Disjecta holds its annual art auction and party tonight. They have a very solid list of local artists who are participating with their work which you can see here: www.disjecta.org/exhibitions-events/disjecta-art-auction-2012 At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map Doors 7PM, live auction 8. $20 advance, $25 door
The gamelan. It's a mysterious symphony of bells and accompanying instruments with its own musical tradition from Indonesia. The gamelan is 12-1800 years old. The Venerable Showers of Beauty Gamelan, based at Lewis & Clark College plays traditional and contemporary compositions tonight. They will be joined by Aloysius Suwardi from Surakarta, Midiyanto from Berkeley and guests Gamelan Pacifica in Seattle. At Lewis and Clark College Evans Auditorium 7:30PM $5-15
Friday, November 09, 2012
November 9-11 Dance Fury Road
Tahni Holt presents her new work Sunshine at Bodyvox. Her modern dance work has always been sculptural, and this is no exception with cardboard as the sculptural element. You can get all the information at www.tahniholt.com. At BodyVox Dance Center: 1201 NW 17th 8PM + 3PM Sunday
Related, FRONT is a small dance-movement journal produced right in Portland. They distribute the issue #2 Vitus all over town for you to read. The process starts with volunteers like yourself and a party at Dig a Pony. 5PM-8 Free
Appendix Project Space has Fury Road curated by Nicholas Tammens and Matthew Greaves. It is a show of nine artists from Melbourne Australia: Brooke Babington, Jon Campbell, Holly Childs, Greatest Hits, Matthew Greaves, Christopher LG Hill, Lou Hubbard, Oliver van der Lugt and Lisa Radford. The title comes from a film in production, the fourth in the Mad Max series of dystopian romps. The curators speak at the gallery Saturday at 5:30PM. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8PM-late Free
Related, FRONT is a small dance-movement journal produced right in Portland. They distribute the issue #2 Vitus all over town for you to read. The process starts with volunteers like yourself and a party at Dig a Pony. 5PM-8 Free
Appendix Project Space has Fury Road curated by Nicholas Tammens and Matthew Greaves. It is a show of nine artists from Melbourne Australia: Brooke Babington, Jon Campbell, Holly Childs, Greatest Hits, Matthew Greaves, Christopher LG Hill, Lou Hubbard, Oliver van der Lugt and Lisa Radford. The title comes from a film in production, the fourth in the Mad Max series of dystopian romps. The curators speak at the gallery Saturday at 5:30PM. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8PM-late Free
Sunday, November 04, 2012
November 4 An Indian Music And Art Fictions
Kushal Das and Swapan Chaudhuri perform North Indian music on sitar and tabla this afternoon. Both are internationally known musicians. Sponsored by Kalakendra at the First Congressional Church 1126 SW Park. 4PM $20/15 students
Chris Kraus reads from a new fiction work, The Summer of Hate, this afternoon at YU. It is part of a program surrounding the photographs of Marianne Wex showing there. Her reading is of a fiction book, but Kraus is also a filmmaker, teaches in the art world, and is an editor of Semiotext(e). Her sharp witted criticism is captured in this quote from her Where Art Belongs: "there was absolutely no chance of developing an art career in Los Angeles without attending one of several high-profile MFA studio programs,"... "essential to the development of value in the by-nature elusive parameters of neoconceptual art. Without it, who would know which Cibachrome photos of urban signage, which videotapes of socks tossing around a dryer, which neominimalist monochrome paintings are negligible, and which are destined to be art?". Her event is sponsored by Reed's Cooley Gallery and is sure to be entertaining. Just a note, the Semiotext(e) website may be infected with malware, ironic. At YU Contemporary yucontemporary.org/chris-kraus 800 SE 10th. 3PM Free
Chris Kraus reads from a new fiction work, The Summer of Hate, this afternoon at YU. It is part of a program surrounding the photographs of Marianne Wex showing there. Her reading is of a fiction book, but Kraus is also a filmmaker, teaches in the art world, and is an editor of Semiotext(e). Her sharp witted criticism is captured in this quote from her Where Art Belongs: "there was absolutely no chance of developing an art career in Los Angeles without attending one of several high-profile MFA studio programs,"... "essential to the development of value in the by-nature elusive parameters of neoconceptual art. Without it, who would know which Cibachrome photos of urban signage, which videotapes of socks tossing around a dryer, which neominimalist monochrome paintings are negligible, and which are destined to be art?". Her event is sponsored by Reed's Cooley Gallery and is sure to be entertaining. Just a note, the Semiotext(e) website may be infected with malware, ironic. At YU Contemporary yucontemporary.org/chris-kraus 800 SE 10th. 3PM Free
Friday, November 02, 2012
November 2 Eastside Art, East Coast Talk, Far East Dance
Japanese butoh performer Atsushi Takenouchi performs this evening. He began performing with Bishop Yamada in Northern Japan's Hokkaido at age 18 then soon formed his own group. He was later influenced by Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno. He brings a strong influence of nature to his work. He works today in France and Japan. He will be accompanied tonight by musical collaborator Hiroko Komiya on small percussion and effects. At the Headwaters Theater, by www.witdpresents.com 55 NE Farragut St. #9. The theater is in the back of the building by the active railroad tracks facing Winchell Street. Map 7PM $10-15
Artist Julie Ault, as part of the NY collective Group Material, is a figure in the decommodification movement, with a postmodern analytical lens on society. Those projects were often installations in temporary spaces. She speaks tonight. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6:30PM Free
Tripper Dungan is known for his crazed schematic figures. He has amped them up with 3d in the last year or two. That means you will get the greatest benefit from red and cyan anamorphic glasses. Fun! At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has Spinning Yarns, a group show curated by Chris Moss themed on narrative. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Manchus shows video art tonight. At Manchus Clothing www.machusonline.com 542 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
ADX has a show of three tattoo artists. Their work tonight is on paper and canvas though. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 7PM-9 Free
Homeland has some, unusual for them, illustration artists in Pastoral Visions by Marc Roder and Richard Melloy, in both loose and tight styles. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Pushdot has Kelly Guthrie watercolor-illustrations in a show titled My Bug Collection. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 The reception will be in December.
Union|Pine has Typeface, our alphabet repurposed as design art. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Newspace has old and new mediums this month. Clarke Galusha has tintypes, while Ditch Projects codirector Brooks Dierdorff uses a scanner to alter his images. Robert Beam also shows. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
Artist Julie Ault, as part of the NY collective Group Material, is a figure in the decommodification movement, with a postmodern analytical lens on society. Those projects were often installations in temporary spaces. She speaks tonight. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6:30PM Free
Tripper Dungan is known for his crazed schematic figures. He has amped them up with 3d in the last year or two. That means you will get the greatest benefit from red and cyan anamorphic glasses. Fun! At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has Spinning Yarns, a group show curated by Chris Moss themed on narrative. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Manchus shows video art tonight. At Manchus Clothing www.machusonline.com 542 E Burnside 6PM-10 Free
ADX has a show of three tattoo artists. Their work tonight is on paper and canvas though. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 7PM-9 Free
Homeland has some, unusual for them, illustration artists in Pastoral Visions by Marc Roder and Richard Melloy, in both loose and tight styles. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Pushdot has Kelly Guthrie watercolor-illustrations in a show titled My Bug Collection. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 The reception will be in December.
Union|Pine has Typeface, our alphabet repurposed as design art. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Newspace has old and new mediums this month. Clarke Galusha has tintypes, while Ditch Projects codirector Brooks Dierdorff uses a scanner to alter his images. Robert Beam also shows. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
Thursday, November 01, 2012
November 1 Bateson on Film
Longtime professor at UC Santa Cruz, anthropologist Dr Gregory Bateson, was a pioneer in cognitive psychology. He was also married to Margaret Mead. His daughter has made a film, An Ecology of Mind, providing insights to his pioneering ideas that crossed disciplines and laid the groundwork for new bodies of knowledge. It shows this evening at Mercy Corps in connection with the Design With the Other 90%:CITIES exhibition. The filmmaker will be in attendance. At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st 7PM-8:30 Free
November 1 Westside Art Openings
Christopher Rauschenberg, one of the founders of the Nine Gallery, has a show there this month, Heel of the Boot. At the Nine Gallery inside Blue Sky 122 NW 8th
Blue Sky has a pair of complementary portrait projects. Justyna Badach began her project in 2003 after a disruption of her life in post-9/11 New York. She photographed middle age to elderly men in their living places, capturing a glimpse of their inner lives. It is unexpectedly sensitive work. That is in contrast to a common photographic theme which exploits the oddness of portrait subjects in their home lives or pastimes. Rania Matar shows portraits of teen girls in their rooms. It is an age of transition and the formation of identity, expressed in an important refuge, the woman-cave. This is a popular genre for Blue Sky, and the work is well executed. Both artists were born outside the United States, perhaps an advantage in capturing these American images. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Greater has photographs by Nile Hagen. The photographer was recovering from head injuries while making the photographs he saw as a direct way of working while recovering his previous functionality. At Graeter Art Gallery www.graeterartgallery.com 131 NW 2nd Map 5PM-7
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up is a show by Portland illustration artists Timothy Karpinski & Brooke Weeber. Their work relates childhood imagination to our adult world. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
The Victory Gallery shows artists from Europe. They have their annual group show, which is a good way to see how they look at painting. At the Victory Gallery www.victorygallery.com 733 NW Everett
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map
Blue Sky has a pair of complementary portrait projects. Justyna Badach began her project in 2003 after a disruption of her life in post-9/11 New York. She photographed middle age to elderly men in their living places, capturing a glimpse of their inner lives. It is unexpectedly sensitive work. That is in contrast to a common photographic theme which exploits the oddness of portrait subjects in their home lives or pastimes. Rania Matar shows portraits of teen girls in their rooms. It is an age of transition and the formation of identity, expressed in an important refuge, the woman-cave. This is a popular genre for Blue Sky, and the work is well executed. Both artists were born outside the United States, perhaps an advantage in capturing these American images. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Greater has photographs by Nile Hagen. The photographer was recovering from head injuries while making the photographs he saw as a direct way of working while recovering his previous functionality. At Graeter Art Gallery www.graeterartgallery.com 131 NW 2nd Map 5PM-7
The Day We Saw the Sun Come Up is a show by Portland illustration artists Timothy Karpinski & Brooke Weeber. Their work relates childhood imagination to our adult world. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
The Victory Gallery shows artists from Europe. They have their annual group show, which is a good way to see how they look at painting. At the Victory Gallery www.victorygallery.com 733 NW Everett
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map
Thursday, October 25, 2012
October 26-27 Seattle Butoh Treat
Seattle has long been a strong center for the Japanese modern movement art of butoh. They have a few international visiting performers this weekend.
Friday Su-en from Sweden performs Soot, with musical accompaniment by Lee Berwick from the UK. Su-en studied for many years in Japan with Hakutobo, the seminal group of female dancers formed as his last project by the founder of butoh, Hijikata. Her working method fuses the founder's ideas, inspiration from landscape and modern physics.
The same evening, Helen Thorsen will be presenting a portion of her new choreography, Higher Ground, with Mary Cutrera, Briana Jones, Alan Sutherland, and Lin Lucas. Kaoru Okumura will present her solo work merging Esoteric Buddhism Shomyo Chanting and Butoh with chanting by Rev. Yuren Tai of Seattle Koyasan Buddhist Temple. Will Fredo will present LUWAL, with Liza Dino (Flamenco) and Sheri Brown.
Saturday, it is Silver Lining, inspired by the art of concealment and the play of light and shadow, directed and performed by Joan Laage (Kogut), in collaboration with Kaoru Okumura. Diana Garcia will present MA, The Space Among Us, an interactive butoh-inspired multimedia performance, with media artist Eunsu Kang, software developer/composer Donald Craig, and costume designer Bo Choi. Maureen (Momo) Freehill and NOLA kinetic artist Heather Hansen collaborate with dancer Sheri Brown, digital artist Anna Czsoki and musician Stephen Fandrich for (•) GeoSoma MuMatics (part 1), based on A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe/Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Michael Schneider and our embodied experience of numbers 1-5.
Details, including on workshops at www.daipanbutoh.com/seattlebutohfestival Performances at the Velocity Dance Center 1621 12th Avenue Seattle. 8PM $22
Friday Su-en from Sweden performs Soot, with musical accompaniment by Lee Berwick from the UK. Su-en studied for many years in Japan with Hakutobo, the seminal group of female dancers formed as his last project by the founder of butoh, Hijikata. Her working method fuses the founder's ideas, inspiration from landscape and modern physics.
The same evening, Helen Thorsen will be presenting a portion of her new choreography, Higher Ground, with Mary Cutrera, Briana Jones, Alan Sutherland, and Lin Lucas. Kaoru Okumura will present her solo work merging Esoteric Buddhism Shomyo Chanting and Butoh with chanting by Rev. Yuren Tai of Seattle Koyasan Buddhist Temple. Will Fredo will present LUWAL, with Liza Dino (Flamenco) and Sheri Brown.
