Fuensanta Nieto & Enrique Sobejano are Spanish architects who specialize in designing modernist structures that sit among traditional buildings in Europe. Portland's design regulations and public involvement programs have turned back more than one effort in this area, requiring brick facades, continuing lines, awnings, or specific proportions. Nieto-Sobejano also have a specialty in perforated concrete, which is quite beautiful. Tonight they visit Portland to discuss their work. In the Shattuck Hall Annex, 1914 SW Park Avenue, at the corner of SW Broadway and Hall on the PSU campus. 6PM Free
Adams and Ollman is a new gallery opening this evening. They will specialize in self-taught and folk art influenced artists. Their first show will be Bill Walton, 1931-2010, a Philadelphia minimalist sculptor and print maker. If you know Portland artists, his work reminds me of DE May. At Adams and Ollman Gallery www.adamsandollman.com 811 E Burnside #213
Shades of Gray is a black and white photo show curated by Lauren Henkin. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Entitlement is a show of painting by Alex Steckly inspired by commercial automobile body painting. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map
Illustrator Julianna Swaney shows Root & Twig. You have probably seen this work around town. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Union/Pine has a show of art by artists in Portland's fashion world tonight. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7PM-late Free
The Elk Collective is a branding/ design/ interiors concern. They are doing art shows in their space too. Urban style. At the Elk Collective www.elkcollective.com 2505 SE 11th #137 (Homeland loading dock) 7PM-10 Free
Sophia Wallace shows Truer, documenting she and her partner over a two year period. Also with San Francisco, 1964, vintage work by Arthur Tress. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
The ASMP, a trade group for commercial photographers, has stolen a play from the book of the Portland Grid Project, 1996-2005. 49 photographers have each documented their assigned 1 mile grid piece in project Portland Squared. The results are on display tonight. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
February 28 We Got The Motion
We don't note graphic art shows. They have their own aesthetics distinct from my interests. Here is an exception. Michael Neault at Second Story Interactive Studios has curated an evening of animated infographics. Done well, they can bridge the ever growing torrent of data about our world and our able solution-seeking brains. Given the challenges we face as a species, I'm all for anything that works. Neault observes that a rich creative skillset, often a team, can come together to create some pretty stunning work. A good resource if you are interested in the topic ongoing is www.infosthetics.com. You can see Hollywoodtheatre.org/animated-infographics at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:30PM $7
February 24 Signal Fires for Josh
Plazm is a magazine, design concern and instigator that put Portland on the international map early. Cofounder Josh Berger was injured in a bicycle accident, something that could happen to anyone of us. He is making a steady recovery from brain injuries, thanks to his family and community.
100x100 is a benefit for Josh today. Over 100 artists have contributed works to raise funds for the family. The list is seriously impressive: Adam Garcia, Adam Sorenson, Alexis Mollomo, Alfredo Muccino, Brad Simon, Chris Haberman, Chris Johanson, Chris Knight, Christina Seely, Clare Carpenter, Corey Lunn, Cynthia Lahti, Dan Attoe, Ed Fella, Erik Stotik, Erin Holcomb, Gabriel Liston, Gus Nicklos, Harrell Fletcher, Heather Watkins, Jason Bacon, Jeff Foster, Jeff Jahn, Jeffry Mitchell, Jennifer Armbrust, Jeremy Bittermann, Jeremy Pelley, Jerry Ketel, Jolby, Jordan Domont, Jose Cabaco, Kathryn Lippert, Keegan + Meegan, Kristan Kennedy, Kristen Rogers Brown, Kristy Edmunds, Lloyd Winter, Malia Jensen, Marcus Swanson, Mark Faigenbaum, Mary Kysar, Melody Owen, Michael Brophy, Michael Buchino, Midori Hirose, Mike King, Milton Glaser, Nan Curtis & Marty Houston, Neva Knott, Patrick Long, Paul Fujita, Philip Iosca, Robbie McLaran, Sam Guerrero, Santiago Uceda, Sarah Cline, Sean Healy, Steve Sandstrom, Storm Tharp, Susan Seubert, Thomas Bradley, Tom O’Toole, Tsilli Pines, Vanessa Renwick, Will Bryant, Zak Margolis and TJ Norris.
If you are interested in the art, you can register in advance for a very reasonable price at a link on the website, www.tinyurl.com/joshpica, to increase your quotient of obtanium. If you don't need any more art, you can simply make a donation at the door and enjoy a great getogether of creative people for something important. There will be music by Sam Coomes, Ray Reposa, Tuvan throat singer Enrique Ugalde - Soriah, Grey Anne, WC Beck, and e*rock. Master of ceremonies is AC Dickson. Beer & food. urbanhonking.com/supercal/2013/02/24/100x100-for-josh-a-benefit-and-celebration-for-josh-berger/. At the PICA space 415 SW 10th 3PM-6 $10-20
A retrospective of work from one of the world's finest arts residencies, Signal Fire opens today at Marylhurst. Thirteen artists of the one hundred residents show work: Miguel Arzabe, Zachary Davis, Dan Gilsdorf, April Marie Hale, Ellie Irons, Kendra Larson, Guillaume Légaré, Sarah Meadows, Rebecca Najdowski, Jennifer O'Keeffe, Julie Perini, Kyle Riedel and Jillian Vento. It is at the same time as the benefit for Josh, but will be up for some time. You should see this show sometime in its run. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 3PM-5 Free
100x100 is a benefit for Josh today. Over 100 artists have contributed works to raise funds for the family. The list is seriously impressive: Adam Garcia, Adam Sorenson, Alexis Mollomo, Alfredo Muccino, Brad Simon, Chris Haberman, Chris Johanson, Chris Knight, Christina Seely, Clare Carpenter, Corey Lunn, Cynthia Lahti, Dan Attoe, Ed Fella, Erik Stotik, Erin Holcomb, Gabriel Liston, Gus Nicklos, Harrell Fletcher, Heather Watkins, Jason Bacon, Jeff Foster, Jeff Jahn, Jeffry Mitchell, Jennifer Armbrust, Jeremy Bittermann, Jeremy Pelley, Jerry Ketel, Jolby, Jordan Domont, Jose Cabaco, Kathryn Lippert, Keegan + Meegan, Kristan Kennedy, Kristen Rogers Brown, Kristy Edmunds, Lloyd Winter, Malia Jensen, Marcus Swanson, Mark Faigenbaum, Mary Kysar, Melody Owen, Michael Brophy, Michael Buchino, Midori Hirose, Mike King, Milton Glaser, Nan Curtis & Marty Houston, Neva Knott, Patrick Long, Paul Fujita, Philip Iosca, Robbie McLaran, Sam Guerrero, Santiago Uceda, Sarah Cline, Sean Healy, Steve Sandstrom, Storm Tharp, Susan Seubert, Thomas Bradley, Tom O’Toole, Tsilli Pines, Vanessa Renwick, Will Bryant, Zak Margolis and TJ Norris.
If you are interested in the art, you can register in advance for a very reasonable price at a link on the website, www.tinyurl.com/joshpica, to increase your quotient of obtanium. If you don't need any more art, you can simply make a donation at the door and enjoy a great getogether of creative people for something important. There will be music by Sam Coomes, Ray Reposa, Tuvan throat singer Enrique Ugalde - Soriah, Grey Anne, WC Beck, and e*rock. Master of ceremonies is AC Dickson. Beer & food. urbanhonking.com/supercal/2013/02/24/100x100-for-josh-a-benefit-and-celebration-for-josh-berger/. At the PICA space 415 SW 10th 3PM-6 $10-20
A retrospective of work from one of the world's finest arts residencies, Signal Fire opens today at Marylhurst. Thirteen artists of the one hundred residents show work: Miguel Arzabe, Zachary Davis, Dan Gilsdorf, April Marie Hale, Ellie Irons, Kendra Larson, Guillaume Légaré, Sarah Meadows, Rebecca Najdowski, Jennifer O'Keeffe, Julie Perini, Kyle Riedel and Jillian Vento. It is at the same time as the benefit for Josh, but will be up for some time. You should see this show sometime in its run. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 3PM-5 Free
February 23 Leaf Raiders of the Lost Private Caldera Vestibule Rag
The Independent Publishing Resource Center, the IPRC, is a clubhouse and classroom for self publishers. Over the years, they have amassed a huge library of 'zines. 'Zines upon 'zines. Binders of binders of binders of 'zines.
As Google has taught us, it's not the collection that matters, it's the indexing and ultimate use. The IPRC is hosting a a 24 hour marathon by "raiders of the lost archives" - you - to dig into the pile and catalog it. You can form a team or stop in as an individual, spending an hour or 24. Bring friends! Read weird fiction! Details on the IPRC website. At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 10AM Saturday - 10AM Sunday Free!
This Private Screening is not private, Private Screening is simply the title of a new collaboration between Ním Wunnan and Gabe Flores. It is a show opening tonight at False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
The Vestibule is the narrow hallway exhibition space at Disjecta. They are having a party-opening tonight. Dubias, Weird Fiction, ExtrAlone and Morganixx exhibit-perform. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 8PM $5
Caldera is a place for creative experimentation and collaboration. In summer it is a creative camp for at risk kids. In Winter it is a quiet, even snowbound residency for select artists. Today is one of their rare open houses. Artists Jason Baker, Helen Dennis, Laura Gibson, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Roger Peet and Joanna Priestley show what they have been up to. It's a chance to see the studios and talk with the artists. Directions on the website. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
Signal Fire has a big opening tomorrow at Marylhurst. Tonight they release their third Leaf Litter - a book of work by recent artist participants in the program. Release and reading at Division Leap www.divisionleap.com 211 SW 9th xBurnside 7PM-9
If you would like to get your rag on, there will be vocal ragas tonight. The raga is an Indian classical music form distinguished by a swara, somewhat akin to a key, and an analog to a melody which form a structure for improvisation by the musicians. Those musicians are vocalist Michael Stirling, Benjy Wertheimer on tabla, Peai Luzzi and Lucy Stirling, tamburas. At The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Avenue 7:30PM by donation
As Google has taught us, it's not the collection that matters, it's the indexing and ultimate use. The IPRC is hosting a a 24 hour marathon by "raiders of the lost archives" - you - to dig into the pile and catalog it. You can form a team or stop in as an individual, spending an hour or 24. Bring friends! Read weird fiction! Details on the IPRC website. At the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 10AM Saturday - 10AM Sunday Free!
This Private Screening is not private, Private Screening is simply the title of a new collaboration between Ním Wunnan and Gabe Flores. It is a show opening tonight at False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
The Vestibule is the narrow hallway exhibition space at Disjecta. They are having a party-opening tonight. Dubias, Weird Fiction, ExtrAlone and Morganixx exhibit-perform. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 8PM $5
Caldera is a place for creative experimentation and collaboration. In summer it is a creative camp for at risk kids. In Winter it is a quiet, even snowbound residency for select artists. Today is one of their rare open houses. Artists Jason Baker, Helen Dennis, Laura Gibson, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Roger Peet and Joanna Priestley show what they have been up to. It's a chance to see the studios and talk with the artists. Directions on the website. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
Signal Fire has a big opening tomorrow at Marylhurst. Tonight they release their third Leaf Litter - a book of work by recent artist participants in the program. Release and reading at Division Leap www.divisionleap.com 211 SW 9th xBurnside 7PM-9
If you would like to get your rag on, there will be vocal ragas tonight. The raga is an Indian classical music form distinguished by a swara, somewhat akin to a key, and an analog to a melody which form a structure for improvisation by the musicians. Those musicians are vocalist Michael Stirling, Benjy Wertheimer on tabla, Peai Luzzi and Lucy Stirling, tamburas. At The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Avenue 7:30PM by donation
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
February 22 Experimental Two Hours Works Weeks
Who can critique an event titled Happening #2? Timeless experimenters, the Time Arts Club, brings together you, and live performance by Stepkid, MSHR, Mutagen and Tripp Johnson. With visuals and installation by Amanda Machina, Mark Martínez, Bugenhagen, Ernest Wedoff & Tim Ferrell. Wigs by Manny Reyes and a live mural by Sean Christensen. All ages. At PSU in Neuberger 293 7PM-9 Free
Fourteen30's 2/2 series continues with opening two of Grier Edmundson's works, Optimum Expansion (After Iain and Inrid) made in 2013, and Hans Blix and Pink Mittens made in 2006. The series features two works shown for two weeks in the gallery. No reception tonight, there will be one March 10th noon-2. Check the gallery website for the limited weekend hours or to make an appointment. 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-8
Fourteen30's 2/2 series continues with opening two of Grier Edmundson's works, Optimum Expansion (After Iain and Inrid) made in 2013, and Hans Blix and Pink Mittens made in 2006. The series features two works shown for two weeks in the gallery. No reception tonight, there will be one March 10th noon-2. Check the gallery website for the limited weekend hours or to make an appointment. 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-8
Monday, February 18, 2013
February 21 Sound Design & Vision
IDEO should need no introduction to people in the design world. Building on innovations in Berkeley's department of anthropology and PARC, it launched in 1991. It has spread the human-centered design philosophy worldwide, especially through its connection with the Stanford d.school. Tonight one of their design directors speaks in Portland. David Aycan is focused on business design, an interest of mine. Business design uses design thinking to design the total business, or redesign the business. Some people think business is boring. Only boring business is boring. Talk at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 7PM Free
May Juliette Barruel curates an evening of music and visuals tonight. It's the third in Nationale's Sound & Vision series. The lineup is impressive: Tunnels (Nick Bindeman), Cloaks (Spencer Doran + Ryan Carlile), Entity (Birch Cooper + Warren Lee) and films by Brenna Murphy. At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 8PM $5 or free for Nationale event subscribers - it's a deal: http://nationale.us/MEMBERS-1
May Juliette Barruel curates an evening of music and visuals tonight. It's the third in Nationale's Sound & Vision series. The lineup is impressive: Tunnels (Nick Bindeman), Cloaks (Spencer Doran + Ryan Carlile), Entity (Birch Cooper + Warren Lee) and films by Brenna Murphy. At the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 8PM $5 or free for Nationale event subscribers - it's a deal: http://nationale.us/MEMBERS-1
February 20 Plant Art or Parody?
