an outstanding piece by Ann Hamilton in which every square inch of the walls were covered by soot and wax marks from candles. The Hamilton show is also the only show I've seen that was picked by PETA. Mayer and George are much more minimal than Hamilton, and unlikely to draw PETA's ire. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th



Group shows of gallery artists are a great way to grok the type of art the gallery specializes, all in an easy viewing. Louis Bunce, Manuel Izquierdo, Jay Backstrand, Marlene Bauer, Judith Poxson Fawkes, Tom Fawkes, Cie Goulet, Gregory Grenon, Sally Haley, Mary Josephson, Kim Osgood, Betty Merken, Henk Pander, Lucinda Parker, David Schwarz, Anne Siems, Eric Stotik, Sherrie Wolf and Mel Katz are on the menu at their gallery Laura Russo www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st



Elise Wagner presents Solar Flare, meditations on the far fury of our sun. Wagner is known for her work in the fiery encaustic, wax pigment medium which must be heated to apply, and scientifically inspired imagery. At Butters Gallery www.buttersgallery.com 520 NW Davis, 2nd Floor 6PM-9



The always lively unofficial Japanese embassy that is Compound has Pedal Power, a bicycle themed show including Tripper Dungen, Kate Durkin, Jud Turner, Stuntkid, Berto Legendary H, Jessica Ward, Heidi Elise Wirz and Andrea Shear. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th



There is good ironic and bad ironic. And ironic has a shelf life. This trend has run its course, so this show may be entertaining, like those tragic photos of our oh so fashionable past. Rad Hatter is a show of trucker hats modified by artists. At Tender Loving Empire www.tenderlovingempire.com 412 SW 10th