Saturday, it is Silver Lining, inspired by the art of concealment and the play of light and shadow, directed and performed by Joan Laage (Kogut), in collaboration with Kaoru Okumura. Diana Garcia will present MA, The Space Among Us, an interactive butoh-inspired multimedia performance, with media artist Eunsu Kang, software developer/composer Donald Craig, and costume designer Bo Choi. Maureen (Momo) Freehill and NOLA kinetic artist Heather Hansen collaborate with dancer Sheri Brown, digital artist Anna Czsoki and musician Stephen Fandrich for (•) GeoSoma MuMatics (part 1), based on A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe/Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Michael Schneider and our embodied experience of numbers 1-5.
Details, including on workshops at www.daipanbutoh.com/seattlebutohfestival Performances at the Velocity Dance Center 1621 12th Avenue Seattle. 8PM $22
October 26 Cumulus Confucious
Vicki Lynn Wilson, has had the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery to herself and visitors as a studio installation site for a month. She has done similar projects at Blackfish which were fantastic. This one is a little more weighty. We usually don't print the release, but this one is better than we could rewrite:
"Cumulus is a sculptural installation comprised of Paper Mache, pattern drafted cardboard, sewn and cut paper, carved Styrofoam and other mixed media forms and structures. Several human forms traverse the monochromatic brown space of an implied flooded plane. Their postures are bent to the domestic objects which rise from their arms and backs. “I began with an idea of wanting to transform the space. I decided to use cardboard and paper as a practical matter. The gallery is large so I needed inexpensive and plentiful material. It was the disposability and transience of the material that led me to the subject of the installation.” Taking a “waste not” approach, the majority of the materials were collected from the recycling of Widmer Brewing Company, Rose City Upholstery and the PCC Bookstore. Even the coffee cups and trash of the artist and visitors to the space are being incorporated.
The work is inspired by the artist’s lifelong dreams of home interiors and family, and based on the theory that the state of a home in a dream reveals the psychological state of the dreamer. The work is also inspired by the powerful images of natural disasters around the world which have left survivors sifting through wreckage to recover their lost objects. “My dreams are often about loss and disaster, though I don’t always read them as bad dreams. I think they are a subconscious expression of compassion for those who are suffering. This installation is a conscious expression of the same. Objects become so significant to us when they take on symbolic qualities. When the memory of something lost becomes associated with an object, the significance can be so heavy”.
Wilson presents a closing performance tonight with Heidi Dyer and Eric Nordstrom in and around the gallery. PCC has fierce parking rules in effect until 10PM. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 8-9PM Free
Power, Wealth, and a Confucius for Today is a talk by Peter K. Bol, professor of East Asian Languages & Civilization, at Harvard, a longtime center for study of Chinese literature. Confucian thought stresses order and respect for elders. It has been observed by many that those in power are followers of Confucius, and those who want change, followers of Taoism's Lao Tzu. But when the revolution is successful, each group assumes the other's philosophy. Over the more than 2500 years of Confucian influence on China, there have been waves of Neo-Confucian interpretation. Of course today, it is a strong meme of government. Bol provides his view of Confucius in China today. At Portland State University Lincoln Hall Room 75. 1620 SW Park. Parking is free after 5 in PSU garages as marked. 6:30PM Free
"Cumulus is a sculptural installation comprised of Paper Mache, pattern drafted cardboard, sewn and cut paper, carved Styrofoam and other mixed media forms and structures. Several human forms traverse the monochromatic brown space of an implied flooded plane. Their postures are bent to the domestic objects which rise from their arms and backs. “I began with an idea of wanting to transform the space. I decided to use cardboard and paper as a practical matter. The gallery is large so I needed inexpensive and plentiful material. It was the disposability and transience of the material that led me to the subject of the installation.” Taking a “waste not” approach, the majority of the materials were collected from the recycling of Widmer Brewing Company, Rose City Upholstery and the PCC Bookstore. Even the coffee cups and trash of the artist and visitors to the space are being incorporated.
The work is inspired by the artist’s lifelong dreams of home interiors and family, and based on the theory that the state of a home in a dream reveals the psychological state of the dreamer. The work is also inspired by the powerful images of natural disasters around the world which have left survivors sifting through wreckage to recover their lost objects. “My dreams are often about loss and disaster, though I don’t always read them as bad dreams. I think they are a subconscious expression of compassion for those who are suffering. This installation is a conscious expression of the same. Objects become so significant to us when they take on symbolic qualities. When the memory of something lost becomes associated with an object, the significance can be so heavy”.
Wilson presents a closing performance tonight with Heidi Dyer and Eric Nordstrom in and around the gallery. PCC has fierce parking rules in effect until 10PM. At the PCC Sylvania Northview Gallery www.pcc.edu/about/galleries/sylvania/ 12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 CT Building, Rm 214. 8-9PM Free
Power, Wealth, and a Confucius for Today is a talk by Peter K. Bol, professor of East Asian Languages & Civilization, at Harvard, a longtime center for study of Chinese literature. Confucian thought stresses order and respect for elders. It has been observed by many that those in power are followers of Confucius, and those who want change, followers of Taoism's Lao Tzu. But when the revolution is successful, each group assumes the other's philosophy. Over the more than 2500 years of Confucian influence on China, there have been waves of Neo-Confucian interpretation. Of course today, it is a strong meme of government. Bol provides his view of Confucius in China today. At Portland State University Lincoln Hall Room 75. 1620 SW Park. Parking is free after 5 in PSU garages as marked. 6:30PM Free
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
October 25 Albertas Arts
Antler has papercuts and watercolors by tattoo artist Laura Jean Graham. At Antler www.antlerpdx.com
1722 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Heather McLaughlin and Garrett Price, printmakers, show their works. Flight 64 Print Studio www.flight64.org 2934 NE Alberta Behind Bella Faccia Pizza on the NE 29th-30th Alley. Map 6PM-9 Free
Ampersand shows found vintage printed materials, line. letter. colo(u)r. In a way it's upcycling. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
1722 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
Heather McLaughlin and Garrett Price, printmakers, show their works. Flight 64 Print Studio www.flight64.org 2934 NE Alberta Behind Bella Faccia Pizza on the NE 29th-30th Alley. Map 6PM-9 Free
Ampersand shows found vintage printed materials, line. letter. colo(u)r. In a way it's upcycling. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
October 20 Plink Place
Plink Flojd is an international collaboration of artists making CG work and setting it to music. It is often based on visual or musical sampling. In a few years we may look upon the Plink Flojd work as we view 8bit music or games today. It was started by David Quiles Guillo, Yoshi Sodeoka and Eric Mast. Tonight they present some of their work on the big screen with a big sound system, and even with live music from Nice Nice and Regular Music. Cartune Xprez also shows work.
Just as the founders are distributed between Sao Palo, New York and Portland, the participating artists are everywhere on the Internet. Collaborating artists include Akin, Andrew Benson, Peter Burr, Cristopher Cichocki, Droid-ON, Manuel Fernández, Gusti Fink, Jason Forrest, Rollin Leonard, Sara Ludy, Shane McAdams, Jonathan McCabe, Austin Meredith, A. Bill Miller, Lorna Mills, Brenna Murphy, Daron Murphy, Sabrina Ratte, Jimmy Joe Roche and Mario Zoots.
Plink Flojd Portland 1.0 instantiates tonight at the Hollywood Theater in association with Floating World Comics. At Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 9:30PM $7
The galleries in the Pioneer Place Mall open new shows tonight. Elizabeth Lamb from Brooklyn, formerly the UO White Box Gallery opens Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition. The project collects open source audio which can be contributed by a toll free telephone number. The work is an exploration of the shopping mall. While the idea is ancient, it became an element of America's car culture zeitgeist. Today the megamall is in eclipse, replaced by the synthetic town, modeled after Europe's varied streetscapes. An example would be the Portland area's Bridgeport Village. How interesting that the event is held in the Pioneer Place Mall, developed by the Rouse Company, one of America's major mall developers.
Sculptor Michael Endo presents Black Field. Endo creates schematic representations of places and objects for this show.
Jason Doizé, curator of False Front presents Underlier. It is a sound installation themed on shipping and receiving.
All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
Just as the founders are distributed between Sao Palo, New York and Portland, the participating artists are everywhere on the Internet. Collaborating artists include Akin, Andrew Benson, Peter Burr, Cristopher Cichocki, Droid-ON, Manuel Fernández, Gusti Fink, Jason Forrest, Rollin Leonard, Sara Ludy, Shane McAdams, Jonathan McCabe, Austin Meredith, A. Bill Miller, Lorna Mills, Brenna Murphy, Daron Murphy, Sabrina Ratte, Jimmy Joe Roche and Mario Zoots.
Plink Flojd Portland 1.0 instantiates tonight at the Hollywood Theater in association with Floating World Comics. At Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 9:30PM $7
The galleries in the Pioneer Place Mall open new shows tonight. Elizabeth Lamb from Brooklyn, formerly the UO White Box Gallery opens Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition. The project collects open source audio which can be contributed by a toll free telephone number. The work is an exploration of the shopping mall. While the idea is ancient, it became an element of America's car culture zeitgeist. Today the megamall is in eclipse, replaced by the synthetic town, modeled after Europe's varied streetscapes. An example would be the Portland area's Bridgeport Village. How interesting that the event is held in the Pioneer Place Mall, developed by the Rouse Company, one of America's major mall developers.
Sculptor Michael Endo presents Black Field. Endo creates schematic representations of places and objects for this show.
Jason Doizé, curator of False Front presents Underlier. It is a sound installation themed on shipping and receiving.
All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
October 19 Impossible Worlds False Front
PNCA educated Mary Mattingly has been working in techno-dis/utopian futurism for ten years. She has created clothing for the future and photographed models outdoors in them. She conducted the grand Waterpod project, a floating gallery and live workspace on a Hudson and East River barge, complete with chickens and gardens. She is represented by the Robert Mann Gallery. She visits Portland for a talk Friday at the school. Arrive early, all the students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson 6:30PM Free
David Knowles is a photographer, graphic designer, book designer, performer and curator working in Portland. He has a firm footing in the book world, including at Publication Studio. Perhaps that is why his show titles are themselves almost an artist statement. "It was not so important - who did it and where they went. There was, after all, only one of them." is his new show opening tonight. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
David Knowles is a photographer, graphic designer, book designer, performer and curator working in Portland. He has a firm footing in the book world, including at Publication Studio. Perhaps that is why his show titles are themselves almost an artist statement. "It was not so important - who did it and where they went. There was, after all, only one of them." is his new show opening tonight. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
October 18 MK on Guth
October 18 Guth on Guth
MK Guth gives a gallery talk about her work on display and her new direction at the Marylhurst Art Gym today. It would be excellent if events like this were webcast or web archived. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map Noon Free
MK Guth gives a gallery talk about her work on display and her new direction at the Marylhurst Art Gym today. It would be excellent if events like this were webcast or web archived. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at the Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map Noon Free
October 17-18 Portland Brain Storms
Brain Storm is an annual series in which local innovators have a chance to talk about their work. These include Sarina Saturn, genetic neuroscientist; Jessica Green, indoor ecosystem biologist; Jim Solberg, founder of IndieHops; Tad McGeer, pioneer drone designer at Insitu and Aerovel; Dave Monette, revolutionary redesigner of the trumpet; Andy Frichtl, founder of local green firm Interface Engineering; Colleen Flanigan, coral sculptor, in situ; and Genevieve Bell, Intel ethnographer. The event spans two evenings. The event is free, but sold out. However wait list seating begins at 6:45 each evening. At W+K 224 NW 13th 7PM Free
October 16 How Much Does Material Computation Weigh?
Norman Foster and firm is in the top echelon of practicing architects today. The work tends to elegance over edge. A favorite work is his canopy at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery that bridges the courtyard of a 19th century building with an undulating aluminum and glass sculpture. Could a marriage of historic and modern be applied to the PNCA Broadway building?
Tonight a film on Foster, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? explores his design philosophy and views on urbanization worldwide.
It is a part of the Portland AIA Design Festival. At the Portland AIA 403 NW 11th x Flanders. 6PM Free
Meanwhile, another architect who relies on curvilinear computer aided design to make buildings, Achim Menges, from Germany, speaks. He designs structures with highly detailed modular units of natural and man made materials. Interestingly, many of his structures are made of laminated wood. At the University of Oregon in Portland. 70 NW Couch 6PM Free
Tonight a film on Foster, How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? explores his design philosophy and views on urbanization worldwide.