Topiary is a wild edge of art and design. It's associated with land and time wealth in Europe. But it's open to a parody of itself too. For instance it was a design motif executed in Astroturf on the roof deck of the downtown LA Standard. Pearl Fryar is an American topiary artist in all seriousness. Our West Coast - grow most things climate, and our community of landscape architects is a perfect audience for a talk by this modern topiary artist. And maybe PNCA, the sponsor of this talk, will have a topiary thesis in the future! At the PNCA www.pnca.edu The Bison Building, the MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios 421 NE 10th 6:30 Free
February 19 The Curious Case of Locks
It is fascinating to see a really old lock, or a primitive lock from another country, and realize we haven't traveled far since. In their copious free time, many have taken up recreational lock picking to puzzle out these small machines. Tonight Kenny McElroy, of The Open Organization Of Lockpickers, provides a guided tour of locks, door locks, padlocks, handcuffs, combination locks and more. There will be hands-on opportunities for you to best these beasts. The most effective security is an awareness of its limitations, and this is a great opportunity to learn about these weak, but just strong enough machines. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
February 18 Mannly Sculpture
Scottish sculptor Geoffrey Mann speaks tonight. He has been successfully navigating the contemporary, design, art and craft continua, which is exactly PNCA's focus. It's especially interesting to hear his view given the strength in UK design, art and its long history of craft. Talk at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6:30PM Free
Friday, February 15, 2013
February 17 Poetry Pedigree
Pedigree isn't a word I use often. There is a good argument that in the case of pets, more genetic diversity is healthy. So perhaps it's the perfect name for a series of panel discussions at Place. Artists discuss the value of art degrees in relation to their cost. It is part of a worldwide consideration of higher education on the precipice of change. Aaron Swartz is also a part of the discussion. He joined college dropouts Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in laying down technology, policy and business innovations. His last work was to advocate for open source academic publishing, now embraced by Oregon's senior senator in the form of the FASTR legislation. So if you are interested in "art, money, art education, and the value of the Master of Fine Arts degree" you can hear artists Jamie Marie Waelchli, Travis Nikolai, Katherine Groesbeck and Michael Reinsch, moderated by David Vanadia, discuss it. At Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. 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. 6PM-7 Free
We don't usually cover poetry or literary events; others do it better! But the new book, Between Page and Screen, is a curious hybrid the creators dub an "augmented reality book". So it's here as an innovative design point. The makers, author Amaranth Borsuk and designer-programmer Brad Bouse, present the book and other works tonight. The pages contain glyphs, that, tuned to a website, serve material over the Internet triggered by the reader's webcam. Borsuk has a whole series of other innovative poetics projects. Portland's contemporary poet laureate, Lisa Radon also presents her work. If you are interested in poetry, a good place to start is The Spare Room, presenters of this event. At Division Leap www.divisionleap.com 211 SW 9th xBurnside 7:30PM
We don't usually cover poetry or literary events; others do it better! But the new book, Between Page and Screen, is a curious hybrid the creators dub an "augmented reality book". So it's here as an innovative design point. The makers, author Amaranth Borsuk and designer-programmer Brad Bouse, present the book and other works tonight. The pages contain glyphs, that, tuned to a website, serve material over the Internet triggered by the reader's webcam. Borsuk has a whole series of other innovative poetics projects. Portland's contemporary poet laureate, Lisa Radon also presents her work. If you are interested in poetry, a good place to start is The Spare Room, presenters of this event. At Division Leap www.divisionleap.com 211 SW 9th xBurnside 7:30PM
February 16 Love Place
The Place plex, a collection of contemporary gallery spaces on the third floor of the Pioneer Place Mall, opens its new shows this evening. The White Gallery has Wish Making & Practicalities by Katherine Groesbeck. It is a meditation on the transition from childhood, where one set of almost anything seems possible, to adulthood, where it is an entirely different set. On Demand is a continuation by Michael Reinsch of making art works to order from scrap materials for $5-10, on the spot and in the moment. The Black Gallery has Solid Mind by Jamie Marie Waelchli which is a meditation on life planning and its impediments as represented by drawings and an installation of vessels of solvents. Travis Nikolai has The Breathing Room, a space for a time out to consider. Waelchli and Nikolai speak about their work in the space Sunday, February 24th at 3PM. 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
Love of Portland is the annual love-themed show at the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 5PM-9 Free
Love of Portland is the annual love-themed show at the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 5PM-9 Free
Friday, February 08, 2013
February 9 Let There Be Light
The Portland Museum of Modern Art opens a large group show Sun/Light. A wide range of creatives, known for visual art, film, music and design, provide their interpretation of the theme including Ilyas Ahmed, Emily Baker, Jonathan Belli, Carolyn Berk, Belly & Bones, Erica Browne, Julia Calabrese, Sarah Coderre, Ashby Lee Collinson, Grant Corum, Dana Dart-McLean, Alexi Juniper Deets, Garrett Durant, Tom Greenwood, Midori Hirose, Ben Houston, Michael Hurley, Eric Isaacson, Ryan Iverson, Joshua Kermiet, Alexandria Liegel, Jake Manning, Daniel Matt, Nathan McKee, Rebecca Noon, Jen Olesen, Christina Owen, Morgan Reedy, William Rihel, Kate Schaefer, Anna Shelton, Raf Spielman, Elizabeth Venable, and Larry Yes. Wear light and bright clothing in celebration! At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 7:30 Free
February 8 More Art Previews
Fourteen30 opens Andrea Longacre-White as part of their 2x2 series of two works by an artist in the gallery shown two weeks. 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-8
PNCA hosts a preview reception of selected works for an upcoming fundraising auction. Artist donations for fundraising are a sticky wicket. But it will be instructive to see the PNCA selection as a representation of their brand building. It is also an opportunity to take a look at the Heathman art and book collection. At the Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway. 5:30PM-8 Free
Ashkahn is a poppy word artist, perfect for imprinting on American Apparel shirts. So if you like that you can see it on the wall. At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8
PNCA hosts a preview reception of selected works for an upcoming fundraising auction. Artist donations for fundraising are a sticky wicket. But it will be instructive to see the PNCA selection as a representation of their brand building. It is also an opportunity to take a look at the Heathman art and book collection. At the Heathman Hotel, 1001 SW Broadway. 5:30PM-8 Free
Ashkahn is a poppy word artist, perfect for imprinting on American Apparel shirts. So if you like that you can see it on the wall. At Buy Olympia's Land Gallery www.landpdx.com 3925 N Mississippi 6PM-8
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
February 7 Westside Art Openings
Chris Moss is primarily known as a video and installation artist. He helms the excellent Linfield College gallery. Tonight he opens A Thousand Single Trees Can't Be Wrong, an unusual for him show of photography. At Visage Eyewear www.visageeyewear.com 1046 NW Johnson 6PM-9
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery continues the Robert Rauschenberg print show, recommended. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
MSHR continues Binary Lore in the Feldman Gallery. Recommended. The new bicycle oasis, Student Pedal Garden, on the corner of 13th and Johnson is complete. Its a memorial to PNCA student Tracy Sparling and PNCA alumnus Brett Jarolimek, both killed on their bikes by trucks turning right over the bicycle right of way. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Arnold J Kemp opens his show, When Will My Love Be Right, minimal sculpture of everyday objects and photographs of surfaces of aluminum foil. For this work, Kemp is inspired a ballad When Will My Love Be Right. The artist statement in the gallery is much more eloquent. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
Blue Sky has Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows, from the Jeffrey Goldstein Collection. We had a long description of the photographer's work for a December show at Powell's. Recommended. Also portraits by Pedro Farias-Nardi share the gallery. Richard Cahan, author of Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows speaks at the gallery February 10 at 2PM. One of the original founders of the Nine Gallery, Gary Boswell PSU '80, occupies the Nines space. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Compound Gallery has a huge group show, Portland as Fuck, curated by Molly Georgetta & Scrappers Morrison. Artists include Ryan Berkley, Ryan Bubnis, Michael Buchino, Keith Carter, Alex Chiu, Jeremy Okai Davis, Tripper Dungan, Morgaine Faye, Meg Hunt, Fawn Gehweiler, Trish Grantham, Micheal Illick, JesseHectic, Ian Karmel, Tim Karpinski, Josh Keyes, Nicole Lavelle, BT Livermore, Steve Mathews, David Neevel, Bethany Ng, Jennifer Parks, Jack Pollock, Jeff Proctor, Wilder Schmaltz , Scrappers, Jeff Sheridan, Bwana Spoons, Brett Superstar, Brent Wick, David Wien, Lloyd Winter and Brooke Weeber. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Grass Hut has a home themed show by APAKi, Sean Christensen Eatcho, August Lipp, Zachery Maverick, Jeremy Nichols, Jaclyn Rose, Jeff Sheridan, Amber W. Smith and Ryan Thompson. At Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch 6PM-9+
Reading Frenzy is moving. Their last day in the current location is Valentines Day. To celebrate, they have a silent auction tonight of prime artists who have shown in the space before. A list is on their website. At Reading Frenzy www.readingfrenzy.com 921 SW Oak 6PM-9
Hellion has Cole Gerst, illustrator, who has also worked in the music industry doing graphics, digital design and art direction. 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-10
Elizabeth Malaska shows paintings at Portland Center Stage curated by May Juliette Barruel of Nationale. At Portland Center Stage, Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th 6PM-9
The UofO has a decent school of landscape architecture in Eugene. In Portland, their gallery presents two landscape inspired artists: Claire Zitzow with Remains To Be Seen, and Dawn Roe with Goldfields. Zitzow is inspired by the landscape and human artifacts of the American Southwest. Roe works from the landscape and history of the area around Melbourne Australia. Roe will give a talk February 9, 7PM, and Zitzow, February 11, 6PM. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9
Croatian artist in Portland, Dunja Jankovic, moves drawing in a sculptural direction. In addition to her experimental illustrations she does animation. You can see it in her show, Enter/Return, at the White Gallery littmanandwhitegalleries.tumblr.com in Smith Hall 1825 SW Broadway, 2nd Floor 5PM-8 Free
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
Henk Pender is back with his large scale paintings in a more electric palette. An interesting contrast to Paul Missal's work at Blackfish. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8
The Elizabeth Leach Gallery continues the Robert Rauschenberg print show, recommended. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
MSHR continues Binary Lore in the Feldman Gallery. Recommended. The new bicycle oasis, Student Pedal Garden, on the corner of 13th and Johnson is complete. Its a memorial to PNCA student Tracy Sparling and PNCA alumnus Brett Jarolimek, both killed on their bikes by trucks turning right over the bicycle right of way. At PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map
Arnold J Kemp opens his show, When Will My Love Be Right, minimal sculpture of everyday objects and photographs of surfaces of aluminum foil. For this work, Kemp is inspired a ballad When Will My Love Be Right. The artist statement in the gallery is much more eloquent. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
Blue Sky has Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows, from the Jeffrey Goldstein Collection. We had a long description of the photographer's work for a December show at Powell's. Recommended. Also portraits by Pedro Farias-Nardi share the gallery. Richard Cahan, author of Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows speaks at the gallery February 10 at 2PM. One of the original founders of the Nine Gallery, Gary Boswell PSU '80, occupies the Nines space. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Compound Gallery has a huge group show, Portland as Fuck, curated by Molly Georgetta & Scrappers Morrison. Artists include Ryan Berkley, Ryan Bubnis, Michael Buchino, Keith Carter, Alex Chiu, Jeremy Okai Davis, Tripper Dungan, Morgaine Faye, Meg Hunt, Fawn Gehweiler, Trish Grantham, Micheal Illick, JesseHectic, Ian Karmel, Tim Karpinski, Josh Keyes, Nicole Lavelle, BT Livermore, Steve Mathews, David Neevel, Bethany Ng, Jennifer Parks, Jack Pollock, Jeff Proctor, Wilder Schmaltz , Scrappers, Jeff Sheridan, Bwana Spoons, Brett Superstar, Brent Wick, David Wien, Lloyd Winter and Brooke Weeber. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Grass Hut has a home themed show by APAKi, Sean Christensen Eatcho, August Lipp, Zachery Maverick, Jeremy Nichols, Jaclyn Rose, Jeff Sheridan, Amber W. Smith and Ryan Thompson. At Grass Hut in Floating World. www.grasshutcorp.com 400 NE Couch 6PM-9+