It is a part of the Portland AIA Design Festival. At the Portland AIA 403 NW 11th x Flanders. 6PM Free
Meanwhile, another architect who relies on curvilinear computer aided design to make buildings, Achim Menges, from Germany, speaks. He designs structures with highly detailed modular units of natural and man made materials. Interestingly, many of his structures are made of laminated wood. At the University of Oregon in Portland. 70 NW Couch 6PM Free
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
October 13 Postmodern Cross Section
Postmodern choreographer Tricia Brown studied with Anna Halpern, then joined the Judson Dance Theater in Greenwich Village in 1962. The Judson group was influenced by the experimental composition ideas of John Cage. Brown comes to Portland with her company in a performance sponsored by White Bird October 11-13. Brown biographer Susan Rosenberg speaks on the choreographer's work. At PICA 415 SW 10th, 3rd floor. 1PM Free
PSU stages a show of the work of a few select alumni, spanning over 45 years of the department. It is an annual show and this year the alumni artists are Holly Andres MFA '04, Robert Baribeau '76, Pat Boas 'MFA '00, Ken Butler MFA '78 Jim Hibbard '65, Elise Wagner '95. At Portland State University in the MK Gallery Room 210 in the PSU Art Building, 2000 SW 5th Ave 5PM-8 Free
PSU stages a show of the work of a few select alumni, spanning over 45 years of the department. It is an annual show and this year the alumni artists are Holly Andres MFA '04, Robert Baribeau '76, Pat Boas 'MFA '00, Ken Butler MFA '78 Jim Hibbard '65, Elise Wagner '95. At Portland State University in the MK Gallery Room 210 in the PSU Art Building, 2000 SW 5th Ave 5PM-8 Free
October 12 On Photography
Marianne Wex, born in 1937, has used her eye as an artist to comment on masculine and feminine body language. Between 1972 and 1977 she documented male and female body language in Hamburg. The project included posing women in male-associated poses and vice versa. The project compared current gender-specific body languages with historical images. YU shows photographs from that project for the first time outside Germany. It is a perfect show for Portland with Blue Sky's long interest in the Arbus gaze. The artist is visiting for the show. Yu is reprinting the artist's original book, long out of print. Opening at Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 6:30PM $5, Free members
Monday, October 08, 2012
October 11 Musics and Appropriation
Animator musician Alexis Gideon performs the soundtrack live tonight with his animated short Floating Oceans. This is the third in his series. The second which we noted here was The Sun King. This work makes greater use of full 3d figures and sets. He has collaborated with artists, Matylda Osceola, Melody Owen, Cynthia Star, Jamin London Tinsel, and Tasha Zack. It's unusual work but a stunning entry into a dream world. At the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $7
Our friends over at PORT have news of the opening of a show curated by JP Huckins, Inappropriate Appropriation (IA), tonight. Recommended. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. 5PM-7 Free
Our friends over at PORT have news of the opening of a show curated by JP Huckins, Inappropriate Appropriation (IA), tonight. Recommended. At the PSU Littman Gallery in Smith Union. 5PM-7 Free
Friday, October 05, 2012
October 6 Red Gemini Moon
I am sympathetic to Buddhism, one of the world's great spiritual systems. I have not studied it deeply nor immersed myself in its many branches. But in Portland there are places you can do so. Nritya Mandala Mahavihara is one. They are from a Nepali tradition which includes dancing and live music. Tonight they host Red Gemini Moon, a North Indian classical vocal recital by Michael Stirling. Stirling has been a warm force in experimental and Indian music for many years. He has studied with Pandit Pran Nath and is a student of Maestro Terry Riley. He will be accompanied by Lieve Maas, tabla Kat MacMillan & Cameron Wagner, tamburas and Derek Ecklund, vocal assistant. At Nritya Mandala Mahavihara Dance Mandal www.dancemandal.com. 1405 SE 40th Ave 8PM by donation
October 5 Eastside Art Openings
Nemo has a post-apocalyptic-themed show, Past, Present and Failure. At Nemo Design www.studionemo.com 1875 SE Belmont 6PM-10 Free
Nationale has painter Elizabeth Malaska with We Never Belonged to You. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map
Redux has it's annual halloween-themed show. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has Shadows, a loosely themed group show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Pushdot has a documentary photography show shot in Tibet. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104
Nationale has painter Elizabeth Malaska with We Never Belonged to You. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map
Redux has it's annual halloween-themed show. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has Shadows, a loosely themed group show. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Pushdot has a documentary photography show shot in Tibet. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
October 4 Westside Art Openings
Jim Lommasson continues his series Exit Wounds: Life After War - Soldiers' Stories. It is presented in connection with the play, The Body of an American, at Portland Center Stage.
The play is based on the experience of war photographer, Paul Watson, witnessing a death in Mogadishu, Somalia. The extreme highs of combat photography and journalism are accompanied by horrible wounding lows. An example is the story of The Bang Bang Club photographers. Watson has written about his experiences in Where War Lives, A Journey into the Heart of War.
Watson worked with playwrite Dan O'Brien on the play, which is presented in Portland as a world premiere.
The event in Mogadishu was a tragedy, as is all untimely death. It was after the Black Hawk Down incident, a tragic end to an idealistic humanitarian intervention. Watson's Pulitzer-winning images of a lost American serviceman, photographed in the street mob at great personal risk, had an impact on the American psyche. That dissuaded President Clinton from intervening in the Rwandan genocide.
In the time since, journalistic video and stills have been highly controlled in American media through journalistic embedding programs.
Lommasson's project collects photographs made by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, with their stories. It's an ongoing project. This show is an expansion of his show in 2008 at the New American Art Union.
The show is viewable until November 22. At the Gerding Theater at the Armory, in the Ellyn Bye Studio Lobby. 1128 NW 11th. Opening reception 4PM-7
M K Guth continues her highly successful social practice series, Best Wishes. It's well worth understanding the ideas behind this artist's work and why it's valued outside Portland. The show has long braids with written wishes woven through them. The braids were worn by Guth as participants expanded them with their own woven intentions. The performance lasted for a lunar month in and around Las Vegas. Stephen Hayes also shows his pastoral landscape paintings. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Marie Watt is a contemporary artist who draws conceptual inspiration from her Native American heritage. She has just moved to New York. It will be interesting to see her work evolve. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
The UofO gallery has a group show and solo show this month. The group show, 6/ONE, is Karl Burkheimer, Josh Smith, Ben Ediger, Todd Isaacs, Dan Anderson, and Chris Held. Solo is Laura Hughes who makes light art pieces, tonight mixing video and fluorescent pigments. Recommended. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9
Corey Arnold is a photographer fisherman. His earlier work focused on crab fishing at sea. His new series, Graveyard Point, is focused on Alaskan salmon fishing, including river fishing, an abandoned cannery and the seasonal fishing life around it. Arnold is one of the best at this style documentary photography. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th Early close 8
Design With the Other 90% Cities exhibit continues at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. There is no admision charge on First Thursday. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis
ted to generation sampling. It is surprisingly difficult to do well and Givens does.
Chris Lael Larson has a show of video work Yourself Through Others. He has previously shown his kissing series in which one of the figures is removed by video effects. The work includes video portraits. The color grading and display calibration on all the projects is video electric with almost poppy colors. That contributes well to the overall impact. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Stumptown opens The Good Rain, a group photography show by Jake Arcularius, Olivia Bee, Ashby Lee Collinson, Sarah Meadows, Missy Prince, Marie Shelton, Jenny Simmons, Rebecca Thom, John Voves, Kersti Jan Werdal, and Dan Wilson. Reception Sunday at 5. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd
Sculptor installationist Jordan Tull opens Ecto-Paraprism. It's installed at the AIA office at the corner of Flanders at 403 NW 11th.
Spooky! In honor of Halloween, Grass Hut is putting together a spooky-themed show. Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch 6PM-9
Hellion has two figurative illustrators, Keegan Onefoot and Christopher Konecki who work a finer line than most of Portland's outsider artists. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style.
Map
Annoyed Grunt is a show by Mr. Kiji from New York, in a superflat, but more simplified graphic style than the original superflat artists. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
PNCA continues the excellent John Cage-inspired show and the alumni show. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Arc Volant is an installation by Wid Chambers. It's not often there is an opportunity to take over a whole commercial gallery for an installation, this is one. At Chambers Gallery www.chambersgallery.com 916 NW Flanders Early close 8:30PM
Oregon artist Naomi Shigeta has quiet work with detailed patterns. We hope this artist finds representation beyond Portland. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
A year in painting is a group show of a dozen artists including those represented by the gallery. It's mostly abstract, but different from what we see from Portland artists. At Victory Gallery www.victorygallery.com 733 NW Everett
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map
The play is based on the experience of war photographer, Paul Watson, witnessing a death in Mogadishu, Somalia. The extreme highs of combat photography and journalism are accompanied by horrible wounding lows. An example is the story of The Bang Bang Club photographers. Watson has written about his experiences in Where War Lives, A Journey into the Heart of War.
Watson worked with playwrite Dan O'Brien on the play, which is presented in Portland as a world premiere.
The event in Mogadishu was a tragedy, as is all untimely death. It was after the Black Hawk Down incident, a tragic end to an idealistic humanitarian intervention. Watson's Pulitzer-winning images of a lost American serviceman, photographed in the street mob at great personal risk, had an impact on the American psyche. That dissuaded President Clinton from intervening in the Rwandan genocide.
In the time since, journalistic video and stills have been highly controlled in American media through journalistic embedding programs.
Lommasson's project collects photographs made by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, with their stories. It's an ongoing project. This show is an expansion of his show in 2008 at the New American Art Union.
The show is viewable until November 22. At the Gerding Theater at the Armory, in the Ellyn Bye Studio Lobby. 1128 NW 11th. Opening reception 4PM-7
M K Guth continues her highly successful social practice series, Best Wishes. It's well worth understanding the ideas behind this artist's work and why it's valued outside Portland. The show has long braids with written wishes woven through them. The braids were worn by Guth as participants expanded them with their own woven intentions. The performance lasted for a lunar month in and around Las Vegas. Stephen Hayes also shows his pastoral landscape paintings. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Marie Watt is a contemporary artist who draws conceptual inspiration from her Native American heritage. She has just moved to New York. It will be interesting to see her work evolve. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
The UofO gallery has a group show and solo show this month. The group show, 6/ONE, is Karl Burkheimer, Josh Smith, Ben Ediger, Todd Isaacs, Dan Anderson, and Chris Held. Solo is Laura Hughes who makes light art pieces, tonight mixing video and fluorescent pigments. Recommended. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9
Corey Arnold is a photographer fisherman. His earlier work focused on crab fishing at sea. His new series, Graveyard Point, is focused on Alaskan salmon fishing, including river fishing, an abandoned cannery and the seasonal fishing life around it. Arnold is one of the best at this style documentary photography. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th Early close 8
Design With the Other 90% Cities exhibit continues at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. There is no admision charge on First Thursday. At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis
ted to generation sampling. It is surprisingly difficult to do well and Givens does.
Chris Lael Larson has a show of video work Yourself Through Others. He has previously shown his kissing series in which one of the figures is removed by video effects. The work includes video portraits. The color grading and display calibration on all the projects is video electric with almost poppy colors. That contributes well to the overall impact. At W+K www.wk.com 224 NW 13th Map 5PM-9 Free
Stumptown opens The Good Rain, a group photography show by Jake Arcularius, Olivia Bee, Ashby Lee Collinson, Sarah Meadows, Missy Prince, Marie Shelton, Jenny Simmons, Rebecca Thom, John Voves, Kersti Jan Werdal, and Dan Wilson. Reception Sunday at 5. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd
Sculptor installationist Jordan Tull opens Ecto-Paraprism. It's installed at the AIA office at the corner of Flanders at 403 NW 11th.
Spooky! In honor of Halloween, Grass Hut is putting together a spooky-themed show. Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch 6PM-9
Hellion has two figurative illustrators, Keegan Onefoot and Christopher Konecki who work a finer line than most of Portland's outsider artists. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style.
Map
Annoyed Grunt is a show by Mr. Kiji from New York, in a superflat, but more simplified graphic style than the original superflat artists. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
PNCA continues the excellent John Cage-inspired show and the alumni show. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Arc Volant is an installation by Wid Chambers. It's not often there is an opportunity to take over a whole commercial gallery for an installation, this is one. At Chambers Gallery www.chambersgallery.com 916 NW Flanders Early close 8:30PM
Oregon artist Naomi Shigeta has quiet work with detailed patterns. We hope this artist finds representation beyond Portland. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
A year in painting is a group show of a dozen artists including those represented by the gallery. It's mostly abstract, but different from what we see from Portland artists. At Victory Gallery www.victorygallery.com 733 NW Everett
Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map
October 3 Silent Circus and Not Silent
A Portland Circus on Cage’s Silence is a piece by Linda Austin and Seth Nehil inspired by the work of John Cage. The main building will be filled with music and silence, dancers and a poet. Dancers participating are Linda Austin, Mike Barber, Anne Furfey, Sally Garrido-Spencer, Keyon Gaskin, Tahni Holt, Carla Mann, Tere Mathern, Paige McKinney, Kaj-anne Pepper, Chelsea Petrakis, Kelly Rauer, Danielle Ross, Noelle Stiles, Emily Stone, Robert Tyree, Taka Yamamoto and Lucy Yim with musicians Matt Carlson, Jeff Diteman, Jordan Dykstra, Ben Kates, Phillip Kraft, Catherine Lee, Heather Perkins, Mary Sutton, Tom Thorson and Reed Wallsmith. Lisa Radon provides poetics. PNCA students add field recordings. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson. 7PM-10 Free
Meanwhile the always charming Fin de Cinema continues with animated films set to a live score. The films are The Fantastic Planet, 1973 and Light Years 1988, both by Rene Laloux. The score will be provided by Jeffrey Jerusalem, Hosannas, Onuinu and WL. Link with more details from Holocene. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $6
Meanwhile the always charming Fin de Cinema continues with animated films set to a live score. The films are The Fantastic Planet, 1973 and Light Years 1988, both by Rene Laloux. The score will be provided by Jeffrey Jerusalem, Hosannas, Onuinu and WL. Link with more details from Holocene. At Holocene www.holocene.org 1001 SE Morrison 8:30PM $6
Monday, October 01, 2012
October 2 Kara Walker
Noted artist Kara Walker speaks tonight about her work. She is also the subject of a show in the Cooley Gallery, where there will be a reception and viewing after the talk. At Reed College www.reed.edu/art Talk in the Vollum Lecture Hall. 7PM Free
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
September 28-29 YUor Atlas Cinema, Deep and Deeper
The Cinema Project is a small long running presenter of art films on film. These works were made on film and intended to be shown on film. Many have never been transferred to digital files or video formats. For the next year, the Cinema Project will take up residence at YU where they will show their films and select digital video works to you.