Reading Frenzy is moving. Their last day in the current location is Valentines Day. To celebrate, they have a silent auction tonight of prime artists who have shown in the space before. A list is on their website. At Reading Frenzy www.readingfrenzy.com 921 SW Oak 6PM-9
Hellion has Cole Gerst, illustrator, who has also worked in the music industry doing graphics, digital design and art direction. 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-10
Elizabeth Malaska shows paintings at Portland Center Stage curated by May Juliette Barruel of Nationale. At Portland Center Stage, Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th 6PM-9
The UofO has a decent school of landscape architecture in Eugene. In Portland, their gallery presents two landscape inspired artists: Claire Zitzow with Remains To Be Seen, and Dawn Roe with Goldfields. Zitzow is inspired by the landscape and human artifacts of the American Southwest. Roe works from the landscape and history of the area around Melbourne Australia. Roe will give a talk February 9, 7PM, and Zitzow, February 11, 6PM. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, whitebox.uoregon.edu 70 NW Couch 6PM-9
Croatian artist in Portland, Dunja Jankovic, moves drawing in a sculptural direction. In addition to her experimental illustrations she does animation. You can see it in her show, Enter/Return, at the White Gallery littmanandwhitegalleries.tumblr.com in Smith Hall 1825 SW Broadway, 2nd Floor 5PM-8 Free
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
Henk Pender is back with his large scale paintings in a more electric palette. An interesting contrast to Paul Missal's work at Blackfish. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st 5PM-8
Thursday, January 31, 2013
February 4 Tubular You
Getting To Know You(Tube) is a social practice art project twice removed. Artists Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom invite their creative friends to curate about 10-15 minutes each of YouTube video shorts from the vast corpus of often amateur video. The root of the word amateur is amo, to love. So amateur is in contrast to professional, work usually done for money and with a big budget. Maybe we should honor love more? Tonight Tracey Cockrell, Rebecca Carlisle-Healy and Adam Moser share a few of their favorite YouTube videos. The audience is invited to bring a link to one of their own favorites to share at the end of the program. Please no tiresome music videos. Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7:15PM $5
February 3 On Photography +
Not all good artists are dead. Carrie Mae Weems, born in Portland, is good and very much alive. A retrospective of her work is presented at the Portland Art Museum now; and she speaks there live and in person this afternoon. The show includes her still photography, video and film. The talk may sell out, advance tickets are available at the Museum box office or online. Plan arrival time comprehending ticket checking logistics. At the Portland Art Museum www.portlandartmuseum.org 2PM-3 Free for members, or regular Museum admission otherwise
As mentioned before, the latest Two Weeks/Two Works project at Fourteen30 closes today with a reception. It's work by Jessica Jackson Hutchens, one of a handful of Portland artists operating on a world stage. Highly recommended. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map Noon-2
As mentioned before, the latest Two Weeks/Two Works project at Fourteen30 closes today with a reception. It's work by Jessica Jackson Hutchens, one of a handful of Portland artists operating on a world stage. Highly recommended. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map Noon-2
February 1 - March 2 Authentic African Zeitgeist(s)
The Cascade Festival of African Films begins its 23rd year tonight. Being the real thing, they are more likely to avoid falling into Western and Northern traps and tropes criticized by Binyavanga Wainaina in his Granta piece. The films, drawn from across the continent, range from melodrama to material suited to children. This year several are themed on the African diaspora in the Caribbean. Some cover politics and even include a film on hiphop culture in Egypt just predating the Arab Spring. It's lean forward entertainment. Details at www.africanfilmfestival.org. Films show at PCC Cascade and the Hollywood Theater on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday schedule - check the web schedule. Best of all - free, all free.
February 1 Not So Quiet
Modou Dieng has been busy making his own work, teaching, freelance curating, and continues to lead art expeditions to Senegal, after closing his Worksound project. His latest project is the NOW Portland Triennale, scheduled for 2015. To kick off the project he presents Not So Quiet tonight. In his old Worksound space, there will be visual art, video, dance performance, poetry, DJ's and you.
The Triennale project will bring international artists, selected by international curators to multiple venues. Portland has good standing in national visual art circles. It's time to be known for world impact, and for Portland artists and audiences to become comfortable navigating world aesthetics.
Tonight Jason Traeger shows paintings; Anne Colvin, video; Barry Sanders talks criticism; Matthew Dickman reads poems; Renee Rhodes performs dance; and Golden Retriever performs.
Not So Quiet, kickoff for the NOW Portland Triennial www.nowtriennale.org 820 SE Alder 9PM-midnight $15
The Triennale project will bring international artists, selected by international curators to multiple venues. Portland has good standing in national visual art circles. It's time to be known for world impact, and for Portland artists and audiences to become comfortable navigating world aesthetics.
Tonight Jason Traeger shows paintings; Anne Colvin, video; Barry Sanders talks criticism; Matthew Dickman reads poems; Renee Rhodes performs dance; and Golden Retriever performs.
Not So Quiet, kickoff for the NOW Portland Triennial www.nowtriennale.org 820 SE Alder 9PM-midnight $15
February 1 Eastside Art Openings
Newspace Photo has a group show Photography at the Edge. You can read about it on their website. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
Image and Identity is a quirky portrait show at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Home Bass has a show and DJ's. At Home:Bass www.homebasspdx.com 123 NE 6th 6PM-10 Free
Redux has a love-themed show. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Pushdot has a show of photographs, Tangled Branches... Stories of Adoption, by Kimberli Ransom. She showed the work previously in her studio in the Towne Warehouse building. It is a series of portraits of families blended by adoption and their stories, which is also the story of the photographer. The styling is traditional portrait studio, unusual in the contemporary art world, but the narratives pull it together. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104
Most chainsaw art is banal. Maybe chainsaws in the hands of artists would be better. Tonight you can see a demonstration of chainsawing art. Then you can decide if you want to attack that particular beast. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 6PM-9
Image and Identity is a quirky portrait show at Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Home Bass has a show and DJ's. At Home:Bass www.homebasspdx.com 123 NE 6th 6PM-10 Free
Redux has a love-themed show. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Pushdot has a show of photographs, Tangled Branches... Stories of Adoption, by Kimberli Ransom. She showed the work previously in her studio in the Towne Warehouse building. It is a series of portraits of families blended by adoption and their stories, which is also the story of the photographer. The styling is traditional portrait studio, unusual in the contemporary art world, but the narratives pull it together. At Pushdot Studio www.pushdotstudio.com 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite 104
Most chainsaw art is banal. Maybe chainsaws in the hands of artists would be better. Tonight you can see a demonstration of chainsawing art. Then you can decide if you want to attack that particular beast. At adxportland.com 417 SE 11th x Stark Map 6PM-9
January 31-February 17 Love Theater
The Fertile Ground Festival began about a week ago and continues through this weekend. Included are many excellent theater and dance works at reasonable prices. A favorite of mine is Hand2Mouth Theater presenting Something's Got Ahold of My Heart. You can see the schedule, including their shows planned for New York, as well as Portland on their website www.hand2mouththeatre.org. Hand2Mouth at Fertile Ground Festival Studio 2, 810 SE Belmont. Whole festival pass $50 for festival dates January 30-February 3. Regular run $12-20 through the 17th
Sunday, January 27, 2013
January 28 Designing Design
Design is not always valued in its time, place or culture. Not so here, now and today. High design, rooted in Northern Italy, Germany and Scandinavian countries faces innovation by designers worldwide who not only produce beautiful objects, but also work with ethnographers to design objects that work. And forward thinkers are thinking about a future in which all interfaces are virtualized and even disappear. That is the vision for ubiquitous computing first proposed by Mark Weiser at PARC.
Portland is a design town. That has been realized by the Portland Art Museum dipping its toe into design shows, including the excellent new design in China show. Meanwhile, the PNCA Museum of Contemporary Craft is backing into design from its foothold in traditional craft. We have also had several tries at Portland craft weeks and festivals.
To further the discussion about what we should do with design, PNCA has invited Sam Aquillano and Derek Cascio, creators of Design Museum Boston to Portland.
Design Museum Boston is a virtual museum: a collection of geographically distributed programs often in conjunction with other presenters and online. So the question is, are museums themselves destined for the museum? Or will brick and mortar museums encompass a virtual model in their program?
Aquillano and Cascio will be interviewed by Randy Gragg and take questions from the audience on their now 4 year old project tonight.
It is part of the Bright Lights series sponsored by local magazine the Portland Monthly and the City Club, a thoughtful public interest group. The crowd runs to Portland thinkers, architects and planners. At Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10th. Doors 5:30PM, discussion 6. Free
Portland is a design town. That has been realized by the Portland Art Museum dipping its toe into design shows, including the excellent new design in China show. Meanwhile, the PNCA Museum of Contemporary Craft is backing into design from its foothold in traditional craft. We have also had several tries at Portland craft weeks and festivals.
To further the discussion about what we should do with design, PNCA has invited Sam Aquillano and Derek Cascio, creators of Design Museum Boston to Portland.
Design Museum Boston is a virtual museum: a collection of geographically distributed programs often in conjunction with other presenters and online. So the question is, are museums themselves destined for the museum? Or will brick and mortar museums encompass a virtual model in their program?
Aquillano and Cascio will be interviewed by Randy Gragg and take questions from the audience on their now 4 year old project tonight.
It is part of the Bright Lights series sponsored by local magazine the Portland Monthly and the City Club, a thoughtful public interest group. The crowd runs to Portland thinkers, architects and planners. At Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10th. Doors 5:30PM, discussion 6. Free
Saturday, January 26, 2013
January 26 Caldera Blades
Crystal Shenk & Shelby Davis are the focus of this open house at Caldera. They are resident artists this Winter. It's a chance to see the studios and talk with the artists. At Camp Caldera www.calderaarts.org, 31500 Blue Lake Drive, Sisters, OR 1PM-3 Free
Aedion 44 has a show, Blade, by their graphic artists Jess Gleasman, Paul Nieminen, Kevin McNally and Derek Jaskot. At Aedion 44 Gallery www.aedionaesthetic.com 4430 SE Hawthorne 7PM-11 Free
Aedion 44 has a show, Blade, by their graphic artists Jess Gleasman, Paul Nieminen, Kevin McNally and Derek Jaskot. At Aedion 44 Gallery www.aedionaesthetic.com 4430 SE Hawthorne 7PM-11 Free
Thursday, January 24, 2013
January 25 Free is Good
On the last Friday of the month, the Art Museum is free from 5PM-8. So start your new year's resolution to see more free art. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free
Fourteen30 starts a 2 week show by Jessica Jackson Hutchins. The reception is on closing February 3, contact the gallery for viewing times which do not include tonight. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map
Fourteen30 starts a 2 week show by Jessica Jackson Hutchins. The reception is on closing February 3, contact the gallery for viewing times which do not include tonight. At Portland's only member of the New Art Dealers Alliance www.newartdealers.org, Fourteen30 Gallery www.fourteen30.com 1501 SW Market Street Map
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
January 23 Bunny Sandwich
Bunny Sandwich is a bi-coastal collaboration by artists Sandra Preston and Cori Champagne, in Portland and Boston respectively. They make illustrations which take a humorous approach to solving serious problems. They have explored modern nomads, the environmental impact of tourism and urb-suburb gardening, in Germany's schrebergärten. They present a talk tonight Open Ground: Wheelbarrows, Backpacks, and Beer - The Collaborative Process and The Bunny Sandwich Collective. It's part of an irregular series of salons on artist work, Neurobics, at Place placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW Fifth. Doors 6:30PM, talk 7 Free
Sunday, January 20, 2013
January 22 Bee There
Avoiding being stung is my earliest childhood conception of bees. We err in teaching that first to children. Instead bee knowledge can be a gateway to the wonder of nature and science. And we should be massively thankful to bees, we would be starving without them.