The first program is Torse, made when Atlas was 28. He filmed Merce Cunningham and his company performing Torse with three cameras over three days. One camera was fixed and the other two were operated by Atlas and Cunningham. Atlas then edited the work into a side by side two screen format, originally shown on interlocked film projectors.
Cunningham's partner John Cage is noted for his use of chance operations in musical composition. For Torse, Cunningham adopted that strategy. Inspired by the I Ching, which Cage used as well, the choreography is in sixty-four segments, and the floor is divided into sixty-four squares. Cunningham used the toss of coins to determine the sequence of segments danced and place on the floor for each of the ten dancers. Adding to the serendipitous randomness, the music is not tied to the movement, a Cunningham signature innovation.
In the world of dance this is a hard piece, for the dancers physically, and perhaps for the audience for its lack of narrative. That's why you should see it! Merce Cunningham is the Northwest's most noted choreographer of contemporary dance.
The same work will be shown Friday and Saturday evening. It will be a restored version telecined to HD video projection.
At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th Doors 6:30PM Film 9PM $7
Deep is a hip hop dance battle series that has attracted a solid base of competitors and audience, sponsors and a venue. Hats of to producer Huy Pham for providing this event to hip hop hungry Portland, after years of itinerant underground efforts and the long running Foundation series.
This is a special weekend to celebrate the end of the first season.
Deep eliminations will be Friday in the usual space in the usual format. All styles, crowd judged, DJ determined music. The top eight crews move onto the Deep Block Party Saturday.
Saturday the block party will have 2on2 all styles battles and invited exhibition crews. Crowd judged, make a noise!
Deep Elimination Friday. At The Slate 2001 NW 19th #104. Doors 7PM, battles 8. $10/$5 with Facebook RSVP by noon Friday
Deep Block Party outside at The Slate 2001 NW 19th #104. 4PM-8 $5/Free with Facebook RSVP by noon Friday
The first program is Torse, made when Atlas was 28. He filmed Merce Cunningham and his company performing Torse with three cameras over three days. One camera was fixed and the other two were operated by Atlas and Cunningham. Atlas then edited the work into a side by side two screen format, originally shown on interlocked film projectors.
Cunningham's partner John Cage is noted for his use of chance operations in musical composition. For Torse, Cunningham adopted that strategy. Inspired by the I Ching, which Cage used as well, the choreography is in sixty-four segments, and the floor is divided into sixty-four squares. Cunningham used the toss of coins to determine the sequence of segments danced and place on the floor for each of the ten dancers. Adding to the serendipitous randomness, the music is not tied to the movement, a Cunningham signature innovation.
In the world of dance this is a hard piece, for the dancers physically, and perhaps for the audience for its lack of narrative. That's why you should see it! Merce Cunningham is the Northwest's most noted choreographer of contemporary dance.
The same work will be shown Friday and Saturday evening. It will be a restored version telecined to HD video projection.
At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th Doors 6:30PM Film 9PM $7
Deep is a hip hop dance battle series that has attracted a solid base of competitors and audience, sponsors and a venue. Hats of to producer Huy Pham for providing this event to hip hop hungry Portland, after years of itinerant underground efforts and the long running Foundation series.
This is a special weekend to celebrate the end of the first season.
Deep eliminations will be Friday in the usual space in the usual format. All styles, crowd judged, DJ determined music. The top eight crews move onto the Deep Block Party Saturday.
Saturday the block party will have 2on2 all styles battles and invited exhibition crews. Crowd judged, make a noise!
Deep Elimination Friday. At The Slate 2001 NW 19th #104. Doors 7PM, battles 8. $10/$5 with Facebook RSVP by noon Friday
Deep Block Party outside at The Slate 2001 NW 19th #104. 4PM-8 $5/Free with Facebook RSVP by noon Friday
September 27 Alberta Elemental Soft Core Photography Singing
Suzy Poling Pat Maher and Liz Harris are in a show Elemental Forces. From Oakland, Poling's work spans light installations, performance, music, video and film. This show is themed on ecology, materiality and regeneration. Meanwhile in the vestibule space, Brittany Powell has large classic pen and ink comic style illustrations parodying American Apparel advertisements in Soft Core Apparel. The Southeast gallery has a show by Glean, a collaboration to use discarded materials as art materials. The artists are Andrew Auble, Chandra Glaeseman, Greg Hanson, Sarah Wolf Newlands and Jennifer LaMastra. LaMastra has some stunning dresses in a series Disremembered. Tonight for the opening, there will be performance by Princes Dies, Chromium Dumb Belle, White Gourd, Pod Blotz, Diamond Catalog and DJ Aaron Montaigne. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11 Free
Bob Ross. Public television painting instructor, from 1983 to 1994, inspired a generation of protopainters with his cheery demonstrations. Some of them grew up and offer a tribute to Bob in this show opening tonight, Happy Little Trees. Often worth stopping by Antler next door. At Screaming Sky www.screamingskygallery.com 1416 NE Alberta Free
There is no finish line is a show by Dan Gluibizzi and New York by way of Portland artist Zefrey Throwell. Throwell had an irregular series of house and itinerant space shows, Alphabet Dress, in Portland for artists to clear their studios of works at very reasonable prices. He is a member of Red 76. He moved to New York and has been doing provocative photo work. His photo work is paired with Gluibizzi's watercolor washes of figures for this show. This is the artists' second collaboration. The show work is also a book. Just a note, the official opening of the show is Wednesday evening, 6PM-9. Live music tonight at 8. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
The Goodfoot does one of the ever popular in Portland panel shows 88 Strong. 88 artists made 8 8"x8" panels inspired by their choice of 88 themes. They are all for sale for $50 each, cash and carry. You can take home the art now for instant gratification. Arrive early for the full view of the art. The artists will be listed on the Goodfoot website later in the week. The list of themes is amusing: 27 Club, 41 Forever, Absinthe, Antique, Art Mafia, Avengers, Bar Fly, Bath Salts, Batman, Beards, Bikini Brew, Botox, Breaking Bad, Bridge and Tunnel, Burnside, Campaign, Compost, Consume, Damaged Goods, Danger Zone, Dapper Dan, Day of the Dead, Deadly Sins, Die Antwoord, Dirty Bird, Do It Myself, Dr. Who, Dreads, Dubstep, East Side, Eat Your Face, Emo, Free Range, French or Homeless?, Friend, Like, Poke, Frolf, Get Safe, Gone Fishin', Happy Little Trees, Hick, High Life, Hoarding, Hops, Hot Tub, Illcommunication, Infusion, Interwebs, It's In My Mouth, iThings, Just To See How It Feels, Keep Portland Weird, Kincaide, Kind of a Big Deal, Kinda Reality, Last Call, Lebowski, Liz Lemon, Master Chef, Mayan, Merkin or 'Merican, Midwest, Mythical Beasts, Naked Bike Ride, Obey, Occupy, Pearl District, Pinballin', Portlandia, Queens, Re-Use Me, Red Dawn, Resin, Robo Tech, Roller Girls, Scandals, Skinny Jeans, Smoke's Worth, So 2006, Sound Check, Star Wars Forever, Tattoo Palooza, Tie Died, Timbers Army, Transplants, Urban Farm Yard, Vagabond, Vegan and VooDooDoo. At The Goodfoot www.thegoodfoot.com/gallery 2845 SE Stark Map Starts 5PM, viewable business hours until late. Free
Mercy Corps holds a public reception with the curator for the Design With the Other 90% show in the Mercy Corps Action Center. www.mercycorps.org/events/2012/08/02/27267 At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st 5:30PM-7:30 Free
And Portland Tuvan Throat Singer Soriah performs with collaborators and guests tonight. I prefer his solo shows, but any opportunity to see the best Western Tuvan throat singer in the world is special. The collaboration does allow more instrumental tectures to be added resulting in a beautiful dark ambient sound that you can just curl up to. At Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th. 9PM $10
The University of Oregon presents an evening with photojournalist and noted technical photography & video consultant Vincent Laforet. You can find out more about him at blog.vincentlaforet.com and www.laforetvisuals.com. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch. Reception 6PM, talk 7. Free
Bob Ross. Public television painting instructor, from 1983 to 1994, inspired a generation of protopainters with his cheery demonstrations. Some of them grew up and offer a tribute to Bob in this show opening tonight, Happy Little Trees. Often worth stopping by Antler next door. At Screaming Sky www.screamingskygallery.com 1416 NE Alberta Free
There is no finish line is a show by Dan Gluibizzi and New York by way of Portland artist Zefrey Throwell. Throwell had an irregular series of house and itinerant space shows, Alphabet Dress, in Portland for artists to clear their studios of works at very reasonable prices. He is a member of Red 76. He moved to New York and has been doing provocative photo work. His photo work is paired with Gluibizzi's watercolor washes of figures for this show. This is the artists' second collaboration. The show work is also a book. Just a note, the official opening of the show is Wednesday evening, 6PM-9. Live music tonight at 8. Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
The Goodfoot does one of the ever popular in Portland panel shows 88 Strong. 88 artists made 8 8"x8" panels inspired by their choice of 88 themes. They are all for sale for $50 each, cash and carry. You can take home the art now for instant gratification. Arrive early for the full view of the art. The artists will be listed on the Goodfoot website later in the week. The list of themes is amusing: 27 Club, 41 Forever, Absinthe, Antique, Art Mafia, Avengers, Bar Fly, Bath Salts, Batman, Beards, Bikini Brew, Botox, Breaking Bad, Bridge and Tunnel, Burnside, Campaign, Compost, Consume, Damaged Goods, Danger Zone, Dapper Dan, Day of the Dead, Deadly Sins, Die Antwoord, Dirty Bird, Do It Myself, Dr. Who, Dreads, Dubstep, East Side, Eat Your Face, Emo, Free Range, French or Homeless?, Friend, Like, Poke, Frolf, Get Safe, Gone Fishin', Happy Little Trees, Hick, High Life, Hoarding, Hops, Hot Tub, Illcommunication, Infusion, Interwebs, It's In My Mouth, iThings, Just To See How It Feels, Keep Portland Weird, Kincaide, Kind of a Big Deal, Kinda Reality, Last Call, Lebowski, Liz Lemon, Master Chef, Mayan, Merkin or 'Merican, Midwest, Mythical Beasts, Naked Bike Ride, Obey, Occupy, Pearl District, Pinballin', Portlandia, Queens, Re-Use Me, Red Dawn, Resin, Robo Tech, Roller Girls, Scandals, Skinny Jeans, Smoke's Worth, So 2006, Sound Check, Star Wars Forever, Tattoo Palooza, Tie Died, Timbers Army, Transplants, Urban Farm Yard, Vagabond, Vegan and VooDooDoo. At The Goodfoot www.thegoodfoot.com/gallery 2845 SE Stark Map Starts 5PM, viewable business hours until late. Free
Mercy Corps holds a public reception with the curator for the Design With the Other 90% show in the Mercy Corps Action Center. www.mercycorps.org/events/2012/08/02/27267 At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st 5:30PM-7:30 Free
And Portland Tuvan Throat Singer Soriah performs with collaborators and guests tonight. I prefer his solo shows, but any opportunity to see the best Western Tuvan throat singer in the world is special. The collaboration does allow more instrumental tectures to be added resulting in a beautiful dark ambient sound that you can just curl up to. At Someday Lounge 125 NW 5th. 9PM $10
The University of Oregon presents an evening with photojournalist and noted technical photography & video consultant Vincent Laforet. You can find out more about him at blog.vincentlaforet.com and www.laforetvisuals.com. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, 70 NW Couch. Reception 6PM, talk 7. Free
September 26 Socially Responsible Design Thinking
Cynthia E. Smith is Curator of Socially Responsible Design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. She curated the current show Design with the Other 90%: CITIES at the Museum of Contemporary Craft and the Mercy Corps Action Center.
The show presents urban design projects as storyboards, in photographs, videos and as built objects. It's well worth seeing.
Smith herself has done field design research contributing to the Design Museum program.
She provides a history of the program, the exhibit and her experiences in other countries.
At the PNCA Museum of Contemporary Craft 724 NW Davis 6:30PM Free
Ampersand might be a good place to stop by tonight. Notes on the show are in Thursday's post.
The show presents urban design projects as storyboards, in photographs, videos and as built objects. It's well worth seeing.
Smith herself has done field design research contributing to the Design Museum program.
She provides a history of the program, the exhibit and her experiences in other countries.
At the PNCA Museum of Contemporary Craft 724 NW Davis 6:30PM Free
Ampersand might be a good place to stop by tonight. Notes on the show are in Thursday's post.
Monday, September 24, 2012
September 25 The Revenge of Plastic
We have many memes from film. An older one is "plastics" from the film The Graduate. And plastics are a great in many ways creation of chemistry. They can be tough, light, durable, and are inexpensive. That's why we have plastic cameras. And they have plastic lenses, which have their charming imperfections. They record an image on analog film, with a plastic substrate, the invention by George Eastman that democratized photography. The Plastics 2 art show captures images from from plastic cameras. The last show, Plastics 1, was excellent. The artists this year are Jason Carlisle, Rebecca Carlisle, Lindsey Marla Lynch, Justin 'Scrappers' Morrison, Anna Korte, Jason Quigley, Ann McGarry, Steve Mathews, Peter Carlson and more. At Albina Press, 4637 N. Albina Ave x Blandena Map 6PM-8
Sunday, September 23, 2012
September 23-24 Six Sounds
Six is an experimental evening of sound Sunday. Six sound artists occupy the PNCA atrium over a set of six channel speakers beginning at six. The series has been operating for several years to explore the six channel hexaphonic performance and listening experience, which cannot be downloaded. The artists are Robert Henke - Monolake from Germany, Marcus Fischer, Strategy - Paul Dickow+Jetfinger, Solenoid - David Chandler, Dweomer - Jef Drawbaugh and Mike Jedlicka + Wndfrm - Tim Wescott. Jetfinger performs on an analog sequencing synth which includes the Klee Sequencer. Sonic audience travelers are encouraged to bring cushions and blankets. Perhaps they will do a future event dusk until dawn!
Monday Henke speaks on Sound, Structures, and Machines, how he uses tools MaxMSP and Ableton Live to create and mix sounds. He will also preview his large scale laser and music installation, Fragile Territories. Henke is a cofounder with Gerhard Behles of Ableton, based on prototypes they developed as Monolake.
Both at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson. Six Sunday 6PM-9:30 Free. Talk Monday 6:30 Free
Monday Henke speaks on Sound, Structures, and Machines, how he uses tools MaxMSP and Ableton Live to create and mix sounds. He will also preview his large scale laser and music installation, Fragile Territories. Henke is a cofounder with Gerhard Behles of Ableton, based on prototypes they developed as Monolake.
Both at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson. Six Sunday 6PM-9:30 Free. Talk Monday 6:30 Free
Thursday, September 20, 2012
September 20-23 Seattle Fringe
Higher Ground is a dance movement performance in the butoh world by Helen Thorsen with Mary Cutrera, Briana Jones, Lin Lucas and Alan Sutherland. At West Hall 915 E Pine, 2nd floor. Reservations/info 206.723.2315 helisdancing@hotmail.com HelenThorsenDances.com Thursday 6:30PM Friday and Saturday 7:30PM Sunday 5:00PM West Hall E Pine 2nd floor. $10
September 20 Translating Socrates
Christopher Phillips for the PNCA Collaborative Design program. His talk combines the ideas of Jefferson and Socrates and applies them to politics. 6:30PM Free
David Shipley Executive Editor at the Bloomberg View and is the Former Staff Editor at the Op-Ed page at The New York Times presents a convocation address at PNCA this afternoon, Learning to Translate 4PM-5 Free
Both at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson
David Shipley Executive Editor at the Bloomberg View and is the Former Staff Editor at the Op-Ed page at The New York Times presents a convocation address at PNCA this afternoon, Learning to Translate 4PM-5 Free
Both at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
September 19 Recess Problems
Recess Gallery puts you to work with resident artists MYNDWYRM and Ben Gansky. In an open source, social practice program, Recess offors you the opportunity to particiapte in performace. Some projects include Sad Portland : an existential adventure game; Seven Minutes in Heaven - A kissing booth: a performance for two; Obedience: A piece for two; Untitled (Locked in a Bathroom): A site-specific exploration of a specific site; National Psychogeographic; and Phone(:) a Friend. Check the gallery website to participate. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map Noon-7 Free
Designer Alex Isley works with organizations in a creative capacity. He discusses his projects tonight. At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6:30PM-8 Free
Designer Alex Isley works with organizations in a creative capacity. He discusses his projects tonight. At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6:30PM-8 Free
Saturday, September 15, 2012
September 15-16 Make It
The Maker Movement is worldwide. It's an opportunity for individuals to make what specialists did before by exchange of open source knowledge on the interwebs. Portland has a maker fair this weekend. Details at www.omsi.edu/maker-faire-pdx
September 15 Mallin'
Michael Endo has an installation Black Field. Benjamin Lipkin has Bubble Entrndre. Jason Doize, principal of False Front Studio, has Underlier. Recommended. All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-8 Free
Rick Austin has more paintings and Darlene Schaper has sculptures at Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com 5PM-9 Free
Usually we don't cover poster art, band posters or graphic design. Others do it better and those art forms have their own audiences and aesthetics. But if you are in the Mall, feel free to visit the survey of EMEK's current works. At the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 5PM-9 Free
All in the mall.
Rick Austin has more paintings and Darlene Schaper has sculptures at Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com 5PM-9 Free
Usually we don't cover poster art, band posters or graphic design. Others do it better and those art forms have their own audiences and aesthetics. But if you are in the Mall, feel free to visit the survey of EMEK's current works. At the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 5PM-9 Free
All in the mall.
Friday, September 14, 2012
September 14 BTUs - Get to Know Them
If you saw the note for the plastic camera show opening here earlier, it has just been moved to Tuesday September 25. See you there!
Donald Morgan opens British Thermal Unit tonight. He's a sculpture artist. BTUs are a useful unit of energy to get to know, they measure heating our homes, the bath and are a unit by which coal, gas and other energy is measured. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map 6PM-9
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
September 13 Books Attack Question Everything Cat Huts
Books are far from dead. They haven't all been digitized. And the printing quality is far above the most expensive displays. That makes them ideal for reproducing photographic material. Monograph Bookwerks brings some of their collection to Oregon College of Arts and Crafts including rare, out-of-print and small press publications. All for sale. At Oregon College of Arts and Crafts www.ocac.edu 8245 SW Barnes Opens 4PM-7
George Mobus, renaissance man, is a systems thinker on energy economics. Also a professor of CS at UW. He speaks tonight as part of the Collaborative Design program at PNCA, where students are challenged to solve the wicked problems of today, like our environmental ones. Appropos, he is designing a Masters in Energy Systems Engineering for the school. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson 6:30 PM Free
Where would the Internet be without cats? Illustrator Bishop Lennon has Kitty Kats! And other amazing creatures tonight. At Black Wagon blackwagon.com 3964 N Mississippi Map 5PM-7
Grass Hut opens Have a Killer Day from Bwana Spoons and friends Martin Ontiveros, Kiyoka Ikeda, Oliver Hibert, Uglydoll, Spencer Hibbert, Le Merde, Tripper, Naoya Ikeda, Arbito, Chanmen and Gargamel. Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch 6PM-9
George Mobus, renaissance man, is a systems thinker on energy economics. Also a professor of CS at UW. He speaks tonight as part of the Collaborative Design program at PNCA, where students are challenged to solve the wicked problems of today, like our environmental ones. Appropos, he is designing a Masters in Energy Systems Engineering for the school. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson 6:30 PM Free
Where would the Internet be without cats? Illustrator Bishop Lennon has Kitty Kats! And other amazing creatures tonight. At Black Wagon blackwagon.com 3964 N Mississippi Map 5PM-7
Grass Hut opens Have a Killer Day from Bwana Spoons and friends Martin Ontiveros, Kiyoka Ikeda, Oliver Hibert, Uglydoll, Spencer Hibbert, Le Merde, Tripper, Naoya Ikeda, Arbito, Chanmen and Gargamel. Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch 6PM-9
Friday, September 07, 2012
Sepember 7 Eastside Art Openings
Recess has a show by resident artists Myndwyrm, Billy Mullaney, Justin Spooner, Paul Stucker, Jeff Shockley, Ross Orenstein, and Peter Rusk + The Wild Plan, Ben Gansky. Tonight also marks their anniversary. The artists are perfect for Recess with their walk projects, site work and optimism about cities as a substrate for art. The artists also give a talk Sunday. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 9PM-2AM
Union|Pine has a show of locally made furniture and art items curated by Robert Rahm at Beam and Anchor. It includes he and Jocelyn's work, Ben Klebba - Phloem Studios, Bren Reis - Earthbound Industries, Matt Pierce - Wood & Faulk, Leland Duck - Revive Upholstery & Design, Erik Johnson - Hankbuilt, Shannon Guirl - Caravan Pacific, Eric Trine, Kayla Mucci, Meghan Morris, Indian vs Indian, Laura Bechan and Hickory Mertsching. Also showing is the Kenton Colllective R Rolfe and Jake Frank - Boys Fort, Preston Borwning - Salvage Works, Sarah Heimstetter & Alea Joy - Solabee Flowers. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Dardinelle Troen presents All That I Possess and Use…, photographs from Tibet. The show is based on the photographers realization: "I came to realize how much our perception of reality is dependent on our own sense of identity, desires and conditional factors. What is true and real for me may be, in construct, an illusion for someone else. So then, what is the boundary between reality and illusion? Are they two opposing concepts, or are we only able to delineate between them based on their relationship to each other?” The photographer is also founder of Ditroën, the design firm. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8
Homeland continues the current show with a focus on watching the performance video tonight. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Redux has art from Darlene Schaper. Pen & Process has laser cut lucite and bamboo jewelry. It is also a special night for absinthe! Pen & Process show their lasered absinthe spoons. And it's a fancy dress up party, think Paris at the turn of the century. Amy Dennis of the Wormwood Society gives a short talk on the notorious and romantic history of absinthe beginning precisely at 6:30PM. At 7 DJ Rafa starts laying down his soulful and funky house. Be there and you will learn a new world, louche! At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Cari Vander Yacht's has Breaking Bad at Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-9ish
Summertime: That Beautiful Season is a group show curated by Todd Tubutis at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Land Land Gallery has David Lanham with illustrated landscapes filled with monsters that are not scary. At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8
Isaac and Arel Bushman have Owl Cat Ink, collaged painting at Albina Press, 4637 N. Albina Ave x Blandena Map 6PM-8 Free
Milepost 5 opens its artist studios tonight. It's at Milepost5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 6PM-9 Free
Union|Pine has a show of locally made furniture and art items curated by Robert Rahm at Beam and Anchor. It includes he and Jocelyn's work, Ben Klebba - Phloem Studios, Bren Reis - Earthbound Industries, Matt Pierce - Wood & Faulk, Leland Duck - Revive Upholstery & Design, Erik Johnson - Hankbuilt, Shannon Guirl - Caravan Pacific, Eric Trine, Kayla Mucci, Meghan Morris, Indian vs Indian, Laura Bechan and Hickory Mertsching. Also showing is the Kenton Colllective R Rolfe and Jake Frank - Boys Fort, Preston Borwning - Salvage Works, Sarah Heimstetter & Alea Joy - Solabee Flowers. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
Dardinelle Troen presents All That I Possess and Use…, photographs from Tibet. The show is based on the photographers realization: "I came to realize how much our perception of reality is dependent on our own sense of identity, desires and conditional factors. What is true and real for me may be, in construct, an illusion for someone else. So then, what is the boundary between reality and illusion? Are they two opposing concepts, or are we only able to delineate between them based on their relationship to each other?” The photographer is also founder of Ditroën, the design firm. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-8
Homeland continues the current show with a focus on watching the performance video tonight. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
Redux has art from Darlene Schaper. Pen & Process has laser cut lucite and bamboo jewelry. It is also a special night for absinthe! Pen & Process show their lasered absinthe spoons. And it's a fancy dress up party, think Paris at the turn of the century. Amy Dennis of the Wormwood Society gives a short talk on the notorious and romantic history of absinthe beginning precisely at 6:30PM. At 7 DJ Rafa starts laying down his soulful and funky house. Be there and you will learn a new world, louche! At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Cari Vander Yacht's has Breaking Bad at Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-9ish
Summertime: That Beautiful Season is a group show curated by Todd Tubutis at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Land Land Gallery has David Lanham with illustrated landscapes filled with monsters that are not scary. At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8
Isaac and Arel Bushman have Owl Cat Ink, collaged painting at Albina Press, 4637 N. Albina Ave x Blandena Map 6PM-8 Free
Milepost 5 opens its artist studios tonight. It's at Milepost5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 6PM-9 Free
Friday, August 31, 2012
September 1 Water Wallz Touching You
PICA's TBA festival is not performance only, it has visual arts too, and they are all free. The first, Water, by Claudia Meza, opens this evening. It involves sound from ferries, rivers, oceans, waterfalls, water taps, water bowls and many other watery things delivered by cassette audio tapes from large numbers of archaic playing devices. Meza is a performing musician in Explode Into Colors, has created the Sonic City PDX project, and the New Metrics program for composers. The show also includes a video work and Sonic City documentation. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9 Free
The Wallz is the new graffitti and wheat paste wall work gallery, at BMX course The Lumberyard. They open a show this evening, Locals Only, of local artists. At The Wallz thewallzgallery.blogspot.com in The Lumberyard www.lumberyardmtb.com 2700 NE 82nd 7PM-10 Free
Brian Khek & Micah Schippa from Chicago open Touching You Touching Everything tonight at Appendix Project Space. Both artists live in, and were schooled in Chicago, we'll see if they vibe the cool, deep minimalism characteristic of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Appendix now has a fancy gravel alley and no hay, no sketchy shrubbery and no blackberries, the alley is being gentrified,, but Appendix is in the same place. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8-late Free
The Wallz is the new graffitti and wheat paste wall work gallery, at BMX course The Lumberyard. They open a show this evening, Locals Only, of local artists. At The Wallz thewallzgallery.blogspot.com in The Lumberyard www.lumberyardmtb.com 2700 NE 82nd 7PM-10 Free
Brian Khek & Micah Schippa from Chicago open Touching You Touching Everything tonight at Appendix Project Space. Both artists live in, and were schooled in Chicago, we'll see if they vibe the cool, deep minimalism characteristic of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Appendix now has a fancy gravel alley and no hay, no sketchy shrubbery and no blackberries, the alley is being gentrified,, but Appendix is in the same place. At Appendix Project Space www.appendixspace.com On the alley between 26th and 27th, South of Alberta. Map 8-late Free
Thursday, August 30, 2012
August 31 Techne Rendered False Dawn
Flanks and Slopes is a new show by Zachary Davis, coprincipal of Appendix Project Space. The event also wins our copywriting award: "Form is a voracious concept, beginning somewhere in the front of my brain, where teams of cells replace flat swaths of stimulus from the back of the eye with semantic notions like edge, texture, and depth. In schematic, these transmuting units are funnel- shaped, and zooming out, the shape remains a funnel, with sensory overload crashing against the wide end and a thin stream of physical actions on the other.