Matt Reed is on a mission. Bee Knowledge is his physical store in Southeast and Interwebs business providing bee knowledge and bee supplies internationally.
His specialty is bar hives. They are the simplest type and simulate hives bees have been making in trees for over 50 million years.
Matt shares his bee knowledge tonight. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
Matt Reed is on a mission. Bee Knowledge is his physical store in Southeast and Interwebs business providing bee knowledge and bee supplies internationally.
His specialty is bar hives. They are the simplest type and simulate hives bees have been making in trees for over 50 million years.
Matt shares his bee knowledge tonight. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
Friday, January 18, 2013
January 18, 19, 20 Things by YU
Friday social intellectualism theorist Angie Keefer speaks at YU. From the writeup at the YU website and her websites it's impossible to tell what she does or what she is speaking about. Longtime electronic music academic Curtis Roads performs Saturday at YU. On Sunday, the film Magnificent Obsession by director Douglas Sirk will be shown - at the NW Film Center in Whitsel Auditorium. Sirk's traditional works were an inspiration for Portland filmmaker Todd Haynes film Far From Heaven. All details on the YU website. www.yucontemporary.org
January 18 Controvrsy on the Flat
Controversy and Conversation is a show of graphic collage and screen printing by Peter Moore. He has worked in athletic industry creative, so employs brand-style text and imagery in his art projects. 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. 7PM-10 Free
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
January 17 Art Spark
Art Spark, Portland's bimonthly art networking meetup, hosts the Dill Pickle Club, the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, the Sisters of the Road Journeys Art Festival, Artslandia Magazine, Stumptown Comics and Into The Woods. It's an opportunity for artists, presenters, institutions and funders to mingle. Art Spark www.portlandartspark.com at the Performing Arts Center Lobby 1111 SW Broadway 5PM-7 Free
Friday, January 11, 2013
January 14 The 511 on Creativity
511 is a service code for directions. It's also the address on NW Broadway of a new PNCA building to be made from the old Portland federal building built in 1919. That's fitting, because creative thinking is essential for finding our direction to making a better world.
Tonight project architect Brad Cloepfil and PNCA president Tom Manley discuss the plan for the building with editor and architecture-planning writer Randy Gragg. Cloepfil's first large project was the remodel of the Wieden + Kennedy agency building completed in 2000. Cloepfil's firm Allied Works has gone on to significant museum and other projects, retrofits and bespoke.
It is part of the Bright Lights series sponsored by local magazine the Portland Monthly and the City Club, a thoughtful public interest group. The crowd runs to architects and planners. At Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10th. Doors 5:30PM, discussion 6. Free
Tonight project architect Brad Cloepfil and PNCA president Tom Manley discuss the plan for the building with editor and architecture-planning writer Randy Gragg. Cloepfil's first large project was the remodel of the Wieden + Kennedy agency building completed in 2000. Cloepfil's firm Allied Works has gone on to significant museum and other projects, retrofits and bespoke.
It is part of the Bright Lights series sponsored by local magazine the Portland Monthly and the City Club, a thoughtful public interest group. The crowd runs to architects and planners. At Jimmy Mak's, 221 NW 10th. Doors 5:30PM, discussion 6. Free
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
January 13 Video Wall
The Marylhurst Art Gym is a sensitive detector of the Portland art world. They often focus on mid career artists, but not exclusively. For this show they tap Kelly Rauer and Samantha Wall. Rauer has worked across media including in video. Wall is a gifted illustrator. At the Marylhurst Art Gym at Marylhurst University www.marylhurst.edu/theartgym/ Map 3PM-5 Free
January 12 Knitlandia, Writelandia, Performlandia, Projectlandia and Bundlandia
Writers Patrick deWitt, Jon Raymond and Venessa Veselka read tonight, connected to the current show The Big Fig by Johanna Jackson, graphic knitwear. Recommended. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina Map 8PM Free
There is an art vector tracing between San Francisco and Portland. We have several edge-seeking artists from there here, including Patrick Rock and Harrell Fletcher. In turn, they draw San Francisco artists here to exhibit, talk and perform. Jennifer Locke is a San Francisco performance artist and curator of a visual and documentary show opening Friday at PSU. Tonight she, Keke Hunt and Nicole McClure perform live and in person. Expect a fluid and challenging evening in a good way. Rocksbox is a place for Portland's most contemporary artists to converse and experience art beyond the warm and fuzzy Portlandia genres. Always recommended. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 8PM-11 Free
Chris Frasier opens a projection mapping project, In Passing. Wayne Bund opens Idle and Blessed, a photographic and video performance of childhood play by adults in the Mt Hood Wilderness. It's a similar theme explored by Justine Kurland in her early work. Bund, in contrast, focuses on men. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate
Map 6PM-9 Free
There is an art vector tracing between San Francisco and Portland. We have several edge-seeking artists from there here, including Patrick Rock and Harrell Fletcher. In turn, they draw San Francisco artists here to exhibit, talk and perform. Jennifer Locke is a San Francisco performance artist and curator of a visual and documentary show opening Friday at PSU. Tonight she, Keke Hunt and Nicole McClure perform live and in person. Expect a fluid and challenging evening in a good way. Rocksbox is a place for Portland's most contemporary artists to converse and experience art beyond the warm and fuzzy Portlandia genres. Always recommended. At Rocksbox Fine Art www.rocksboxfineart.com 6540 N Interstate Map 8PM-11 Free
Chris Frasier opens a projection mapping project, In Passing. Wayne Bund opens Idle and Blessed, a photographic and video performance of childhood play by adults in the Mt Hood Wilderness. It's a similar theme explored by Justine Kurland in her early work. Bund, in contrast, focuses on men. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate
Map 6PM-9 Free
Januray 11 Ash Street Art Program
The Ash Street Art Program is kin to Project Grow, Creative Growth and others.
Artists Aaron Cunningham, David Howard, Suni Lovelie, Jim Mary, Frank Mendoza, Robbie Mitchell, Andy Nacoste, Patrick Steen and Terry Wright show their work, some with accompanying narratives.
At Palio Desert House and Cafe www.palio-in-ladds.com in Ladd's Addition 1996 SE Ladd. Regular Cafe Hours. Free
Artists Aaron Cunningham, David Howard, Suni Lovelie, Jim Mary, Frank Mendoza, Robbie Mitchell, Andy Nacoste, Patrick Steen and Terry Wright show their work, some with accompanying narratives.
At Palio Desert House and Cafe www.palio-in-ladds.com in Ladd's Addition 1996 SE Ladd. Regular Cafe Hours. Free
January 11 Fourteen30
Conrad Ruiz is a painter from LA who paints figures in a loose but tending towards photorealistic colorful style. He is the first artist in a series, each exhibiting two works for two weeks at Fourteen30. The works are Punchmonster and Nova. The curator and principal of Fourteen30 maintains a strong relationship with the LA art world. This is an example. 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-8
Monday, January 07, 2013
January 10 Drawing a Day
Dan Attoe is a now Portland artist represented by PDX Contemporary, and founder of Paintalica. The IPRC is publishing a limited edition book of Attoe's sketches, Everything is New. It's the result of seven years of daily drawings, some of which have been realized in his artworks. Tonight is the release of the book and a brief talk by the artist at the Independent Publishing Resource Center www.iprc.org 1101 SE Division, Suite 2 7PM Free
Thursday, January 03, 2013
January 9 On Wilderness
This is primarily an art blog, but not exclusively. I have an interest in the intersection of politics, social change and energy-sustainability. Sometimes I note talks on those topics here.
I have studied environmental law and understand the spiritual value of wilderness. I often apply an ethnographic analysis of American absolutism and Walter Prescott Webb's Great Frontier thesis to political and social belief systems. I'm familiar with the deep ecology movement. That's me.
The topic of this entry is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is not just a map. Arctic animals roam the area and reproduce there. Caribou migrate through the plains, the 1002 area slated for oil development. It's North America's Serengeti.
Many states will face energy mining challenges, including coastal states with potential offshore oil and gas deposits, and the possibility of renewable capture by wave and offshore wind projects. We will face it in Oregon, along with geothermal drilling on Oregon public lands. The real unaddressed issue is pricing of one time public resources extracted. As we own them, we should welcome a broad discussion. One theory is that we should leave the carbon deposits in the ground until they become more valuable and carbon capture is developed. Of course the other theory is get the most money as fast as you can.
Alaska has two golden egg laying geese: mining and fishing. So Alaska faces energy mining challenges continuously. (There is also a challenge around the Pebble Mine, pitting directly in conflict mining and fishing) Mining for oil and sending it South by the Alaska Pipeline has allowed a negative state income tax and is 80% of the state GDP. But those fields are being exhausted and there is a mad search for replacement fields to continue to fill the pipe. The Alaska oil pipeline gathers oil a short 75 miles to the West of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska has had some success at using the natural gas often found with oil as well as exporting it to Japan as LNG. More exploration will produce more gas.
Land exploration and mining is much easier than sea. There may not be as much oil and gas in the Refuge as previously imagined. There is good science that there will be Arctic Ocean oil and gas. The area just offshore has reduced ice in Summer due to global warming. But drilling, wellheads and piping to shore, in sea ice conditions and storms, will be a challenge. Think Deepwater Horizon crushed by ice. In fact a Shell platform, the Kulluk, grounded New Years Eve in the Gulf of Alaska, and the crew evacuated. The rig had been unsuccessfully drilling for exploration in the Arctic Ocean Northwest of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and was enroute to Seattle for Overwintering and maintenance when it lost its towlines. Even with horizontal recovery drilling from shore, there will be impacts on land.
The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge includes coastal access to the Arctic Ocean. So there is a national debate, including you and I, on whether, how and when the American philosophy of wilderness will be breached to mine oil and gas. If you know the name George Schaller, you might enjoy his thoughts.
I have never visited the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. The area is about a third the size of the entire state of Oregon. But Hudson Henry has. In 2006 he traversed the Brooks Range - 100 miles unassisted backpacking, in that self same Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Tonight he relates that experience.
So, if you like, you can put yourself tonight right in the middle of our exploration as a country into the Northern facets of energy and wilderness policy.
At the Mazamas www.mazamas.org. 527 SE 43rd 7PM Free
I have studied environmental law and understand the spiritual value of wilderness. I often apply an ethnographic analysis of American absolutism and Walter Prescott Webb's Great Frontier thesis to political and social belief systems. I'm familiar with the deep ecology movement. That's me.
The topic of this entry is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is not just a map. Arctic animals roam the area and reproduce there. Caribou migrate through the plains, the 1002 area slated for oil development. It's North America's Serengeti.
Many states will face energy mining challenges, including coastal states with potential offshore oil and gas deposits, and the possibility of renewable capture by wave and offshore wind projects. We will face it in Oregon, along with geothermal drilling on Oregon public lands. The real unaddressed issue is pricing of one time public resources extracted. As we own them, we should welcome a broad discussion. One theory is that we should leave the carbon deposits in the ground until they become more valuable and carbon capture is developed. Of course the other theory is get the most money as fast as you can.
Alaska has two golden egg laying geese: mining and fishing. So Alaska faces energy mining challenges continuously. (There is also a challenge around the Pebble Mine, pitting directly in conflict mining and fishing) Mining for oil and sending it South by the Alaska Pipeline has allowed a negative state income tax and is 80% of the state GDP. But those fields are being exhausted and there is a mad search for replacement fields to continue to fill the pipe. The Alaska oil pipeline gathers oil a short 75 miles to the West of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
Alaska has had some success at using the natural gas often found with oil as well as exporting it to Japan as LNG. More exploration will produce more gas.
Land exploration and mining is much easier than sea. There may not be as much oil and gas in the Refuge as previously imagined. There is good science that there will be Arctic Ocean oil and gas. The area just offshore has reduced ice in Summer due to global warming. But drilling, wellheads and piping to shore, in sea ice conditions and storms, will be a challenge. Think Deepwater Horizon crushed by ice. In fact a Shell platform, the Kulluk, grounded New Years Eve in the Gulf of Alaska, and the crew evacuated. The rig had been unsuccessfully drilling for exploration in the Arctic Ocean Northwest of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and was enroute to Seattle for Overwintering and maintenance when it lost its towlines. Even with horizontal recovery drilling from shore, there will be impacts on land.
The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge includes coastal access to the Arctic Ocean. So there is a national debate, including you and I, on whether, how and when the American philosophy of wilderness will be breached to mine oil and gas. If you know the name George Schaller, you might enjoy his thoughts.
I have never visited the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. The area is about a third the size of the entire state of Oregon. But Hudson Henry has. In 2006 he traversed the Brooks Range - 100 miles unassisted backpacking, in that self same Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Tonight he relates that experience.
So, if you like, you can put yourself tonight right in the middle of our exploration as a country into the Northern facets of energy and wilderness policy.