Along with other perceived objects, this funnel-form guides my actions on a field of possibility with its own contours. If the shape of tomorrowʼs weather forecast has enough reality to guide my actions (rainfall by time by latitude by longitude), or the upward trajectory of food prices (by time by latitude by longitude), then the correlation of many such forms (food price by rainfall by time by latitude by longitude) is similarly real. Pull in enough metrics, and we find ourselves on a landscape of goals and dangers, shrouded in fog.
An amorphous body of accidental but durable forms is sprawled across this landscape, and we are a single branch probing outward, a little less blind than the others, generating variety at an unprecedented rate and sharing what we learn. I am interested in a feedback loop between speculative and physical form – in objects tuned to a stable state for their context, but engaged in the dimensional play of observation, cognition and navigation. I imagine a map fused with the territory, adding its own bright forms to the general mass."
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
Disjecta has done well with great guest curators. And it has been a mini-PICA, but finding artists at earlier stages in their careers. Tonight curator Wyatt Schaffner teams with Experimental Half Hour for a night of performance, installation and beautiful visual-aural mayhem. The show, Techne Rendered False Dawn, has films by Liz Harris & Taryn Tomasello and installations by MSHR plus John Rau & Olivia Erlanger.
There will be performances by The Tenses, MSHR, Future Death Toll, Matt Carlson and Jason Urick which will be remixed live by Experimental Half Hour.
DJ's Sahel Sounds and Citymouth dance out the evening.
Oregon Painting Society offshoot MSHR is not to be missed in the last slot of the evening. Their Appendix residency performance was stunning.
So tonight you can experience a TBA quality+ event for the amazing price of free. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11 Free
Along with other perceived objects, this funnel-form guides my actions on a field of possibility with its own contours. If the shape of tomorrowʼs weather forecast has enough reality to guide my actions (rainfall by time by latitude by longitude), or the upward trajectory of food prices (by time by latitude by longitude), then the correlation of many such forms (food price by rainfall by time by latitude by longitude) is similarly real. Pull in enough metrics, and we find ourselves on a landscape of goals and dangers, shrouded in fog.
An amorphous body of accidental but durable forms is sprawled across this landscape, and we are a single branch probing outward, a little less blind than the others, generating variety at an unprecedented rate and sharing what we learn. I am interested in a feedback loop between speculative and physical form – in objects tuned to a stable state for their context, but engaged in the dimensional play of observation, cognition and navigation. I imagine a map fused with the territory, adding its own bright forms to the general mass."
At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
Disjecta has done well with great guest curators. And it has been a mini-PICA, but finding artists at earlier stages in their careers. Tonight curator Wyatt Schaffner teams with Experimental Half Hour for a night of performance, installation and beautiful visual-aural mayhem. The show, Techne Rendered False Dawn, has films by Liz Harris & Taryn Tomasello and installations by MSHR plus John Rau & Olivia Erlanger.
There will be performances by The Tenses, MSHR, Future Death Toll, Matt Carlson and Jason Urick which will be remixed live by Experimental Half Hour.
DJ's Sahel Sounds and Citymouth dance out the evening.
Oregon Painting Society offshoot MSHR is not to be missed in the last slot of the evening. Their Appendix residency performance was stunning.
So tonight you can experience a TBA quality+ event for the amazing price of free. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-11 Free
August 30 Alberta Foot Symphony
The last Thursday in August happens while many of the people behind its founding are at the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada. And the new fire chief's rules about the distance between the performer and audience makes fire performances almost impossible on the street. Expect a low key sea of dreams and people.
Multiple Maniacs II the Flight 64 coop print studio's fundraiser. Expect to see the member's works in all sizes and very reasonable prices, you are buying direct! A silent auction start at 4, there will be live block printing in the alleyway, and you can't bet five dollar prints. A DJ and comestibles too. At Flight 64 Print Studio www.flight64.org 2934 NE Alberta Behind Bella Faccia Pizza on the NE 29th-30th Alley. Map 4PM-9 or later Free
Ampersand continues the show that opened yesterday.
Ilan Schraer has Distant Relatives on display in one of the Alberta-Killingsworth district, the Emerson Space Case. It's a series of window displays viewable 24 hours a day, known for organic-style paintings and sculptures. View in the Emerson Space Case emersonspacecase.blogspot.com NE 30th and Emerson Map
Sometimes we hew to our subcultures. But it's also fun to head out to events with wide appeal, like the annual Oregon Symphony in Waterfront Park. It's a great opportunity to hear light classical music excerpts and have a picnic. It starts early with the Portland Youth Philharmonic and includes the Black Swan segment of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake danced by the Oregon Ballet. The evening concludes with the literal war horse Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. At Tom McCall Waterfront Park 1020 Naito Pkwy. 5PM Free
Symphony Waterfront Park
Goodfoot opens a wild figurative show by Kyle Gossman, Mario Robert, Matt Schlosky and Tripper Dungan. At the Goodfoot www.thegoodfoot.com/gallery 2845 SE Stark Map Starts 5PM
Multiple Maniacs II the Flight 64 coop print studio's fundraiser. Expect to see the member's works in all sizes and very reasonable prices, you are buying direct! A silent auction start at 4, there will be live block printing in the alleyway, and you can't bet five dollar prints. A DJ and comestibles too. At Flight 64 Print Studio www.flight64.org 2934 NE Alberta Behind Bella Faccia Pizza on the NE 29th-30th Alley. Map 4PM-9 or later Free
Ampersand continues the show that opened yesterday.
Ilan Schraer has Distant Relatives on display in one of the Alberta-Killingsworth district, the Emerson Space Case. It's a series of window displays viewable 24 hours a day, known for organic-style paintings and sculptures. View in the Emerson Space Case emersonspacecase.blogspot.com NE 30th and Emerson Map
Sometimes we hew to our subcultures. But it's also fun to head out to events with wide appeal, like the annual Oregon Symphony in Waterfront Park. It's a great opportunity to hear light classical music excerpts and have a picnic. It starts early with the Portland Youth Philharmonic and includes the Black Swan segment of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake danced by the Oregon Ballet. The evening concludes with the literal war horse Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. At Tom McCall Waterfront Park 1020 Naito Pkwy. 5PM Free
Symphony Waterfront Park
Goodfoot opens a wild figurative show by Kyle Gossman, Mario Robert, Matt Schlosky and Tripper Dungan. At the Goodfoot www.thegoodfoot.com/gallery 2845 SE Stark Map Starts 5PM
Monday, August 27, 2012
August 29 Buenos Aires, Mother Daughter, Paintings Photographs
The more international artists exhibiting in Portland and Portland artists exhibiting internationally, the better. The gallery in a garage around the corner has had internatonal artists, including a Slovenian artist who had previously exhibited in Eurpoean museums. Now Ampersand hosts a show of artists from Argentina.
Photographer Lorena Guillen Vaschetti, the last left of a large Italian family was able to save only one box of vintage 35mm film slides discarded by her mother. She has rephotographed those images, changing the focus, in a show Historia, memoria y silencios, also published as a book. The work is exhibited alongside landscape paintings by her mother, Norma Vaschetti. There is more information on the Ampersand website about the project.
At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-9 Free
Photographer Lorena Guillen Vaschetti, the last left of a large Italian family was able to save only one box of vintage 35mm film slides discarded by her mother. She has rephotographed those images, changing the focus, in a show Historia, memoria y silencios, also published as a book. The work is exhibited alongside landscape paintings by her mother, Norma Vaschetti. There is more information on the Ampersand website about the project.
At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-9 Free
Friday, August 24, 2012
August 25 Deep 6
Deep is a monthly all ages b-boy b-girl battle. This month, #6, is 2 on 2 all styles. The theme is The Commandos Edition. Commandos is where dancers mirror one another's moves while changing places. This clip captures some at the time-in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD8cvUXWK9Q&feature=youtu.be&t=1m33s. charactercult has uploaded videos of past Deep events, easy to find by the one above made at Deep #5.
The event is crowd judged. There will be a parents vs kids segment. Performances by New Zoo Boyz, Paint Dance, Tactics and F.R.M. Guest host Leviathan. DJ ComputerFAM on the wheels of steel.
Crews tonight include Urban Arts, Turbo Clix, Mini Monsters, Jonathan Nguyen & Eric Chin, Marshae & Bryan, Skinny, Drift & W4, Battlecats Galactica, Beauty & The Beast, Alyssia and Sammie, Fox Tail Gang, Hydrostep & I-step, Baby Rook + Blazy, Worn Soles, BDP, Big Snubb & Uflow, Takeuchi Ken & Marty Party and William & Kiel.
All ages, adult beverages available for adults. At The Slate, 2001 NW 19th #104 6PM-10 $10
The event is crowd judged. There will be a parents vs kids segment. Performances by New Zoo Boyz, Paint Dance, Tactics and F.R.M. Guest host Leviathan. DJ ComputerFAM on the wheels of steel.
Crews tonight include Urban Arts, Turbo Clix, Mini Monsters, Jonathan Nguyen & Eric Chin, Marshae & Bryan, Skinny, Drift & W4, Battlecats Galactica, Beauty & The Beast, Alyssia and Sammie, Fox Tail Gang, Hydrostep & I-step, Baby Rook + Blazy, Worn Soles, BDP, Big Snubb & Uflow, Takeuchi Ken & Marty Party and William & Kiel.
All ages, adult beverages available for adults. At The Slate, 2001 NW 19th #104 6PM-10 $10
Monday, August 20, 2012
August 21-25 Gallery Box as Studio Box
The University of Oregon White Box Gallery has invited 5 artists to each use the gallery for 24 hours. They are using it as a studio space to make work and an exhibition space to show it. Each artist has selected their own times for visitors to see. The project is Show-and-Tell.
Lisa Radon will undertake a writing marathon noon-8PM Tuesday. Light artist Laura Hughes will work in the space Wednesday 6PM-8. Sculptor inventor Stephanie Simek will be in the gallery Thursday 6PM-8. Performer and image maker Wayne Bund will be in the space noon-8PM Friday. Sean Joseph Patrick Carney and Michael Reinsch will use the gallery 6PM-8 Saturday
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch Free
Lisa Radon will undertake a writing marathon noon-8PM Tuesday. Light artist Laura Hughes will work in the space Wednesday 6PM-8. Sculptor inventor Stephanie Simek will be in the gallery Thursday 6PM-8. Performer and image maker Wayne Bund will be in the space noon-8PM Friday. Sean Joseph Patrick Carney and Michael Reinsch will use the gallery 6PM-8 Saturday
At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch Free
August 20-24 Exposed
Ballet is a sport and an art. Ballet training has been a classic path from childhood to adulthood. It teaches listening and learning, coordination and coordination with others, it transform geek bodies to athletic ones. It was the powerhouse of W+K and Nike Creative which established athletic beauty in sports as a meme 30 years ago, copying ballet's fusion of athleticism and aesthetics, which began 600 years ago in Renaissance Italy.