At the Mazamas www.mazamas.org. 527 SE 43rd 7PM Free
January 7 Getting to Know You
I have not yet been to one of these events, and I must admit I cast a jaundiced eye on the premise. Other friends have gone to earlier events and liked them. So maybe I'm wrong, or maybe, more importantly, you will like this event. The organizers of Getting to Know You(Tube) have invited their friends Jovencio de la Paz, Marcus Estes and Shayla Hason, to select 10-15 minutes each of favorite shorts from YouTube, which they show tonight. It's social aesthetics presented on a big screen to a larger audience. The project was created by Portland social practice artists Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom, also responsible for Songs on Conceptual Art. There will be a brief question and answer with the presenters and the audience is invited to bring their own YouTube videos to share at the end as time permits. Getting to Know You(Tube) www.gettingtoknowyoutube.com at the Hollywood Theater www.hollywoodtheatre.org 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard 7PM $5
January 4-5 Move It
Meshi Chavez is a powerful modern dance mover long connected to the Portland butoh community and his own creative design. He has drawn together a stellar group of movers for two evenings performing across movement classifications. On Friday, Alicia Ankenman, Stephanie Lanckton, Andy Houseman and Sara Alizadeh perform. Saturday, it's Zan Tewksbury, Chris Larsen, Joe McLaughlin and Lanie Bergie. Music for both evenings by Lisa DeGrace, Adrian Hutapea, and Roldan. 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 7:30PM $15 each evening, $22 both
January 4 Eastside Art Openings
Our close post-New Years is a little moribund for galleries and customers of art likewise, Westside and Eastside. Redux, Newspace and Pushdot continue shows.
Black Box has The Poetic Landscape, a group show on landscape. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Union Pine has a group show by Amanda McCarty and James Woodhead, Brooke Weston and Rikki Barney. Music by Palo Verde and Tyrants. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
A new spot, relocating from NE 28th is Home Bass. They are a hybrid music store, art store and anime figure store. Art by Klutch, Brett Bowers and Lost Cause music by Ryan Organ and Penpointred. At Home Bass 123 NE 6 5PM-9 Free
Black Box has The Poetic Landscape, a group show on landscape. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
Union Pine has a group show by Amanda McCarty and James Woodhead, Brooke Weston and Rikki Barney. Music by Palo Verde and Tyrants. At Union/Pine www.unionpine.com 525 SE Pine 7Pm-late Free
A new spot, relocating from NE 28th is Home Bass. They are a hybrid music store, art store and anime figure store. Art by Klutch, Brett Bowers and Lost Cause music by Ryan Organ and Penpointred. At Home Bass 123 NE 6 5PM-9 Free
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
January 3 Portland International
A Portland underground discussion group on international affairs ends this evening with the passing of its organizer. The group met for many years in a pub, hosting diplomats and deep thinkers on social change and international affairs. It remained off the Internet radar by design, thus this vague post. Best to the Dr.'s family.
January 3 Westside Art Openings
The Society For Nebulous Knowledge is a visual art project by Mariana Tres. In the spirit of Jorge Luis Borges, the early work of Josiah McElheny, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and others, it is her continuing series of works based on faux figures of her artist imagination. In this show, it's Celestial Clockwork: Herschel McShougle's Dream of Ten Thousand Years, artifacts of an imaginary man in search of the long clock. The long clock project is, in fact, a fanciful project of the Long Now Foundation in Silicon Valley, intent upon creating a ten thousand year clock in actuality. At Chambers Gallery www.chambersgallery.com 916 NW Flanders Early close 8:30PM
Josef Albers is a giant in the art world for his direct works; and for his perhaps more important indirect work as a founder of the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale's graphics program. He is also well known for his portfolio of prints and the book, The Interaction of Color. Augen has a collection from that portfolio and selections from Formulation: Articulation, a career survey of Albers' work. So for a free art history lesson of high quality, you can see this Albers show right in Portland. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Robert Rauschenberg is a grounbreaking figure in contemporary art. He was one of the early visual samplers and an inspiration to Warhol. The Leach Gallery presents a selection of Robert Rauschenberg prints this month. And this month, Leach presents Museum, photographs by Christoper Rauschenberg. The Museum show includes a striking panorama of the interior of he Hermitage, which in itself has a fascinating story. Both strongly recommended. There are also videos showing in the outside window by Miguel Arzabe, Zachary Davis Julie Perini and Rebecca Najdowski. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Camera Work is a seminal project by Alfred Steiglitz. It's intent, which was successful, was to have photography accepted as art, including in museums. Between 1903-1917, Steiglitz published 500-1000 copies quarterly of quality reproductions of the work of the time. That left behind series of limited edition prints in the form of a magazine. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th
PDX shows prints commissioned by Crow's Shadow Institute of Ford Family Foundation awardees Pat Boas, Arnold J Kemp, Eve Lake, Susan Murrell, Jenene Nagy and Storm Tharp. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
Valentines has This is Just to Say That, photographs by Kersti Jan Werdal. At Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny 6PM-late Free
In a fitting metaproject, Art Fare is a series of minimal portraits of art world insiders in their element. Accompanied by Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, who produce staged symbolic photographs with a Fluxus spirit. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Glades and Ragged Underwood is a show featuring art by Portland artists Angie Wang, Vivian Chen and Julia Gfrörer illustrating their grimm and mysterious view of the Northwest landscape. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
Everyday Anomalies by Canadian Troy Coulterman takes a comics-influenced view of an imagination-driven life where anything can happen. 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.
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For a free history lesson on early NW Artists you can stop by the Laura Russo gallery which also has sculptures by the late Manuel Izquierdo. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st
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
Josef Albers is a giant in the art world for his direct works; and for his perhaps more important indirect work as a founder of the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale's graphics program. He is also well known for his portfolio of prints and the book, The Interaction of Color. Augen has a collection from that portfolio and selections from Formulation: Articulation, a career survey of Albers' work. So for a free art history lesson of high quality, you can see this Albers show right in Portland. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8
Robert Rauschenberg is a grounbreaking figure in contemporary art. He was one of the early visual samplers and an inspiration to Warhol. The Leach Gallery presents a selection of Robert Rauschenberg prints this month. And this month, Leach presents Museum, photographs by Christoper Rauschenberg. The Museum show includes a striking panorama of the interior of he Hermitage, which in itself has a fascinating story. Both strongly recommended. There are also videos showing in the outside window by Miguel Arzabe, Zachary Davis Julie Perini and Rebecca Najdowski. At Elizabeth Leach Gallery www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th Map 6PM-9
Camera Work is a seminal project by Alfred Steiglitz. It's intent, which was successful, was to have photography accepted as art, including in museums. Between 1903-1917, Steiglitz published 500-1000 copies quarterly of quality reproductions of the work of the time. That left behind series of limited edition prints in the form of a magazine. At Charles Hartman Fine Art www.hartmanfineart.net 134 NW 8th
PDX shows prints commissioned by Crow's Shadow Institute of Ford Family Foundation awardees Pat Boas, Arnold J Kemp, Eve Lake, Susan Murrell, Jenene Nagy and Storm Tharp. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
Valentines has This is Just to Say That, photographs by Kersti Jan Werdal. At Valentines valentinespdx.com 232 SW Ankeny 6PM-late Free
In a fitting metaproject, Art Fare is a series of minimal portraits of art world insiders in their element. Accompanied by Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen, who produce staged symbolic photographs with a Fluxus spirit. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
Glades and Ragged Underwood is a show featuring art by Portland artists Angie Wang, Vivian Chen and Julia Gfrörer illustrating their grimm and mysterious view of the Northwest landscape. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th
Everyday Anomalies by Canadian Troy Coulterman takes a comics-influenced view of an imagination-driven life where anything can happen. 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
For a free history lesson on early NW Artists you can stop by the Laura Russo gallery which also has sculptures by the late Manuel Izquierdo. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st
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
January 2 Sometimes a Great Notion
Sometimes a Great Notion is a show by Portland painter Kendra Larson. Larson takes a mystical view of the northwest landscape, so an opportunity to compare her approach with others. Not sure if there is an event associated with the show, but it opens today in the Mt Hood Community College Fireplace Gallery www.mhcc.edu/FireplaceGallery In the Student Union, AC1051; 26000 SE Stark St, Gresham
Saturday, December 29, 2012
December 29 - January 3 Roses Above, Roses Below: On Photography
Gregory Crewdson has had a huge influence on constructed implied narrative in photography. Schooled at Yale, and teaching there since, he has trained more than a generation of photographer-stylists who, like motion film directors, select, direct and design characters within the photograph's still boundary.
He has spoken in Portland, exhibited at Reed and was included in a contemporary group show curated by Bruce Guenther at the Portland Art Museum. He's an artist and a little odd, but it's working. He receives multi-million dollar advances from his gallery, Gagosian, to hire production crews. He has developed a Photoshop process to produce very large infinite depth of field prints from multiple exposures on 8x10.
Now his latest work turns his cinematic approach on itself. In Sanctuary, he photographed the Cinecittà outdoor film studios in Rome, devoid of actors. Cinecittà has operated continuously for 75 years. It is the location for numerous well known films, including the HBO-BBC series Rome. So Crewdson has unmasked the cinema and made visible the precarious scaffolding hidden previously in his work.
Portlanders have another chance to engage Crewdson in a documentary, Brief Encounters, showing now in Portland. It is focused on a series in his mid-2000's cinematic work, Beneath the Roses, some of which showed in Portland. Not sure how long the run of the film is.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters shows at the Living Room Theaters pdx.livingroomtheaters.com 341 SW 10th See the Theater Website for times. $7/$6 Students
He has spoken in Portland, exhibited at Reed and was included in a contemporary group show curated by Bruce Guenther at the Portland Art Museum. He's an artist and a little odd, but it's working. He receives multi-million dollar advances from his gallery, Gagosian, to hire production crews. He has developed a Photoshop process to produce very large infinite depth of field prints from multiple exposures on 8x10.
Now his latest work turns his cinematic approach on itself. In Sanctuary, he photographed the Cinecittà outdoor film studios in Rome, devoid of actors. Cinecittà has operated continuously for 75 years. It is the location for numerous well known films, including the HBO-BBC series Rome. So Crewdson has unmasked the cinema and made visible the precarious scaffolding hidden previously in his work.
Portlanders have another chance to engage Crewdson in a documentary, Brief Encounters, showing now in Portland. It is focused on a series in his mid-2000's cinematic work, Beneath the Roses, some of which showed in Portland. Not sure how long the run of the film is.
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters shows at the Living Room Theaters pdx.livingroomtheaters.com 341 SW 10th See the Theater Website for times. $7/$6 Students
Thursday, December 27, 2012
December 29 Last Battle of the Year
In general we are against battles. And there is a good argument that this time of the year we need less battling and more hugs. In that spirit, the hip hop dance battle culture values positive competition energy and community. And so it is tonight.
CharacterCult presents Circle Science, a night of 1on1 bboy-bgirl battles. The format is a showcase to select 16. The 16 reduce to 8 in a toprock battle. The 8 move to semis based on footwork. The semis move to finals based on power moves. The finals select one based on all around.
On the wheels of steel, Golden Child & DJ Mighty Moves. Judges will be JoeRawk of Massive Monkees, Serg of Jungle Brothers and Impulse of Moon Patrol. Hosted by ThomasOragami of Soul Felons Crew.
Competitors include Boogie - Moon Patrol, Mikeezy - Limitless acts, A-be, Aantix - Back 2 Basix, Merk - New Birth, Fu-roc - New Birth, Rufio - Aristocats, Michael Kalas - MKC, Ben - Limitless acts, Elvis - Back2basix, Fredo - No Roots, TangBang - AAO, Sharkie - Soul Phase, Faze - Rhythm Bandits, JAB - Dance Broomz/THE HOODZ, JSpoon - Soul Felons/BDB/The Hoodz, Prince Hector, Rambo - New Birth Crew, One - Tru Roots, Phace - Salem Cypher, Flow One - Wicked FX, Juan - New Birth Crew, Marko - Vibe Tribe, Fligh - Tru Roots, Dobbin, Rona, Mpwo - New Birth/Jungle Brothers, Obscure, Mochine Gun - New Birth, Mango No Roots/Them Team, Eddie Lee, Chadzilla, Nahele - Back 2 Basix, Drift, Bloop, 2Luv, Lil D - Limitless Acts, Vote for Pedro - Wicked FX, Tommy Rocc - Wicked FX, Herrikane - Sick Floor Maniacs Crew, Calypso - DMC, and Lunatic - Battle Reflex/Unleashed.
Circle Science at Vega Dance Lab 1322 SE Water. 5PM-10 $8, $5 with FB RSVP.
CharacterCult presents Circle Science, a night of 1on1 bboy-bgirl battles. The format is a showcase to select 16. The 16 reduce to 8 in a toprock battle. The 8 move to semis based on footwork. The semis move to finals based on power moves. The finals select one based on all around.