The Oregon Ballet has teamed with White Bird Dance to open their rehearsal process for an upcoming piece to the public in a temporary studio outdoors. It is at Director Park SW Park and Taylor. There is a schedule each day including classes you can join, question and answer times, films and rehearsals. This is exactly the type of program that the arts levy in the Fall is designed to support. Details at www.obt.org/outreach_events_exposed.html OBT Exposed at Director Park, SW Park and Taylor various times roughly 11AM-9PM Free
The Oregon Ballet has teamed with White Bird Dance to open their rehearsal process for an upcoming piece to the public in a temporary studio outdoors. It is at Director Park SW Park and Taylor. There is a schedule each day including classes you can join, question and answer times, films and rehearsals. This is exactly the type of program that the arts levy in the Fall is designed to support. Details at www.obt.org/outreach_events_exposed.html OBT Exposed at Director Park, SW Park and Taylor various times roughly 11AM-9PM Free
Saturday, August 18, 2012
August 18 The Place Makes the Work
The backyard of River Studios is a special art spot in Portland Summer. It's on the river, often adjacent to a giant parking spot for ocean-going grain freighters, exporting our wheat to Asia. It was the site of the first PICA Dada Ball, graced with a naked Lady Godiva on a white horse. This won't be that, but it will be a dance performance on scaffolding by the Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest and the Painted Sky Northstar Dance Company. At River Studios 820 N. River Street 8PM $10, $5 students
In the mall... Place, in the white Gallery has Distance, Stance, Circumstance, curated by Rachael Wilson from NYU. It includes five artists from New York. The Place black gallery has It Is What It Is solo and collaborative work by Katie Dunbar & Elizabeth J. Armstrong. All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
Also on the same floor, the Mark Woolley Gallery has paintings by Rick Austin and sculpture by Darlene Schaper. At Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com 5PM-9 Free
The People's art of Portland had FanFare: The Art of Science Fiction and Fantasy, a group show of 60 artists. At the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 5PM-9 Free
In the mall... Place, in the white Gallery has Distance, Stance, Circumstance, curated by Rachael Wilson from NYU. It includes five artists from New York. The Place black gallery has It Is What It Is solo and collaborative work by Katie Dunbar & Elizabeth J. Armstrong. All at Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall along with the People's art of Portland and the Woolley Gallery. If the mall appears closed, enter the film theater building adjacent, travel through the tunnel to the Place mall, and take the elevator to the 3rd floor, sometimes the bridge on the 3rd floor is open too. 700 SW Fifth. 5PM-9 Free
Also on the same floor, the Mark Woolley Gallery has paintings by Rick Austin and sculpture by Darlene Schaper. At Mark Woolley Gallery www.markwoolley.com 5PM-9 Free
The People's art of Portland had FanFare: The Art of Science Fiction and Fantasy, a group show of 60 artists. At the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 5PM-9 Free
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
August 15 Immanent Perception
Portland illustrator Rebecca Rosen Carlisle opens a new show Immanent Perception at cute as a bean cafe, the Albina Press. The work incorporates free drawing with watercolor. This spot has had a consistently great series of curators for some time. At Albina Press, 4637 N. Albina Ave x Blandena Map 6PM-8 Free
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
August 10 Worksound Swan Song, What Goes Up, LoRes Studio
Modou Dieng is moving Worksound to mobile. His curatorial work will now be found around the city in a variety of spaces. He is closing the 820 Alder fixed location version of Worksound August 30th.
Over 5 years, he has shown international, national and local artists. Most were group shows and many artists used his 820 space for installations. He also hosted residencies and collaborations between artists, writers and curators.
The last show is Tim Sullivan and Chris Corrente from San Francisco plus Carl Diehl, Cris Moss and Hannah Piper Burns from Portland.
At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 7PM-10
PNCA's Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies opens their studios tonight. You are welcome to stop by to see the work and chat with the artists. At PNCA www.pnca.edu, in the Stevens Studios 1432 N.W. Johnson 5PM-8
Carlos Gonzalez presents his performance tonight What Goes Up Must Come Down at Recess Gallery. Unlike many descriptions of shows, this one makes sense:
"The stairway is used as a metaphor of achievement or loss of station. It’s a widespread, spatially-oriented metaphor for hierarchy in democratic society. ‘Climbing the social ladder’, we continue to gage our social status on our vertical mobility up or down the steps. In a performance designed for the space, Gonzalez narrates this anxiety with movement influenced by the physical structure of stairs and others. This movement mirrors the rapid fluidity between success and loss in a goal-oriented atmosphere.
Carlos presents intimate performances that explore barriers and secret byways of communication. Examining the knot of personal identity through abstracted acts of sport, Gonzalez offers his body as a source and site of meaning, thereby making physical the semiotic barriers that criss-cross daily existence."
At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map Doors 8PM, performance 9
Over 5 years, he has shown international, national and local artists. Most were group shows and many artists used his 820 space for installations. He also hosted residencies and collaborations between artists, writers and curators.
The last show is Tim Sullivan and Chris Corrente from San Francisco plus Carl Diehl, Cris Moss and Hannah Piper Burns from Portland.
At Worksound www.worksoundpdx.com 820 SE Alder Map 7PM-10
PNCA's Low-Residency MFA in Visual Studies opens their studios tonight. You are welcome to stop by to see the work and chat with the artists. At PNCA www.pnca.edu, in the Stevens Studios 1432 N.W. Johnson 5PM-8
Carlos Gonzalez presents his performance tonight What Goes Up Must Come Down at Recess Gallery. Unlike many descriptions of shows, this one makes sense:
"The stairway is used as a metaphor of achievement or loss of station. It’s a widespread, spatially-oriented metaphor for hierarchy in democratic society. ‘Climbing the social ladder’, we continue to gage our social status on our vertical mobility up or down the steps. In a performance designed for the space, Gonzalez narrates this anxiety with movement influenced by the physical structure of stairs and others. This movement mirrors the rapid fluidity between success and loss in a goal-oriented atmosphere.
Carlos presents intimate performances that explore barriers and secret byways of communication. Examining the knot of personal identity through abstracted acts of sport, Gonzalez offers his body as a source and site of meaning, thereby making physical the semiotic barriers that criss-cross daily existence."
At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map Doors 8PM, performance 9
Thursday, August 02, 2012
August 9 Let's Go Art Camping
Fischli and Weiss are some favorite artists in my collection. They are idea artists spanning mediums and bodies of work. Many know them for their video The Way Things Go begun in 1985. They have made videos of cats and stills of airports. Mr Weiss passed in April.
Local art center YU presents a 52 minute video, The Right Way, made in 1982, before The Way Things Go. In the film, the artists perform in costume as Rat and Bear on a wilderness camping trip in the Alps. There are equally valid arguments that the work is stupid and that is is genius, more of this made in Oregon please. You decide. Highly recommended.
At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th Doors 6:30PM Film 8PM $5 suggested donation
Also over at Place, there is a panel discussion around the The Production & Reproduction project with Wynde Dyer, Sivonna West, Matthew Leavitt, Kate DeVillers, Robb Shipley, Cheryl Fish, Mary Doyle and Trace Arthur Harris. at 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 9th. At Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. 700 SW Fifth. 7PM Free
Local art center YU presents a 52 minute video, The Right Way, made in 1982, before The Way Things Go. In the film, the artists perform in costume as Rat and Bear on a wilderness camping trip in the Alps. There are equally valid arguments that the work is stupid and that is is genius, more of this made in Oregon please. You decide. Highly recommended.
At Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th Doors 6:30PM Film 8PM $5 suggested donation
Also over at Place, there is a panel discussion around the The Production & Reproduction project with Wynde Dyer, Sivonna West, Matthew Leavitt, Kate DeVillers, Robb Shipley, Cheryl Fish, Mary Doyle and Trace Arthur Harris. at 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 9th. At Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. 700 SW Fifth. 7PM Free
August 5 Travel as the Medium
Artist Ava Goldberg presets Ambassadors, altered photographs of iconic landmarks, the seven wonders of the world, that are also tourist destinations. Now in Denver, she graduated from OCAC with travel inspired work. At Stumptown www.stumptowncoffee.com 128 SW 3rd 5PM-7
And on that theme, the Mars Science Lab Curiosity lands tonight after a nine month journey.
And on that theme, the Mars Science Lab Curiosity lands tonight after a nine month journey.
August 4 Filmmakers' Playground
Portland is an independent film town. A large contributor to that is Peripheral Produce. Soon after filmmaker Matt McCormick moved to Portland from Albuquerque, he wanted a place to show his work, and that of local experimental filmmakers, so he started a film series in 1996 over beers in nightclubs. Then he found that filmmakers needed a way to distribute their work on VHS tapes, so with Vanessa Renwick, he started the Peripheral Produce mail order distribution project in 1998. Later he started the Portland Experimental and Documentary Film Festival that brought international films and filmmakers to Portland between 2001 and 2009.
Fifteen years ago, in 1997, Peripheral Produce showed some films at the Hollywood Theater to benefit the start of renovations. Many of those films were on the Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape, Peripheral Produce Compilation #1. Tonight celebrates the remastering and re-release of the Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape at the very same renovated Hollywood Theater.
The tape included Miranda July's Atlanta made in 1996. July went on to start her own video chain letter, Big Miss Moviola and Joanie4Jackie (1999) compilation tapes for women filmmakers, and a series of showings across the country.
The original compilation included Slow Gin Soul Stallion by Animal Charm (3:10); Truth in Advertising - Negativland by James Towning (3:17); Airports for Lights, Shadows, and Particles by Scott Arford (8:30); Atlanta by Miranda July (10:55); A $323 Film by Russ Forster (1:00); Love Child by Trouser Shadow Productions - Bryan Konefsky (7: 45); Segment by Matt McCormick (5:33); Le danse d'individuelle by the Olympia Film Ranch (13:00); Warning by Vanessa Renwick (3:48); Ah-goo by Eric Ostrowski (1:42); Battles on the Astral Plane by Jon Raymond (2:07); and Atom & Heave by Julian Andrew-Lawrence (8:00).
The new release adds work by Andrew Blubaugh, Orland Nutt, Ashby Lee Collinson, Jim Blashfield, Chel White, Karl Lind Stephen Slappe, Ben Popp and more.
Tonight you can see the new and old spanning almost 20 years of Portland independent film. See the Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape www.hollywoodtheatre.org/peripheral-produce-auto-cinematic-video-mix-tape at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. One night only 8PM $7
Usually we do not promote music poster shows or sports themed art shows here. That is because they each have their own audience and aesthetics different than, though equally valid, distinct from the art we cover.
But sometimes we make exceptions and this is one. Tonight is a show of Portland artist-designed Timbers posters. The project is a benefit for Harper's Playground. Harper is a young girl with a rare disability. One of her favorite pass times is playing on the swing. So her parents launched a two year project to build a city playground for disabled kids and their parents, Harper's Playground.
Tonight's event is Art Takeover Portland: Operation Harper's Playground www.arttakeoverportland.com where the posters will be on display and for sale. It is at Coava Coffee 1300 SE Grand. Drop by in the day 8AM-6PM or for the event celebrating the project 7PM-10
Fifteen years ago, in 1997, Peripheral Produce showed some films at the Hollywood Theater to benefit the start of renovations. Many of those films were on the Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape, Peripheral Produce Compilation #1. Tonight celebrates the remastering and re-release of the Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape at the very same renovated Hollywood Theater.
The tape included Miranda July's Atlanta made in 1996. July went on to start her own video chain letter, Big Miss Moviola and Joanie4Jackie (1999) compilation tapes for women filmmakers, and a series of showings across the country.
The original compilation included Slow Gin Soul Stallion by Animal Charm (3:10); Truth in Advertising - Negativland by James Towning (3:17); Airports for Lights, Shadows, and Particles by Scott Arford (8:30); Atlanta by Miranda July (10:55); A $323 Film by Russ Forster (1:00); Love Child by Trouser Shadow Productions - Bryan Konefsky (7: 45); Segment by Matt McCormick (5:33); Le danse d'individuelle by the Olympia Film Ranch (13:00); Warning by Vanessa Renwick (3:48); Ah-goo by Eric Ostrowski (1:42); Battles on the Astral Plane by Jon Raymond (2:07); and Atom & Heave by Julian Andrew-Lawrence (8:00).
The new release adds work by Andrew Blubaugh, Orland Nutt, Ashby Lee Collinson, Jim Blashfield, Chel White, Karl Lind Stephen Slappe, Ben Popp and more.
Tonight you can see the new and old spanning almost 20 years of Portland independent film. See the Auto-Cinematic Video Mix Tape www.hollywoodtheatre.org/peripheral-produce-auto-cinematic-video-mix-tape at the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. One night only 8PM $7
Usually we do not promote music poster shows or sports themed art shows here. That is because they each have their own audience and aesthetics different than, though equally valid, distinct from the art we cover.