On the wheels of steel, Golden Child & DJ Mighty Moves. Judges will be JoeRawk of Massive Monkees, Serg of Jungle Brothers and Impulse of Moon Patrol. Hosted by ThomasOragami of Soul Felons Crew.
Competitors include Boogie - Moon Patrol, Mikeezy - Limitless acts, A-be, Aantix - Back 2 Basix, Merk - New Birth, Fu-roc - New Birth, Rufio - Aristocats, Michael Kalas - MKC, Ben - Limitless acts, Elvis - Back2basix, Fredo - No Roots, TangBang - AAO, Sharkie - Soul Phase, Faze - Rhythm Bandits, JAB - Dance Broomz/THE HOODZ, JSpoon - Soul Felons/BDB/The Hoodz, Prince Hector, Rambo - New Birth Crew, One - Tru Roots, Phace - Salem Cypher, Flow One - Wicked FX, Juan - New Birth Crew, Marko - Vibe Tribe, Fligh - Tru Roots, Dobbin, Rona, Mpwo - New Birth/Jungle Brothers, Obscure, Mochine Gun - New Birth, Mango No Roots/Them Team, Eddie Lee, Chadzilla, Nahele - Back 2 Basix, Drift, Bloop, 2Luv, Lil D - Limitless Acts, Vote for Pedro - Wicked FX, Tommy Rocc - Wicked FX, Herrikane - Sick Floor Maniacs Crew, Calypso - DMC, and Lunatic - Battle Reflex/Unleashed.
Circle Science at Vega Dance Lab 1322 SE Water. 5PM-10 $8, $5 with FB RSVP.
December 28 Free the Marbles
On the last Friday of the month, the Art Museum is free from 5PM-8. So start your new year's resolution to see more free art early. It would also be an excellent opportunity to see the collage-paintings of Sang-Ah Choi in the Apex area of the Pacific Northwest collection on the top floor of the main building. Not sure how access to the special exhibit from the British Museum of Greek and Roman marbles works on free night. Interestingly the first works acquired by the museum were plaster reproductions of Greek and Roman reliefs, still on display in the lower ballroom. The project predated Nashville's Parthenon project. At the Portland Art Museum www.pam.org 1219 SW Park 5PM-8 Free
Thursday, December 20, 2012
December 21 Knitting Wunderkammern
The Big Fig is a show of new sweaters knitted by artist Johanna Jackson. She works in several mediums, including video, one of which resides in the other Portland modern art museum, the Portland Art Museum. Her knittings fit well with the program of the Portland Museum of Modern Art, and she has shown earlier work in this body there. And it's apropos, for now is the traditional season for "artistic" sweaters, so wear yours tonight!
Jackson writes of dreaming of knitting, the challenge of learning it and finally, learning the motions practiced by many over many, many years, our knitting DNA.
Musicians Grouper perform as well for the show opening in this small space. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina 7:30 Free
Puppets! There is a small progressive puppetry art community in Portland if you know where to look. And they are not for kids only. In fact, tonight's show is for mature audiences. The annual Winter Solstice puppet show includes puppets, music and acrobatics. The tradition has been going on in Portland for eleven years and a trailer for a documentary on the event will also be shown too. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map all ages, adult beverages for those 21+. 7PM & 10 shows, free-donations accepted
Jackson writes of dreaming of knitting, the challenge of learning it and finally, learning the motions practiced by many over many, many years, our knitting DNA.
Musicians Grouper perform as well for the show opening in this small space. At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina 7:30 Free
Puppets! There is a small progressive puppetry art community in Portland if you know where to look. And they are not for kids only. In fact, tonight's show is for mature audiences. The annual Winter Solstice puppet show includes puppets, music and acrobatics. The tradition has been going on in Portland for eleven years and a trailer for a documentary on the event will also be shown too. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map all ages, adult beverages for those 21+. 7PM & 10 shows, free-donations accepted
December 20 Slab City Citizens Band
Slab City is a pre-apocalyptic temporary autonomous zone in California. Citizens band is an archaic analog radio system, license free, and occasionally abused by radio hackers.
So the combination of words Slab City Citizens Band Bulletin is a rich mix, and it's also a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Daniel and musicians Jackie-O Motherfucker. Slab City performs live to Daniel's films.
Musicians Sunfoot and Invisible Bees from the UK also perform.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 8PM $7advance/8door
So the combination of words Slab City Citizens Band Bulletin is a rich mix, and it's also a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Daniel and musicians Jackie-O Motherfucker. Slab City performs live to Daniel's films.
Musicians Sunfoot and Invisible Bees from the UK also perform.
At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 8PM $7advance/8door
Saturday, December 15, 2012
December 16 Publication Fair
Not all books are art nor art books. But Portland is an art town and a book town with dozens or small presses. Some of them gather today for you to see, and they to sell, their wares. Participants include Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books, Poor Claudia/Tale City Press, Bad Blood Reading Series, Perfect Day Publishing, Floating World Comics, Anahita Jamali Rad/AAB, Monograph Bookwerks, Dill Pickle Club, Peaches and Bats, Container Corps, Division Leap, IPRC, Nationale, Bedouin Books, Octopus Books, Gobshite Quarterly, Sharp/Stuff, Table Of Contents, Passages Bookshop, Tin House and organized by Publication Studio. At the Cleaners at the Ace Hotel. SW Stark and 10th. Noon-6 Free
Friday, December 07, 2012
December 16 Promised Land
This event is later in December, a sleepy month for visual art. But not for culture, and for things that are important.
Promised Land. Heavy meme. Ancient, even biblical. And now the title of a dramatic film by Portland filmmaker Gus Van Sant about natural gas fracking in America.
The film tells the story of a very small town guy, working for a very large company, convincing farmers to sign gas mining contracts. Like the Music Man, it seems to be going swimmingly until it goes so wrong. Ultimately it reaches a transformative resolution.
Energy is one of our most important ecosystems, but water is too. And though we don't mine natural gas in Portland or Oregon, natural gas exports are an issue we will need to deal with here. It's being studied by the Department of Energy and is a top issue for Senator Wyden, because exports will raise our prices.
The film's reach is sure to create a discussion across a country which needs to talk seriously about energy.
Director Gus Van Sant introduces his film, Promised Land, tonight in a benefit showing for Outside In, providing medical and survival services for homeless youth. The film begins its regular run December 28, in time for the 2012 Oscar nominations. Tickets in advance at the McMenamins box offices. Film at the Bagdad Theater 3702 SE Hawthorne 7:30PM $79 main/$49 balcony
Promised Land. Heavy meme. Ancient, even biblical. And now the title of a dramatic film by Portland filmmaker Gus Van Sant about natural gas fracking in America.
The film tells the story of a very small town guy, working for a very large company, convincing farmers to sign gas mining contracts. Like the Music Man, it seems to be going swimmingly until it goes so wrong. Ultimately it reaches a transformative resolution.
Energy is one of our most important ecosystems, but water is too. And though we don't mine natural gas in Portland or Oregon, natural gas exports are an issue we will need to deal with here. It's being studied by the Department of Energy and is a top issue for Senator Wyden, because exports will raise our prices.
The film's reach is sure to create a discussion across a country which needs to talk seriously about energy.
Director Gus Van Sant introduces his film, Promised Land, tonight in a benefit showing for Outside In, providing medical and survival services for homeless youth. The film begins its regular run December 28, in time for the 2012 Oscar nominations. Tickets in advance at the McMenamins box offices. Film at the Bagdad Theater 3702 SE Hawthorne 7:30PM $79 main/$49 balcony
Dec 15 False Front Place
Seth Nehil, sound artist, presents his sound and paper art tonight. The paper work is hand cut. The sounds are hand cut acoustic samples with the assistance of electronic computer machines. Music 8. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-9 Free
Place continues its shows and opens a group show, White Pride, with artists Nadia Buyse, Chris Freeman, Sam Guerrero, Michael Martínez, Mark Martinez, Christine Taylor and Chloé Womack. 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 5PM-9
Place continues its shows and opens a group show, White Pride, with artists Nadia Buyse, Chris Freeman, Sam Guerrero, Michael Martínez, Mark Martinez, Christine Taylor and Chloé Womack. 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 5PM-9
December 12 The End of Art Education on 12/12/12?
What is the value of an MFA? What the market will bear. There is a serious imbalance between tuition and renumeration, between the business of art schools and reality, though the romance remains.
Pedigree is a panel discussion by Gabe Flores, Gwenn Seemel and Horatio Law moderated by David Vanadia on art, art school, money, value and the art star-making machine.
At Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW Fifth. 7PM-8 Free
Pedigree is a panel discussion by Gabe Flores, Gwenn Seemel and Horatio Law moderated by David Vanadia on art, art school, money, value and the art star-making machine.
At Place, placepdx.tumblr.com a gallery on the 3rd floor of the Pioneer Place Mall 700 SW Fifth. 7PM-8 Free
December 8 Print Peoples
PICA holds its annual printmaking fundraiser. It's especially fun for the artists making prints, some who have never done so, to get their hands dirty with plenty of very experienced printmakers. Most, if not all, are monoprints, one of a kind. www.flickr.com/photos/pica/sets/72157628903015317/with/6715797407/ It's in the PICA offices this year. 415 SW 10th 6:30PM-8:30 Free
The Peoples Art of Portland is one of Portland's largest art dealers. With low prices, they make it up in volume. Their margins are the same as commercial galleries, but their costs are lower. Every year, they hold their Big 300 sale, over 350 artists, each making 10 8"x8" works on plywood panels, and all sold for $40 each. Usually about 80% are sold, so you can do the math. Cash or credit, take the work off the wall and home for instant gratification. A can of food for the food bank is requested. At the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 700 SW 5th 2PM-9 Can of food
There is a reception for Bruce Conkle's show at PSU, see Thursday's listing.
The Peoples Art of Portland is one of Portland's largest art dealers. With low prices, they make it up in volume. Their margins are the same as commercial galleries, but their costs are lower. Every year, they hold their Big 300 sale, over 350 artists, each making 10 8"x8" works on plywood panels, and all sold for $40 each. Usually about 80% are sold, so you can do the math. Cash or credit, take the work off the wall and home for instant gratification. A can of food for the food bank is requested. At the People's Art of Portland www.peoplesartofportland.com 700 SW 5th 2PM-9 Can of food
There is a reception for Bruce Conkle's show at PSU, see Thursday's listing.
December 7 Eastside Art Openings+
Portland as music town goes in cycles and now is uptime. But Salem was home to famous guitarist John Fahey in the 80's and 90's, who lived 1939-2001. Fahey traveled extensively in the South collecting the folk music of Mississippi Delta, Appalachian bluegrass and New Orleans jazz musicians, in person, and in recordings made in the 1920's and '30's, and refining them into his own picking style with unique tunings. Fahey went on to found artist-focused, rather than label-focused, music labels Takoma and Revenant. In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey is a new documentary relating the story of his life. Folk music was what we had before copyright, and it's where we are headed to again, as the age of infinite reproduction and the music industry itself successfully slay the goose that laid golden eggs. Maybe that's a good thing, Internet folk music, and music in person. The film will be introduced by a performance by Chris Funk. At the Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy 7:30PM $7
The art and design world is filled with many twisty career paths, not all alike. One is that of Raymond Pettibon, punk artist. Bass player in Black Flag early, and brother to Flag leader, Pettibon designed the logo. He went on to make pen and brush drawings, many used as music media cover art and for band posters. He has used hand lettered text extensively, a 1980's trend that returned in the new millenium, for instance, in the work of Mission School artist Chris Johanson. Pettibon was first tapped for the Whitney Biennial in 1994. Later he returned in 2004, the second year of Larry Rinder's new bad art boy curatorial direction. Perribon has exhibited extensively in Europe as well. Pettibon was tapped in 1995 by Portland's Plazm. They present a show of his early work, 1978-1986, band posters, his zines, and some vinyl covers, opening tonight. Band Blood Beach performs at the opening at 9. At One Grand Gallery 1000 E Burnside. 7PM-10+ Free
Hair, it can be an obsession for some. Soft & Sturdy by Heidi Hopfer is a show of hair theme drawings. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has a show of color photography curated by Katherine Ware of the New Mexico Museum of Art. She has been photography curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the Getty. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
At the Ford Building Gallery Homeland continues it's current show and Pushdot has a reception for a non-photography show, pointillist pen and ink drawings of insects. 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 5PM-7/9 Free
Universities are a rich stew of creativity as a value. It's stimulated by the ease of creative communication and collaboration. In art programs, there is a value placed in understanding what has come before. In that spirit, PSU artists reinterpret Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable over 45 years later. Bands include Etbonz & Videodrone. In Neuberger Hall Room 293. 7PM-9 Free
Aedion 44 Gallery shows Friends of Mine, from Portland photographer Brendan Coughlin. The gallery is in a space for graphic clothing. At Aedion 44 Gallery www.aedionaesthetic.com 4430 SE Hawthorne 7PM-11 Free
Newspace has Jeff Rich with Watershed: A Survey of The French Broad River Basin, documentation of a river in the Southeast. The photographer captured individuals in their homes along the river with river industrial facilities in the background. Photolucida director Laura Moya has an ongoing series, On My Walls, selections from her personal collection. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
The studios of the OCAC+PNCA MFA in Applied Craft + Design are open tonight for you to see what the students are doing. They will also be open tomorrow in the daytime. It will be tonight's hit. At the Bison Building, 421 NE 10th. 7PM-9 Free
RACC throws a party tonight in honor of Mayor Sam Adams, Portland's tireless art supporter. It is a benefit for the Right Brain Initiative. Patrons at 6, $175, open to all at 9, $25, breakfast midnight. racc.org/advocacy/racc's-party-name-art-almost-here At YU Contemporary 800 SE 10th
The art and design world is filled with many twisty career paths, not all alike. One is that of Raymond Pettibon, punk artist. Bass player in Black Flag early, and brother to Flag leader, Pettibon designed the logo. He went on to make pen and brush drawings, many used as music media cover art and for band posters. He has used hand lettered text extensively, a 1980's trend that returned in the new millenium, for instance, in the work of Mission School artist Chris Johanson. Pettibon was first tapped for the Whitney Biennial in 1994. Later he returned in 2004, the second year of Larry Rinder's new bad art boy curatorial direction. Perribon has exhibited extensively in Europe as well. Pettibon was tapped in 1995 by Portland's Plazm. They present a show of his early work, 1978-1986, band posters, his zines, and some vinyl covers, opening tonight. Band Blood Beach performs at the opening at 9. At One Grand Gallery 1000 E Burnside. 7PM-10+ Free
Hair, it can be an obsession for some. Soft & Sturdy by Heidi Hopfer is a show of hair theme drawings. At Redux www.reduxpdx.com 811 E Burnside
Black Box has a show of color photography curated by Katherine Ware of the New Mexico Museum of Art. She has been photography curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the Getty. At Black Box Gallery www.blackboxgallery.com 811 E Burnside, Suite 212 upstairs 5PM-8:30 Free
At the Ford Building Gallery Homeland continues it's current show and Pushdot has a reception for a non-photography show, pointillist pen and ink drawings of insects. 2505 SE 11th x Division. Enter through the cafe on the corner if the main doors on 11th are locked. 5PM-7/9 Free
Universities are a rich stew of creativity as a value. It's stimulated by the ease of creative communication and collaboration. In art programs, there is a value placed in understanding what has come before. In that spirit, PSU artists reinterpret Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable over 45 years later. Bands include Etbonz & Videodrone. In Neuberger Hall Room 293. 7PM-9 Free
Aedion 44 Gallery shows Friends of Mine, from Portland photographer Brendan Coughlin. The gallery is in a space for graphic clothing. At Aedion 44 Gallery www.aedionaesthetic.com 4430 SE Hawthorne 7PM-11 Free
Newspace has Jeff Rich with Watershed: A Survey of The French Broad River Basin, documentation of a river in the Southeast. The photographer captured individuals in their homes along the river with river industrial facilities in the background. Photolucida director Laura Moya has an ongoing series, On My Walls, selections from her personal collection. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th Map
The studios of the OCAC+PNCA MFA in Applied Craft + Design are open tonight for you to see what the students are doing. They will also be open tomorrow in the daytime. It will be tonight's hit. At the Bison Building, 421 NE 10th. 7PM-9 Free
RACC throws a party tonight in honor of Mayor Sam Adams, Portland's tireless art supporter. It is a benefit for the Right Brain Initiative. Patrons at 6, $175, open to all at 9, $25, breakfast midnight. racc.org/advocacy/racc's-party-name-art-almost-here At YU Contemporary 800 SE 10th
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
December 6 Westside Art Openings
Everyone is in Miami, but the show must go on.
Hellion has taken Mitt Romney's suggestion that we get close with South America. It's not a bad idea, and Brazil is our hemisphere's part of BRIC. The show of 15 artists from Brazil is Pindorama.
There will be an opportunity tonight at Hellion to get the new book by Matt Wagner, The Tall Trees of Tokyo. Matt is the curator and creator of Hellion. In his introduction he writes of Japanese society, the tall tree is beaten down. But if it can withstand the forces of wind, it can move the mountain in which its roots entwine.
In the book, he has profiled contemporary Japanese artists by the train lines in the Tokyo sprawl in which they live. The book is bilingual. A portion of tonight's sales go to a project to build an indoor playground for Fukushima children.
Many people have left the contaminated area, but those who are too poor have stayed. It's dangerous for the children remaining to play outside. The project is organized by many of the artists Matt profiled in the book. They also spontaneously delivered supplies into the red zone soon after the earthquake and meltdown, and Matt himself was able to travel with them to help.
More information about the project is at http://fw-p.jp/indoor/indoor_fukushima/. You can use your web tools to translate it from Japanese.
The book, The Tall Trees of Tokyo, is a project of Portland's Overcup Press. You can find out more on their website www.overcupbooks.com, or by stopping into the gallery. The book is limited to an edition of 1000.
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 7PM-10
PNCA has Cause Unknown: Mapping Ravaged Landscapes, by Erinn Kathryn. She has drawn a connection between landscapes formed by eruption, uplifts, fire and erosion with the body's tissues, subject to their own vicissitudes. In Gallery 214, upstairs.
Binary Lore is a show by Edie Fake, from Chicago and PNCA alumna Brenna Murphy ’09. It also shows in Chicago in a cooperative exchange between Threewalls in Chicago and PNCA here. Fake remixes historical queer culture of Chicago into comic-style drawings. Murphy remixes electronic images and electroacoustic sound samples into sculptural performances as MSHR and in her solo work. Highly recommended. In the Feldman Gallery.
Both at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM-9
The world is filled with artists. The tools of infinite reproduction are available to us each and we are trained aesthetically by our continual exposure to reproduced images from early childhood. That means there is great work out there that is undiscovered, or will never be known beyond small circles. Occasionally the unknown artist is discovered, and unfortunately often after their death. That is the case with street photographer Vivian Maier. Working as a nanny, she photographed extensively with a 2 1/4 camera in New York and Chicago and traveling in the US. She is estimated to have made over 150,000 images. Some are on display at Powells and a collector of her work, Jeff Goldstein and the author Richard Cahan of a book about her speak tonight. At Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery, 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside Talk 7:30PM
Bruce Conkle will be creating scents by burning the resins of native trees in his show Tree Clouds Thursdays at 4 in the Autzen Gallery. Conkle is a prime exporter of Northwest-inspired environmental-themed sculptures and installations he dubs "eco baroque". There will be a reception Saturday at the gallery 6PM-8. At Autzen Gallery PSU, Neuberger Hall, Room 205, 724 S.W. Harrison tonight 4PM-5
Augen has Portland illustrator-collage artist Trish Grantham with At a Loss for Words. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM
PDX has Molly Vidor's color fields and flowers plus Nell Warren's impressionistic landscapes. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
Compound presents End of the World, probably not the Mayan version, though. Artists include AMTK, Steve Seeley, Sean Edward Whelan, Brendan Monroe, Pat Perry, Gala Bent, Clare Rosean, Leo Zarosinski, Joseph Mcvetty III, Amanda Lee James, David M Cook and Morgaine Faye. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Louie Palu has photographs of warfighters from the various coalition forces at the end of their tours in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In an entirely different view of the military, Theresia Viska, in La Danse Françaisehas, made impressionistic set of photographs using long exposure times of the Stockholm Military Academy’s annual winter ball. Generations of her family over 300 years served in the Swedish military, which has largely avoided war since 1814. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
The UO White Box presents Affective Duplication by street art group, The Reader. You can go to their website to read the description of the work, but personally I thought it was vague art speak which I can't summarize. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9
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 6PM to 9ish
Hellion has taken Mitt Romney's suggestion that we get close with South America. It's not a bad idea, and Brazil is our hemisphere's part of BRIC. The show of 15 artists from Brazil is Pindorama.
There will be an opportunity tonight at Hellion to get the new book by Matt Wagner, The Tall Trees of Tokyo. Matt is the curator and creator of Hellion. In his introduction he writes of Japanese society, the tall tree is beaten down. But if it can withstand the forces of wind, it can move the mountain in which its roots entwine.
In the book, he has profiled contemporary Japanese artists by the train lines in the Tokyo sprawl in which they live. The book is bilingual. A portion of tonight's sales go to a project to build an indoor playground for Fukushima children.
Many people have left the contaminated area, but those who are too poor have stayed. It's dangerous for the children remaining to play outside. The project is organized by many of the artists Matt profiled in the book. They also spontaneously delivered supplies into the red zone soon after the earthquake and meltdown, and Matt himself was able to travel with them to help.
More information about the project is at http://fw-p.jp/indoor/indoor_fukushima/. You can use your web tools to translate it from Japanese.
The book, The Tall Trees of Tokyo, is a project of Portland's Overcup Press. You can find out more on their website www.overcupbooks.com, or by stopping into the gallery. The book is limited to an edition of 1000.
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 7PM-10
PNCA has Cause Unknown: Mapping Ravaged Landscapes, by Erinn Kathryn. She has drawn a connection between landscapes formed by eruption, uplifts, fire and erosion with the body's tissues, subject to their own vicissitudes. In Gallery 214, upstairs.
Binary Lore is a show by Edie Fake, from Chicago and PNCA alumna Brenna Murphy ’09. It also shows in Chicago in a cooperative exchange between Threewalls in Chicago and PNCA here. Fake remixes historical queer culture of Chicago into comic-style drawings. Murphy remixes electronic images and electroacoustic sound samples into sculptural performances as MSHR and in her solo work. Highly recommended. In the Feldman Gallery.
Both at PNCA www.pnca.edu 1241 NW Johnson Map 6PM-9
The world is filled with artists. The tools of infinite reproduction are available to us each and we are trained aesthetically by our continual exposure to reproduced images from early childhood. That means there is great work out there that is undiscovered, or will never be known beyond small circles. Occasionally the unknown artist is discovered, and unfortunately often after their death. That is the case with street photographer Vivian Maier. Working as a nanny, she photographed extensively with a 2 1/4 camera in New York and Chicago and traveling in the US. She is estimated to have made over 150,000 images. Some are on display at Powells and a collector of her work, Jeff Goldstein and the author Richard Cahan of a book about her speak tonight. At Powell's Basil Hayward Gallery, 3rd floor. www.powells.com. 10th and W Burnside Talk 7:30PM
Bruce Conkle will be creating scents by burning the resins of native trees in his show Tree Clouds Thursdays at 4 in the Autzen Gallery. Conkle is a prime exporter of Northwest-inspired environmental-themed sculptures and installations he dubs "eco baroque". There will be a reception Saturday at the gallery 6PM-8. At Autzen Gallery PSU, Neuberger Hall, Room 205, 724 S.W. Harrison tonight 4PM-5
Augen has Portland illustrator-collage artist Trish Grantham with At a Loss for Words. At Augen Gallery www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8PM
PDX has Molly Vidor's color fields and flowers plus Nell Warren's impressionistic landscapes. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders Map early close 8PM
Compound presents End of the World, probably not the Mayan version, though. Artists include AMTK, Steve Seeley, Sean Edward Whelan, Brendan Monroe, Pat Perry, Gala Bent, Clare Rosean, Leo Zarosinski, Joseph Mcvetty III, Amanda Lee James, David M Cook and Morgaine Faye. At Compound Gallery www.compoundgallery.com 107 NW 5th 6PM-10
Louie Palu has photographs of warfighters from the various coalition forces at the end of their tours in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In an entirely different view of the military, Theresia Viska, in La Danse Françaisehas, made impressionistic set of photographs using long exposure times of the Stockholm Military Academy’s annual winter ball. Generations of her family over 300 years served in the Swedish military, which has largely avoided war since 1814. At Blue Sky Gallery www.blueskygallery.org map 122 NW 8th 6PM-9
The UO White Box presents Affective Duplication by street art group, The Reader. You can go to their website to read the description of the work, but personally I thought it was vague art speak which I can't summarize. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 6PM-9
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 6PM to 9ish
Saturday, December 01, 2012
December 1 Oscar's Delerium Tremens Redux
Portland artist and curator Patrick Rock pushes boundaries. But he also has a sense of absurdity, performance and participation. Oscar's Delerium Tremens is an example, and his timing could not be more perfect. Oscar is a giant inflatable sculpture of a pink elephant. It's a sculpture you can enter and bounce on its inflated floor, shoes off. And you can see in and out of the sculpture through the eyes of the elephant. Rock has done a fine job at coordinating his sculpture with the birth of a baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo.