But sometimes we make exceptions and this is one. Tonight is a show of Portland artist-designed Timbers posters. The project is a benefit for Harper's Playground. Harper is a young girl with a rare disability. One of her favorite pass times is playing on the swing. So her parents launched a two year project to build a city playground for disabled kids and their parents, Harper's Playground.
Tonight's event is Art Takeover Portland: Operation Harper's Playground www.arttakeoverportland.com where the posters will be on display and for sale. It is at Coava Coffee 1300 SE Grand. Drop by in the day 8AM-6PM or for the event celebrating the project 7PM-10
August 3 Eastside Art Openings
The subconscious is feeling optimistic: a photographic tale of the highs and lows of the chronically ill, is a show of personal photographs by Eugénie Frerichs. She has reenacted events of her serious illness and recovery with the individuals involved as models. Frerichs has added dramatic gowns, art direction and photographed small objects to retell her narrative. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104 6PM-9
Portland painter Jessie Hayward opens Beating To Windward, bright abstract paintings inspired by sailing. It's perfect Summer work. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
And across the street the IPRC has Limited, reductive woodblock prints by L. Van Nortwick. Music by The Dykings. At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2. 6PM-8
Childhood. Saturday. Breakfast. It is the beginning of an adventure with our short event horizon of the time. That is the theme of Saturday Mornings Go Better With Milk. This show vibes on that feeling. Artists include Dan Lesage, Bree Goodrow, Dawn Yanagihara, Kate Bingaman Burt & Will Bryant, Aaron Rayburn, Nick Hans, Upendo Taylor, Jack Aguirre, Ian Saiki, Eugene Serebrennikov, Chris DeGaetano, Nicholas Winchester, Lonny Hurley, Brett Page, Priscilla Phitsanoukane, Naomi Dodds, Jeffery Frankenhauser, Julianna Johnson, Ryan Swedenborg, Rolan Venigas, Scribbletone, Alex Taylor, Bryan Morgan, Patrick Neil, Ben Patterson, Mark Stewart, Chris Schwartz, Laura Mehall, Mark Boehly, Luke Cloran, Anthony "Tron" Parrish, Kathleen Marie, Andy Prince, Ryan Sonderegger, Aaron Richardson & Christine Mcmahon, Brandt Imhoff, Josh Boston, Woody Harrington, Theresa Decker, Mike L Perry, Robert Zangrillo, Austin Lotz, Beth Shirrell, Jesse Raker, Colin Matsui, Libby McCarl, Lauren Sina, Randi Haughland, Martie Flores, Vicky Brown and Nishat Akhtar. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-11ish Free
Nationale continues their show from last month. At Nationale thenewnationale.com 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-9
Black Box has an open call show, and even with a much larger group of images than their usually minimally hung shows, the work is presented consistently and cleanly. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Julia Barbee opens her studio. Though it is not visual art, ask her about scents and her scent art installation projects, fabric assemblages encrusted in crystals. At the Julia Barbee Studio 811 E Burnside Suite #122
Christine Taylor shows Elegance Untamed, fashion photographs composited into scenes of wild animals from natural history museum dioramas. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 7PM-9
Upstairs Customary Clothing has Migration, portraits by Laura Johnson. At Customary Clothing www.customaryclothing.com 811 E Burnside Suite #213 6PM-9
REDUX has collaborative work between printmaker Jesse Lortz and jewelry designer Pamela Davis. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Lille has Secret Uplift, embroidery by Cathy Pitters, famous as cofounder of Crafty Wonderland and cowriter of the Super Crafty book. At Lille Boutique www.lilleboutique.com 1007 E Burnside 7PM-9
Machus has Alex Steckly. At Machus www.machusonline.com 542 E Burnside 6PM-8
Albina Press Hawthorne has Threesome, paintings by Ashley Montague, Brett Superstar, and Steve Mathews. At the Albina Press on Hawthorne. 5012 SE Hawthorne 5PM-8
Portland painter Jessie Hayward opens Beating To Windward, bright abstract paintings inspired by sailing. It's perfect Summer work. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org in the Ford Building www.fordbuildingpdx.com 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 6PM-9 Free
And across the street the IPRC has Limited, reductive woodblock prints by L. Van Nortwick. Music by The Dykings. At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2. 6PM-8
Childhood. Saturday. Breakfast. It is the beginning of an adventure with our short event horizon of the time. That is the theme of Saturday Mornings Go Better With Milk. This show vibes on that feeling. Artists include Dan Lesage, Bree Goodrow, Dawn Yanagihara, Kate Bingaman Burt & Will Bryant, Aaron Rayburn, Nick Hans, Upendo Taylor, Jack Aguirre, Ian Saiki, Eugene Serebrennikov, Chris DeGaetano, Nicholas Winchester, Lonny Hurley, Brett Page, Priscilla Phitsanoukane, Naomi Dodds, Jeffery Frankenhauser, Julianna Johnson, Ryan Swedenborg, Rolan Venigas, Scribbletone, Alex Taylor, Bryan Morgan, Patrick Neil, Ben Patterson, Mark Stewart, Chris Schwartz, Laura Mehall, Mark Boehly, Luke Cloran, Anthony "Tron" Parrish, Kathleen Marie, Andy Prince, Ryan Sonderegger, Aaron Richardson & Christine Mcmahon, Brandt Imhoff, Josh Boston, Woody Harrington, Theresa Decker, Mike L Perry, Robert Zangrillo, Austin Lotz, Beth Shirrell, Jesse Raker, Colin Matsui, Libby McCarl, Lauren Sina, Randi Haughland, Martie Flores, Vicky Brown and Nishat Akhtar. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-11ish Free
Nationale continues their show from last month. At Nationale thenewnationale.com 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-9
Black Box has an open call show, and even with a much larger group of images than their usually minimally hung shows, the work is presented consistently and cleanly. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Julia Barbee opens her studio. Though it is not visual art, ask her about scents and her scent art installation projects, fabric assemblages encrusted in crystals. At the Julia Barbee Studio 811 E Burnside Suite #122
Christine Taylor shows Elegance Untamed, fashion photographs composited into scenes of wild animals from natural history museum dioramas. At Haunt www.hauntstudio.blogspot.com 811 E Burnside Suite #113 7PM-9
Upstairs Customary Clothing has Migration, portraits by Laura Johnson. At Customary Clothing www.customaryclothing.com 811 E Burnside Suite #213 6PM-9
REDUX has collaborative work between printmaker Jesse Lortz and jewelry designer Pamela Davis. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside 6PM-9
All at 811 East Burnside Map
Lille has Secret Uplift, embroidery by Cathy Pitters, famous as cofounder of Crafty Wonderland and cowriter of the Super Crafty book. At Lille Boutique www.lilleboutique.com 1007 E Burnside 7PM-9
Machus has Alex Steckly. At Machus www.machusonline.com 542 E Burnside 6PM-8
Albina Press Hawthorne has Threesome, paintings by Ashley Montague, Brett Superstar, and Steve Mathews. At the Albina Press on Hawthorne. 5012 SE Hawthorne 5PM-8
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
August 2 Westside Art Openings+
August is the dog days, and in Europe everyone goes on vacation. This Thursday there will be wining and dining, seeing and being seen. Whatever. Many galleries have group shows. But here are some others.
Patrice Lumumba was elected the first prime minister, June 24, 1960, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when it became independent. On September 24 he was deposed by Mobuto Sese Seko, in a CIA-sponsored coup. On January 17, 1961, he was executed by Belgian troops, and his body disposed of by the CIA. Three days later, it was dug from the earth and dissolved in acid. He was a great leader and a powerful speaker, but ended up on the wrong side of the great game for control of post colonial resources in Africa. How ironic the struggle of the time, between the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, in the context of today's China move on Africa unopposed.
The story of post colonial Africa is fascinating and surveyed in the book The Fate of Africa, country by country. A dramatic retelling of the last year of Lumumba's life was made into a film. And the documentary, When We Were Kings, provides a portrait of Mobuto against the background of the great boxing match between Joe Frasier and Muhammad Ali in 1974. To diminish crime in the capital around the time of the match, Mobuto arrested hundreds of known criminals. He executed a portion reported between a tenth and a third of them chosen at random, and released the rest. Another report has Mobuto hanging pickpockets on the public streets at the time.
Lumumba's icon status has resulted in streets and squares across Africa named for him. He is still well respected. So many African liberation leaders subsequently descended into corrupt and undemocratic lifetime rule, while the hope for economic advancement promised everyday citizens was tragically foiled. Mobuto himself is a classic example, he used his diplomatic status to bring Congo diamonds to Europe where he amassed a personal fortune estimated at 3-10 billion US dollars, never recovered.
South African photographer Guy Tillim has visited many, and documented everyday life there, in a show of images, Avenue Patrice Lumumba.
Ricardo Teles has Terras de Preto. These Brazilian communities were historic settlements of slaves who escaped to form their own self governing settlements. Here Africans of many cultures formed families and their own new world order.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery has two minimalist artists, Julia Mangold, German artist in Portland and Gregg Renfrow from the Bay Area. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Hellion has comic, graphic novel, illustrators Naomi Nowak and Joëlle Jones. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style.
Map 6PM-10ish
We love Reading Frenzy for very reasonably priced prints from Portland artists. This month they have a Seapower theme show. At Reading Frenzy www.readingfrenzy.com 921 SW Oak 6PM-9
Aaron Yassin makes kaleidoscopic collage of architectural photographs. These are sourced from old and ultra-new Beijing building images. Also curious to see his video versions. At Chambers Gallery www.chambersgallery.com 916 NW Flanders Early close 8:30PM
The Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map Some close as early as 9PM
For your early art pleasure, Body Vox Dance performs excerpts from their works tonight in the park for free. At the Washington Park Amphitheater North adjacent to the Rose Gardens in Washington Park. 410 SW Kingston Avenue 6PM Free
And for late talk and dance music, PICA is having a party. 415 SW 10th 8PM-midnight $5
Patrice Lumumba was elected the first prime minister, June 24, 1960, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when it became independent. On September 24 he was deposed by Mobuto Sese Seko, in a CIA-sponsored coup. On January 17, 1961, he was executed by Belgian troops, and his body disposed of by the CIA. Three days later, it was dug from the earth and dissolved in acid. He was a great leader and a powerful speaker, but ended up on the wrong side of the great game for control of post colonial resources in Africa. How ironic the struggle of the time, between the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, in the context of today's China move on Africa unopposed.
The story of post colonial Africa is fascinating and surveyed in the book The Fate of Africa, country by country. A dramatic retelling of the last year of Lumumba's life was made into a film. And the documentary, When We Were Kings, provides a portrait of Mobuto against the background of the great boxing match between Joe Frasier and Muhammad Ali in 1974. To diminish crime in the capital around the time of the match, Mobuto arrested hundreds of known criminals. He executed a portion reported between a tenth and a third of them chosen at random, and released the rest. Another report has Mobuto hanging pickpockets on the public streets at the time.
Lumumba's icon status has resulted in streets and squares across Africa named for him. He is still well respected. So many African liberation leaders subsequently descended into corrupt and undemocratic lifetime rule, while the hope for economic advancement promised everyday citizens was tragically foiled. Mobuto himself is a classic example, he used his diplomatic status to bring Congo diamonds to Europe where he amassed a personal fortune estimated at 3-10 billion US dollars, never recovered.
South African photographer Guy Tillim has visited many, and documented everyday life there, in a show of images, Avenue Patrice Lumumba.
Ricardo Teles has Terras de Preto. These Brazilian communities were historic settlements of slaves who escaped to form their own self governing settlements. Here Africans of many cultures formed families and their own new world order.
At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery has two minimalist artists, Julia Mangold, German artist in Portland and Gregg Renfrow from the Bay Area. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Hellion has comic, graphic novel, illustrators Naomi Nowak and Joëlle Jones. At Hellion Gallery www.helliongallery.com 19 NW 5th Suite 208. Through the lobby of the arched brick entry, up the stairs and to the back. Very upper floor Japan-style.
Map 6PM-10ish
We love Reading Frenzy for very reasonably priced prints from Portland artists. This month they have a Seapower theme show. At Reading Frenzy www.readingfrenzy.com 921 SW Oak 6PM-9
Aaron Yassin makes kaleidoscopic collage of architectural photographs. These are sourced from old and ultra-new Beijing building images. Also curious to see his video versions. At Chambers Gallery www.chambersgallery.com 916 NW Flanders Early close 8:30PM
The Everett Lofts are recommended as always. It's easier for you to see them all than for me to write suggestions. Some close as early as 9PM. At the Everett Lofts 625 NW Everett. Bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th Map Some close as early as 9PM
For your early art pleasure, Body Vox Dance performs excerpts from their works tonight in the park for free. At the Washington Park Amphitheater North adjacent to the Rose Gardens in Washington Park. 410 SW Kingston Avenue 6PM Free
And for late talk and dance music, PICA is having a party. 415 SW 10th 8PM-midnight $5
August 1 Landscape Multiarts
Portland is planning and design central. Redstartstudio is a collaboration that operates at the intersection of landscape design and art. Lauri Twitchell and Peter Suchecki, aka Redstartstudio, talk about their projects this evening. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson 6:30PM-8 Free
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