Unfortunately on inflation yesterday, the elephant sprung an irreparable leak. So the previously scheduled family events were canceled. There will be no bouncing, but the evening reception will be held.
Oscar can be viewed at the new art center, The Colony, in St Johns. 7527 N. Richmond x Lombard. Saturday 8PM-11 21+ Free
Unfortunately on inflation yesterday, the elephant sprung an irreparable leak. So the previously scheduled family events were canceled. There will be no bouncing, but the evening reception will be held.
Oscar can be viewed at the new art center, The Colony, in St Johns. 7527 N. Richmond x Lombard. Saturday 8PM-11 21+ Free
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
November 29 Last Thursday Eastside Art
Alexis Mackenzie & Francesca Berrini present a pairwise show of their collage, Drift, tonight. You may have seen Berrini's maps and dresses at the Seed Building open houses. Mackenzie's work is more abstract collage with found paper. At Ampersand Vintage Printed Material www.ampersandvintage.com 2916 NE Alberta, Ste B. Map 6PM-10 Free
6PM-10
Antler has a winter group show, as does Screaming Sky. At Antler www.antlerpdx.com
1722 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
6PM-10
Antler has a winter group show, as does Screaming Sky. At Antler www.antlerpdx.com
1722 NE Alberta 6PM-9 Free
November 28 General Education
General Education is a performance by Carlos Gonzalez and Kyle Thompson which happens one time, tonight. Kyle reads from a book he has created from encyclopedia samples on the theme of growing from childhood to adult while Carlos performs in response. Both artists are well known to Portland non-profit visual art spaces and Thompson is an organizer of the Labrador Boatspace 12128. The readings will be published by Publication Studio. At the University of Oregon White Stag Building, http://whitebox.uoregon.edu/ 70 NW Couch 7PM-8 Free
Sunday, November 25, 2012
November 27-28 Growing Psychology
Project Grow in its early days is the social practice art project we hold up as an example of socially conscious social practice art. That's the branch that is social work, community organizing and world changing.
Project Grow works with intellectually disabled adults. One of the founder's inspirations is Scottish psychiatrist R D Laing (1927-1989). Laing advocated learning from the experiences of his patients, rather than discounting them as victims of abnormality. Today that is a branch of disability activism.
Laing self produced many films of his work with clients. They are cinéma vérité, almost ethnographic documentation, and time consuming. Filmmaker Luke Fowler took Laing as a starting point to produce a very experimental film, All Divided Selves. So while this work is not necessarily expository, it is an entry point to Laing work which might pique your curiosity.
Presented by the Cinema Project www.cinemaproject.org at Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 7:30PM $7
Project Grow works with intellectually disabled adults. One of the founder's inspirations is Scottish psychiatrist R D Laing (1927-1989). Laing advocated learning from the experiences of his patients, rather than discounting them as victims of abnormality. Today that is a branch of disability activism.
Laing self produced many films of his work with clients. They are cinéma vérité, almost ethnographic documentation, and time consuming. Filmmaker Luke Fowler took Laing as a starting point to produce a very experimental film, All Divided Selves. So while this work is not necessarily expository, it is an entry point to Laing work which might pique your curiosity.
Presented by the Cinema Project www.cinemaproject.org at Yu Contemporary Art www.yucontemporary.org 900 SE 10th 7:30PM $7
Saturday, November 17, 2012
November 18 The Northwest is Great
Filmmaker and artist Matt McCormick shows his film The Great Northwest tonight. In 1958, four Seattle women took a 3,200 mile road trip around the Northwest. They left behind a scrapbook of their trip which Matt found. He recreated their trip, making photographs and shooting video. Many things have changed in 50 years, but in some cases impressions and traces remain. It is a more human-centered version of the Rephotographic Survey Project, with the original 1958 material shown together with the current state of the land. At the NW Film and Video Center in the Whitsell Auditorium of the Portland Art Museum. 1219 SW Park 6PM $9
November 17 Mystical Musical Place Conjurer
Mush, Mush, the Sloping Midnight Line, what an image. It is an image from Norway. Portland artist Carson Ellis has made paintings inspired by a series of historical novels set in the Middle Ages, tracing the arc from birth to death of Kristin Lavransdattar. For this work, the writer, Sigrid Undset, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Ellis' work taps eco-mysticism, adding characters to her magical landscape. Midori Hirose contributes complementary work, always a treat. At Nationale www.nationale.us 811 E Burnside Map 6PM-8
The Portland Museum of Modern Art opens a show Azawad Libre! New Media and Imagined Geographies in the Sahel. Portland field sound explorer Chris Kirkley has traveled Azawad collecting music from mobile phones. Along the way he also gathered photographs from phones, from Facebook and stills from viral videos. The visual work is built upon compositing, digital collage, with a North African face, as is the music. Music is traded by phone. And the feature phones have cameras and compositing apps which Northern Africans use to mod their photos. It's newsworthy as well, Azawad is an area spanning Northern Mali in Africa envisioned as a Tuareg homeland. Currently the area is occupied by a mix of fighters and has ceded from Mali. Foreign fighters, arms from the Libyan revolution and fundamentalists are involved, tempting a regional war in the Spring. Unfortunately too, some of the Islamists have banned music. But there is no denying the sense of identity and regional pride expressed by young people in this art show. Stay tuned for history... At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina 8PM Free
Place continues Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition by Elizabeth Lamb and opens Open Circles by Horatio Law, Crime Against Nature by Gwenn Seemel and Cocoon Orchard by Erin Grant Robinson. 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 5PM-9
FalseFront has Conjurer, by Daniel J Glendening. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
The Portland Museum of Modern Art opens a show Azawad Libre! New Media and Imagined Geographies in the Sahel. Portland field sound explorer Chris Kirkley has traveled Azawad collecting music from mobile phones. Along the way he also gathered photographs from phones, from Facebook and stills from viral videos. The visual work is built upon compositing, digital collage, with a North African face, as is the music. Music is traded by phone. And the feature phones have cameras and compositing apps which Northern Africans use to mod their photos. It's newsworthy as well, Azawad is an area spanning Northern Mali in Africa envisioned as a Tuareg homeland. Currently the area is occupied by a mix of fighters and has ceded from Mali. Foreign fighters, arms from the Libyan revolution and fundamentalists are involved, tempting a regional war in the Spring. Unfortunately too, some of the Islamists have banned music. But there is no denying the sense of identity and regional pride expressed by young people in this art show. Stay tuned for history... At the Portland Museum of Modern Art inside Mississippi Records www.portlandmuseumofmodernart.com 5202 N Albina 8PM Free
Place continues Mall of America: A Toll Free Audio Exhibition by Elizabeth Lamb and opens Open Circles by Horatio Law, Crime Against Nature by Gwenn Seemel and Cocoon Orchard by Erin Grant Robinson. 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 5PM-9
FalseFront has Conjurer, by Daniel J Glendening. At False Front Studio www.falsefrontstudio.com 4518 NE 32nd Map 7PM-10 Free
Thursday, November 15, 2012
November 16 Open Slappe Recess
The mid-program PNCA Visual Studies MFA open studios is a great opportunity to see a huge range of work in situ. This year's students are Sarah Abbott, Christy Bailey, Stephanie Brachmann, Terri Bradley, Mary Mac Dahlke, Erin Dengerink, John Dougherty, Kiel Fletcher, Mario Gallucci, Thomas Gamble, Jonathan Gann, Michael Horwitz, Linden How, Timothy Janchar, John David Knight, Matthew Leavitt, Leif Lee, Daniel Long, Andrew Lorish, Travis Nikolai, Cristin Norine, Mark Palmen, Anya Roberts-Toney, Justin Schwab, Lauren Seiffert, Jessica Speiss, Edward Trover, Lindsay Williams, Rachel Wolf, Takahiro Yamamoto, Richard York and Stephanie Yu. At the MFA Visual Studies Studios 1830 NW 19th Avenue 6PM-10 Free
Artist Stephen Slappe has written a book, People I Used To Know, for Publication Studio. In celebration for its release several artists will be relating stories about prople they used to know. At Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny Starts 7:30PM, stories 8:15 Free
RECESS is one of Portland's smartest and most progressive independent non-profit galleries. Ditch Projects is a similar group operating in Springfield Oregon. Recess invites the co-directors of Ditch Projects, Jared Haug and Brooks Dierdorff to show their installation and video, entitled Window Smokers. It's a show inspired by landscape. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 7PM-10 Free
Artist Stephen Slappe has written a book, People I Used To Know, for Publication Studio. In celebration for its release several artists will be relating stories about prople they used to know. At Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny Starts 7:30PM, stories 8:15 Free
RECESS is one of Portland's smartest and most progressive independent non-profit galleries. Ditch Projects is a similar group operating in Springfield Oregon. Recess invites the co-directors of Ditch Projects, Jared Haug and Brooks Dierdorff to show their installation and video, entitled Window Smokers. It's a show inspired by landscape. At RECESS recessart.com at Oregon Brassworks Building, 1127 SE 10th Map 7PM-10 Free
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
November 15 Lathe of Heaven Mercy Spark
Ursula K. Le Guin is Portland's science fiction author emeritus. And though we now have Daniel Wilson, and Frank Herbert's Dune was inspired by the Oregon sand dunes by Florence, Le Guin will always be an inspiration. Four artists, Damien Gilley, Daniel Glendening, Laura Hughes and Jordan Tull have taken her novel, The Lathe of Heaven, as an inspiration for art, opening tonight.
Ginger Lukas, professional cake decorator by day, opens a light installation, Party Time, presaging our odd Christmas custom of multicolored lights. It's in the Vestibule space, a long hall. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
It's not unicorns and rainbows everywhere and all the time throughout the world. Two stellar organizations, Mercy Corps and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), are there to help people when things are horribly broken. Often they need to negotiate their access and their own safety with people with guns. Tonight Mercy Corps and MSF staff discuss their experiences, working from the headquarters office and on the ground. An example of how things can go terribly wrong caused MSF to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2004, 5 days after I was there. Joining Mercy Corps will be Nick Lawson, director of field human resources for MSF. He has worked in Afghanistan, Burundi, East Timor and Malawi. Portland nurse with MSF, Colette Kerr, discusses her work in Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Chad and other locations. At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st. 7PM Free
Art Spark is back. The B Media Collective, making political work, hosts activist and artists groups Project Grow, Grand Detour, Sisters of the Road Empowered Voices Media Project and the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. Later in the evening at 7, they show their 30 minute film Electile Dysfunction, a collage of political news footage. Art Spark www.portlandartspark.com at Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 5PM-7:30 Free
Ginger Lukas, professional cake decorator by day, opens a light installation, Party Time, presaging our odd Christmas custom of multicolored lights. It's in the Vestibule space, a long hall. At Disjecta, in the shadow of Paul Bunyan www.disjecta.org 8371 N. Interstate Map 6PM-10 Free
It's not unicorns and rainbows everywhere and all the time throughout the world. Two stellar organizations, Mercy Corps and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), are there to help people when things are horribly broken. Often they need to negotiate their access and their own safety with people with guns. Tonight Mercy Corps and MSF staff discuss their experiences, working from the headquarters office and on the ground. An example of how things can go terribly wrong caused MSF to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2004, 5 days after I was there. Joining Mercy Corps will be Nick Lawson, director of field human resources for MSF. He has worked in Afghanistan, Burundi, East Timor and Malawi. Portland nurse with MSF, Colette Kerr, discusses her work in Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Chad and other locations. At the Mercy Corps Action Center www.actioncenter.org 28 SW 1st. 7PM Free
Art Spark is back. The B Media Collective, making political work, hosts activist and artists groups Project Grow, Grand Detour, Sisters of the Road Empowered Voices Media Project and the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. Later in the evening at 7, they show their 30 minute film Electile Dysfunction, a collage of political news footage. Art Spark www.portlandartspark.com at Hollywood Theater 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. 5PM-7:30 Free
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
November 13 Cryonics Out Loud
Portland prides itself on weird. Cryonics is the practice of freezing bodies, or brains, for the purpose of reanimation in an imagined future. It's weird science, though there is some controversy over the science part.
Chana de Wolf will discuss cryonics, based on her experience working at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Advanced Neural Biosciences and the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics.
This will be one of the most curious of Curiosity clubs. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
Chana de Wolf will discuss cryonics, based on her experience working at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Advanced Neural Biosciences and the Institute for Evidence Based Cryonics.
This will be one of the most curious of Curiosity clubs. A presentation of the Curiosity Club, you can tune into the free live webcast off the Core77 site or visit the talk and demonstration in person at Hand Eye Supply www.handeyesupply.com/pages/curiosity-club 23 NW 4th 6PM Free
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